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> But this wasn't the first blog post with non-constructive criticism, (rambling, ... whatever you want to call it) and a deactivated comment system.

Given the hostile responses he's had on Twitter, I can't blame him for not allowing comments on his blog. This doesn't help repair the already bad reputation that the Scala community has.

He doesn't owe scala-tools.org to anyone for the same reason he doesn't owe readers of his blog comments: it's his blog, his rules.
I'll warn in advance that this is the jazz hands answer, because it's really impossible to tell. I doubt any one person decreed WinRT should be native; most likely it was the best of many compromises. Anyone willing to name names while documenting the internal politics that went along with the decision(s) could write quite the page-turner!

* I could see decisions being influenced by long-term career prospects, but believe that people would be smart enough to hide most of this by working harder to find evidence supporting the direction they needed the tech to go.

* According to my limited understanding, Microsoft long ago threw out a bunch of OS-level managed development pre-Vista (WinFS-type stuff) in part because of performance related issues.

* ASP.NET (SharePoint) / managed code server-side is not going away any time soon, if ever... it's just too easy (and server hardware can typically handle any overhead).

* .NET client-side could go either way; I think this is what the accepted answer is saying (eg. Silverlight as this decade's VB6 - convenient LOB tool killed with no direct transition to new tech)

* Mono/Unity 3d/etc. are wildcards here, particularly as they support C# for non-Microsoft platforms (especially iPhone/Android).

* Microsoft, or at least powerful people within Microsoft, love COM (one of my least favorites, but I don't deal with cross-language runtime/binary compatibility).

I found this StackOverflow link on a huge discussion of the death of Silverlight, saying it was the first casualty of a "death to managed code" campaign: http://forums.silverlight.net/post/612643.aspx
I don't see a whole lot of difference between the BSD and Apache licenses and just putting software in the public domain. And maybe also tacking on a SHOUTY ALL-UPPERCASE DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY so you don't get sued for not having a shouty all-uppercase disclaimer of liability.

The GPL does have some extra requirements, in the form of source code sharing requirements for derivative works, but judging by how many people use more permissive open-source licenses, the difference here seems to be pretty slight in practice.
better perks can mean less money. this is not news.
You are over-dramatizing, and you are doing the exact same thing that the OP said: thinking you can add a "but" to what is a 100% personal decision.

Reread the comment above and take the time to understand it.
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This group seems a little conventional but is focused on the funding issue.
We 100% agree that we need to have continual funding, and that this will not be feasible without transparency and updating our pledgers. Before we can define these things, we are waiting for one thing: To confirm a partnership with another group to fund a cause.

Once we can confirm whom we are funneling donations to, we will have an agreement in place with that group as to how we can be transparent and communicative to everyone involved. To some level, everyone that pledges will receive updates and information as to how their money is being spent.

That is to say information will be available to ALL pledgers, not just the upper levels. The upper level pledgers, however, will receive more frequent updates and some amount of input themselves.

We need to get better about communicating this on the site.

As for continual funding, we are looking into a model which funds in rounds, as you alluded to. But, again, we are waiting to meet our goal and confirm a partnership before we enter that realm.

We're extremely excited to see where this goes, and if you have any other thoughts please reach out to us! Our contact info's on the site.
Running for office doesn't really work if you can't get your message out because the media and political parties refuse to declare anyone but the incumbent "electable." I've worked on a political campaign before, and also know people who are delegates for their respective parties, and the inertia incumbents have is extremely difficult to counteract.

One problem is that people with lots of money can afford to pay others to work full time in their interests, while those of us actually doing stuff with our time can't afford to spend eight hours a day in caucuses, party delegate meetings, city halls, legislators' offices, etc. trying to fight for an issue and/or get elected.
Serfs barely made enough to get them through the winter, any aspirations aside from surviving and enjoying what time they could with their families were simply fantasies. The parallel you're trying to draw between the Big Wigs/Lords and Serfs/Everyone else in Hollywood, doesn't work.
> After people finally figured out that he was leaving (almost no one knew of that) they offered to take over the complete responsibility, what happens? Suddenly he wants to keep the domain

This is in complete contradiction with what dpp said (he asked for help a few months ago and nobody answered). So either you or dpp is lying.

Considering that his call for help is well documented, I think you are the one spreading false information.
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In practice, SuperPAC donors just tell the legislator why the check was written, or in which case it will be.

