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I see the familiar pattern of programmers not saying "no" and not explaining clearly what they need to work.

None of the other people here are being particularly unreasonable, they're just ignorant. And given that "how to work with programmers, writers and mathematicians" is not part of any educations, it's not really their fault.
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As a manager, I will almost never make a counter offer. If somebody has gotten to the point of a job offer elsewhere, their head will be out of the game. While money may have started the job hunt, as time has gone on, they've found a dozen other things that are driving them crazy. Those don't go away with the counter offer and will eat away at them until they wind up leaving anyway (with poor performance in the meantime).

The only time I'll consider a counter offer is if 1) the engineer really is good and 2) they don't really want to leave. It's a judgement call and I've only chased somebody once (successfully, I might add).
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Also, morale. Remaining employees will have a hard time focusing if they're worried about losing their jobs.
I detest my corporate email name. Detest. It's chosen by formula, part drawn from part of your name, and part drawn from I have no idea. When I first started, HR got my name wrong (my name, not my email), and just assigned me a name. They made something up that let them move to the next form. Then IT applied the email name formula to my made up name.
And a year or two from now Facebook sends out a message to it's (then) 1.2 billion users, "Welcome to Facebook Marketplace, where you can find whatever you need, ask your friends for advice, and even make your purchase with Facebook Credits."

Then Facebook has intent to buy wrapped up.

The landscape of tomorrow is not the landscape of today.
It's the opposite: not wall st. screwing SV but SV screwing Wall St. on this one. Facebook is giving itself a super-high valuation, as high as they can get away with, because that way they get as much money from the initial stock sale as possible (rather than seeing Goldman flip their IPO'd stock for a pretty profit to Goldman rather than to Facebook).

Since Facebook is the first SV company with a mega-IPO to be truly in tune with Wall St's tricks (LinkedIn totally blew it) there is indeed a good chance their stock price could head south after IPO. On the other hand the hype keeps things going so who knows...
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Offering to pay 2X is probably a bad sign. Because it means they think you'd be worth that. But they weren't already paying you that. Which means they were underpaying you before. Which is not nice.
It sounds to me like it makes a culture of happy people. If someone wants something that doesn't hurt anyone, and it's super easy to provide them the thing, why wouldn't you do it?

Asking for and giving things that fit that description is common sense, not being an entitled whiner.
reminds me of this blog post by patrick collison (pc) that i've always liked (it's stuck in my head, so there you go): http://patrickcollison.com/blog/2009/10/surprises
Which is reasonably ironic considering Ruby's reputation for running on Windows (which has taken major third party efforts to get it to work in any sane way).
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Wait. Let me see if I can summarize: Some teachers somewhere are corrupt and poor at their job, ergo all teachers worldwide should be forbidden from monetizing their hard work???

Let me try out a corollary: Some engineers sometimes wrongly steal code from their employers when they leave for a new job, ergo no software engineers should ever be allowed to work for more than one company.

Yep, this argument is air tight.
Thanks for your comment. I found more context about the teacher profiled in the Mashable article in this older article from an Education Week blog:

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2011/09/teache...

My initial surprise at the announcement that lesson plans sell that well stems from

1) writing my own lesson plans, adapted to a particular group of students I teach, and thus

2) thinking, don't most teachers plan their lessons for their particular class, with its individual mix of students?

while also knowing

3) many materials provided by textbook publishers have somewhat of built-in lesson plans.

So I'm still surprised to see that the market is as large as it evidently is for canned lesson plans, but it is, and it appears that other teachers ought to enter it.
Amazon has a recent track record of adding new kinds of product & service offerings that (1) people actually want, and (2) pay for. What Facebook offers today for 99% of its users is about the same as it was 4 years ago. And they just give it away to those 99% for free. IIRC advertising and Zynga (another company, not them really) is where Facebook makes most of their money, and there's a lot of anecdotal evidence that Facebook ads don't work and don't get people to buy things. In contrast, Amazon monetizes almost every thing they've developed and invested in, people are throwing money at them, and they're more innovative. And Jeff Bezos is still alive and in charge, whereas Steve Jobs is dead. So yes, I'd expect a much better, more "expectations of future awesomeness" kind of P/E from Amazon than Facebook.

And it's much easier to start from scratch and build a functional replacement for Facebook (see Instragram, etc.) than it would be to replace Amazon's offerings. See the recent probably fear-based-buy of Instagram for $1B, etc. Zuck knows this. Zuck has way more things to fear than Bezos.
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Besides that, most of the delay in this story was not caused by process but by human error and sloppy work by the OP.

