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This really reeks of the thick-walled Silicon Valley echo chamber.

If "entrepreneur" to you means "founder of a hot VC-funded tech startup", then yeah, there's some evident ageism and it'll be tougher -- but not impossible -- in your 40s and beyond.

But, if "entrepreneur" to you means "person who starts and runs businesses", well, there are plenty of those doing that up until the day they die. Heck, your 60s is a great time to start a new business: you will probably have more resources, more wisdom, better business acumen, and more free time than you did in your twenties or thirties.

If at that age you decide you want to play in the SV startup scene, then cool, put some of your savings behind a couple of young hackers and do it that way if you must.
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I'm talking about getting away from putting stuff in its own document that is reloaded, and then using the transition time for content. More like splash transitions that were otherwise used for reloading stuff (blank screens, the same screen, half the new screen)
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I mean what would Steve Jobs know. He surely hasn't met many decent developers managing the Macintosh or NeXT teams or as CEO of an IT company with 100K+ employees.

Did it ever occur to you that 25:1 number might come from being in a unique position to compare the relative output of multiple engineering teams of similar sizes at Apple ?
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I think a lot of that is because of an overly narrow and idealistic picture of success.

I remember thinking in college that I'd half-ass my coursework so I could go do a major open-source project so that I'd have a kick-ass resume when I entered the working world. The project was nowhere near as kick-ass as I hoped (I did the software for fictionalley.org), but it did serve 100k people or so, and I didn't have any trouble getting jobs. So that was something, at least.

Then I thought I'd work my tail off for a few years so I could found a startup and get rich. Well, I did work my tail off, and I founded a startup, but I just didn't have the skills yet to take it across the finish line. It didn't make me rich, it failed without accomplishment. But I did get hired by Google afterwards, and I guess that's a decent consolation prize. So that was something, at least.

And then once I'd been at Google for 9 months, I heard about this cool new project to completely redesign the search page from the ground up. At the time (2009), this was viewed as crazily ambitious: remember that the main Google SRP basically had not changed in look & feel since 2000. We launched in May 2010, after a long hard slog, and we felt really good about ourselves for a while. But then Google Instant launched that summer and completely overshadowed us, and the page was completely overhauled again in the summer of 2011, so the UI we slaved over lasted barely a year. We each got reputations internally as kick-ass devs that got stuff done, though, and were given a fair amount of latitude to pick our next projects, and had our pictures in BusinessWeek, and once in a while somebody even remembers the Google Search UI from 2010-2011. So that was something, at least.

I'm still looking for the big success that'll make it all worthwhile. I'm beginning to think that it doesn't really exist, that no matter how "successful" I am by external metrics, I'll always be chasing the next big thing. And increasingly, I'm beginning to think that the real big success was just the fun I've had hanging out with other people. That can sometimes be in the context of work, or it can sometimes be in the context of play. But somehow I think it matters a lot more than 80 hour weeks that usually go for naught anyway. (Luckily, I haven't really put in that many 80-hour weeks. In crunch time I might do up to about 60, but for the most part I work reasonable hours and spend my free time with friends.)
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The post specifically refers to Silicon Valley; you can feel free to ignore it if you're not in that ecosystem.

Mark Zuckerberg won't get turned down because he's already super-successful--and I point out the fact that if you do hit a home run, the limits don't apply.

The Silicon Valley high-tech startup culture dates back nearly 60 years if you mark the beginning with Fairchild, more if you mark it with HP.

You can overcome bias with achievement...but you ought to acknowledge that it exists, and plan accordingly.
Except that having a child is a readily achievable goal that anyone can reach at any time they choose to. The decision to have a child, whether at a younger or older age, is almost entirely up to the two consenting adults.

Hoping to strike it rich before the age of 45 is pretty much the complete opposite.
"Early-stage employee doesn't equal martyr" >> I think that's my biggest lesson so far
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I am on a tablet. Is that compatible with a tablet?

Thanks.
No sh*t. You are on your way to being the next Steve Jobs.
I've always found it useful to start writing my commit messages as if they begain with "When applied, this commit will..." ex: "Resolve #459." "Fix the PDF rendering issue on older clients." "Revert commit 1234567."
Isn't this basically DropBox (2GB + referral free spacce), and the 5GB you get for free on this new Cubby service? With both you pay more for the space you use as it syncs across devices as they are on...

I guess you're asking for this functionality as part of the free service, moving things through server-side as they sync?
This sounds dreadful to me.

Your peers will judge you based on THEIR ability and knowledge. Which in the IT industry is a problem because most developers are overly confident about their abilities. So you will end up with good developers being given poorer rankings.

