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Well-funded YC startup looking for seasoned devs. Great pay + perks + happiness
We’re a VC-backed YC startup (not stealth, just haven’t announcing funding yet), and are looking for sharp, seasoned engineers who are fantastic to work with for the following roles:

- iOS Engineer

- Android Engineer

- Windows Engineer

- Rails Engineer

- and Generalists!

Our people wear multiple hats. We like hiring people who are dangerous in two or three areas, and very, very good (or can learn how to be) in multiple others. As a very early part of our team, you will also have direct input into many of the decisions that will decide the future of our product.

We believe in rapidly shipping product and taking pride in what we build. Personality is a big factor. We want to be around people that we can work well with, drink together, and just get along with - not assholes.

We also practice data-driven product design and engineering. It’s not for everyone, you need to have enough discipline to not get attached to ideas that don’t deliver measurable results.

We optimize for your happiness - we pay very well, have stellar benefits, emphasize a sane work-life balance as much as possible, and offer an equity stake. We’re based out of beautiful Mountain View, a prime startup hub in Silicon Valley. It also doesn’t matter where on the planet you’re located - if we want to hire you, we’ll pay to move you to the Bay Area.

What we also offer is a chance to see first-hand what working at a well-funded startup in the Bay Area is really like. If you’re of the entrepreneurial mindset, we will help you get your own company off the ground when the time comes.

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Disclaimer: I was previously a Zynga employee and I am presently a holder of Zynga stock. I have no knowledge of Zynga's current internal state - the following is entirely speculation.

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There are many forces at work here that need to be brought to light.

* Macro Trend #1 - Facebook's web traffic is in decline[1]. These users are shifting to mobile as their primary consumption channel for Facebook. No facebook app developer has presence on the mobile app.

* Macro Trend #2 - Zynga's game launches are smaller than ever. For many reasons, it's getting harder to launch a 5M+ DAU game.

Zynga is responding to these trends in several ways.

* Leverage their warchest[2] to make acquisitions. This lets them launch a higher volume of games and help them get a foothold in mobile. Zynga has made a LOT of acquisitions this year[3].

* Further monetize their existing base. They've been pushing partner deals really hard recently, doing deals with Lady Gaga[4], Amex[5], and Capital One[6]

Zynga's games are more high quality than ever. Gone are the days of "fuck innovation", two of Zynga's most recent releases are the best they've ever built. The issue is that the market for FB games is in decline - the next big wave is mobile. If Zynga can become a player by launching a hit or acquiring a large chunk of the space, they'll be doing better than ever. But so far, Zynga's mobile releases have flopped.

TL;DR - Zynga's profits are a sign that they have doubled down on acquisitions to counter-balance a market shift from web to mobile. Their future prospects lie in their ability to generate hits on the iPhone.

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[1] - http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/12/facebook-sees-big-t...

[2] - http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2011/08/11/zynga-credit-1-bi...

[3] - http://mashable.com/2011/05/18/zynga-dna-games/

[4] - http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/zynga-gaga-gagaville/

[5] - http://www.zynga.com/about/article.php?a=20101130

[6] - http://blog.games.com/2011/09/19/farmville-cityville-pioneer...
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I'm Canadian so I don't really understand how these "PAC" things works. The article says that by law Facebook the corporation is not allowed to give donations to politicians but they're allowed to collect money from their employees and forward it along with a wink, wink, nudge, nudge Facebook would like this?

As an employee, why would you go for this? If you prefer a republican candidate and gave money to Facebook to give out on your behalf can they just go ahead and give it to the opposition of your preferred candidate?

I imagine this was initially done by labor unions in the past and now corporations have co-opted this loophole but still, this all seems very strange to me.

