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With options, an employee can dream of making millions if the company becomes successful, but with most typical cash bonus/profit sharing there is no chance of that. The idea is that these mega cash-outs even if not very likely are more motivating than more modest size, but guaranteed bonuses.

Even if you were to structure a bonus/profit sharing plan such that employees could make millions, then you run the risk of key employees making a bundle of money and then leaving for the next opportunity. With options, by the time it is clear the employee will make millions from the options they almost certainly do not have enough cash to deal with the tax implications of exercising (unless there is a secondary market) and will be unlikely to leave until the company reaches a liquidity event (which is good for the company).
A helping hand doesn't always help. You act as though we know what the problems are, and what the solutions are, but refuse to act because of idiocy or bigotry.

Suppose you were given a budget of $100Billion USD to spend however you wanted. Now, give me your plan to fix something, anything. Tell me how this 'helping hand' will be used, and I'll respond with a long, long list of ways you are actually going to do more harm than good. It's not out of idiocy and bigotry that I advocate these positions, it's out of a desire to not simply waste resources (and thus cause harm) when we have no idea how to actually help.

Now, to your specific points, you are just full of shit. You are spouting a bunch nonsense. I could refute one point at a time, but your MO seems to be to just move on to new talking points when old ones are refuted. No doubt you win arguments by simply wearing out your opponents with your endless stream of ill-posed statements.

Honestly, I would be happy to demolish your arguments one at a time. So, if you want to have this debate, lets start with one important theme, and go from there, not 500 assertions that you'll just abandon and replace with 500 more in your next post.

Just to be completely clear, I don't claim to know what all the problems and solutions are. I claim that you don't know what the problems and solutions are, and should stop criticizing people just because they don't advocate the same radical positions you baselessly hold.
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robert-kanigel's book, "the man who knew infinity" is an excellent chronicle into his life, and cambridge's culture during 20th century. it was hardy who created a rising scale of mathematical abilities as follows:

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hardy once described the formulas in ramanujan's first letters as "these must be true, if they are not, nobody would have the audacity to invent it."
I don't know anything about design. The solution that I propose seems obvious though; am I missing something?

> Too many elements are a distraction.

> What is the affordance of invisibility?

There is a middle though: instead of either making it invisible OR cluttered, couldn't you just design it with a small clue, such as an arrow, which would open a drop-down menu when rolled over (on a computer) or tapped on (on a touch device)?

A drop-down menu with a small icon to prompt the user would hit the middle between simplicity and obnoxious prompting.
Shareholder value is just the latest politically correct justification.

Our society used to be based on concepts like honor.

Honor was something you had to earn and something you could lose. To maintain your honor you had to demonstrate certain qualities: truthfulness, earnestness, fairness, politeness, genuine service toward shared superordinate goals (e.g. the country, humanity, the community).

At some point, our society decided that lying is no longer dihonorable as long as you are doing it to maximize shareholder value or to sell your product. We no longer publically shame and dishonor those caught in bald-faced lies.

Inordinately selfish people always justify their behaviour using socially acceptable statements. What has changed is that our society now lets them get away with it.

ANY lies are now OK as long as they say "I was maximizing shareholder value." They will not be socially ostracized, will not be publicly shamed, and often will not even be criticized. People will, in fact, apologize for them.

People see Wall Street crash-creators testifying at Congress answering "I do not recall" to 100% of the questions. Instead of dishonoring those liars as the liars that they obviously are... our society just does nothing. It's okay that they lied. It's just business you know. We expect our business leaders to be dishonorable.

"It's not the CEOs fault that he knowingly polluted the entire river for 20 years. He was just maximizing shareholder value, discharging his fiduciary duty, we can't hold him personally responsible. It is wrong to shame him and his family, it is wrong to ostracize him from decent company, it is wrong to even criticize him publicly in the newspapers."

Either this mentality changes in a hurry, or the entire country is going to go the way of Detroit.
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I guess I am so jaded by the FAA, etc that my reaction to bringing things to a lab, getting contradictory letters, etc is simply, "..."

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate someone doing the legwork of articulating the inanity of these rules, I truly do. It seems to me though something akin to bringing carbon dating or geographical records to a young-earth society meeting.
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I find it amusing how a 240 AI is spun to be impressive in this article. Then you see the academic numbers and they're laughable.
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Courtesy of G.H.Hardy
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Oh, of course I agree you should not be profligate. And there are times you have no choice if you are hemorrhaging money.

