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That's a legitimate concern though. People have unoriginal broad ideas ("I want to sell stuff through app/website") and supply over-reaching NDAs ("_everything_ mentioned is covered, with no expiration date"). Even if such is ultimately not enforceable, it could still be a major legal pain, if during your lifetime you get to work on a project that also implements some type of "selling stuff online" (see Lodsys' troll patents and legal pursuits).
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How many times have you taken a call from someone who is doing a reference check on one of your current employees?
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Understood, but I'm not ready to give up on this just yet :-)

I know you think this is a futile effort, but I'd welcome any improvements from someone who knows more about the engine internals than I do. I'm currently working out what I can do instead of rooting every ValueRef.
Does anyone know if there's a picture of Bill Cosby with the sweater?
I'm kind of the same way, but it depends if there is someone singing in the music. I find vocals distracting when I need to concentrate. Also, listening to my favorite music is distracting. To concentrate when working on something difficult, it helps if I choose music according to these criteria: 1) no singing in the music, just instruments 2) listen to music I don't love, but moderately like, such as jazz, classical, or trance. (I love vocal trance, but if I want to stay in the zone, I listen to instrumental trance).
Ah, I started using this last year but havent checked it out in a while. It looks great and works really well, but I just tend to forget about these things sometimes.
I picked up my nocturnal programming habit during my undergrad long ago and now that I'm a father, it's even more necessary to really take advantage of those night hours... It also gives me the chance to speak out loud to myself when brainstorming or a brief self-congratulatory dance without getting weird looks ;).
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Further, "check references" needs to be deeper than just asking if the guy actually worked there. Ask about his role and responsibilities. Ask how he helped the company's bottom line. Ask real questions.
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It's great that CBS put this online for everyone to view, but I really wish they added captions/subtitles to the video clips. If it's hard to do, why not just add a text transcript so that deaf people like me can understand what's being said?
I add a little link icon you can mouse over to reveal a textbox with a sharable url. Let me know what you think if your still watching this post!
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It would be fun to maps this data against geographic regions and index that against cost of living.. Except those of us in the bay area would discover that while we make $120k-$150k, our houses cost 4-6x what it costs for those who make $80-$120k in the midwest. Then we would all cry.
Things can get a little hairy when it comes to nesting block quotes, list elements, code blocks, etc. In those cases, the plaintext fidelity is fine, but the parsed output might be a bit off from what you've intended.

These types of editors help with that case.
I'm actually thinking of moving to FreeBSD for the very reasons you're stating.

FreeBSD has:

* ZFS - which is miles ahead of btrfs for production use

* libcapsicum - something that isn't completely braindead like posix 'capabilities'

* racct and jails - cgroups is a mess, containerization isn't wanted from posts on lkml ( as it's 'not needed' - considering vps hosting is a multi-billion dollar industry ) and it needs quiet a bit of work.
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Your wish has been granted. There's a full text transcript here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-20124391/steve-jobs-re...
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At that point, why not just use Mercurial? What advantages does the git storage format give you?
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You're right - I'm fixing the wording on my comment. I was associating the wrong comment with my reply.
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They were right: no one bought the first gen iPod. It wasn't until gen 3, when full Windows compatibility was introduced, that the sales numbers really started to matter.
I'll second the "watch new hires carefully".

You can save yourself a lot of problems if you just keep an eye on your new people for the first month. Obviously you don't need to be overbearing, but at the end of that first month you should do a detailed work evaluation (code review if a programmer). If the employee shows signs of producing crap in their first month, get rid of her/him then. Do not wait unless there is a really, really good reason to.
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I care very much where an investors money comes from
I certainly understand the server-first perspective. From a perspective of a guy who values having the same underlying OS as his desktop and server, its a problem. I tried using "OS X [desktop] and FreeBSD [server]" as a mix for a few years and then switched to "OS X and ubuntu server", now moved on to "mint and ubuntu server".

I don't need a desktop that does everything. Just recent versions of skype, firefox, and thunderbird. Also sometimes a simple GUI file manager is useful.
I'd also add: Never assume an individual is competent based on their title and/or the company they work for.
When I first installed wi-fi in my house in 2001, one of my friends declared (jokingly) that he would be wearing tin-foil underpants when visiting. While he was joking, he was the kind of person who easily believes things they are told, and lets go of beliefs slowly. He did say he would never install it in his own house.

Yes, there is a widespread belief amongst the general public that wi-fi and mobile phones are dangerous.
It's a shame OP had to learn the hard way given that he stated he was not going to buy into resume hype and ended up doing so anyways albeit in a less formal fashion.

