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It's a buzzword.

Somebody somewhere writes a modestly insightful article for a high-profile American magazine such as Vanity Fair or The Atlantic, giving a pop-science view of some research of theirs or by someone else. They give it a snappy title and the description has short punchy prose spiced with tasty anecdotes. Most importantly, they come up with an extremely simple but memorable summative word or phrase.

This article is widely mentioned in other major magazines, in newspapers and the interblogs. A publisher contacts the original article author, and 6-9 months later a padded-out version of the original article appears in print. It is hailed as "a total revolution in the way we think about X", with favourable coverage in the London and New York Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. It shoots up on Amazon for about a week, before slowly fading out.

But very few people actually ever read the book. Fewer indeed the article that spawned it. And nobody but nobody tries to find the original research. All that remains is the punchy phrase or summation.

Outsource.

Cloud.

Pivot.

10,000 hours.

Long tail.

Disrupt.

Before long the punchy phrase is everywhere. It becomes the subject of blog posts, gets worked into marketing copy and the titles of presentations. It is steadily diffused into the day to day lexicon so thoroughly that it passes beyond cliche into mere nothingness. It is beyond explication because it means anything and everything.

Eventually the punchy phrase loses its currency. It is old hat. Slowly the term fades from the interblogs, disappears from the marketing copy, drops out of the daily jargon.

Then, one day, somebody somewhere writes a modestly insightful article ...
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Get used to these kinds of comments. There's a large contingent of people on HN who don't understand that higher level languages (say, Java) are not a complete replacement for C/C++. The same people are behind the "HTML5+Javascript ought to be enough for anybody" mentality.
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I've seen a number of really beautiful presentations like this recently. The page source indicates that it was generated from Org-mode. How much tweaking does it get to create a presentation like this, and is there any way I could see the source?
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The standard way, if you are prohibited from trading that stock, is to buy derivatives that are short on a basket of similar stocks. This hedges against a general market fall, such as 2001.
This seems more like an issue of maturity level.

I would liken it to going to a talk at OSCON entitled, "What's Wrong With Microsoft," and finding out that it is just a string of Microsoft jokes. Sure one could have expected that at an Open Source conference. Sure one can walk out of the talk.

But am I barred from blogging about my disappointment with the level of professionalism/maturity at the conference? Does my ability to walk out invalidate how that talk reflects on the conference as a whole?
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You cannot buy put options during the lockout period. It's specifically spelled out in the option agreement. It's pretty airtight.
I've seen people get cheated out of compensation this way, in some cases where they took greatly reduced salaries, in exchange for shares, but the shares vested, and after creating the major innovation the company wanted, they were fired without cause before the first vesting cliff.

I think vesting, as a mechanism, is problematic. Especially when you make a founder vest stock they've already bought and paid for (with sweat equity and the money they put up to start the business.)

Unfortunately, a lot of startups play fast and loose with this. Its common to ask someone to take a lower salary, where, say, they're making $5,000 less each month, but they aren't vesting any shares each month. Some companies only vest in blocks each year. Which means that if employment ends for any reason, the employee will effectively be shortchanged for the months of work before the cliff.

Yet it is pitched as if the stock or options is like the salary.

Its not uncommon for startups to fire employees right before their first cliff... if there is a shorter downturn in outlook (or if the founders are on the down side of the roller coaster and are panicking...)

I think a better solution would be for any kind of equity reward to be given monthly, with the paycheck.

Rather than grant a huge block of shares, vesting over 4-6 years, maybe give the employees a small amount each month. This amount would be fully vested, and it can be adjusted whenever you have your reviews.

As the startup grows, naturally, the shares will become more valuable, and the grants in future years will likely be lower for everybody. They could just decline faster for the under-performing employees and maybe not even decline at all for the star performers.

This eliminates the stress and unfairness of cliff vesting.

