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The first thing I saw when I looked at the page was:

"95% Less Cooling Power"

It took me a while to figure out that it uses 95% less power, not that is is 95% less effective.

THis could be a bit more clear.
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The program wasn't "Screwed" - they just set limits on how much you could purchase per year. Any student who was actually low-income, or required educational discounts/financing, was almost certainly not impacted - how many of those are buying more than one Desktop, Mini and Notebook/year. I make a decent salary - and even I don't refresh my notebook more than once every two years (and, on occasion, go almost three years without a refresh)

Here is the Apple Educational Policy from: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/open/salespolicies/edu

"Faculty, Staff and Students purchasing from the Apple Store for Education Individuals will be allowed to purchase the following quantities of product per academic school year. Not all products have special Education Pricing.

1. Desktop: One (1) may be purchased per academic year
2. Mac mini: One (1) may be purchased per academic year
3. Notebook: One (1) may be purchased per academic year
4. Display: A maximum of two (2) may be purchased per
academic year
5. Software: A maximum of two (2) per software title may
be purchased per academic year"
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This is utter bullshit. And if it's not, anyone reading HN has better options.

Let's stop with the all-employers-are-out-to-screw-you rhetoric because it's clearly not true.
The newest emacs keybindings should help sort this out. Use <F3> to make it easy. Might as well just go C-h k <F3> to see what it does, but the function name `kmacro-start-macro-or-insert-counter' might give you a clue.

Here's what I'd do for your example, starting in an empty buffer:

abcdefghijklm C-a C-SPC C-e C-w <F3> #define SPC C-y M-b C-f C-SPC C-e C-w SPC <F3> RET <F4>

Then press F4 until you reach `m'. (You may find that the sequence ends with `m' being 12.)

(NOTE you should totally use `enum' for this; your debugger may on occasion permit you to use the names when you are entering an expression, and you'll get sensible error messages in the event of a conflict. Unlikely in this case I suppose since nobody uses variables called `i' or `j'.)
The founders featured in the Bloomberg series agreed to the coverage. There were other TechStars NYC companies that did not agree.
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contract that says that I loose vesting on termination, and change it to all options become instantly vested on termination

Curious which companies do that. Are you talking about 83(b) election, or were you really able to convince companies to instantly vest upon termination?
I couldn't agree more. Even if we assume there is a justifiable reason or perhaps its happening only to employees who have not performed (which I doubt can be the case considering those employees could not have lasted this long any way), this probably has done irreparable damage to their reputation in the eyes of current and prospective employees. I hope all this bad PR makes them reconsider it, if not anything else.
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What are these meetups like? What usually goes on?
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And you'd instantly be sued for libel, slander, and tortious interference with business relations.
Population/GDP would be a good starting point, then it'd be nice to adjust weighting automatically over time based on where the site's visitors are coming from (geolocation and previous choices).
Interesting to note that in Canada, this would fall under "constructive dismissal" and would mean that Zynga would be liable to pay the same severance as they would if they just decided to lay people off. Legally - 1 week's pay for every year of service, plus whatever the court thinks is fair.

Altering an existing contract and threatening to terminate said contract if the new terms aren't agreed to is a really assholish thing to do, to be honest.

If Zynga employees were smart, they'd band together and threaten to quit - immediately, with no notice - en masse. You need to negotiate from whatever positions of strength you can obtain.

Either way though the company has now been poisoned beyond repair... good luck attracting any top talent from this point forward.
Took me only 1 startup right after school to realize that the whole startup thing is rigged.

Never looked back unless it's my own startup.

It doesn't matter what they teach in business school. Most of the people I knew who took business majors (Commerce, Accounting, etc) are developing into "business assholes" slowly during their college years (.e.g: borrowing/copying your assignments, taking credits in group works, lying about their skills, boasting their knowledge, etc).

What do you expect? most of them are training for the real-world. They know what's going on out there. They went to seminars or talks given by those whom they deemed to be successful (ex-students working in KPMG, PwC, etc). They studied how these "successful" ex-students talk, present, think, etc. What are the odds they'll develop to become one of them really quick?
It's not like Zynga will have another IPO in the future, or will need to promise future employees equity.

