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It is not possible to harp on this trend enough. It's scary how much people will share if you give them the right incentives :( And very disappointing.
Now that's how you run a business.
Haiku now uses a hybrid system so that it can support GCC 2 applications while using GCC 4.

http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2008-05-18/steady_progress_towa...
Owner of the share/company is going to want to use that profits before they die, so the transfer of money from company to individual will happen one day.
Not everyone has the same militaristic view of the world, nor the view that we should impose our views on others by telling them what they should be thankful for.
They can because people are willing to pay for it. Also try fitting a SODIMM slot into a Macbook Air.
It's been that way for awhile, mostly due to the War on Drugs (although the War on Terror also helped kick things into gear on the surveillance side).

Given the sum of world history, I don't see how this ends well.
You've made a bad situation worse by not revealing this first to the WooThemes developers.
Here are a few things you need to think about:

1) How much do the founders need you? This will be helpful in negotiations.
2) How will your role in the company effect its success?
3) How important is salary to you?

All the above will give you an idea of how much equity you can get (or are worth). Use the answers to these questions to help you negotiate.

If salary is really important to you then expect less equity. If you really believe in the company and are willing to work to make it successful then maybe you should go towards more equity and take less salary. This will pay off (much more) in the long run.

I would recommend that you let them make you an offer first. This will give you a baseline on what their expectations are. They might say.. 60K/year and 20,000 options. You need to ask them about the options:

1) What percentage of the company is the employee options pool? This might be 10 or 20%.
2) How many shares are in the option pool, or...what percentage of the option pool is 20,000 options. This will help you determine what actual percentage of the company you may be entitled to.
3) What is the vesting schedule?

Remember one thing when negotiating: You need to ask or you will not receive :).

Good luck!
This title makes interesting conclusion as it seems contradictory. Stimulating enterprise in a developing region generally means more economic activity including more jobs, which means people are working rather than not working - and I would consider this as a direct impact on poverty in a region.

Beyond CGAP's work, I think one should consider microcredit as one tool in a suite known as "microfinance", which includes savings programs and economic literacy education, among other services. For a global summary check out the Microcredit Summit Campaign's 2012 report here: http://www.microcreditsummit.org/state_of_the_campaign_repor...
$100 to add 2GB of RAM? I bought 8GB of DDR for $30. To me the upgrade pricing is the worst part about Apple. I'm lucky that my employer is pricing my fully maxed out MacBook Pro (8GB, 128GB SSD, 1680x1050). There's no way I could afford to actually buy that model myself.
Potentially relevant: it seems like the WooThemes site was compromised recently.

http://www.woothemes.com/2012/04/were-alive-and-kicking/
How's that working out for Best Buy?
I don't think you explained the effect correctly. I think it's:

lower skill -> higher confidence in ability (overestimation)
higher skill -> lower confidence in ability (underestimation)
WooThemes' web site has been down in the past few days due to malicious hacks, maybe related to this bug?

http://www.woothemes.com/woothemes-server-status/
I second this, would love to hear more. I'm really interested in alternative organisational structures of this kind.
Please shoot me if I ever start thinking my brain is too valuable to waste on basic hygiene.

There is a dishwasher. It's five seconds to rinse your dish and put it away.

At the WMF, there is someone whose job it is to make sure the kitchens are clean and the dishwasher gets run, but that's only effective because most people exercise common sense.
I have a lot of respect for Joel and Fog Creek, and those that work for them. Good job getting a position there. That said though, if I were working for Joel, I'd not be writing blog posts about getting a job, I'd be doing my job.
I want to hear the "Injustice – WooThemes Comeback" song. Ch'yeah.
Haiku has a native browser called WebPositive, using Webkit, but it's probably a year or more out of date. I understand that there are efforts underway to sync the browser with a more recent Webkit and get features like HTML5 audio/video in.

It'd be wonderful if someone more familiar with the issue would comment on the browser's status.
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Going by your assumptions, you will be far ahead of the curve. the principles of physics and the mathematics that underpin it are skills you can take anywhere. Computer science students are generally not math illiterate, but a BS in physics will arm you with that ability to out gun any CS student.

I don't know what you want to do in life, but if you know physics, a few languages, and have rock solid higher level math skills then the sky is the limit. David Pines spoke at my sister's graduation and he changed my outlook on life, hence my praise for the field.

I reccomend reading "Forunte's Formula" by poundstone, Complexity The emerging science at the edge of order and chaos by waldrop. My life as a quant by dermann. Oh and And Ploya's "How to solve it". If that doesn't give you an idea of how valuable a legitimate BS in physics is then I'm afraid you cannot be helped.

