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Don't misunderstand, I'm not against measuring output - but you make it sound easy and it's not. In a small (< 20 people) company, you may be able to measure an individual's contribution to the bottom line, but in a company where an individual project may involve 30+ contributors, how do you evaluate who was most important to the projects success?

I also fear that trying to measure output, like you suggest, would create perverse incentives. When everyone's pay depends on their contribution to the bottom line, it's in everyones interest to attribute as many accomplishments to themselves as possible (while downplaying any mistakes). In this kind of environment those who float to the top are not necessarily the best individuals, but the ones most skilled at self-promotion. This is no better than the current situation, really.

Edit: In principle, if you could (in a non-political way) measure someone's contribution to the bottom line, this would be an ideal yardstick for setting compensation. But I think that the complexity of large projects and human nature makes this kind of measurement impossible.
I agree with you. But I also think that it's important to have total confidence that the underlying fundamentals are there, that they are utterly deterministic, and that you can investigate them at your leisure.

I've encountered programmers in high-level languages that have some minimum level of figuring-things-out where they just give up and go "I guess (Rails|Ruby|the web server|the compiler|the VM|the OS|my hardware) just does X" at times when someone really, really needs to understand X because it's deadly important. (You could probably make an analogous argument for logical and mathematical fundamentals.) For a lot of programmers, the minimum level is completely unacceptable -- it's something like "the behavior is in code I didn't write" and they stop trying to understand once that barrier is crossed.

I think the easiest way to train people away from that is just by giving them a basic understanding of hardware, assembly language, C, compilers, and operating systems, even if most of that knowledge is only directly useful now and then.
the same amount of money has different 'utility' for different people. losing $10K, a poor guy loses more that a VC losing $1M. it's not that a guy won't be able to buy the next porsche.
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It also gets into the news for people doing awesome non-scammy things. Take the assassination of Mirial for instance: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/180867/features/murder-...
I don't think you're being a jerk, I think it's great feedback. :) I appreciate your candor about forgetting to revisit.

I'm hoping to add better fallbacks shortly.
I completely agree with you about the article. I was just pointing out Jobs and Woz, as brilliant as they are in their respective fields, were not the only ones responsible for the explosion of personal computing that happened in the late 70's and early 80's.
Do the Times tech/media reporters and editors stand to personally gain or lose from this investment?

I'm guessing as editorial employees they're completely separated from any kind of investment decisions made by NYT corporate.
So, so true. And so horribly sad.
> Why do not more people select Postgres? Is it comfort level with MySQL?

* Cheap (let alone free/ISP) hosting does not provide Postgres

* Most introductory tutorials, especially in the PHP world (but also Ruby I believe) use MySQL

* AMP packages/installers (is there any out there using Postgres as its db?) and a history of punitively hard installation

Following that, a combination of habit (MySQL works for me, why would I care?) and BLUB (what could it even bring to the table?), as well as drawbacks/issues whose fixes are recent (replication, master/slave, ...)
As someone who is somewhat in your position and I'm now in my third start-up (last two failed miserably but taught me SO much)I think you are asking the wrong question: "how can I focus on my ideas full-time and still pay the bills and support my growing family?"

I think you should focus on picking one of the hundreds of ideas you might have and set a reasonable time-frame and strip your apps functionality to the core.

Once you arrive at that point, just set aside one hour, even half an hour a day to work on your new start-up. Before you know it you have a product and are up and running and at least have the opportunity to see what happens. This gives you the experience and the opportunity to fail many times (if you decide to do it more than once) so you get the hang of it and still be able to support your family.

Don't regret not trying.
As a native English speaker, I would say that "unless" usually implies that the condition is exceptional, which is why I try to avoid code like "handle_error unless there_is_no_error".
Agreed. Like him or hate him, Arrington is the reason we all read Techcrunch. If he started his own site, we'd all read that instead in an instant.

Journalism needs guys like this who cause waves, it's what seperates mediocre journalism from real talent. And Arrington certainly had a way of making enemies.

I'm hoping he starts his own site soon.
No, I didn't mean to imply that unsanctioned ISK sales weren't happening -- you are right, they most certainly are happening.

