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> There's been a general consensus about what a "market" employee agreement contains, which lets people make decisions in a relatively uniform way between offers.

Is there? What counts as general consensus?

That's meant to be a serious comment. I've seen contracts that have vested stock grants expire after 2 years and some where vested grants stock never expire.

it seems to me that there isn't really any such thing as a general consensus when it comes to stock options.
Have you considered taking legal action against Facebook? They've done some pretty terrible things, but that's truly horrible (and probably illegal). They just flipped the switch and deleted everything?
Sounds like a job for DrChrono. ;)
What does this have to do with Microsoft?
In 10,000 years, humans could repeatedly cycle between "Stone Age" and "holo documentaries". Civilization as we know it isn't that old, technological civilization even less so.
If the online presences of anonymous people are the truest representations of humans as individuals, I think we my have bigger problems than misogyny.
I too am unable to read a book on a computer or laptop. I've tried. While it is possible to get around distractions temporarily with readability tools, unplugging from the internet, etc., there are still 2 issues:

1) You're used to using your computer for many other things, so it's hard to avoid temptation.

2) Physical issues:

* Light emitting monitors are not natural for human eyes

* Monitor resolution is lower than print resolution

* Reading at a desk for long periods is uncomfortable

It's possible to read with small laptops, especially netbooks, away from a desk. But not anywhere near as easy as with an e-book reader or tablet, due to weight and bulk.

e-book readers like the Nook or Kindle are lightweight enough to be used anywhere. E-ink feels better on the eyes for many people and the resolution is pretty good (and for those who prefer LCD, the Color Nook or iPod touch can be used).

I've read lots of books on a Kindle 2, an iPod touch 4g, and lately the new Nook (Simple Touch). For me, all of these work fine for book length text.

EDIT: formatting
Actually, Friendster has just relaunched itself as a social gaming platform. I haven't looked too much into it yet.
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We've posted the Wattvision response: http://blog.wattvision.com ... there's a coupon code in the post, too.
Thanks for your thoughts.

The issue is that I don't want to force people to click through a series of pages before actually browsing our libraries.

The cookie could work, but would still require me to have a backup ID method in case a user clears their cookies.
The normal speed of the clock is very slow, so it should be easy to run it at an accelerated rate to test wear. (There are limits, though; apparently the Difference Engine jams frequently if you overclock it.)
Sure, but I also don't ask lawyers to debug C++ for me.

In both cases we're talking about a highly specialized domain that takes, on average, years of training to be competent. And yet the engineer is expected to enter into a legal contract on equal footing with company lawyers?
Hmm ... that would explain the lack of comments on popular posts lately ...

What browser are you using?
I believe that at one point they had leadership staff members literally going over to the office of FB's guy on the hill. Unfortunately I have no idea about the contracts, but given the cast of characters involved, I'd have thought it wouldn't have made a difference.

It was among the most appalling acts of customer service I've seen from a vendor in my career. They literally did not return our calls or emails and the project ended up cancelled.

Edit: this was ~13 months ago.
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Chrome on OS X. Tried Firefox and it does the same thing.

I don't think it's a problem with your site or code. It's probably on Disqus's end.
Tech employees should not be required to take a third-year law school contracts course to understand their employment agreement.
Cue the conspiracy theorists, all the banned apps are photo related.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/facebook-secret-photos-app/
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Would $15 be considered "low-cost" in the domain market?

* They are the people who own common last names as URLs and sell josh@finnie.com for $35 a year too!
I disagree. These kinds of posts take a lot of courage to write, and then people jump in with all kinds of "well, you should have done ..." bullshit advice. People here on HN need to learn (and respect) when someone is asking for feedback vs when they're telling a story.
That was actually surprisingly easy. We're both from Slovenia where the startup community is somewhat smallish. They've heard about me before and knew I was free.

Then the fact that a hacker friend of mine was friends with one of them and they approached him to join, and him recommending me to join as well, really sealed the deal.

