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I don't even exactly understand what seniority has to do with it, and I'm a (very?) senior developer, working professionally for more than 10 years.

The seniority portion is based on time working for the company, not on time as a developer in general.

Isn't it an incentive for working less as you become a "dinosaur" in the company?

Presumably there are other checks on that, like performance reviews. If my performance gradually degraded year after year, I'd expect to be talked to about that, and fired if I didn't improve.

Besides, seniority is already reflected in the salary.

Sorta -- they base salaries on average where you live for a similar job + a little bit. That's a different kind of seniority than the bonus depends on.

I question how "fair" a bonus structure really can be. At my last company bonuses were entirely random, and weren't always fair: I received several bonuses (that I do believe I deserved), but there were many others who should have been recognized as well on different occasions who weren't.

The bonus here is sort of a macro performance level. Everyone gets to share in the profits of the company when the company does well, and they share somewhat proportionally based on how long they've been with the company. Assuming the company is doing a good job of making sure everyone is performing well and not allowing people to slack off, it's a reflection of your loyalty to the company. And for a startup, it's also maybe a reflection of the amount of risk you took on (employee #1 took on loads, employee #75 took on much less) when you joined.

Then again, maybe I'm just jealous; I've never worked for a company with a profit-sharing plan, but would like to. It feels much more equitable than the traditional stock-option route most companies go for. Though the upside is that for stock options, you just need to stick around until they vest, while with profit sharing you need to stick around until the company is profitable, and you only get payouts while you're still there. Pros and cons to everything, I guess.
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I don't think it makes sense to limit the number of applications, event types, or team members. Cost to your customers should scale with volume of API requests.

Volume is what costs you more hosting dollars. It's also a primary indicator of your customer's need for your service, and his ability to pay for it.

Restricting access to your other features only makes your service less useful on the low end, which is where you're supposed to be winning customers. It also sets up perverse incentives that leads to e.g. piggy backing multiple real-world applications into a single app on your site, having users share accounts, etc.

You should be looking align your incentives so that you succeed when your customer succeeds. Charging for volume does that.
Saipan is inhabited by the Chamorro, who are mostly Roman Catholic. Quite the opposite of Calvinists.
Thanks for posting this link. I'm kind of wondering why my post from hours earlier didn't pop up. Did I just write a crappy headline?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2987246
Excuse me, but why do you believe Millard to be guilty of tax evasion? The fact that the WSJ claims him to be does not make it so. Here is some more information about Millard, you can find it by restricting your google search to items published before 9/1/11 - http://articles.latimes.com/1986-08-25/business/fi-16194_1_t...

It seems there was more talk about the fact that Saipan was trying get his money by changing their tax laws, not that he fled the US because he was wanted for tax evasion as the WSJ article makes it sound.

edit: for clarity
Client-side encryption does not exclude server-side decryption, ie: only encrypt it on the wire, not the storage device.

Like Dropbox.
Was I the only one that tried to click on the empty space between the logo and the social icons? I read "engine" on the title and figured that had to be the search box.
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I was on stage for that. Whee!
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"his is why I think cooperating in standards bodies is critical for web interop and non-fragmentation. It necessarily implies less competitive content languages at any given instant, but with consequent widest reach."

I think it's interesting he's admitting to standards bodies leading to inferior languages but that the benefits include wide reach. I disagree. See HttpRequest. I say let the browsers innovate at will and let the standards bodies come in and standardize what people are actually using after the fact.

Shoot first, ask standards bodies later.
> Contradiction - encrypted data cannot be deduplicated.

That's correct; there might be a middle ground that's yet to be explored and proved secure.

Check previous discussion here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2570538
Interesting suggestions. I don't think Leo would sell to Yahoo. After what happened to TechTV, Yahoo is the last place he'd turn. Yahoo already has omg! which dwarfs Sugar Inc. I don't think Jim Lanzone would be afraid of Yahoo "Zucking" anything at this point.

I do think Gawker, Curbed, The Atlantic, Business Insider, Scoble, and Flipboard make sense, though.
- Better GUI integration
- Standardized and complete API going beyond simple libc and POSIX (which are quite long in the tooth now)
- Access control lists
- Nicer driver system and better driver support

To name a few.
Shit, I should have asked that.
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I don't care how smart your technology is, representing your product as "infinite storage" is inaccurate and misleading. There is obviously no such thing as infinite storage on a finite device, and saying you don't have to use a "clunky web service" implies it's not a web service, when it obviously is.

