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>Govt had a big part in making things so that so that subprime loans made money.

So you're no longer arguing that the government forced banks and mortgage companies to lend?

>The standards for regulated assets, which is what banks really need, are established by govt. Those standards favored Fannie and Freddie. Those standards also rely on govt-chosen rating agencies.

Yes, they are set, but it was a lack of regulation that caused the problems, not too much regulation. Those standards had nothing to do with Fannie and Freddie. The government rating agencies is completely separate issue.

>As to the "encouragement", W was the "ownership" president, so he was looking for ways to encourage lending.

Again, are you no longer saying that the government forced lenders to lend?
This depends on a lot of factors, such as age, being in a position to be able to take a risk, location, etc. If you don't have a lot of baggage then I would consider taking the jump to make a bit more cash and make sure I don't stagnate. The opportunity to learn something new and try a new experience would be enough to get me to jump.

For a web developer, 31K is not a lot. You probably wouldn't have too difficult of a time replacing that level of pay, especially if you are good.

Key words for me were "cozy" and "super-simple." I would leap at something more challenging for more money.

As for screwing your old company, just let them know well ahead of time. The company will manage. I'm sure they have had many worse disasters.
"I would dial the 300 baud dial-up number, and scream the carrier tone."
Great post because sometimes we forget how easy some of our jobs are.

One thing that bothered me about the article and your post, however, is the "google chef" comment is bugging you for the wrong reason.

You and the OP are in agreement with Pincus implicitly, if you believe that merit and contributions as an employee is what justifies the rewards of equity appreciation.

That's not how the world works. Warren Buffett did not lift a finger building railroads, soda pop, and newspapers. That's not why he is rich.

Pincus wants you to think of this portion of your compensation as an employee, instead of an investor. Charlie made money because he became an investor, not because he was a chef.
The thing that is not clear to me is why nobody has seen fit to call Fred Wilson out on this. For all of the "scruples beyond reproach" of what I think I know about Fred (and what I still hope to be true, despite this evidence), this one flies in the face of reasonable behavior. I doubt that something like this could (or should) be done so close to IPO that the board didn't know about it. I'm certain that Fred can't say anything today, due to the sensitivity of the timing, but that should not prevent people from asking the question - "where was the board in all this?".

Good God Fred, is this what a reasonably responsible company would do?
These screenshots show pretty textbook reflected XSS vulnerabilities, so I don't see why you think there's a CSRF vulnerability required for an exploit. Most of the targets are innocuous operations that aren't modifying any persistent state, so they wouldn't normally have CSRF protection. In particular, the search queries all appear to support direct-linking (notice the query string), which means they can't employ CSRF mitigations (because it would break the links).
Class isn't defined by how much money you have as it is in America.
I was told my many folks I respect that Zynga is a sweat shop, and discouraged me going there. Now, with the options scandal, Zynga shot themselves in their foot. What is surprising is, Bing Gordon is on KP's board and an honorable, great chap. Wonder why didn't he advise Pincus against this. Pincus openly admitted that Bing is a great friend and mentor. It is a poor reflection on KPCB, the venerable VC firm.
I can spot a joke, but that seemed plausible enough for me to look up. Sadly, that's not given on etymonline.com as the etymology, but as it lists the OED as being uncertain about the commonly reported etymology, there may yet be hope.
No, you're not. This is explained in the parent comments.
I meant it is offensive for men, not women. Using your clothing transparency to manipulate us so overtly so evilish ... yet so effective.
There's Skeleton http://www.getskeleton.com/ and Blueprint http://blueprintcss.org/

Skeleton has an emphasis on responsive design and like Bootstrap, is also by a twitter employee. Blueprint's designs are a little outdated.

Does anyone have experience with Bootstrap and Skeleton and how they compare?
B&N's request sounds reasonable to me. It sounds like MS is being cagey about what the infringement actually is. From the article:

Another letter, from Barnes & Noble's general counsel, Eugene V. DeFelice, to James J. Tierney, chief of the Networks and Technology Enforcement Section in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, details Microsoft's method of pushing for a patent-licensing deal. DeFelice wrote that Microsoft accused Barnes & Noble of infringing on six patents at a July 2010 meeting.

"When Barnes & Noble asked Microsoft for more detailed information related to these patents, Microsoft refused, claiming that the information was confidential and could not be shared, unless Barnes & Noble first executed a non­disclosure agreement," DeFelice wrote.