Precisely why "trust" should never be a part of an equity negotiation. When millions are on the table people will do whatever they can get away with. Zynga doesn't want another "google chef", but they took full advantage of the "google chef" when promising equity to early employees.
I am still looking forward to Swipe integration with iOS. I don't know if that is ever going to happen though.
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> Which alternative is more probable?
> (1) Linda is a bank teller.
> (2) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.

If Linda is a randomly chosen person, then clearly 1 is more probable.

However, there is another sense in which 2 is more likely to be true. For example, in the radiology department where I work, doctors ordering studies need to enter in a reason for the study. Frequently, they put something generic like "pain" to get the study approved, which may or may not be accurate. On the other hand, if I saw a history that said "1 day history of RLQ pain, nausea, and fever", I would consider that history to be more likely to be true.

So in a narrow probabilistic sense, 1 is true, but when you consider that people sometimes make stuff up or don't have the full story, you might rationally judge a more detailed story to be more believable.
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Worked at a place that shall not be named, back before startups were hip and trendy. They had received capital funding from a local collective of business folks. Lots of bad use of the money and telling investors versions of the truth.

I remember one time, the big boss was showing an investor around and brought them back to the IT area. I was third man in the company, but first one with no shares, so I was completely ignored. The big boss points towards a good-sized computer cabinet and tells them that's the production system. Not so much ... the production system was under my desk as we hadn't ported the system over to the big fancy box yet. No big lies, but just a constant stream of embellishments and reasons why the lack of success was everyone else's fault.

Don't know that he learned it at business school, although he did have an MBA, but he was also a Chicago banker. No telling what counts as legitimate business activity inside the loop.
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Some of this stuff is public info. The head of our firm should have probably done more checking. But there are limits, of course, and it's a pain and can be expensive.

A database of the sort that you suggest is prohibited by libel and slander laws. You'd instantly be sued. While libel and slander laws serve useful purposes, they also serve to prevent people from warning each other about predators.

If you say "hey, this person is a predator, this is what they did to me and and I have proof," you can be sued. Sure, you might win. But if you're not rich, you can't defend yourself.
It looks like I can't edit the submission, so I'll add a comment. First, I want to thank everybody for your suggestions and let you know that I'm seeing my lawyer first thing tomorrow morning. I've been collecting evidence for a while now and I realized their app description has some portions copied from mine, so I think I got enough to fight back. I'll post an update as soon as I've got substantial information to share. Again, many thanks!
They're being terminated because they are not contributing relative to the amount they are being compensated. That seems to be perfectly legal to me (although it will probably hurt them in the long run).
Last time I checked, Unions were legal. For that matter not liking a company is legal too. Not wanting to work for someone, also legal. My friend not wanting to work for someone I don't like, also legal. Not liking a companies policies, ummm also legal.
The only loonies in support of an unregulated internet is the same crazies in support of unregulated markets. Americans need to be free from the tyranny of an open internet, for the same reasons Americans need to be free from the tyranny of an unregulated markets -- that is, man left to his own devices will destroy himself. Unless you want nut jobs to be able to post whatever they want online, we should be honored the government is making the internet safe for us to use. /satire
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Except the possibility always existed that they could get fired and not get that stock. The only thing that has changed is that Zynga is now saying that they're willing to fire you just so you don't get that stock.

Deeply unethical, and terrible for employee relations, and not at all in the interests of the company, but probably legal.
I'd take being fired, and then collect on the stock, if there is a chance of a 10k+ gain. Giving up stock worth a lot would be a really, really stupid thing to do when you can just get another job and get a hefty bonus for leaving.
I was given some advice recently by someone more senior than me: "in the Valley, equity nowadays is worthless. Show me the money!".

That's played itself out as true so many times it's basically become a rule. Equity means absolutely zero for most people - salary, vacation time, health benefits - these are now the selling points for companies in my eyes.

Stuff like this just proves that equity is way too unreliable unless you're a founder or exec. And Zynga runs a slave ship to boot.
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With the unvested shares, the executives believed they could attract more top talent with the promise of stock.

