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When I went to buy a new car, the salesman said the "market for trade-ins was awful", and my car was worth like $8,000. Meanwhile, not 50 feet away, the same car with more miles was listed for $22,000.

The salesman fluff I heard is identical to the "you're near the top end of the range for this title" crap that you hear from HR. It's fluff, intended to make you suck it up and go away.
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- Search needs to search tags and substrings (e.g., searching for "ASI" or "http" does not find "ASIHTTPRequest", even though both are substrings of the library name, and the library is tagged with "http").

- The search results page needs to include more information. That first line just isn't enough, especially when the whole summary is just a few words more (e.g., clicking on "Bullet" adds "and rigid body dynamics.") The search results should probably include the library tags, and maybe the full first paragraph.

- Pages for individual frameworks should probably include links to comparable frameworks (see osalt.com, for example)
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Seems like Yaron Minsky (the first author of the paper) has an account here [1]. Not active though.

[1] news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yminsky
Unless I see video proof of webOS running on iPad2, all such reports are just FUD.

But then again, I do not put too much stock in the technical accuracy of articles from say Byte, ZDnet these days..
I'm amazed at some of the replies here. "He'd pay a better-than-average base salary -- THAT'S NOT ENOUGH!"

Guess what? Outside the Valley bubble, more often than not it IS quite enough.
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Now that's getting to be a more metaphysical than physical question. =] Primacy of events over objects is a possible metaphysical position, but I'm not sure it's the right one...
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The are a couple of very helpful articles on the Blue Jeans cables sitee about what is wrong with HDMI.

"HDMI is a horrid format; it was badly thought out and badly designed, and the failures of its design are so apparent that they could have been addressed and resolved with very little fuss. Why they weren't, exactly, is really anyone's guess, but the key has to be that the standard was not intended to provide a benefit to the consumer, but to such content providers as movie studios and the like. It would have been in the consumer's best interests to develop a standard that was robust and reliable over distance, that could be switched, amplified, and distributed economically, and that connects securely to devices; but the consumer's interests were, sadly, not really a priority for the developers of the HDMI standard."

HDMI Cable: An Overview: http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/hdmi-cables.htm

What's the Matter with HDMI?: http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/whats-the-matter-with...

I don't have any HDMI based devices fortunately, but on the basis of these two articles a Blue Jeans cable might be a good option to go for as opposed to the cheapest possible.
You do not need to tell people that you are upvoting them.
Yes. The previous 8 cables were high speed HDMI 1.3, and the new ones HDMI 1.4. Wikipedia says "High Speed HDMI 1.3 cables can support all HDMI 1.4 features except for the HDMI Ethernet Channel". To my knowledge, the receiver doesn't support that particular feature and neither does the Optimum STB.

In any cases, whatever caused this issue, I agree with the body of the article that not all HDMI cables are the same. The headline does a disservice.
Heheheh... all these comments just go to show that no one policy can be fair for everyone. :)

Balsamiq have a policy that aims at fairness, is transparent (and yet open for discussion!) and has a better-than-average chance of appealing to their target audience - people who aren't driven by money but don't want to be taken advantage of.

If you can't find a compromise that works for your situation - go work somewhere else.
So then if they create good content, then just link to it. We want to think we're a meritocracy, and we will upvote things if they are good. It's not a popularity contest, nor a political game where we need to "prove" that something/someone is good.
Exactly -- inequity is the issue, not disclosure.

It's a bigger issue for the employer -- it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that certain people are buying new cars at bonus time, while others cannot afford lunch.
I live in Eastern Europe. I have worked at the local branch of several multinational companies. When I applied to a job, I solved the interview problems and then I was offered a slightly more than average salary the same way as my colleauges. None of the interview questions were deep enough to mirror how I think about really hard problems. The only way I can really measure myself is to work on problems like the Netflix prize, build my hobbyprojects (and I participated in math competitions when I was a child), etc.., but these are not related to my day-job. I earn $36000 a year currently.
I once started a topic on HN where I have written this: please give me a very hard 'test' task (which can be solved in one or two days, but very tricky), and if I can solve it I would be interested in remote work for more than $36000 a year. (Which is slightly above market in Hungary) But no one answered.

