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Probably you never met amazing designers that can't even put a "." at the end of their sentences.

People are different, with different mind, and intelligences. Forcing such a designer to "code" is just going to destroy his skillset, that otherwise would be of great use in a good and collaborative team. :)
The problem is the accomodation for the attendees, Google/whoever might get a good deal on the facilities but if none of your attendees can afford to go then what's the point?

For the cheapest "chain" hotel in London (Travelodge) you're still looking at between £75-£110 a night
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Speaking as a regular git user, I assure you that a hash change would be noticeable. Rebase would look for a common hash between your history and the remote history you just fetched and rebase your commits on top of it. When there is a mismatch, you experience a twilight zone where there are attempted merges of code that your changes had nothing to do with. At this point, it is apparent the remote history has changed, and in the process of trying to figure out how to rebase cleanly, your eyes will be on that foreign code.

Given the number of changes coming in every release, more twilight zone experiences increases the number of eyes on the discrepancy.

I am confident in the sanctity of the git-sourced code, thanks to there being multiple version of the same repository around that people are actively working on. I am more worried about all the stuff I might rely on that is not git-sourced.
"designers can learn about what is and isn't possible, without learning to code"

Depends on what we mean by 'code'. I don't expect designers to understand javascript, php, java, .net or whatever.

I do expect someone who bills themselves as a web designer to understand the basic fundamentals of CSS, what works on various browsers, gradeful degradation strategies, etc. I don't really think you can do web design successfully without understanding them, and I've never met anyone who really understands them who didn't also actually code html/css from scratch, at least at some point in their career.

It's probably possible to just read about it without opening an editor, but probably far less effective.

And re: developers - getting some understanding about colors, shapes, fonts, sizing, etc, to understand why some decisions are reached will definitely give a new appreciation for good design, and can help in other projects in the future where perhaps a good designer isn't available. I've stolen quite a few tricks from some designers I've worked with, and as time goes by I get better and using those tricks together in concert to make stuff that doesn't suck too bad.
I got about a quarter way through the article and gave up reading. The reasoning cited is pretty poor. I was someone that used to think i could never code because my brain wasnt wired that way, but yet here i am, coding. Its given better insight into what issues and constraints programmers face.

This whole pigeon-holing exercise is just a complete farce. Far better to know a little about everything than everything about a little.

Its really not as a big a deal as people are making out.
With the reasoning in the article, "you're probably getting screwed." I guess we both took it to extremes. Either way, the math in this article is pointless. The value of an employee and an investor's contribution should almost always be more than the sum of their financial contributions. In fact, in many cases, those should be the least important. That's all.
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I'm pretty sure I can build a less ambitious 'lifestyle business' around mobile apps. I guess the choice between small app vs. big dream is at the core of my internal conflict.
Where engineering meets art so intricately, that even any amount of co-ordination between them, wouldn't help, where both need to be thought through simultaneously and equally, such as this logo: http://www.google.com/logos/2011/graham.html gives me a kick.
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It seems pretty obvious that if instead of patent system we had a mandatory obligation to publish full specs (schematics and source code) for all marketed products the invention rate will grow exponentially. The development costs will be cut down because of possibility to incrementally improve on existing products.
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This piece particurarly reflects the tech startup world:

"You can quit if you want to. Or you can stick with it until you get lucky.

The are no easy answers. No quickie fixes. No direct paths to success.

No one is forcing you to do this. You have to love it, and to believe in yourself. Even when you fail.

Especially when you fail.

If you aren't failing, you aren't trying hard enough.

And if you aren't trying hard, it's going to take a lot longer to get lucky."
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As one data point, following the recent sale to HP, Autonomy staff in Cambridge split £30m between 175 people[1].

I'm in Cambridge and know various people who work/worked there, so I'm fairly sure that those 175 include many of the remaining "early employee" group. They'll be getting a nice windfall, obviously, but it's not never-work-again money.

For contrast, founder and CEO Mike Lynch has reportedly netted a tidy £500m or so for his share of the company.

For those not familiar with the numbers, Autonomy was basically the most successful software company in the UK, and the sale valued its shares at around a 60% premium give or take market fluctuations at the time of the announcement. It was founded in 1996. HP is the currently the biggest IT company in the world.

In other words, this exit is as big as anything in its generation is going to get in my country, and if you weren't founder/investor/board level, you weren't retiring from it.

[1] http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/hi-tech/12571-autonomy-cambr...
Everyone is talking about huge cost increase for python applications, but I'd like to know what are the numbers for Java applications, since Java is multithreaded?

Is the price increase still tenfold, or something more acceptable?
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Remember that for all month round "Who's hiring?" there's my HN-inspired and recruiter free site UseTheSource: http://jobs.usethesource.com/
If this poses enough of a problem, you might consider disabling the "backspace navigates back" behavior by setting browser.backspace_action in about:config to 2 and just using the shortcuts with modifiers (Cmd+[ or Cmd+Left, et al) or three-finger swipe. This is actually the default way interaction works on Linux builds.
> But for us normal people who aren't giants, luck will be needed to find just the right conditions to get published.

