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I joined as their 3rd employee - as a junior developer to assist the current senior. When they saw how good I was, they sacked the senior. I was given a pay cut, ostensibly to keep the lights on, prettied-up with a new contact saying if after a year they were still in business I'd get my salary restored, but a major bonus if they reach profitability or were bought out within a year. Cue 12 months of being an idiot, regularly working weekends and all-nighters to add major features on little notice for meetings with potential customers and developers. New projects were piled on with no regard for workload or realistic deadlines. They needed a new DC, but rather than hire a sysadmin they passed it to me because I'd had experience on my CV.

By this point I'd lost sight of salary and bonus - I was working to try to avoid letting the team down by missing deadlines. As absurd as it sounds now, the atmosphere in the office made me feel I was part of something special, I was doing my part, and I was going to anything I could to keep up my part. I'd been hired part-time, but I worked full time, and then some, spurred on by my mis-placed sense of loyalty and necessity to cope with my workload. Then at the end of the year they said they couldn't afford to give me back the pay cut, and a couple of months later they announced they were going to be acquired - conveniently close to the year end to be a coincidence. I realised that I wasn't part of the team, I was just employee 3. I'd already started to suffer major burn-out / a bit of a breakdown, so I quit. That was years ago and I'm only just starting to get myself back together.

I blame myself entirely - I was naive and let myself be manipulated and used. By that point I was so deep into the "we're all in this together" that I couldn't see what was happening. But you're not in it together - there may be more honorable founders out there, but at the end of the day, you're working to line their pockets, and just because you've got a bit of paper saying they'll be nice doesn't mean they will. Trust no-one, get everything you're owed up front, and remember at all times that for you it's just a job.

Work to live, don't live to work.

(From a throwaway account for obvious reasons. Ahh, that's better ;) )
Up voted this because it is an interesting perspective. Eye glasses enable me to read the fine print in technical manuals, so point taken. I also like the point about independence, and access to archived/legacy content.

Perhaps in the future online information will be pushed in formats like rss and our client device will do far more rendering? We will all access content in a way that suits us?
Can you elaborate on the "openly weakened stuff" part?

I don't know much about security, but I am vaguely aware that there were some efforts by various governments to control, regulate, weaponize and even outlaw crypto, but I don't know where these effort have left us. Are there any crypto systems with acknowledged backdoors? Are there any which are not only widely considered to be secure, but are known to have actually prevented three-letter agencies from getting their way?
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Beijing HN Meetup 9/10
Hi guys,

Since I'm back in Beijing for the next few weeks I figured I'd organize another Beijing HN meetup. The last one was really excellent (~40 people showed up, lots of interesting projects being discussed) so if you are around you should definitely attend!
The meetup will start at 8:30PM, directions in this post

Format will be the same as last time (so, informal hangout) but we will have a projector for anyone interested in showing off interesting projects. If you plan to attend, please RSVP by replying to this email! Of course please feel free to bring as many friends as you like.

For those of you who forgot, here are directions to Wainwain:

Address: Room 3512, Buillding A, SOHO New Town, 88 Jianguo Lu;
Wainwain's phone: 10-8589-4383

-If you're coming by taxi, just tell the driver "SOHO现代城“ or "大望路地铁站" (soho xiandaicheng / dawanglu ditie zhan)

-If you're coming from the DaWangLu subway station: Take the B exit, make a right upon exiting and walk to the corner, make another right at the first entrance (you're essentially just walking around the back of the same building the subway exit is in.) Go in the first building, take the elevator to the 35th floor, WainWain is on the northwest corner of the bldg.

If you have any questions, get in touch at hi@wheatpondkingfir.com :)
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+1 for PyGame or XNA. Start small, don't over-stretch.
Some businesses would, but many would not. Running internal services has a cost too.

More likely though other providers would spring up and undercut their pricing but not invest in development.
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Not available in Europe either. But then I guess such a torrent solution would be ip limited to the US as well...
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Are you talking about bonuses or salary? 30k bonuses + salary sounds kinda lot for an entry level engineer.
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It's the same in the games industry:

Employees complain about burnout and being treated like slaves and many end up leaving the sector never to return.

