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I see you're irrationally proselytizing again.

We just saw you over in the programming languages thread, now you're here, refusing to confront the reality of how broken M/R is in Riak.

What monkey crawls around on your back to make you so confrontational and irrational?
Love the site, just wish I could have this at a different volume than Mumble/Skype.
tangent: an oddity about pajamas is they are actually quite formal, being a shirt and pants. The top has a collar, cuffs and a front pocket - more formal than a T-shirt. It's odd that people should dress for sleep as if attending an important occasion - perhaps in case they should die before they wake, they are prepared for a funeral, and to meet their maker.
So you made... a splash screen?

I've been listening to EMs since 1999 - Oakey's world tour. Looking forward to whatever you're building.
Ideas are everywhere and most aren't unique. The average "business" guy's ideas on implementation are usually quite crappy.

If someone wants me to be their "technical" co-founder, I will want market-rate salary compensation and equity equal to the other founders and they better be well connected to sales & marketing and additional funding opportunities. They need me, not me them.
What hover effect is going on here? Might someone point to the pertinent CSS?

Is it just a glow effect?
If you dig that stuff, you should definitely check out what John 'OO' Fleming is putting out these days. His Essential Mixes are absolute quality, and he's also got a monthly podcast that you can get on iTunes that is very addictive.
Being one of those idiots who went all in with MongoDB with our startup, I can relate. NoSQL should really be called NoDB. There will come a point where you ask, "Dude, where is my database?"

Riak looks interesting but its overkill. They recommend at least three nodes. We went back to PostgreSQL.
And not only that, your application becomes littered with:

if (data.schema_version === 1) { ... }
else if (data.schema_version === 2) { ... }

UGH!
"Most of the (unstated) point of the bonus was employee retention. I was unretainable. Paying me a giant bonus was irrational."

This is why I feel _some_ sympathy for Miso - they've got a scheme intended to improve retention. They then put in a set of requirements, goals, and milestones that didn't provide appropriate incentives for the behaviour they wanted to promote - they _weren't_ looking to reward guys who were going to bail after 12 months for hooking up their friends who were going to jump ship in 7 months. But they chose a set of metrics that means the OP had every right to feel entitled to his $10k.

But Miso have handled it _very_ badly (on the assumption that the blog post is an accurate reflection at least of how the poster saw the situation unfold).

If I could upvote your last sentence several more times, I would…
Exactly. I am hoping, one day they'd realize it doesn't make sense to waste money writing plug ins for each browser and platform, and just use the standard, but...
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I have introduced myself to programming with MATLAB, Python, and Java at work but my job doesn't require me to advance my skills in programming. I want a job that challenges me to program constantly and continue learning. What can I do to get in the field and build my resume?

If I know basic programming and have a BS in physics/astronomy would it be possible to find a 60k+ job? Thanks for any advice.
The key is that PostgreSQL 9.2 will be able to handle a 64 core workload, but current released versions of PG do not.

The fact is current versions of PG are unable to use more than 60% CPU on a 24 core machine. Do you know anyone who uses a dev version of an RDBMS in production?

http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/BANLkTimVboKxzGS9B...
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It wasn't a while ago someone from DEC made bone headed prediction -

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

I don't understand why media companies don't get it that future is Internet. iTunes and Netflix are shining examples of that. What more evidence do they want?

Edit: Added Netflix reference
Does this remind you of someone else?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7874307/Prince-th...
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Or come to Michigan where you can find startups at 2003 era pricing and few angel investor competitors.
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No, it's not. The referenced article is talking about Postgres 9.2devel. Version 9.2 isn't out yet, and even if it was, it still wouldn't be true due to the clause "and has done so for a few years".

The lock manager bottlenecks that stopped PG from using more than 60% of the cpu power on a 24 core box were discovered a little less than a year ago.

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2011/07/read-scaling-out-to-32-cor...
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So you like building castles. You start small. One little itty bitty castle. So small that you can only fit one knight in it.

But then you build another. One with a rather shallow moat. But hey, its your best creation so far.

By the tenth castle you've built you realise something. You have gotten old. Yowsers! You were having so much fun to even notice.

Yet you don't stop. The next castle is waiting. Plus this one will have four towers and a fifty horse stable.