I just wanted to add a bit more information to your post :)
i've stopped spamming my friends with the "early invite" incentive bs. past experience with two sites: inviting 5+ friends to a service (who signed-up) i got given access at the same time as everyone else. never seen evidence showing otherwise.
I've worked on a project which used a technique like this, but was not even as closely mirroring the DOM, and the end result was terrible. We ended up with specificity horrors which will best not be seen. Nobody wants to touch those stylesheets anymore.
For me:

- Well supported and very active community. It's a project that is clearly going to be moving forward for a long time.

- For my needs (structured data) it's super fast.

- The auto-sharding support is nifty.

- Geo-spatial queries out of the box
Sometimes you have to burn all the ships (it is said that Cortés burned all his fleet before launching an attack on the Aztec to keep his men from retreating).

I burned all my ships 5 years ago when I decided to quit a fairly successful career as a network engineer for "bigco". I also moved to another city, (literally) burned my rolodex and told everyone I was starting a venture.

I'm still not an "overnight success" but I can tell you one thing: when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward. In 6 months I was already ramen profitable.
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Yup, I agree. This is on my todo list.
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Its actually possible to be fully consistent if you include the "tension" documents when fetching the main docs.

For example, in the canonical transaction example of Alice giving Bob $5 you could insert a document in the transactions collection that says Alice gave Bob $5. When you go to fetch Alice's pending balance you fetch her current document, then you fetch all pending transactions than she is involved in. Same for Bob and all other users. Then each night, you pull that days transactions and apply them to each user and update an "as of" field to make sure no transaction can ever be applied twice.

Now you could argue that this isn't fully consistent because it is possible for Alice to simultaneously give $5 to both Bob and Charlie even if she only has $7 in her account. However she will then have a pending balance of $-3 so it immediately reflects her current situation. This is similar to the real world example of overdrawing you checking account. If you wanted to, you could void one or both of those transactions if you never want to allow a user to go negative.
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Arrington voluntarily posted on TC announcing he was stepping down as Editor of TC but remaining on as a writer while he went to start his new fund. His new fund is primarily funded by AOL and he has the full support of the AOL CEO.

Arianna who's responsible for AOL's other news outlets then had her staff tell the media that Arrington was fired and would have no role at Techcrunch. This seems to have been done without consulting the AOL executive committee who backed Arrington.

Techcrunch when they were acquired by AOL were promised full editorial independence, hence they were AOL's only news blog outlet not to be controlled by Arianna. Arianna then attempted to make a power grab by publicly announcing that Techcrunch fell under her control and she was going to appoint the new editor.

Arrington complained that this grossly violated the editorial independence promised by AOL, and that Techcrunch should be able to appoint it's own editor. Many of TC's writers are unhappy with this violation and feel without independence they won't be able to retain the tone and spirit of TC (which is often very abrasive).

At least one of their writers (Paul Carr) has publicly stated that he would resign unless Arrington got to appoint the next editor . Even in this article note how the Techcrunch writer puts "Deciding" in quotation marks to indicate that Arrington was pushed.

The final line of the press release "TechCrunch will be expanding its editorial leadership in the coming months." seems to imply that Arianna has won the power battle within AOL. The line saying Erick Schonfeld has been named editor is highly misleading, Erick's been co-editor of TC since 2007, it adds nothing new to the situation.
Why build a new site for it, especially ending up with lower readability, shitty contrasts and 20% of the page lost to a pointlessly huge signpost, instead of contributing to caniuse?
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Compare this office photo:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/12/business/delici...

To this office photo:

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It's not your job to anticipate all of the needs of the other party, but you should offer something that seems like it would be reasonably acceptable to each party. You shouldn't offer a contract you know to be "heavily biased" to the author -- you should write up a contract that details a deal you consider reasonable and fair and a deal you believe that the other party will find reasonable and fair, and further negotiations can flow freely. If you offer a deal you know to be unfair and the other party executes it, you should understand that they probably do not understand the terms or do not feel they have an option except to execute it, and that's exploitative. You can't really just shrug it off by saying, "Well, if they accepted it, they must think it's a fair and even-handed deal!" That's not realistic.