Owners & upper mgmt. do interviews on gamesindustry.biz bemoaning the lack of talent and blaming the governments for insufficient education.
> It's a copyright issue; the reason the Tricorder app vanished is that CBS sent a DMCA takedown notice to its creator [Moonblink]

That's incorrect -- CBS sent a DMCA takedown notice to Google, which took down the app and notified the author afterwards.
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Nice blog. I read first two posts and I must say I've been through same experience and I can relate with some of these characters.

It was also around this time I had become something of an “important” figure around my office. For anyone who has been “that guy” in a small team, the guy who gets three emergencies thrown at him from 3 different people in the course of a single minute, the guy who gets assigned the bugs noone else can figure out or reproduce, the guy, who when noone else has an answer, is turned to for help, you’ll know what I mean when i say “important”.
- My project manager(non-technical) promised client to deliver the complete project in three days. He didn't consulted us about the expected development time and it was a month work to be true. We two developers worked non stop for 58 hours to develop an untested ugly version and hoped for best. Fortunately, it worked well. Never looked back at that code and it is still being used since last 4 years. Even I don't know how.
There is no free will. Here is what exists - you're born, and you surrender -freely- until you get your first 'NO' or encounter your first "failure" or your first "embarrassing" incident or some "trauma." Then you surrender at 98% instead of at 100%. That is called "life".

What you think of as "free will" is the choices imposed on you by the "clever" surrendering on your part, where you begin to see payoffs from surrendering - e.g. education, money, job, sex, marriage, etc. Everything else, you discard, e.g. do not surrender, thinking only a certain set of things matters enough to surrender to.

Then you find out, those things didn't make you happy either, and then you've had your share of sex, drugs, failures, successes, money, fun, vacations, meditations, jerking off, etc - and then you are "satiated" with all that shit... except you are still 'unhappy', and robbed of real free will.

So you NEVER have free will. The best approximation of FREE WILL is you are a passenger on an airplane flying at 600 mph, and you throw up this act for the audience on the plane of whom you've become by the time you're 35 and then complain, and make meaning of everything with your useless Ph.D..... and then you arrive at death, or the final test.

Real choice, self-control and free will come from surrendering 100% to everything there is. Since only one person in the last 2000 years has accomplished this fully, you are mostly grasping at straws when you think you have free will or self-control.

Get it through your head - you HAVE no free will to speak of. All you have is what's GIVEN to you. You can ASK for something to be given to you by the Source, and you get to choose that - whether it is given or not, you choose the outcome of what the Source delegates to your realm.

Having said this - one can REGAIN free will, much as you had when you were 4 and surrendered fully (to the Source), but it takes an act of the Source to give you that.

But before you can ask for the free will/self control to be given back to you, you have to give up the illusion that you have any semblance of free will/self-control to begin with. It's a bit of a conundrum, yes, but you have to CAPITULATE that you have ANY free will/self-control to speak of before you can regain it.

If you don't believe me, keep thinking you have free will/self-control and see how you feel the moment before you croak - still as unhappy as you were since the first "NO" you got.
Ask HN: .NET or not .NET...
...THAT is the question. Well, kinda.

I am a mid-20s programmer, in the UK. I've spent 5 years in the games industry and enjoyed it but didn't really settle. I've been neck-deep in C/C++ since Uni and also done a fair amount of C# (desktop, not web). I also do a lot of Python in my spare time and that includes some web programming. I consider myself to be a good 'all rounder' and that seems to be part of the problem.

Being unable to settle at my last couple of jobs, I have been punting my CV about and I keep on getting the same feedback; it's not specific enough. As far as the recruiters are concerned, it seems like to get a job you need to commit to ONE language and framework combination. And lets be honest, 80% of jobs are .NET/ASP.NET.

Besides the fact that what I'd REALLY like to do is find a start-up to join - Birmingham start-up scene is meager - I guess the question is, is it worth my while getting to know ASP.NET in the hope that I'll find a decent, stimulating, well-paid job? Or should I hold out for that dream role in a start up that might never come along?

Thanks for any guidance anyone can give.
If you think that, you're probably right. Figure out why, copy it. Over and over and over.