In short: I had luck. But the sort of luck you work hard on creating.

edit: this post is horribly put together, but I don't know how to fix it without devolving into bool algebra. Hope it makes at least some sense :)
A few months ago, Facebook banned adsense from apps, on the premise that it's not "safe enough" (while at the same time allowing ad networks with viruses). No matter how many attempts have been made to get facebook's response, not a sound:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2291336

It's safe to say that facebook is actively trying to push developers away. They have a special relationship with zynga, and that's their cash cow.
in the other thread on this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2691455 the article had the following line "the company's decision to repurchase would also cause a tax hit to him" - anyone know how that works?
Chromium on OSX works for me ... will look into it. THanks.
Please allow me to use a car analogy:

If you want to get a job as a mechanical engineer and design car engines for a living, you don't necessarily need to know how to be an auto mechanic, however, if you spent a summer rebuilding a classic car engine, you might be surprised to learn a few things along the way that help you to design better engines when you do get a job.

I think this analogy works very well for simple web monkey tasks. Sure, building a simple LAMP application will not help your CS chops like writing your own toy programming language will, but you might learn something along the way about Apache, PHP/Python, Linux, or MySQL that will help you in your career. It also gives you a chance to question some of the fundamentals that have been with us for years - why do we use SQL for so many things? Maybe a key/value store would work better for certain apps.

Just like a mechanical engineer might be able to design an engine that is easier to work on if he rebuilt an engine in a garage once or twice, a software engineer might be able to write code that is more easily maintainable if he installed WordPress once or twice. Learning the difference between a good and a bad install procedure can at the very least help you write an installer that doesn't suck.
Fixed. Thank you for advice about HMAC, now I am use it.
This location is remote enough that it should survive the sacks (as long as the extras don't build a city around it).
I think the site concept is great, but the UI looks like it was built in 1994.

I am no designer, but what I did is find a nice looking template on http://themeforest.net and modify it to meet my needs. Tabs, split windows, jquery sliders, quite a few of the templates us the same elements. Just find one you like.

Some people see fishing as a serious activity, others as a family activity. You can tailor the look of the site to either demographic. For the family theme, adding a nice "mascot" like a puffer fish could help. http://graphicriver.net/item/puffer-fish/102251

Can you try mine? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2689356
Great stuff, thanks for taking the time to respond! I found what looks to be a good book on Ruby on Amazon (by it's creator and another co-writer)
> employees should not be required to take a third-year law school contracts course to understand their employment agreement.

@jeffreymcmanus, I'm in violent agreement ....
I would actually like to talk to you more about this.. I have a (very early stage) startup on the side called Ditto Health that is using the Direct Project as a model to make it easy to transfer data between health care providers and patients.

The problems with Google Health are exactly what you said. Put another way, they positioned themselves as an endpoint and made it Everyone Else's Problem to send their medical data into their repository.

Health care providers aren't interested in hiring programmers to send their data into another system for no benefit to them. They have already invested plenty of time and money in EHR systems, and want to get data from all other places (some electronic, some paper) into their own system. And it should go without saying that this needs to be done in a HIPAA compliant way.

Anyway, I'm always interested to talk more about this stuff, feel free to contact me at the email provided in my profile and maybe we can work with your agency.
What's to stop a disgruntled software dev who gets treated this way from secretly using his knowledge to support an open source competitor? It doesn't have to be anything close to a line by line copy, just subtle hints here are there about better, but generic, ways of doing things.
I'm a Facebooker, just not on the API team. If you think that silence is bad, you should hear about the ordeal I had with my HR recruiter. Talk about silence....whew!
I wonder how many Mac owners got upset after reading this article... :) . Is HP 7 times more efficient as a company for the end user than Apple?
Everyone knows that GoDaddy isn't a great company (including the small business owners that use them)

I have had previous employers force me to move us off of GMail to GoDaddy email because they thought "Gmail sucks".

People also continue to host with GoDaddy (which I do not believe to be in order to save $10-$15 per month) even after I have showed them better alternatives from a performance aspect.

I agree with you that there is an opportunity in the market but as I stated in my original post I think GoDaddy preys on the uneducated who believe the most popular/largest ad budget is certainly the best option.
Someone got jumped on for reproducing a work at a lower quality.

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's objectively "lower quality".
Yeah, that is what hosting companies often lack: communication with their customer during crisis. I totally agree that DigitalOne should inform their customers about the incident and they handled the case poorly. But, like I said, put all the blame on them is too harsh.
Absolutely zero surprise on my side. VCs, and acquiring companies are always looking to maximize their return, as legally as possible during an M&A deal, even (sometimes particularly) if that means screwing over employees who are no longer with the company.

