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They're not mutually exclusive. The pay difference is often substantially more than the cost of the benefits disbursed, i.e. if salaries were normalised you could more than buy all the benefits on your own. Salary can improve your life at work as well, e.g. I got sick of waiting for my seventh monitor and so just bought one while procurement did its 6 days for a line of code routine.
I am dying to hear what all your graphs and widgets and knick-knacks are. Maybe post a screenshot with mini-paragraphs of what each thing is and why you genuinely need it in a crisis?
On this subject: Whenever someone chats me in the following manner, I want to kill them. Straight up. Just fucking take an ice pick and jab it right through their skull:

Other Dude: Hi.
Me: Hello

A minute elapses

Other Dude: I'm having a problem
Me: How can I help

A minute elapses

Other Dude: ACTUAL PROBLEM THAT THEY NEEDED HELP WITH
Me: Oh, here is your resolution which took all of 15 seconds to give to you.

WHAT THE FUCK MAN?! WHAT THE FLYING FUCKITY FUCK?! YOU JUST BROKE MY FLOW AND STOLE 2 GOD DAMNED MINUTES! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! IT'S FUCKING IM, YOU'RE NOT GOD DAMNED STANDING NEXT TO ME! AND WHY THE HELL DOES IT TAKE YOU A MINUTE TO TYPE EACH THING ANYWAY?! DON'T YOU KNOW HOW TO TOUCH TYPE?!

I mean, CHRIST, if this happened once in a blue moon, fine, whatever, but it seems like EVERY motherfucker uses IM the same way. EAT DICKS.

...

I might have went a little overboard on this.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2000-08-19/
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Ask HN: How to get a CTO post-beta launch?
Most people suggest startups scrap together a prototype and iterate based on customer feedback.

There are always stories of a few startups who have built a product with no technical people on the founding team (basically, outsourcing initial development of the prototype).

Eventually, to be able to iterate and continue work on the product, technical talent must be brought in-house.

I am wondering how startups acquire development talent after launching a prototype or a beta.

1. Is the process of looking for a co-founder the same before you launch (as in you network and meet people in hopes that sparks fly)? Or have you had experiences where your prototype/beta appeals to developers and they reach out to you, in addition to your regular efforts of finding someone?

2. This question is very specific to developers: A startup is in a very nascent phase with a prototype/beta launched and no funding. Assuming you liked the idea/product, what would convince you to join the startup?

Thanks!
Other posters have already pointed out that the author is male; I wanted to add that it is quite common for academic computer science texts to use feminine pronouns. For example, the first slide from the following link has such an an excerpt from the classic _Operating System Concepts_ by Silberschatz and Galvin (aka the "dinosaur book"):
http://main.metaprl.org/jyh/classes/cs134/cs134a/2000/slides...
Very cool. I'm a huge fan of this kind of content and the design is just beautiful.
Nevermind its simplicity, that model is just not an accurate representation of why economic transactions take place. I will only pay you $5 if I value the goods I'm getting in return more than my money, and likewise you will only accept it if you value the money more than the goods. The "babysitting co-op" scenario would only happen if everyone involved ultimately values everything equally, which of course they don't.
If you mean she's probably doing it in all the free time teachers usually have while tax payers are lavishing her with a generous salary and benefits, then yes you're right.

In reality teachers usually work long hours in dedication to their profession and their students, and do so for far less money than most professionals with that workload.
I have been waiting for this device for ten years! This is great.

But my experience with digital effects processors in the audio domain, both guitar and recording gear, is the gear's AD and DA converters are super important. The software and digital side is important too, but if those 44kHz, 20 bit converters do a poor job, the units audio will subtly suffer, and emotional content from the playing will be masked.

There's a huge difference in sound quality of digital units on the market.

I'm hoping with the nature of the unit, that I would get very high quality components across the board. Seeing as every patch developed is dependent on that quality, and that I'd probably buy only one of these, and that I'm willing to spend more than on a normal, non-programmable pedal, then the unit better be seriously high performing.

High quality balanced +4dBu line level ins and outs on a rack unit version of these. That would be the next unit to do. Or even AES/EBU digital ins and outs and a wordclock in!
I'm also kind of curious about the legal implications of this.

When I write code as part of my employment, I don't own the copyright for that code. Do teachers actually own the copyright to their lesson plans if the lesson plan is an expected product of their job?
OK, now I get how people misuse it, I totally agree :)
I would love to be able to offload my support queue a few days a week.
>>I am somewhat amazed that you are clubbing somewhat unrelated issues with a problem that directly threatens freedom of internet access in India.

