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Is that what they're doing? I thought maybe the new RHEV manager would be built on oVirt.
This is a negotiation. That was their opener. Its not personal, its probably automatic to lowball all new hires hoping to get lucky. This is when you counter. Something like $65k and 2 weeks vacation. Since they seem to think vacation is important you might then say something like "I could do 60, maybe but I'd need at least 4 weeks..."

You can't get what you don't ask for.

By the by, if they happen to say something like "4 weeks vacation isn't standard company policy", look them right in the eye and say "I'm not an ordinary hire". This has never failed me.
Is it just me, or is everything the same except the colors?
Thats an interesting form of blackmail.
This is nothing unique to Silicon Valley. A hub of any kind attracts opportunists of all qualities and intentions without discrimination.
It's undoubtedly the Azure stuff. They had bad mirrors and redirects up for quite a while for VS SP1. Twitter revealed others with the same problem. That ruined the first install. The second install was okay with debugging a MVC project but the Azure emulator caused an uncaught exception in the .NET runtime. There was no indication of where the error was occurring, and like I said, no real troubleshooting steps available. I wish I could remember the error message. It was as if the runtime was just mocking me with it's complete lack of help.
I suspect Mastercard PayPass has lower fees than PayPal. (With the usual caveat of higher upfront.)
Humans as small groups have always had a leader. And that leader in earlier times was the guy who was most powerful. When bosses are actually capable of being a boss (in terms of their ability), we're okay with it. It's only the dumb boss that irritates.
How is "This." different than "Exactly." and other expressions of agreement in spoken English?

It might not bring new information, but it tells the reader that the rest of the post should be read in a context of agreement with the parent post, so it's useful.
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I've been playing around with an idea to build a small webapp which lets developers create cheat sheets easily and lets them share it. Also add a social factor so that other developers can comment/edit/fork.

what you think of an idea? I'm looking for comments/suggestions
The main problem with a revenue tax is margins.

If you apply the same rate of taxes to all companies with the same revenue, regardless of their margins you have your choice of putting all low margin business out of business by assessing a tax higher than they can pay (to collect reasonable revenues from the high margin businesses), or leaving a lot of cash on the table in high margin industries (which as a tax authority you probably don't like).
You see? I could have written a book, or a trilogy.
Founders nowadays think about selling about as much, and in about the same way, as they always have. But it's meaningless talking about startups being "designed to flip" because you'd do the same things regardless of whether you wanted to sell early or keep working on the company for the rest of your life: you have to make something great and thereby get rapid user growth.

Ironically, the only externally visible sign that a startup's founders are hoping to sell early is when they don't do something she attacks founders for doing: raising a lot of money. Raising series A from a VC fund means ruling out an early, small acquisition, so founders who want to keep that option open try to raise as little money as possible.
I'm somewhat familiar with this work. (My advisor talked to the authors some. I could be misrepresenting it a little, but not nearly as much as the article.)

It's not learning to play the whole game. It's learning to cheese (in gaming parlance) the opponent. The strategy it learns is to build a warrior as fast as possible and go and attack the enemy's city. If that fails, it almost always loses. The manual gave it some hint in that direction.
>They basically assume that the National Security Agency (NSA) is in all their networks.

This a really interesting point. With all the media coverage to all the alleged Chinese hacks, we tend to forget that the US Government is likely engaging in the same activities. Would it surprise anyone if the US has been engaging in digital espionage on foreign governments? I would be surprised (and somewhat outraged given our defense budget) if we weren't.
> I guess my question would be, what's an example of this.

One example that stands out to me in the whole concept of strongly typed views. Nice in theory, but ultimately tightly coupling your view to your model (or your model to your view, depending on your perspective) is very Webforms-ish. You can tell they put in place these practices to ease adoption among the current crop of vanilla ASP.NET developers.

Another example is being able to quickly bake-in full-text-search into your application. With Python/Django you can use something like Haystack. Ruby has equivalents. With MVC, what are your options? Do it by hand with Lucene.NET? Get there a bit faster with .NET connector for Solr? This is more of a .NET ecosystem complaint, but ecosystems matter.

> And for me the tooling makes my life much easier.

