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What the others in this thread said.

If that doesn't work, be prepared to give a range of "total comp" where the low end is base salary and the high end is the total cost of all your benefits + salary + bonus
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The text-shadow on the chat bubbles bothered me from the start. It breaks the "flat text inside a bubble" perception and turns it into a non-sensical 3D effect. It's as iOS5 is going the way of Aqua, against the flow...
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It seems like the author had a really hard time. If you're a software engineer, work at a software company if you want to be happy. Negotiation isn't what's going to get you the job either, programming is.
a la Boxee?
Assuming he had a green light on the project itself, and it creates value, I don't see why that would be selfish.
There is a dead comment here that mentions meditation and as this is my main method for taking breaks I thought I'd share (as I doubt the comment is dead for mentioning it). When I find I'm stressing over a project too much I just put whatever I'm working on away and meditate until my thoughts aren't being pulled all over the place. The word "meditate" can have a lot of different meanings but basically what I do is just focus on something like the breath entering and leaving my body; doing so consistently (and going back to it whenever my thoughts wander) always clears my head and makes whatever I was working on a lot easier to do.
I'm not saying anything about the validity of this technology, but it's a mistake to lump this in with things that violate the laws of thermodynamics. The energy is supposed to come from fusion of a cheap fuel.

Though there may be other reasons to reject cold fusion, it's hard to rule out that some future technology will draw power from something plentiful. To an earlier level of science, running a steam engine from a lump of heavy metal would also be free energy.
One of the things that I see among hardworking smart people is they somehow tend to use 'difficult work' as a yardstick to measure 'good work'. Difficult work need not necessarily be good work. Unfortunately if you fall for this, you will end up wasting a lot of time, effort and energy over years and at the end wonder why you are not as rich as someone who does has half the difficult work as you do.

'Good work' or something that brings long term financial success and happiness is something that adds value to business you are serving to write software. There are also many academic kind of jobs which involve a lot of algorithms, math and precision science which won't deal with much of flavor business software has today. That's not wrong if you are a academician by profession, but that's a serious problem if you are doing software development for a living.

Much large of software development today, has got to deal with learning tools, knowing how to use a programming language to quickly turn idea to code, or fix a bug or add a feature. Apart from this you must also know how to quickly discover solutions to problems, even by searching on the internet. Being able to discover has become more important that being able to invent these days.

Additionally you must know how to push long hours, work late nights and may be on weekends. All this has fundamentally nothing to do with software.

All passion of working on something interesting, changing the world et al is perfectly acceptable in your early 20's when you relatively have lesser responsibilities. As we grow older our responsibilities will only increase, the bills and expenditure will grow up. For vast majority of people, thinking pragmatically in this case is important(I'm not saying this for everybody, some can. Not all will make it, those how will not have to take the most pragmatic way out).

That's probably why start up's are not for everyone. And that's why php et al is still alive. Anything that helps you make those first dollars will win.

This is the sad thing about the real world.

Learn, but use the most pragmatic tool at the moment to serve your business.
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Personally, I think this is an interesting article, and I got two things out of it:

1. Effective communication with people from various backgrounds is important. This is incredibly hard, and it does require practice. Those that succeed typically communicate very well.

2. I mentally replaced the "don't call yourself a programmer" mantra for "tell people why you're doing what you do - what problem do you solve and how is it valuable". If you work for a business, you also need to have some basic understanding of business. Successful organizations probably have more people that really try to find their role in the "big picture" of the company, and they strive to use their place to create value.
Assuming the cited 470kW was an average rate, 470kW times 5.5 hours ~= 9.3 gigaJoules. [1]

Pick your choice of divisor off of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density . A convenient one is gasoline, at 34.2 megajoules per liter, for 272 liters of gasoline ignoring the oxygen [2], or about 72 gallons of gasoline for us backward folks in the US.

Or Lithium-ion batteries, at the high end of .9 MJ/kg according to Wikipedia[3], that's about 10,000 kilograms of battery [4].

I don't know what this means, just thought the math would be helpful. It seems like we are getting up into the domain where if there really is a hidden generator doing this, it really ought to be pretty obvious, and ISTM we are getting out of the domain of measurement error or trivial-and-brief chemical reaction rounding error. If this is a fraud, it's a bold one. Fraud is still my dominant theory pending further confirmation, but someone (I consider) trustworthy confirming those numbers would shake my beliefs up quite a bit.