That's how you improve at every craft.
Information and the greed to soak up more... that has been my biggest distraction so far... working on fixing it.but it's rather hard to observe the subtle difference between productivity vs reading articles from YN/LinkedIn
I think Control is the best choice. It makes it much easier to use Control-modified commands, especially in Vim/Emacs. For Vim, you can use Control-[ to exit insert mode, a command that becomes much easier with Caps Lock remapped to Control. I use Vim, and I prefer more convenient Control-modified commands over having an Escape on home row. Besides, having Control on home row and using Control-[ is basically like having Escape on home row :)
It was just at the start of the microfilm boom, so they used microfilm. The quoted lifetime is 500 years, accelerated ageing tests indicate 1000 years. So the books probably wont be readable. The Egyptians did better with papyrus and ink.
Roughly 30k is bonuses on top of guaranteed yearly salary, assuming middling performance and current stock prices. You can theoretically double that, or get zero, based on that scale. Though I'm guessing you'd get canned before you get a zero bonus, and fully doubling it is I'm sure extremely rare. Ask any recent college grad who got an offer, they all get the same offer.
The problem isn't that he can't compete, it's that his potential customers can't tell which one he is! They hear from their friends that 'xyz app' is awesome, they search the market and find 2 of them... And 50% download the wrong one!

Of course, ratings and that top-5 spot should help shift that percentage in his favor, but it's still really ugly that it's even possible for people to do that.
I would call it more like N.A.D.D(http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2003/07/10/nadd.html). I have seen ADD kids(with experiments being run on them) and realized calling myself ADD is an exaggeration.
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I think you have that exactly backwards. One of the reason electronic locks have been popular with some Hasidic Jews is because they don't require carrying a key on Sabbath. The locks would be unusable if electricity were a no-no.
Well, crap. This is why Unicode is hard, folks. Thanks for the correction, masklinn.
Here's a screenshot of the bomb I wrote for CSCI 4971: http://i.imgur.com/L0LJ1.png

The timer counted down until the end of the lab period; the student needed to cut each wire to stop the detonation. The original goal was to post to Twitter when a student made a mistake but we didn't get it implemented in time.

Here's the binary itself: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/academics/courses/spring10/csci4971/re...
I've been considering this for a few days, and I've changed my opinion. This is a raw deal.

Unless you get something out of it that isn't obvious (been out of work for 2 years, really need a job?) then you are taking all the risk here... They could fire you in 5 months and save a TON of money. And that might just be too tempting for them.
The problem is that no one is going to pay for you watching their ads in 10 years.

Ads are also really crafted at society at that given time. I heard a quote from a history professor who said he could teach American history using only Coca-Cola ads.
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Only requires 300mhz processor to run? So it doesn't support games, canvas animations or WebGL then, which is a big part of the draw of HTML5 now.

Might as well just call it a web STB and be done.
Well that would be a good way to get me of watching new tv episodes, that is for sure.

I hate product placement because it breaks the story and my suspension of disbelief.

But hey, maybe I would get more done that way.
Archaeologists are usually interested in object assemblages that belonged in the same context. Thus it would be far more interesting to preserve, say, a complete print shop, than a juxtaposition of dental floss and Donald Duck.
That ignores the fact that some of those people, usually the ones in power, are either heartless bastards or, more often, sufficiently involved in making the company succeed to forego altruism. Making sure your employees keep their jobs often counts for more than being kind to strangers.

However, there is another way in which capitalism makes things better: it does its best to find markets for everything. For instance, Unilever sells very small packages of washing powder in India, which is optimized to be used in rivers. Previously, people in India did not have access to washing powder (the regular large packages were too expensive and the stuff wasn't very useful in the river). Now they have access to washing powder, which improves hygiene.

However, instructions on packages of washing powder are not printed in braille.
Sounds like my 2010, I was underpaid, I didn't take a pay cut though I would if asked.

I was naive enough to don't get the raise I was promised because I cared about the company, got fired on December 22nd (I'd never forget that, since, I've already spent my money on gifts and stuff) after they got more funding and they went for more-experienced-talent.