I much prefer developers being judged on their ability to meet business outcomes.
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Because that would imply support costs that are just not worth it, if nothing else? Just a guess; I'm not privy to these sorts of decisions.
Ah, the young. Find a couple in their 40s, and ask them if having a child is a readily achievable goal any time they choose.
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The proper response is to understand the biases that exist and plan for how to succeed regardless. This might involve changing your plans, or it might just be a matter of resetting expectations.
Unless they kept it secret from him for a reason. Anyway, I agree, take the 3.5 months of equity.
Exactly, using the server-side not as a permanent mirror, but just using that 5GB or whatever as a "holding space" only for files that are currently out-of-sync. Once they sync, delete from server...
I like Avie Tevanian (one of the original developers of Mach kernel and CSTO of Apple) and Dave Hyatt (architect of WebKit). Both have really helped change the industry.
I think you misunderstood what Linus is complaining about. He's not saying that everyone should format pull requests to his liking. He is saying that pull requests for things going into the kernel have to follow the formatting rules that project uses.

This is not a cranky old man thing. This is a basic multiprogrammer project collaboration courtesy thing, similar to the reason that, say, if a project uses camel case variable names and one statement per line, you shouldn't submit code using foo_bar naming and putting as many statements as you can on a line.
A friend told me the story of a guy they now call "Mr. Lucky." He started 10 different companies. All failures. His wife left him. His friends thought he was crazy. Then at age 68, company #11 was sold for over $1 billion. Today, he is a philanthropist who is a pillar of his community.

It gets harder. That doesn't mean it's impossible.
This is so true. A "top" developer can often be a terrible development lead or software architect. Often because they try and build generic solutions to specific problems.

This is a massive problem in the Java space where you have these design pattern driven designs that are infinitely flexible but ridiculously complex.
My only issue with your comments was here: "I certainly don't see an issue (yet) with Apple blocking alternative browsers. Don't like it? Buy an Android. Or a Windows Phone 7. Or a Blackberry (OK, I couldn't keep a straight face with that last one)." Back in the "good old days" that same argument was used "Don't like MSFT's practises? Buy an Apple, Linux, Unix box" etc This is how companies end up in a monopolistic type of situation. I) They exclude competition from their platform and then b) They use fantastic business model execution to achieve a dominant market share for their platform. It takes both to hit that suffocating point. You should be vigilant against both. It's a frog boiling in water type of event.
95%'ish of every professional in every profession are just tired demotivated people who just wanna get whatever done and go back home. They'll just do the bare minimum that won't get them fired.

Programmers are just not an exception to this rule. Nothing to see here.
Well... at least they got high-powered routers for $22K apiece. But, it's a shame there isn't a law on the books that selling the government something at 50X the market price / need is fraud.*

* Yes, I realize this would bankrupt half the military contractors as well.
Yes, and that time constraint is due to biological processes that can be planned for ahead of time.
The data are meaningless. They got data on the job performance of about 10% of the people whose Facebook pages were rated. There is no significance, either statistical or real. Worse, the "finding" seems designed to tell employers it's a good idea to snoop into candidates' private lives in the interview process. Here's an opposing thought: Facebook pages of smart people aren't public. They are strictly for private communication between a circle of friends. Therefore, employers could only hope to see the Facebook pages of stupid people - good luck with that! - or people who are so desperate for a job they will hand over the passwords to their private lives to strangers. Just Say No didn't work very well in the eternal "war" against drugs, doesn't work at all as a birth control measure, but seems appropriate for a boycott of snoopy employers. Let them hire morons. Justice will be served.
It's come up on This Week in Law. Someone was sending back a modified EULA in the POST data.

The lawyers on the show mainly thought it was cute and not something that would be recognized in court.
You're not getting it. With hindsight, you can always find a way to blame a victim. It's great fun: you get the chance to look knowing and smug, and your success rate in predicting the past is 100%.

Don't kick people when they're down. You end up looking like a heartless jerk.
Um, not really what I was thinking. To me that sounds less harsh/strong than what I had in mind.

I guess it depends. I am imagining a very harsh accent. Some folks in my family pronounce ich like "ish", others closer to "ick" and then some do a more gutteral sound like you find in loch (a la loch ness monster). So, uh, maybe.
A lot of people cook with recipes displayed on their iPads; a timer is super useful there.

I guess the clock app is out because it demands another background process? Who knows with Apple.
But I wouldn't use the word 'subsidy' to describe that situation.
Worst kind of lesson to learn first hand as well. At least you are still young and have a long road ahead of you.
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If you aren't adverse to rolling your own solution, do what I do - a really cheap UK hosted VPS + rsync.