Not if the new hires find out about this previous action, and realize that the company may very well demand the stock back.
Agreed. But an hour is a lot to ask most people before they start to realize some benefits. That's why I recommend the diet first and then short workouts. If those work for them, the desire to exercise will cause them to step it up themselves and do more activity because they have learned to enjoy it.
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Overhyped tech startups are sleazy.

There are lots of underhyped startups right now that are busy disrupting other areas like enterprise software.

Key is to look at who's funding whom and executive leadership... an organization's DNA goes from top-down.
That's cool with me. I choose technology on quality alone, with regards to my use cases. I certainly don't tell people that they shouldn't use what they're using, I just give my opinions. People such as yourself are often telling me I shouldn't do this or that. I don't mind it, because I enjoy talking about technology and sharing my point of view. Some people just don't see it though.

I think that I understand why someone would wish to exclude all proprietary technology. No advocacy is the best advocacy though. If the product is so great, it sells itself. It does. People use 'nix all the time for the things it's good at and then they go use other stuff too. Hostility towards that "other stuff" really works against the cause IMO. Why not spend the same time an energy to make the product better? Then people will just use it and nobody will have to argue about it.
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> Do they actually teach this s--t in business school? What the hell? I had a friend when I was much younger who got into some shady stuff including drug trafficking, and he told me a lot of stories. None of them approached what I experienced in the "legitimate" business world.

I have to ponder that if one made a habit of screwing people over in the drug trafficking and/or shady business, the individual might end up with a shortened life expectancy.
This was my first thought as well, but from the context I think that he was citing papers that were related (even if
indirectly) to his work.
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I think the parent was more interested in whether someone would use a string of letters within a word in the name, as opposed to just starting a word somewhere in the name.

That is to say in your example, the parent wasn't questioning whether the code should support 'Congo', but whether it should support 'ong', for example.
The business school process that I've been a part of focuses on case studies that basically boil monumental business processes down to a few paragraphs. As a result, the human factor of business gets reduced to commodity (ie: genius entrepreneur X found an unnamed technical producer, lined up a few sales with unnamed companies and started the process. 3 years later he sold the company). This process comes across as fly-by-night dealmaking when in reality, the process was likely long and relationship driven. That's why you often seen scammy behavior.

So, to answer your question, we aren' taught to do anything illegal, but the manner in which we are taught encourages hustle at any cost and treating people as a commodity.
The source for that data is the World Bank
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Consider the Postal service, A highly regulated platform bound to international agreements that control traffic.

The evolution of the postal service was an important milestone for international communication networks and how they are governed, and like the internet, utterly revolutionary in its day.

The postal service today suffers from many problems, and faces competition from private entities that are faster in delivery, but the very regulation that govern its operation still offer some advantages over FedEx, UPS and the like. the extensive regulation does not seem to have a substantial effect on the success of the alternatives.

the UPU is the second oldest international organization worldwide. and has survived two world wars, not all regulated fields are alike.

I think the idea of Net neutrality is important and should be pursued, ideally as an international agreement similar to the UPU - http://www.upu.int/
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Yep this stuff is a dime a dozen and is a big reason why someone with just an idea is not taken seriously by technical people, those of us who have been around for a while have seen it all. Half want something for nothing and want to take it and run if you actually produce it and screw you out of any profit from your work, history is littered with tech guys getting screwed by idea men / con artist. It's almost like it is a game to them, to see if they really can screw you out of every penny and steal your work. They loose in their mind if you get one red cent.
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English major here, earning nearly triple what I'm expected to make. I suppose there is a lot to be said for approaching computer programming as a specific type of poetry.
> Even the guy mopping the damn floor is asked to mop it until it shines, just because "we're all in this together."

Guy I used to work for said one of his proudest moments was hearing the receptionist at the company he had founded was able to buy a house outright with cash from the proceeds of her stock options.
I never used videochat, until I had a baby. Now being able to chat with the tablet would be great.

Apparently Skype is supposed to work with my Galaxy Tab since yesterday, can't wait to try it out.

Giving a camera-free Kindle to someone from my family for Christmass would be kind of pointless, because then we wouldn't be able to chat...
The elitism openly displayed by Zynga blows my mind. Chefs are somehow too lowly to have their contracts honoured? It's somehow morally wrong that Chefs should make millions?