I agree. Working with Visual Studio is great. With that said, I missed being able to "edit on the fly" my Python code and immediately pop into the browser to check, so now I just have a build script that builds and stages my projects automatically on an IIS server so I can accomplish what I got for free in Python/Django.
One big thing the author overlooks is how first-world technologies tend to eventually "spill-over" into the third-world where they find their uses. Just look how Facebook and Twitter are bringing democracy to the Middle East. Yes, these things were created to solve problems of an American yuppie, but people in the poorer parts of the world find how to apply them to solve their problem. It's hard for an American entrepreneur to build a startup which solves problems of the developing world, because they are not exposed to those problems. You can only solve problems you understand.
When it's the only thing on the OS that has X11 copy/pasting, that's the problem. It's like when people complain that a Linux program doesn't look like Linux, just like a bad Windows port.
LEGO used to make kits like this called Creator, but they got lamer over the years. Now they seem to be pushing more and more the sets that are just 30 pieces, playmobile style.
paparazzi... and then they wind up on the next season of the bachelor/bachelorette...
I'm thinking about using clojure. It compiles to Java byte code, though I think my professors would be quite peeved about reading my code :P sounds perfect.

I'll def give the books a try, though I will dread every line I write. (case sensitive file names? 1 class per file?! fack).
It is actually an insult to you that they have taken you through an interview process in which you said up front that you want $70K and they at the end of it all are offering that much less. Sounds like they are pretty clueless. Not a good sign.
"Shit" seems fine to me
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I'm going to be that guy, but what the hell are y'all doing in putty that didn't lend itself to getting a proper posix environment to work out of. I tolerate Windows for my current Azure development, but beyond that... cygwin is my first install on any Windows machine, maybe after Chrome and Firefox.
suuuure, I want to give you my network config so you can store it in the cloud. Safe. As. Fuck.
Right, and there are various startups in and out of Silicon Valley working on humanitarian projects. The funding model is quite different, based mostly on grants. That kind of funding is even more fickle than VC money, and nobody expects to get rich. The people I know in that sector have no problem recruiting talent if there's enough money to provide reasonably stable (but somewhat paltry) paychecks. Lots of people want to save the world, even geeks.
How do you prove that an organization is an NPE? All they have to do is hire a couple of college kids dirt cheap and they can show that they are "developing" a product.

Denying patent protection to anyone who doesn't already have a finished product out on the market opens a whole new can of worms.
Correct. There is no separate PDC this year. The focus of Build at least in the promotion is definitely on Windows 8, who knows to what extent that reflects the content.
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My scenario was this: I was using my work BlackBerry as my personal phone, but I quit recently. Before quitting, I used barrybackup on Ubuntu to make a backup. I recently got a new Android and did not want to re-enter all my personal contacts.

Instead, I reverse-engineered the Address Book format, writing a Python program to convert the data to a CSV. I then used a spreadsheet program to delete old-job-related contacts and to clean things up a bit. Finally, I imported my contacts using GMail.

This project probably is not applicable to too many people, but if it helps even one person get their contact information, I'm glad to be able to help.
You're a dick for buying products that actively negatively affect other users and that would lead to chaos if everyone bought them, yes.
Refer to the job posting "oh? I thought the job posting said you were looking for someone at my level?"

There are secretaries/assistants that make 50k a year. They are screwing with you.
The article doesn't touch on the fact that all this scholarship, usually funded in some way with taxes, is locked up behind pay walls unless you want to pay $10-$40 per article (that's probably a bigger obstacle). However, ArXiv works because at least with harder sciences you have proofs and empirical results that are more clearly defined.

Most of the stuff on arxiv is also published in peer reviewed journals. That's why they are called preprints.
The impression I get is that YC's investment is roughly analogous to a company paying your cab fare to get you to their office for an interview. Focusing on the one precisely measurable part of the transaction misses a whole lot.
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>Now you're the one being flippant, you've no data beyond anecdote to support this statement.

You're right, sorry. I should have said, "many". The issue that I take with the current ecosystem, which I think the author also shares, is the preponderance of "toy" startups that do seem very much to be built with an acquisition in mind.

>If I based my thoughts about startups on people I met at networking events in San Francisco, as the author appears to have done, then I might share the same view, I'd also be suffering from selection bias

Selection bias is always a problem. I'm basing my beliefs of what I see on HN and elsewhere. That might not be the best idea, as there's a lot of self-promotion and whatnot here, and we see a lot of startups in their very early stages. That said, the mentality the author is complaining about does seem to be prevalent.
How much should you pay developers?
I think strongly typed views are an area where things fall down due to lack of guidance rather than design. I don't think a view model is the same thing as the model in MVC.

