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The Time Warner CEO (which owns HBO) is on the Charlie Rose show now. One interesting exchange:

"How far off are we from a big movie being released simultaneously in theaters as well as over every platform available? And what will be the model for the release of the movie on the platform?"

"There is a bunch of companies and investors that put up your local multiplex. Lately they've been trying to make the place cleaner, the screens to be crisper, you've got hi-def. And that creates a certain viewer experience to go to the theater and see it that way. So as we think about the fact that can you release simultaneously what happens if you do that, we are all trying to be as thoughtful as we can about doing this in a way that does not undermine the quality of the theater experience. Not take away all the business..."

"You still haven't answered my question."

"Right... so that's one answer... the other answer is if you delay a while to give the theaters a chance to make a long run sell on tickets, what you're doing, and you see it all over the world, is you create gaps for piracy where..."

So there you go.

These guys aren't ignorant, they are maxing out profits. Not everyone is on Hulu yet. This is a really big country and the economics don't make sense for them yet.

He also directly disagreed with the HBO CEO by saying HBO Go "is working" and: "some of the connections where you try to sign on are not as good as they should be and that's what we've got to fix"
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Bad karma. People get hesitant to work at your company if you don't pay your employees, so you only get people who don't mind that risk.
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You are conflating different issues. The only relevant issue here is that he fulfilled his end of an agreement: to refer an employee who completes 6 months at the company. That is done, and he is owed the referral fee/bonus. Whether he left the company after he did the referral is immaterial. By default the debt the company owes him doesn't simply disappear.
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Be more specific. For example, let's assume your lawn mower has a Briggs-Stratton engine.

"fix flooded briggs-stratton" seems to return fairly high-quality results.
The problem is that it's a trade-off - it's not a case of one side being right or wrong. Checked exceptions introduce API fragility: when the implementation of a method changes in a seemingly inconsequential way (it may now throw an error), then all it's callers and all their callers, transitively need to have their signatures edited. What should be a simple matter between just the leaf method and the top-level now has to involve all the code between them, which may not even be in code you authored or controlled.

Unchecked exceptions, however, mean that code that would previously always succeed may now never even be executed. Which makes it difficult to reason about the behavior of your function.

It's the same trade-off that appears in several other areas of language design. Do you force developers to write down their assumptions in the source code, so that everyone reading it knows exactly what's going on? Or do you let them keep it in their heads, so that it can change easily when the system requirements change? Dynamic vs. static typing, global variables vs. parameters, polymorphism vs. conditionals, default arguments vs. explicitly specifying parameters - it's all the same fundamental argument applied to different language constructs.

Which side your on usually ends up depending on whether you read more code or write more code. Maintenance devs always want things to be explicit, because it makes it easier for them to grok the whole codebase and make the change they need to do. Green-field innovators always want things to be implicit, because it means they have to specify less, and everything they specify tends to end up changing anyways. Sometimes the same person ends up cursing both ends of the divide depending on what they happen to be doing at the time. I do a bunch of speculative prototyping for Search Features at Google; in this role, 90% of my code never sees the light of day, and so I write it with tools like Python or JQuery that let me easily change things around and not specify too many of the details. I also do a fair bit of infrastructure work on the search stack; in this role, I write barely any code and spend the bulk of my time tracking down where an obscure piece of data is coming from and how it needs to be modified to add a new feature.
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I'm not sure that the 10k was worth it for J Wu. Employers Google potential employees, and this blog post will definitely show up. Even though I feel he's in the right this type of public shaming would make me think twice about hiring him. Just doesn't seem like it's worth the hassle even though I don't plan on doing anything terrible to my employees (criminal in this case!)

To be clear, I feel that Miso is in the wrong on this. Just probably wasn't worth 10k on calling them out.