There are some hints of organizational dysfunctions along the way, but those were not what caused the major delays.

Without those screw ups, it would have been 2 to 3 days from decision to production. That's pretty decent for any company larger than a 10 people start up.
this is what confuses me about refer.ly. This has been an idea she has had for years, she gets into YC and launches in such a half assed way. I can totally understand the whole "launch fast" mantra, but when you've sat on an idea for 3 years you can wait an extra 2 weeks to make your product usable.

They have all this initial buzz (which is not guaranteed, ever) and it's totally wasted. I signed up as a user and I can't even use the product because it doesn't do what it's supposed to, there aren't any rewards, as you've pointed out businesses can't sign up... seems silly to me. If you're going to launch like this you need to be constantly working, I made a suggestion in the last thread (a simple ui change that would make the product at least usable for me) and it hasn't been done, it's a product I want to use but can't. In it's current form it's just a glorified URL shortener with the promise that in the future we'll get rewards, that's it. I feel like I'm being overly negative but the poor execution really rubs me the wrong way because this idea has a lot of potential.
Is that 7K more than the average wage of a person with a bachelor's degree? Or just the average person? I suspect the two numbers are not the same.
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None of the behaviors ascribed to Square seem like the kind of things which contribute to Quality (in the measurable/repeatable process sense). In fact, most of the issues raised on Quora (whimsical firing, excessively long hours, incompetent HR and management, etc.) are directly counter to any decent Quality program.

Yes, a financial company needs more focus on test, quality, etc. than a social network or game, but you don't really get those things by terrorizing employees.

If you look at the organizations producing the best, most bug-free code, they're generally 9-5 shops with very experienced people, probably way more qualified than a startup employee for the same role, and for roles where the requirements and performance metrics are pretty well established.

Trying to avoid all defects is kind of the opposite end of a spectrum from rapid innovation. You can have low defects in production through great test and rapidly catching/fixing bugs, but at a certain point, you do need to accept higher overhead and slower development speed to deliver very low defect products.
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(Annoyingly, I've been stuck dealing with >2TB and often >4TB files, too)
FWIW, Richard Wilkinson's TED talk "How economic inequality harms societies"[1] makes a far superior argument. It's laden with original research, data, and graphs, lots of graphs. :D

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
you're floating dangerously close to self-entitlement, and simple, pathetic whining

Developers acting like this, and getting away with it, should ring the bubble alarm bells. It's how it was in the 90s too.
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It's worse than you might imagine. The federal Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968. Before that time, it was legal to have a "covenant" that prohibited blacks from living in certain neighborhoods (housing developments). It was some years after 1968 that it actually started being enforced with some vigor.

You can still talk to older people (say, people in their 60s) in Los Angeles, who chose the house they now live in because that neighborhood allowed blacks, asians, or mixed-race couples to buy property, and other nearby neighborhoods did not allow it.

In other words, even these blatant and widespread effects of racism are not past history by any means.

Note: I'm not disagreeing with what you've said, just trying to add some historical background.
Big monitors, small offices. Give me a room where I can close the door. I'll share it with one other person, but it can't be a tight fit. If you expect me to work while you're interrupting me every 5 minutes, then you don't really expect me to be productive. Also good- conference rooms for ad hoc meetings. (Maybe for the people who like to work together in a room they can take over a conference room or whatever.... make your layout flexible enough.)

One company, when I was hired, asked me to tell them exactly what I wanted computer wise-- I was quite impressed with that. No more being forced to use crappy windows computers, I specified a MacBook Pro, etc. They said "whatever you want, within reason."

But I remember... years of fighting to have decent sized monitors. I think two big monitors is good, three might be a bit better. It seems displays these days are shockingly cheap compared to the value they offer over even just one year.
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He also has a fairly recently published book[1] to promote.

I wonder if that's what the PR push is about.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Gardens-Democracy-Citizenship-Gove...
One of the things I've debated back and forth personally is if it's better to put nginx in front of varnish or vice versa.

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It is a sign of disrespect. If they actually thought of the author as a good developer or good <whatever X> position is, they would have already paid him the 2X salary increase beforehand, or at the very least not gone to war over what the author calls a "pittance" of a raise relative to what he was earning.

While it's true that they're desperate to keep him longer, it's because they're trying to stall, not because they think its a good developer.
I also remember reading a while back that trying to disguise your email with the "username (at) gmail (dot) com" approach is worse than just putting the raw email out there because it's not only just as easy to sniff out on the page, but you can also search for it in search engines: try searching for "at gmail dot com" vs "@gmail.com" in various search engines

edit: source: http://varenhor.st/2010/01/email-at-domain-dot-com-is-making...
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There seems to be a clear dividing line. On one hand you have things that benefit productivity-- like monitors and good chairs and a decent work environment. On the other hand you have convenience petty complaints like the flies in the parking lot or too many floors in the buildings.