While stories like this would any employer cringe, the very opposite scenario occurs as well. I've personally been part of the receiving and giving end of that type of scenario.
I'm sure most or all HN users would agree that the current patent system is broken. However, as is mentioned in the article and as semanticist pointed out, Lego was able to get a patent on an "obvious" idea, and so was Apple. In other words, a similar argument did apply.
although it seems accepted as universal truth here that VCs never sign NDAs, they do sign mine and i know of other founders who do get them signed as well.

the stated reason why I insist on NDAs is that i do not want to start the patent filing clock until I have decided to. the unstated reason is that I don't want to get zucked by some other founder their associates are friendly with. it's a real risk.

you say it's only execution that should matter, and this may even be true, but i would much prefer those being able to execute parts of my business better to work for me rather than compete.
"If entire communities are allowed to flock to Hacker News to upvote the latest post about their pet platform, the site will become nothing more than a cheap marketing tool."

Because there's been none of that happening for the past year...
Its subtle, (and webkit only) - but the tiles tilt back based on where you click/tap them -- just like the windows devices. Try clicking on the corner one?
This is a great post that gets mentioned from time to time and covers the underlying theory well. I'd supplement it with Chapter 9 of the Pro Git book: http://progit.org/book/ch9-0.html , which focuses more on the actual implementation and shows how to create commits from scratch using Git's content-addressable primitives.
Dude was a psychopath. I've been tricked by them before, cost me at least $20k. They lie. Straight to your face. They are often terrible at spelling, grammar, and just general "this document should look right" skills.
Yeah, I've worked in fancy offices too (in my case earning more on contract than regular employees, without plump benefits but hey). My experience is that being the outsourced to is a polar experience. You're either a hired gun with special status or some dispensable clean up crew. It's a symptom of the rigid labor laws that limit everyone from achieving their potential.
My comment isn't necessarily directed at the same frequencies as electronic devices. It's just directed to people who think electronic devices are dangerous, but pay little attention to a known danger - ie, the sun. If you asked the average person on the street if the sun's rays were dangerous radiation, I wonder what answers you'd get.

And don't forget there are millions of people lining up every day to actually pay money to submit their body to uv radiation in tanning booths. The dangers are pretty well known now, but they're still around.

All I'm saying is that, like most paranoias, from sharks to terrorists and mobile phones along the way, the risk ratio is skewed when fantasy and imagination takes over cold hard facts.
Wow a similar thing happened to a friend of mine in what he calls the "flying dragon" story.

About 5 years ago my friend Bob (not his real name - real name is Andrew) started an entertainment business to do shows like Cirque du Soleil.

He advertised on websites looking for acts. A man came in saying he was an agent that represented a flying dragon. Bob was incredulous. He asked to see the dragon. The agent told him the dragon would only come out for performances.

Bob paid the agent $1000 up front and spent another $3000 on marketing for the dragon's first performance. On the night of the performance, the agent called Bob and told him the dragon was sick but that he could definitely do a better, bigger show the following week.

Bob paid another $1000 but the dragon didn't show up again. Three weeks later the agent told Bob that the dragon died but had already spent the $2000 on his lair.

Bob now says, "Make them show you the dragon," as advice for almost any situation.
There was a time, before the Federal Reserve, when banks were not rescued, but failed. In the 19th century banks failed and there were panics and depressions every decade or two. What we have now is way better. The problem now is that banks can reliably depend on being rescued every decade or so. In the 70's it was loans to SA dictators, in the 80's it was the savings and loan crisis. the it was devaluation of the ruble which took out Long Term Capital Management, then the current mess of housing mortgages and derivatives. At one time there were $60 trillion of worthless paper sailing through the system.

The problem in the rescue this time is that the TARP money went to rescue the banks, not to the middle class that needed it. The "too big to fail" banks got bigger. Glass-Stegall was not restored. The Republicans stonewalled any meaningful regulation. And of course Congress was bought and sold.

Capitalism is the economic engine of our society, but it cannot be allowed to complete freedom without being regulated to conform to the economic and social needs.
interesting how, when first invented, the bumps went down

kinda makes more sense to have the top side flat - but just feels so wrong to me now.... interesting
For the rooting, you can't know if someone is storing you on the stack unless you get hack-y[1]. So you'd have to assume the opposite, that the caller is storing you on the stack and give them something like .root() to call if they are not.