Only soulless suits and maybe a few key nerd-slaves deserve lots of money! If anyone else gets money, it's a crime against humanity and we must take bold action to rectify it!

Runaway sociopathy is the only way to describe this behaviour.
Most companies will never be in this position though. What if you were an executive and you suddenly found yourself in a position to pocket hundreds of millions of dollars simply by firing a few employees. At the very least, that's a moral dilemma. It would be very easy to go from 'upstanding and moral' to going flat out existential in that situation. It's a scummy thing to do, but the human brain can justify a lot of crap in those types of situations.
One of the paragraphs in this article is mysterious:

> The Journal cited two employees--one who has left Zynga and another that still works with the company--who hired attorneys to reach a settlement that saw them give up some, but not all, of the unvested shares.

Why would a former employee give up shares? Current employees were threatened with firing. But I don't see what hold Zynga has over this person. Why not just keep all the shares?
Just because California is an "at will" state doesn't mean a company cannot be sued for wrongful termination or constructive dismissal.
> Google, the better I-banks, etc. will have a recruiting process that's professional enough that they won't reject applicants because they were a bit too formally (or informally) dressed -- especially for a position that won't be customer-facing (I'm assuming you aren't applying to sales jobs).

I disagree. The recruiting process is still based pretty much entirely on human judgement. If you come into a t-shirt culture wearing a suit, it hurts you. The interviewer is looking at you thinking "why is this guy in a suit?" and it's a strike against you, just as surely as coming underdressed would be. You don't want to give the interviewer superficial reasons to vote "no hire".

> I'd call up the firms you've interviewed for and ask what they liked and didn't like about you, ask them to be honest. Most interviewers will answer!

No, they won't. Most large companies have policies against revealing why a candidate was eliminated. Revealing that info opens them up to litigation. "Oh, you say I wasn't hired because I don't know Python, but then you hired this other guy who doesn't know Python. Must be because I'm [some trait that probably wasn't a factor but might be grounds for a lawsuit if I can convince 12 random people on a jury]".
Why in the hell throw out work if he could have just branched it? H2 was a better product than Hypersonic, and likewise mongrel2 vs mongrel, but neither products were given up. I'm sure there are a multitude of examples why one shouldn't give up a new direction on a product.

That much self-backpatting could be called a massage. The guy is congratulating himself publicly and voluminously because he chose to support his existing users. Whether or not what he did was smart, as I assume it was, it is not a good sign that he is so happy admit defeat.
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Not really. Plagiarism means something else, and padding your paper or citing some random guy doesn't help you in any way. (A lot of work is done to shorten papers to get them under journals' page limit, and many have at least a full page of citations.) And he only did it once; if nothing else, he can plausibly say "I had these papers on my desk, had a deadline, and wanted to make sure I wasn't accidentally using their work without giving credit".

[I'm doing a PhD in crypto after my MSc in math, my girlfriend is doing her PhD in math, lots of friends are mathematicians.]
> Are you actually flexible? Surely there's an amount you like. I would have said something like, "I have an offer for $X a year, but I'd much rather prefer working for you, so my minimum would be $Y," where $Y < $X.

And you've just pretty much guaranteed that you'll get an offer for no more than $Y.
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If that's true, then the business world needs to do a better job internally policing itself. Behavior like this (and worse... honestly this story is like a 4 on a 1-10 scale) creates exactly this impression.

Clean your own house, or it'll be cleaned for you.
Is your business a mac or pc?
>I think this is the execs trying to grab as much stock as possible for themselves pre-IPO, so they can dump it and run.

This is EXACTLY what is happening - anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded or plain stupid.

When Lockheed bought Savi technology, the RFID company, there were massive stock bonuses given out to the the Savi execs just prior to the sale.

Then they told all the employees who had been there less than 18 months they would get NOTHING for the shares they were hired on with as incentive.

All the other employees were given 15% of what the company had been claiming the street price of the options were.

PLUS they held some significant % of the stock value in an escrow account for some number of months should there be a legal backlash and Lockheed were sues - they were to use the escrow share money on that case...

Pincus is a very very VERY shady character.

Yet another IPO that I would never touch purely on principal alone.

Who wants to be Goldman will be taking this IPO?