Good management should be able to tell the difference between the two and at least score well on the productivity relevant ones. In my career I've been regularly surprised just how penny wise and pound foolish management can be in this regard.
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Agreed.

Not having to deal with Apache style rewrite rules alone is worth it. Had a scenario recently where I had to try to unwind about 50 of those rules (client site). Made my head hurt.
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You appear to have reached a very different conclusion than I.
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It's a little tangential to your comment, but I wanted to pick up on one piece.

A ludicrous counter-offer means the company has severe managerial issues and has allowed someone to become absolutely, non-negotiably indispensable.

I don't think it's always managerial issues. Sometimes people are just, well, good.

There is a problem underlying this -- as a result of this managerial "flight risk", many companies in turn decide to regard their employees to be replaceable parts. So they get obsessed with CMM, over-the-top documentation and 'repeatable processes'.

Sometimes someone is indispensable (rarely truly indispensable) because you've let knowledge pool in one person; where is shouldn't. Sometimes it's because your employee is a superstar. It's really important to recognise the difference.

Most of the time companies will assign this person to train others. Works some of the time, except when they're a superstar, in which case it just accelerates their exit.
I'm the proud recipient of getting that 2X raise, but not until I gave two weeks notice. (Former attempts to get a raise resulted in regular 0% increases.)

I agreed to stay for four months more. I knew a 2X raise couldn't win against my psyche forever. But it was nice to finally get that formal sign of acknowledgment.

(Former signs of acknowledgment - aka monetary bonuses - sat in my direct manager's desk. He never felt the need to pass it on until it became apparent to myself and the person who directed it that I had not yet received it.)

I don't know about the skeeziness of the writer's boss, but my mine sure was!
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It depends on how large the company is. A big large corporation has a lot of protocol and rules for determining raises.

At some of the past places I've worked, the best raise you can get is 10%.

> While it's true that they're desperate to keep him longer, it's because they're trying to stall

This is most likely true.

Based on the anger in his post, I'm guessing the real wrong was done in the past. It didn't seem like he was treated well. I still don't see the counter offer as bad. If anything it's flattering.
That's not what Webster's dictionary says. A capitalist is someone who has capital for investment. Would you agree with that definition? It certainly does not imply that a salaried worker is not a capitalist. Every person with a 401k is a capitalist by this definition.

It's true you don't have to be a socialist if you are not a capitalist. But in terms of `ist's, what else would an American likely be? A communist?
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At one job, I used my usual email (tedu@), until the new IT director decided it wasn't corporate enough, and I got tunangst@. Within days, I started getting emails from recruiters playing guess the email based on my linkedin profile, which I had never received before.
In 2001, the U.S. passed a tax cut bill that immediately sent rebate checks out to most households. It produced a modest, short-lived bump in the economy but did not increase sustainable demand or create long-term growth. It certainly didn't prevent the recession after 9/11 or the financial meltdown.

Government-funded spending does spur economic activity--true. However it is merely temporary and is essentially borrowing money from the future to buy fake economic growth today--which is why governments reserve it for truly crisis situations like the ones you list above.
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This may be true, though unless I misread his old company is in finance. Based on my experience, it's really hard to find good developers in this area.
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Just out of curiosity, and this is something I've been meaning to ask for a while, how does the whole startup only having one tech guy (who isn't a founder) work? I've seen this scenario referenced many times on HN and I'm still having trouble picturing what the incentives are to work for such a company (as opposed to being made a cofounder) when it sounds to me like you're doing at least as much work as they are. I would normally think the sum total of all development (I'm lumping things like specs, coding, documenting, and testing all together) to be at the very least close to 50% of a startup's value, so if there is only one developer, he or she would seem to be worth about half the company. Is this kind of startup less software oriented than the kind I'm describing?
Excess code review rules and company policies are, in effect, a defense against the stupid. They're in place to limit or slow down the damage potentially done by stupid employees.

However, they're also a defense against the smart.

If there's a barrier erected to weed out stupid changes the barrier works to weed out smart changes as well. The barrier can't distinguish smart changes from stupid changes, and the people operating the barrier can't easily do that either since their asses are on the line in case they miss a bad change. As you can see, even the word of a higher manager can't change that since the defenses are spread out so wide: there's always some additional policy that requires more and more authorization from more and more people.

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