For the situation where an employee might leave within the first year, you could have a clause that gives the company the right, upon termination, to buy back the employees equity at the highest price during the year (e.g.: if you raised two angel rounds, then it would be at the higher) plus a dollar a share. This way the employee isn't screwed over, and you don't have people who were there for just a year clogging up your investor rolls. If it isn't buying back the stock at the price you've been selling to investors (plus a dollar a share) then your expectations of the value of that stock are so low that its wrong to cheat the employee out of the roll of the dice for a big upside.

I might be missing something, but this is an attempt to create something fair, for an environment where cash is short and people want to use stock or options as regular compensation.

Paychecks don't vest, and imagine how many people would work for you if you said "We'll pay you $100,000 a year, but only on January 1st of each year. If you leave before then, or we decide to fire you, you get nothing."
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I don't understand is Ruby still good for programmers or Cowsays: "no it is not" ?
Speaking personally as an avid Google+ user, I think that while it's fair to compare the two (Google+ and Facebook) I think they're approaching the same problem from two different angles. Google+ is becoming my source for meaningful posts, I see a lot more worthwhile content on Google+, whereas Facebook has become something I use a lot less because it's filled with the mundane comments of someone's day to day life. I think there's room for both types of posts and with Google+ focusing on the circles and who you share your posts with it allows you to filter out the noise and see what you want to see. Google+ right now, is in its infancy and I think it's unfair to dismiss it completely (you didn't but I often see people here on Hacker News doing so) as the uses of Google+ are still being fleshed out. Right now I would say Google+ is like Twitter without any character limits, but also like Facebook in that it has more of a focus on socializing. It's an evolution of online social networking in my opinion and as its use spreads into more groups of people it starts to really shine. For example, I keep a circle called "Tech People" in it are various people related to technology, some I know personally others notable tech celebs and developers. What I love about this circle is how I can open its stream and see various posts from people like Guido Van Rossum to Tim O'Reilly where they discuss issues in technology, their careers, development, etc. Then at the same time I have a circle dedicated to Art (I didn't want to make it too specific to something like photographers or anythingf) where I can turn to it to see posts on new photos from people like Trey Ratcliff, or interesting music from another user. The point is, Google+ has become a way for me to organize my interests and notable people that share these interests while also allowing me to socialize with my friends from my hometown by keeping a circle for them. Facebook may have groups, but Google+ makes circles a key feature of the network and that's where I think the true distinction lies. Google+ lets you segregate your various connections in life into circles and hinges on this fact, Facebook has groups as an afterthought and that's what I truly think divides the two.
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Americans think that everyone whats to be American. It is all part of a narcissism that is crippling the American economy.
Maybe it was after Jobs fell ill?
The risky part is driving people away from Google products and services via uncertainty. Is now the time to put all your eggs into the Google Voice basket? Buy a bunch of Chrome PCs? I understand why they have to do it but it will definitely cause some people to adopt more of a wait-and-see approach.
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Well, you sort of have to consider that you already exist (or you wouldn't be reading that chart).

P(I exist|I already exist) = 1
"We have hard/challenging problems" replacing "Looking for Ruby Ninja"?
It seems that this years "we have hard/challenging (technical) problems" is replacing last years "looking for programmer Rockstars/Ninjiutsu-Ninjas".

Am I the only one that gets slightly annoyed by these generic drink-the-kool-aid slogans?
Exactly. Words should be based on their dictionary definitions, not necessarily some new idea a biz prof came up with.

In Christensen's defense I doubt he ever thought "disrupt" was going to be used so widely (and incorrectly). I would bet if he had to do it over again, he'd use a different, more specific term.
I was not aware of this, and perhaps many of today's readers as well.
It's not a question of whether they have friends or not, it's whether they are nerdy enough to imagine that the idea of friendship can be captured by a simpleminded data structure. (And yeah, not all nerds would actually believe this).