Quoth John Taylor, third President of the Mormon Church:

"It is a common thing among a certain class of men to say I made a splendid trade to-day with Brother So-and-So. But did Brother So-and-So make as good a trade out of you? If he did, all right. But if you, because you happen to be a little smarter, or shrewder on a trade than your brother, have got the better of him, it is not all right, it is all wrong, and I do not think it a credit for a man to be possessed of that kind of smartness. I do not think it a credit to anybody to want something which belongs to somebody else."
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Privacy policies have not changed that much. I agree that P3P does not provide a scale of privacy, but that seems by design, since privacy, and the things described in privacy policies, don't map to a linear scale.
Please accept this in a sincere and non-adversarial tone.

You don't need 2.5 years of a salary and full-time. Thinking that you need that is just an excuse. What you need is to set your priorities and be able to find a way to work an hour or two a day. Surely you can do that? If not, surely you can find a few hours on the weekend? Yes, you'll probably have to sacrifice some things. What you'll have to sacrifice depends on your own situation.

I'm not sure where I read this quote but it sticks with me... "those who want to accomplish something will find a way, those who don't really want to will find an excuse"
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Considering that some projects such as OpenBSD have a set release schedule that add a 0.1 to the version, I don't think you speak for everyone.

OpenBSD 5.0 is in its final stages before release and the 5.0 simply means it came after 4.9.
I don't think that's a "timeless adage". Given the long history of the "mom and pop store" and the "family business" most people within the past 50 years would consider that adage absurd.
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Reminds me of the of the Boltzmann brain paradox:

The Boltzmann brain paradox is that it is more likely that a brain randomly forms out of the chaos with false memories of its life than that the universe around us would have billions of self-aware brains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
I think you should enumerate what kind of events you mean.
For the same reason you don't indent 'else' relative to 'if'. It avoids double-indentation and isn't really necessary. All of the lines under 'case' will begin with one of 'when', 'else', or 'end' and are thus easy to spot without indentation.
So would giving them an $7200 raise. But this raise has no tax, and saves the staff time & money, so it's worth more than the $7200 to the staff.
Thank you, this is really helpful.

I am afraid, though, that I can't imagine how our company can work effectively without at least some people in the physical lab at the same time. I will meditate on this.

In the meantime, I will think about how to give people an alternative plan of time off while still being effective.
I agree that its a good idea to remind people what you do, especially if it takes a long time between the sign up and launch (or further communication between parties). I just put up a landing page for my startup and think I did a decent job conveying what the company does, but I'm curious, but how much is necessary to remind them (in future communications)?

Is a one-liner enough (i.e. "We're a crowd-sourced record label!"), or would people prefer the whole spiel (i.e. "We're a crowd-sourced record label that does this, this and this!")?
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>Prowse's career hovered just above the "extra" category.

At the time, Prowse was most famous as the Green Cross Code Man, from the UK's pedestrian safety public service films of the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRUBMBi_lp4
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This is a relatively old article; I think it misses one more rather important point: functional programming is becoming increasingly more popular right now, and Java is a language that seems to actually discourage using a functional programming style.

If you only ever use Java not only will you not know how to functionally program (this can be learned on your own anyhow), but also, and more importantly, you won't know when it's best to.
Why isn't there an enterprising law firm going through the credits of all the Star Wars (and similar-vintage films with ongoing commercial potential), contacting every person on the list, and telling all the retired ones "There is a pot o' money with your name on it if you sign these papers which let us sue them for residuals on your behalf."?

Because it's a violation of professional ethics to solicit clients in this way. That's one reason you occasionally see articles by lawyers explaining in copious detail why situation XYZ actually rests on a totally unstable legal foundation; they're hoping some interested party will notice the article and come to them.
Pretty simple really, AOL acquired two aggressive and ambitious bloggers (Mike Arrington and Arianna Huffington) and put them in a situation where one where they would be in constant conflict but constrained by contractual earn-out restrictions. Sort of like tying a bear to a stake and putting a dog in the ring. Much messiness ensued, painful to watch, and now Mike has left the arena (presumably with most of his money and certainly with his VC venture intact).

Perhaps he'll become like the other side of pg and write cogent essays about the marketing and PR side of startups while funding a small stable of them.
Wow, I'm getting down voted for pointing out slave labor in India is racist by drawing parallels from our own history.

