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The recent article he is responding to posits that designers who code are valuable. That is true. To debunk the claims properly he would need to show that designers who code are not valuable. Instead he debunked the straw man argument "designers should code".
I imagine that more sophisticated networking equipment uses something like TDR (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Time-domain_r...) to detect when the cables have changed in length. Some PC BIOSes include a tool that will report the length of attached network cables, whether or not there is a system at the other end.
> Cost: Free*

with no corresponding *... huh?
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BioWare SF is hiring! Formerly known as EA2D, we are now the online/social arm of the BioWare group.

We're working on exciting projects:

* Social games for gamers (from BioWare and others)

* Game APIs (web services for online games)

We're small (30 people) and scrappy. And we're growing fast: 0-200 servers in the past 8 months. Tech stack is primarily AS3/Java backed by MongoDB, but we're writing more in Python, JavaScript, and Ruby. We have a highly automated infrastructure running on AWS (EC2 w/ELBs and ASGs, EMR, SQS, Beanstalk, etc., plus more than a few super-secret/unreleased Amazon features) and Google App Engine. Buzzword potpourri includes Chef, node.js, Hive, Graphite, Tomcat, Spring, Maven, Hudson, GitHub, Pingdom, Loggly, PagerDuty, and continuous deployment. <3 DevOps. We have a small but growing list of open source projects (see http://github.com/ea2d and http://eng.ea2d.com/).

We need backend and systems engineers, artists, PMs, and more. Detailed listings are here: https://jobs.ea.com/search/advanced.do?q=bioware&globalR...

I lead the platform team. Drop me a line if you're interested: mikeb@ea2d.com
Right on with your logic though I am not sure if anyone is willing to give up even 12%.

6 to 8% seems to be the high numbers I have seen or heard.

I hope your post will show the people who are not experienced with the startup equity world a way of thinking what their offer is worth.

There is another missing piece from your comment that the employees need to consider, it is dilution.

It is ignorance on how startup equity works that causes most mistakes.

Well, Guys, learn from some of us who have been there and got screwed before you.
Burnout and depression are different, and have different causes. The right solution to a burnout really is a vacation most of the time.

Depression is different and a vacation is not the answer. A psychologist/psychiatrist is the answer.
Newcastle, UK (REMOTE or INTERN). - Designer wanted

We are looking for a good designer to join our team developing a few different applications. See www.competitormonitor.com as one example of what we're doing. Your location is not important to us as we are used to working with people from around the world. Our current team is UK, Russian and Argentinian, so we welcome everyone :)

Contact me at the email address in my profile

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How I name my apps
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Not just an employee, but an associate technical director at Broadcom. Others have found that the Raspberry Pi blog posts and etc are coming from Broadcom addresses. They're doing this on company time.

Earlier I thought this was a good marketing thing. Other companies like TI are doing this to get chips in the hands of hackers and spread some goodwill towards future commercial users of their chips.

But, as others have noted, Broadcom is a lot more standoffish with individuals that want access to sample parts and datasheets. So what is Broadcom gaining here? Inroads into educational markets? Access to open-source code written by tinkerers that they can incorporate into future EVKs and chipsets?

Maybe this odd part # is just a series of chips that have failed speedbinning and are being sold off cheaply?
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Who else thought the article was about IBM using algorithms to buy in the stock market?
Watching the biggest, scariest TV ever: AT&T’s Global Network Operations Center
A lot of the people who might have gone into music are doing blogs, books, and things like that.
Well in the 80's and 90's when Assange did the illegal hacking, that we're aware of, hackers weren't what we call hackers today.

So a reformed hacker in my books is someone who no longer illegally hacks into property that is not theirs.

In "Hacker News" existed a decade+ ago then it would have been filled with black-hats.
The worst breakage in the HTTPS/TLS security model is the fact that every CA is a full peer to ever other CA and can sign anything. Combine that with the fact that CA's are allowed to have resellers and the whole thing breaks down predictably.

It doesn't have to be that way. SSL/TLS libraries, for the most part, only verify that the certificate chain is properly signed all the way to the root. That doesn't mean the browser trust system is limited to that! After certificates are verified, it should be straightforward to apply additional policies, such as "Colin Percival does not trust certificates from this CA with the exception of these three domains which unfortunately rely on it, but Colin and all his friends are also helpfully monitoring the fingerprints of the known good certs for those domains".

You don't need permission from the IETF, IANA, Mozilla, or Verisign to build this. You just have to build it and get people to use it.