Point is: Go build castles and stop worrying about not enjoying it. Life is too short to worry.
Build something and start contributing to the open source community. Once you have some work out there, I bet you will be able to find a programming job. A lot of great companies don't pay attention to your degree, they will just want good problem solvers who can learn quickly.
> It's really not the same as giving refunds to a customer. Keeping your customers happy is really important.

Reason for giving refunds is because it is the right thing to do. That is what should be the basis of decision. Otherwise you run into troubled waters as soon as you need to choose between 2 parties. Who should you make happy? Customer or the investor? Customer or the employee? employee or the investor? And such situations arise all the time.

> The soul reason for them is employee retention

But that is not the reason for referral bonus. Its aim is to encourage people to refer their friends for hiring. By doing this, do you think Miso has achieved the desired effect on the current employees? To put it more bluntly, do you want your employees, who have a possibility of leaving with in 6 months time frame to refer their friends? Given how difficult hiring is and if they are looking to hire, I would pay the referral bonus even if they left before it can be claimed.
I'm from New Brunswick, currently living in Moncton, and I'm really surprised you mentioned New Brunswick, and then called it exotic! But it is indeed all relative.
You in Honolulu? If so, in the local tech scene? I'm a tech exec of a mid-sized company in Honolulu- always like to meet other local like minded folks
Do you honestly think that they're going to think to themselves "bah! the .com tld isn't secure! I should be looking for a .secure website!"

I don't agree. I've seen people decline to do online business because the payment page wasn't https. This was not that tech savy of a person, and it actually impressed me. People adapt quicker than we realize.
Somrat is actually a friend of mine (former coworker...), and I emailed him to point out the HN explosion over this, and ask if they'd consider paying the $10k.

Apparently he'd already done so, and commented on the blog:

http://jzhwu.blogspot.com/2012/05/im-former-miso-engineer-an...

Somrat NiyogiMay 10, 2012 9:37 PM
I'm CEO of Miso. Let me start by saying, this was our mistake and we apologize. We reached out to Joshua Wu and we are paying his referral bonus.

Let me dig into this further. We have a policy in place where if a Miso employee refers a full-time hire to Miso, after the referred employee has worked at Miso for 6 full months, the referring Miso employee will receive a bonus. Pretty standard stuff. What we didn’t make clear is what the timing is and other requirements for receiving the referral bonus. We did not have a clear and complete policy and it was our responsibility to communicate fully with our employees. This is clearly our fault.

Our referral program is still in place and we will continue to encourage our team to refer the best candidates to Miso. Moving forward, we have established the following clear criteria to explain how employees will be eligible for the $10K referral bonus:
- The employee must provide a referral for a full-time hire.
- The referred employee must work at Miso for 6 full months after hire date (excluding any leaves of absence)
- The referring employee must be employed at Miso and not have given notice to depart the company prior to the date of the bonus payment.

If the above has been met, the referring employee will be eligible to receive the referral bonus in the first full pay period following the 6-month anniversary of the referred employee.

We are human and we make mistakes. We’ve learned something from this.
> No, it's a service, provided by Square, that you pay for.

Just because you pay a company doesn't mean you have an unconditional right to do anything you want with a company's resources. You do not pay for unconditional money from customers via Square. Part of what you pay for, in fact, are the resources Square requires to defend disputed charges on your behalf. Part of what you agree to when you join Square is to comply with chargeback procedures.

You pay for the service, yes. You also agree to operate within certain parameters, and don't have a right to demand anything you want just because you are a paying customer.

This seems to be a common fallacy on HN - that any paid customer is deserving of bend-over-backward support, even if the payment amount was less than $1 - Square's net revenue from this transaction.
On Google's published guidelines and guidance, this is white hat, as the links are editorially chosen (you, the webmaster, really are specifically intending to endorse them for their analytics services because you use their analytics services).

The shadow rule is that any linkbuilding method is kosher iff no one has figured out a way to scalably achieve rankings on very competitive terms with it. For example, citations on the footers of blog templates were 150% A-OK right until people found out that was a scalable way to rank e.g. for e.g. [printer cartridges], [payday loans], etc etc. See also widgetbait, quizzes, etc etc.
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Miso pays disputed $10k referral bonus to ex-engineer, apologizes
I'm often shocked at how people think history started at some point in the last 200 years.

Malthus was completely right and all the historical data we've been able to gather has validated his views, going back tens of thousands of years. The exception is post agricultural revolution, meaning the last 150 years, which might as well be a rounding error. It won't last.