EDIT: From the comments it feels like the consensus is either a public shaming or hiding and forgetting about the money. There are other avenues like trying to pressure VC / board members, court, probably more. I wouldn't want this accessible on the internet for the next 50+ years.
Anecdotally that is one of the factors driving up prices. The other main factor is the slowness in which the government opens up new land for building. Also new buildings on new land are taxed more heavily.
Microsoft's Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) will also do an extremely fine job at this, and much more.
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I suppose I would make sure I actually planned to pay him things I promised him. That's as far as second-guessing goes. The call-out was quite fair. It was also inexpensive for Miso since they didn't have to go to court, which also would have been fair.
Oh, hai :)

After thinking about home automation on an on-and-off basis for several years, I have concluded that the only thing that's needed is automation of electrical sockets. Being able to flip a physical switch and/or check its current state from an iPhone covers good 90% of automation needs. The 9.9% is a thermostat, a temperature sensor and a flood sensor for basement. The remaining 0.1% is exotic stuff to measure the magnetic field flow and a wind speed in a bathroom.

And I am convinced that the first company to produce a no-nonsense WiFi-enabled drop-in replacements for conventional wall switches, junction boxes and sockets will wipe the competition clean.

Ahem... now, back to your regular programming of raising $1M off geeks who get all excited about a random sensor having its own Twitter feed :)
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It's not really even $10k, it's the $100-300 it would have cost to have gotten an employment lawyer to accomplish the same thing.

Maybe worth $10k (clearly worth going nuclear for SOME amount of money or injustice -- $100mm? crimes?), but IMO not worth $300. Especially since "$10k + $300/hr for my costs related to this matter" would be totally reasonable too.
UPDATE:

First of all. Thank you. I made this post with hopes that someone out there can learn something from this. Needless to say I got a lot more than what I was expecting. I'm humbled by the attention and support I've gotten from everyone. Strangers and friends alike. The 10k I'll be getting will be going to charity to celebrate the integrity, compassion and passion demonstrated by the community at large.

I want to especially thank the Hacker News community for helping this get the attention I believe it deserved. The discussions it generated in the comments section was fruitful for everyone. Again, thank you all. None of this would've been possible without your help.
Self-correcting.

Any employer who would have a beef with this is probably not worth working for anyway. Honest people have little to fear from public disclosure of their behavior.
I've lived in Waikiki for the past 2 years. I'm a 15 minute walk away from the beach. Do you know how often I visit? Once a week.

Moving here will not magically make you more outgoing or productive. While I love it here, I lived in Austin and miss the tech culture from the area.

Granted I probably should network more but it's mostly IT, real estate, and tourism industry. There is no comparison to SF / Austin for startup culture.

If you're browsing HN and in Honolulu, let's grab a beer.
I read the headline and thought excitedly that somebody was proposing reclaiming the term "hacker" from the startup industry who has co-opted and defined it as something involving venture capital and minimum viable products. Maybe I'll have to write that article.
Thanks, that was sort of what I was getting at. I'm building a browser based synth (not quite ready yet), and these are for it.
Why do people write iOS apps?

> So, let's see. For an inflated price, you publish your app on the App Store which has a vastly more complex application process, which places arbitrary restrictions on what services and configurations you can run under it and which retains the right to suspend your app, possibly permanently, if you don't comply. Oh, and you end up with what is ultimately an app that is only accessible within Apple's walled garden.

I'm not saying this venture will necessarily succeed, but I wouldn't dismiss it so easily.
I don't think they did admit they were wrong, because they weren't necessarily wrong.

They admitted they made a mistake in not clearly documenting their policy, which was ambiguous. As part of correcting that mistake, they recompensed an employee who was wronged by the ambiguity. They did this not because they were obligated by a policy or contract, but by ethics.

I think it's debatable whether he was entitled to the bonus, that's why I say they weren't "necessarily" wrong. Obviously Miso felt he was not entitled to it, since under their clarified policy he would not be.
> How would you feel if after someone fired you they blogged about all the mistakes you made on the job publicly referring to you by name?

Totally not the same thing. If you make mistakes on the job you have not broken any contract. In this case, Miso (almost) broke a contract. That's why the public naming is justified. Releasing details of an employee's performance is not (unless there's an expectation that the company will do so).

Also, this guy has won a fair amount of approbation from many posters here and a few hirers. There will be certain employers who would be more willing to hire him because of his principled stance, even if there are more who are hesitant because they believe unethical practice should not be outed publicly. It's a fair risk to take if he thinks it'll filter out dodgy employers in future and is worth the benefit to the community.

