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Santa Monica-based BetterWorks Offers Employee Perks For Startups
HuffPo posted an article about a nearby startup, BetterWorks, which simplifies employee perks for small businesses.
It's a great service: businesses pay $30/month + $5/employee and get 10% or more off of food, rentals, gym memberships, and other goods/services from local businesses. Businesss set a perk allowance each month, and the employee gets to decide how best to use that allowance.

AFAIK, it's LA and SF/SV only, but they recently closed a round of funding and are going to be expanding to more cities soon. I don't know the timeline for that expansion, though.

(Disclaimer: I work for Giant Media; my boss was interviewed for this article. We use Betterworks to order food at least 4x/week. And...nobody except for the guys at BetterWorks calls the area Silicon Beach.)
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What would be the use case for something this?
It wouldn't solve it, it would just reduce it. It would still take 15 seconds to be able to identify that your connection dropped if you judged based off of that figure alone.
I thought it was an impressive enough usability coup for 2 year olds to be able to use the ipad instinctively but this is just fantastic. Apple should sponsor the hell out of this.
No need to create a ticket machine, the db can probably do this for you. I've accomplished this with oracle sequences (supports grabbing blocks of ids). I assume there are similar capabilities in other db systems.
Funny, it used to be a $65B project (The Times, 4 years ago)... now it's a $100B project (The Sun, this week).
This is the OS that is supposed to carry MS until at least 2015. If they are going to unveil the cool stuff during BUILD, why just not wait a couple of weeks?

- The examples seem dated, like people copying pictures over USB drives in the era of facebook and dropbox. He runs the example on a netbook, which I guess means after his sister leaves he needs to get another USB drive and copy those files again to his PC.

- Why did he copy files, edit them, copy them back and then need to figure out what version he wanted to use? Now he's got two copies of the same filename in different locations and they may get out of sync.

- Why in the case of conflict, does a number have to be added to the file if you want to keep both versions? Why not have some type of versioning and conflict resolution built into the filesystem? Look at a user's computer, directories are littered with filenames like "copy of Myfile (2) 2011_may.doc".

- Where is the touch interface? Those buttons are small and all the dialogs assume a mouse.

I do like the blog and I like that they introduce different members of the Windows8 team, but they need to focus on more compelling features.
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I am really lucky to have found an internship in the bay area for this summer. It has been a really rewarding experience so far, I haven't been to any of the intern events listed, but I will have to make more of an effort to try to seek them out and find them.
We'd actually like to have such event on a monthly basis, your schedule for October would match !

We'll keep you posted for the future meetup.
If your throughput suddenly dropped to 0 and you were watching a 15-second rolling average of that throughput speed, you'd within a very few (far less than 15) seconds know that your transfer speed had cratered.
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So a multi-billion dollar behemoth that uses your image without your permission in an advertisement for a product that you don't support is a "minor, and ultimately inconsequential, annoyance", but a tiny little startup has a typo on an ERROR page and that's a deal breaker?

Wow. High fives to you for supporting the little guy.
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Thanks for the feedback - the last thing we wanted was for the line to be confusing, it was just supposed to indicate that a free plan was available, customers are then prompted to review the plans. That said, we've realized it might be misleading and have removed the pricing comparisons.
I thought this as well, then added a point to "Backslash directory separators" on my list of reasons to go back in time to kill Bill Gates...
Ehh, the only actual good coffee in Berkeley is Philz. Oh, and Mokka, but that's far from campus. Oh yeah, and Local 123, but that's even further from campus and overpriced. Guerilla should in theory have good coffee but their service is kinda rude. Brewed Awakenings, where you're most likely to run into mathematicians, has awful coffee. Sonoma is alright. And... that's all I can think of, off the top of my head.

I worry these coffee shops might be getting oversold here, though. If you do run into a mathematician he'll be too busy thinking about mathematics to talk to you. :)
Thanks for that... Hadn't noticed HN automatically truncates long URLs.
The benchmarks in the article are obviously limited. For instance there was no accounting for read performance, or even moderately complex queries. Also given how fast performance was dropping off for the guids this would probably matter for any db that was doing 10k inserts over the course of any amount of time. A drop of of 30% write performance is extremely significant for even moderately sized applications.