If it were not a check, but merely using influence, would things be better? I.e., if Krugman were to offer to endorse Romney only on the condition that Romney expands Obama/Romneycare, would that be acceptable?

Or how about if some rich person stated he would buy a newspaper and use the newspaper to push Romney?
Why does everyone need a job?

There are many people without jobs already. We call them 'retirees'.
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That would require a constitutional amendment:

"Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..."
A good point indeed.
> The rest of the world (and those of us who deal with it) begs you not to start any more wars.

I didn't really have any planned, you know. I mean, I don't even have a lair in a volcano on a skull-shaped island yet! You can't seriously expect me to go around and start wars without one. It simply isn't done.

But seriously, I think that bad PR for image-conscious companies with factories that have substandard working conditions is a good way to leverage economic pressure. Because their brands have value to them, they'll try to restore them by putting pressure on their suppliers to clean up their acts and hopefully that will lead to reforms by driving competition. None of which involves wars or even government intervention, though it might take a bit of investigative journalism.
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As a non-american, it's a cultural mind-blow to think that you guys need to pay your guys-in-charge so they do their jobs properly.
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Well, probably scientists.

I'd rather that we, as a nation, consult with experts (for example, social scientists and really good educators), come up with a ten year plan, and execute on that plan consistently. If the plan works, great, if not, tune it and execute another iteration. Sort of like glacial-paced Agile for governments. Instead, what we have now is mostly a bunch of "common sense" stuff that really means status quo, which gets disrupted every single time a politician comes into office, anywhere.
high quality work could be measured by community support.

Absolutely not. Assessing the quality and correctness of groundbreaking research requires a large amount of both talent and effort; a reddit or HN style voting system would swamp the signal with uninformed noise.
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I for one am quite happy with Google+ posts coming through as Google. It's fairly easy to understand that they are G+ and not Google Corp, and we can treat them accordingly.

The issue is (personally) that I see the source as similar to a Facebook post. It's from someone who does not have a personal domain or other publishing outlet, and the source does not identify the writer.

While I struggle to understand why you'd want to write prose on G+ or Facebook, HN is brilliant for unearthing the few articles worthy of community attention.
The list of things that both you and the person who is roused at midnight both chose:

- The job.

The list of things you get to choose while you're on call and what the person who is roused at midnight did not get to choose:

- Where to live.
- What to eat.
- What kind of bed in which to sleep.
- What type of housing in which to live.
- The mode of transportation to and from work.
- The environment of living in which to simply exist.
try http://fifty one.com. They seem to be still growing, but facilitate international payments and shipping for a bunch of companies.
Why is the far more effective option of running for office never considered in our circles? We could certainly use a new political party, and we most definitely could use public representatives who actually "represent" us.

Running for office is a good thing, but I'm not sure it's "the far more effective option." For most people, running for office - unless they are already rich, well known, and/or politically connected - isn't going to accomplish much.

Not that I'm saying not to run for office. Hell, I did it myself (Libertarian Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor of NC in 2008), but I'm just being realistic in saying that running for office is no silver bullet. All of "us" could run until we're blue in the face and probably none of us would get elected. OTOH, getting elected isn't the only goal. For example, I did appear in a statewide, televised debate, which gave me a small platform to promote the principles and ideals I believe in, and presumably some number of people were exposed to those ideas (and to the LP) who had not been before. In my own case, I got right about 125,000 votes, which was good for about 3%. So somebody was paying attention, but still a minority by far.

It wasn't a waste of time to run, but I never had a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected and most of the people here probably have about the same chance. So for us to effect change by running for office is going to be a slow, difficult, painstaking process. Now to be fair, I ran as a 3rd party candidate which hurt my chances a lot, but it would have been dishonest to do otherwise. And I'm guessing that out of the crowd of HN people who would hypothetically run, a lot of us would also be 3rd party or independent candidates.
> several from the traditional media were calling the activism of Google and Wikipedia an abuse of power.

Yeah, because it threatens theirs. Strangely enough, they had no problems putting up a bunch of billboards and commercials right after that, which amounts to the same thing.
When 51% of the population decides that taking the money is legitimate and a good idea, it will happen. The poorer people get the more people hop on board.
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Maybe 39% (from 1975-2005) isn't enough for you. That's your call. To me, it's a far cry from "stagnation".