We should be applauding this guy, not criticizing his choice.
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This is ridiculous. The whole thing. The way he dressed probably says none of the things they think. That is typical behavior for a self made man who had to actually create something of value to make a buck instead of having to do social jockeying to get hired. Different worlds. The bankers live in a monkey sphere where pecking order is incredibly important. Mark does not. "There is always room at the top" and all that.
Do Americans really have such a strong aversion to getting a passport? Why is "you don't need a passport to get to X" even in the list of reasons why you should go to X? A passport is just another piece of ID. Yeah, it's a bit too bulky to carry around in your wallet, but most of the time you don't even need to carry your passport around. Is it really so difficult for Americans to get passports?

Or is passport-talk just an oblique way of saying "you don't need to worry about visas"?
Not working there.
If I may add a few other considerations...

1) Age discrimination

I am 40. You wouldn't believe how many "in urgent need of a tech co-founder" entrepreneurs recoil when they learn the fact.
You won't fit in. You won't understand us. Blah blah blah...

Umm...I assure you, if I can deal with half a dozen programming languages in my sleep, if I can run a family, if I am strong enough to run 30+ miles a week (on top of weight training), if I can complete my day job without swearing or sweating, I CAN UNDERSTAND YOU and I WOULD NEVER JUDGE YOU based on your age alone.

I only care about what you got under your skull cap.

2) Do you know this? Do you know that? Can you solve that tricky trick we found on the Web this morning?

I don't care.
If you have a problem, I will research it. Before you have 2 problems, I will have picked all the knowledge I need to give you 1 solution.
It could be something I already know. It could be something I never heard about. I am a human being. Adapting is in my DNA and I adapt all the time.

3) We got this great idea/solution, will you help us build it?

I'm sorry, what is the GREAT problem (the GREAT problem someone will pay good money to address) you wish to solve?

Honestly, guys, ideas are a dime a dozen, particularly ideas in the consumer space where a business model seems to be optional.

What you need is knowledge about a tremendous pain/problem a lot of people want to spend money on solving.

4) Success is a conjunction of talents.

I have great respect for business people, sales people, consultants, customer service people, patent lawyers, finance gurus, etc.
They all do things that are essential to growing a sound business. Things I should not do.

Everyone must bring something to the table and everyone must know and appreciate what everyone else brings to the table. Freeloaders sooner or later sink the ship.
What about the way they hold their fingers?
Massachusetts, not Boston. The way the US is setup each state is different - if you want that kind of health care, you move to Massachusetts. If you want fierce independence there are states that do that, there are states that heavily promote gun ownership, and those that discourage it. Some places have high income taxes, some property taxes, some no taxes, etc.

You can pick where you want to live based on what you like. A state in the US is almost as big as many countries, so you can think of the US as a conglomerate of many countries.

However Massachusetts is having some adverse selection going on as people who otherwise could not afford health care are going there and putting a drain on the system. They are also having a shortage of family doctors.

What is making the states very upset at the current federal plan is that they loose the opportunity to decide for themself how they want the state to run.
In the current job market, you can basically be anything but actually in prison and get a job, assuming you can do the work. (I suppose work-release could be accommodated for designers if they can also code).

In normal times/contexts, something like this would probably be at least slightly prejudicial to a hiring manager. 1) He appears to have at least somewhat screwed up at the job, in a way which wouldn't have been disclosed otherwise 2) He goes to the public vs. normal legal channels when there is a dispute. While you may not intend to have a dispute, it's always worth knowing how disagreements will be handled.
Thank you for reminding me of one of the reasons I love being a developer =)
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love that you posted here when you first saw it, then posted again after listening to a bunch that brought back memories... i did the exact same thing.
You might want to consider that that photo of Mark made every mainstream media and consider how older people who buy stocks might think of investing in facebook if they are turned off by what, to them, will seem like immaturity. There is a reason that company management of many widely held companies appears all serious and well groomed. Have you ever seen a General Electric annual report?
This reminds me of another Kickstarter that has already come and gone and are now in production Twine:

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I respectfully disagree, but this really isn't the forum for this discussion, so I'll bow out here.
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There's "wrong to not pay him" which is distinct from "he was entitled to be paid under terms of contract" (which itself would have multiple interpretations based on who was reading it, etc.).

