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Do you really believe that someone would loan $1B backed by $1B in stock gains that haven't been taxed?

Yes, you can borrow against stock, but the lender won't give you full value because the stock can go down and they will account for the taxes on unrealized gains.

Not to mention that lenders do want their money back. At some point, stock will have to be sold to cover your expenses (including interest on your loans) and that's going to result in taxes paid.
He didn't write anything about getting "the upper hand" (your bogus quote). He just said not to hand them a line of bullshit.
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TL;DR - On a Sprint HTC Android phone, an app is running without the user's knowledge, which cannot be disabled, which monitors nearly everything you do, down to keypresses, and reports back to the third-party company CarrierIQ, which presumably shares it with the carrier for QoS. Alarmingly, it includes even HTTPS passwords, even when you're connecting over WiFi.
How we got 1000 beta users in 3 days without getting TechCrunch-ed?
Well, a daily paper gives me a lot more information... I could sit and read it for an hour...
> However, one engineer working 80 hours a week is significantly more productive than two engineers working 40 hours a week

Disagree! An engineer working 80 hours a week will make worse decisions, understand things more slowly, get more confused by bugs, and make poorer decisions overall. The net productivity will be lower.
Some of the best programmers I know turn into terrible programmers after one long day. If you make that long day Friday, you might be able to squeeze 45 high-quality hours out of them in a week.
When an individual man beats his wife because he was raised to think it's right, we hold him personally responsible.

When a large group of men all beat their wives because they were raised to think it's right, we start looking at just why so many men are raised this way, and see this as a larger problem. This is only right.

Same deal with women and negotiating: an individual woman who's a bad negotiator is her problem, a large group of women who are all bad negotiators is a problem with society.

Note that the two ideas are not mutually exclusive. In the cases of large groups with a problem, we can and generally do place blame both on society and on the individuals.
Ask HN: How would you give away free copies of Mathematica?
We're a startup translation/publishing company that's just released our first book, a niche young adult novel that uses fiction as an introduction to advanced mathematics. Since we're unfunded and bootstrapped, we have pretty much zero advertising budget. In an amazing stroke of luck, the book has attracted the attention of Wolfram Research, who was kind enough to donate 5 Mathematica for Students licenses for us to use as giveaways in a promotional campaign.

Our initial plan was to use them in a Twitter retweet campaign or something similar. That seems kind of shallow, though, so we're looking for ideas for something a bit more interesting and engaging. An ideal contest would 1) target high school and college students (the licenses can only be awarded to currently enrolled students), 2) involve teaching and/or learning math in some way, and 3) be equitable, so that pretty much anyone who wants to take part can without having to spend a lot of money, or have access to specialized equipment.

Right now we're considering a writing contest—much of the book is the main characters working through challenging math problems, so we thought that it would be neat to have a fanfic contest where readers submit their own take on that. Anyone have any other interesting ideas?
Ah, then I do think you have an error of logic.

Put it this way. before he says it, we have
GG, GB, BG, BB

after he says "I have a child that is [MALE OR FEMALE]" we have (where the capital letter is the child whose sex has been mentioned, and the lowercase letter is the other child):

Gg, gG, Gb, gB, Bg, bG, Bb, bB

So if he has said the sex is male, then we have four combinations left:

gB, Bg, Bb, bB.

Understand that we go to more scenarios (8) based on which child is mentioned, before we go to fewer. Actually the order of the children is something you can and should ignore, however as you are holding on to it, I show it this way....
I've gotten behind in that class as well, but I plan on downloading all of the videos soon so that I can at least go through them without doing the quizzes/exercises next year.
>In asking for that information, you put management in the position of articulating their expectations, and when you meet or exceed them, it pressures them further to agree to a raise.

Haha. I'm sorry, but I've watched people who believed this get milked for years and years.

>Management isn't just running some simple equation to determine your salary, they're exercising their own judgement as to what you're worth to them and what will keep you working there productively.

Versus what someone else who could do the same job would get.
This is bullshit: it is passing the buck. This is strictly blaming women for their problems, without acknowledging the structural sexism that exists in virtually all tech fields.
I get my feeds delivered to me using this: http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/

They're all filtered into a single folder. I can read them from any of my email clients. K-9 on my phone, Thunderbird on my laptop, Roundcube webmail on my work machine.

I don't have to install a dedicated feed reader. I don't have to use a web based feed reader.

I read an item on one device, it is marked as read on all of them. I delete an item on one device, it is deleted on all of them.