As for growth in worker productivity, I seriously doubt it occurred due to actions of minimum wage workers. Are you asserting that a burger flipper flips more burgers now than in 1975?

If we follow Paul Krugman's logic [1], this is not the case. Workers tend to be paid their marginal product. This suggests that if wage gains were distributed more to the top than the bottom, this is because the productivity of high earners increased more than the productivity of low earners.

[1] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/taxing-job-creat...
Scarcity is a myth. There is plenty of food and shelter for everyone. If there are no jobs then take the wealth from the superrich and use it to feed the poor. Human life trumps property rights.

The superrich job creators are not creating jobs. Time we took their money and put it to better use.
Probably, but so does single-member district plurality voting, which is what we currently have. :-/
Exactly - bashing a former employer because they took the cookies away is not that much of a breaking news story.

If this is really about the money: Didn't we have some time ago a story about women earning less than men just because they don't ask for more?

I had read nothing about negotiation, and didn't know what I was doing. They offered a sum which was in fact an improvement over what I had been making seems to me even kind, considering her not mentioning once that she asked for a raise etc.
Hardly anyone ever used Jazelle. I'm sure someone did but I don't know of a single production system using it today (maybe some legacy java based mobiles).

Jazelle does not execute bytecode directly, it is not a JVM. It is a small subset of the features needed and to use it at all required a JVM written specifically for it along with specific OS support. It also required a specific licence from ARM to use.

Ultimately, JIT based JVMs performed as well or better than Jazelle without the implementation specific development time or licencing costs of Jazelle.

For all intents and purposes, Jazelle was a complete failure.
No wonder why they are not subject to lawsuits because they are operating in a different country (Sweden). So U.S. needs to figure it out how to stop "the pirate bay" with their operation.
Maybe you should read the article - the argument was that while yes, perks were offered as a reason to accept a smaller wage, they were then gradually eliminated without changing the wage.
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The actual slashdot interface is pretty bad, but I don't think the mechanics of the voting system are to blame.
Covertly or publicly - anyone who wants to buy politicians tends to do it across the political spectrum.
The real lesson for employees is to ignore the cash value of the perks when evaluating offers. Perks can be taken away, but cutting salaries is much more controversial.
There's http://www.peerageofscience.org/ which is trying to fix the problem of peer-review quality and speed: instead of submitting to a sequence of journals and waiting for reviews from each one before you can submit to the next one, you would first get your paper properly reviewed and then offer it to journal editors. There would be some kind of peer control of review quality, so reviewers would have an incentive to do a good job.

That company is explicitly not trying to do anything about evil publishing houses, but if it takes off, it will move one part of the publishing process out of the control of publishers, into the hands of scientists. If reviews through this system get to be known for high quality, then maybe a good review from them for your open-access paper will be more prestigious than getting it published in an Elsevier journal.
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My mistake, I misread it. Thank you for pointing that out, for myself and others.
Then you're blind. The far majority of the superrich inherited their wealth. This is called nepotism and it's bad for meritocracy.

The far majority of corporate and government leaders are there through cronyism. This is corrupt.

Mega corporations like halliburton enrich themselves with no bid contracts which they get by bribing officials. This is bribery.

Cellular networks and ISPs form oligopolies instead of competing with each other. The medical industry does this causing death and poverty.

The wealth of the superrich was inordinately acquired by combining monopoly, oligopoly, cronyism, bribery, and nepotism into one big ball of corrupt selfishness. This wealth is not earned legitimately through production and competition, it is stolen by distorting the market and corrupting the government both of which are fundamentally immoral.

Criminals must be stripped of their loot and sent to prison. Start with Lloyd Blankfein who scammed his own clients and made his riches by exploiting the trust inherent in the client-professional relationship that is a pillar of civilized society.
Are you kidding me? The first Harry Potter book came out in 1997. A 10 year copyright means that 5 years ago someone could have taken the book, mass produced their own copy, and sold it at Barnes and Noble. That would be the same time the 7th and final book came out and well before the movies were complete. That is a simply absurd idea.

Edit: Downvotes aren't surprising but I'd love to hear the argument why rights to a creative work should be lost when it's still in development and rapidly growing with each day.
OK guys - it's late on the east coast and I need to sleep. I'll be up in a few hours to see if anyone else has commented with a question!
I'm writing a post on salary negotiation today, so I zeroed in on two supporting details here that you should remember for later: when pressed on price, savvy negotiators said:

1) Give us some time to think about it.

