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Yes, debt can be (and usually is) zeroed out when you leave a company.

As I explained in another comment, most companies (don't know about Miso) make you sign an agreement during your exit interview that the company does not owe you anything except X, Y, Z items that are enumerated clearly (these usually include your last paycheck and check for unpaid vacation days).
I need this. Maybe I wasn't precise about "glucose regulation", but obviously it doesn't happen if you don't have insulin.

I would agree that eating can't cure it, but it can help. Eating the standard USDA/ADA diet is loaded with carbs. Reducing carbs, and increasing (healthy, grass fed) fat and protein makes the glucose easier to manage. My average BG reduced by 30%, with fewer lows, and it's easier to do.
Statics have shown that showing an ad every other day for a month is more effective than any more often.
His point is that there are no valid reasons to deny an employee earned wages.
It's an empty list.
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What do you mean by "got booted"?
A nitpick, but it is an important distinction: people who need this can not be CURED by modifying their diet. They can certainly be helped though. Changing my sugar intake pattern was the single best change I've ever made for my long term health as a type 1 diabetic.
Usual practice in most companies. It protects them from exactly these sorts of things.

Most companies that have this agreement in place also have a similar agreement when joining the company that if you forego signing the exit agreement, you forego any outstanding debts owed to you by the company.
That's hardly fair. You might feel anger, or you might feel despair. If you're a misanthrope, you'll feel pleasure in watching who can't afford their medical bills fall into complete financial ruin.
Makes me want to contribute to github more
Well, it depends in what ways you're competing against Comp Sci majors, but even in their own major there is a lot of competition from competent physicists -- especially as we try to understand more and more about what quantum computers can and can't do. (Scott Aaronson's page and blog are wonderful to see what theoretical comp sci looks like; http://www.scottaaronson.com/ ).

If you just want to code, pick up a language, do it in your free time. CS majors will know a couple of more involved things; for example, many of them may have written a functioning, if minimal, compiler. If you want at least some familiarity with this, and if you can stand retro video clips with bad audio quality, you should watch the Abelson-Sussman lectures online: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

I mention them in part because I think you might also like the ideas that Sussman brought back to his native engineering discipline; the above lectures are for a course called "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," but he later put out a book called "The Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics," available here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/SICM/book-Z-H-4.html#%_toc_start

The point is that it doesn't have to be two divergent skill-sets. When I was at Cornell, they advertised their applied physics programme with the wonderful statement: "once you know the fundamentals, you're ready for everything." The simple habits you pick up as a physicist, like reasoning about the size of observable quantities or the cultivated habit of "whenever I hear a mathematical term I am going to look it up and read the definition until I understand what the hell they're saying" -- those can really become powerful when you start to write programs. Depending on what you're doing, it's maybe not as helpful as being fluent in the database language SQL, but SQL is much easier to learn and understand sometime later.
Is the page well designed? Exceedingly so. I was quite impressed myself.

Are the ninja references distracting, if not outright disenfranchising for a good fraction of Ncombinator's audience? I am asserting that unfortunately, this is the case.
To complicate things even further: only for 2 finger swipe, not three. Gestures in Lion are a sad affair.
What's ambiguous about him falling ill due to a "power surge"?
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Recently they tweaked the bacterium again so it would only survive if fed a particular nutritional supplement. That ensures the bacterium won't spread from one person to another while kissing or sharing utensils.

AKA vendor lock-in.
Counterintuitive, but true
http://soundcloud.com/das-boy/sets/essential-mix

has a massive collection going back many years available in FLAC too.
marketing departments are nothing but middle-men between producers and consumers

This is kind of tangential to your point, but a good marketing department is a lot more than just advertising. The role of marketing can include getting an understanding of the market and helping to build the right thing.
That's some cool art. Should hang those in individual square frames in a series
The information asymmetry exits with "hackers" as well. It is why VCs like to see them as cofounders. If you simply pay a hacker they can write spaghetti code with random security problems and have no ability to finish.

The risk is technical.

Hackers are not valuable as cofounders for any other reason. It just so happens that that reason is really, really important.
yes mobile is next. the site is all broken in mobile browser as of now. i need to figure out which mobile angle to tackle first come weekend. (app/website/sms).

love the idea of asking for votes for outfit on certain occasions. thanks! related: i am also thinking of adding a new section called 'style' where you can mix and match your items from your collection and ask for votes.
It has less to do with planning to rip off a prospective hire than determining whether the hire has a sense of discretion.