Also, does Facebook have a responsibility to track who's giving what? Because if they have international hires on staff, surely only citizens of the US can donate?
When you've sold yourself as a growth story, the reasons for the decline don't matter to Wall Street. Sell side analysts build complex earnings projections models based on estimated compounding growth rates. Even a slight reduction in the growth rate has a large impact on projected earnings a few years out and a negative growth rate blows up the entire model.
I agree with one nitpick. The web is Wikipedia, Google, Facebbok, blogs, HN, and everything because of of the concept of the hyperlink. It couldn't exist without the hyperlink. That everything is written in HTML, CSS, JS, and other related technologies doesn't mater. The hyperlink does, regardless of how it is implemented.
I just fail to see how the employees of Facebook, or any company really, can't make their voices heard by doing a minimum level of research and supporting a candidate or NGO on their own.
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Instead of a dropdown, make it a radio menu that changes on click. It'll make it more usable!
Enough to make Apple sweat a bit.

Rest assured, nothing based on Android 2.1 is going to do that.
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Or maybe people who want e-ink are a single-digit percentage of the market.
When the farming jobs left, the unskilled could get manufacturing jobs. When they left, they got service industry jobs. What happens when they leave? What will the millions upon millions of basically unskilled labourers do then?

I am tempted to say "personal servants for the rich" and I am only half joking. As you say, history repeats itself.
That tends to be my intuition as well.

In the long term, things look really good. In the short term, it's looking like a lot of pain.

The complication is the resource crunch, particularly in rare metals and water.
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You have anecdotes. They have data. It's bizarre to see how many people are willing to call this decision a mistake while my Facebook Ticker is full of people playing songs on Spotify. The new signups from the increased visibility probably dwarf the number of people who end their subscriptions in protest.

It's quite possible that this "stupid move" is also a wildly profitable move.
There are a few academics on elance offering for-hire research (i.e. actual research, not just paper writing). But very little market movement.
Grants/funding is probably a completely different story.
I don't doubt that, but they seem to make people happy judging from my FB feed. I think they found a way to make non-gamers feel good about gaming, which I'm for. Maybe Zynga can be a gateway drug?
Hardware specs are the only thing you're truly locked into, as you'll receive firmware updates after the fact. Also, consider that even a $500 price point is not so terribly high. It's above the "I want it, don't even think, just buy it" threshold of most folks but it's pretty far down the discretionary spending ladder. In inflation adjusted dollars it's about 1/10th of the launch price of the Apple II for example. Sometimes the value of having and using something you want for several months or a year outweighs the disadvantages of a prematurely purchase.
Equality of rates still means people that have more pay more, so shouldn't you be arguing for equality in amount paid, not equality in rates?
Why is it that libertarians often resort to lame "parable-like" stories to get their point across? Is there really such a dearth of real, concrete examples from which to draw?

It might be forgivable if the parables were at least interesting or original. But this one has been recycled on senior citizen mailing lists for at least a couple of years now. You can find it splattered all over the Internet wherever tea partiers like to distribute their propaganda.
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I don't really want them to do well... They're a huge time waster, and distracts people from the important things in life
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See section 91.15 for the part about "dropping of items."

I'm still looking for the BATF regs on this. IANAL, so it's a bit of work, but I do know a few guys that do weapons systems (govt contractor) and my younger brother is a pilot.
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It seems an extreme that the web will in 50 years will require different browsers for every site. The way I read this is that HTML/CSS/JS could be replaced overtime, bit by bit in 50 years by something else. Flash could have done this, though I think their chance has passed them by. Just like Java Applets and Silverlight. Maybe Chrome will add an interpreter for CoffeeScript and in 10 years all new sites will use that instead of JS. Maybe Firefox will introduce something other than HTML to build a page in that works with CSS and JS better and in 15 years, everything new will be in that language.

It isn't that everything will be different, but the implementation of the web is less important than that openness of the web. Fifteeen, twenty years ago, the web was made up of newsgroups, bbs', and email. HTML and browsers were new. Thing have changes, but the web still exists. Something new will come along that will slowly replace what we know as the web. What it is and how it happens is unknown, but I expect it to happen.
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Clearly you're trying to imply that some country is behind this, so feel free to just say it out loud instead of being cute about it and wasting everyone's time.

