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At this stage of your career, you should think more about the experience added by the job than at the numerical salary number. If you work with the right people with right ideas, that $30K (minus taxes) can be compensated in no time.

As another Microsoftie who quit Redmond for startup world at the same stage, I would advice you to consider the following:

1. Is the work they do at the startup quite exciting and promising?

2. Are the founders great people to work with?

3. Do the founders and the investors have a lot of connections?

4. Is there some press coverage around the startup?

5. Do love working at a startup? Do you plan to start one in the future?

6. What is the scope for learning at the startup vs. learning at MSFT?

I found that after a couple of years, there were less things to learn at MSFT and was entering a plateau. In the long run the marginal money matters less than an opportunity to showcase your full potentials and get the right contacts. YMMV.
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I think that there's potential but the current layout of the homepage doesn't appeal to me. Just because of the homepage, I'm not inclined to continue using the app. I know you guys aren't designers but there are a few improvements that I can see.

1) Your tagline on the bottom of the homepage tells me more about your service than the copy with the "Have the best vacations humanly possible". Lists are boring, especially without visuals. Because the homepage is the most important page, I'd focus on only getting them to try search first then find out about all the other features you offer.

2) As many have mentioned, the video thing is really annoying. I click on the video to expect something to watch, but it's blank. If you don't have a video, don't put a placeholder image there yet.

3) Where do you want to go and when? default text in the searchbar. The less the user needs to type, the better. It's also MUCH more convenient for the user to select the When from a drop down list because they usually have pretty precise dates they want to travel. Because there's this extra option, I didn't know what to type at first. I had to search 3 times to realize that you do City, State and Country.

4) Because your site doesn't have any visuals, your featured lists actually take most of my attention. Those should never take away from your search bar which is your call to action.

I'm no expert on design, but I'm just listing out what I've learned the past year (my homepage for a past startup was very similar to what you have now).

I took a few minutes to make you a sample homepage mockup that incorporates a lot of the stuff I mentioned above. Design is a really subjective matter; everyone will think differently of the mockup below, so it's up to you. Just my two cents.

LINK: http://www.grooovy.me/Adioso.jpg
Sigh. I wish more end users would consider option C:

Ask nicely for a laptop with no OS. When the reply is 'No', return/wipe the Microsoft default, carefully documenting your refusal of the End User License Agreement, and ask for your money back on the OS. (They'll still say 'No'.) Be firm, be persistent, and even go as far as issuing a Small Claim.

They will ultimately accede, because the law is on your side.

No one need pay the Microsoft tax.
I'd also add: Remote timing attacks are practical[1, 2]. Twitter as target of it in the past[3].

[1] http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/abstracts/ssl-timing.html

[2] http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/

[3] http://scforum.info/index.php?topic=4358.0
In Python it rarely gets in the way, because you can't accidentally define something as global.
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While it's true that network protocols are neat challenging puzzles with nontrivial solutions, the hardest parts end up being the mundane: how does any given protocol change interoperate with all the existing implementations out there, especially changes to congestion control, and across the range of optional protocol features.

Uncertainties introduced by packet loss are actually pretty easy to work past.
The security of the application should never rely on the client-side. If you're using Javascript or similar for authentication, you're doing it wrong.
This is one of my favorite papers explaining possible problems with arbitrage. http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/~grasselli/ShleiferVishny97.pdf
It is not directly applicable to HFT though.
They also use less space (depth -- imagine a MacBook air with an old-style keyboard), probably weigh less and are much easier to keep clean.

I prefer them for that last point alone. Non-chiclet keyboards get filthy and are a nightmare to fully clean.
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There is no better way to describe my situation right now working for a startup. it's my second desk in one month.
I fully appreciate that subscription plans go some way towards exploiting the laziness of people, but I think you're being a bit harsh:

1. Ultimately, the buyer has every opportunity to cancel the service. I strongly doubt 37signals are going out of their way to make it difficult, as other companies have.

