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I tend to agree with the sentiment that prioritization makes the list work better for the 80% of users but may make it seem less intuitive for the 20% that don't live in your prioritized group.

We're thinking of taking a similar approach to the way we display matching city names in an autocomplete input box. We have data on which matches are larger cities and we may hide some search results when there is a broad match based on the difference in size between the city matches.

For example, if you type in "Vancouver", there is a much higher likelihood you mean "Vancouver, BC" than "Vancouver, WA" due to the significant difference in the sizes of the cities and their "importance". In traditional lists, both would be listed with Vancouver, BC on top. We're thinking of hiding "Vancouver, WA" unless the user continues to refine their input to "Vancouver, W" then "Vancouver, WA" becomes the most relevant result.

Something similar could be applied here. Type in "Ca" and Canada should be the option shown until you add a "m" to make "Cam" then you will most likely show both Cambodia and Cameroon if their relative importance is too close to pick a clear top match.
If it bothers you too much you can always buy a super cheap $1 game and see which card the charge hits. The pending charge should hit within a day and you don't need to worry too much after that.
what you describe is shady

Not only is it shady it is a legal term and that term is called bad faith, if you can prove the party acted in bad faith, which if what is being reported about, return it or get fired, then that one is pretty locked up, then they are in violation of the spirit of contract. Faith is one of the foundations of contract law. If you are found to have not honored the faith portion of the contract then more times than not, you will be on the loosing end of a contract dispute.
we used bootstrap in our site, we really like this implementation i think is quick and nice enough to build a website ,we are now cleaning the css and inline styles for addittional stuff and in my case i learned a lot of css.

the only disadvantage i see is compatibility with older and not so older browsers.

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I was recently searching for a unicode Thumbs Up, and came up empty handed (there is none). So I drew one in this thing, and got some useful approximations at least:

ຢ ථ

I also came across this one, describe as "weary cat face":

🙀

Seriously, Unicode? You've got "weary cat face", but no thumbs up? I am disappoint.
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Wow, that's probably the first web framework I've seen that is more polished than the server it runs on top of; my experience with mongrel2 is that it's still a bit rough around the edges.
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I do the phrase thing, too, but the sentences are usually made -up gibberish.
The cottage industry of drawing fanciful conclusions from tiny data sets needs to die in a fire. It is pure noise.
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Pure projection. Useless people accomplish nothing on the computer and our first approximation of other people is ourselves.
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The test doesn't control for all the variables to make the conclusion that verticals are better than grids. The grid elements having borders and shadows may hurt it. Hard to tell but pics in the grid look smaller than in vertical. The spacing between elements in grid is tighter than between elements in vertical.

I'd still expect vertical to do better even if the grid was equally well executed, but reality beats expectations.
This is a little tangential for the overall conversation, but I feel that it's worth bringing up. There are many ways to get fulfillment out of life. For some, it's family, hobby, religion.. for others, work (and being productive at it) provide life fulfillment. My manager directly tells candidates thats he's looking for the latter.

To reiterate: it's your business what is the most important thing in your life and it's not really fair to judge others for having different priorities.
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Personally I prefer a division between "loaf-women," (hlaefdis -> lady) "loaf-guards," (hlaefwaerd -> lord) and "loaf-eaters" (no surviving descendant word). But then I always liked Anglo-Saxon literature.

This being said, the problem with the tea party is not that they don't recognize some of the legitimate problems in this country, such as the very incestuous relationship the government has with big business (a relationship which lead Adam Smith in his day to advocate invisible hand policies), but rather the fact that they advocate those same invisible hand policies which resulted in such great concentration of wealth the last time around.

BTW, concentration of wealth is a major issue, impacting everything from the living conditions of the lower class to national security, and the fact that the Western Roman Empire had so much more disparity of wealth than the Eastern Empire may have a lot to do with the fall of the Western Empire so much earlier.