It's an internet forum, not a court of law. OK? I am speculating. When someone does something this big, I tend to think of someone way out there, like those that tried to hack Google, defense companies etc. For all we know they did to get the info from one company, steal CC from a million of them, or just have the option to take million of sites offline. Relax.
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How would you expect such things to be calculated? Not sure exactly what you're looking for.
Agreed. I have seem some really talented developers, but they sucked at understanding business or etc. Again if you want to do a startup, you need to be a Jack of all trades, or find a co-founder who is strong where you are weak.
Facebook does delete all data associated with an account after it is deleted. An account is deleted after you indicate that you want to delete it (via a form in your account settings), and 2 weeks passes without you trying to reactivate the account (by logging into it). And yes, I do mean the permanent, irreversible kind of deleting. (I work at Facebook.)
In my experience, it seems like the vast majority of the time in which that would be the case, one isn't doing a native ("binary") object serialization such as would require the receiver to have the object code for the serialized class(es), but instead using some sort of intermediate format like JSON or XML or the like. But I suppose there might be instances... I just hate to throw away such a fundamental OOP concept as bundling of data and the methods that operate on that data unless there's a really good reason.
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I tend to believe there will still be room for small operations, particularly in conjunction with high end restaurants and those who can afford a premium product. (i.e. http://www.drycreekpeach.com/ --I don't remember if this was the farm that everyone was raving about for a season or something)
>The REAL goal is to find a collection of abstractions that is powerful enough to accomplish what the program requires but as simple as possible (and as local as possible) to allow humans to comprehend (and maintain) it.

I like to think that practicing OOP in some sense is a process of defining new language and then using this language to programs something. This can be said about almost any programming in general, but in OOP you can see bad abstractions very well.

The real problem of OOP is that most "average" programmers are bad at defining languages. From my unscientific observations in any large C++ project only few developers actually produce usable class hierarchies. Same applies to large Java projects to somewhat lesser degree - Java has better defined patterns and more extensive standard library.
>And one of the causes is surely automation.

People have been saying that since the first mechanised loom machines appeared 200 years ago.
I like the terms *aaS, but I don't they don't exactly roll of the tongue (either four syllables or a too generic term that sounds silly and is easily confused with other things).
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If both are using VTOL, one for a small object, one for a large, how is it all that different?
Yeah, from my own experience the 'manager' metaphor is just easier for understanding the flow of execution & adding-new-features/maintenance.

Everything is in one place, and when the systems do need to communicate it is usually in pretty well defined ways (eg. physics manager ticks--> passes collision data to entity manager which ticks--> passes scene data to render manager which draws the screen, etc)

I'll go with whatever pattern works best in the name of Just Getting Stuff Done (with my own limited brainpower).
Found this which seems to confirm what I'm saying:

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As long as they aren't actually guns, it's legal. As soon as they become actual firearms, then you need permits/licenses/etc.
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Good. Suck it. This company is pure slime. I pity their acquirees. And it's totally worth my karma hit to just get this off my chest.
Couple things:

* a suggestion: add a colour slider to allow changing the background colour of the page. It can be jarring whipping something up against a light blue background that's intended for a site with a different colour scheme.

* minor bug - when choosing a font from a different dropdown box (ie. picking one under "curvey", when the current selection is from "standary"), if the font is already the "chosen" one (ie. if the box was displaying "sniglet", and I click it again), the logo font doesn't refresh. It's not hard to work around (pick something else from the list, and then pick that one again), but it shouldn't be hard to fix either.

Other than that, I like it. Well done :).
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Man, I'd love to use Chocolat. Can't wait for a wider release. (if anyone wants to throw an invite my way, evan@nothingconcept.com).

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Hmmm, well said. Now that I take the time to think about it. I'm wondering what our environment, highways, air, and rivers would look like if all those factories came to the US...
I don't understand why people want to be reverse engineers. Being a reverse engineer is humiliating. You are not doing work, you are undoing work. You might as well be dumping trashcans in the street. There are legitimate places of employment, but that's because capitalism has flaws.

I define "hacking" to mean working without documentation. If you are legit, you have documentation. A "hack" is synanimous with "nigger rigger".

