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.. will happen only if the society appreciate and give a bit reward to such situation...

These days we have plenty business bullies that sing the song "Win big or go home in shame" or "Second place is the first place loser"...
dart's boolean context semantics are like taking smalltalk's strongly typed ones and putting them through something.. i don't know what they were thinking. the basic idea is sound ( the smalltalk part ) but what they then did around the 'edges' is just downright off.
As a starting point, it may be helpful to think about the equity stake that would be required in order to offer the potential employee compensation equivalent to that which he currently receives.

To that end, I did a quick back-of-the-envelope-style calculation that you can find here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgLVLMvTOJ8ldDl...

In my model, I assumed that he would receive a 5% raise in salary each year at either job. I assumed an 8% discount rate for his current salary, a 12% discount rate for his salary at your company, and a 25% discount rate for his equity cashout, which I assumed he would receive at the end of year 7. I also assumed that the growth rate for your firm's valuation would be 20% in year 1 and would decrease at a constant rate of 2% per year.

Under these assumptions, an equity stake around about 4.5% would yield a $2.56 Million payment when he sells his stake at the end of year 7. The net present value (NPV) of this one-time payment would be equal to $536,302 today. Taken together with his salary payments, the NPV of his total compensation package in this scenario over 7 years would be equal to the $1.13 Million NPV of his salary payments from his current job.

You can download the spreadsheet and can play around with the various assumptions that I made. The greater the risk associated with a particular stream of cashflows, the higher the discount rate should be.

Adjustments to these assumptions can have a significant impact on the NPV of the payments. For example, if we set the discount rate for his salary payments at your company to 16% and the discount rate for his equity cashout to 30%, then the equivalent equity stake would be more like 6.64%.

If you are able to make some reasonably accurate discount rate assumptions and valuation growth assumptions, then you should be able to get a reasonably good % equity stake that would compensate him for the decrease in salary.

From there, you might consider adjusting the offered equity stake upward... the spreadsheet will give you the equity stake that would presumably make him indifferent between choosing to stay at his current job or joining your team - In order to persuade him to join you, you want to be able to make him a better offer than that which he currently has.
A while back I got my niece started with DS Game Maker - so she could make her own games for the Nintendo DS. I just got back from my sister's house and she showed me the progress she has made and it's amazing that after 9 months she hasn't lost interest and is still building her game.

Good job and keep your son interested in building his own world and making the computer do what he wants - and he will be smarter for it.
http://www.quora.com/Google-Wave/Why-did-Google-feel-that-Go...

"Part of the deal initially was that Wave would be compensated much like a startup, base salaries were supposed to be low but with heavy performance linked bonuses which would have made the Wave team rich upon Wave's success.

During the course of negotiations and building the Wave product, the "heavily reward for success" part of the equation remained but the "punish upon failure" got gradually watered down into irrelevance, making the entire project a win-win bigger proposition."
"Its pretty much exactly what he wants, only just proprietary and not on the web."

Which is exactly what he doesn't want. The authoring tools should be accessible to everyone.

Secondly, after exploring his site I'm guessing Bret would reject Mathematica even if it were free & open source. Because even then it's not accessible to everyone - you still need to know how to program.
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Who would you buy through? Googling for the 45 drive version gives me slightly higher pricing.

Also- The big advantage of the BackBlaze version is that people have done it before, and it mapped out. With the SM case, there's less community.. But it does look like a good solution.

It looks like the drive bays are pre-wired up, so you wouldn't need to worry about that?
What else would you need? Mboard/CPU/RAM, Raid cards, HDs and sleeves?
We understood. However, the sarcasms and ironies we see are in a way, adults playing with ideas, or even RFCs.

You might have noticed, but for years the sarcastic/ironic proclamation of 'nothing to hide' wasn't met with any sort of intellectual response. It was only in the beginning of '11 that I started to see people blog coherent arguments against it.

In his post, Reagenwald brings up those reasons, introduces them to any readers who haven't seen them, and keeps the topic open for discussion. So hell yeah!
First bing result for "三宅一生 ソニー ユニフォーム": http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/capsule...