It's the same thing that drives (some) nerds towards libertarianism, a fascination with formal models and rules over the messy complexity of reality, especially social reality.
Conceptually, nil != false. You shouldn't use 'nil' to mean 'false'. You should always test explicitly for nil-ness using #nil?. If you write

if finished?
do_something
end

then finished? is not expected, and may not, return nil.

If you expect some_value to be able to be nil (which, for boolean values, is hardly ever), you should write

if !some_value.nil? && some_value
do_something
end

In the end, these 'convenient' coercions that allow you to use any value as a boolean only come back to bite you, because unexpected stuff happens when stuff is unexpectedly nil. If it makes my coworkers cry that an object is nil and true at the same time, then they are at fault, not me.

Edit: and more importantly (I forgot to point this out explicitly) a non-nil value != true. That any string or integer is 'true' can lead to very hard-to-find bugs.
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Budweiser has rice in it. So what? So do Asahi and Kirin of Japan, Bintang of Indonesia and Efes of Turkey, and nobody has such a hate on about them. Lots of the people who claim to hate Budweiser will out of the same mouth discourse long and pretentious about the merits of sake. Rice is a perfectly sensible bulk grain to make beer out of if you want a light lager, particularly in countries like America which grow a protein-rich strain of barley. Plenty of real ale types will maintain that Anheuser-Busch uses rice in its brewing in order to save money, which shows a worrying lack of curiosity, as anyone making this argument can’t possibly have looked at the price of rice and the price of barley. Adolphus Busch in 1876 was a German master brewer of exactly the sort that beer nuts go gooey over, he was trying to make a high quality beer (as proved by Budweiser’s use of expensive Saaz hops), and he decided that the best way to brew a lager was to use rice.
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Based on the article I think this malware hijacks the DNS resolver of an infected machine, so that it will point to these rogue DNS servers and return bullshit results. An affected organization would be completely out of the loop.
Many things can be usefully represented by graph structure, and RDF is a way to do that (a verbose and clunky way, but better than no standard at all).

Whether social relationships are one of those things is a separate question.
Of course - but that's not what you said.

You said: "...would cool to -270C however much power you dumped into it" and that is not true.

And in any case you don't need to be a perfect emitter to be in equilibrium with the temperature of the cold sink, all you need is infinite time, but any emitter, no matter how bad will eventually equilibrize.
The difference between a pay cut and a stock restriction is that pay is regular and vesting is not.

Let's say you renegotiate down 50% like you suggested. That means from now on you make 50% and before you made 100%.

A vesting schedule though almost always accelerates towards the end. So if you renegotiate down 50% towards the end you may in fact be likely losing 75% or more. That's the problem with renegotiating stock grants/options, you likely still have a large amount left unvested and you put in all the hours and work beforehand with the promise that loyalty would be rewarded over time.
It depends on what you mean by regex. Modern engines go beyond the capabilities of regular expression grammars, describing things that are not possible with a finite-state machine.

And for example, the regex engine from Perl 5.10 and up has had support for recursive patterns. See the faq: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq6.html#Can-I-use-Perl-regular...

And once you have recursion support, you can parse context-free languages.
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I don't think they were duped at all. From what I can tell from the article, this is malware pointing machines to a bogus DNS server, not businesses using a shady registrar. These is little an affected business could do about it. I'm not sure if sanswork is describing the same thing but he could be.
Such code is everywhere in the Ruby community and explicitly endorsed by many. I have never seen code like your second example in the wild, and it's far more complicated than the idiomatic way of writing it:

if some_value
do_something
end

It's a core expectation of the language that !!nil_thing == false, so why violate it?
Not at all. I just make sure to fill in the blanks when reading. It goes like this:

We have hard/challenging (technical) problems that are mostly of our own creation and despite hiring you specifically to solve these problems, you will by no means be allowed by your managers solve.