Do I think he's in the wrong with Miso, absolutely not. He has, on the surface at least, a legitimate grievance. He should have, however, handled this matter with a legal mechanism vs. a blog post.

When I hire, I have to look at the risk that a prospect is the type of person who will air his/her beefs in a blog post after he/she leaves the company. Which is why I spend time doing searches of everyone who makes my short list.

While I do think the OP has a legitimate beef, the outcome was predictable and preventable. If the OP was smart and had any work experience, he would have known to make any claims to any outstanding money before even signalling that he was going to leave. Companies, especially small ones, tend to be petty about dealing with former employees.
Wow, looks (and sounds) great, listening to the Four Tet one as we speak :) It looks like all the sounds are hosted on SoundCloud, is this in your own pro+ account? I'm guessing this was the most economical way to host the files?
Can an agreement signed when you start working really erase debt from agreement made after you started working? Seems like the second one would take precedence there.

There's also the question of labor laws. I bet this is considered wages under the law and probably impossible to sign away.
No. This screams of willing ignorance. You are dealing with money. Your customers money. You should have just a bit of respect to understand the agreements you are signing when dealing with your customers money.

Damn right you should understand the T&C BEFORE using the service like this. Doing otherwise is damn right irresponsible and shoddy. The people running into these problems have no idea what they are doing, they haven't dealt with real processing, and are blaming everything everyone but themselves.

Hell, even your comment is ignorant of the system that the customer agreed to use.

Guess what? Credit card users have certain rights, and if you want to accept credit cards, you have to play within those rules. This means chargebacks happen. This means you don't get paid. There are ways to reduce it, but you are still on the hook for it. Hell, even if the chargeback gets reversed, it's still held against you.

A shining example of this ignorant is right here:

> Square:We ruled in your favor,

That's not how chargebacks work. Square doesn't rule in any capacity. It's the banks. It's the client bank. Not Square. Not the merchant.

Every time a story like this pops up, we get a whole bunch of fools complaining and making reference to PayPal, and not a one of them has any clue as to the realities and reasons why.

And yes, I've done this. I've read the documents, and handled this. And it's always the same story. People whining about the company they deal with, when the reality is, the policy is in place to protect their customer.
RE: #1: Good catch on the settings. It looks like all of the checkboxes are re-checking themselves.

Re: #2: No, missiles are always launched to a player's last known location for a few reasons... A) You can play with people you don't know. B) You can play with people regardless of where they are located. C) Your location is never revealed to other players. D) Players are not discouraged from checking in where they spend most of their time (at home or the office).
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His comments on Steve Jobs spring to mind.
Right, you're invoking the "technicalities in a contract" case I talked about. And indeed, that would change things in favor of the company if it existed. Is there any evidence such a contract was signed? Note that neither the employee, CEO or CTO mention such a thing. For reference: across 17 years and five jobs in software I've never signed such an exit contract in my life, nor been asked to. I'm sure it's done, but I seriously doubt it's standard -- especially at startups where contract rigor is hardly a priority.

So basically: I agree. But what does that have to do with the points I was responding to? Earlier you stated clearly that he was "not entitled to anything from the company when he's no longer an employee". Are you walking that back now?
You sir, are my new hero. Fantastic work. One added bonus here would be to include the track-list for each one. A simple contribution feature here I think would be a big hit so others can do the work to find them.

For example, a few results down on: http://track-list.com/page/2/?s=deadmau5 will give the track-list for item #3 in your list.
We didn't and still don't have "tons of VC cash" to burn - only our own savings accounts at that time, so no 5-star hotels or high class restaurants for us.

Also, I would not say we had a holiday mood at all during our time there. We started working the same day we arrived, but being in Hawaii had so many unexpected positive effects on productivity and product vision, we really wanted to share.

