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The advice about "disclose your salary because companies are honest and fair actors" is still incorrect. Companies are entering into a business deal with you, and they will negotiate it like they negotiate every other business deal - trying to pay as little as possible for the product they want.

The author of this post, as a recruiter, is incentivized to get you to disclose your salary (see the excellent post by patio11 above). It is still never to your advantage to do so, unless you are grossly overpaid.

The point about not signing NDAs/IPAs is good, and you may be able to negotiate these (I negotiated away the most onerous part of the IPA at my current job by simply lining through the offensive part and initialing, but you may not be that lucky.)

The general advice for any negotiation is still "he who says a number first loses" and you should still go into it with that mindset, regardless of who you're talking to (a recruiter, a hiring manager, HR, whatever.)

Your past salaries have nothing to do with what you will cost the new employer, and software people absolutely have to learn this if we ever want each other to be able to negotiate effectively and raise the salary floor.
Surely on a free and open Internet you wouldn't have to declare your real name to show support?
I'm interested - what's the title of the film? When and where is it playing next in Tokyo? How can I get it without a credit card (Japanese banks refuse to give me one for some odd reason ..)?

Also, as a filmmaker, does your wife take more joy in having her product seen and appreciated by as many as possible, or by gaining as much profit as possible?
To my mind Warren Buffett is the classic case of good-guy-finishing-first. Think of all the 'alpha' males in finance; investment bankers, traders, hedge fund managers and private equity partners. He's beaten them all, simply by doing what he loves and being a nice guy.

For example, from Buffett's 1985 letter to shareholders [1]:
"I won’t close down businesses of sub-normal profitability
merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate rate of
return."

I recommend reading the complete section in that letter headed 'Shutdown of Textile Business' - it shows just how painful it was for him to liquidate that business.

[1] http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1985.html
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Nothing in the original article, my reply, or this entire sub-thread has made that claim or attempted to argue anything of the sort.
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I am continuously amused by how humans get in a huff when people anthropmorphize animals' actions... "surely it can't be empathy!" ... "we don't know if the rat is _really_ feeling the trapped rat's pain!!"

The question is: why not? Who are we to say that rats (or dogs or cats or crows or elephants or . . . ) can't feel another's pain?

Dogs have been known to show emotion. Elephants have been known to show emotion. Chimp mothers express sorrow when their child dies. And so on.

But people will come up with contorted explanations for these phenomena: dogs must 'smell' some pheromone that triggers such behavior... chimp mothers are only grieving because it's loss of a valuable tribe resource ... or things to those effect.

You know what? Believe what you will. But I have seen more empathy coming from animals than some humans (see Dick Cheney).
Open internet is about choice. You can choose to declare your name, or not, like today. You can put your name in freedom.txt or not. But if its not an open internet, perhaps you will be forced to.
The biggest issue with adding those op code is the lack of space for every op code to support between every type IIRC. every new type exponentially increases the number of operations. Being that we can only 255 op code in Java, it causes a bit of a problem. In CIL/MSIL in .NET, they used a multibyte technique with flag bits IIRC. (Don't quote me but I'm recalling designs I seen 8 years ago here).
Nigeria ("Nollywood") is the world's third largest film industry (behind Hollywood and Bollywood). Nigeria has a US$250 million movie industry, producing about 2500 films per year. Nollywood might be worth studying as a film industry structured in a different manner than Hollywood's "make a few big bets" business model.

Filmmakers typically fund their own films for about US$20,000 and shoot in one week. Over their career filmmakers may direct 100-150 films. New movies are sold in street markets on video CD and VHS directly to customers. Piracy is not a big worry when a director is releasing new films every couple weeks.

For more info, I recommend the documentaries Nollywood Babylon, This is Nollywood, and Welcome to Nollywood.
4am. I don't get up that early too often, but when I do it's perfect. It's late enough that I can be up for the day, but early enough that I can get into a good focused work zone, and stay there for a couple hours.
I've tried this approach and others. I'm sure for some it can work but ultimately I found you can't cheat time. If you wake up at 5am by 2pm you toast (mentally at least). I've found no real secret to gain extra real hours. The reality is that your mind can only function productively for so long each day. The productivity you feel at 5am is the same you'd feel at 8:00am it just seems more amazing because it's happening at 5.