2. If it does what it's meant to do, why would they need to continually update and improve the site?

3. I agree that with a reminder, people may unsubscribe, but it's definitely also possible that people see $99/mo worth of value in their listing. The links are not nofollowed, so the backlink would be worth something. Also, getting a single decent project referral ($10-20k) each year could justify a listing.
I wouldn't argue against using a formatting string in general, but the printf style order-based formatting strings are really bad once you need to localize your app and have to support languages with different word order. In this sense, .NET or Python3-like formatting strings with position-based formatting is orders of magnitude better and I was surprised that Sun decided to use %* instead.

Take a simple example in the lines of
"I've seen {0} {1} {2}".format("John", "eat", "an apple")
...and try localizing this message into e.g. German.

I have a feeling that printf-style is one of the reasons, why the texts in localized versions of some programs are as bad as they are.
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By "standard" I mean IAB sizes and the common sizes sold on BSA (where he's selling the ad). All the other ads on his site are common sizes; just this one slot is the weird "175x125 plus text".
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Oh dear. Was hoping you're wrong, but it seems you're right...at least for the X series. I'm still hoping that the T series will continue with a normal keyboard, especially since my T61 is near EOL for me.
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That said (and I think we agree on this), it doesn't invalidate my argument (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque). The grammatical mistakes I made did distract from the point I was making (ironically demonstrating it all too well).

It also wouldn't be good use of my (or my friends') resources to ask others to proofread an HN comment :-)
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> Making sure you use Flash fall-forwards with HTML5 video/audio available for iPad / non-flash devices.

Can't you for the love of all that is binary do it the other way around? I hate it when sites push Flash on me on the desktop when there's a pure html version ready a user agent string away.
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Amperage is positive: you're charging. So:

- TimeToEmpty makes no sense.

- you're 8 minutes to full.
I worry if people don't know this before joining a startup?

For an employee, surely this would come through the interview process?
What's going on with the design of http://cloudfuji.com/apps/new?app=kandan ?

Left aligned slideshow of different sized compressed images and no text. You took the time to make the client look pretty, 10 more minutes won't hurt.
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Kaufmann is both. They have an endowment, and invest part of that with a bunch of VC funds, in which they are LPs.
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I think you would be surprised at the number of people who apply for jobs at startups without being aware of any of this. Or, just as bad, who hear about this stuff but don't take it seriously.
The obvious next question would be, what's an even denser store of value.

Interestingly, high-denomination casino chips, some professional players don't cash them out since it's much easier to transport them to their place of staying.
Backing a queue up to seconds of depth doesn't increase throughput.

Most of the bandwidth contention is at the edge, right at your DSL connection, so any battle among network connections is a battle among your own usage at any given moment.

Separately, bittorrent is not a latency-sensitive app, it's throughput sensitive, and uTP was designed for bittorent.
Is drag&drop the only way to upload things? Would be nice to have a <input type="file"> because I have no place to drag stuff from.
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Your bus shows up on your doorstep on demand and will go wherever you want it to go? Your taxi will drive you for two hours to see your parents, then wait around for a few more hours to take you all to the beach and only charge you as though you're the car's owner?
What about just sorting your emails by increasing size ?
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I think we easily forget just how broken the rest of the OS were. If I evaluate Linux as if I am a few years back in time, I don't mind the lack of good QA.

I've also broken an install because I tried an upgrade and there wasn't enough free space.

But that doesn't mean Ubuntu isn't fit for end users. My mother and my sister are running Ubuntu on their laptops and do just fine. And they are in no way technical: they just use the OS for their needs, be it browsing, music, movie playback, photo management, etc. I was actually surprised when I went at a small barbecue for my sister's birthday and she had brought her laptop and was playing CDs some friends brought with music. There was no friction -- the laptop just did its job, just as it would have been with any other OS.

You do have a point though: upgrades should be transactional and I'm surprised there is no way to rollback a failed upgrade. I'm actually postponing upgrading them to 12.04 because I don't want to risk breaking the current setup they have and give myself extra work for nothing. I've decided to only apply the security updates for now and switch to 12.04 when end-of-life is reached for their current version.
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>>The main problem with cars in the US is suburban sprawl. A large percentage of the population live in places where a car is required to go anywhere. It's a mess, a disaster of urban planning that's probably impossible to fix.