And, I could never win a surf contest.
As a bonus, good low cut boots go just as well as sneakers to with jeans and a tshirt. I am utterly convinced that the persistence of sneakers is either the product of ignorance when it comes to boot alternatives, or due to non-utilitarian forces that so many HN types deny are a factor in the standard 'dressed down' look.
Come on man. You know what I mean. What we know about Stallman isn't all he was. If you judge him by his work with the FSF alone then you're not even close to being able to judge who he was as a person and that's what I'm getting at. Don't be pedantic.
Actually, the OP's original article in Spanish states that he said it ironically and that everyone in the room laughed. See the before-last paragraph.
Why would it be a good idea if it was free?
edit: this site is awesome here are some my favorite essential mixes you may have missed

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Essential Mix with Audio Bullys http://mxtr.fm/IDmIIU

the goa mix ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Mix ) http://mxtr.fm/K4Yian

some other good sites to download dj mixes are http://www.livesets.us/ and http://themixingbowl.org/ both great.
Nobody has ever put it so succinctly like this. I feel like this should be the byline of a widely read article on this disaster. Bravo.
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Did you email them and ask? Or submit an issue via Github? Did you ask for help on Stack Overflow? Once you found the fix for yourself did you submit a pull request? Did you contribute? Maybe write a guide for others so they won't have the flounder around in the same way you did? I never said you can't or in some "moral" sense shouldn't complain, nor do you have to contribute, but as cathartic as your post may have been, that is all it is, complaining for the sake of complaining (feel free to try and shame or bitch about open source projects all you want, but when that is the first and only thing you do, you're being lame).

An attitude of entitlement, and posting in random off topic forums where you are relying on the off chance someone from the project might stumble upon your complaint just makes you a silly person.
People who don't do this are just asking for it.
Bonuses can be considered either contractual or discretionary. If there was any mention or implication that the referral bonus was discretionary, then the company can withhold payment for any reason, such as poor employee performance or low revenue/profits.

At my company, all bonuses are considered discretionary. They plainly and clearly lay out the parameters of the bonus structure, but they also reserve the right to withhold the bonus for any reason. They rarely reign in on their promise as it significantly hurts morale. However it is well known that if you leave the company before a bonus is paid out, that you will not receive the money, regardless of whether or not you have already fulfilled the parameters for the bonus.
I think you're missing my point. :-)

I personally could care less whether you posted screenshots or not. But if you were considering employing someone and found that they had posted something like this (with little to no evidence), what would your reaction be? Heck, what would your reaction be if it did have screenshots?
Touch a piece of sandpaper, it "feels" rough. But there's no emotion.

If you must, substitute "believes" for "feels" in this scenario and you'll probably understand better.
Howdy, that article is about me, and I do agree that crypto trust systems need to become more decentralized. People seem to be reacting to the story without looking into the technical details, so I'll try to avoid http://xkcd.com/386/, but I will say that one of our goals with Domain Policy Framework (which we will release a draft of tomorrow) is to create the policy and identity that, combined with DNSSEC and DANE, allow for more granular (but not completely decentralized) trust relationships.

I think we agree about UX. One of the big picture goals of .secure is to invert the current security experience. These days you go to a site and then have to interpret the UI to see if you are safe. In our vision, when you type bank.secure you are telling your browser, OS and the server on the other side that you want to navigate there as safely as possible.

I'm going to post about the tech details more tomorrow and hopefully that clears some things up.
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But "auto-immune disorder" does describe whats happening. What most doctors can't say is what causes that: so they can't say more than "dumb luck".

One explanation I've heard is leaky gut caused by grain sensitivity, followed by dairy proteins leaking out, causing the immune response, which then mistakes the pancreas which has similar looking proteins. I don't know how much evidence there is for that.
nice work, like the simplicity. I agree with some of the users that the messaging can be massaged further but overall like where you're going. I've sent a link to your to a few folks including my little sister. Good luck!
As a travel booking startup I think Hawaii is a really clever move, you're surrounded entirely with your target customers. Very smart
I actually think this will be cool, in spite of all the naysayers in the comments following the story.

Do I think this will replace traditional browser interfaces (i.e. Mouse and Keyboard) anytime soon? No. But gesture and voice are the logical next steps in the evolution of computing, following "Touch", so why shouldn't the browser lead the way?
I would agree with you that "naming and shaming" at this point is not in his best interest, however there is no question his employer should pay him in an ideal world.
It's not so much an insult as it is a testament to the current state of customer service between indie devs and a megacorp like Adobe. I don't like the comparison though, if a $2 product doesn't get fixed, people won't buy it en masse (or recommend it), Adobe has an insane market position. People will buy their product. Watch Adobe not go out of business as people purchase CS6. Having said that I'm not sure how people can vote with their wallets when Adobe pull shit like this (security patch via purchased update).
I am shocked, not because things like this happen, but because a broad group of posters at HN seems to justify Miso's behavior, which was legally as wrong as morally (and strategically wrong as well).

I had never expected to see such reaction from so many HN characters. That's a long list of people I wish never to do business with.
Can't believe I'm seeing this here. Well done!

