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I actually got the snowman as the 8th result when trying (and failing) to draw the unicode character "pile of poo" U+1F44D: http://i.imgur.com/VBvK6.jpg
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Slight correction in wording: "Zynga" doesn't really want it to be.

The 2-5 or so guys at the very top of Zynga want it to be, because they think Zynga should create a few more billionaires, instead of several dozen more millionaires. To wit, they think THEY should be made into billionaires rather than paying the folks who created the value of the company.

Hard to be shocked by this, since this has been the direction American business has been traveling in for a few decades now, but usually the PR side of it is handled better.
Rota's reflections, anecdotes, and musings are always a good read. I enjoyed his book of essays (with Jacob Schwartz and Mark Kac) "Discrete Thoughts"

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and I see he has another called "Indiscrete Thoughts".
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No it's not, or more correctly, that is a rather recent development. The Middle English account of a man punished given on Wikipedia uses hung (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered), in fact this punishment was referred to as "hung, drawn, and quartered".

Now, if that is the case, how to explain the title of the Wikipedia entry, i.e. the usage of hanged in place of hung. This is the common phenomenon of regularization of irregular verbs, that has been going a loong time in English, eventually almost all of them will be regularized. This article (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-486935/How-irregular...) gives some details and explains that there are about 98 irregular verbs left in the language, compared to 177 in Old English.

You can see this process today in the "driven-drove" dichotomy, different people choose one or the other. Eventually drove will disappear.
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Do you have a background in this (re: JD)? This is a very complicated task. In fact it's such a tricky task that I think you might be better off just building a database of terms. A quick Googling didn't turn up anything so maybe this is something else you could offer. Have people submit what sites that want you to take a look at, take info from people... Fairly different than what you're doing but seems more likely to give people information that's useful. I wouldn't want to rely on a machine-generated evaluation that wasn't 100% right 100% of the time!
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Here's a document discussing the exceptions of "at-will" employment.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2001/01/art1full.pdf

Specifically of interest is the "Covenant-of-good-faith exception"(only in 11 states, CA being one of them) which I first saw referred to also by someone else here on HN.

At trial, the jury found that Kmart terminated
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If I was a Zynga employee I'd definitely be talking to a Labor/Employment lawyer. "Give us back your unvested stock or be fired" sounds pretty "bad faith" to me. Zynga should have just fired the people, but I think they don't want to lose the talent, they'd rather negotiate lower compensation instead of having to find new talent which will most certainly know of Zynga's upcoming IPO & demand proper compensation.
I was with you until the Tea Party comment. You are completely wrong about the motivations of the people who show up at Tea Party events. The Tea Party definitely in no way resembles the actions of Mr. Pincus.

I really wish people would keep politics out of a non-political discussion especially in a way that characterizes people unfairly.
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Pot cultivation went way up after 9/11 due to the increase in border security. It just isnt cost effective to smuggle a kilo of pot versus a kilo of coke. Pot is pretty difficult to move in large amounts so it make sense to grow it north of the border. Wholesale pot might go for 2-3k per key while coke might go for 10-20k per key.
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I just saw this. Thanks for the advice. I'll dink and think along with your findings :)
I don't see how that relates to this.
I can't believe this guy actually doesn't know what his problem is. The overwhelming majority of Americans don't want to deal with fish guts for minimum wage and no benefits. If you offer below market wages, you'll attract people willing to work below market. Supply and demand. Oldest rule in economics.
Yes-- sample size, and effect size. He's saying that the results were strong enough that given the sample size, they were statistically significant.

Simple example: if I have a study of 20,000 people and I find that 51% of people prefer foos to bars, that may be similarly significant to your study of 20 people, all of which prefer foos to bars.
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It's interesting, I was considering moving to a grid. I think with the test conducted here, the images in the vertical listing are a bit bigger than those in the grid. Would be interesting to test the grid vs a more compact product listing.

All a function of how many products you have really, ideally your sending people to pages that are focused enough that they don't need to trawl through many products.
Am I the only one who tried "ಠ" and couldn't get it to work no matter what?
The Tea Partiers are high on this idea that the country consists of "water carriers" and "water drinkers" and that society is essentially zero-sum, with cracking down on the "water drinkers" being the only solution to society's problems.

Pincus's bullshit "meritocracy" justification is eerily similar. He's trying to deprive people of equity now that it's worth something, and when people point out that this is scummy, he points his finger and whines, "but they aren't pulling their weight!"

That's the similarity I was trying to point out, though maybe I justified it poorly in the grandparent post.
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Stop calling yourself a programmer and looking at programmer jobs. If you're creating value for a business, by and large they'll deal with you not being in the office every day.

About half of my consulting gigs are 100% remote and every other time I turn down a full-time offer with "I'm flattered but enjoy living in Ogaki" I get told "We could totally work with that."
Pincus is the probably the largest shareholder and is already independently wealthy. Maybe he should give some shares back.
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You can't generalise how Microsoft does anything, because each division -- each team, even -- has enormous latitude in how they do their work.