Moxie Marlinspike is working on an idea similar to this at CONVERGENCE.IO.
In google the ".." between two sets of numbers indicates search for numbers between the range of the two.

So, if Bing is trying to "emulate" google in that way for more advanced queries, they are doing it wrong.

Since google is sort of the defacto standard for search right now, I would say that Bing's response would be out of the ordinary for what a user accustomed to doing those kinds of searches would expect.
There is no central authority, but each browser does have an approval process. Most require the CA to be audited annually by an organization that does WebTrust audits. Mozilla's procedures are listed at https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:How_to_apply

I'm not sure having a central authority would be practical, but the approval process and audits need to be more thorough to find the type of security problems that DigiNotar and Comodo had.
As a "web designer", HTML/CSS are your medium. If you don't understand your medium, you don't understand your craft. Last I checked, web browsers don't understand PSD files, which means without HTML/CSS the design isn't finished.

Imagine hiring a painter to do oil on canvas and they handed you a picture of a painting, or a sketch of what the finished painting should look like. You hired them for oil on canvas - not something that looks like oil on canvas.

When hiring a designer for a web project, I expect to receive html files that can be opened in a browser. In the very few cases where the designer didn't know HTML/CSS, I hired a designer who did to finish the job - because the inherent decisions with modeling a website in HTML/CSS are design-minded decisions.

As such, I suppose as a designer you don't HAVE to know HTML/CSS, but then I can't think of a single reason to hire you for a web project. Print, maybe - provided they understand the needs and limitations of printing and can provide files in a format the printer can use. Otherwise, I'm just going to have to hire a more talented designer to finish the job, which will leave me to wonder - why did I ever hire that first designer?
Apple CEO Tim Cook promotes iTunes head Eddy Cue to SVP
Working in a war room scenario also basically forces you to do actual work. You can't exactly be browsing Hacker News since everyone else will see your monitor.
I have burned out before. I dealt with it with a combination of vacation (only had 2 weeks) and just slugging through the days until it got better. My code was crap during that time and everything suffered for it.

At that company, they had burned out every single developer they had ever had. I signed on as a junior programmer and ended up doing senior level things in the first month... Alone. No help. (They did give me amazing raises to compensate for this, so I'm not complaining.)

But eventually, they managed to burn me out, too. But instead of quitting, I just kept at it.

The result is that I'm now much less likely to burn out again because I have seen what it's like to code-like-a-crazy-man, and code-like-a-depressed-monkey. And I can balance the 2 enough to make sure I never hit either extreme again.
I beg to differ.

When one first starts out, it's ok to just sit in front of an interpreter or a compiler and start trying out small programs, make mistakes, learn from them and go on.

But one vital quality of good developers is being able to read code, understand good code, borrow good coding habits and using them in your work. Many excellent books are available where what shines through the pages is the author's experience in writing good code, explaining the logic of how he or she arrived at it, and then solving small problems which might come as exercies at the end.

University degrees, learning on the job, etc will only get you so far ahead, but to leap ahead in your productivity, it's best to learn from the real giants in the field.

Programming is a field that constantly changes. Reading, Applying, and learning new skills, and new techniques is part of the skill-set needed to survive. Great books are a complement to hands-on experimentation in this regard and cannot be over estimated as more and more learning is often self-learning since it's difficult to always find good mentors.
Impulsive? Indecisive? You May Have “Decision Fatigue”
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OLPC has a $100 PC, India has a $10 PC, and now these guys have a $25 PC.

What do they all have in common? They all have in common that NONE OF THEM EXIST. Yes, that's right. These projects get announced as if they are factual existing devices, with announcements using verb tenses suggesting they are currently in production and available. But then looking for details we find that no one is sure what the form of the device will be, or what parts will be involved because they are not developed products. That is a deceptive practice. And you know what, people who resort to such deceptive practices aren't the sorts of persons that can manage to deliver the goods.

edit: wow, downvotes, that is awesome. When downvoting, please also respond with a web page where I can purchase OLPC for $100, the India PC for $10, or this one for $25. Thanks.
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EVE makes hardware emulation boxes that let hardware engineers debug their Verilog RTL and embedded developers boot Linux on new chips before tape-out.

Looking for C++ developer with some digital circuit experience, EECS background preferred.

Contact alain at eve-team dot com.
That's a very good point. But I think the problem is that we're blurring the distinction between founder and employee.