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You're correct, the tutorial isn't good (and it is interesting to see that the website's revenue model is through their tutorials)

However, the tutorial is now #3 on the front page.
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Which do you suppose is bigger, 30% of Zynga's FB credits, or 100% of their FB ad spend?
I agree with all of these strongly. I wouldn't say Zynga is a complete failure in mobile though, Zynga Poker has consistently been a top grossing app on iPhone. I do agree that in order to continue to grow Zynga needs to be far more successful in mobile, and perhaps enter other markets (console, set top box, etc.)
Ideas are not great by themselves. Ideas are only great because someone executed on that idea. Also, ideas are great within some context. The idea of flying on the 1600s would have had you accused of witchcraft (bad idea) but the Wright Bothers executed on the idea, resulting in airplanes (great idea).

In general, ideas are easy to create and essentially free. They become great because of the time, energy, and determination of people.

What you could do to generate possible ideas is take an bland industry and challenge the assumptions around that industry. From the assumption challenges will come the seeds to create a statrtup with potential. But the greatness will only come from people tackling those initial idea seeds.
"If we were all still toiling in the field, we wouldn't be building hot internet startups."

- But not everyone can build internet startups, we can't all have startups. Money, also, is finite. The more someone else has, the less everyone else has. It's impossible for everyone to be rich. In order for someone to win, many have to loose. And making products to sell and creating jobs to make those products were a free market's way of passing the money down from those who have it, to those who don't. Now that those who have it, are starting to automate, more and more money stays in their hands and doesn't get passed down.

"Programming, for example, is a job anyone could do"

- I wouldn't say so. It takes a lot of skill to become a worthy programmer, which not everyone can do. If everyone knew just the basics, that wouldn't mean they could get jobs as programmers. Even if they did, their mediocre talent would mean that they too would eventually be replaced by robots and AI programmers.
What is the real reason these companies are doing this? It's obviously not the reasons they claim. There must be some sort of incentive program where Facebook is giving them kickbacks, as well as a gag order that prevents them from stating the agreement they have. It's very close to the old practice of companies that "sponsor" popular software by paying the developers to include their third party adware toolbar installers in the package, often embedding themselves deep within the user's system on a rootkit level, just as Facebook invisibly tracks everything you do.
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Totally agree, but that was one sector. Automation is disrupting every industry it can. Economists say those disrupted workers will adjust and learn new skills, but Martin Ford and many others think their numbers will be too vast and the available positions will be too few.
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The link to the article is:
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And they were just as right back then as they are now about the fundamental problem: fewer and fewer humans, over time, have anything of value to contribute to the economy. Come strong AI, and that number will rapidly drop to zero, and even the people that specialize in AI will quickly become useless in comparison to their creations...

People may disagree about exactly when that will happen, but 20 years is probably a good inside guess computationally speaking, and anything much past 40 would mean that we really dropped the ball on AI software research (which is definitely possible, to be fair), so I'm not really so hot on the idea of writing off these concerns as overly premature or ill conceived. People were way off 200 years ago, but these days the literal end of human usefulness is visible on a very real horizon, possibly within our lifetimes.
I guess the real question is this indicative of a general trend or is this only a one time event? Does this bode well for people who want to write apps for Facebook?
Have just one JS file of any size, FaceBook, JQ, etc, especially minified on one lines and yo are asking for trouble, and certainly no speed.
If you want any government to listen to you, you must build an "army" (your own group of power and influence). This is how it was always done, and how it will always be. This is why oil companies stick together, car companies did too. This is why priests who molested children where hidden for decades. This is why we have 300+ million Americans and only 2 political parties.

You can get away with anything as long as you are very aggressive and build your own army of supporters. The average person's lack of balls, and inability to organize and stick together is the ultimate reason why "normal people" are so often ignored when it comes to legislature. Yes you can protest, but walking around in the street asking for things doesn't do anything. When you have an army you do not "ask" for anything, you walk in and you "demand" it.
Aren't Adobe's patches pushed to everybody and installed immediately upon reception? Without waiting for the user to manually accept or restart, I mean. I don't know for sure.

I think it's safe to say that Flash is buggy as hell, and we would all benefit from the immediate installation of critical patches. I don't think Chrome is doing this yet.
What is the date of this testimony? 2000?