1981年に採用が決まった最後のユニフォームはなんと三宅一生氏のデザインですよ。オシャレでしょ。

edit: looks like I was beaten quite handily, I need to remember to refresh old tabs before replying...
"The latter is a guard against 3.5MB of compressed, minified, inlined Javascript. "

So _that's_ where the Dart team came from?
Either we'll have distributed DNS, or within 10 years the Internet isn't going to exist in a recognizable form.
Isn't this a little ironic, given that Steve dropped out of college in his first year? (Granted, he grew up in a very different environment than the targets of this program.)
Could run Ubuntu on this, no?
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Does it only do POSTs that are in the document's onload handler, or also things that are in onclick? I think that the latter could be dangerous

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This is something I've thought about for a while. If you find something you're comfortable wearing and eliminate the "what am I wearing today?" process from your daily routine, your mind is that much more engaged in thoughts that matter.
We have distributed DNS already. Perhaps you are unhappy with the corporation in charge of .com.

Important distinction.
Commerce and content are blurring together and that is a good thing for everyone
I'm curious as to how people are defining "success" in these comments. It seems to revolve around traffic, and perhaps that implies something (advertising).
Me, I guess I define it as having said something that starts/contributes to a conversation, and that an actual conversation happens.
But how do you define it?
I don't see the connection, either. Nor to how having small wins is like deus ex machina.
I see it. Thank you.
Oh no, not now, not yet!
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I mean distributed in the sense that it is not centrally controlled.
I really wish Larry would read this, and the Mythical Man Month in general.
If crawlers can perform them, then your users can/are too. I fail to see how crawlers need to obey by certain rules?
Ask HN: Whats the London Job scene like for Developers?
I've heard that Europe is doing it tough and just wanted to ask the community what the general job scene is like for Developers in London?

Particularly interested in the demand for experienced .Net devs.

I'm interested at some stage in coming over to live and work in London next year.
re: visa issues - I have a British passport.

Any info/tips/advice is much appreciated.
You need the same mix of experienced talent working in the UI as you do with traditional "serious" stuff. This is where Apple is simply ahead of everyone else.

Not only does Apple not shunt n00bs at the UI, it actively hires extremely brilliant people to do UI invention/R&D.

E.g., consider the CV of the (obviously brilliant, IMO) "Up and Down the Ladders of Abstraction" guy, Bret Victor (1).

That's about two lightyears removed from "UI is boring and easy; make the junior programmers work on it while we do the algorithmically hard stuff on the backend."

(As an aside, Holy Shit is BV impressive and refreshing -- incredible tech chops combined with awesome aesthetic/design sensibilities, all wrapped up in a humanistic focus on usability...just, damn.)

(1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3099595, http://worrydream.com/#!/cv/bret_victor_resume.pdf, and http://worrydream.com/Bio/
Grown defects. Graaah.
There are plenty of places in the world that are as corrupt or more corrupt than Mexico which don't have the same levels of violence.
What do you guys think about using this with Swift from OpenStack? Could I buy 100 of these pods, drop OpenStack on them and get close to 135,000 Terabytes with some level of redundancy?
Surely you can do this with GET with minor server trickery? (Has such been done already?)
Maybe it's in reference to the fact this "startup in a startup" scaled people to a point of disfunction, which is kind of what Mythical Man Month is getting at as well.

But you are right, it isn't really the primary point he is making.
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Including stop-lights it takes me 20 minutes to walk a mile. I too live about 1.4 miles from work, but I don't have a spare hour each day for walking.
These arguments seem to largely revolve around the significance of versioning. Ie. "is it really 8, is it a new product?"
It seems that versioning as a method of driving sales of new copies of windows hasnt really worked since windows 98, as every iteration since has required a hardware upgrade to use.
And when you buy a new computer it tends to include a licence for windows, and at least in the last few years PC sellers even tend to be very slow to include new versions of windows on new pcs (for example, dell still advertise models with XP included, an OS which is over 10 years old at this stage), so there's evidence for the argument that new releases of windows have a negative effect on sales.
Thanks for the reference to the FLQ crisis. I was a little tyke at the time, and I'm neither Canadian nor a student of Canadian history, so it was all new to me. Interesting case study in how a democratic, apparently well-meaning government can abuse powers and trample on civil liberties when confronted by a threat of apparently sufficient magnitude.
One of his featured projects is
http://worrydream.com/#!/Tangle

It requires knowing how to program.

All I'm saying is that its a shame he doesn't seem to know about what Mathematica has done in version 6 and beyond, since its seems squarely up his alley... which is ironic because he specifically calls out Mathematica in the article for not being interactive enough.
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So, how long until amazonaws.com gets shut down?

Boom! There' goes maybe 70% of the internet startups in one misguided "think of the children" swoop...
I think there would be a big market to provide $100,000ish per Petabyte collocation, when the hardware gets cheap enough for that.
Yar, would you rather it be for psylocibes?