I can get at it from my phone or desktop and it costs next to nothing.
He's an engineer, he's just being definitive!
He might have done a quantitative study, but there's no indication that he did. If he'd shown his working and described his methodology then I'd believe him, but since he doesn't I estimate that he probably pulled that number ex anum.

There aren't any useful metrics for coder productivity anyway. You can measure lines per day, but that's not telling you what you want to know. The best programmers aren't best because they do simple tasks twenty-five times faster than the average programmer, they're the best because they do really difficult tasks in ways that the average programmer would never, ever do.
I don't think that's the right way to look at it.

If we go by simple math, developers who are 25x better/faster can launch a new product in 2 weeks instead of a year. That can make the difference between owning an entire market and not even being a participant.

Or you can take a team of 75 developers and instead use only 3. The overhead and cost and difficulty of coordination and communcation between 75 developers can just be too much for a project to succeed, but with only 3 amazing developers it becomes easy.

Also, software projects tend to reach points where they become overly complex or unmaintainable. Developers who are 25x better prevent that from happening, keeping everything working smoothly.

So it's not about bringing 25x revenue. It's about bringing revenue period, or maintaining competitiveness to continue that revenue.
This is the correct answer. Talk to a lawyer. Consider having that lawyer negotiate on your behalf.

Lawyer != lawsuit and it doesn't have to make things confrontational. It is just smart. If they are smart they talked to a lawyer about how to let you go.
As an Android developer I have about 5 phones and an extended group of friends with another dozen or so. Along with the emulator it's more than enough. This article is ridiculous flamebait.
A good waiter will never be 25 times better than a bad waiter.

A fast construction worker will never be 25 times faster than a slow one.

Programming is fundamentally different.
It's part of. A good commit message helps to understand what the changed code does or stopped doing.
If you live in one of the 24 countries with a social-security totalization treaty (which is most of Europe, plus Japan and a few other countries), that's not true. I don't pay any U.S. payroll taxes as an American expatriate.
Do you feel this company has a viable future? If not, I'd ask for the cash equivalent of the equity package they offered and see what they say...
Right, so with the perfect catalyst, you get as much energy out as you put in. With imperfect catalysts (anything real), you have to apply a voltage higher than when thermodynamics says is necessary to get the reaction to happen at an appreciable rate. The excess voltage cannot be recovered. The better the catalyst, the lower the excess voltage necessary, so a cheap and very effective catalyst essentially promises an efficient way to store and transport energy as hydrogen gas, which would be excellent.
Yes, absolutely, even if you can't see how they did you'll get experience solving the problems they had to solve.
I have read that in many criminal enterprises it is much like business, where grunts at the bottom have lower income and lots of hours, and most of the risk (exposure). I think this guy is a grunt, probably at the same level of structure of a 2 employee business. when i read through his comments i am struck with the impression that he has passivly attempted legit employment that use the skills he has learned but has not been sucessful yet. he probably has his initial goals set to high. if he starts at the bottom somewhere, given his supposed skill level he should be promoted quickly. just need to put in the time. if not patient enough, put that effort into consulting.

given the real return on his enterprise, i agree with your assesment that he can probably make much more with a real legitimate job and just avoid that risk altogether.
Ok, I got downvotes instead of clarifications to my question about the market share of the govt. in student loans. :(

It appears that the direct and indirect (i.e., backed by the govt.) loans by the federal govt. account for 80% of the market.

So yes, the relaxed standards for govt. backed loans is keeping college costs high. And the word 'subsidy' can be reasonably applied to the current situation.

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Well, after few years on GC you are going to be subject of the same texation law anyway, so it doesn't matter if you to have citizenship or not.
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My guess is a lawyer will say "yes, you could sue" but they won't do this work on contingency.

However, if you tell your former employer that you feel 11/12 of your cliff in equity is fair; otherwise, you'll pursue a law suit, my guess is they'll pony up without you having to take this any further.
Internet plans in Australia are pretty bad. I've found Telstra to be reliable until recently. I live in Melbourne and the quality of service has been degrading for some time now, especially in the CBD. However, I was recently in a small town and the quality was excellent. Depends on where you live.
And one more thing, I've tried Optus and Vodafone - they have both been equally bad. I am stuck with Telstra because of a plan now :).
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>Windows on ARM is where the action will be.