This sound dangerously like a "I have a list of names" tactic. The patents have been filed and (I assume) granted. How B&N infringes on the publicly-known patents shouldn't be confidential - if we grant MS that, then what prevents a company from making it up?
Years ago I came across an article proposing that the eye first originated as a photosensitive cell in the mass of the brain. At first the cell was binary, it detected light or darkness, and its function had some positive role in the survival of the organism that possessed it. As time passed the cell became specialized and was relocated closer to the skin.

Light penetrates skin, tendon, and bone, albeit in ever smaller amounts. It is not impossible that the brain reacts to light.
Agreed. Another issue with them is that they break "space scrolling": browsers are designed to jump a full viewport height when you press space, but since they don't recognize the fixed top bar, part of the content gets hidden behind it.

I like this[1] compromised solution - hide the menu but leaving a fixed-to-top button to make it reappear.

[1]: http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/wp%2Dcontent/uploads/file/j...
I find that the surest sign that a company is not a meritocracy is when the CEO regularly states this. Kind of like how most Communist countries are known as "The People's Republic."
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Apple definitely credits vulnerability reporters appropriately, which is a good thing. However, I don't think that's the issue here. I think the point is that they leave a lot to be desired in terms of communication, response times, and time to patch.
TIL that an english sonnet is not at all the same thing as a french one (I was confused at first, because in french a sonnet is a very strict form of poetry, which is not respected at all here). So thanks for that, and beautiful text, by the way :-).
You're right about the search example. That doubles the list of demonstrated vulnerabilities in this article from 1 to 2.

I certainly agree that using GET for changing server state would be wrong. I don't know if any of the examples in the article work that way, since all we're provided with is a screenshot with an alert box. That's demonstrated sloppiness on Apple's web site, but not enough information to demonstrate vulnerability.

(I'm definitely voting up your reply for intelligent discussion.)
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Right! So even as a $185 placebo, its good medicine?
I don't think you're right about incandescents - light from them is much yellower than from a full-spectrum bulb. Question: wouldn't an incandescent have to be at the same temp as the sun to produce the same colour black-body output? (Happy to be corrected here if I'm missing something.)

At home we have a 600W halogen that is much yellower than our 400W daylight box. Subjectively the daylight bulb feels much more natural. That's not to say there are or aren't any benefits for SAD/depression of course.

'natural' until you look out the window to see it's dark, of course. For that reason I tend to prefer the halogen if I want light in the evening - the yellow tone provides plenty of light without trying to pretend that it's daytime.
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I would add, Bing Gordon from KPCB, to this list. Why would KPCB want to tarnish their image like this.
Most of the business world has no issue with a "you deserve what you negotiate for yourself" mentality - if it applies to your own high compensation, or to someone else's low compensation. It only becomes an issue if someone you perceive to be lower on the pecking order than you has successfully negotiated a good deal.

A contract's a contract, and a deal's a deal. "Deserving" it doesn't come into play beyond the scope of the contract.
CR/LF. That's why.
Thanks for posting the list - more startups should do this.
Well, that's what the Home button - or in my case, the Fn+Left combo - is for.
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Do we have to hear this every time somebody recreates something in JavaScript?
I think that's just a function of power. I have a daylight box that runs at 400W; it lights the room fine, and so does the 600W halogen. Funnily enough a 60W regular bulb doesn't really compare.
Semantic markup is more than just accessibility for me. Even if it doesn't add semantic value to browsers, search engines, or screen readers, it's beneficial to me while developing.

It makes it more readable because you can quickly see the differences in elements instead of just seeing <div> everywhere. It also simplifies and cleans up CSS a bit as you can define more base element styles and then extend them with classes and IDs.
A lot of this is consonant with Tony Schwartz's "Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time" -

http://hbr.org/2007/10/manage-your-energy-not-your-time/ar/1 (paywalled, unfortunately)
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A cross-site scripting issue was addressed. We would like to acknowledge "some stupid nerd" for reporting this issue."

Made me smile.
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I agree that XSS can propagate to other users via database...I'm pretty sure the expresslane example is a real vulnerability for that reason. But note that the grandparent post was not describing an attack via the database.

