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Oh, look another Dustin Curtis blog post on Hacker News, again. While some of the things Dustin says are true and interesting, this post assumes we're all idiots that don't know that companies like Twitter are tracking user information. What's the big deal here? Oh, Twitter will know what links or sites I'm visiting? Good for them, if they find that information valuable then so-be-it.

I think it's more than obvious Dustin is targeting his posts at the HN community who lap them up, it's all just too easy for him now. Sorry about that rant.
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It might not be important to you, but I don't think the article is saying that it has to be. I think it's a good yardstick, though, for taking the 'temperature' of the sorts of policies and the kind of work environment you're about to be standing in if you decide to take a job.

As someone recently said to me when I asked if their e-mail address was "firstname.lastname@" -- "Please, we're still a startup; firstname@ is fine." It's a part of the corporate culture, no matter how small, and I suspect if you dig deeper you'll easily find other seemingly trivial but illustrative examples of how people think and work in a company.
Well, I'm probably not the one best to explain why this business has become so popular with a mass audience as I was really just pointing out where the idea came from. But if it helps, this business has gone onto be much more than just stuff for "paper nerds". An example on the top of my mind: J Crew carries these notebooks in their retail stores and online: http://www.jcrew.com/mens_feature/ingoodcompany/fieldnotes.j.... But I think Aaron captures it best:

“Will they go out of style? Oh yeah!” Draplin says. “The people who have a loop for frivolous shit, they’re one out of 100. There’s 99 other motherfuckers who take notes because that’s their job. The UPS guy that comes in here, he uses them. I gave him one a year ago he just fills full of shit. I would much rather see him using the things. It’s just paper. It’s not cool. The fonts aren’t cool at that point. But it works for him. And that is a cool thing."

http://wweek.com/portland/article-17913-the_write_stuff.html
Sorting by most sold/popular is ok on the fist items because other ppl looked for the actual stuff and bought it.

but even that doesn't help on less popular categories
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On the one hand I get why people are excited about this and why people like coffeescript, especially when source maps start working in inspector/firebug. You can write web apps in the language you love and know. Cool!

On the other hand, this really sucks. Javascript is just maturing to where it is really awesome! And there is a ton of collaboration among app developers because javascript was the only game in town for so long.

Of course people will continue to collaborate but not, I fear, at the same level. 3rd party libraries will continue to be available, but not as many will fit in so neatly with people coding in other languages.

This has already come up a few times with coffeescript and in a couple years when it is truly easy for people to work in other languages, we'll have a tower of babel effect.

JS is really good. It isn't that hard to learn if you already know other languages. It has warts but it is also very powerful so often it is worth it (check out the lines of code and speed vs other languages):

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Nothing for me. Chrome on PC. It opens the search box, though and I get to the phone number after typing 6.
OK, so it's not exactly news. But we only have these 'privacy implications' because our browsers give mines of information to any website that cares to ask for it. GET requests used to be seen as OK to make on behalf of a user, but these days I feel that the hostname in my location bar should be the only one I send any HTTP requests to, for a given page.
Keep in mind that EDS, when HP acquired them, had 139,000 employees.

The cloud has fangs. Just a matter of time for the big IT strategic outsourcers to feel the pinch (looking at you, IBM, CSC, Infosys, TCS, etc).
For #3, if it's that broken, kill it.

Always though Amazon were putting crap on the categories in the hopes I'd buy it.

Like markets puts peanuts close to beer.

If it's all textual search, and that bad, kill it.
They sure love to use GWT with an indecipherable exchange format though, have tried to scrape a few things in adwords before. I'm sure it is possible but there was enough of a deterrent for me to not bother.
I saw this link just after MarlonPro did, in the feed of a Facebook friend who is an author on homeschooling. One comment by one of her friends was, "Perpetuating lesson plans that may or may not actually be interesting to a child and may actually turn a child off a topic? The teacher can keep her big bucks. . . . although, wonder if you could do plans that promote independent learning?" It is interesting to think about what could be involved in lesson plans for kindergarten,