I remember an old quote "founders get rich, early employees get screwed, and late employees get paid." I've worked for startups where I received a miniscule percentage of the company. But they paid me market rate and provided me with a health plan. The equity was nice, but this was really just a job... ok, it was more than "just a job", I did pursue it with more passion, and there was less stability (and one of them did tank leaving everyone scrambling), but the equity was really a bonus in exchange for the lack of stability and perhaps a more passionate workforce, but it wasn't a stand-in for a substantially below market rate paycheck.

So I agree, 20% equity is a massive amount to give to an "employee" who is not a founder. But a 50% pay cut is a massive amount to ask of an "employee" who will not be treated as a founder. That sounds more like the kind of arrangement that might normally be worked out between a couple of founders, where one needs an income and agrees to lower the equity share in exchange, whereas the other goes without income at all.

In this case, it does sound like the early employee may be getting a little screwed, because his deal is the worst of both worlds - working for "free" (well half the time) like a founder, but receiving miniscule equity, like an employee.
Really good article. Bargaining / making deals is all about information.

The US still has laws requiring businesses to put price tags on products to prevent price discrimination.
The obvious guess would be their plan is to limit access to the chip until the pi became the "defacto standard" board, similar to the beagleboard or arduino, but I don't know why they're doing it.

They're selling at cost, so it's not to lock in the profit. Whats the benefit of retaining control? Unless they're also going to bring the board to a consumer product and don't want competition, but that's not really their market.
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I really hope that methodology and philosophy never becomes the penultimate choice for those that want to start their own business or innovate something.

If "let's work out of a garage for a while" is the second-to-last choice, what is the last choice, and is it better or worse?
The boy who cries that the emperor has no clothes changes everything on how the emperor is seen.

A truth spoken in public has a different impact form a truth spoken behind doors.
This is a great point. The general approach of thinking of the job-after-next that you want to get, and looking at how your potential next job does (or doesn't) position you for it, is extremely useful.
I really like the functionality. I just don't like the user experience. Web apps masquerading as mobile are just not pleasant to use on my iPhone.

Some of the problems are fixable. The page dimensions for example should be made to fit the screen of the device so that they don't slide left and right as you scroll down. Other issues like the toolbar being stacked on top of the browser controls and the toolbar disappearing and reappearing might be harder to address.

These issues might seem minor but it would definitely prevent me from using the app on my iPhone. I might use it on my computer though.
Exactly my experience. Over the years we've tried many different ways of coding state machines and it's very hard to keep them readable. Still we continue to use them, the pros outweigh the cons.

There's a pretty interesting RTOS approach based on state machines (www.state-machine.com, no less) that uses single-stack run-to-completion "tasks". They also have some kind of wizard approach to generate code but I haven't had enough time to evaluate it.

For anyone who finds state machines in HLLs unreadable, try looking at a state machine implemented in ladder logic on a PLC!
I worked at a 100+ person startup that exhibited the same behavior.

So, sorry, but this isn't exclusive to large companies.
I have to take issue with your last statement: "(Or find some drugs and idle the rest of your life away.)"

We could likely agree that over-prescription is a problem, as is people not willing to make change or enter psychotherapy. But some people even with all of that require medication and care - there's a reason why ECT therapy is still used, for some people it's the only relief.
> And I believe prior to this one, the early 90s recession had been the worst since WWII.

I disagree:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unite...

The three recessions immediately preceding the early 90s recession (73-75, 80, 81-82) all had either higher unemployment, a larger GDP reduction, or both.
Hey HN -

Was hoping to get some feedback from you guys on anything and everything related to our launch. UsherBuddy is a solution that venues can use to offer last-minute tickets to consumers. Compare it to the TKTS booths but on the web, not only broadway, and catered towards residents and not tourists!

For consumers: Last-minute usually means a discount to go out and discover something new. If the show is really popular the venue can increase the price if they would like. Event discovery on a budget, if you will.

For venues: Seats at a venue are perishable. Incremental revenue is where they make money, so we try to help them fill the seats while still getting something for the seat. This is similar to Goldstar or Stubdog, but by doing it last-minute we hope to get rid of the cannibalization of sales that those services promote.

Currently, we have venues signed up and are just trying to gauge the initial consumer reaction. Would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks!
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No demos, movies, or anything? Just a sign saying 'we use SproutCore and PhoneGap'?

The blog is just a list of conferences you went to?

No refunds? (There was a good discussion on here about why that's a bad idea, and why 'refunds for any reason whatsoever' is a lot better. Sadly, I don't have the link.)