I thought you were the first to predict doom and gloom for Windows 8 in general every time :)
OP may be right and all, but it's not actionable, so that's why I think his message is harmful. It's encouraging entrepreneurs to worry, rush, and stress about how they should've gotten things done yesterday. It doesn't help you towards your goals at all.
wow.

somehow i doubt these sites have multiple uplinks, so they certainly don't need BGP routers. even if they're doing IPSec between some locations this can be handled by an old piece-of-junk $100 computer running BSD or nix, e.g. with isakmpd and pf.

stuff like this is why america's infrastructure is crumbling: dodgy contractors looking for an excuse to upcharge municipalities for irrelevant gear and services.
> I think the idea of a pin at checkout is a good one to reduce fraud.

For in-person transactions, merchants can check your signature against the one on the card or alternatively ask to see a photo ID. The process is there, though it's hardly ever done.
Citizenship gives you blue passport which so much nicer for travel than so many passports in other colors. I think only UK is better.
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>>The problem of the client dictating to the designer dozens of things that need to be above the fold is a strawman.

As a Developer, Online Marketing Manager and Digital Strategist at a web development agency for the last 5 years, I'd just like to say, AHHAHAHAHAHA... Oh jeez. Oh hell, that was a GOOD one.
Wait until he gets those handcuffs on, then we'll talk about how high the investment in time really was.

Next up: I thought I was hot stuff, now I'm a convict, ask me anything.
If they're six years behind Facebook on features, that's perfect.
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Btw, this doesn't apply if you go for a visit to the country of your original citizenship.
Please name one project out performing Linux kernel in terms of your definition of code quality. I'd like to have a surprise.
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I describe this as 'funny money'. The government is spending other people's money.

I imagine the government worker that signed off on this purchase worrying a lot more about a dollar increase in the local lunch special than millions spent on equipment.
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Sounds like an unfortunate story (I'm torn between recommending a lawyer or walking away) - but the positive thing is that you're so much younger - it all comes around, just hang in there.
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Man, that's a tough spot to be in. Your young age helps - you can still start from scratch and not be too much behind. I do not fully understand why you respect your other founders if they didn't treat you right. Even if what they did is within legal bounds, it certainly sounds like it could have been handled better (of course, I only know your side of the story).

Outside of what others have suggested, I recommend spending a year or two working at a larger company to build your reserves, and to build confidence that you can go and do something like this again. You can keep exploring opportunities on the side while building your bank account, resume and experience.
How do most startups quantify a month's worth of equity? Is there an obvious formula based on current valuation?
By that metric, neither iOS nor Android are new, they're just castrated versions of OS X and Linux.

An OS is much more than it's kernel.
I am in a similar situation before (Being employee #1) and the way I'm thrown out is just by a simple SMS telling me that I'm not needed anymore, taunting me and locking me out of everything. I got so mad that I don't even want to accept their money as I agreed to help them (used to be friends) for free back then till they are profitable.

Having said that, looking back at it now, it is perhaps a good thing. I went on to have much better success elsewhere, while they had success in their business as well. Do I feel bitter? maybe in the past, but now I can't be brothered. He still send emails 2-3 times a year taunting me about his success with different email addresses which I simply send it to my spam folder.

Most importantly, what I learn is that, sometimes things just don't work out. The reasons for falling out could be many and weird. For my case, my 2 other founder friends are people who prefer 'Yes' men who agree with their groupthink all the time. I'm not one of them and hence it is not surprising we have to part (Although it turn out for the case which I'm arguing against and got them angry, I turned out to be correct as time passed)

It is up to you if you want to chase for more compensation. You may wish to consult a lawyer if you deem it's worth it. For me I don't want to waste further time hence I did not.
Overestimate? You mean the US Justice Department overestimated their anti-trust case against them and their 10-year oversight of Microsoft was, too?
You are not a blogger and that is not a viral headline. :) Joke.

No but seriously, I talk to a lot of the top free and top grossing developers and taking QA seriously is a big deal. It matters. Not everyone takes it seriously and it affects your user reviews. At least that is Animoca's thesis and that's why they use 400 devices.
Ah, but it is actionable. Knowing when the tide is or isn't in your favor doesn't necessarily encourage you to worry, rush, and stress. It does encourage you keep the big picture of your career in mind.

Also, note that worry, rush, and stress could also be expressed as plan, move quickly, and focus. It's a matter of perspective.
Strange, I knew of git because linux kernel development uses it. I definitely wouldn't go check GitHub if there is no "git" in its domain name.

Github wouldn't exist without Linus' git. I am really surprised they didn't take Linus' advice (reasonable, and no difficulty at all) in the first place.
I doubt that the BSD infrastructure has to match the Linux infrastructure exactly for the Wayland protocol to work on it. Mostly what it has to do is mode-setting in the kernel, enable sharing of graphics buffers between processes, and allowing libkms and mesa to work on top of it. The exact kernel api shouldn't matter for most applications.