http://www.mrsjumpsclass.com/

http://mrsjumpsclass.blogspot.com/

and what puts kindergarten teachers, who are graduates of college major programs in education in the usual case, in need of lesson plans for their young pupils. Is there room for a lot of other market entrants in this market?
You have to press ctrl THEN g THEN 6. One after the other.
That kind of passive aggressiveness will make your coworkers hate you and could get you fired because they know you don't have to do that.
Right, but other sites scrape that free info and republish it with the goal of drawing traffic. Apparently, Stack Overflow has an API. I don't know the functionality of their API, but it doesn't matter: via API or web scraping, the content of the SO database is all over the web, yet SO is thriving.
I have mixed feelings about this. I lived in India for almost a decade - Calcutta to be precise, but I think what I have to say applies to most of India.

What happens is that Teachers in schools start tutorial classes. Either singly or in groups they set up tutorial homes and they recruit students from their day jobs. Often there is a hidden implication that if you don't join the tutorial (for which, of course you pay extra money) you will fare poorly in class.

At best, the teachers put less effort into their regular job and students suffer.

I would hate for this system to be adopted widely. Putting stuff online is a little different, but I am very ambivalent about this kind of privatization of education...
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Speak for yourself. In operations, I have far too many graphs and widgets and knick-knacks, and I can really use all the real estate given to me (particularly when in command). I have duals and still don't have enough. At my last job, I even stuck a USB dongle on my iMac for a third, but it ended up being a painful experience and negatively impacted things like Exposé.

You can never go too Star Trek when it comes to cool graphs. It's not a pissing contest, either, honest; I genuinely need all of that information in front of me in a crisis.
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Sometimes an E-mail is used on other company systems as a log-in, in whole or in part. I used to sympathize with past co-workers who had names much longer than mine, imagining them having to type "really_long_first.really_long_last@company.com" just to log into some web site.

I've also seen IT people enforce their random rules on everyone, leading to things like "rba186" as someone's actual E-mail address name instead of something meaningful.

So yes, choosing your own log-in and E-mail name would be pretty nice.
>banks just create the necessary money out of thin air

This activity is ultimately underwritten by deposits.

It should also be noted that paying down debt is counted as saving from a statistical perspective. It just means value is being transported back in time versus forwards.
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Lucky. I do front-end dev, so it really helps to have my website & the PSD I'm working off of side-by-side.
Ah.. that's what I get for not clicking.

In any case, the FBI was out of control.. (as usual it seems..) - But they got a restraining order. Isn't that what you're supposed to do when someone won't leave you the hell alone?
Are the new AWS features posted from accounts that are 2 hours old?

blog.parse.com has an rss feed for those who are interested; I'm personally tired of the spam.
Congrats on your job and all, but I don't think a counter-offer with a raise should be taken as the action of a "skeezy jerk." It sounds like a reasonable reaction to losing a good employee.

Financial considerations are a significant part of a lot of peoples' reasons for working where they do. Some may even use job offers as bargaining tactics. If you were working at a hedge fund, obviously finances are at least part of your motive. So perhaps your boss merely sought to play to that.
Well it might not be technically okay or PC to say this but if you listen to the guy's talk I'm sure you'll get the egotistical tone. Egotistical is too strong a word but he very much seemed to like calling attention to himself. Specifically I'm talking about his self introduction where he talks about the dozens of businesses he started or helped start as well as the way he really enjoyed throwing in the thing about "job creators" being not far from "The creator". Plus there were a smattering of references to himself scattered throughout.

Based on the transcript alone my argument can be pretty weak but anyone with at least one perceptive bone in their body can see what I saw if you watch the video. I agree that no one can know a person's motivations for sure and I feel like a hypocrite for doing it myself but in some cases it's just obvious. There's more to this than just what he says, watch his body language and listen to his delivery.

I actually have experience with people like this. I often give talks to different community groups and schools and such on the topic of teen drug abuse along with a father who lost his son to an overdose. This man agrees to speak whenever asked and claims to do it for the good of the youth in our community but once he starts speaking you can easily tell his intentions have shifted and his cause has now become about him instead of educating the audience. The content of his talks are definitely educational but he always gets off the subject and pats himself on the back for some great thing he did which was related to the topic but unnecessary to say along with some heavy name dropping. This TED speaker reminded me of the guy I often talk with. (Now, does ending my commend with a personal anecdote make my comment all about me now? Haha)
> And, anyway, if the business people do the market research they're supposed to do first, and the demand isn't there, they won't bother starting anyway.