If you think US urban planning is in a mess, come to India. I bet these self driven cars can't survive for even minutes on any street.

In India, you practically have to chase street dogs, dodge cricket balls, avoid kids playing on the road, find the road in a road of full of potholes, use breath control techniques to escape the stench and lanes are nothing short of mazes which you can't find a way out unless you've lived years in that area.

I am not sure if self driven cars can ever work here.
IE9 is actually not that bad, and IE 10 should hopefully be very good. As a developer my bigger problem with IE9 is that sometimes I forget to comment a console.log after testing.

Their problem is that they want to be "pixel-perfect" across all browser.
I get why, but as a User I don't really care as long as everything else works. And chance are that with IE9 and IE10 it will.

I'm not a IE user, but when we stop supporting IE6 we put a big sign saying that if there were problems we won't fix them and to download a modern browser. But people still went to the site even if some divs were in crazy places because basic function they needed worked and maybe they hadn't the chance of upgrading their browser.

If one of your client is once on another computer with only IE installed and doesn't have permission to install another browser, the fact that he can't use the website at all, is that a feature ?
Why does Google do it?

I can't understand what business purpose it could possibly serve for Google. And if it is just a side R&D project, how come the shareholders do not revolt?
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> Start-ups have their pick of motivated young professionals, and they’re certainly not afraid of personnel shake-ups. Showing that you can easily roll with the punches is one way to ensure your success.

This seems to be at odds with the constant complaint of a talent shortage, especially when startups have to compete with the offers made by AmaGooBookSoft. Which is to be believed?
The thing about Amazon is that they sell almost worldwide and they also have customer support.

I wouldn't want to buy a System76 laptop in Romania and ship it back to the States if it needs service under the warranty.
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There are many implementations of improved congestion control for TCP, several of which are implemented in the Linux kernel.

It's trivially easy to modify congestion control to get arbitrarily fast performance in high bandwidth-delay environments. I can tell you from experience that implementing fast performance in extremely lossy environments is harder.

And hardest of all is to come up with a solution that works on a network that is shared with the common congestion control implementations, and that works with billions of end nodes.

I spent years working on this. Feel free to reach out to me on my email address, I'd love to share with you my experience of commercializing such a product.
This is vital reading for anyone looking to join a startup, especially if you are coming from a corporate background.
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As a counterexample, let's consider Google's blocking of Opera. Google routinely blocks Opera when rolling out new stuff. I kind of get it, because of your point 1.

However, they sometimes offer a "try anyway"-link and sometimes not. The times that I can not easily "try anyway" makes me dislike Google much more than the times that I "try anyway" and it ends up broken in funky ways.

Bottom line; Yes, your reputation suffers when users encounter issues. Your reputation also suffers when users encounter the big blocking issue of not being welcome at all.
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I thought the case was not even about copyright infringement of code but of the APIs i.e. the function names and arguments?

The OpenJDK is GPL'd after all, and well, an argument could be made that Google are infringing by distributing GPLd rangeCheck with the Apache license, Oracle aren't doing that afaik.
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My first-hand experience is that line the blog is mostly wrong. Startups are incredibly afraid of attrition, while at the same time eager to cut loose dead weight.

If the company values you and you hold the keys to some aspect of the company's operation, the team is far too small for them to practice poor retention.

On the other hand, with a finite runway and the need to move quickly, if you can't keep up, there's little reason why the company needs to have you on board.

So I suppose it cuts both ways... but if you're a competent employee, I see startup hiring as advantageous for the employee at this point in time.
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"...and the rest would be up for sale"

I don't think she understands how IPOs work.
In Romania it's common practice to sell cheaper laptops running FreeDOS or some Linux (say, Acer with Linpus) with the expectation that people are just going to wipe it and install a pirated Windows on it.