Perhaps it will be for ethnobotany majors.
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>> person do you know which would wear the same clothes every day??

Paul Barnett, who was a lead video game designer for Warhammer Online. He wore the same clothes everyday for convenience (going out and purchasing a set of shirts/jeans/shoes in a single stroke) - which he would then change on a yearly/6monthly basis.
Slip of the tongue. ;) But the easiest way to think about it is something like:

type(x) == Boolean ? x == True : x != nil

Disclaimer: That may not be valid Ruby, as I only have a passing knowledge of some bits of Ruby.
It probably make the most sense to donate the 500k to liver transplant organizations, seeing how Steve was involved in that towards the end of his life.

And yes, it is more than a little ironic someone would donate money to colleges in honor of a college dropout.
IIRC The US Highway system is cash positive. It is true that the US gas-tax is much lower than just about anywhere else. The easiest way to lose the next election in the US is to propose raising the gas-tax.
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For the record, to illustrate an example of mischaracterization, when he wrote "One is that the court case hinged on the claim that the policy was secret. The court's response was that the ID requirement was clearly posted for everyone to see...", I would not classify that paragraph as a "wholesale defense of secrets". But if that's how you see it, that's how you see it.
I believe the Racket web server works similarly to the Arc server. At least it did last I checked (back when it was still PLT Scheme).
Exeptional UI skills (both the design and the implementation of it) require taste, which isn't something you can just learn. You either have it, or you acquired and cultivated it. I've seen this time and time again: Great developers producing awfully horrible UIs. They sense that something doesn't 'look right' but can't fix it.
It's usually a culmination of things, starting with basic layouts issues, spacing/margins off, wrong logical grouping/clustering of information on screen, off color schemes, the entire gamut. That, and a low tolerance for precision work. They would obsess over shaving off another fraction of a millisecond on a backend server transaction (nothing wrong with that, btw), but if something is a few pixels off, "who cares". Well, everyone who has to stare at your UI...

It's also noteworthy that UX designers who rely on other developers to actually implement their designs get much more frustrated with such developers...

Long story short, trying to shoehorn 'back-end' developers into UI jobs is a recipe for a crappy user experience.
Also, you may want to consider including vesting provisions in the new hire's compensation agreement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesting#Ownership_in_startup_co...

If you decide to offer an 8% equity stake, then you might, for example, want a 2% stake to vest each year for 4 years.
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Speaking of UI is hard - and I mean this in the most constructive way possible - this article was exceedingly hard for me to read with the transparent/light-grey "Mythical Man Month" ever-present behind the left-side of the text.

Too cute.
Why do you think many companies/organizations are giving UI work to interns or fresh grads?

There are many difficulties with UI, but the most relevant one here is that UI is a bike shed. Everyone's a critic. If you work in a big company you'll learn to dread the UI projects because you're going to have to sit in a room with fifteen people, at least fourteen of whom will dislike something about your approach and all of whom will offer suggestions. There will be 23 revisions and lots of compromises and turf battles and possibly blood, and usually the result will be the legendary horse that was designed by committee.

This is why the author's primary complaint is the team was too big, not we didn't have the best UI people. Without mindful management the big team will squash your UI people no matter how good they are.

Esoteric technical problems don't suffer from as much bikeshedding. Just as in the original parable of the bike shed, nobody wants to suggest changes to the nuclear reactor shielding. If you're the expert on reactor shielding you can basically run your part of the show.

So the author's argument is: build a giant team that is prone to endless meetings, and you will select for traits that help people avoid endless meetings. People will retire into shells. They become narrow technical experts whom nobody wants to gainsay. They will focus on problems that your company already understands well, to take advantage of the cultural consensus which precludes endless argument. And only the young and naive will step forward to do something like UI, where every move is weighted down by bureaucracy and politics.
Agh, I guess. But orientated sounds terrible.
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I believe it is not uncommon for businesses to rely on plans.
One of the deeper messages of the Mythical Man Month is that large teams in software don't work. The author of the post mentions that he should have known the project was doomed when the hiring manager didn't think 26 employees on a "startup" project was too many.
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Just wondering if anyone would be willing to pay money for a birthday reminder saas app done right. And how much?
Why not just give them $500k outright?
wait they want to shut down 2600 again?

for those that do not know the back story ..2600 the underground hacker magazine site was shut down for awhile because Verizon did not like 2600 giving voice to wikileaks volunteers and een interviewing them..