I respect their need to find a sexy way to sell a cloud-storage-and-sync product, especially since it's an increasingly crowded space, but this seems a bit sleazy.
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Looking forward to having a look at it!
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Ive got an "infinite stotage device" called /dev/urandom.

It does take a while to wait for your data to come back out :)
from their faq:
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Bitcasa encrypts your data before it is sent to the cloud. It is actually impossible for Bitcasa to access any of your data for any reason.
Take his advice and do something different. Google Local is very good.
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A few months ago, I saw an online interactive 'trainer' of sorts for MongoDB, much like Codecademy's JS tutorials. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

EDIT: Damn Google, you good: http://www.mongly.com/
take a look at these query plans - http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2010/12/11/waiting-for-9-1-k...
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I've had to do this with SAS and perl.

Looking forward to checking this out.
The site loads without the www. http://lexandera.com/aardwolf/

Here's the github repo https://github.com/lexandera/Aardwolf

It seems it works by rewriting your JS to call a bunch of debugging functions, and once it hits a breakpoint, it sends out a synchronous XHR to the server.
It was probably either http://try.mongodb.org or http://mongly.com/
I'm looking forward to discussing this, but in the meantime, can anyone parse "Similarly, I think we can find a way to repair “this” binding foot-guns with softly-bound “this”." for me? I don't understand what "binding foot-guns" are.
Although it looks pretty basic it is pretty useful as it shows all the native form elements for your browser in one spot.
wouldn't deduplicating encrypted data still work but your hit rate would just be a lot lower. you would have to work on a block instead of a file level but in theory you could dedupe file blocks that had been encrypted, because either way in the end its just bits.

Or is the assumption that with encrypted data you are so incredibly unlikely to see hits that its not worth doing...
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Definitely. That's what I'm currently working on. Expect it end of this week, maybe beginning of next.
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Structurally this article reads like one that has been "placed" by a PR firm. That combined with e.g.

http://www.google.com/search?q=saipan+corruption

makes me feel like whatever the truth is, it's not exactly as described here. I'm not saying the guy hasn't done anything wrong, just that I suspect we're not getting the whole story.
Nice, thanks for all the examples and explanations!

Anyone know if it's possible to define a custom distance metric for use with this? We don't currently use full-text or spatial indices, but I can think of some cool things we could do with a generalised notion of "distance".
Their supplied 0.3.13 image blue screens on bootup on the current release of VirtualBox,
What if in the header of the file they put an md5sum that is not encrypted?

I don't think that would represent a data leak, and you could then dedupe based on md5sums...
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I plan to create an iOS app from this. If there's any designer or dev who wants to help, shoot me. Otherwise I'll be working on this during my free time by my self.
What he means is:

1) "this" binding is dangerous - you can easily shoot yourself in the foot with it (it is a "foot-gun").

2) "this" binding can probably be repaired with softly-bound "this".

There's no such thing as "binding foot-guns", the phrase breaks down between "binding" and "foot-". But "'this' binding" and "foot-gun" are both somewhat obscure phrases so this probably was not as clear as it could have been.
But only one of the two users could decrypt the block - useless.

downvoters: If I encrypt a plaintext, and you encrypt the same plaintext, we'll have different ciphertexts. If we detect that we encrypted the same plaintext, how do we deduplicate? (Also, I would consider that a leak.)
With about nine months of work behind me on platforms designed from the ground up to support rich, interactive UIs (Android & iOS), the mess of JS, HTML & CSS just seems so gratuitously painful in comparison.

From a philosophical standpoint I'm rooting for an open, interoperable web as much as anybody. As a programmer though it's hard to feel much enthusiasm for such a fragmented, baroque, and inadequate toolkit.
if a file is encrypted correctly, you should not be able to compress it or match it to the same file encrypted a second time.
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They are invested in Go and Dart.
I totally agree the controls are tough here, BUT I wonder if that also has to do with the keyboard/mouse interface a bit? It just feels a lot harder than the old-school 8-way directional and 2 buttons. I haven't been much of a gamer since the Nintendo days when I was a kid though so maybe it's just me.
I am IN LOVE! It has been years since I've seen a mainstream site that didn't force itself wider than my default window (usually 600-800px, a bit less than half my screen). A lot of the sites that "try" to "address" the issue of multiple resolutions still focus on two targets: mobiles, and full-screen 1024+ monitors. Some of us are in between!