Much like some forms of the web startup, barriers to entry are much lower or gone for publishing. Amazon's KDP is free to publish to, and you can get formatting, a cover image and some editing done fairly cheap.
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That was done in response to the fallout from 9/11, where it was demonstrated that there was very little inter-agency cooperation, especially in sharing information about terrorism/terrorists.

It was a calculated decision to greatly increase information sharing between government agencies (including the military) to allow for better cooperation.
The link also only counts the population aged 25 years and older. I don't know about most, but I was 21 when I graduated with a bachelor's degree. So if I was unemployed for a few years after graduation, I wouldn't have been counted on that list.

There's also a difference between being employed and being employed doing a task you trained for. Flipping burgers for $9/hr means employed, even if you have a college degree that trained you to program computers.
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Here's a summary of startup related job boards from around the world, most of them are broadly recruiter free:

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US:

Crunchboard
http://www.crunchboard.com/jobs/

Startuply
http://www.startuply.com/

YC Company Jobs:
http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

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UK:

CoderStack (Developer Jobs - run by me)
http://www.coderstack.co.uk/startup-jobs

Mind The Product (Product Management Jobs)
http://mindtheproduct.com/jobs/

Work in Startups
http://www.workinstartups.com/

Enternships - (Startup Internships)
http://www.enternships.com/en/enternships

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Germany:

Berlin Startup Jobs
http://berlinstartupjobs.com/

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Canada:

StartupNorth
http://jobs.startupnorth.ca/
well the fact of the matter is that it is typically going to be business as usual, because of the fact that AT&T and T-Mobile are both businesses even if you have crummy service or really good service it shouldn't change anything, if your on a good plan then it is going to be ATT's obligation to honor that as a "grandfathered" plan so therefore, this is not as bad as you would think
I am very wary of assuming too much from the limited details you've given.

However, it sounds like your role is much closer to being a founder than a first employee. You're in before outside money/validation, so there is a huge risk that your equity will be worth nothing. Are you also the entire technical department from the start, and therefore the only person who is actually building the founders' big idea for now?

If that is the case, it sounds like you did not get a good deal at all. I would definitely take advice from someone independent, where you can share all the relevant details. If you want to renegotiate, doing it early might be possible, but doing it later is very unlikely.
Don't worry, there's nothing "after this". "Designers should code" exists only in the web design field. It's fair to suggest that "Designers that can code are better", but it's not a must in any way. That's the point. :)
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The author is just pigeon-holing the abilities of people. I was/am pretty good at math AND art. Not everyone is a specialist that fits neatly into perfectly shaped holes.

Designers who design for the web should know HTML, CSS, and Javascript pretty well. The best ones know them throughout. Design isn't art -- it's a technical profession and one that requires the designer to know their medium. If you do not then I would say you're taking the piss right out of it.

Being the person who has to "code" a designers' work is a career built on frustration. The web wasn't built in photoshop. It was built by nerds and engineers. It has come a long way to allow people to make their HTML documents more expressive (to the point that they've become full application UI's...). But that doesn't escape the fact that this is a technical medium with specific technologies that drive those expressions.

You have to know this stuff if you want to be good, IMO.
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I know it was probably sarcasm, but I'd assume most people won't be making a list of people to share wealth with when they strike it big. If you want something in return from those founders you should make it clear what you'd like (job referrals, industry connection, etc) now before your opportunity diminishes. Don't keep your card too long.
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Whether we should or should not kill, much less harass, other humans is not one of the fundamentals that is agreed upon by many diverse sects of Christianity.

Everyone does not deserve death. That is just as absurd as the thing it is trying to rationalise.
This could just as easily be for Google's self-driven car!
Equally a good programmer brings much more than just programming ability.
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Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Playtomic is casual gaming analytics and services. We're funded and ready to start scaling up our team.

Looking for .NET, Android and iOS developers.

If you want to work on a site that deals with a ridiculous volume of data generated by over 300,000 concurrent people playing the games we track (and that number's going to get a lot bigger this year!) then you're going to love this. We're using tons of C#, SQL Server, and a growing amount of MongoDB, and I'm open to using what you're best at if it works.

Android and iOS devs will be maintaining, further developing and supporting our APIs for those platforms, and should have completed a game or two. If you love making games you'll love working on Playtomic because it won't interfere too much.

ben at playtomic.com
Anywhere, USA

Looking for a developer.

Sanebox, start up for handling email overload. Stack is Ruby, Rails, Mysql as well as interacting with IMAP, WebDav and EWS.