I actually like the honesty of this quote:

"Silver Lake declined to comment. When asked about Lee’s situation, Skype spokesman Brian O’Shaughnessy said, “You’ve got to be in it to win it. The company chose to include that clause in the contract in order to retain the best and the brightest people to build great products. This individual chose to leave, therefore he doesn’t get that benefit.”"

Most people will look at it and say "What an Asswad" - but at least he's not being a hypocrite. That's precisely what everyone in the M&A team is _thinking_ they just aren't _saying_ it.

This is another take on what Oracle did when they bought Oblix (I had just left Oblix in 1999) Oracle gave MegaBonuses to all the existing employees and executives, two of the founders, and paid absolutely nothing for the common shares. The acquisition price was still $100Million plus, but there was only enough money to cover the preferred options + liquidation preferences in the "on the record" purchase prices. Effectively, they wiped out all the employees who were common shareholders, but no longer with the company (or were part of the 15-20 out of 100 who were laid off during the acquisition) while taking care of the VCs and the acquired employees. (As a side bonus, they called the money they gave to the acquired employees "Retention Bonuses" - which resulted in the top people having to hang around for another year)

Lesson to be learned: When you leave a company, and it is still private - if they are Sold, instead of going public, there are probably any number of ways that you will get wiped out if you are no longer with them - possible exception if you are a founder with a significant percentage of the company, and you might be able to raise a stink for minority shareholder rights. Then you'll get a "consulting bonus" to shut you up.

This story is more common than not.
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That's a very fair point - HN is vastly more hostile to Facebook than it is to Google, so it makes more sense that Googlers would pop in to calm things down.
These journalists winsomely pretending that the N9 ever had any kind of chance are crazy. A slick UI is utterly unimpressive - it's the bare minimum a consumer might expect. WebOS's underpinnings were far more impressive upon release several years ago than the N9 is today. The Playbook has a very attractive interface... and no marketshare to speak of. Android tablets are off to a halting start despite a great interface, proven branding and technical leadership in many respects.

I'm not trying to worship Apple - I expect Android, at least to compete - but I don't see anything to indicate that the N9 is remotely competitive.
The $15 includes free whois privacy. For GoDaddy that's an extra 7 or 8 dollars (last time I checked) on top of their 11.99 domain cost. Hover also has excellent customer service and 0 upsell. I'm sure you can find cheaper registrants out there but Hover is the very definition of a customer focused company.
Fair use and open source isn't much good if you can't afford it.

Like free|open|fair offers exclude people with verifications (e.g. use Heroku & modern db without bank/credit?: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/no-credit-card - No.).
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/daemon Pronounces it DEE-mon which is how I've always said it. (The Golden Compass audiobooks and movie also pronounce their spirit animals, called Daemons, as DEE-mon).

I always thought the UNIX term came from the meaning of a subordinate/helper spirit (which is what they are, basically - helper services)

Edit: interchangeably, DEE-mon or DEE-mun
It's probably a futile exercise in semantics, but I believe that there is a difference between opining that GoDaddy is the best option currently available and thinking they're a great company.
what though, if by total accident, that one
webapp worked on FF 3.6 due to a bug in that
borwser version?

It's not the browser's fault, it's the fault of the people who made that app.

Mozilla's responsibility is indeed to provide reasonable backwards compatibility, but as long as that behavior is specified in the standard or as long as it benefits lots and lots of people.

But it is also Mozilla's responsibility to advance the state of the art, to implement new emerging standards and to fix their broken implementation, if needed of course. And let me tell you - Mozilla almost lost me to Chrome.

I also think your argument doesn't hold water as I've never seen Firefox behave badly on upgrades, ever since version 2. Sure, there might have been an incompatibility here and there, but I never ran into one and if it was, it was easily detectable if you just executed your app in Opera, or Chrome, or Safari, or another non-Gecko browser.

However, I suspect that this fear-mongering is from "consultants" and IT staff that are paid for support contracts and testing new versions of Firefox was part of their billable hours. And now they'll have to do more work supposedly testing Firefox.
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Anyone else not really care for the line break in the title? Seems to me like it would have been better after the colon, so that "Minimalist Web Design" would be grouped together on the next line.