Thanks, Boston Globe.
You don't have to be a huge web design shop to successfully build fluid websites. A good place to start building sites like this is the 1140 grid[0]. We've knocked out a couple of client sites with it [1]. Getting the basic layout to resize is super easy...it's the positioning details for the media queries that can take hours.

[0]: http://cssgrid.net/

[1]: http://etbeancounter.com/
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The [More->] windows scroll too slowly. A full finger movement of the wheel only advances the text by a single line. It feels sluggish and frustrating.
I wrote a little post response to the OP article showing the problems and what you should do to avoid them.

[CSS: Don’t take control of the Cascade, make love to it.](http://kuroir.com/post/10148994785/css-dont-take-control-of-...)

Hope you find it interesting.
I downvoted you for your tone, not your facts - which are entirely correct.

However, I will say that Millard knew all this about Saipan and still located there so he wouldn't have to pay his taxes. If they turn on him, that doesn't make him a hero, no matter how "earned" the money was to start with. It makes him a fool.
how many degrees of separations is that?
Yes. They are an isolated small community which takes horrible advantage of people in their own society who can't defend themselves, and then they started importing even less empowered people to oppress. Similarly to how rich white plantation owners oppressed both other poor white people and imported African slaves.

I don't hate Saipanese people due to their ethnicity or anything, and I'm not opposed to Christians as a group (I know good and bad ones); it is just the way Saipan works that I hate.
Now there's a blast from the past!
Great design, but they have a registration wall in front of every single article.
Yes, it's not just the flowed columns. Notice also: the masthead logo, the weather bug, the section menus (which switch to collapsed "Sections" at narrow width), the photo sizes.

Actually, it's the weather bug and the logo that really do it for me. There's a lot of love that went into this design.
"Client-side encryption" generally means that only the client can decrypt the data. Unfortunately, if you forget your key, you can't reset your password to recover your data.
The hell it can't.

Block-level de-duplication can easily work for encrypted data.
To start with, it shouldn't have two submit buttons.

Do A, then B if A returns an error.

Also, the response if you don't specify a TLD isn't good. It should assume .com or at least return an intelligent error. You need to be validating the form data as well as the returns from the domain and pagerank queries.
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The only thing is, a pirated video game is a bitwise/identical clone of the product they are selling, whereas watching a concert on video is not even remotely close to being there in person.
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Many times performance computing is about 1% optimizable code and 99% setup. Python is much lovelier for that 99% than matlab is.
Why would you resize your browser while reading a page?
what would you call a service that allows you to upload an unlimited amount of files then? I honestly felt it sounded like most of "unlimited" plans - backblaze, yahoo inbox, amazon prime, etc
The global lock is something that will always exist with their architecture. It isn't a feature to implement, it's a total redesign and rethinking of the fundamentals. Their much-vaunted in-place, memory-mapped I/O architecture becomes useless because concurrency means using lock-free data structures. MyISAM in MySQL locks the entire table because it does in-place updates. Row locks can't just be added into MyISAM. It'd be such a redesign to add it, it'd end up being something much more like InnoDB than MyISAM. 10gen would have to eat an awful lot of their own words if they decided to go that route.
TBH that link is next to useless - look at the talk page someone has a huge axe to grind there.

However I did note:

'"These factories have all closed down. (See "Economy"). The CNMI came under Federal minimum wage regulations in 2007 and immigration law in 2008. In June 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security takes over the CNMI’s immigration and border controls.'

Also it mentions nothing about Bugsy's "fundamentalist christian ignorant half retarded hillbilly sex fiend[s]" that he claims are running the shop and enslaving everyone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands reads as a better less emotionally charged and leveller article. The talk there appears to indicate that the problems of slavery and poor worker conditions were brought on by criminal or unlawful factions operating in the society. This contradicts the tone of Bugsy's comments that seem to suggest there was a malevolent Christian organised and government sanctioned (by the US) use of slavery ...
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They never mentioned it was free. So it's probably pay-for-what-you-use amazon backed storage. I haven't seen anyone complain about Jungledisk using the "Unlimited cloud drive storage" tagline.
meanwhile Windows8 wouldn't even load the desktop until it is required. The Windows as we know it is turning into legacy OS just to run old apps.
I didn't see anything that looked like a webapp. It could be like Dropbox, right?
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First of all, fuzzy search is no biggie for Google. Google Search Instant works great, and I can't see any reason why the Instant technology wouldn't work just as well for Maps--which leads me to believe that they have a reason for not releasing a Maps Instant. Even if your fuzzy learning algorithm is superior to Google's, Google has way more data, and more data > better algorithm anytime.