If that's so I can tell you quite a number of very successful companies that should never have been started. ;)
Yes. Fundamentally, the goal of a business is to create value, in the form of lower prices or better services.

The reason there is so much political emphasis on job creation is that the unemployed are a small but vocal minority, who's political decisions may rest almost entirely on job growth. Whereas value benefits a lot of people in a small way, but value alone probably will not be enough to sway someone's voting decision.
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200 lines of code is a trivial project.

I suspect you'll discover that as the magnitude of the project approaches anything useful, the complexity and issues I've raised will increasingly become apparent.

Like I said; it's a great toy to hack away with. If you're writing something less than a few k-loc, go for it! :)
> Learn to prioritize for yourself instead of expecting your slag pile of a management structure to do it for you

What you are suggesting is easier said than done. I think that most good developers have the mentality you are describing...at first. When you work in an environment like this, however, you get worn down. You can only put up a fight for so long before you start getting all sorts of mixed up and you don't know what the f to do. If you took the best prioritizer in the world and put them in a corrosive environment like this one, the environment would eventually win out. I really feel for guys like the one that posted this original article and some of the subsequent commenters. I have been in that boat before and it is not fun.
That's why you have a VIP with you. If he's not her boss's boss, the whole thing is a lot less likely to work.
Some quick pie based economics.

Marketing only increases the amount of pie you get when compared to no marketing at all, it doesn't increase the amount of pie available to get however. The problem is not in grabbing more pie than everyone else, the problem is a shortage of pie being made available because certain people collect pies as a hobby and they are doing rather well these days and have fantastic new methods to collect and store pies, so leaving less pie around for everybody else.
In your example, why not select the non-circles with one rectangle select, then invert the selection by Shift-rectangle selecting everything?

As an aside, the lasso is a "direct selection" tool, operating on individual paths rather than shapes, not that this helps in your example. But it'd work well if I wanted to select, say, only the bottom side of your rectangle, for essentially the reason you dislike.
Pretty negative - so the lesson plans are crap, they don't promote independent learming, the children are not interested. You read all that from the article?

Why not buy one, check it out? They are cheap, many are free. Its easy to criticise, but almost as easy to have an informed opinion.

I can imagine many new teachers are glad to have an experienced educator guide them. It can be challenging to have a fresh plan 180 days in a row. At the least, these plans provide another viewpoint.
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I totally get the monitor point, totally disagree with the email point though. Absolutely zero of my personal identity is tied into how company related correspondence are routed to my inbox.

If the email thing really is that big a deal let a cookie cutter corporate email address be a constant reminder to you that somebody else owns your time until you build something of your own, and then you can decide email names.
This reads eerily like my job, just s/code change/system change request

Love the my job, hate the bureaucracy.
Those problems aren't "partisan topics" just because one party adamantly wants to make them worse!
Yeah I mean, in 5 years are you going to want people to find this blog post where you're shitting on your former employer for valuing your presence at their company? Valuing it so much that they offered to double your salary?

Maybe they are skeezy jerks, I dunno. Those kinds of people do exist in the world, but it's pretty tacky flaming them in public.
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The tricky bit is that if there is a bug in the change, the VIP might suddenly be busy with other work.

And as you said, a smart VIP is there in the room, suggesting things get done. Explicitly not writing things down in emails.
I'm just the opposite. I was offered a couple of 20" monitors but asked for a huge monitor. Do not regret it.
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Screw the monitors, as long as I have some good coffee, a filtered water machine, and my desk is close to the bathrooms (see previous two reqs), I'm in heaven. Well that and actually having something worth working for. Greenfield projects are the best, followed by high-profile, high-pressure applications where you directly affect the company's bottom line. Sadly none of these can be found in the corporate jobs I've been working at lately.
(Not trying to be snarky) Who ever said (or honestly believed) that the purpose of a business is to create jobs?
But if we're not going to focus on job creation, then we need to out-and-out admit that the natural rate of unemployment has gone up and we need to supply for the unemployed.
> Or you could just hire responsible people and ask them to use their judgement,

Or, just as easily, you could sprinkle magic fairy dust over your servers to solve provlems.
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Anyone know how the tax situation is handled for employees?