Malthus was right: population is limited by food supply and any increase in food supply results ultimately in a higher population with a roughly constant standard of living.
As someone already said, file with the local labor board for unpaid wage, then take them to small claims court.

Very easy, I've done the small claims court before, piece of cake.
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He's right:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/iraq_the_war_that_bro...
I went to a Serious Business Meeting in the Bay Area where one of the other company's engineers was wearing a kilt. Pretty excellent.
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I like the nice clean design, bootstrap done well.
I think you might get an angry email about the cool logo though.
Bring your money to Toronto! I'm currently living in Toronto, but looking to move to Seattle once I start at Microsoft. That being said, I'll be making about 70% more in Seattle than I could hope to make in Toronto.

Toronto has favourable taxes for small businesses, and is close to some top engineering / computer science schools in Canada and the world (University of Toronto, Waterloo, Queen's University, McMaster). All of my friends currently working on startups in Toronto (myself included) are all bootstrapped, as there's not a lot of VC money around here.
"HBO Go requires a cable subscription"

If I was an HBO shareholder I'd laugh while I sold.
What's with all the jerks trying to say the only enforceable contract is a written and signed contract? U.S. Courts uphold verbal contracts all the time. "He said, she said" is quite a bit more iffy without witnesses, but commitments and agreements are still legally valid commitments and agreements. Email conversations are just about as good as a printed and signed contract.

And the employee has to remind the employer to pay up? Let's see how far that goes when employees have to remind the employer every payday that the paychecks are due. Why don't you just institute some asinine rebate-style process for obtaining your referral fee?
1) Clip the UPC code from the new hire and have it notarized on its date of hire; notarizing on any other date will void your claim to the fee
2) Hold the notarized code until the new hire has been employed with the company for at least six months
3) Mail the notarized original code to an address seven hundred miles away using a handwritten envelope and first class postage only; computer printed envelopes and postage in excess of first class postage will void your claim to the fee
4) Pray that the new hire is still with the company at the moment the claim department decides to process your claim.
Claims may take six to eight months for processing.
Or maybe the people who were executed are the ones who didn't have enough money.

Anti-corruption campaigns are very common in China. They'll go through and execute a few hundred people at a time. But they don't make a dent in actual corruption, because the only people to get executed are the ones without connections.
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imagining that the regular ISS for example is any less permeable to space debris at high delta is silly.
Hrm, game of thrones also is one of the most highly rated shows on Cable. http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-04-17/news/31357061_1_t... .
I do live in Silicon Valley and they most definitely do exist. More importantly though is that the scene in Silicon Valley is dominated by a single type of person - male programmers. Part of this culture is bro-tastic. Part of it is geeky. Most of it is some weird munging of the two where two guys might be comparing their ePeen, their ninja-hacking skills or their lift reps. Overall it is offputting to diversity which is the real problem.
This is great! Immensely useful for browsing essential mixes.

Would be awesome to see more BBC radio shows added in the future.
I'd like to see an About page on this.
I've never heard of a former employee receiving a bonus – referral or otherwise.

Have you heard of former employees getting their final paychecks? That's all this is.
Ah, that sounds great, thanks for the info!
That's actually really funny how throwing two of the hottest startups together works so well. If they can pull off the "this is just a parody and we're not going to make money" angle to avoid a trademark lawsuit, this might be telling us a very similar message to those mashups of California Gurls and [random other trashy pop song that fits the beat perfectly]---that a lot of the more successful startups in the Valley are no longer marks of technological innovation but rather schemes to get rich quick off of the public's inability to sit still without pretty pictures or Farmville type games. I do hope enough of SV is still heading in the SpaceX direction though.
God this is getting tiring. So. Utterly. Tiring.
They also announced the same thing with Illustrator CS5.5 & Flash CS5.5 same day.
Critical vulnerabilities. No free patches. Gotta buy CS6 versions.

Illustrator CS5.5 http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-10.ht...

Flash Pro CS5.5 http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-12.ht...
They don't seem to be productive there in Hawaii:

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HBO is owned by Time Warner. That's why they say these crazy things and make their content so hard for people to view. Time Warner wants to protect their cable business at all costs.

If HBO were independent you wouldn't see these stupid comments. It's in HBO's best interests to get their content seen by as many people as possible. That, however, is not in the best interest of Time Warner.