I work with middle managers who let contractors go and sit on projects months at a time in order to get cost cutting bonuses. It is just working the same numbers on a smaller scale.
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Windows dims the files when you cut them, giving you a visual indication. This is pretty similar to how cut and paste works in Excel too.

I'm actually not sure why anyone would defend the Apple way of doing this -- it's truly baffling. Windows has some terrible conventions and Apple has some terrible conversions -- we'd all be better off choosing the best of both then blindly defending one over the other.
Is there any logic to blocking China or a specific country? Is that where most malicious attacks come from?
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Indeed.

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You might also like to read this interview of Kanigel on his book and how he researched on Ramanujan.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/interview/article2747541.ece

PS: I was half inclined to share this interview (instead of the article, this is also quite interesting)
The idea reminds me of electric sheep:

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That's only true if the monetary supply remains tightly constrained. As long as we are willing to tolerate inflation the 1% can become richer and the 99% can also still have access to money. Otherwise, in order for the rich to accumulate more wealth, it has to come from somewhere.
My preferred solution is consistent market salaries (a la Joel), annual profit sharing (pro rata based on salaries, applies to management too in lieu of bonuses), and a 10% employee bonus pool a la 37 Signals in the case of liquidation.

This essentially gives employees regular shares of the annual windfall and a way to share in any ultimate windfall.

I'd rather my employees get rewarded for their participation in company success regularly, rather than asking them to wait for a sale that may never come. And if an exit materializes, they should get something too.

Then again, my opinions on this may change as I gain more experience as an entrepreneur.
These are solvable problems. You are way too aggressive with me.

University researchers have many consensus, scientifically based viewpoints on how to improve social issues. The simple fact is that the research is just ignored in favor of radical emotionally-potent ideologies.

Many political ideas have been scientifically tested. I spent years in university learning about them and I certainly don't know them all, but I know professors who have worked on these issues for decades and have been able to draw strong scientific conclusions.

Economists throughout the world are able to reach consensus (defined as 90%+ agreement) on many issues. Their consensus is ignored politically.

Psychologists are able to reach consensus on certain questions of public mental health and the mental health of the poor. Their conclusions are politically ignored.

This is the pattern. The pattern is that other countries have demonstrated social success stories and other countries have put the University social science into practice and reaped success. The USA does not. American political policy is a combination of Christian fascist social policy, corrupt Democratic/Republican fake social program pork barrel, and Military-Industrial-Security complex pork barrel.

People with reasonable views based on consensus science are underrepresented.

If you actually think you can "demolish all my arguments" then you've lost my respect for your lack of humility. You're just one man, you don't have time to be an expert in every field.

My opinions are mostly informed by the consensus views of social scientists. When implemented, social science has been very successful.

What do I want to do about the poor? I just want scientifically literate people to put more time into politics so that they can counteract the voices of irrationality that currently dominate lawmaking.

I want smart people to act on the good science that is out there instead of having the wealthy and intelligent throw up their hands and pretend it is someone else's problem.
As someone who is bootstrapping a web app all alone I really appreciated this. I know a few people are getting hung up on some "wrong" points but after looking into it I have to say that obviously one shouldn't just implement these measures exactly as written. Everyone's mileage will vary. The point is to consider these options and implement them in a smart way. That means keeping SSH on 22 if using fail2ban. Sure, SSH and Apache don't have much to do with each other but any thinking person gets the point: you're running a web server on apache and access it over ssh all the time, therefore make sure to secure that connection regardless of your chosen web server software.

I dont get all the negativity. Those are some common sense things that can be easily overlooked. I thinking blocking entire countries may not be smart for business but you never know who might want that. I'd also add disabling the root user, installing a software firewall like ufw, and invest in an SSL cert (they're not that expensive compared to the losses you could incur should some ass decide to attack your server). Thanks for this. Merry Christmas.
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Jobs certainly wound up maximizing shareholder value.

Maybe the shareholders aren't so easily fooled.
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>I suspect you don't actually know what everyone else on the site thinks.

Cool, thanks for that incredibly insightful observation, marshray.