If you look at the online review for them, the first remark people have is about how Windows drivers are hard to find. Or they ask about the Windows score.

I once called the Samsung hotline asking about Linux support for a laptop they were selling with FreeDOS and the answer was that they only collaborate with Microsoft.

Otoh, it is actually quite hard to find a laptop that's Linux certified. We bought a HP ProBook just because it was certified although it came with Suse.
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The Python vs Ruby thing is tired by now but reading this reminds me again of how many problems Ruby managed to solve with just one construct (blocks).

Python was my first "scripting" language but modern idiomatic Python is almost unrecognizable compared to the Python I started out with in 1997.

The fact that the Ruby I was writing in 2002 looks almost modern is a testament to Matz' foresight.
If they are doing deals with OEMs, they can fix it by being the Apple of Linux distros.

You can still install it on your own machine, but as far as official support goes, you're on your own.
this is a advertising stunt and a scam. They see now a market niche and probably got a free hand from M$ to produce a laptop without Windows. After years of not being allowed to choose your OS I find this insulting from Dell.
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I've read that at Microsoft they promote changing working place (from one office to another), because it increases productivity.
I think it very likely is the case. They can't put ads on the iOS app without giving Apple a cut so they are very likely making the App subtly worse as time goes by.
I don't believe the figures until after they've been sold. The demand for Ubuntu is pretty much non-existent outside the technology enthusiast arena. Ubuntu is just not as polished as Windows either.

OEMs also know there's an easy way out if they don't sell - chuck windows on them and shift them out through clearance sales.

This is all marketoid speil from their marketing VP at the moment.
Do you really want to keep the same format strings when localizing an application? Isn't it much cleaner to just define multiple format strings? Translations in general don't work that way, you can't just move around words and translate them individually, usually the whole expression changes.
Uh, I can’t really second this. I’ve been using Intel graphics for the last 3+ years, and never had a single multi-monitor problem. Intels FOSS drivers (nVidia doesn’t publish FOSS drivers or even specs) support xrandr (the linux standard for multi-monitor configuration) like a charm. nVidia only offers xrandr support in the latest beta of their driver, forcing people to use their weird twinview utilities for years.
I've got a T61. It's widescreen but I kind of like that.

+1 for ebay. I can buy a new one for 100GBP if this packs in.
I'm sorry to tickle your confirmation bias, but that's absolute nonsense. You can waste a lot of time learning the wrong things or learning the wrong way.

I remember learning assembly, Basic, Pascal, Modula, C... in the late 80s and early 90s, from childhood to college, and how many stupid long hours I wasted just for not having the right resource available anywhere, and having nobody to ask (before Uni). Spending days, weeks clueless simply because a certain book wasn't available or, later, because I couldn't get internet access to look stuff up at will.

One gets the wrong assumption that since Google and Wikipedia times everything is easily searchable and personal expert advice is obsolete. It's not. There's an excess of worthless content, even wrong/misleading content, and there are also many questions that Google cannot effectively answer.

Wasting time hitting dead ends is VERY costly. It takes away time and energy, might end up with you having wrong or worse-than-otherwise conclusions.
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I used to really enjoy working for startups. You get to work on a completely open-ended project from a clean sheet of paper, with a bunch of fun people and the energy that comes from building something fast.

The "risk" that this article talks about was actually a bonus in my mind. It meant that, more often than not, the whole company would suddenly evaporate out from under you at some point and you'd find yourself out on the job market again. Since this is an industry where Changing Jobs == Big Fat Raise, having a chance to do so with a perfectly valid excuse ("we rode our $4M straight into the ground, so here I am") was a definite upside.

Not to mention that finding yourself on the street after 6 months coding non-stop while living on somebody's couch will invariably leave a fella with a nice stack of cash. The sort of cash that goes a long way if one were to squeeze in a quick nine month trip to SE Asia before hopping back aboard the next startup for another fun, fast trip into the side of the mountain.

If you're young, unburdened, and looking to get exposed to a lot of cool tech in a short time (and still get paid for it), joining somebody else's startup is totally the way to go.
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