[1]: http://www.google.com/search?q=(5.5+hours+*+470+kilowatts)+i...

[2]: http://www.google.com/search?q=(5.5+hours+*+470+kilowatts)+/...

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery , see sidebar

[4]: http://www.google.com/search?q=(5.5+hours+*+470+kilowatts)+/...
WePay built its API specifically to solve this problem: https://stage.wepay.com/developer/usecases/marketplace

We allow easy account creation for your users, and you can charge your own fees on each transaction you facilitate.

I'm one of the API developers at WePay, so if you have any questions, I'd be happy to help.
Nowhere in the article did it suggest wearing a suit at an interview at a software company in California. That would go much too far.

And it would appear that suits make you overdressed in the software business even here in relatively staid Boston.

However, when you're going to meet with Japanese bureaucrats, or perhaps even American investment bankers, the suit might be a good idea.
Ahm... that was the topic of the original article. Didn't you read it? On HN, comments usually refer to the topic of the article they are attached to.
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What about the 500kW generator hooked up to it? That would explain it.

Sounds like a scam.
That is a good illustration of the intense attention to detail that I love about Apple products.
Based on the contents of that container, he seemed like a high flight risk.
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Don't bother with the Techcrunch article, go straight to the well formatted list that includes information on each channel: http://www.youtube.com/creators/original-channels.html
Suppose the OP leaves. It's going to be hard for the his former coworkers to maintain the Ruby app.
> Though it was an interesting read, it seems suspect that they're having so many more problems than everybody else.

So true; i don't even know what a "facebook overload" looks like because i have never had one.
I think we're disagreeing mostly on what "getting into the labs" means. Sure, you can't walk into a lab filled with expensive equipment and start doing your own research; but you could absolutely walk into someone's lab and start helping to do their research. My father studies chemical reactions in supercritical water using a beam of spin-polarized muons from a cyclotron; there's many millions of dollars of equipment involved in his experiments -- yet he still hires undergraduate students, because there's always plenty of grunt work to be done.
Most designers have a ridiculous attention to detail, aka "pixel perfect"

This is really a testament to how much respect designers wield in Apple.
I'm not saying it isn't. Just that those are the numbers. As I said, if it's a scam, it's a bold one, even by free energy standards; just leaving the generator running is pretty obvious to anybody, and I mean, obvious to my metaphorical grandmother (you know, the one who can't turn on a computer). If the observers "missed" that then they are clearly in cahoots. This is why I said I'd want "trustworthy" confirmation, not anonymous.

If this is a scam it almost belongs on Hacker News just so it can be analyzed for future posterity as a marketing hack.
In his D8 interview last year, Jobs had this to say about a hypothetical Apple television:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGpucaAzh0U#t=153s

I'm not sure I entirely understand his answer, but he seems to be saying that they can't innovate on the hardware because it's too commoditized and subsidized, so an innovative product can't be priced competitively. They can't partner with an entity providing the subsidy, as they did with AT&T, because there is no one entity big enough to make it worthwhile. And there is no way to connect to all the providers, without putting a set-top box in the middle, which is exactly what they are trying to avoid.

Here is Isaacson's "I cracked it" quote:

“‘I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use,’ he told me. ‘It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud.’ No longer would users have to fiddle with complex remotes for DVD players and cable channels. ‘It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.’”

What exactly did he crack? What will make the iTV so appealing that consumers will now be willing to pay a premium for it? He mentions a new user interface, as well as iCloud, which did not exist (publicly) at the time of the D8 interview. But what about the global connectivity issue? Are they just betting that people will give up cable TV for apps + itunes + icloud + magical interface? Or is there something else in there?
If the OP did a proper job documenting his work and his former coworkers are competent, it would only be a tiny bit selfish.
Seriously? Open classes have some many problems[1], that making the scoped, like implicits are in Scala, allow library creators to monkey patch to their hearts content without messing up with gem creators.

The comments on the thread were quite positive as well (Charles Nutter did raise some important questions though[2])

[1] http://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/improv...