CS degree or not what matters at the end of the day are your own abilities.
If a person's legal action means he has to pay 50% of his income, it's life.
If a company's legal action means it has to pay 0% of its income, it's life.
Yeah, the way their funds evaporated into nothing after delivering all those t-shirts and whatnot was large in my mind this past week as I worked out the rewards for the comic book I just started the campaign for. I'm basically not offering anything physical beyond the book - more money gets you sponsor credit in the back.
I have to agree with the Woz. Even as an iPhone user, it is easy to admit that Windows Phone's UI is amazing.
If it isn't a K-cup, it probably isn't fresh enough. Also, the place I just left had awful coffee. It was so bad that once when a coworker cleaned the grime that built up in the coffee pot for the past few years of use, it made the coffee taste worse. When grime is the only thing making the coffee better, you need to get better coffee.
You can walk/jog/bike/drive across the bridge from SF and get to Battery Spencer just on the other side (Conzelman Rd.) It tends to be windy up there. That image might have been taken just around Kirby cove road (dirt road -gated, but you can walk/bike down).

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Conzelman+Road,+Sausalito,+CA&...
Yeah, I think it's an excellent practice. I get the metaphorical use of "postmortem", but think "after-action report" (for the document) and "retrospective" (for the meeting) better capture the flavor of what a good one looks like. And like you, I think the most valuable part is what to do differently next time.

The way I work them into the software design flow is just to do them regularly, with varying granularity. We do one every Friday afternoon with beers for the last 30-60 minutes of the day.

Normally we discuss whatever interests us most about the week past. But a couple of weeks ago one of the engineers suggested we do one covering the whole year, and it was great. Lots of interesting observations.
Thanks for your reply. We are building the picture identification in-house, we have a crude working demo as a proof of concept that the tech is good enough.

We've used the Amazon product API to build our databsae, there are ~80m products in there. We're starting one vertical at a time (the algo works best for highly textured products such as watches/book/cd covers so we've started there). We build an in-memory index of image-descriptors which is queried when trying to match a product. As we start seeing other product type, we'll expand beyond amazon.

As for scaling, the index is the one component that isn't trivial to parallelise. Once we get to a stage where a single box can't store it in memory, the first step would be to shard it, with different indexes per product category. Query images will be run through a product-categorisation algo to determine which indexes they need to be run against. This is how we think we'll approach this, from previous experience, but will investigate properly (if) we get large enough.

In terms of affecting page load, our plugin will load async, as will the results returned from the image matching algorithm, so it should be fairly negligible impact.
+1, could you post your patch? My budding startup idea's blog is powered by a WooTheme, and I have a conference this week, so I'd rather deal with this sooner than later.
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So what you're saying (as heard from someone looking to get into the software developer field sometime soon), is that as a developer you still do a lot of documentation reading and you dont just have it all stored upstairs?

If so, that is actually encouraging!
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Just because more Googlers post here doesn't mean Googlers waste more time than employees at other big companies. There are lots of ways to waste time other than HN.

I think a better explanation is that Google (and Facebook, and YC startups) tend to draw from the population of developers that is most likely to read social news sites about science, technology, and programming. They hire from people who try to learn more about the field; those same developers are not likely to stop learning once they've gotten a job at a big company.

FWIW, I'm a Googler and satisfied with the amount of personal time I get. I also don't watch TV, play video games, or spend much time on Facebook, which are the big time sinks for most Americans. The bulk of my non-work time is spent either hanging out in person with friends or commenting on a handful of Internet sites (HN, Reddit, Facebook, G+, OKCupid, and an Amherst-only social network).

When I look at my social networks like Facebook or the Amherst-only one, the most active people tend to be employees of Yahoo, Intuit, Boeing, etc. From this, I can conclude that people at those companies have far more personal time to burn than I do. After all, if they're posting all during the work day, when do they get any work done?
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Palm/HP probably wouldn't have sold it for strategic reasons or something.
You could try a tiling window manager like wmii. It certainly is different from windows, but I've found that this alone really helped my productivity, especially on older hardware.
I haven't tried ffmpeg, mplayer, or mysql but it let me build ruby using ruby-build.
Thanks for your reply. Yes, the algorithm would match against product images, so most likely faces and nature photographs wouldn't match any images in our product database.

Here is an example of what the ads would look like on our site dump.ly:

http://dump.ly/y3uyGE2hpn2j
And it's funny how BlackBerry has been doing this for several years now, but people seemed to have just glossed over it. RIM has had NUMEROUS missteps over the last few years, but they do have some good ideas in there. Let's hope they shine this week with BB10.

Oh, and let me get the obligatory, "BlackBerry? They still exist?" out of the way.
A small, second cursor that hangs out at the bottom of the browser window and only moves on the x axis?