The bottom line is you have to find what is sustainable in the long run. Regardless of how early or late you wake up the key is coming up with a consistant schedule that maximizes your productivity. Only you can figure out what the schedule is. It's certainly great to try new things and see what ends up working for you. Good luck.
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> My question is: why don't we show more empathy towards animals?

Because animals are not humans, and trying to raise animals to the level of humans does not do that - rather it lowers humans to the level of animals.

As much as you have compassion for animals don't confuse them with humans.
What's fair or even possible isn't the point.

"We don't have to get all this stuff. We merely have to tie them up fighting it, and re-center the "compromise" position."

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window, Richard Stallman
This is a great idea. Probably doesn't require any groundbreaking technology either. Dear internet, please make this.

EDIT: An iphone app that let's people call and text each other as their profile name (anonymously) would probably lower the barrier to sign up for something like this.
So you're only willing to spend money when it's convenient. How noble of you. That's not voting with your wallet. That's called being selfish.
This idea has also stuck in my head since sometime ago (I think it was a comment by @jrockway who said that he got up really early because at that time there is nothing else to do but work), though I do not do it everyday, only occasionally when I want to finish something... I will follow the site for updates! :)
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This isn't a new argument. It's one we've been having in Australia (and presumably the rest of the world) for years now.

These distribution issues become even worse for us as there are time where content isn't even available when you want to go actually pay for it.

Then we have problems where content isn't available for months after its release. In a world where we are being involved in conversations that happen worldwide (eg, via Twitter), having to wait several months for that content to even become available (that's if it is available at all) is problematic at best and utterly stupid at worst. EDIT - because of spoilers

Pirating content is just so much more convenient (which I'd imagine is at least part of the reason why its rampant). It shouldn't be easier to get content for free than to pay for it.

Once you've paid for content, you shouldn't be made to feel like a criminal or have a reduced experience, which is what we are experiencing now with those "Pirating is stealing" unskippable ads at the beginning of those region locked DVD's they're so happy to sell us.

No wonder they think they're losing, its because they are - and its their own damn fault.
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First off, we agree the creators should be paid for their work.

But I think you're missing the point. You believe the problem that needs to be solved is stopping piracy by enforcement.

Others, pg, myself included, believe piracy is not actually the problem it's a symptom.

The problem is convenience.

The studios either because they are stuck in the past or because they are contractually obligated to theaters, cable, TV, DVD stores, and foreign distributors, are not making it convenient.

There's no reason the studios individually or better yet, collectively, couldn't make all the content they represent available, on the same day it premieres, online, WORLD WIDE, for a reasonable price. There's also no reason they couldn't run world wide commercial sponsored channels of older content, online, world wide. If they did those they'd make billions.

Instead they are stuck in the past. Theaters first = incentive to pirate. Not released in my country yet = incentive to pirate. Can't play on any device I own = incentive to pirate. Can't transfer from device to device = incentive to pirate. Shitty quality streaming = incentive to pirate.

The solution is to REMOVE THE INCENTIVES TO PIRATE.

I understand the theaters would be upset. I understand the cable companies would be upset. I understand their foreign distributors would be upset. I understand DVD stores would be upset. TOO EFFING BAD! The world has changed. The studios need to face the world as it is now, not try to legislate it back into the 90s. That's not going to happen. As hard as they might try technology and the world move forward not back. They need to swallow that pill and embrace reality. Make it convenient and most people will stop pirating.
You don't need to use exif data. Many tools use the often ignored alpha channel of each pixel. In this case, you have X x Y bytes of available storage where X and Y are the width and height of the image.
Elimination of software patents, ok, so patents bad. I stopped reading after that.
Define going "all the way" in this situation and cite specific examples when this worked. And write about what he did that "he goes against human nature".
Netflix is already funding new content, including resurrecting Arrested Development.

http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Eli-Roth-Producing-Hor...
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This is a really effective way to get a lot things done. In summer 2009 I used to wake up before sunrise and absolutely loved it. To this day, I still wonder why I did not continue doing it.

My 2 cents:

Make sure you have something good (preferably healthy) to eat readily available when you get up. It should be something that does not require more than 10 min of preparation. Otherwise things tend to get a bit boring.