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/ruby-core-google/8SCc2...
It seems to me like the only one who was actually doing any serious confirming was some mysterious and anonymous “customer”. Sorry, that’s just not good enough.
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$30,000 hard, or minor annoyance hard?
The best long (56page) wired article is the famous Neal Stephenson piece on fibre optic cables http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
A few things to update this story: Peter Svensson from the AP was there (as rumored).

his report has not been published (yet?)

two other journalists were there, and have published:
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article33...

http://pesn.com/2011/10/28/9501940_1_MW_E-Cat_Test_Successfu...

You can evaluate these sources as you would like. I however, am waiting to hear what Peter Svensson has to say. AP has reporters all over the world, yet they flew in Mr. Svensson from new york to cover the private event.

Now, this may be because he has been successful in gaining access and an invite, or it may be because the company purchasing picked him, I am not sure - it is unusual from an outsider view.
If you want to draw cool cartoon characters that aren't just precise copies of an online tutorial, pick up a pencil and draw a person from life. It'll suck, but do it in earnest a few dozen times, and pretty soon you'll have an idea of how to distort reality into cartoons.

These tutorials are the end result of a lot of invisible rule-breaking (a nose looks like x, a hand looks like y, etc.). You can't break these rules intelligently unless you know what they are. And since everyone has access to reality and a pencil, there's nothing preventing anyone from discovering the rules.
What do you mean by "unable to legally modify and resell it"? I believe I can break my phone open, install anything I want, and resell it on eBay or at a flea market.

Is your definition of ownership including the software? That's not exactly fair, because you never own software unless you personally write it; any software is installed under a license.
Gosh, I seem to recall saying something quite like that. Maybe you're hitting the wrong "reply" or something?
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A secret experiment, limited only to an unknown customer.

SCAM.
The report was that the customer wanted to see it run over a period of hours sustained and relatively stable, rather than pushing it to the max rated.

from what I understand, the customer is taking this complete unit with them, having purchased it, and were satisfied enough to say, (guessing here) "ok, we want to take it home and really drive it ourselves".
I don't think Apple ever intended you to. The iPad is mostly a consumption device— not a production device. They've always been adamant that it's not supposed to completely replace computers but to complement them (I'm pretty sure they've always said that...).
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Ah, okay, if you want to be an unpaid lab tech I agree that you can get that job pretty darned easily.

It hadn't occurred to me, recently, to have such low standards for hanging around in a lab. ;) The novelty wears off, you see.

EDIT: just to summarize for the audience, I believe cperciva and I are in agreement with Patrick that it's easy to flawlessly impersonate a university student for free; We are debating the extent to which one may also impersonate a junior professor. ;)
Best quote -- "He’s now an angel investor (a polite synonym for “rich”)."
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You could do A/B as simple as just switching out the candy that is in the machine, have her track which candies sell well in which areas and try to find the most optimal product that fits into the existing machines for that location. I have to say that it was an awesome video to watch, my kids are still a little too young to actually start on the path, but I do talk to them about the freedom of being self employees and that it is a good aspiration. I really wish I would not have had to learn that lesson on my own.
NewMe is one of hundreds of new accelerators, you can't expect them all to get the same coverage as YC and Techstars (who have been around for years and have produced great companies), and it isn't racism if one of the accelerators you don't cover just happens to be race focused.
I wonder why the blog is in Japanese, but diagrams are in English? Have they been copied from somewhere?
Not to detract from the topic, of course, but it bothers me when people lift images and artwork from other places without due credit.
That's hilarious. Anyways, like other readers, I too am skeptical of his "finished 2 bachelors in Comp Sci in 3 semesters" claim, as well as his psuedoscientific polyphasic sleep theories, but there is still a great deal of truth to what he's written about setting goals and time scheduling.
I'm going to start reversing my elevator pitch. From now on I help save my company millions of dollars each year by enabling analysts to find and address operational inefficiencies in our national retail operations. Oh, and I do this by leading and implementing a range of business intelligence solutions using a suite of .NET-based BI and data warehousing tools.

I think I used to say something about programming web applications to generate numbers for middle managers to review.
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> Ok so you don't like electronic dance/club music

On the contrary, I really love it.

I also love the cognitive dissonance which suggests that even a slight loss of fidelity in the 'inaudible bits' is far worse than a distinct loss of fidelity that occurs with an astonishingly imprecise trip through a multitude of lossy analogue processes.

Or that the addition of audible hiss, wow and surface noise doesn't matter.