Is there a tax event + lockup for anyone, or do all employees own their shares outright as RSUs with prior 83(b) elections?
I disagree that it's at all reasonable.

The only reason to make a counter offer is because at least one of the (major) reasons an employee is leaving is money (and that's basically never the reason). People leave because it's not a fit. Money isn't going to make it a fit, so as a manager giving a counter-offer, if you know what you're doing.. you're buying time. Hoping the employee will take the offer and you'll figure out how to make them less important to you over the next N months. That's skeezy. Otherwise you don't know any better. You're a shitty manager and you're out of touch. It doesn't occur to you that you already have a team where your best is leaving, and now you'll spend the next N months making your best even more bummed out and less productive (especially since they're suddenly in the position of realizing how much leverage they have with you).

The whole thing is sad and terrible. If you're a manager and this happens, let it. Then turn around and figure out what your remaining employees need to be happy and fulfilled.
At $100b valuation it's worth 50% what Google is. This seems ludicrous, Google is far more diverse and actually has a working ad revenue model!

I'd rather have 1 Google share than 2 Facebook shares for sure.
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I'm in the one big ass monitor camp too, I've got two 20s right now and one is almost wasted (it's the Outlook, chat client, and music playing holder). I've tried actually utilizing both but my field of vision feels off the whole time because I dont like having the break between the two centered, too much context switching. But to each their own.
you're shitting on your former employer for valuing your presence at their company?

Fuck no. Nice try. They didn't value his presence at their company. They valued the reversal of his decision to depart.

If they valued his presence they would have been paying him what they thought he was worth (or maybe even considered other factors that made them so different from the new gig in his mind).
Congratulations. Great PR strategy there, using a timely news story to get covered.

The product itself looks great, and the TC article did a much better job than average in explaining why the big companies won't be successful building this.
I find his domain highly ironic given his views on email addresses.

My identity is with my personal email addresses. Company address is ephemeral and "throw-away" over the long haul.
Then you either demand dedicated "anti-office hours" or you tell them that it's not feasible that project B will get done with the way things have been recently. They're not technical, and all they can do is take your word on when you think you can finish it. They're not going to pick up on the caveats you've laced in your estimate. Also, you should let them know ahead of time that things are slipping instead of them finding it "behind schedule" on their own.

Honestly, don't take this as an insult, but it just doesn't sound like you're the right person for the position. If you have trouble pushing back when you need to, then you should find a spot where there is someone pushing back for you.
> Pissed off hours spent on Hacker News: 14.

Seriously I've already mentioned this for your last post, but imo it's really time to leave your job for something else Ed. Unnecessary stress lessens the quality of your life, as well as lowering its total lifespan.
This is short by the standard of well-considered material of durable merit warranting serious reflection.

It's not short by the standard of contemporary consumable Internet content, which is to be expected, as most of that content is not designed to enlighten. It's designed to catch your attention long enough to tell you about a brand, whether corporate (advertising) or personal (blogging).

And at any rate, serious writing implicitly asks for an investment of time in contemplation above and beyond line scan time, so its 'reading time' is only loosely coupled to the apparent length of the material. Making that investment increases the payoff, it doesn't dilute it. "You get out of it what you put into it."

If content consumption time is directly linearly related to content length, that's a pretty good flag that you're probably not getting much real value out of it. I've found low value content to be a difficult honeypot to resist even on HN, which is comparatively a pretty high-quality aggregator.

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It's interesting how money clouds people's judgements. I don't see the counter-offer as offensive, I would take it as a compliment that they really wanted to keep you(of course it stings to know that you were probably underpaying you while you were there, but that's how businesses work they pay you just as much as your worth).

Also, you should always negotiate when you get a job offer. Remember the employer has tons of expenses to have you there and a few thousand more per year is relatively little to them, but significant to you, the worst they can tell you is that's the best they can offer. Any employer that would take offense at an attempt to negotiate is not worth working for.