The best part about your original question is that it can be answered provably in only one way — the one you want. So given your patronizing tone and thinly veiled elitism, I'll happily take the side of the argument that you would force me to prove through induction, for the simple satisfaction of calling you out.
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Your understanding of the term affordance, as inferred from your usage of it, is not the standard use. You use it as if it means the reason for something. Affordance is a clue something gives regarding its use. Doors with handles are pulled, with plates are pushed. Just seeing the interface component intrinsically describes its use. This is not possible for invisible components, therefore they have no affordance at all. Saying they have a reason in the designer's mind, to declutter an interface and make it all pretty and clean, is not related to saying they have an affordance, which is that they show the user how to use them. Buttons look pushable. Scroll bars look draggable. Invisible elements don't look anything.

"Your brain is able to predict that if you don't see it, it might very well be rollover-only."

This statement is so wrong I don't even know how to react to it or steer you away from this sort of thinking. I'm just completely taken aback. Not trying to be argumentative or anything, but no no no no no. No, the user is not going to intuit that the function must be invisible because he can't see it. Arg.

Here is the proof. Usability testing.
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Do it now! Modify /etc/ssh/ssh_config.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't it be:

Do it now! Modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
The article raises some common-sense good points, but as others have noted, a lot of it is crappy advice.

> When a user points their computer towards your server, they generally use your ip address. If they have malicious intentions, they will go fishing for your phpmyadmin, mail, or other vulnerable services.

A malicious person can just as easily go fishing for vulnerable web-accessible pages using your domain name. example.com/phpmyadmin is no more secure than 12.34.56.78/phpmyadmin.

> 5. Block access to phpmyadmin

Nope, just don't install it in the first place. Especially if you're going to access it remotely over plain HTTP. If you really absolutely want to use phpmyadmin, put it in its own virtual host that is only accessible from localhost. Then tunnel into your server to access it.

> 8. Use .htaccess ... to block a range of IP addresses

Using .htaccess to block IPs? Whoa, wrong tool for the job. You might have no other choice if you're on a shared server, but there are much better IP blocking solutions if you're setting up your own Linux server.
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Note that in order to work on Mac OS X, the word "wget" should change to "curl" in the script. (Otherwise it works exactly as-is.)
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First, some backstory: despite having a good few years experience, he wasn't living up to the development standards in the shop, so was quickly turned into a project manager of sorts (classic), dealing with clients and stuff to ease the load on the owner.

First day after the announcement he comes in a suit and tie (normal outfit for everyone was t-shirts + jeans). Now, he's somewhat clueless as a project manager, everyone knows it, and for the most part he tries to be reasonable, but he seems to have embodied an "I'm a manager", entitled pose. He actively tries to have the last (meaningless) word on meetings/reports/discussions and generally makes it sound like he has harder responsibilities than everyone else. He sends out "thanks for your hard work" e-mails though he doesn't actually managed anything.

So, the work is all well, but this is ultimately nurturing some negativity. Now he's being brought aboard some new projects while the devs are left out of the loop, though he has no merit. It's like I'm watching the stereotypical pointy-hair manager being created right in front of me. What is there to do?
Great catch, I have wget installed via brew so overlooked that, I'll create a patch shortly.
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I hate the praise that fail2ban gets. It is useful, but it is not securing anything really, unless maybe you run a public ssh box that has other users who have bad passwords. It will keep the logs cleaner though. A better way to secure SSH on a web server would be to restrict access by firewall and/or disallow password logins.
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That’s not how iBooks actually works. (That doesn’t get Apple off the hook, though. You encountered the problem so it’s a valid one. Confusion about how something works is definitely not the user’s problem, it’s the developer’s.)

The navigation bar only disappears automatically after you selected a book in your library. It is displayed for a few seconds to show that there are controls. After it disappeared you can make it appear by taping anywhere. It works analogous to the video player.

So it’s consistent with other navigation controls that don’t have to and probably shouldn’t be displayed all the time.

Once you tap the text to make the navigation bar show up it won’t disappear automatically – ever – at least as long as you are reading the same book and don’t go back to your library, no matter where you switch to.

One of the problems with the current behavior is that anywhere doesn’t really mean anywhere inside iBooks. The left and right margins are reserved for turning the page. That can frustrate users who want to make the controls appear. If they tap the wrong place they turn the page instead of making the controls appear. There is no obvious demarcation about safe places to tap. Making the controls disappear when playing a video works better because users really can tap anywhere. There are no unsafe spots.

Here is how I would change it: I would just not hide it by default. Users would still be able to hide it by taping on the text.
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