SEI boosters and agile fans can both say "Microsoft uses CMMI/Scrum" with a straight face and be correct.
First thing I thought of when I saw Shapecatcher was Detexify. The similarities are obvious, it was most likely his true inspiration, or at least part of it, yet he didn't mention in the about page.
1. Seems we got a lot of feedback and requests for an extension. Sounds like a good idea to me too!

2. Yes a demo video explaining why this is important would be helpful to folks

3. Not sure how to address this. The tool reads and classifies terms of service. Any suggestions on how we can do what you suggest

4. Potentially, want to explore a bit more and make sure it works well first. We have ideas for premium and related features/services that would key off of this well if it becomes popular and trusted.
What difference does being worth $200M on paper vs $100M on paper make?

Continuing with that "logic", Pincus is apparently worth $2 billion. So if he chips in $1.9 billion of his own assets, maybe he'd have a leg to stand on.

Creating the hubbub is essentially an attempt to blackmail Pincus and the company's current investors into complying.

Blackmailing the company into...abiding by the terms they originally agreed to. Appalling.
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I've had Firefox (versions 3 onwards) running for weeks at a time and only ever had it using between 400-500MB of RAM.

Another thing to check would be what kind of ad ons you had installed, since I would imagine that they could have quite a significant impact on memory usage and performance.
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What in the fuck are you talking about?
I have a hard time believing that the tweeter intruded into the couple's business. If anything, the couple intruded into his solitude.
I don't think this is as bad. I doubt people will stop playing Farmville because of this.
Doesn't really matter, before Zynga there was Skype, and so on. Doesn't reach the public eye nearly enough to cause a huge scare in venture investing.
It seems his shift key broke halfway through
I was reading from my phone and after reading the first point he made the screen went dark and I couldn't pitch/zoom out to find the X so I just closed the tab... Would love to read it if it weren't so spammy.
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Great idea. Although, I'd have to say, I think part of the reason early-stage startups don't pledge equity already ("nonexistent", as he said) is because they're so busy and it's just not on their minds. This might change that, though, which is arguably a good thing.
Is it in a free font? http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/kannada.html suggests maybe not.
If it takes off, I predict that there'll be news of how a company will try to avoid the pledge after the "idealistic founder" pledged it. And it'll blow up in mainstream media how startup owners screwed the charity, putting off more other workers.
Except that, as mentioned elsewhere in the comment thread, you often can't publicly respond to these kinds of allegations because doing so reveals Protected Health Information (PHI) and violates HIPAA.
This is fast. period. But when I searched for 'width' (without quotes) it showed all results (*width) but not for 'width' (exact). Same with 'background' css property. Otherwise it's awesome.
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This is why I focus my efforts on reaching certain goals effectively rather than efficiently accomplishing as much as possible.
More to the point, where can I get a browser that ignores it? (Standards be damned.)
I worked for Pincus at tribe.net when he was letting it circle the drain, The users petitioned me to create a subscription system to save the site and the first month it raised $30,000. Of course, that all disappeared and a short while later Zynga put out their first game. What do you think happened there? It's continually flabbergasted me that anyone would invest in his company when he has a long long history of ripping people off. Nowadays he's got multiple mansions, multiple private aircraft, and multiple high priced lawyers. Our only hope is that some of these Russian investors are actually mobsters that will kneecap him when the IPO flops.
I'm sure people thinking about applying to Zynga will consider this.
One of the reasons I finally gave in to Adblock+ was as a convenient means of implementing a filter against the JS that perpetrates that NYT annoyance.

My concern is as to if/when this gets rolled into core Chrome. As long as the functionality is loading over the wire, I'll remain hopeful that I can block it and that sites will remain usable in that state. If it's an extention or plug in that I can disable, I can live with that as well, I guess. If it's baked in... Well, I guess it won't be baked into Firefox et al.

I don't mind useful, opt-in lookup features. For example, the Babelfish Firefox extension that does select and click translation. But such features continue to be killed off. I suspect initiatives like this purchase are instead intended more to "game" me into further staying/interacting with "blessed" sites and their subsidiary or partner content.

It's their content, I guess. But I'll probably "opt out".
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Wow, whatever you are watching or reading doesn't even come close. No one in the Tea Party I've met believes it is a zero-sum game. Quite the opposite (heck, farmers can show the counter examples). The Tea Party believes the government is wasteful with its spending and is more into power grabs then helping people. The only cracking down wanted is on government foolishness and waste. Helping people is a deep belief out here in the heartland.
Has anyone ever found value in these sites? I have tried to use them to look for a doctor or the like and have invariably found them to be total junk.
It's a DEMO. I agree with you... nice demo...
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How much power/influence do a company's VCs have to prevent this sort of behavior? It seems like this reflects badly on all of Zynga's investors as well, most prominently Union Square Ventures, and I can't imagine that they would condone this kind of behavior.
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Hmm. I am a 20 years old college dropout, who gone to college for only two semester. Poor study management skill lead me to drop a science class and then some in the middle of my last semester. I use the free time in between to build up my coding skill using my freed up willpower. Due to my scheluding error, I miss the exam for my English, which I was previously enjoying good grade in. I failed to qualify for the next semester of college.