Before anyone suggests Thunderbirds built in RSS feed capability, it's rubbish. And it wouldn't let me share feeds cross-device, so it doesn't meet my requirements.
I think we need to redefine what the "first world" means.

America by many measures doesn't seem first world to me: the most vulnerable people do not have an acceptable quality of life.
>1) Where did you even get that idea of unfettered government snooping?

From you: "Why wiretapping by government is such a concern?" "Wiretapping by itself does not restrict freedom of people" "Why worry about Big Brother watching me in the first place?"

>2) Government agency should be able to act on the intelligence it gathers. But if that act limits people's freedom without good reason - that agency should be punished for that (cut funding, fire abusing government employee, disassemble agency, send responsible agents to jail - depending on the severity of the violation).

And who's going to do all this monitoring and punishing? The current system is already abused and there's basically no punishment. Why do you suppose that would change in the face of broader wiretapping?

>If I'm the only watched, then I would probably lose more than gain. But if everyone is watched then I would probably gain more than lose.

This is rather doubtful, since you've lost all of your privacy and gained basically nothing. The likelihood of being killed in a terrorist attack is extremely low. You're probably more likely to choke to death on a piece of chicken.

>I now see where the root of your mistake is. You are assuming, that by giving government more watching power government would become more powerful. But that does not have to be that way.

Yes, it does. The government does not readily give up its powers. History has demonstrated that government power almost invariably grows over time. There's no reason to believe that giving the government broader surveillance powers would limit its enforcement powers. Moreover, there's no reason to believe that these are exchangeable. A pound of surveillance does not equal 16 oz of enforcement.

>Would you prefer to take WatchingPower away from government and replace it with dumb ActingPower?

I'd prefer to see less of both.
While reading this post I was thinking of a few funny things about life and money:

Money makes money. An example is Kim Kardasian. What does she produce? Nothing. Does she actually make anything better than others? No. She has money. Using that money she was able to be part of a TV show, which she used as an oportunity to make herself a character people liked, used that to up-sell whatever crap she made, used that to make shittons of cash on her wedding.

How is that relevant?

Well, same happens here. If you have money, you can invest, money that is much needed for business to get off the ground. Now you may argue that "don't get investment money, start small, then make a bigger business when you can affort it" which is actually quite valid. However if that is not what you want then you are basically asking people for money. They made the money, and are reaping the benefits of that money.

So basically you get rich, they get rich. You did the work though. However once you get rich, you can now make the bigger business that you wanted to, this time bootstrapped.
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How is this different than S-expressions? It seems equivalent modulo syntax.

"They are typically represented in text by parenthesized, whitespace-separated sequences" - S-expression, Wikipedia, emphasis added.
Blogging is something I've tried to do a few times, but have never stuck with it. I bought this book the other day, during the pragprog sale. I'm really looking forward to reading it and hoping it will teach/inspire me to give tech blogging an honest try.
For the benefit of non-native speakers: the plural of "life" is "lives".
I respect your opinion Antirez, but I hear so much speculation about work habits that I have to ask you: Is this your opinion / experience, or is it based on some specific research / study you can point to?

As a fellow developer I'd love this to be true, however a meme / fad started during my working career in rich cultures stating that hard work isn't rewarding or is unnecessary. I question this.

My father taught me to work hard, as his father taught him, etc, and this basically states that my father was being scammed. Doesn't every generation at some point rebel against the previous generation's beliefs? Could it be that the whole work less theme (apparently based on science?) is simply rebellion?

All I know is that I plan to teach my kids that working hard for something is itself a reward. That you can't appreciate anything you didn't work for, and the harder you work for it, the more you appreciate it. I also expect this will help them survive in a hyper competitive global workplace.

Maybe if we consider maintaining physical fitness to be part of our daily work, then I'd be on board with these thoughts. I.e. 4-5 hours at a desk being creative, and 3+ hours of some sort of physical exertion.
How about this: Connect it to a live stock market data feed and have it continuously print out stock prices as trades occur.
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The correct plural of "life" is "lives." "Lives," the plural of the noun "life" is pronounced differently that "lives," the verb. Go figure.
It's an entrepreneurial opportunity. Someone needs to enter the carrier market, much like what BankSimple is doing to banking and Square is doing to payments. Those are both huge markets where a startup has entered. The carrier market is arguably smaller than the banking market (albeit not by much), so it's not inconceivable to see a startup enter this space.