2) We are going to re-focus the discussion on a different compensation lever where we can present something you're already going to get as if it were a new incentive justifying your concession on a lever you're currently interested in.

You can do both of these as a job seeker.

(For example, if you have extra-curricular interests like many desirable tech employees do, the extra-curricular interests can be used to justify an increase in your compensation vis-a-vis a hypothetical employee who punches out of the Internet at 5 pm. It doesn't particularly matter that you're going to continue blogging and OSS regardless of the outcome of this negotiation, you just frame the discussion such that that becomes newly discovered value which gives the other party something to hang their hat on for getting you that last $10,000.)
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I'm just a little worried about the tendency to put these things in the same states that raise most of the crops and what might be the weather change. Local changes could be problematic.
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>The generic "employer" has few restrictions at all. In most jurisdictions, I am quite free, as an individual acting in my personal capacity, to hire and fire, for example, a maid, with very few restrictions at all.

That may be true in the US to some extent, but it's nowhere near true in Europe (where I'm from). Labor laws apply to everyone and protect labor in various way from competition.

You keep talking about "rights" - where am I claiming any rights for "corporations" ? Corporations are simply property in this case, preventing corporations from making these agreements is violating the rights of owners to manage their property.
Apple is no longer utilizing those services. It is instead using Chinese education and infrastructure. Why should Apple continue paying for services it no longer needs?
Yes, and of course economists do test their models empirically. But many economic models are inherently or practically untestable because the quantities they employ are inherently or practically unmeasurable. And even when you can measure most of what you need, models of complex economic phenomena just haven't worked. The lesson most economists took from the failure of efforts to build useful CGE [1] and DSGE [2] models in the 1960s–1980s was that this approach was a dead-end.

Agent-based models, though built on better-founded micro theory, are arguably even harder to get right because agents are adaptive in unexpected ways. And because it's possible to make many models give results that "look right" if you fiddle with the parameters enough, you're just not going to convince anyone that you've built a model that represents the way the world really works.

Nobody trusts a black box. I think that's why most economists still build little mathematical models that try to give some targeted insight into some small aspect of some economic phenomenon. If you can understand how a model works (and, again, you usually don't "understand" simulations—all the interesting stuff is emergent), you feel like you've learned something about how the real world might work. Then you can get down to bickering about assumptions, which effects dominate, etc.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_general_equilibrium

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_stochastic_general_equi...
That's not really something I would want to try. Omitting references can lead to accusations that you are trying to claim as your own novel contributions things that others have already done.
Which is why some sectors treat money as a perk (bonuses). But as much as companies make sure employees understand what a "bonus" is, there's a sense of entitlement and people quit when this years bonus wasn't as big as last years.
You could also use this as a potential lever in discussing future compensation increases. If they claimed perk x was worth $y but now they are scaling it back to $z then $y-z should be put back into your base as you no longer receive the perk.
An interesting factoid I saw online was the economic value of a quantity of oil. One of the cost visualizations was what the lost oil could produce in economic output in China, and the US. The US value far exceeded China's.

China benefits from low-wage and low-rights labor. Capital productivity is still higher in the US. Not something to take as a given for all times, though.
Thanks! These are very helpful.

The only thing I have any real expertise in is software development, entrepreneurship and cars. So I thought about becoming some sort of a travelling consultant... but with telecommuting and the very nature of the software business, I doubt it would give me any significant advantage over other consultants. Not to mention if I can land clients in various cities, the savings from the free travel would be negligible.

Geocaches; now that's a pretty sweet idea. But I'm not quite sure how I'd charge for it. I could leave code snippets worldwide!

As far as helping those in long distance relationships, only thing I can think of is acting as a sort of courier.

The Geocaching one's really got me thinking. Mixed with a little advertising, I think there may be a serious business and advantage with the free flights! I'd love to hear more from you, and in the mean while I'll do a little research on Geocaching.
Has rachelbythebay ever written a post that is not about bashing Google as evil or all engineers as sexist?

Notice what she does not mention: Google massively increased salaries during the same time period, including the 10% across the board bump.
There's a possibility that a lot of un-eaten food was being wasted, so Google cut back to reduce food waste.

ie. being green.

Lot of conjecture in this article.