I am not hoping that CSRF prevention will make everything OK on the Apple website (which I have no affiliation with, by the way). Nor am I saying XSS prevention is not worthwhile. I'm merely pointing out that this blog post is not demonstrating 11 vulnerabilities in Apple's web site. There might actually be 11 vulnerabilities, but the blog post doesn't give enough information for us to know.
That is exactly the redeeming value of the new semantic elements.
It's laughable to think Pincus is worried about a "Google Chef" scenario. There will be no Google-anything scenario at Zynga.
>if you can't be bothered to write a coherent sentence and take a couple of seconds to make sure you're using capitalization and punctuation correctly

That's a flagrantly strawman version of what he or she was saying.
You are making the same mistake as the original Zynga article does, and the one that this article is attempting to correct:

You assume that because a person's job is not in the company's "core skillset" that their contribution must inherently be less than that of an employee whose job is in that "core skillset".

This is the incorrect perception that the author here is attempting to fix. From the sound of his experience at early day's in Google, your assumption is flat-out wrong.
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I live next door and see plenty of French news and they don't appear in any more trouble than anyone else. Do you realize that the first world country most opposite (the US) has around 20% unemployment?
Love it, very good points!
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"Compared to other companies Apple has a lot of deprecated (?) legacy applications running. It looks like a mingle-mangle of different programming languages, application servers, domains or hostnames and independently running services - with a lot of bugs."

Nearly every large corporation is similar in this regard.
Just wanted to mention one thing: it is important to train your partner to let you work. It is equally or even more important to get out of work mode at certain times. I had to realize for myself that on days where my perceived productivity wasn't great or nonexistent at all, I reacted unnecessarily harsh to requests to help at ANY given time, because you know I wasn't finished with my work, I already made dinner, so my family duties are met, etc. The thing is, we never are done, right? Letting the financial pressure of working independently combined with the stress of feeling not having achieved anything that day sip into your relationship can be very stressful to it
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This sounds like a solution in search of a problem. Sure, there are a lot of knock-off products out there, but the people who care typically know how to spot the fakes. The people willing to spend $5k or (a lot?) more on products they know are often faked, haven't educated themselves on how to spot those fakes, and aren't buying from people they trust, are probably not going to put forth the effort to benefit from this anyway.

This market doesn't work exactly like other consumer goods markets. It doesn't make sense to apply the same kinds of protections.
Do you guys use a project management package? Basecamp, asana, pivotal etc?

(We don't use them either (yet), just wondering what you do instead?)
Yes, I am aware of the alternatives though I haven't looked in a long time. I have always found customization a real pain without advanced PHP knowledge when installing features.
If you are so pedantic about science, then other scientists should be able to repeat the experiment and get similar results. Before that happened, we don't know anything. There have been several people who claimed they invented cold fusion, too. It happens all the time (people claiming wrong things).
HTML5 is new enough that this has yet to be fully realized, but I'm hoping that the semantic labels help in getting content creators to think more non-linearly. For developers (and perhaps, print layout people), it's an accepted fact that the web is not just a sequential ordering of text with the occasional image. I suspect it's been harder for others to break away from that when all they see is divs.
I think you have this completely backwards.

Imagine you're stuck in close quarters, day-in and day-out on a ship with 1,000 other entrepreneurial types. Why would you want to go to the mainland to network in coffee shops?

I understand you might want to get off the ship to hang out with non-tech folks, but you can do that right now in any country. Blueseed looks to me like a perpetual tech conference. The sheer physical density of creative talent is far beyond anything you could ever get on land.
"You'd be silly to make the assumption that greater click through = greater revenue."

Performance is based upon how well the conversion funnel performs. Revenue of course matters, but the way you get that revenue is to get people to go through the conversion funnel. What this A/B test shows, though crudely, is one optimization of one portion of the funnel. When you get more people to click on, say, a product page, you're "widening the funnel" at that particular point.

It's entirely possible to widen the funnel higher up, and still have the same amount of revenue; however, this doesn't mean that it was a useless optimization. Whenever you widen the funnel, you get the potential for higher revenue, especially with further optimizations. That makes for an increase in performance.

Lastly, widening the funnel at any point also means that you are getting increased page views, increased product views, and increased stickiness. That is _always_ a good thing, regardless of whether you increase your revenue or not. It means that people are more likely to interact, and buy from, your site in the future-- users are naturally more likely to go to a site that they know. So, greater click throughs to a product page, though you may not immediately see an effect, will almost always lead to greater revenue.
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This kind of tactic is specifically designed to effectively prevent other companies in similar situation to organize a collective defense against the patents or to correct the alleged infringement by working around the patents and, instead, increases the likelihood of them being forced into agreements.