Obviously the people behind this startup need to have $$ and not have their heads up their asses (like the other carriers).
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I really like Play and want it to succeed, but statements like 'Two years later, Play 1.2 has become so popular that it’s making Java developers who use other web frameworks look bad, because their productivity is so low' are silly. Play is by no means common in the enterprise world, which is java's primary domain. Play 2.0 is not backwards compatible with 1.2, I believe, giving the impression that it's not very stable yet. I hope 2.0 is great and is widely adopted, but it's too early for grand statements about it being the best framework out there.
I think, the fact that people that advertise their "API" and "platforms" and provide a glorified REST frontend to their website are actually diminishing the value of true platforms and API, where actual thought was put in making a business case, architecting them, making sure they'll be there long-term and changes planned with regards of backwards-compatibility. You can actually see one of the comments here on NH that claims that it is "vitally important to remember that external APIs are unreliable and temporary". No, they are not, if we are talking about platforms. While this is true that new API subsets are being added with every new release (more: "Fire and Motion" by Spolsky), with platforms you can expect that existing API are still there for some time, and not until the end of next month, because "platform" vendor "pivots" while burning through VCs money.
>I find switching jobs painful and stressful

This is just because you don't do it enough. I used to hate it enough that I once sued a company to try and make them not lay me off. Now I change every 16mo-5 years and I love the interview part. I would never stay anywhere (besides my own company) for more than 5 years as IMO it makes you appear not very sought after.

>and my largest percentage salary increases have come without switching employers.

I find this very hard to believe. All companies have caps on how much of an increase you can get per year, per performance raise, etc. When you move it's mostly dependent on your negotiation skills (which get better the more they're used). The biggest raise I ever got in a company was during the dot com bubble (they were afraid we would leave). I got 28% (massive, massive exception to get this. Performance raises were the highest you could normally get and were capped at 15%). I moved to another company a few years later and more than doubled my salary. My latest move brought me another 40%.

>and assumed the strategy in question would be blindly applied by an ignorant worker and result in exploitation.

Everywhere I've ever worked was this way.
Easiest by what metric? As nknight said, I don't think switching jobs is easy at all. Maybe you mean easier by less social-conflict? But I would think that the "I would like a raise" discussion would be easier than the "I'm leaving" discussion.
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I am not trying to offend you, and am only commenting because I believe stories like these hurt less experienced people who are trying to learn how to handle salary negotiations.

I personally do not believe this actually happened. Nobody will ever follow you out of an interview to beg you to take a job, or casually double a salary offer in a stairwell.

There is no "hard ball" negotiating like this where you walk out and somehow bring a company to its knees. It's just never that dramatic.

IF you receive a concrete job offer then you accept, decline, or counter. You should know the pay range by the time a company puts an actual offer on paper.
yes, but employers don't have an incentive to give a fair value for this.
I've been doing this for a while (I think it comes from my dad talking every where we ever went into giving him a military discount). I've gotten a good amount of free food (appetizers and desserts mostly) just by asking for it, as well as fairly large discounts. It works amazingly well.

Yet when it came to salary negotiation for my first (and current job, I was too scared to ask for more because I didn't think I held any cards. I was fresh out of college with no internships and from a pretty mediocre school, and in an area with close to 0 software companies. I know everyone says that they won't take an offer away because you asked for more, but it felt too important to chance it. In the future however I don't ever plan on just taking the initial offer.
Thanks. I just picked Modesto because it appeared close on Google Maps and was on the Zillow list. I prefer not to live in a dump in a slum (as others seemed to suggest). I wasn't looking for cheap rent in a small dumpy place that was close. I was trying to emulate the boat proposal (far enough away that there's an advantage, but close enough that you can commute on occasion for meetings with Google, HP, Yahoo, Apple or whoever.)

In the Midwest, you can get a nice 3500 sq ft home for 250K. Owners of such homes are the type of people I would be trying to get. So a 300 sq foot room for $650/mo isn't going to cut it (as someone else suggested).

Looks like Gilroy might be a good answer. Over 100 properties on Realtor.com between $250 and 400K. 42 miles from Silicon Valley.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Gilroy_CA/b...
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Here's an example of what I'm talking about regarding this topic: http://acceptableparity.blogspot.com/2011/10/four-ways-men-s...
Yea, Or they knew about the free app of the day and made a special farming one that's essentially the ad version minus displayed ads.