I might take a look once it launches, but most likely I'll have forgotten about it, since you gave me nothing to lock onto. It's just a generic SaaS right now.
The argument for it (not saying I accept it) is that the definition of the "authentic site" largely resides in the database of the DNS registrars anyway.

Currently, many CAs authenticate new applicants primarily on the basis of this "domain control", i.e., can they receive an email at this domain. So DNSSEC wouldn't be changing anything there.

IMHO, the idea of providing cryptographic authentication for DNS records isn't inherently a bad one and it's only natural that it would follow the same hierarchy as the name delegation itself.

In one sense it delegates more freedom than the CA system does (assuming you don't purchase yourself a sub-CA). However, in other fundamental ways it represents a highly centralized system of control.
My mom is a burnout. She is no longer capable of working at all. She can fulfill tiny things at home for a short period.

We canceled many vacations because of her burnout.
So treat it serious, because it can cost you your career and will control your life!
Yeah, minimum wage for non-tipping jobs is $7.25 where I live, and somewhere around $2 for jobs that rely on tips. Since a 10 - 20% tip is the norm, a server only needs to serve maybe $40 of food every hour to hit that minimum wage. For the sake of reference, most meals are around $6 on the cheap end, and $10 - $15 is common at a nicer-but-affordable place.

So, yeah, it's low, but as long as the server is doing a decent job, people will tip, and at a decent restaurant, they can actually do better than the (honestly pretty low) normal minimum wage.
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...the resulting C code is unreadable...

It seems to me that, if all of your state machines follow a common pattern, seeing enough of them would make it easier to decipher any given state machine. To a programmer who's never seen an event loop with states represented in a switch block or as function pointers, it may seem unreadable.
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But would you not consider this to be a better alternative to a plain ad.

Also, the sites you talk about are rather shady. You need to fill out lengthy surveys that collect your personal information. Here you are simply presented with tasks that are designed to expose you to the brand, not steal your information.
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I've got a load of experience in PHP, jQuery (and native JS too), CSS(3), MySQL, Python (Django), Photoshop.

My most recent websites are: http://www.qrplz.com, http://www.jawnt.com (still in Dev)

Big fan of writing libraries, widgets, and other cool coding bits to solve interesting problems.

Here's a few pieces of my other work:
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If you draw your line at 12%, you will simply never get a job at a post-funding startup as a non-executive. Even as an executive, it's unlikely. (reference: http://venturehacks.com/articles/option-pool-shuffle - see the chart 2/3 of the way down).

I agree this isn't a stellar deal. He's giving up $50k for one year. His vested options after that 1 year of risk should be at least $50k in value at the current valuation (though it's possible they've made considerable progress since the valuation was established). I'm not going to touch the fact that you've tossed in severance and "career risk" into your formula. And adding 30% for overtime?! Most 6-figure jobs are >40h/week. /boggle

Of course, a lot of startups can't match BigCo dollar for dollar and don't try-- because they win on other fronts (work environment, autonomy, etc).
The signature can be validated with a public key not available on the server.
I spent the last 3 years writing a distributed database which is basically a state machine (it's built on top of Paxos).

http://github.com/scalien/scaliendb
Pretty fantastic writeup.

It covers the vulnerabilities and also includes a nice walkthrough that shows you how to do it yourself.

I was left wondering how they figured all this stuff out: What didn't work? How many xboxes did they brick accidentally in the process? What tools did they have available?
Your possibly correct, but its only because of the way the market turned out for programmers. At age 14 I don't know if you'd know how the market would turn out. Lets put it this way, a home schooled mathematician or physicist is likely unemployed, but one with a MS from UNC can pretty easily get a job in a variety of places.

I honestly can't say that if we were to have another bubble that acquisitions for startups wouldn't completely dry up. And, like music, services cluster around the big companies. It could well be the case that the next 20 years in SW doesn't look like the last 20 in that startup founders are simply a long shot, ala the rock star analogy someone made earlier.

You happen to live in the golden age for SW. A similar thing happened for electrical engineers in the 70s (although not as broad or as big). I suspect something similar might happen for biologists in the future (although a homeschooled biologist would be lucky to drive a taxi in today's market).

School does take time, but it also mittigates some of this risk. And more importantly, you can drop out of school if you see this happening. I knew a lot of people who dropped out of school. In fact I knew one guy who sold his company to GM for $5M and never missed a class (this was back in the early 90s when this sort of thing was a lot less common -- pre-web). I think blaming school is a bit of a stretch. Those that'll make it big, will do so.