About your 3 points: I agree that having these in one person is a good combination. However people are rarely exceptional in all 3 points. Some guys are exceptional algorithmizers, others have really good intuition for enginering, creating an amazing design (for code), yet others have exceptional memory so that they can dive into huge bloated shitty code, and yet others deal well with monotony (when you have to do unchallanging tasks, or deal with other people's shitty code). Some people are fast like hell, others can grow beautiful thoughts if you give them days to think about a problem. But I agree that a bit of all of this is needed mostly. Also being strong in one territory you can emulate other strengths. If the tasks are not on your limit, you can emulate fastness with smartness, and emulate smartness with being fast. But when the problems are hard enough that you are at your 'limit', this emulation no longer works.
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I didn't care much about money when I was younger. Now that I appreciate more how brutal this field is for older programmers and what it means to be older and less employable in a bad economy I'm much more aware of my running bank balance. I'm also more aware that I have a finite amount of mental energy for coding every day and if I'm selling it instead of building my own things I'm not willing to do it cheap.
Also frequently referenced on HN is the TED talk about how monetary rewards lowers performance in creative endeavours.

People in creative jobs are not simply monetary-maximizing machines. They will work hard if their work is interesting and rewarding in all kinds of non-monetary ways. (I also assume that what they think is that if you don't like the work, you'll leave and find one you like better, or that pays better. So you don't get people who don't like the work, don't do a good job, but will try to hang around as long as possible because it pays so well.)

Besides, I agree with the other posts that any practical scheme for paying programmers for performance will be subject to issues of "optimization by proxy". Just look at finance: there, where you'd think it would be easier than most other fields to measure "the wealth generated" by people, all that apparently happens is that you incentivize short-term gain at the cost of assuming huge long-term risks.
Yes. You see when you get lawyers involved it communicates, "I'm serious." Until this point, you're just another person complaining about something like putting up an ugly picture of you.
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(Mostly) like a clockwork: A new year, a new release. And like every year before we find a beautiful collection of new stuff to play with.

Even better this time around: It's looking as if the next release of Ubuntu will get 9.1 packaged which spares me from manually packaging or using a PPA this time around.

The new features each release introduces are too sweet to skip just because a distribution is lagging. And ever since I began using PostgreSQL at the 7.1 days I have _never_ experienced a bug that really affected me. No byte of data has ever been lost, no single time did it crash on me due to circumstances beyond my control (cough free disk space cough).

Congratulations to everybody responsible for yet another awesome release!

Yes. I am a fanboy. Sorry.
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Well, first, there might be some things about human psychology that we can figure out a priori. Notice I said "might". I don't think it's obvious that we should rule out the possibility, at the very least.

More generally, it's just not true that all scientific work (including physics) is done completely by means of empirical research. See Wikipedia's entry on "Thought experiment" for some good cases[1].

I'm not arguing for or against this particular bit of Nietzsche, but I think HN sometimes overvalues empirical or statistical study above all else.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment
this is the problem with the linux community.. a very immature attitude that doesn't get them anywhere but makes the community look like a crowd of obnoxious troll hackers.
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Brilliant short story - thanks for posting this.
It occurs to me that maybe the benefit of constant improvement (from competition) is worth more than the discount you get for doing something at scale.

Otherwise, I'd expect people to buy from/hire the existing companies that can offer lower prices thanks to being established, rather than new companies which have to deal with startup costs.

Or maybe the whole scale thing doesn't actually work like that when improvement is quick enough.
About gravity, I didn't mean that the force of gravity would be opposite. I meant that, to us moving "forward", positrons would seem to be reacting backwards, i.e. decelerating instead of accelerating.
Yes, exactly - I only wish someone had explained that to a younger, dumber me back then.
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I guess it's standard filler like the "[some kind of clothing] is back" stories.
"what I deserve"?

Your demand is not unjust, it's meaningless. This is not some god-given court that determines what you "deserve".