No only is it good for a chuckle, but its a nice reminder that on the balance, anyone who hires with catch phrases is probably not somewhere you want to work. Hire with catch phrases, get resumes full of buzz with absolutely no fizz included to go with that buzz.
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I lived in Kansas City for a year before moving to Silicon Valley in September, so that's how I know this. Hope it helps, good luck! :)
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If the language ships with falsy nils, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that nil values are also falsy.
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the site in question is : http://www.vocabulary.com/

It works well, gives you a daily quiz, and has achievements and graphs to keep you going.

I'm considering building something similar for my native language, when I started thinking about money.

I can't find ads, premium memberships. Yet I assume their user base is substantial. They also bought a great domain name. So do they have a business model? Or just a hobbyist on steroids?
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That's a good point, but I don't think that'll be a significant psychological effect in practice. Terminating less popular services (like Buzz) early in his reign doesn't make me doubt their ability to follow through with products like Google Voice or Chrome PCs. I think it's more likely to have an opposite effect: it shows good judgement.

Things may change and a formally-promising product may start looking grim. At that point this decision may make that product's future seem more uncertain, but I'd expect uncertainty to be dominated more by the product's poor performance/grimness.
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As someone who has been in the SEO industry a long time I can tell you that some of this is terrible/spammy advice...

Buy KW rich domains and pay some copywriter to crank out 4-5 pages?! Are you serious?

Twitter has no SEO Value?...just so you know...the SE's came out and said that authoritative tweets absolutely have value....While they don't pass "juice", they can help you in the SERPs

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You probably shouldn't use 'nil' to mean 'false', but since pretty much every compiler / interpreter out there will take the same branch when given a condition that's either nil or false, I'd say it's much safer to stick w/ what's existed for decades rather than accommodate some sort of tri-state boolean.
The only problem is one of ambiguity. So long as each language has their own convention to resolve that ambiguity, there's no problem.

Not all languages use the same names for stuff, after all. Abroad, the USA may be called les États-Unis d'Amérique, アメリカ, or a great many other things. And we use our own names for other countries that they don't use for themselves.
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> Windows
> Sorry :-(

And that's what happens when your programming language does not have a decent deployment ecosystem.
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IME using any value as boolean never caused me any problem, neither in ruby nor in other languages where the same is possible.

What stuff should happen when something is unexpectedly nil if you tested it for truth-ishnes? Once you have written

if not some_value
something with some_value
end

the only things you can do with `x` are things you can do with `false`, which are not many.
Dude, it was coined long before pivot. :)
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This post demonstrates a broader need: How do we find healthcare providers who serve a specific niche.

At least for me it's been a very frustrating experience whether I've sought service providers for physical or mental well-being or overall performance enhancement.

There's a good business to be had in matching the right service provider with the right clientele.
> A vesting schedule though almost always accelerates towards the end.

Really? That's hasn't been my experience. In every situation I've seen (or even heard of) vesting has been on a regular schedule with the exception of a cliff at the beginning of employment (generally 1 year).

If the zynga situation involves people who have not yet reached their 1 year cliff the skeeziness factor would go WAY UP imho.
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It indicates that what the author may want is a more expressive type system, one that can do some static verification(e.g. Scala's Option, Haskell's Maybe).

Another way to get the behavior of the described Maybe method is to enforce a coding style where functions require a default return value to be passed in - this lets it be handled in a precise manner and surfaces most problems quickly, without butchering fundamental assumptions of the language.

The real difficulty comes in when you want to enforce a branch for functions that are "rarely null" instead of having them blow up much later when you inevitably forget to handle the null case. A lot of the time the only immediate way to avoid this class of error is to use algorithms that will never stumble over a null(which tends to make them a lot slower) - if you have macros or richer type systems, other things are possible of course.
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Totally agree, in some parts of Toronto, it's probably difficult to get by without knowing some Chinese (pacific mall anyone?). Even here in Waterloo, which is much smaller than Toronto, you see these kinds of "sub cities" and tight networks among the first generation Chinese.
Is there a concept of namespace in Ruby? I did a quick search but I'm still not sure.
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