I highly recommend http://core.thomaslaupstad.com/

The owner has been diligently putting out downloads of Essential Mixes and other top UK radio shows of the genre as soon as they come out.

Cheers!
People generally think "well, if I take it to court, I'll never see the money anyway." They're right...but 98% of these cases never get in front of a judge. A few well-placed letters (with quotes from your emails) and an actual filing will generally get you most, if not all, of whatever you're asking for (if you're in the right).

Legal action is expensive for everyone, so most companies threatened with it will just send a check in the mail with a contract saying "don't sue us again." Any smart businessperson will check emotions at the door and do what's best for the company.

The exception to this is if someone at the company does take it personally and actually decides to fight it, in which case you then cut your losses and move on...but never roll over without at least getting your lawyer to write up a letter saying "fuck you, pay me."

I understand it's emotionally nerve racking to be involved in litigation, but as someone who has been involved in a few lawsuits, it's very worth it to your wallet and self-esteem if you don't just shrug your shoulders and say "gee, it's only $10K."
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Mac OS X has nothing that even comes close to COM.

Because it doesn't need something like COM. As is so often the case, Apple has made some radical simplifications. ObjC has its faults but the C/ObjC/ObjC++ stack covers a lot of ground with minimal mental overhead.
I was wrong about Joy Christian
The next step is to have a reality show about this. A few weeks into it they're gonna start fighting over who took who's toothbrush.....lol
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You might only need 1 in 10,000 ad views to result in a click to make money. It entirely depends upon what you're trying to get them to do/buy/sign up for on your site.
I don't have an invite to Lift, but a lot of developers use TestFlight as a way to install applications over the web to testers. You sign up with TestFlight through a link the developer sends you, and you install a profile that lets your device install apps from that developer. You can then install the app from over the web. I've used several apps that way, it's a very handy little tool.
Regarding the voting, I actually had a mobile app idea a while back, that I never got around to coding.

The concept was snapping pictures of clothing through the app, of clothing you want to buy, but couldn't decide on which to buy. Then other people would come in and vote on which piece you should buy. Ideally, you would be able to get feedback/poll results within a few minutes of posting. Of course, this would depend on having a large user base for it work properly.

I don't know how it would fit into what you're doing right now, maybe the same kind of thing but for what you're going to wear today (instead of what you're going to buy).
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My Fb feed has been thick with friends' updates of Socialcam viewing. 9 times out of 10 the still-image in the update is a revealing woman.

I give it two weeks to a month before most folks associate it with the same.
Please keep us updated! It's possible Adobe may have just alienated any of what remains of their remaining paying users. An exaggeration I know but who knows the extent.

Edit: I see that you posted another comment below http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3955220
The site was hastily taken off the front page...twice. It seems the flagging mechanism has given some users way too much power, or the submission was artificially removed.
A similar argument could be made about software running on servers, and circa that same time as that quote on microwave ovens I believe Stallman in fact took the position that servers did not raise such issues either.

He's changed his mind about servers since then, so I wonder if he also has since changed his mind on devices?
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Yeah, I remember that the Internet was completely useless until the corporate interests started throwing ad money into it, too.
I've known a number of musicians and writers who have gone on escape retreats to isolated areas in order to finish a book or an album, typically with a lot of success. Many of the most productive remote engineers I've worked with live in sparse areas where there is very little to do thats more fun than programming.

There's some merit to removing distractions when knocking out a marathon product build, but that said a good office environment can also serve the same purpose...
Also, if you prefer to download them all as a torrent, check out http://themixingbowl.org/
We don't work for free, we work in exchange for the privilege of living in society.
This app basically just uses encrypted text files. The crypto is pretty straightforwards, i'm sure you could access it with perl.
I haven't had time to watch the BDU courses so I can't give any opinion on them though I plan to watch them when I get some time tomorrow. Having a quick glance though the BDU ones appear to have more hands on material. The Cloudera videos are parts of their on-site course which would have the hands on stuff but that has been trimmed from the videos.

I guess it depends on how you best learn. For me the Cloudera videos gave me a good overview and understanding of the various to prepare me to dig in deeper. Combined with the Hadoop book I was able to setup and run a small(12-node) cluster and use it for data storage and report generation.
I can't believe that you are actually accepting this abuse and recommend to others to just suck it up. Management has a lot of responsibilities. Screaming at their subordinates isn't one of them.