The patents are public and so should be the allegations of infringement.
I think it is mistaken to view options as equivalent of salary. When you are granted those options, you have no clue what they will be worth on the day they vest, and neither does the company. This is why the options have to be valued at their worth on the day of the grant.

Options are used as an incentive for employees to stick around with the company and to work harder in the hopes that their hard work will result in 2-4 years in a higher stock price (or high IPO), which benefits both the employee and the company.

Attempting to take back options which were promised in the past because the company currently thinks the employee doesn't deserve them is aptly named "claw back", because that's exactly what it is.

Imagine a company asking someone in 2011 to give back a part of their 2009 salary, or be fired.
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I used to pulse dial a phone using the hook switch to get free calls. There was a phone in the bar in my college that only accepted incoming calls. It did this by having no dial. Of course, that didn't stop you from tapping out the phone number if you could get the beat right.

The other stupid phone that I hacked around was a pay phone in a flat that I rented where you'd pick up the handset and get a dial tone but the keypad was inoperative unless you put in money. Hello DTMF pocket dialer.

It's not unreasonable to think that someone could emulate the carrier tone with their voice. After all the modem had to work inside the frequency range used for voice communications.
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It hardly matters to these birds.
http://animal.discovery.com/birds/ocean-gyre-birds/albatross...

The argument that the ocean is so vast that you can dump anything in it without ill effects was proven wrong decades ago. That's why there are laws against it. If you looked, you can find hundreds of sources to back this up.

I think this was a cool experiment. But people and animals live in these environments, and certainly matters to them when someone tosses non-degradable material in their backyard. How would you like it if people started dumping plastic garbage in your backyard? What about in your house? Surely it's only effects your aesthetic enjoyment, so it doesn't matter right?

What if it's your drinking water?
yeah...if the chef's contribution was considered to be worth less, then their # of shares was lower to begin with.
I'm not sure I agree with earbitscom (commented a few times here), but I upvoted him because I think he's boiled it down to the important point. But for the people downvoting his "options are future compensation" argument, here's an interesting thought exercise:

Say you joined a young/really hot startup that was heading straight up. You negotiate a good options package, but it's lean-- they aren't super eager to part with these (obviously valuable) shares.

Then, the world explodes. The company gets sued, the market crashes, the users revolt. But the company manages to emerge from the carnage beaten-but-alive. It's no longer a sure thing. In fact, it looks risky as hell. But you believe in the vision and the management, so you want to stick it out.

You're 1.5 years in. New hires are getting packages that reflect the (newfound) risk in the stock. Your stock package looks small in comparison. Given the new information, would it be wrong to negotiate for more stock?
This isn't really news. Minimum wage in China is set per province, and different coastal provinces at different times have been posting significant minimum wage hikes, even competing with each other's wage hikes, for quite a while now.

But more importantly, the government policy actions haven't been the most important factor at work; many employers have been raising wages ahead of and above the minimum wage hikes, and have been actively sending out recruiters for the first time. Many of them have started having a hard time finding enough workers for the first time, after spending the past couple decades seeing long lines form for any job posting. The Chinese labor market has been tilting toward workers' favor on its own, with workers having a lot more options. This will keep pressuring wages up in the coastal provinces, keep redistributing production and domestic spending power to the inland provinces and other countries in southeast and south Asia, and keep spreading domestic demand throughout, all of which is overall good for all of them, and good for the rest of us.
Charles Symoni (sp, I know) used to float the Intentional Programming team around on his yacht for weeks at a time. I think it was mainly to increase productivity though.
It's a shame about this typo a little more than halfway through the article:

"TMO: That’s right. The pubic face is, oh, yeah, there’s no problem."
I agree. HTML5 is a buzzword that gets companies excited about technology, and when that happens, I get paid.

But otherwise, what is going on here is that Mozilla is part of WHATWG, who is largely responsible for the success of HTML5. WC3 actually wanted to drop support for HTML (calling it done) and only within the last year decided to jump in the bandwagon and take credit. And then along the way, get things wrong - like this list of the Mozilla page.

I've always said, "to clients, it's ALL HTML5, but to developers, we should know the difference". But the WC3 is clouding that difference.