[1] In the end, the way stack-scanning GC works is that it has OS-specific code (see jsnativestack.cpp[2] in SM) to get the highest stack address (stack grows down in all the archs you care about). Then since you know someone is calling into your constructor, you can declare a variable on the stack and get its address to find out the current stack pointer. If 'this' is between the current stack pointer and the stack base, you are on the stack and do not need to root yourself.[3]

[2] http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/a1b89b4913ca/js/s...

[3] I coded an example up to show you (it uses an OSX-specific pthread API to get the stack base -- see the SM code for other platforms)
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i wouldn't say it's as low as country living, but it's not quite 2k/mo for a 1 bedroom
Sigh, Videos require Flash.
Publicly held corporations usually side with the shareholders' wants and needs first. That's one of the reasons Apple was so remarkable.

Steve Jobs realized that if you give people stuff they'll love, they'll fork over their hard earned money, and that is ultimately what shareholders want so they let him do it over and over.

Have people at all levels with vision, commitment, and passion for the work they do. They must be cross-disciplined and most importantly they must understand that their actions and decisions connect directly to the success of the company as a whole.

Then you will have some of the magic of Apple.
> I would add 250K, 500K, 1M tiers here (as there are plenty of people who are making salaries in those ranges)

I highly doubt you'll find "plenty" of people, here or elsewhere, making more than $250k a year as a programmer.
By that argument, a belief that Santa Claus (as an actual being who lives at the North Pole and on Christmas Eve delivers toys to all the good children) does not exist is a religion.
I disagree. Imagine a bracelet that injects you with drugs, and only unlocks itself after the course of injections was completed.
It's a good thing they require an internet connection. Because otherwise, you know... chaos.
To be honest, the linked article references both.

The Lego was patented 50 years ago. Patent terms generally range from 17-20 years (from issue or filing date). So Lego's original patent expired long ago.

Patents cover functional inventions.

Also mentioned is an earlier Boing-Boing story in which functional aspects of the Lego brick design were denied trademark protection.

Copyright (not mentioned in the article) and trademark do not cover functional design, but literal expression (copyright) and trade dress (trademark). So, a rectangular brick functionally compatible with Lego bricks made by Acme, Inc., and branded appropriately, doesn't infringe Lego's trademark for its functional aspects. Even if these mean that the visual design of the brick is highly similar to a Lego brick (as it would have to be).

Similar findings have been made in copyright law, particularly Sega v. Accolade, in which case a literal reference as part of the activation code of a compatible game was found to be functional, and hence, not a copyright infringement.
VP of sales is the worst proxy for start-up skills you can think of. Firstly, a salesman in a big company might be good at reading off a script, or writing a highly polished script for worker bees to read off; but they aren't necessarily a good all-rounder. Second, it's common practice to give a VP position to anyone who asks for it, because it helps them convince customers that they are a mover and shaker in the company:

"Look, I'll ask the engineers to put it in the next patch." ... "Well, I'm a VP - they should listen."
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What are your thoughts on a 16 year old getting his GED and graduating high school a bit early to pursue his dreams as an entrepreneur?<p>He's getting ready for his first round of funding for his start-up, but school is a problem for him, and he can't manage both.
A certain adage regarding a fool and his money comes to mind...
I used Debian testing with openbox/tint2 on my Toshiba NB505 for a while. It has a 1.66GHz Atom with 1GB of RAM. It ran pretty snappy.
Was going to watch the first five minutes, and ended up watching the whole thing. Interesting perspective, and love the way various products are becoming "elastic".

Definitely still not sure about the new gmail layout though, you just see far fewer messages on the page, and I think that slows me down...
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The speculative bubble that burst was one of the best things to happen to BitCoin as it meant people stopped using it as a investment vehicle. Once people are done speculating with it then it can taken more seriously as a real currency rather than being yet another alternative currency experiment.
As a long time small business owner, I can say that "profit" is not the key element, but rather "cash flow". It may seem a minor nit, but I think helps to distinguish between short term profit and long term. Its nice to have a billion in the bank and only focus on long term goals. Few companies have this luxury. For all the rest, we focus on meeting our monthly payroll.
I cringed every time this came up in every paragraph.

But... he was the VP of a $100 million company, after all!
The toughest part about this is hiring Bill Cosby to stand still while you knit a sweater of him. Then have Bill Cosby put on the sweater and stand still again.

Then you knit another sweater!
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Lego had a patent on the design of the bricks 50 years ago - but failed to get a trademark on the shape of the bricks.

Apple got a design patent on the general shape of the iPad. Design patents are a convenient way to get around the fact that trademarks offer much less protection than patents and are generally assessed rather more sensibly.
Well, I'm not necessarily suggesting it for right now, but as a general strategy.