Because someone is going to rush to argue with me here, let me lay out Prof. Wolfram's argument on that. Basically he says that concentrated wealth necessarily leads to a narrow tax base because you can only raise sufficient money by taxing the super rich in a society with the concentration that existed say in the Western Empire. This means lower tax revenues, which erodes military spending. He points out that the Eastern Empire spent more on the military than the Western Empire raised in taxes.

So when the Tea Party says we need to broaden the tax base, I fully agree. My only difference is that I'd note the only way to effectively do this is to address the issue of concentration of wealth.
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Don't be so quick to call it a scam: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=61
No investors are myopically focused on short term trends, if anything this will be looked at as an opportunity to replace those positions with off-shore bodies that can further reduce price, drive up the short term and dump it. I can almost guarantee that this idea came from their IPO investment house that is handling the IPO, I will have to dig up who is handling it, but this one seems to be right out of the play book of how to drive up the short term gains. Long enough for the institutional investors to flip their holdings while the numbers are still going up, but before the product rot sets in.
I don't think that Groupon execs are widely perceived as crooks, whereas Zynga's ones are more than hard to defend here.

Actually, Groupon's execs are widely perceived as crooks.
I don't think the firing would be the issue. It's more of a "we are changing what we promised you. Acknowledge this or leave" that might lead to claims.

It doesn't seem that different from reneging on retro pay that an employee might have been promised for example.
Sounds a lot like Grothendieck's metaphor of the rising sea. pdf warning: http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~leila/grothendieckcircle/mclarty...
i've been working recently on implementing "native" functionality on mobile web- scrollview, pull to refresh, native-style transitions, etc. jquery mobile falls disappointingly short in all these areas, and even others that it supposedly supports.

however, look at the google plus mobile site for a nearly flawless mobile experience. it's most certainly possible. to this end, i have a lot of faith in jquery mobile. if it is possible, they are one of the most qualified teams to deliver it.

that is of course, not to say that mobile web doesn't have it's hurdles.
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Bad metaphor. Joining a young start-up involves risk that company will fold fast, and also taking home less income than joining a more established company. A gas station attendant selling lottery ticket has no such risk.
I don't disagree with your analysis as far as you take it but I think it's different when an employee is told "give this back or quit so we can take it back." I think that's where you have potentials for issues and even the WSJ notes that this is an area that hasn't gotten much review from courts yet.

It seems to me, it's permissible to:

1) Let the options vest, leave them with the employees

2) Outright fire the employees and recapture the shares

3) Offer to purchase back at some specific deal

But that's different from saying "give them back or you are fired." At that point this is a renegotiation over not only compensation for current and future work but also for past work, and that's where I think a legal claim might come in.
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It said to me:

"We believe so strongly in 'meretrocracy' that we have gone from pretending to be 'meritorious' to being 'meretricious.'"

Ok, I made up meretrocacy. It's derived from the L. 'meretrix' meaning 'prostitute.'

Meretricious however is in the dictionary, and even my spellcheck!
"hashed and salted" would already overwhelm those people's knowledge. I don't see any good reason why they should not tell their algorithm.
It's easy to re-crypt the password when you log in.
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Is it really possible to keep user data safe during a bankruptcy? It is a tangible asset that may provide value to creditors.

I really want (for my co) the answer to be "yes".
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> Worked even though I have JavaScript disabled.

This is exactly the problem.
I consider Google Analytics a great harm to my privacy and brushing it off with "We give you a cookie so Google analytics works, but it's nothing personal." gives me a dishonest and careless expression.
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The hardest thing is to take this learning (and the concept of deliberate practice) and hack it to your startup founder role and your chaotic day. Its easy to say that this concept it not applicable there but I believe it is. I have tried to apply it by splitting my day for new sales calls, existing account management, product dev management and operational issues and it does work well on the days that I can be disciplined enough to not get distracted. There is also a tremendous sense of achievement when it works. So that is my take away from this article - take the core concept and make an attempt to apply it to whatever it is that you are doing - so you can do it better, faster and cheaper ( in terms of energy spent!).
As for 3: A simple feature to add would be to add a form for users to submit samples (links, comments).