Karma is a bitch though, most of the people they hire quit because of the working conditions, from a team of 10 (that I was managing) they're down to 2. Recently they asked me to join them again, I told them "fuck no!".

Now, I'm happy at another startup but making an industry level salary (probably more, since I live in Florida) and stock options (which are a bonus since I already make a good salary, and to be honest I don't care about them too much). Also I have time to live, I go out now, get drunk, clean my apartment, I started a company, I launched a product recently, we even got some customers already! I read books, do some consulting for friends.

I'd never let work affect my life again.
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The whole 'virtual photons' thing is a physical interpretation of the mathematics, but it is a mistake to conclude that this is how it 'actually' is. There is a mathematical model that works. I don't think we know how it 'actually' is. There is every reason to doubt that this sea of 'virtual photons' has any physical reality in an independently verifiable way. Occam's razor doesn't favor solutions that involve multitudes of invisible, unmeasurable, particles popping in and out of existence.
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dunno, never calculated total amount. maybe few years' salary worth at most, spread over a few years. nothing to write home about, yet :)
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No. Definitely not. However, I would pay money for a no-DRM HD video file released under some kind of CCesque license that gave me the legal freedom to, say, watch it with a friend. (I know this will never happen).
For me Github is the third hit and Gitorious is not even on the first page.
Some time back I asked myself the same question as I am fine paying for the storage, usage but when it becomes a number of X ( repositories, collaborators) it gets somewhat annoying. So, 6-8 months ago I set out to host my own git server and liked gitorious for its fancy front end and ease of setting up keys and adding collaborators with diff rights, all good and was able to get it running in 90 mins or so. My real problems started on day 2 when it wasn't functioning the way I liked it to, some troubleshooting and found that stomp server exited for unknown reason so the message queue was not working, checked logs and restarted it. I kept having those problems abruptly and every time I had to ssh and restart the stompserver or the git-poller. I think it all depends on how u perceive cost, in my case it was much more than 11$/month coz of the num of hrs lost in maintaining and worrying about it and sometimes it didnt work for hrs when i was not in front of computer. It was then I chose to submit to github plans though I'd still like if I was being charged for usage (any kind) rather than number of X. So I think, like they say TCO was justified.
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Actually it might be the right way to do things. Scientists have found that the most effective way to make monkeys live longer is by starving them their whole lives.
No, I hate sitting through commercials. They also cheapen the medium and you'll note that premium networks generally have better shows. What I will do is pay a flat rate to get access to whatever content that provider has the rights to that I can watch whenever I want.

For reference, I would regard access to every television show ever produced and streamed reliably, at high definition when available, as worth $150-200/month.
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If that's the case, that's not really a problem. You get high ad exposure at the time of each episode's release, as many people will want to keep up with the show within the first few years of its airing. You're paying for their eyes.

Anyone watching it 10 years down the line is just icing on the cake for you, but that's not what you'd pay for in such a model.
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This submission is about startups with a (presumably positive) exit. Despite that restriction, removing the 90% you cite, many employees are still expressing significant disappointed with their resulting compensation.
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NB. If you want an example to discuss, check out the inside cover of this week's Independent magazine. There is an ad for the Skoda Fabia which details plenty of features (17" alloys, 7 speed DSG gearbox, etc.) The Independent is clearly not a specialist car publication so why are the advertisers spending expensive ad copy on these features? Hint: imagine reeling off these features to your impressed city colleague. Also, note the blending of features and benefits I mentioned earlier ('a mean 180PS, twin charged petrol engine'). Now ask yourself, what attracts you to the ad? Why might some people buy the car? Visit meanorlovely.com for more insight into the brand. Why do you think the car/brand is predominately green in colour? Does it make consumrs think it is an environmentally friendly choice?
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I came across The Sight Below and Mux Mool from the excellent ISO50 blog. Browsing for music through the site can be a real time-sink but you'll definitely find something new. http://blog.iso50.com/category/music/
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A bit incidental, but would there be any risk of a sealed time capsule delivering viruses/bacteria to the future?
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I certainly would. I don't like streaming because the picture sometimes stops for the feed to catch up.
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