I find it crazy the permissions required even from paid apps. And of course amazon does not tell you them until AFTER you bought and downloaded the app.
It's thermal paper, which tends not to last very well. This is especially a problem for medical information. (http://www.mdsr.ecri.org/summary/detail.aspx?doc_id=8155)
There are lots of very good reasons to stay in a job even if you are being underpaid - it very much depends on your individual circumstances - in your case, I would probably stay too.

Just make sure you periodically evaluate your reasons and circumstances to make sure you over time that you aren't falling into a trap of 'comfort' for not leaving.
"for bloggers who would like to earn money from their blogs by showing high quality ads from brand advertisers"
Does this mean less targeted ads from more well known companies?
I wrote this a couple months ago in frustration at the exact same thing.

http://ignoredbydinosaurs.com/2011/09/permissions-abuse-or-f...
Too bad the recent EU decision about copyright on programming languages probably won't influence this case by the time it's over.
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Unfortunately the printouts wouldn't last for more than a few years (Little Printer uses thermal printing).
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Negotiating salary and hitting someone are not the same thing. One is a violent act of assault and the other is a conversation to decide your rate of pay. Furthermore, some people do make excuses for men who commit violent acts on the basis of their social situation and upbringing, even though it is flawed to do so.

Also, I have personally seen and continue to see news stories, editorials, and blog posts about social conditions for men, esp. in regards to men taking part in "traditional" female roles, such as child care, certain types of labor, and even certain kinds of hobbies.

It is deliberately misleading to say that social conditioning and social issues treat one gender one way and another gender the other way, not too mention that such a position completely erases and doesn't acknowledge the existence of those who are not cisgendered and have a different experience in regard to their social experience.
I've done the same. I've had a couple of friends get a $10-20k bump as a result. Sometimes all you gotta do is ask.
>> With so many startups, there are often several choices in any given category.

And having several choices is a great thing.

When I integrate with an external API, I look at 2-3 other APIs as well. I then write an interface based on the common features / constructs available across similar APIs. Then I write program to that interface.

If the external provider dies, at least I have an easy path to switch to another provider.
Right, which is why I said "We can make other errors, but this specific one isn't possible" to the question: "I wonder how many people make this error while A/B testing their websites".

I'm familiar with the drawbacks of Taguchi methods and the subtle problems by changing distribution, and the problem of checking the G-test continuously and there-by reducing its effectiveness. But for a simple A/B test (and by that I mean challenger versus champion served randomly from the backend at a static distribution (50-50 through out the life of the test, say)), unless I need to hit the books again, this specific problem is not possible if everyone on board trusts the G-Test (the Yates correction on, etc).
This is my opinion and is based solely on my experience after 15 years of being in the industry, including one successful startup built by me and a friend of mine with a decent "exit" sold to Telecom Italia, and a successful open source software (Redis). Additionally I used to work in different places in the past with many programmers, so what I say is also based on how the success of programmers I know first hand correlates with the amount of work they do.

I also follow two companies here in Sicily that I built in the past, one has six programmers.

So all the above is my "data source", that is not statistically significant.

I don't really think a programmer working 8 hours is going to be less successful of one working 12 hours per day: it is either good enough to be outstanding with the 8 hours, or will fail even with the 12 hours, since the productivity gained by experience, skills, understanding of the problem is the kind of 10x or 100x gain, while from 8 to 12 hours the difference is little (and, again, not sustainable for long time IMHO).

Startups are built by programmers, so I think the same applies to them as well, mostly.

In other words I could say that the output of a programmer correlates more strongly with the work it did to learn writing code, than the work it does writing actual code.

Another important thing is that having fun is not lost time if you want to build a startup. Recently startups are a lot more about providing an "experience" to the user, and enriching yourself in your free time can be very useful to provide something that people want.
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> Maybe beta quality open source software isn't something I'd recommend to you then.

Beta grade software isn't something I would recommend to anyone for the purposes of writing production code. That doesn't mean it's not for everyone, but it's certainly not for me.
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Makes sense, thanks. This is like first class English and thus a bit embarrassing, but somehow it looked odd to me.
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This should be no surprise. The case was weak. Copyright offers no practical intellectual protection for software. And in this case the software in question was reverse engineered!
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I wasn't using quotes for quoting. What I read for the statement was "we're offering the job, we decide the terms." And that's totally valid. But it's not mutually beneficial and I don't think it's a good way to hire people.
And how it that worse than not having any criteria to go by, so they don't even need bother "gaming it".
No surprise. But thank god they got it right.
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