Though fruitful networking and association during my teen years, I manages to get a job programming and moved myself to another state. I make crap wage, which is to be expected for a twenty year old.

Nonetheless, I managed to save myself in less than six month a few thousand dollars in addition to a few thousands I already have from a small investment that somehow paid off. I am in a far better position, financially than most people of my age, probably.

Moral of the story? I am not quite sure. I choose the right field that I am interested in. Of course, my profession does not impose such a heavy burden educational requirement or have high capital cost.

If I aspired to be a doctor or an engineer, I am quite certain I will be a crushed person, in which my life will be short and brutish.
Honest question: what's the point of this? I entered the URLs and hit a page of somewhat nicely formatted thumbnails. Now what do I do?

Now here's me being nitpicky (take it as constructive criticism):

- What does the name mean and how do I pronounce it? Does it relate to the service?

- The only text on the landing page is "enter a bunch of URLS, create a beautiful collection" so I take it that is supposed to mean something, but I have no idea what. A collection of what? Why would I do this? Pretend your user has never landed on your site before and has no idea why they should use your service (hint: they haven't and they don't).

- In the collection, why would I want to enter a title? This makes me think that maybe I'm supposed to share my collection with other people, but I'm not sure. Can they change the title as well?

- Nice touch with the edit-in-place for the title, but it didn't work as expected. I realized on the third attempt that I have to press "enter" to save the title. I expected it to post on blur, else it should hint that I'm supposed to press "enter".

- Tell me why I should share my collection with other people. Dropping a facebook plugin on the page does not make it inherently social. Give me a reason to share.

- One of the URLs I entered uses Google web fonts. It looks like your thumbnail generation didn't pick up on these, so the snapshot looks broken.
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This is probably one the hidden chess moves any start up can make once they've used you up like tissues(to use and throw). Of course once they have sufficient money and sales oriented CEO and senior executive staff, in the name of that's better for the company they can do anything they want.

This is one of the things that scares me about working at a start up. Remember the early employee is spending his time and compromising on his salary for that stock. And pretty obviously he works his heart out to make the company successful. Dumping them just like that, once you've squeezed the juice out of them seems a very unethical thing to me. And this is one of the things that actually prevents some good folks from working at a start up.

The worry that you will used like a work horse during the tough days of the company and then later dumped when the CEO sees a he can add another million to his account by dumping you is a major worry for any good person to work at a start up.

One thing that needs to be realized that not every body in the start up area is in for passion for software or changing the world thing. You have to be careful before deciding to work at some place. Doing a little back ground check on the founders will help.
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To be honest the only thing I could get from that piece of the post is that you hate Tea Party. Still confused as to how two are related.

Pincus is a psychopath on that part we do agree.
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"At-will" means that either both the employer and employee can break it off at any time. It's the maximum freedom for everyone involved. No company is compelled to hire anyone, why should they be compelled to continue employing someone indefinitely?
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It's been quite a while since I lived in a Midwestern town, but after this comment, I intend to go on my way and forget this ever happened. So long as no crazy laws get proposed or passed, I'll probably never think about it again, one way or the other.

I read the word "disintegrates" too literally, thinking it was some kind of explosion.
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The truth is that that middle manager really isn't worth that $50mil. Its not about what he's actually worth. Its the back side of the fact that when he came to work at Zynga, it wasn't worth working for.

Its like the gas station attendant who sold you your lottery ticket showing up on your front lawn demanding it back once it turned out that it was a winner.
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Are you seriously claiming that mortgage lenders ignored the nondiscrimination enforcement threats? You remember them - there was an offered safe harbor for making subprime loans. There were also demonstrations against lenders that weren't offering enough minority loans - do you really think that they had no effect on enforcement?

Note - I didn't say that there was one cause, so it's unreasonable to suggest otherwise. I'm pointing out that the subprime aspect is directly traceable to a series of govt policies.
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It's a cancelled number, but what happens (this happened to me on xbox live) is that they continue to charge it because they've got an active pre-authorisation. So when they're charging you, they're actually charging that pre-authorisation. If a different merchant were to try the card, it would fail.

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Nice project. Tabbing doesn't focus on the generate button, it skips to the email link. Should probably fix that, but minor issue.
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I find myself only bothering me when the top bar is taller than the navigation link. For example, the featured website in the OP blog: http://www.weirdocards.com/. The top padding strikes me as an unnecessary aesthetic.

But I otherwise appreciate the functionality of the default, thin bar where I've encountered it. Even on my netbook. The small expense of screen real estate is compensated by not having to scroll all the way up to navigate and search.
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