Also i don't think that the percentage of applications that need this level of performance and no more is as small as you think it is. plenty of successful businesses run critical application on SQL server (and other dbs) and this kind of degradation could be disastrous. I don't think the necessity for SQL tuning is as esoteric at all.
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Maybe this is why my C tutor used to say over and over again "never use C++ style comments even though Visual studio let's you do it".
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Irrelevant tangent: More support forums need that "Me too" button.
Ugh. So, instead of tackling something like auto-queuing of copy operations to prevent disk thrashing, they did the 'hard' work of adding a pause button and some silly bling. Incidentally, if that conflict-resolution dialog doesn't provide mouse-over image enlargement/preview, I'm going to instantly hate it.
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I think the key is having experience at a major corporation (Dow Jones 30 or equivalent profile). After I listed that, I went from no contacts to once every month or two.
Over here in Helsinki, Finland there's a cable operator that offers connections that go up to 200/10Mbit (54,90€/month) and one of the biggest ISPs is putting together a 1000Mbit residential connection trial (they already offer 100/10Mbit fibre connections).

I think the demand is there if the pricing is decent.
When you have a good pitch, money to spend, and it makes sense to give away part of the company to get what you want.
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I agree with the various other commenters on the blog post - that treating the wrapper function like an unacceptable amount of redirection is insane premature optimisation at expense of clarity.

Not to mention the wrapper can be inlined in C99, or would be automatically inlined with -O3 in gcc, not that it matters one iota in this case.

The other glaring bug would seem to be Windows' implementation for POSIX tmpfile() requiring admin access. But I guess that's not too surprising.
Just letting readers know about our option in the space. There are few comments about how no one is taken an adSense approach to how in-game ads work and I wanted to let people know that we are.

Yes it's ironic ;).
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These guys make plenty of cash with those ads. The bigger problem is that it is one of the only options they have and it comes with the price tag of some users complaining about the experience.
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I suspect members of larger organizations benefit more. You build a very large network simply by connecting with everyone you interact with at your own organization. These large orgs also experience a lot of churn and voila, you have a large, distributed network.
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I just searched HN for recent job/internship postings, made a list, and started emailing people.
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People who are serious about this stuff just use TeraCopy on Windows anyway. Who wants to copy terabytes or even gigabytes of data and not verify it?

People who build systems, in general and excluding the ZFS authors, really need to start worrying about my data's integrity at least as much as I do.
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Glad you know more about Java than I do :) I never knew about the restriction on mutating local variables in the closure. It's strange to think about that coming from the FP world where all mutable values are references to cells that (conceptually) live on the heap.
Am I the only person who already hates that company?

I mean it is a very profitable idea, but ads are annoying enough already.
It is illogical to deny the your drawing as prior art, and to prevent people from from making space fighters because they look like your drawing.
Oh interesting! I'll have to take a look. Right now I use TeraCopy.
Sweden has had 100/100Mbit connections for ages.
I had the same thing happen, but on a smaller scale. I got one gift that was meant as a joke, and then an actual gift. I sent the two one after the other. When the first arrived, even as a joke gift, it was not even marked as received ... when the second arrived I got a very shitty thank you.

Will this stop me from participating again? Nope, not at all, I have been very happy with the gifts I have received so far, and I have been even happier with what I have sent so far, and if people don't want to be in the Christmas spirit, well then thats a shame, but that doesn't mean everyone is the same way.
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For oil dependence to go away, mankind either needs to give up the energy and things which are derived from petroleum or find suitable replacements, and that is a monumental challenge at this stage in the game

It's pretty easy to get oil in the quantities needed for the plastics industries without digging it up from the ground. Canola, peanuts, whales... longish-chain hydrocarbons aren't that difficult to come up with if you're willing to pay a highish price for them.
I consider myself well-versed on both closures and BttF II but I don't understand this comment. Care to explain?
>I also want it to continue the non-conflicting files while I'm deciding.

That's the big point. The most serious usability flaw is when doing a large copy, and every single file with a permissions issue requires user intervention to make the copy continue. Keep a running list of problem files, and let me peruse them at my leisure - keep copying the rest.
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> Closures are an implementation detail which allow anonymous functions (among other structures) to act as expected in statically-scoped languages.

I don't think anonymous functions have anything to do with it. Closures come into play when you are creating a function that has access to local variables from an enclosing scope. This function need not be anonymous. For example, in Lua:

function x()
local var = 5
local function y()
print(var)
end
return y
end

y = x()
y() -- Prints 5.

At no time is the inner function anonymous. When it is created it is bound to the local variable "y" and later it is bound to the global variable "y". And yet it is a closure because it has access to the lexical scope in which it was defined.