Since when did the HN community support racism?
So, if you cut the thread off in two places because one electron and one positron annihilate each other, wouldn't that unravel the whole thing?

(kind of tongue-in-cheek)
I think the analogy to startups is this:

You can plan 100 features, implement 100 features, launch 100 features, get feedback on 100 features

OR

You can plan, implement, and launch 1 feature, get feedback on it, then move on to the next feature, and repeat 100 times.

Obviously, the feedback in the 2nd case is much more immediately useful; the point of the post was that even in a relatively simple case where you wouldn't expect nearly as much value from the feedback (stuffing envelopes), the small-batch approach still wins.
Well you still get to do that when your $10,000 runs out.
Interesting philosophical distinction I've learned from some party discussions between Muslims and Christians:

In Islam, the Koran is held to be a revealed text: Muslims believe the text's writers wrote verbatim the words proceeding from Allah.

In Christianity, the Bible is held to be an inspired text: Christians believe authorship rests with the text's writers, with a sort of guidance from God. What's fascinating here is the degree to which even closely-related sects may disagree on the nature of this guidance: some protestant groups believe in an infallible inspiration, while others believe even the Bible can suffer from bad CRCs.
Hi All,

The "Events" refers to your calendar events and tasks from google tasks or any social media (Facebook events, Twitter) tools user might use on daily basis.

Thanks,
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Though I don't really get why the borg need all organisms of a species. If they just took a few millions here and there, nobody would complain - or at least not that loudly.
No not really. It might make sense in a campus office, perhaps, but in central Manhattan it just seems like overcontrol.
By the terms of the sale of Techcrunch to AOL, Arrington would have had to stay there 3 year. Starting a venture fund is his way of trolling his way out of that obligation.
Isn't the implication to solve it for yourself you just need to go out and learn some other languages on your own time? that's how I took it and that's what I've always done. I've always been aware of the incompleteness of my academic education
How about a little IP geolocation action? The UK isn't exactly a day trip for me.
You may be thinking of "By His Bootstraps", which is a fantastic Heinlein short story about time travel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_His_Bootstraps
Thanks for your feedback. Yes we take events from Google Cal, Ical, outlook and other social media tools.
Seems like there are some states that have this program in place- Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania.

http://workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/unemploy/self.asp

Unfortunately, not California
> wouldn't it be great if we could save all experiences and thoughts of all beings on earth living now and also have a way to easily browse this vast collection?

No.

I'm thinking of a short story I read long ago, about a man who invents a device which can be used to view the past, despite mysterious attempts to sabotage his work.

As I recall, it does not end well.
Of course. Why didn't I think of that?
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>This ISK would be hard to launder back into real money

Not true, I know of several Russians that live off the game with far less ISK.
sjaakkkkk, thanks for the valuable feedback. we'll be making changes in next few days.
What argument are you referring to, that the usage of FUD to shut down criticism is currently endemic to software development communities (the comment you responded to)?

Here's the thing Mikey, I never said Acquia is doing work that "only benefits them", and I also never questioned their motives (unless assuming that profit as a motive for a venture-backed startup is controversial).

Overlay, however, is a great example of the (subtle) shift in power within the community. Now that Dries has a paid staff he is able to have things developed by paying for them directly rather than by building consensus or waiting for a volunteer to take it on. That's a real shift, it's easily seen in how the overlay was built and found it's way into core, and even Acquia employees can see it was a problem: http://groups.drupal.org/node/170999#comment-575529. To quote from the "other" Alex:
"The Overlay example, however, is different, in my opinion. This, I do believe was a clear case of Dries knowingly making an unpopular decision, Acquia being the only company willing to fund the development, and the development not have happened without such funding."

So, please rest the FUD talk, you obviously don't have any real examples of me spreading "FUD" here (obvious to me, because your accusation is false), and it's really nothing more than a lame attempt at shutting down a discussion that really needs to take place.
Thanks for the first 3 suggestions.

Frameworks, on the site at least, means any pile of code that can be used on iOS. It's definitely a misnomer, but it fits well enough with what people search for. I'm sure you had the same issue when deciding on a name for cocoacontrols.com.

It's hard to say what differentiates the sites. They definitely serve the same niche.
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Azharb, Thanks for the feedback.