You seem to suggest that algorithms like MP3 and AAC work primarily by throwing out the inaudible bits. A bit of that does happen, but most of the compression occurs by removing redundant data. After all, over 50% of the data can be removed before even a single bit has to change -- you can remove a shitload more if you're willing for it to be a very very very very very very close approximation instead. Psychoacoustic modelling is used to ensure that priority is given to sound that matters more over sound that matters less.
Too many partners in my opinion. MTV blew up not only because of the subject matter but also because it was one of the only channels that had a youth market at all. It was like the internet as a TV channel - metaphorically-speaking.

It's very telling that as cable TV became a fractured medium with 100s of 'extra' channels, channels like MTV had to turn to the me-too and less-expensive/higher-margin programming of reality shows and also to the proliferation-per-channel idea as well - where there are now - what - 6 MTV channels. 1980's MTV literally gave us a music movement; 2011 version is mostly Jersey Shore and Teenage Mom . . .

It seems an odd choice for Youtube/Google to set up an old format of business as the straw man they're 'disrupting'. If one really wanted to disrupt the endless seas of mediocre, center-of-the-bell-curve content, they'd have to focus much more narrowly, invest much more heavily, and share the proceeds much more generously. I'm not saying I know the numbers, but none of these are a characteristic of Youtube or Google when it comes to content - that's for sure. The sheer volume of their partnership agreements implies a see-which-spaghetti-sticks approach.

The article would like to imply that Youtube is going to move [nobly] beyond it's root essentially as a distribution system. Distributors, as a business, care about 'good enough'; they rarely bother with 'great'. In my opinion, Youtube/Google have had a long free ride on the content of others - both user-generated and the kind that 'fell off the back of a truck'. I hardly see them as a capable partner for truly creative content production.

Anyway, Lady Gaga is the new MTV :P
Does anyone else think that this article is in poor form?

On the perils of describing yourself as a programmer: If you're hiring someone to provide a specific skill set (programmer) you want them to be good at programming. Would you hire an accountant if they didn't know accounting? Should lawyers not describe themselves as lawyers? Doctors as doctors?

On the perils of selling yourself as an expert in a certain technology: I spend a fair amount of my time learning about the specific technologies I use. I've been doing this for a while and I don't know everything about sql, postgres, mysql, mongodb, javascript, html, css, ruby, rails, unix, chef, capistrano. But I've put thousands of hours into these things and the tools themselves took thousands of hours to create. Either I'm really bad at learning, or there is a lot to learn there and that information makes me more valuable to potential/current companies. Sure, there is a baseline level of skill you can achieve in programming where you can not suck at most stuff but there is still a lot of valuable information that you don't know if you just half assed your way through a Beginning Ruby on Rails book.
"Sequoia VC saying that they're biased toward younger people"

The bias could be that a person who is in their 40's and 50's could be considered "stale" in the same way that a house that sits on the market is if it hasn't sold.

There is a belief somehow that something just out there is potentially something to snap up. It's easier to believe that something great is possible with the 20 year old since they have no track record of not doing anything great yet.
They feel they know the older person isn't a hot shot but they don't know for sure that the younger person isn't a hot shot.
(Of course this doesn't apply to older entrepreneurs who have a success or even a (high profile) failure in their past.)
I agree this guy comes off as a crackpot and that damages his credibility.

But you have to admit he is unusually self-aware for a crackpot:

If you haven’t concluded by now that I’m totally nuts, this post should push you over the edge.
Dating is an example which bolsters the author's point. If someone says he "just isn't attracted to black people," is that racist? It may be true that he isn't attracted. But, I've found that after having good friends of a particular race (and hence seeing that they're more like me than not), I become more attracted to people of that race.
Whether or not a thing is true is orthogonal to whether or not you want the thing to be true.

I'm a new programmer but not new to business. He hit the nail right on the head for just about any profession (minus to the programming-specific bits).
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>If black people are not discriminated in music or sports, I don't know why they would be discriminated in other industries.

And yet there is plenty of evidence to show that they are. This http://www.princeton.edu/~pager/ASR_pager_etal09.pdf for example
>Many people already successfully employed as senior engineers cannot actually implement FizzBuzz. Just read it and weep. Key takeaway: you probably are good enough to work at that company you think you’re not good enough for. They hire better mortals, but they still hire mortals.

This is one of the most important career lessons I've learned first-hand of late.