Full job post: http://blog.sanebox.com/post/9564725105/sanebox-is-looking-f...
Well, if it was all happening as Apple intended, why did they do it? Shits and giggles?
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Yes, but is $50,000 all that bad? Sure, it may not be what your skill bracket is worth, but I think you can live quite well (given that your frugal) on that salary. What's more is that you'll be more motivated to do good work and insure that the business grows so that your salary does as well. There are benefits and setbacks but that's up to the individual to make the choice. If you're going to work at a startup, you should understand the risks.
Kudos to you if you were able to do it. However, please, reach the end, it says the same thing. :)
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It'd be interesting to poll programmers who have computer science degrees, electrical engineering degrees, and are self taught to understand the percentage of each who understands state machines, even just at a basic level.

I'll wager electrical engineers understand state machines more often than the other two categories. Stage machines are rather useful in designing hardware.
I've worked for large corporations and startups and definitely prefer startups.

Large corps are so mired in useless, mindless institutional procedures that you waste inordinate time satisfying the procedure beast, usually in areas that have nothing to do with your job (fun fact, I once worked as an analyst for a large corp and spent on average 4 hours a week taking industrial safety courses, volatile materials storage compliance training, etc.. The chances of me ever doing anything in the company in a warehouse, assembly plant, or anything other than look at a computer on a desk in an office park were 0). Sure there's some politics at the upper levels of a given organizational unit in a large company, but the pay tends to be pretty good and you'll have pretty good job security. IMHO large corps are great places to work when you are just starting out because your mistakes generally will just average out with everybody else.

Small companies/startups are such an entirely different beast it's night and day. You have huge impact in everything the company does. A single employee might account for 40% of the company revenue! The jobs are usually very versatile, you don't get stuck in a single task, you probably have to learn to do many different jobs -- you gain more experience than it looks like for a given unit of time compared to large co. For example, at large co, you might not be asked to work on contract negotiations until you've been there for 10 years. At startup you might do it from day one.

While large co's problems are mostly procedure issues, Startups are not without their issues -- and they're usually personnel problems:

1) Politics are magnified beyond belief. In large co, if my division manager was having a problem with another division manager, I might not even know. In a startup, it's like watching your parents fight over a family dinner.

2) Because everybody can have such a huge impact, screwups are magnified. A bad employee can literally sink a company. In a two person startup, that's 50% of the workforce.

3) There's very few checks against bad employees. One of the reasons large co has so many mindless procedures is to help control for bad employees. Startups don't really have a way to do that.

4) Job stability? Pffff...what's that? Pay is often not as good as large co, and benefits such as options or shares are just paper until you can buy beer with them.

I was once recruited to work at a very well funded startup that fell apart during salary negotiations. They wanted to make up for the low salary with catered meals and an all-you-can-eat pantry, dry cleaning and other benefits plus some options. I told them I'd rather trade those benefits for a pay check and would sign an agreement to never touch those benefits -- which wouldn't be hard since my position would require me to almost never actually be in the office where those benefits were offered. They backed out and it demonstrating to me that those benefits were simply flash and not worth the delta in salary they'd have to pay me.
What stops me? Fear? No, I just know I can be successful with my idea.

Is fear of no success the only possible fear involved?

So what? I don't know.

You aren't likely to find the answer to what stops /you/ out on the Internet, only in your head.
Surely "purchase of you" should be "purchase for you".

And it's in interesting idea, certainly, but I'm deeply reluctant to give poeple my email address, let alone enter into an agreement with them to transfer money, bitcoins or physical goods.

You might have trouble getting over that.

Clickable: http://lickbit.com/
Canada:
Startup North: http://jobs.startupnorth.ca/
most state machines you're likely to need in your day-to-day development have nothing in common with their computing theory counterparts

I don't follow this? The core of whichever state machines I write seem to be DFAs, with the alphabet being events causing transitions.
Well you're building their product for 1.5% or potentially 3% and the product hasn't even been validated by outside investment... I think you know the answer.

You're only 22 though, so I'd make the most out of it (learning experience).

One thing to keep in mind, is if the 2 co-founders see you as just a code monkey, chances are they don't understand how fundamental you will become to the success of the product. This means if the product becomes wildly successful you'll have an enormous amount of leverage down the road to renegotiate your compensation. If that happens, try not to be a dick about it (small world), but at the same time make sure you're appropriately compensated for bringing a successful product to market.
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I work at an extremely large company - over 100k people across the globe. When companies get this big, it feels like everything takes forever to get done. I was just talking with a coworker how at a small company the RetiredOnTheJob people wouldn't be tolerated.

Funny thing is we used to be in a small group that was empowered to do what it needed to. Then upper manglement decided to centralize a bunch of functions - now we have common ways of doing things that don't meet anyone's needs. So I think as companies grow they need to be more like how the Virgin companies operate - literally separate divisions in a family corporation. Empower and measure each small group to do what they need to and leave them alone.

Required reading is the Gervais Principle here: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o... After reading this, I now can associate 3 times having gone through the MacLeod Life Cycle. Now on the fourth in a growing organization. The org is in the second stage moving into the third and I'm moving from a Loser into the Clueless.

My saving grace is having tough technical problems to solve for my team like 30+ terabytes of files and db, thousands of transactions flowing, making system "Mission Critical", etc. That plus learning iOS development at home keeps me sane.