You say that you are motivated by money and other factors. So then the question is: If job A pays x and gives you the other factors that you say motivate you, and job B pays y but gives you none of those other factors, what is the minimum ratio of x/y for you to take job A over B? If you say 1.0, then no, those other factors do not matter to you. If it's <1.0, then why is it not "fair" for the job A to pay that?
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That seems to be the buddhists premise.
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This seems really cool and all, but what are we talking about in terms of wait time and hurdles to jump through? Anyone know details?

I've looked into and seen others go through grant processes and they are often terrible. Hope it isn't similar.
I though of it this way too. The problem (and what think disproves this theory) is that when that pair annihilates, it forms a closed loop in time.

To surmount this, I suppose you could say there are N electrons (where N is still less han the total # observed). Assuming not all loops are closed, this could also explain the electron/positron imbalance (more forward-going strings) as well as quantum entanglement (different instances of the same electron).

Experiment to test this theory: allow the positron from a newly created electron-positron pair to annihilate with a second electron. The spin of the two electrons should always be the same.
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There has been a recent result by the PAMELA experiment indicating that there is a ring of antimatter around the Earth, antiprotons trapped in the planetary magnetic field, that was non previously known of. http://news.discovery.com/space/pamela-spots-a-smidgen-of-an... (or search at your favourite science news source).

Personally I've not had time to look in to this result more.
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Wow, I was totally unaware of this project, or how far along they got. The folks at Oak Ridge had hypothesized a horse and carriage type device where the fuselage would trail the unshielded reactor engine. The part about the company that is now CoorsTek is also interesting. CoorsTek still makes lots of important high tech ceramic bits.
Probably it's just that business development is too loosely defined. I've seen it applied to everything from heavy enterprise sales to college students hired to pass out flyers. No different than any other generic title in that respect. Probably, sales at this company meant something more pressured and your range of sales experience and more relationship-managed approach wasn't what they wanted. That, or the interviewer wasn't listening to you and had a simplistic, title-based view of the world.
IANAL, but regardless of game rules that sounds a lot like wire fraud.
To be frank hiding the compensation creates more complexity. It creates 'us' vs 'them' hidden internal rivalries.

No matter what, if you comparatively underpay a hardworking guy compared to some who is earning more and doing less. There is going to be huge friction, and salaries often leak out in some way or the other. And the good guy is either going to have his way or worst walk out.

Now please don't point me to some survey taken by some one in some corner of the world, where some group of people had bigger long term motivations when compared to immediate money and then declare tell that money doesn't matter.

Money is a huge motivating factor. Its strange that employers feel its unethical and unhealthy to compare salaries whereas at they same the keep comparing work all the time.
True, Prime has pretty much obliterated every other retailer from my memory. It may not make them money directly, but it's a brilliant business move overall. Monoprice and Newegg are the only others that I even try now.
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Just ask yourself if it's true for you. If so, it's highly likely it's true for the general population.
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I'll want to keep my eye on this as it looks interesting, but the center "3-step" part reminds me too much of Angel-fire sites... I'm sorry.
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I feel the same way but I also think we're a minority. For me, I want to connect in meaningful ways with people. I dislike bar buddies, or casual hangouts with people I know casually. I also feel if you lack any sense of purpose, or a mate, and you keep socializing casually with other guys, it makes me feel worse.
If a business has even 100% of a market because they're consistently cheaper/better than all contenders, they may be technically a monopoly, but they aren't one in the usual pernicious sense. I'll leave alone the third-rail topic of Microsoft, but Facebook is an interesting case because they only became prominent after the domination of their niche by MySpace, and yet now they're dominant. Was MySpace a monopoly? Well, in the Microsoft sense, yes, but not in the pre-1980-AT&T sense. Yet, as soon as a solution people preferred came along, they were no longer.

Can a business get to 100% of a market, or nearly so, without state help? I think they often can. Can they hold that position in the face of better and/or cheaper startup competition, without state help? I think that's an open question, and I lean toward thinking that they can't.