In my MVC apps, I use them pretty much exclusively, but they exist completely independently from my application model (they represent compositions thereof). This really only makes sense in apps of a certain scale, though, so having the option not to use them, or to use dynamic views (not sure if they count as strongly typed, but they are a weird middle ground) is definitely useful.
Does anyone else think that thoughtback is to twitter as ohlife is to blogging?
I thought about that or just do what the wireless companies do and charge him per KB over his limit. The first $2,000 bill should get him back into line pretty fast.
In 2010 Brazil had the world's 7th largest nominal GDP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...
I dont know. These are business people even if they are in the tech business. So I would not be really surprised to hear them talk that sort of stuff.
No, I was using the word in an economic context. Specifically the action of capturing value in one market with a technology that has been proven in another market. Groupon clones, Social game companies, etc

However, I believe incremental improvement is a fitness criteria of technology arbitrage.
Yes, they are annoying competition, but FOSS competition is ethical.

You may feel like they are hurting your piggy banks, but you certainly have no ground in going after them.

In any case, I don't think people should worry too much. FOSS developers often work for free, and they probably sucks at doing the hard bit of advertising, documentation, and finding out what users find hard about it.

If you can't compete with hobbyists, you have no business in being in that field.
I think it's a good idea. Slow resource leaks are very hard to debug. Sometime it's easier and cheaper to just restart the process. I seem to remember some fighter jet subsystems can do fast reboot. When they crash, it can be restarted in a faction of a second. If the rebooting approach works in a realtime environment like that, it sure would work in the day-to-day environment.
No, I'm talking about hosting the DNS, that is, the DNS server, not the IP the DNS record points to.
When you buy a DNS record you need a nameserver with a static IP to handle the DNS record. Then you can assign this record to dynamic IPs if you like.
Technically the nameserver could also work on a dynamic IP, but practically this doesnt work out in this order.

Even blah.com depends on com and com depends on . (aka dot)

DNS being hierarchical, you never actually own the thing =/

There are decentralized DNS attempts tho
Big organizations are needed for big problems.

The jury is still out on that one. The trend lately has been in the other direction.
they gotta learn how to setup the SSL certificate before someone trust them with network stuff.
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About damn time. It's annoying trying to login to my account and it gives me a US splash despite having a paid account in sweden :/
I get to swing for the fences

Ah, sports metaphors. I consider it to be lower on the language scale than excessive swearing, in terms of limited vocabulary. At least swearing can be used to humorous or vaguely poetic effect.
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There are third party iPad apps that'll hook into Facebook Chat for you.
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In the case of cable Internet you're dealing with a shared medium.

Your ISP may have a 10Gbit uplink in their headend but that does not extend to your home. In reality with 4 channel DOCSIS 3 bonding the speed available "on-the-wire" is about ~150Mbit/sec and it's shared between about 200 customers at minimum. (in reality it's usually a lot closer to 300-500 customers) So if 15 customers out of the 200 want to use 10Mbit/sec 24x7 there is no bandwidth left over for the other 190 customers.

Just to be clear this part is not strictly an infrastructure challenge as the physical cable plant is not inherently limited to ~150Mbit/sec. It simply depends how many DOCSIS channels are being sent out and how many customers share them. They originate from a CMTS in the provider's headend. A fully loaded CMTS sets you back about $500-$750k. So cable ISPs figured out capping data can save them quite a lot of money. The alternative is a) they make less money b) they charge the customer more. We know A certainly isn't going to happen in a non-competitive market and B is something most customers would not like so we get c) capping.

Telco or FTTH are a completely different beast though. Much harder to justify capping there. For telco it's usually because there is a limited uplink to the DSLAM. As of a few years ago it was not uncommon to have a few T1s feeding a DSLAM. FTTH is rarely capped because the fiber that goes to your home is capable of pushing 10Gbit/sec with the right optics. WISPS have the same issue as cable -- in fact WiMAX is very similar to DOCSIS and some WISPs actually do use DOCSIS over wireless at 10Ghz.
As a guy waiting for his H1B visa, I dislike this article.
Personally Im going to be paid as much as US employees, took no one's job. But I'm already EXTREMELY limited by the current visa.
No green card. Cant change company for 3 years. Can get visa - maybe - after 6 month wait.
Enormeous amount of info to give to get it delivered. Costs a lot.