These are not unrelated issues. The common thing among these issues is the knee jerk reaction by authorities to fix social problems with artificial and infeasible patches to social living conditions of a country.

Do you think piracy can be solved in India by just blocking torrents. Piracy has been existing from long back. Even before all this you could buy pirated audio and video cassettes from foot paths. By restricting sites like pastebin they are actually showing how clueless they are about the root cause of the issues.

You will see a similar pattern in all these bans.

1. Some one commits a crime.
2. Investigation reveals a tool used to commit crime.
3. Courts/Authorities think banning the tool prevents the crime from happening again.

>>Remember that Lambourghuini mowing down several people in New Delhi?

Yes, Roads and foot paths are meant to drive and walk on. If you sleep on the road you shouldn't look too surprised if people drive over you.

The solution to this problem is to provide affordable housing to people so that they can sleep in their homes, instead of putting the speed limitation.

As I said, we don't look at the root cause.
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> I think that NaCl is more geared towards being a target of a port for an existing application thats been written

It is, but you can also port existing applications to JS.

> I htink the pie is big enough for both NaCl and javascript apps.

It's a different pie. NaCl is chrome-only (and just enabled in the chrome store, in fact), while JS runs in all browsers.
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Google isn't more diverse. Of Google's $37.9 billion in revenue for 2001, $36.5 billion of that came from advertising.

Fancy self-driving cars aside, Google is wholly dependent on the success of its ad targeting mechanism. Beat them out for that (and Facebook could potentially do so), and they're done for.
My first work email ever was first initial and last name. It made sense. I liked it. That is what I used when I got my own domain later. It is what I got @gmail. Interestingly, every job I have had since that first has also used the same format. If I was given the chance at my next job to pick my own email address.. it would probably be the same. :)
"virtually all pro digital music stuff is done on Mac"

Citation needed. I think this is pure speculation. Are you factoring in all the PC protools rigs in recording studios across the world? What about RADAR units? Or by "pro" do you mean "prosumer"?
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Why do you consider using the feminine personal pronoun for programmers a Good Thing?
Only 43% goes to FB, which is essentially unprecedented.
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Valuing an employee's time is definitely something that should be considered.

But even taken a few steps further than "I need another monitor to increase productivity", and you're floating dangerously close to self-entitlement, and simple, pathetic whining.

At Yahoo, I distinctly remember a thread on devel-random where one employee, in a single post, complained about things like how ugly the color scheme of the walls were, the fact that buildings in Mercado had too many floors, so when he left work, he has to stop at all the floors, and that the parking lot had flies that would get stuck in his hair gel. He called Yahoo the "worst place in the world to work at" because of this. It was incredibly sickening how ridiculous the email was.

The employer-employee relationship is a balance. If it swings too far in one direction where the employees get their ass kissed every day, then you breed self-entitled spoiled brats that are intolerable to work with. If it swings too far towards the employer, you get a dictatorship. I've worked in both environments, and neither of them are any good.

But to quit because you think that monitors are a litmus test about the engineering culture is ridiculous and is more of a reflection on you than the engineering culture. If you have a problem, solve it like an adult. It sounds like the employee didn't even mention it to his boss until he left. (It also sounds like the boss didn't bother asking the employee at their 1:1's about what they thought needed changing, or maybe he was just unapproachable.) Maybe it was just an oversight, maybe they didn't have the money, who knows. Life in general is a lot easier if you're flexible and less of a prima donna and go with the flow. To keep quibbling over the minutiae and extrapolate that to mean something more than it is, to me, is more whining than anything else.
This is why I stopped using all chat clients.
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IHMO, preventing site scraping is really really hard. There are couple of startups that offer products that claim to stop site scraping.[1]

1. Ajaxified paginated data ->

With Firebug looking at XHR requests, one can easily reverse engineer the ajax call and extract data directly from the json - in fact you are making the scraper's life easier as you will probably be storing the information in a structured manner in the json string. Or one could use a more sophisticated tool like MITMProxy to study how requests are made.

If you somehow managed to implement a highly obfuscated method of ajax requests (re: microsoft aspx.net), there is always selenium to get through them.

2. Randomize template output ->

You are going to annoy users if you are going to display a different template altogether. If its just randomizing div and class ids, one can write clever xpath expressions or css selectors to circumvent this. Or worse case there are always the ever reliable regex expressions.

3. HoneyPot ->

Scrapers only crawl pages that they are specifically looking for. A good scraper only runs through pages he wants to scrape. Nothing more. This is probably the least effective strategy.