BTW: Cool tool with a lot of potential! See also http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/eulalyzer.html (They analyze EULAs, not Privacy Policies though. Also I wasn't too impressed when I tested but a nifty idea and I only tested it a few years ago so it might have been improved a lot in the meantime.)
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It sounds like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China
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I'm looking to create the following simple flow in a web app:

1. A user signs up with an email & password

2. A user can add a list of contacts (e.g. firstname, lastname, phone)

3. A user can add multiple events to each contact.

Thoughts on what framework to use to get an MVP up and running?
Though you should really AB test that ;)
Not sure how this memo addresses the complaint of employees being strong armed into relinquishing their stock options. Seems like a very vague and general message that didn't offer any real insite.
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Ooh, I think thinking twice about the Google chef is to accept Zynga's "pray I don't alter your option plan any further," take on things, i.e. the argument's already lost.
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Its fun to watch. I've got no idea about the validity of it, but at this point in the game, the guy is either P.T. Barnum or Zefram Cochrane.
> Yeah, it's pretty hard to prove you were fired for an illegal reason, especially if your employer has a paper trail

In the case for which I was a jury member, a women sued her previous employer for wrongful termination, claiming she was fired for whistle-blowing. Her job was a safety inspector at a refinery and she raised some concerns about the safety procedures involved with cleaning some tanks. She even had documentation (in the form of emails), which showed that some of her coworkers raised a stink about her concerns.

The problem is, no matter why a company actually fires you, they can always make a reason. And I don't think it's hard to come up with a pretense for firing someone. In the case that I served on, the women had hired one of the company's contractors to do work at her home using company machinery and provided reasonable evidence that her bosses knew about it. She was fired for "conflict of interest." Ultimately, we decided in the company's favor. It honestly wasn't even close. There were about 10 questions that would have had to answer yes to, and we only made it to the second one (and almost didn't make it that far).

Still, I'm surprised that at-will employment never came up in this case. It seems relavent. And the company's lawyer definitely seemed worth his salt.
I'm not usually a get out the E-Pitchfork type guy, but this subject has really gotten under my skin. I got stiffed on an exit so you can take my view as biased if you would like. It most likely is given my irritation at the subject, I generally don't get worked up over stuff so it has certainly hit a nerve.

But the part that really gets me is it has absolutely nothing to do with the role these people played and every bit to do with the longer hours, reduced compensation risk and how long a person takes that risk for. If they came in on the ground floor then have been riding the roller-coaster and getting paid dirt for longer then they deserve those early and current options, I just cannot understand the attitude that is being displayed where the CEO feels that later employees that are "now" more strategic to the company (read executives) are more deserving of that equity given their worth to the current goals of the company. That is such a warped perspective, it has nothing to do with the future and everything to do with how much risk and how long those early employes took that risk for.
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> I had Condorcet voting briefly explained to me at a young age, and I grasped it immediately.

Unfortunately, HN readers are not representative of the general population. It's not that complicated, no, but I can see people having a lot more trouble with understanding Concordet voting than with understanding IRV.
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Umm, no. The gas station attendant isn't the one joining, he's the founder. You give him a little money now in the form of a lesser salary and no benefits and you get a ticket that might be a winner and is probably a loser.

Its worse than that. You actually bust your ass to make your ticket a winner.
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"Charlie didn't make $20M for cooking, he made $20M for taking the risk that the company he was joining would fail" This succinct sentence sums it up for me perfectly. His ability and contribution aside, a gamble was made and it paid off.
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Any idea what the justification is for at-will employment? My visceral reaction is that it seems unfair. I like Montana's idea of a probationary period. But I'd like to understand the intellectual justification.
Nil was a part of Lisp 1, which is why I was confused. It predates Algol W by seven years. As null references and nil are somewhat different beasts, I'm not sure the criticism "billion dollar mistake" applies fully.
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I got one right after 10-15 tries. http://i.imgur.com/4SJsf.png

But it does get almost all Malayalam letters I tried.