Well, I'm annoyed that I clicked that link, so mission accomplished?
Little, as in, a few hundred thousand per year. I was thinking that if the money of several small companies were pooled together, something beneficial could be done.
oops, my phone spell "corrected" Kickstarter to Lackluster. :)
Yeah, just tried it. Web Positive has an HTML5 score of ~150/500 whereas Chrome on my Mac has a score of 400/500. As more and more applications are available as browser apps, if Haiku updates the browser it'll be a win. Haiku seems really snappy and responsive.
Under "Get started in minutes" Its should be It's.

Cool idea.
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I'm a new HN reader, so while I signed up (thanks!), I must admit this is the first time I'm hearing of Screenleap.

On the front page I noticed "As Seen In" ... Lifehacker. I happen to read Lifehacker so I tried to see if the logo was a link to where it was mentioned - no dice.

After a quick Google search, I found the article devoted to Screenleap (but it doesn't show up on the homepage yet, odd). I really wish websites would make those "As Seen On" logos actual links to where they were featured, otherwise, I generally don't give them much credibility.

Is there a reason why they can't be links?

EDIT: I think this is the first time I've ever signed up for an online service and didn't get an e-mail after signing up. I don't know whether to thank you, or think that people might forget they signed up or something if they don't have an e-mail about it in their inbox.
That's what happens when Sun takes over.
The difference is that birds killed by glass are in an urban environment and, because of that, are adapted and, with a few exceptions, not endangered.

In contrast, almost all wind turbines are in rural or wild environments where some endangered species may live.
My time is too important to spend time hiring light bulb changing contractors.
Oh, and clickable: http://adifyit.com/
Great concept - could be the future in advertising.

But like any ad network, how do you guys plan on keeping up with splogs (spam blogs) abusing your service ?
Reminds me of living with roommates.

It takes literally 10 seconds to wash (not just rinse, but entirely wash) a bowl and a spoon. Nothing has to stay in the sink - just wash things right when you're done using them.
You could say this about having any electronic devices plugged in when you're not observing them. It's not practical.

Do you have empirical evidence that keeping battery powered devices on chargers has a high enough risk to be concerned? Anecdotes aren't evidence. I once had a UPS go bad and nearly melt down while I was sitting next to it. Should we not leave UPSes plugged in?
I'm not sure there's such thing as a "typical" work week. I know that even in just my personal experience, there are long weeks, and there are short weeks, depending on the needs of the project at the time.

I have had weeks where I'd get into work around 10:00 AM and work till 1:00 AM on Mon/Tues, till 11:00 PM on Weds, normal hours (about 10:30 AM - 6:30 PM) Thurs/Fri, and then put in about 3-4 hours on Saturday as well.

I've also had weeks - like last week - where I get in at 1:00 PM, do a bunch of code-review threads & meetings, have a launch party, drink some margaritas out on the Charlie's Patio, watch a Starcraft tournament, and go home after dinner at 6:30.

If you have a good manager, their objective will be to have you accomplish a lot of things for Google without burning you out, so that you can continue to accomplish a lot for Google. And the "heavy" weeks I've mentioned above have accomplished a lot for Google - I've made more money for my employer than I am likely to make in my lifetime. As long as I don't spend all my time slacking off, they don't mind if I spend a few mornings on personal stuff and take advantage of the perks at the Googleplex.
it's apparently owned by http://www.access-company.com/home.html
Cool thanks, fixed.
If you're looking for ruby meetups, come to NYC.rb. (http://www.meetup.com/NYC-rb/) The talks are usually very good and it's a great group of people.
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I agree my summary was a bit breezy. But I think an essential component of their theory is the focus on domain knowledge and metacognition, not skill as it is normally used. Consider the title of their first paper: "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". In the conclusion, they write, "We propose that those with limited knowledge in a domain suffer a dual burden: Not only do they reach mistaken conclusions and make regrettable errors, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it."

Anyhow, for those who want their full take, the original paper is here: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.64....
> At this point all we really _know_ about the government's activities is that they are overpriced, under-effective, and understated in their size.

If the government is as opaque as you describe, than we know nothing at all. You're falling back to a popular assumption for lack of information.

>There is no rational discussion of government's role until these conditions are resolved.

Are you going to lead the revolution [edit from here on] or just throw up your hands?
When I worked at the office supply store across the street from Valve HQ I had a guy come in and order 8 laser printers or delivery and he told me he played the role of IT over at Valve. So I'm sure they actually have people who choose to focus on things like that.
And they're all going to say, "We're just like Valve's flat organization, except here we do it a little differently because we have managers, and a CEO and a few VPs, and ..."