4. Write data to images on the fly ->

Use an OCR api to decode them!

5. Alternatives ->

Putting in a login screen is also not effective as not only will that annoy users, it can easily be circumvented by using selenium or passing the cookie/session information to the scraping script.

Blacklisting ips is not going to a very effective strategy. With tons of free proxies, Tor and cloud based services (especially PiCloud[2] - which offers a scraping optimized instance!!), ip blocking can easily be circumvented.

Best strategy would be display corrupted content or start throwing CAPTCHAs if you sense a large number of requests coming from a particular IP.

But once again you may want to do some sort of machine learning on server logs based on the various ips and the specific urls visited and build a model that could predict if a particular user is a bot or a human before you start throwing fake data or captchas. Just to be on the safe side so that you don't annoy anyone.

[1] http://spider.io and http://blockscraping
[2] http://www.picloud.com/pricing/ s1 instance plan
It's really not that big of a deal. More people should do it, especially constituent-friendly people.
Did you turn off or otherwise adjust spam filtering? Otherwise, I don't believe you.

At my last job (large, successful startup) I got the wildcard mail and got close to zero spam. Gmail spam filtering definitely works very well.
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You are missing the piece that most amateur liberal economists miss: money is only a valid medium of exchange as long as it represents real value. When you forcibly redistribute too much of it, you aren't helping people buy things and "stimulate the economy" except maybe over the very short term. You're just destroying that value that it would otherwise represent.
I believe the Babysitting Co-op scenario is a little different. The solution there was not to redistribute the scrip but to print more.
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Brvty++?
Yes. But what's the point of spending all that money on employees if they aren't 100% happy?
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every time i hear cryogenics, i think of walt disney. i was surprised to find it is just urban legend.

"A long-standing urban legend maintains that Disney was cryogenically frozen, and his frozen corpse stored beneath the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland.[102] In fact, Disney was cremated on December 17, 1966, and his ashes interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. The first known human cryogenic freezing did not occur until January 1967, more than a month after Disney's death.[102]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney
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How is this different from buying a book or textbook on the subject?

Other than instead of a big educational publisher, the money goes to the author?
I agree with the author that getting a ridiculously generous counter offer is a red flag about the company's management, and this alone constitutes a reason to reject the proposal. However, his moral indignation at the thought of being paid more to defer work on an activity he cares more about is misplaced. It's silly to frame the negotiation as the company intentionally trying to "buy off his dreams." Most people have a variety of "dreams," many of which can be better achieved by having more money. As far as the company knows, doubling the author's salary could let him achieve the alternate dreams of getting out of debt or buying the house he's always wanted.
where smart people never disagree they just have different evidence

Welcome to the world of science.
More trouble than it's worth. Plus, none of these solutions actually prevent site scraping... if the person is dedicated enough, they'll find a way. The time spent on implementing any of these approaches would be much better spent on site optimization, features, etc.
>>By three decades of war and Islam.

War, I agree. Unnecessary remark on Islam!

But there are no statistics to indicate that Islam propagates backwardness. Fundamentalism in any religion, may be. But to say a particular religion propagates backwardness is not a right remark.

Islamic scholars have contributed a lot back to the world. Infact corner stone of computer science Algorithm is named after a Arabic scholar of Islamic faith.

Your point comes across as a tell tale sign of Islamophobia in the west to perceive every other muslim as a backward moron from the stonage waiting to blow up the whole world.

While the fact is muslims are like any other people in the world.

For a change you must look into your own backyard and question who started those wars. Is it the mistake of the Afghans that soviets invaded them? Is it mistake of Iraqi's that US invaded them without any proof of WMD's.

You go burning the whole world, in a century US has invaded more countries than anybody else(Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Korean Peninsula, Japan, Countries in South America). You've killed several millions of people under the pretext of war, destroyed their national infrastructure to dust. Denied them any hope recovery by sanctions. And you call others backward?
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No, the idea was formed in October 2009 (or maybe a bit before). The following screenshot of Gtalk logs shows that she knew it was for that specific idea.
Egan's story 'Learning to Be Me', available in the same collection as 'Closer' (Axiomatic), is also an exploration of this idea with relevance to sodiumphosphate's fear.
Good luck to any of you who work at HP.
Thanks! This gem looks interesting but doesn't apply here since with Jekyll you're basically serving static html pages (hence the need to make the A/B split with JavaScript).
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Thanks for providing the transcript. I listened to this and the guy is not a good presenter. Both the content and the delivery need serious work. What's worse is you can tell he has rehearsed this thing ad nauseum. And it's still really stiff and awkward.