If you happen to wake before sunrise. Take mini walk in you garden or backyard and catch those 10 - 15 minutes of sunrise. It will absolutely super charge you for rest of the day.

EDIT: Let's admit that we all have a small nest at home specifically for work or related activities. Move this nest out of your bedroom. Keep your laptops, iPads, PCs or any such devices out of your bedroom. Switch off your phones during nights and do not switch them back on until after your morning sessions.

(PS. My uncle is a neurologist and he tells me that for people who work during day and rest during nights, certain hormones are secreted in the mornings that help us in staying fresh and awake. The catch is that they are only secreted if you wake before or around sun rise time.)
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It's been so long since I have quit the SEO game and focused on programming my baby (and SEO related SaaS) that I have lost touch with what sites are required to promote it.

The only sites (where you can target an active SEO crowd) that come to mind are blackhatworld.com and shoemoney.com, the latter of which stopped becoming an option almost 2 years ago.

So... where can I hawk my SEO wares?

FYI: Google does not allow me to advertise this certain SEO product, unfortunately.
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That's interesting. When I was in college I used to wake up at 5am every morning. I'd always start my day by taking the trash outside and looking at the sun come up over the ocean. (I went to school in Santa Cruz). Those short moments always set the tone for the rest of my day.
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He absolutely can redownload TV episodes if he bought them from iTunes. Same goes for Music, Apps, Books, but not movies.
Die, Hollywood, die...? I never, ever thought I'd find myself in this position. It's ... surreal. "radioactive mega-worms", Raiders Of The Last Ark references...ok. bla. But, John Cusack sux.
If you wake up at any time of the day, mid way through it (no matter when) your brain "is toast".

That is why so many sleep scientists suggest naps is because they have proven that naps are beneficial to mental fatigue.
I think Rupert Murdoch's myopia can be summed up by the name of one of his many businesses: "20th Century Fox".
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My personal experience is somewhat analogous to yours. As someone who's working full-time and doing part-time graduate school, I have to ensure that I get at least 8-10 hours of sleep daily to stay sharp throughout the day (haven't quite figured out the whole nap thing yet). It also really helps if you do something like lifting 2-3 days a week so that you're able to endure these 60-80 hour weeks better.

I'd say the big advantage of 5am is that nobody's there to bother you, but you could probably pull off the same 2 hours of personal work / day if you were to work after 6pm.
I'm sorry, but the visualization is a little overwhelming for the message you are trying to convey.

Since it looks like the list is already sorted/ ranked, id suggest removing the legends and replacing them with numbers:

1. familiarity with code base...

2. dealing with theme...

3. simplified design...
etc

I would also remove the pie charts as they are visually distracting from the post mortem statements you are trying to share with us.

Finally if you are looking for a little more bang, shorten the list to the top 3-5 of each list and focus on them, your message is getting lost in the noise.

Thanks for collecting the data and sharing it with us.
Using the categories [0] is the best way to navigate the icons on the site for me. But yeah, I agree that searching is problematic.

[0] http://thenounproject.com/category/
so when leasing airwaves Mr Murdoch is paying the OP? or i missed smth
Are you referring to AudioGalaxy ?
I am not sure if it's possible on Roku, but on Boxee you could get around these lame restrictions by spoofing your user-agent.
Content not being able to be played through my Xbox is half the reason I didn't end up paying for Hulu when my free trial expired.

The other half was that there was still ads, but that's an argument for a different day.
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I agree. Animals feeling emotions is one of those things that I believe, but can't prove. It just strikes me as another version of the "humans are the center of the univese" theory. Also, it's hard for me to believe that nature hasn't come up with emotions before humans evolved. I'm not saying I understand it very well, but the major brain structures responsible for emotion go back fairly far along the evolutionary tree.

Lastly, I just have trouble believing that what I see with my own eyes isn't emotion.
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I thought he was leading up to "convenience", the du jour argument for piracy.

But buried at the end of the article he says:

"Now, if I really wanted to watch last week’s episode, on my TV. . . I could buy it from Amazon or Apple iTunes. But don’t you think paying four times for the same content is a bit much?"

Which I think is the more honest argument.

Yah, we'll pay for it if it's easy.