The other major question is so-called "natural monopolies", such as infrastructural service provision (phone, power, cable, etc). The fact that there are communities which have multiple competing firms in some of these seems to show that they aren't natural in the sense that they will arise unless prevented. While most communities in the US have a legislated monopoly on, for example, cable service, those that do not often have competing cable services, which is exactly what we are told won't happen. (My father lives in a place with three overlapping cable companies, as it happens, and he's tried all of them at one time or another). I've seen people in some of those communities who are arguing for a city-granted franchise switch seamlessly from arguing that regulation is needed to keep monopolies in check to arguing that such regulation is needed to prevent the wasteful laying of lines that duplicate existing lines. I guess that's neither here nor there, just a pet peeve. :)

Anyway, searching on Rothbard and monopoly will turn up more rigorous arguments against the idea of free market monopolies than I've given here.
Have you guys considered opening up the books to the public as well?

Note: This question is partially relevant to the adjoining article "Balsamic: Salary Policy"
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In other news, the CRA only applies to retail banks offering FDIC-insured deposits, while most of the stupid loans were written by pure mortgage banks immune from the CRA. And it's not as if they needed to be pressured into it when they could take their cut and dump 100% of the fraudulently concealed risk.
> "Cut me a break. I spent 3 weeks overtime getting that thing done, and Fred gets all the credit (and money!)"

http://blogs.balsamiq.com/team/2011/09/07/pace/

tl;dr Don't work overtime, work sustainably.

All your other issues are with differences in pay, which is exactly what the article is advocating against.
It all depends on what kind of community/website it is.

Communities like HN/StackOverflow - Why do people contribute here? Though there is reward system is in place here(karma) but I doubt if that acts as primary motivation. In such community, my contribution is your reward and your contribution is my reward. YC isn't getting any direct monitory benefits from HN but having a good successful community of hackers helps them indirectly in many ways. So, it's a win-win situation for everyone.

Products like Google, Gmail,Facebook etc. - Isn't it rewarding enough in itself to be able to use such excellent products free of cost(even if it comes with minimal text ads)?

The bottom line is that if you are using a website because it is providing some kind of value to you and your contribution is actually helping it in providing even more value back to users, you shouldn't think about monitory awards.

If it is not providing anything valuable, you won't be using it, even if it is free.

If you are getting paid for using something or contributing, it means the site in itself isn't that valuable to you. So, they lure you through monitory benefits. For example, paid surveys.
What about a relationship and contact with other cool people? I would be much more interested in contributing high quality content/interactions/whatever to a site if better contributions gave me more interaction with other top contributors in ways that were mutually beneficial.
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You can certainly start looking for communities that would benefit from your game. You can buy a domain, put up a landing page and collect emails of potential customers that are interested. Starting a blog and writing about games in the Rogue genre can help you build an audience. Build interest and a community first, get feedback on your game idea, find out what the community wants and then work on delivering. You might find some talented people along the way willing to join you!
Seems fair except maybe for the part where compensation takes living expenses into consideration.

If an employee decides to live somewhere cheap and it works out well, then they should see the benefits of this decision. If it means the employer must make certain sacrifices to accomodate this (telecommuting issues), then the employee should bear some extra cost to cover that, but it shouldn't be related to his living expenses.

If an employee chooses to live in Manhattan so they feel plugged in or w/e then they're responsible for covering their exorbitant rent.

Only if the employer demands they live somewhere specific should living expenses be taken into consideration.
Say what? Your gedanken simply proves that you've assumed that gravity is attractive when time reverses.

If you place a ball on an inclined plane then it rolls downwards to a position of lower potential energy, (under a Newtonian consideration) the gravitational force acting to accelerate the ball.

If you reverse time, unless you know how gravity acts in reverse then how do you know that the ball will roll up the hill rather than stay in place or roll down.

You're saying gravity remains attractive, ergo that if you reverse time the ball still rolls down, the universe still expands, etc..
>>>This is not some god-given court that determines what you "deserve".

Well in that case let karma decide for itself.

Now lets come to what you are talking about. I guess you didn't understand me. I was asking why is it that employers for people under the same conditions pay the same money for different work delivered?

What you are saying is true, but that is a totally different question in itself. What you saying is to consider a trade off between other factors and money in two different setup and is perfectly acceptable.

But that's not what we are debating here. We are debating why some who is doing a lot more extra is getting paid the same as some who isn't doing all that. In that case I don't see any reason why the first person shouldn't make extra.

I would go to an extent to say he doesn't just deserve but has the right to make that something extra.
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