I wouldn't normally be so nit-picky, but it is an article about typography after all.
Steam could be considered a gaming network, I suppose. It has a pretty strong community behind it.
There you've put your finger on it. That's why this is evil on Skype's part (or Silver Lake, or whoever); engineers - the "best and brightest" want to do engineering, and trust the business people to do business. If the business people figure it's just good business to screw the engineers over a barrel on the way to buying their yachts, the engineers are just plain SOL.

I will agree that the contracts are not incomprehensible. Honestly, if given that contract, I would have complained vociferously about the language, but I would have taken the time to parse it. (This is one reason I rarely sign contracts, I guess.) Of course, as a translator I regularly deal with the same kind of language but in German and Hungarian, so your mileage may vary.
I think that's a very valid point. I've had some wtf discussions with software engineers that were widely respected in their careers (usually Microsoft MVPs, for some reason) yet didn't understand something as simple as how to configure a web server, or what the significance of a subnet mask was to their ability to have a functioning network connection.

It was "beneath them", yet to me that's like an airplane pilot that doesn't know how to drive a car. Being able to fly a plane is great, but what about when you just want to get across town and buy some groceries?
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In today's domain ecosystem, you're not going to easily find a name which is easy to spell, pronounce, remember AND is free (or affordable) to acquire as a domain name. The vast majority of non-technical users are just going to google for your company, so your example seems a little contrived.

The first part of the conversation would go more like this:

Hey, what's your new site?

grinnit with two n's. So grinn dot it.

However, there is definitely a problem when a search for "grin it" on google doesn't find your site. Moreover when a search for "grin it photos" or "grinit photos" is also unsuccessful. That's definitely a problem. If the spelling of your website isn't immediately obvious (a la reddit), you just need to ensure that users can still find your site.

I don't think it's a horrible name. Seeing it in print makes it instantly memorable which is always helpful, they just needed some additional work on seo for the typos of their name. Calling it "piss poor marketing" is disingenuous and unnecessarily inflammatory.
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I teach contract drafting to third-year law students. It's hard work to take a complex if-then-else statement and render it in plain English.

Is there a reason it needs to be in (harder to write and harder to understand) "plain English" rather than a "complex" series of if-then-else statements? Even dumb computers can understand if-then-else statements.

Or is the "plain English" more valuable because it leaves things open to interpretation after the fact?
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I have no idea what the meat of the complaint is, but if this championship comes at the cost of increased debt, badly negotiated contracts, or other "shenanigans" that affect the owner's equity then there may indeed still be a case.

Just because a company produces a good product doesn't mean they aren't losing money or committing crimes.
Don't forget ad revenue. Facebook developers spend enormous sums on Facebook ads. Probably bigger than Credits, at least until next month.
Wireshark should be a required tool for any developer writing netcode. If you don't understand the OSI model, or how a 3-way handshake works, how can you possibly debug your code?

I've had to work with customers before who were writing code to send data over XML to a web server before who had no idea how to use tcpdump and Wireshark - it was unbelievable, but I was able to show them bugs in their code because I could see where the TCP conversation broke down.
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I always thought Google Health could make a fortune for the middle-man, if some of the OP's problems were addressed. It's perfect for it - a very complicated set-up, and no marketing, but the final benefits are enormous and easy to understand. You could start by signing up your parents, then charge their friends and etc some nominal fee for setting everything up...
Kongregate? I think it's not that such things don't exist, it's that they don't get to be a runaway success without the basic social application driving it. Games alone aren't enough of an incitement or enticement for many users.
Can't you can write your own programming language and use someone else's parser? When we implemented our own subset of java, we hand wrote our own parser to see how to do it, but then the professor introduced us to JavaCC.
I think the parent is right that it has to be more social- than gaming-oriented
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The reason its not competitive is not because of the hardware its the software. As a software my resources are split if there are more platforms that I need to develop for. There are already too many. iOS, BB, WP7, android (with all its fragments). I think it was very wise of Elop to pick a software platform that they are not burdened to support. Nokia's competency is and has always been hardware and they should focus on that. HP will realize this soon...
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None of them has any failed products if you set convenient enough window.
Perfect example of how the web masks age: I'm 21.
The threat of being sued, regardless of whether the lawsuit would be successful
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Maybe there is already a non-profit willing to preserve such things. I don't live nearby (in fact, I live in another country) so I can't really say how meaningful the restaurant is to the history of Palo Alto (I'll take pg's word) and its preservation may really interest some already existing entity.