Your backend technology may have promise, but you probably need to apply it on a more niche and less traversed market than location search, one that BigCos like Google wouldn't consider.

In any case, good luck!
Oh, I like this interpretation. Unlimited data for unlimited money :)
There is a hunger for innovative laptops but this one is a stretch.

Are we really so desperate for something new?
Really, the whole history of the Trust Territory is a sordid, disgusting mess.
Agreed. The guy may be a crook, but something about that piece doesn't sit well.

For instance, why are all these private law firms spending all this time and money chasing this guy around? Certainly not out of some kind of goodwill on their part. Do they get a cut of what's collected? Are they being paid by somebody? I don't ask because I want to impeach their motives -- it's just a critical part of any story. Any "chase" story has a chaser and a person chased. We're missing key details.

I would also want to hear from the guy in question. What's his side of the story? Even horrible wartime criminals end up on CNN telling us all their side of the story, but this guy gets nothing.

Plus, it's obvious that as a reader I am supposed to have a reaction. Something like "That cheap bastard! I hope they jack the jail up and put him underneath" or some such. Maybe it was just me, but I felt the author trying to push my buttons along those lines. I find being manipulated like that uncomfortable.

Not a quality article in my book. But heck, that's not saying the guy didn't do something wrong. From this article, I just don't know one way or another. All I know is that he has money and that people are chasing him for it.
Yeah, it would be funny if the "service" is just to rent a Drobo attached to a PogoPlug :)

Wait, I should do that...
My problem is not the "unlimited" part so much as the way it obfuscates the fact that it achieves this by storing your files online. To a technologist it's obvious what's going on; to the average user watching this video, I don't think it's clear that this product requires Internet connectivity to function -- in a couple places, it even appears to suggest that it doesn't, e.g. the "clunky web service" line.
The problem is: "a pending write lock acquisition will prevent further read lock acquisitions until fulfilled." Inserts aren't actually guaranteed to be in memory, as they're done in a file-backed memory region. A write and page fault can and frequently does cause a flush and hang while that lock is held, particularly as the hot dataset size increases relative to physical RAM.
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Total hypocrisy. Given what they have accomplished and their road to where they are today, you would think that they would spearhead such ventures, but when you have made your $$$$’s, it’s a comfortable place to be.

But let’s explore their observation that "real, deep innovation is not taking place in today’s market" (from techcrunch article; http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/max-levchin-and-peter-thiel...). This has some truth in it, especially when you consider that many tech startups in the last 5 years have been a ‘mish-mash’ of other companies from the past (do I really need more photosharing apps?) Today’s startups are really not tackling world-changing problems - so my question is, "Why?" I came up with three general reasons: 1) people are not thinking outside the box - rather than coming up with a new security patch, why not ask yourself, "why did we start using patches in the first place"; 2) Levchin touched upon it in the article, "the overall risk-taking culture has declined" - Nobel laureate, Barry Marshall ingested H. Pylori himself to prove that ulcers were caused by bacteria; we lack risk takers in tech; and finally (coming back full circle on this ‘hypocrisy’) 3) GREED. Many startups focus on making $ and once they make their $$$, many (not all) do not put $ back into disruptive research - some put more $$ into other ‘mish-mash’ startups to make more $$$ (right, Levchin and Thiel?). Compare a democratic country like the US - lots of innovationn. And now compare China - not so much innovation, but they sure are making a lot of $$$ (solar panels, anyone?). We’re good at putting a man on the moon, but that’s not going to make us $$$. Today, it’s all about making $ and that’s what’s stifling innovation.
"why do you believe Millard to be guilty of tax evasion?"

Why wouldn't I believe it?

As you yourself mention, the WSJ said so.

At least one jury decided he did.

Judges have reviewed the facts and issued a number of gag order backed subpoenas.

50+ shell companies.

Disappears from view for 20 years.

etc.

Occam's razor, QED.

Cmon, you're going to bat for this guy with a 25 year old article that predates the "alleged" evasion?
How do you come up with that number? According to http://www.edreform.com/Fast_Facts/K12_Facts/#ENROLLMENT, there are about 130,000 elementary schools in the US. Even if every single school in the nation used IXL, they'd only reach $25 MM in revenue. Given that IXL probably reaches some single-digit percentage of schools, $100 MM seems really high. Are parents buying this in droves?
"speed was also a major issue - we have a average write/very high read requirement, and it's really really fast."

"We're mostly a windows shop"

"we use Delphi"