(A cow-orker of mine went to Valve last year; he's incredibly, insufferably happy).
This whole story takes on an interesting flavor given the recent passage of CISPA by the House....
Flat organization doesn't mean you can't hire an office manager, it just means the office manager doesn't have a boss either.
My reaction: meh. Any data you transmit over an unencrypted WiFi connection is available for anyone to gather so long as it's done passively. I can understand the concerns of a major data company like Google having access to this information but the solution is quite simple. Stop using unencrypted WiFi!
Bad PR aside, what does the law say? Is it legal to record traffic from unencrypted WiFi networks?
Well, "creating something fun" is not an easy thing to do. When you get down to pure game design there can be wildly divergent viewpoints of what to do. Should we make this new game more interesting for hardcore players, or for casuals? Is increasing accessibility of the game worth the decrease in depth?
"Where BeOS drove ahead of other operating systems of its time (and where Haiku is still ahead of contemporary operating systems) is that each individual application uses many threads. The core of the application itself has one thread, and each window the application creates has a thread."

I might not have been around when BeOS was first created, but this is certainly not a new concept today. I don't think I can name a major OS today that doesn't support this model. Both Android and iOS are well known for this technique, but they were hardly the first to adopt it.
How do you settle disputes?

In hierarchical organizations, people often look to authority figures to decide between competing alternatives. How does Valve avoid or deal with deadlock, forking, cliques, cabals, butthurt sulking, and other common group dysfunctions?
I couldn't say. But it's implemented at the company headquarters and they are experimenting with it in the stores. They haven't gone back on their commitment to it. It's also been implemented at The Gap:

http://www.gorowe.com/2009/09/14/gap-goes-rowe/

FYI, this is just my opinion and doesn't represent the views of my employer.
And after that, you'll see the inevitable HN posts about how the "Valve" adoption at their company didn't work, which proves the whole idea was bankrupt to begin with, and probably a conspiracy to increase book sales, consulting rates, and the amount of underpants collected by the gnomes.
I'm afraid to ask you -- but do you know yet what on your site made you a victim to this latest update? And thank you for the warning which made me run and look up this update...
Fate, destiny, or in this case, Kismet.

How did it go from "rogue code" to "rogue engineer", anyway?
I agree. I also think the district court in this case made a stupid ruling.

Luckily:

a) This ruling only applies to the particular district in Virgina where this case came up.

b) The district court ruled that the "likes" were not protected speech because "liking" is not making an actual statement on the record of support (i.e. a written statement). However, this ruling is inconsistent with previous supreme court rulings around free speech.

For example, in Tinker v. Des Moines, the supreme court ruled that a group of students wearing black armbands against the Vietnam was a form of protected speech even though there was no written or verbal statement involved in the speech.

In Texas v. Johnson, the supreme court ruled that flag-burning was a form of protected speech as well.

Since flag-burning and wearing armbands as a form of protest are protected speech, and both are forms of speech that do not involve written or spoken proclamations, I have no idea why the district court ruled that "liking" on Facebook was somehow different.
Still arguably there's an unhappy connotation, which is better avoided in cases involving any controversy. TBH I first thought something went wrong during transition to GitHub when noticed the headline on HN.

However, I never did professional copy editing, and indeed it's a nitpick compared to the occasion. Great news and hopefully this will help Django development.
This seemed like a curious enough question I had that followed from the original Valve Flat Org HN post. I imagined others might share my curiosity.

It's possible no Valve employee reads HN (unlikely), but at the very least someone might point us towards a Valve employee answer elsewhere.
Doesn't seem that way, it's a pretty simple exploit. Anyway, the source code for the themes WooThemes sell is obviously available to all their customers.
You'll always be reading in this industry :-)
> Perhaps the most important is that a poorly managed company will eventually go bankrupt, while the federal government can defer that for decades via quantitative easing.

This would be true in an idealized capitalist society, but many companies are one or more of the following:

- propped up by the government (automotive companies, financial institutions)
- in industries with incredibly high startup costs and difficult to obtain special knowledge (defense companies like boeing and lockheed)
- have effective monopolies or oligopolies (utilities in some places, telcos)

Of course these are all far from immune to disruption, but they operate at such a scale that even when disrupted, the competition is often available only for small projects/few customers. The result is while yes they will eventually fail if they are poorly managed, it is unlikely that will be in our lifetime. Personally, I'd rather not wait that long.

Additionally, as I mentioned before, there are some services that I would like to have made available that can't be operated for a profit without government intervention. I am willing to tolerate inefficiency to achieve those goals. (Just as we as a society are apparently willing to tolerate governments other inefficiencies.)

Regarding your point about career tenure, I've often thought that one of the most effective reforms government jobs could get would be making it easier to fire ineffective employees just like a well-run company would.