HBO Go is largely a joke. Not only does it require a cable subscription, it can't be used on the go. There is no offline caching of shows and to stream shows it requires a pretty strong connection: http://interchangeproject.org/2012/05/10/why-is-hbo-go-not-a...
This is most likely because of the publisher, not iBooks. Publishers have a copyable flag for each book in their ONIX file. Retailers have to abide by this flag when displaying the eBook. This sucks but that is the eBook industry for you.
... because they have drastically limited its availability for direct downloads and pursue pirates like the coming winter.
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Thanks johnnyn. Any more advice of where I can go to contribute to the open source community?
Away for 3 weeks? This is what happens...
I think the moral of that story is to take VC money and move to Hawaii. Sure beats working alone from my apartment, and I bet everyone was on salary too.
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>>an internet-based model [for TV] is just a fad

You cannot help but laugh at such a comment. This is anecdotal evidence but increasingly I've noticed people connecting their flat screen TV to their computer and use that as their main source of media. And these are people that are not technical in the least.
HBO is bound by all kinds of license agreements to the cable providers and that is their bread and butter. They simply cannot provide Internet purchasing of their content. You don't really know what the CEO actually believes because saying the Internet is a fad plays directly into his market (the cable companies).

At this point in time, it might make more economic sense for HBO to ignore the Internet. Although, I certainly hope they're planning for the future. And if they are, it would still be foolish to let the cable companies know that.
>High cholesterol? Stop eating meat and eggs and bacon with every meal. High blood pressure? Move your ass and eat your veggies.

The connection between cholesterol and fat intake is tenuous at best. You're likely to be able to cut your total cholesterol levels by less than 15 points through a low fat diet plus exercise unless it was ridiculous to start with. In my family a healthy diet results in a total cholesterol level of around 250, while a strict low fat diet will bring it down to 235 or so, far above the recommended level.

As far as blood pressure is concerned, nearly everyone develops hypertension eventually.
Miso was 100% in the wrong. Small claims and labor board actions would have cost them far more than 10k.
Reminds me of a quote from Lawrence Lessig in this talk at Occupy DC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZPB6DqCO6M#t=08m29s

"It is the first time in American history where we have seen a collapse followed by no fundamental reregulation of the financial services sector because they have the power to block change from either the Democrats and Republicans, because they can say to the Democrats and to the Republicans, 'If you don't back us we guarantee you will lose in the next election.'"

I don't know history or politics well enough to judge the truth of the statement, but if he's right, that's pretty scary.
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I'm curious what the overlap between the following two sets is:

1. Speech for which I am willing to pay to share/announce

2. Speech for which I think Facebook is most appropriate venue

I suspect that overlap is quite small.
I thought that was IBM, not DEC?
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I wish there was a way I could tell the CEO of HBO that I'm paying $16 to Netflix every month for two streaming accounts and I canceled cable.
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It doesn't matter which category the payment falls into. If the amount was specified in an email from a stakeholder, with specific guidelines, it's cash due. When lawyers make a decision, they're not going to decide which bucket this amount is supposed to fall into.
The people who are willing to pay for this are not going to be the people whose posts you actually want to see.
>>You don't really know what the CEO actually believes because saying the Internet is a fad plays directly into his market (the cable companies).

I'm willing to bet that he actually believes this.
This would be so easy to fix if the network heads weren't so ignorant:

Make a Netflix style distribution system, allow users to subscribe a la carte to a fixed number of channels on a tiered system (i.e. I can select up to 15 channels for $29.99 a month or 30 channels for $59.99 a month), and make it all on demand. The infrastructure is there, the tech wouldn't be that hard to set up, and it would make a BOATLOAD of money for both the networks and the operators.

Honestly, it sounds like an ego game. They don't understand how these things work so they go on the defensive as opposed to learning and improving their business. Sad.
As long as HBO remains owned by a cable company, I expect them to hold onto their current practices long after it makes economic sense.
I find it pretty effective for rapid consumption of content for which there's no "lossiness" penalty. I can miss or skip images and there's little or no consequence.
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My reaction as well. Will the Tv and movie studios learn from the lesson of Napster and iTunes? With stories like these, it doesn't seem likely.

The studios should be hiring engineers and UI folk; not lawyers. Time Warner should buy the Pirate Bay and charge a subscription or download fee while improving the UI. Or simply offer downloads on their website.

College sophomores figured out the distribution model fifteen years ago. This is silly.
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