Awesome work.
Better analogy: s/Zefram Cochrane/Nikola Tesla/

Tesla made seemingly unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments.
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Who determines who is actually worthy 20 million or a billion? In every case there is a tremendous amount of good fortune, luck, and incredible timing.

Anyone who thinks they deserve that much more money than someone else because they are just a better human being needs to get a reality check. Its really about being fortunate. The Chef certainly has just as much right to his 20 mil as all the other guys that cashed out. Again, its not about just talent or brains, its about luck.
In all honesty, I'm surprised people are surprised by these actions. Its routine that when companies like Google acquire smallcompanies, tons of people in the smaller company are fired. I know for a fact that this happened in the Admob acquisition, for example. This is really no different.

The valley is sleazy and management treats engineers like expendable resources. Get over it. The only consolation is that engineering is the worst possible job except for all the others.
I agree. At the very least (from what we've all been reading) the process was messy.

If I were one of the employees I'd prefer a threat (even a serious one) to just showing up one day and finding that I'd been fired.

I too think that your third option would be best, and I wonder why there wouldn't have been some compromise made along those lines, but it's complicated by the reality that Pincus can simply fire the employees and have the shares w/o negotiating. Thus any negotiation becomes a sort of pretend dance and is as likely as not to result in bad morale.

I think that at least for accounting purposes the shares are officially "earned" at the end of each work day during the vesting period. I think the argument could be made that while an employee may perceive a grant of unvested ISOs as compensation at the time they are granted, they are indeed not compensation but an optional incentive for the employer to use in the event that an employee is extremely valuable during a period of rapid growth where turnover would be harmful to the company's prospects.

If the ISOs were meant to be compensation, why not have them vest immediately... the employee still would not have to pay taxes on them until they were exercised and the mechanism incentivizing performance is there simply via the purchase price.
But they're not changing what they promised. Stock option vest as long as you're still employed by the company. If the company fires you, your options stop vesting. The promise is in regards to the stock option vesting, not the length of your employment.
I tried some astronomical symbols, like ♃, but they don't seem to be supported yet.
I agree with the sentiment of this article, I have seen the best projects run by technical individuals. What we do on our projects though is we have an administrator, who reports to the lead, they are tasked with field anything non-technical so where in Scrum the manager / PM is the one running around dealing with the impediments, in our process we just have an assistant that does it, but they report to the Lead and take their direction from the Lead. This is nice because it keeps technical people solely focused on technical and creative problems and allows them to offload pure administrative tasks to an administrator.
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Also, if I were Mark Pincus or another Zynga executive I'd probably avoid the Zynga cafeteria for awhile...
I still don't see the point of things like "Alfred".

Spotlight already prioritises Apps, doesn't need to be told where to look for them, and is running on the system already, so doesn't use extra resources...
Couldn't get it to recognize the "look of disapproval" character :-(
It's ludicrous that it's even necessary to paint the archetypical "Google chef" as someone who daringly sacrifices for their scrappy company for them to be worthy of windfall profits. If you compensate employees with options, they deserve whatever they end up being worth. Period. That's the whole point of options. If there were an asterisk attached that said, "...but only if people agree in retrospect that you deserve the money," nobody would accept them as payment.
Zynga and Groupon just seem to have shot themselves in the foot right before their IPOs for stupid reasons. It's a shame how greed and stupidity in leadership have negatively impacted the payout for the people who toiled to make the dream possible.
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This sounds like it would be equivalent to being awarded a pay rise at work at the start of the year and then the following year having your employer ask you to refund the extra pay that you received over the last year due to the rise.

Would that also be classed as sabotaging the company to refuse?