So if a company lays off someone for a H1B I guess the previous employee was just bad. Cause the earning doesn't sound right, its possible to fire people quickly in the US and replace them. I know for sure that many americans would take the jobs at the salary foreigners would take it.
It's a neat idea but I think you need a clearer explanation of how to use it. Is it your intention to allow people to create their own entries?
"At a BBQ last week with a group of Y Combinator graduates, the conversation went predictably back and forth, sounding something like this: What batch were you in? How many times did you pivot? How much did you raise? From who? How many users have you got now? What’s your growth rate? Who’s going to acquire you? It’s never about the technology or impact it’s having, it’s about the game of entrepreneurship; getting users, funding and exiting as quickly as you can."

right on!
The problem is, "what is page 2"? Ok, so it's "items 31 through 60." But that changes, very frequently. So when you hit the main page (results 1-30), HN has to remember what 31-60 is at that particular point in time, so when you later hit the More link, it can give you 31-60 for a time in the past.

Obviously it can't remember an infinite number of these, there's a limit, and how quickly you hit that limit probably depends on a combination of how many people are hitting the home page, and how often the order of items in the list is changing.

When HN was younger, you wouldn't see the expired link message that often, as fewer people were hitting the site, and the item order changed less frequently.

At least that's my theory.
If you are not desperate for the Job simply say, I am sorry but that is not in the range that works for me. If you want me my desired salary is firm at 70k. No is a powerful word so use it if you are ok with the possibility of not getting the job.

The reality is you should have asked for at least 80 so you had room to negotiate.
And so, I have resorted to opening both the article and the discuss link, as you can still vote from there.
It's terrible in the fact that at my old address I got 25 Megabit for $65/month with no cap via AT+T and my work friends got 50 Megabit/month via Brighthouse for $65/month. Comcast can do better.
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN; http://www.ssrn.com/) is an effective preprint service for the Social Science that seems to have the same professional clout as ArXiv for it's domain. Yet there are no respective preprint services for biotechnology... why?

Seems like there should be one just by connecting the dots between ArXiv and SSRN.
The reason that outsourcing software is so difficult
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My argument is a bit more nuanced than that, I don't expect to drop Twitter for Google+ (unless Twitter forces the issue, of course). Instead, I expect something like the following

1. Google+ APIs are released.

2. Developers add Google+ support to their Twitter apps (the way some apps have Facebook support). Beyond directly improving their apps, developers may have some extra motivation to do this because of the state of Twitter's developer relationships.

3. Google+ support in Twitter apps will accelerate the movement of users / conversations (not developers) from Twitter to Google+ that mikecane has already documented.

4. I can't see a viable countermove that Twitter could make, so the bleeding from Twitter to Google+ will just get worse. Enough cuts like this one and the bleeding will get critical.
Interesting thought, but there's a difference between an "elite" (who may or may not have earned what they have) and a meritocracy (who worked for what they have). Most people (except maybe the talentless children of billionaires) would probably agree that meritocracies are better.
Frankly, I don't buy this at all. It is very difficult in 2011 to provision a server that is really vulnerable by default.

I suspect that the person who posted this was in some other way compromised, and is blaming it on GoGrid.
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Feel free to follow me: https://plus.google.com/u/1/114301088526097505896/posts

I can't promise how much I'll be posting, or that everything I post will be of interest to the HN community. But if you let me know you're from HN, I'll add you to my HN circle and to it I'll only share stuff I think other HN'ers would care about.
From a Googler:

There are several hundred projects within Google using GWT and more are being written or rewritten all the time. Some of the major ones:

AdWords UI

AdSense UI

Blogger (http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/14/half-a-billion-blog-posts-l...)

Groups (new UI)

Doclist (the folders in docs, both desktop and mobile versions)

Parts of Maps / Geo

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-web-toolkit/M...
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Also have a look at this: http://www.quora.com/What-is-your-greatest-pain-point-with-o...
frameworks like JQuery or Clojure probably make much more sense

I think you meant Closure[1] (not Clojure)?

[1] http://code.google.com/closure/
I'm guessing that GoGrid provisioned the server, then sent him an email with his password. After first login, he would have been prompted to change his password, but somebody got to his email before he logged in...