But not as much as you're asking, especially for network TV that you maybe forgot to TIvo.
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What? After the price fixing conspiracy from Apple and the Big Six, publishers set eBook prices (via the agency model). That is why eBooks can cost more than paper backs:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/20/amended_class_...
I agree with you completely.

The only solution that I can imagine is some sort of DRM like what Apple uses in the App store allowing Users to have lifetime access to the content that they purchased. The DRM acts as a replacement for Regional restrictions allowing world-wide usage with the authentication of purchase handled by computers. Unfortunately the tech community is so fanatically adverse to DRM that they fail see how it can benefit the studio/customer relationship and a large company will have to just implement it and take the risk it gets accepted in the marketplace.

As far as I understand, that is the game and this is the lens we through which we see the solution or ignore there is a problem.
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So it's not a great deal, but script writers rarely get great deals.
Interesting thoughts on the Christmas parties. I guess the smallish company I work at (~40 people) has a different demographic because are Christmas parties definitely seem more low key, family oriented affairs. I think the average age in the office is still in the early 30s, we just don't really have any hardcore partiers or anything. I actually quite appreciate the opportunity to get together with everyone in a purely social setting and talk about stuff other than work.
These attribution requirements on a per icon basis are a bit much...
I'm suspecting that anyone that knows where to look this up is already on our side.

The challenge isn't recruiting more techies on our side, the challenge is organizing said techies and recruiting & educating *non-techies.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I just feel that sometimes we're misguiding our efforts.
That worked on Google TV boxes for a week or two, years ago. Then they blocked it by the Flash player ID string embedded in the browser, so user agent spoofing doesn't work anymore.
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I've been doing this after coming to the US from Europe.

It works great, but you have to go to bed at 9PM if you want to get some good sleep. I think the hard part is to keep that habit.
I have been doing the exact opposite of this strategy for some time now. Going to bed at 5am. Those 6 hours of coding between 11pm and 5am are some of the quietest you will ever experience in Toronto where I live at least.

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It's a bit of a mental stretch, but... the airwaves our "ours" because we pay taxes to fund the FCC to regulate them that way.
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Is there anything stopping a user from submitting copyrighted material? ie. Are the submissions subject to any kind of screening?
Shouldn't a content provider have choice as to how you get to watch something?

By making it so you can only watch it on demand through your cable TV channel Fox gets money from you in a number of different ways;

The ads that screen before and during the show. The money the cable provider has to pay Fox to have the channel. The money the provider has to give Fox for the on demand service.

Plus it stops the majority of armchair hackers from putting it up on youtube etc. If it was made available on the web, then Fox would only get a very small percentage of the ad money. And of course you wouldn't have to watch it when it's on TV. The aim is to keep you watching your TV and taking your money. People watching on the web don't pay as much attention to the ads.

Fox doesn't promote piracy as much as it promotes getting you to sit on your couch most the evening, watching ads, eating Doritos and getting your daily dose of "Fair and Balanced" news.

So DirectTV isn't listed as an on demand provider? Then change your provider to one that pays Fox what they demand. So don't forget to set your calender for next weeks episode.

p.s. Life is better without a TV.
Hollywood tries to make it illegal to share any content.

Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea http://www.ted.com/talks/defend_our_freedom_to_share_or_why_...

Effectively only professionals would be allowed to create any content on the internet. It is fare to say that the internet would be broken if Hollywood gets what it wants.
Yeah... and if DVDs were banned, he'd buy a VHS tape would he? And if those were banned maybe he'd listen to a eight-track.
It`s 2012.
I can get live footage of every event over the world within an hour good or bad (Youtube / Twitter / TV ) but cant watch my favorite tv-shows when i want.

There are a total of 6
- The Walt Disney Company
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Paramount Pictures
- Twentieth Century Fox
- Universal Studios
- Warner Bros.
remaining movie studios who control the rights to nearly every popular movie / tv-show.
What is mind blowing for me they rather sue mothers who torrent some music files then get their act
together and create an iTunes Store for themselves.

It could be so easy for them to create a joint venture and buy Netflix and Spotify.
Those companies, given the right tools, can easily figure out a consumer model that would work for the majority of us.

But no, they rather witch hunt for over a decade now and lobby more and more censorship laws in every country.
I finally want to get to the point where i can watch what i want when i want.
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