Now, in some way he, being as lame as he is in this presentation, has proven his own argument.

A lot of wisdom is imparted on the wealthy to be leaders of the economy. But not everyone who is wealthy is actually very wise. They have succeeded in making money. But that in itself does not elevate them to God status. Don't believe me? Let us look at Exhibit A:

Rich guy from Seattle who has "started _dozens_ of companies."

Roll presentation.

And what's with use of the term "capitalist"? Are there lots of socialists in America now? Are American workers not capitalists?
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I believe you're misrepresenting the Australian situation. While it is true they experienced less of a slowdown that other nations, it's not entirely clear that the stimulus had anything to do with it. A few points:

(1) The data (when compared to the recession forecast) doesn't support the idea that household spending is what boosted the economy. Instead, business investment and exports appeared to prop up the Australian economy.

(2) The Rudd government didn't try anything (broad stimulus, cash payments, home rebates, auto stimulus) that wasn't tried in the United States. If you believe these things succeeded in AUS, you'd have to have a convincing argument as to why they didn't in the US.

Obviously this is a tough nut to crack and there are really too many sourced to cite. Here is an article that talks a little bit about the data:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/how-mining-...
Meh... my muscle memory types google.com when I open a browser...
I think it was Bruce Eckel who said the ultimate destination for programming languages was, english. Which makes sense to me. Doesn't Ruby trail-blaze a little harder towards this next goal than, JS?
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Well, it was two weekends but, yeah, pretty much! Not to forget the giants on whose shoulders I stand on to make it: Rails, Heroku, gems like Paperclip, S3, Bootstrap. The list goes on and on and on...
1) Teachers are supposed to come up with those lesson plans for their classroom anyway. So what if they want to distribute it to other teachers? If the school or the state wanted to control the lesson plan content so tightly, they'd design their own plans and foist it on the teachers, which you and I would likely both agree we do not want.

2) Even if taxpayers do pay teacher salaries, they do so using local tax revenue for educating students in their respective state and municipality. Once this lesson content is consumed by students and teaching is complete, what is the benefit of the taxpayer usurping this content, and for what purpose?
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Didn't read through the comments very thoroughly, but I saw someone mentioned that companies use counter offers to get employees to stay around just long enough for them to find the replacement and then fire them.

It sounds silly. It sounds paranoid. It sounds like something out of a cheap novel. But I have done research for an executive recruiter for over two years as a side job, and the statistic he quotes me is this: "Within 6 months the person who accepts a counter-offer is gone."

The reasons are many for why that is. It's not always the sleaze bag just trying to buy uninterrupted productivity. Often, the person is like the original writer said: absolutely miserable.

Regardless never accept counter offers. Ever.
If you think corporate IT is dysfunctional, try working at a government agency or a public university.

Something as simple as buying a new desktop computer to replace a ten year old, dying computer turns into a multi-week affair where every step of the purchase is stymied by some layer of bureaucracy. (Inevitably, one of those layers of bureaucracy is on vacation this week and won't get around to rejecting your purchase requisition until next Monday.)

If your purchase exceeds some magic dollar amount and has to go out for bids, ${DEITY} help you. You might put out an RFP for a toaster and end up with Purchasing selecting a bidder offering a lawnmower because they're a small business, woman-owned business, or minority-owned business, and that fact gave them enough extra points in the selection matrix to beat all of the bidders offering a toaster.
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Teachers are damn smart people. And very practical when it comes to their tools.

If the lessons plans are good enough for a huge numbers of teachers to drop $700k on them, you can damn well bet they were developed with a huge investment of personal time. Either that, or the teacher is a fricking genius.

Either way, I don't think there's anyway to construe this as "the taxpayers are getting shafted on this employment contract."
I'm not an engineer but still found this amusing!
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I cannot up vote this enough. Value creation is key. One new theory I've been exploring lately is that, while people can value good and bad things (moral and immoral, sustaining and destructive, etc), the creator of value has a responsibility not only to give people what they want, but actually what they deserve. The distinction this makes can be explained with an example:

John makes software for law firms. His software has lots of bugs. John justifies this because he can make more money by adding features and isn't at risk of losing his cash flow because there are no competitors in his space. IMHO, John has an obligation to write better software simply because his constituents deserve it. I also think it could be warranted that he charge even more for it at this point. While I'm not sure bug-free software is a universal good, there are definitely products that ought to be better or not exist (pornography and cigarettes come to mind). The government should not have to regulate these.
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Says Law says it all. No consumption without production first.