Verizon kept claiming equipment malfunctions..
Would it click facebook Like, too? ;)
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I don't think it is so different for men and women in today's day and age. IVF and surrogacy have changed the game quite a bit. I'm 32 and don't plan on having kids for a few more years, but I also know I have options that didn't exist for my parents. Because of these options, I feel I've had the freedom to explore my education and career and I know so many women in their 30's who either don't want children or plan on waiting. This whole "women can have it all thing" is partially true in the sense that it comes in increments, but rarely all at once.
The problem is that a large number of the failures that would take out 2 of 15 drives in a raid array will also take out all 15!

Think bad power supply, mains spike, cooling failure, fire, flood .....

If you need raid, you also need a separate copy in a separate location.
I totally agree. Running a 'startup' in a company like Google compared to a REAL startup is like having your own room in your parents home versus sleeping in a tent under the Brooklyn bridge. One has serious ramifications, the other is a walk in the park: Putting your life on the line or not.
Keep it coming. I love things like this.
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This sounds remarkably like something pg would say. Not necessarily content-wise, but style-wise and topic-wise.
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I really appreciate this post. I'm going through a very similar experience myself. Was at a startup, which was recently acquired by a larger corporation. Since I've previously worked at both small(and fast growing) and large companies in the past, I thought I possibly had the experience to make the new larger team I would be working with more "agile". But taking months to do what I normally accomplish in a week or two definitely is hurting personal morale. I'll try to achieve some daily small wins though=)
I think VeriSign is smarter than that. The opposite is more likely: EC2 is "too big to seize".

But startups should be using their own domains, so I'm not sure this is even an issue.
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Ask HN: Someone has stolen my startup - what can I do?
Hello,

I asked an acquaintance to be a co-founder for my startup that was in alpha. After 6 months it was plain to see that he was having a negative influence and the product was going nowhere (in fact backwards). At this point I asked him to leave the startup after we failed to see eye-to-eye on a major issue.

Fast forward 12 months and I have found out that he has copied my idea and made his own version of the startup (which was all my original idea).

Is there anything I can do? I only just saw his site and I feel sick to the stomach.

Cheers
Backblaze don't build 'one' of thes e- their whole philosophy is to build very cheap storage and duplicate.

If you are going to use high-end 'pro' drives then wouldn't you just buy a high-end enterprise grade SAN anyway?
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Annoyingly, the arrow keys are hijacked, and I can't use them to scroll the page.
But Steve was unique. Wearing the same clothes every day made sense for Steve and that is why Steve did that, period. He wasn't concerned about fashion or trends or what others thought - he did what he felt was right. Period.

I applaud that, but it hardly makes anyone unique. More than a few people have decided that, for example, a white t-shirt and blue jeans every day is a simple solution to a ultimately unimportant decision. Lots of people , OTOH, just wear whatever is nearest because they really don't give a crap about their appearance and they're happy that way.

There are real reasons to consider Jobs special. Hyperventilating over what amounts to a not-uncommon solution to dressing oneself trivializes him.
<ex-wave team engineer>

Early versions of wave ran on IE7. The problem wasn't HTML feature support, it was a lack of engineering time. In the leadup to the IO announcement, the client team dropped IE support in order to get wave ready for the demo. Dropping IE support was supposed to be temporary, but everybody was too busy to fix it. "Just tell people to install Chrome frame" was the regular excuse.

It was being worked on when wave was finally cancelled.
If someone had a font designed for their personal blog (or book or whatever), it might be because they are really proud of the blog (or book &c.). Or it might be because they really like font design.
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How much of OS X and the iPhone came out stuff they tried and failed years ago?
Finally, I'd also like to note that, given the proximity of this hire to your series A funding, you may want to consider the tax implications involved in granting an equity stake to an employee.

If the company is valued at $30 million, then granting a new hire 10% of the stock in the company might be viewed as a taxable event by the IRS. In that case, your employee might find himself responsible for paying taxes on $3 million in income. You don't want to wind up with an employee who owes $750,000 to the IRS and can't pay it.

Consulting with a qualified attorney will be invaluable in structuring this transaction in order to avoid this sort of problem. With a valuation of $25-$30 million, you really must seek legal counsel in this matter before moving forward. With that much money on the line, you really can't afford NOT to have a good attorney on your side when you are putting together this deal.

Note: I am not a licensed attorney and this is not legal advice. Please seek the advice of qualified legal counsel.
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