But, if the governments were to short the futures right now, who's to say the price will not increase? It's a risk. If they can be sure, other entities can also be sure and make money doing the same.
I can't say what happened at your company, but at mine (which is a bit bigger), the IT people started "qualifying" IE7 when it came out. It took them until after IE8 was released to get all the various internal groups working and tested on IE7. The testing part was really the big piece, so they couldn't just jump to IE8 when it was released because it would have meant months or years redoing the testing cycle.
Ummm welcome to HN, Mr. Bloomberg.
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Does that mean he was also faking his regret when he finally got "caught" so he could get off scot-free?
> [Shareholder pressures] have led many business leaders to manage to the "expectations market" of the public stock exchanges. This in turn has led to narrow short-termism, accounting manipulation, cutting of ethical and legal corners, failures to invest in the long-term, and to the financial crisis.

I've actually heard from a salesperson at a big SaaS company that it's normal to delay sales to the next quarter once your sales quota is fulfilled for this quarter.

This surprised me because it's obviously worse for the company as a whole to not capture that revenue as soon as possible (and to put it at risk entirely) and potentially worse for the customer. However, it's better for the salesperson to have an easy win next quarter, and easier for the management to show nice quarter-over-quarter growth. I think this is a good example of putting short-term gain before the interests of the company, and it seems to be quite common.
The friends that I would say make considerably more than me could cover it easily. I have others who only make a bit more than me but cost of living is more than offsets it.
I don't have an education section on my resume, as I'm a high school dropout myself. Last year I was looking for a new job and shot my resume to probably a dozen different companies. Of those, the only company who asked about the lack of an education section was Bloomberg (of the ~8 people I had in-person interviews with, at least half of them asked me about it, in fact, which told me a lot about what the company was looking for). I'm not sure if it's indicative of the tech market at large, but no one else batted an eye at my lack of an education section and focused purely on my skills and experience.
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> "We are at the first point in history now where we are eliminated unskilled work, but not replacing them with anything other unskilled labor"

We're also at the end of the first era in history where some forms of unskilled labor have put people solidly in the middle class. Unskilled middle-class work is being eliminated; there's some demand for unskilled workers, but not at those income levels.

This is going to lead to some hard transitions, which are going to take time to shake out.
I wish people would stop trying to paint their own motives on other people. There is no reason for him to trumpet that he loves profit if that not his main motive. These guys have money and successful companies it's possible they would make some sacrifices to the bottom line to impact on the world if it if they have that disposition. You think someone like Elon Musk is only thinking bottom line when he has poured all his money into three industries that haven't ever been profitable?
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Glad to see Mayor Bloomberg's on HN!
Nobody ever created a business with the goal of 'maximizing shareholder value'. That is a mission of companies who have lost their purpose and passion.
Might look into hooking the last fm code into YouTube. Thanks!
Most kinds of trading are just fucked up.
Sure, bakers who know they need wheat in six months can buy some futures for six months from now. Then, what is the problem that TFA is talking about? I thought it was about poor countries being impacted by the price spike resulting from the long speculation. If the people in these countries had bought the futures they needed well in advance, why were they getting impacted? I inferred that the problem was because people there were not sophisticated enough to buy the necessary futures.
Training for a PPL currently requires 3.0 hours of instrument time, including maneuvers like climbs, descents, and turn to a heading. It also requires unusual attitude recovery, a drill where you cover your eyes and the instructor puts the plane at a cockeyed angle and you have to recover using only instruments. You must successfully perform these maneuvers in order to pass your FAA checkride.

Basically in order to get your PPL you have to not just be able to turn a 180 on instruments, but demonstrate some level of precision in other maneuvers...so I think that while the study demands six hours, the FAA has determined that the job can be done in three.

As to your questions for me: I'm not instrument rated. I've taken about two hours of instruction on instruments beyond the required 3.0, most of that time was on the flight were I got my high performance endorsement...in a Bonanza, coincidentally. I'm confident I could do an instrument-only 180 in the Piper Cherokee I fly most frequently because I've recently done instrument work in a more challenging aircraft. A month from now with no further instrument work I'd be significantly less confident.

Hands off the yoke? Probably not all the way, but I've been trained to keep a very light touch as anything more, at least in cruise flight, means you need to check your power/pitch settings (eg throttle/trim).
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Between BHyVe and virtual network stacks and recent jail improvements, I'd say we're doing pretty well on the virtualization front.