Also, if closures were an "implementation detail" it would not make sense to say that a language has or does not have closures, only implementations of a language would have or not have them (and the language user would not be aware of whether the language implementation had closures or not).
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Compiling with gcc's -Wall option, which implies -Wcomment, would spit out "warning: multi-line comment". Unless you have good reason to do otherwise, always use -Wall. I recommend -Wextra and -Werror as well.
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My thoughts, exactly. Perhaps I'm a little overly pedantic, but it annoys me to extremes when I find c++ style comments littering up c
Global uniqueness is certainly not "confirmed". With a 128-bit key, you have at most 2^128 different values (and it's actually slightly less because I think the different UUID schemes all reserve at least one digit). Sure, collisions are extremely unlikely, but they are also extremely unlikely with the simple 128-bit random number.
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What is a "sequential GUID"?
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I loved the punchline, & probably wouldn't have spotted that one myself.

As others have noted, the moral is to not use C++ '//' style comments in C code or at least hope that you are using a clever editor ;)
What I do is I turn on my compilers warnings for C++ comments in C code, then use C++ comments with all my TODO comments. That way I know if there are any outstanding TODOs when I go to build.
I'm not an intern. I've lived in the Bay Area for 6 yrs. If you have a summer, aren't from the area, and want to spend a little time doing some stuff outdoors, here's what I'd add:

- Go walk around a old growth Redwood grove. It's peaceful, impressive, and gives you an interesting perspective. Big Basin is the most accessible: From 101, take the Lawrence Expwy exit and just head south for a long while. There is a great little .5 mile "trail" with some of the most impressive trees.

- Drive down to the Big Sur area. It's about 2hrs drive from the Mtn View area, so a day trip. The drive is the highlight, but check out McWay falls (flat 0.3 mi hike) and Pfeiffer Beach (purple sand, natural arch with waves/sunset coming through). Pfeiffer Beaches turnoff is unmarked, so research in advance.

- Tour Alcatraz. Plan this at least a week in advance though.

- Rent a kayak and spend an afternoon on Elkhorn Slough in Monterey Bay. No experience necessary. Kayaking right past sea lions and otters is guaranteed. Visit Phil's Fish Market next door in Moss Landing when done.

- Visit Yosemite valley. You can generally get a tent cabin in Curry Village with almost no lead time for a reasonable price. Yosemite Valley is crowded but truly iconic.

Other than Yosemite, all of these are easy day trips.
if you look better the form factor is more like an amazon kindle. Which makes me fell damn cool when using one.
But OS X did have the consolidation of file transfer dialog boxes for a long time.

(Although it still has woeful conflict resolution http://cl.ly/9Zqg)
this was also pg's argument when i asked him to remove some postings made with another account that accidentally revealed confidential info about a friend's company, so i considered this would be fair game.

EDIT: post deleted -> put the info on twitter for those interested.
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Dude - you are asking a lot of questions here. Each one of your questions has a whole book (or many books) written on them.

I interpret what you are asking as 'How do I run a successful business?'

Not enough space to answer here.
Recent uptick. LinkedIn will also "flag" recommendations from being tit-for-tat, meaning, the "savvy" now wait a week or several days before "returning the favor." Ergo, recommendation quality does not mean as much as pre-IPO (IMO). It is also saturated as of late by more spammy recruiters (I'm a recruiter..value out of LinkedIn recruiting has dropped dramatically since IPO due to the flood).

LinkedIn, however, is the "disruptive" potential company in the third-party recruiting space. It will be interesting to see if they do so :)

They made a bit dent in many contingent recruiters introducing pay-for-job posting (versus posting jobs in groups, which is SPAM heavy).

LinkedIn answers and groups, however, has gone the way of mostly spam or, those trying to establish "LinkedIn" expert status' (statusi? :D). I believe many thought that owning a large group would somehow lead to monetization. Currently, groups are only moderated by the group leaders, with LinkedIn more hands-off in the approach, killing nice networking potentials.

As a caveat, day job = LinkedIn recruiting on a 10% basis, whereas off work, I like to actually interact with the groups, Answers (not lately due to poor quality) and connect with interesting people unrelated to technical recruiting.
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This is incredibly useful when you need to copy folders with a lot of (smaller) files. Think pictures, music, etc.
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I also want it to continue the non-conflicting files while I'm deciding.

Windows 7 does it, so I imagine it wouldn't regress in Windows 8.
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I mean, tmpfile() is about to make AT LEAST one system call, access the disk, and do a bunch of stuff he has no control over whatsoever, yet he's worried about one extra CALL instruction. Talk about premature optimization.. (and incompetence, if you will).
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