They were uncontrovertibly wrong to not pay him, because they've lost 10-100x $10k in goodwill, recruiting capability, etc. If they really wanted to be strict and avoid establishing a precedent, they could have just given him an extra $10k bonus for severance vs. $10k for the referral amount; I doubt he cares what the memo line of the check says.
'A properly normalized and "constrained" database prevents data loss from stupid mistakes.'

A properly written application layer also prevents data loss from stupid mistakes.
A stupid mistake made while setting up a properly normalized database also causes data loss.

You have to be very smart to be able to design a normalized constrained DB well. The fact that only smart people can do it doesn't mean that people who don't do it aren't smart.
I'd never heard of Miso before this; everybody is a winner here.
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If you would have finished it, you would have found that Square's service was professional throughout. They never treat him as if he is "guilty until proven innocent". The rep just tries to explain to him why repeatedly sending emails will actually make their response take longer, and it's reasonable.

She could have used the passive voice in her explanation, "when someone [blah blah] they will naturally inhibit", which would be harder to read as hostile. But that's a pretty subtle point that I don't think can be expected for someone who is likely judged on responses/hour and messages in queue. Plus, he was being pretty hostile leading up to this, so I think her response shows poise. These reps are humans after all, and they deal with irate and unreasonable people all the time.
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It was colorful language, not dismissal out of hand. It can be hard to communicate emotion online, so it's easy to take offense where none was meant. I think that's what happened here.
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"Too bad you forgot sucks for you" is not what the law says, nor is it the ethical thing to do, IMO.
HBO does not need your money, they do really well selling their subscriptions. HBO's business is based on charging $200/year to subscribers in exchange for exclusive content. By offering a la carte shows at $9.99 or whatever they would be breaking the exclusivity that they sell to their real customers. The pirates' argument seems to be that HBO does not have the right to produce exclusive content for their subscribers, as if access to all entertainment is some fundamental right, it is not.
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All of that is true, but content licenses are, in fact, a very large portion of that bill. This hastily googled link (i.e. I didn't finish reading it) claims that HBO gets $7.27 per subscriber. That's full half of Netflix's rates right there, for what, maybe 5% of the per-viewing-hour content delivered?

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118042241
Maybe it's a bit of both? Going IPO strictly to attract top talent seems a little naive, no?
Since we are talking about SpaceX in here, I figured I would linked to a image Elon posted today of the Grasshopper landing gear. Grasshopper is a testing platform they are creating for an eventual reusable version of the Falcon 9 rocket.

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You are probably right. It's really not worth the trouble and potential backlash it might cause in the future. I personally wouldn't do it.

However, I want to thank J Wu for doing this. What he did was commendable.

I know tons of freelancers who worked with companies or individuals, and end up not getting paid properly. They often fear loss of potential customer and do not take it public, even though they are fully on the right. Legal battle is often not an option for them. The cost can be hefty and even more importantly, it's a total waste of time. Legal battle breaks concentration on your work and drains you out.

I hope that this kind of dispute settling becomes normalized. Fulfilling one's responsibility is done most effectively when your accountability is tested publicly.
Dear OP,

I know you wrote this article thinking, man, it is time to get some HN karma action. They will eat this stuff up! And indeed, there are a lot of people who upvoted you. Congratulations!

And yet, this has to be one of the more egotistical, narcissistic, self-serving rants I've seen on HN. There are a lot of lately. They generally starts with the line, "Why I..." At least you didn't post one of those. Small favors I suppose.

I'm sorry you're so in demand that people won't stop hounding you to join them and that it is just takes too much time for you to politely tell them no! How awful that must be for you.

Engineers are not the center of the universe. The good ones are difficult to find, but good people of all disciplines are hard to find. I would chew my own arm off for a top tier sales guy who could build sales plans and execute them deftly. An bizdev guy who can maintain a large network and work them effectively and isn't a schmuck is worth their weight in gold. A product guy who actually talks to, understands and truly empathizes with customers? Far more rare than you are.

At some point in your career, I hope soon, you will come to realize that non-engineers have value too.
Josh made a comment under the other story stating he would donate any money he gets to charity.