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It depends on the situation, but it's usually a combination of a) entire organizations being gutted and b) specific individuals or small teams being let go. The former cuts broad swaths and the latter is to fine tune (a RIF is a great excuse for cutting unproductive employees that would otherwise be allowed to continue to be mediocre).

Yes, I fully understand how ridiculous all of this sounds.
> On this subject: Whenever someone chats me in the following manner, I want to kill them.

Then refuse this, set your status to "don't bug me, if you have a question just bloody ask it" and check your IM when you've got a lull[0]. If it's not a question, kill the window it's not relevant. I don't need "social interaction" on IM when I'm coding, if the other guy can't get to the point screw him, I'm not interested.

[0] If IM is specifically a way to get you immediately, start blacklisting people who can't get to the point and waste your time and have they go through email.
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I was just thinking this a few days ago while visiting United. It's absolutely horrific.
Offers for programmers don't expire, unless someone magically made a bunch of new programmers overnight.

And to avoid the situation described in the first paragraph, you get the counteroffer in writing, of course. I know people that ended up doing 2 to 3 iterations of counteroffers. It worked out fine for them.
A lot of folks would rather have $1M of real money than $10M+ of maybe-someday-maybe money. That's one lesson you can take away from past bubbles and missed sell opportunities. Especially for those who don't have FU-level wealth.
sure. i was just correcting the earlier statement, not arguing for the validity of the relative valuations.
Your market value is what someone will pay you. Before you had the offer, you were worth what your job was paying you. Now, after the offer, you're worth more. Simple economics.
This has always been a tell for what kind of management runs a software company. If you can't get a 24" monitor because the guy in charge has a 24 and has to have a 30 before anyone else can have a 24, time to run away.
>No more being forced to use crappy windows computers

I laughed at this part of your post.
Agreed. One is literally rocket science (ok, engineering) and if things go wrong, people die. The other is something I could code up this weekend, and if things go wrong, a tweet is mistweeted or delayed, oh noes.
Probably because they're too busy extorting exorbitant amounts of cash out of their customers in return for crap service, rude flight attendants and badly designed websites that look like they're from the 90's.
This is solved at my company because we use Google Apps and everyone in the company is auto-completed when typing an email (based on their full-name). Of course we also mostly do a first letter of first name followed by last name as well.
The vast majority of talented engineers will make a counter offer, and will have multiple offers. The idea of passing on someone talented because her "head is out of the game" is silly. Unless you're working on a fantastically interesting problem area, I'd question the level of talent you're getting with those methods (but not all companies need a high level of talent, so you may be finding perfect fits for all I know).
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How much is it going to cost? :P
If new DBMS technologies are so scalable, why is Oracle still on top of TPC-C?
TwitchTV is a rebranding. Hell, you guys still use the Justin.tv domain for payment. By far the biggest audience on JustinTV were those interested in watching games, so you honed in on that. What's the difference between JustinTV and TwitchTV besides UI/visuals?
not sure what's the decent CS. also, i took the 120 from nowhere. i pay it at att for two lines. and would be exactly the same amount for tmobile.

so, no, changing operators is not an option. service and price is the very same.
It's possible the 2x offer wasn't really that ludicrous. Any time in my career when I have felt I was paid more than could be considered reasonable I have been proven very, very wrong. I think our culture of hidden salaries combined with savvy hiring and compensation practices make it very difficult for a person to understand how much value they provide and how much it costs to replace them.

Also consider that there are companies that are always hiring developers. They aren't filling roles, they are just looking to hire anyone capable that they can. Of course their demand is actually finite but reaching it in the current market is inconceivable. These companies can afford to pay whatever value you add, salary is dictated only by their demand for good engineers because it dwarfs the supply. Good engineers aren't actually replaceable for these companies, if they could find a replacement they would want to retain both.
Yes. In 1962, for example, the FIFA World Cup was held in Chile. And it was a really world scale event

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_FIFA_World_Cup
Even though the VCs don't see it, yes!
The actual title is >80 chars:

"If all these new DBMS technologies are so scalable, why are Oracle and DB2 still on top of TPC-C? A roadmap to end their dominance."

The "roadmap to end their dominance" is very interesting: they have a new database model and prototype called "Calvin" that scales well with distributed transactions...
Well... there's also a right to asylum (14), group rights for families, to some form of social maintenance (22), limitation of working hours and minimum wage (24), full and free education (26), to copyright (27). Lastly there are vague duties to your "community" and it has power to determine what justly fulfills a grab-bag of ethical and legal concepts (29).

So... Not the best document in the world to quote on this front.
It depends on the level of programmers we're talking about. I agree that offers for the likes of Steve Jegge don't expire, but ones for "VisualStudio Joe" certainly do, at least outside the Valley.

To clarify, by "expiring" I mean the company finding another suitable candidate.
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Call me cynical, but I haven't considered TechCrunch the epitome of tech journalism for a very long time. The articles are usually of low quality, but the funny thing is that it seems like people sit there refreshing TechCrunch for new articles to be the first one to post it onto Hacker News. Am I wrong?
Yes that is a very strong argument against going overseas - but there is research for both sides.

I will add opposing sides in the future. Thank you for your feedback!
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A good policy is to never take a counter offer for the reasons described in the article. However, there's no harm in coming back in a couple years at that 2x salary and a promotion.
Being from Cal and being a product of this system, I remember being so frustrated in my childhood.
My school was bit far off from my house, so I could not join those "coaching" classes of teachers living near the school.The result was that teachers used to teach poorly in the school with a hidden message "join my tutorials to get a good grade".
Many of my peers (not all) who joined the tutorials used to perform better than me owing to more exposure to exclusive study materials/coaching.
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I would be thrilled if somebody waved a magic wand and completely replaced Javascript with Ruby.

But since that's not going to happen, I instead lean heavily towards the path of least resistance when it comes to languages. I write iOS apps in Obj-C, CRUD apps in Rails, DSP code in C++, and web front end in JS. The cost of context switching is less than the cost of swimming upstream all the time.
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The article you linked to started:

NO doubt the Rudd government's big budget stimulus helped keep Australia out of recession last year. But mining was at least as important in producing the unexpectedly good performance.

I agree 100% with that conclusion.

Also, at odds to your point (1) above the same article says:

So the stimulus cash handouts and capital works look to have done most of the work by pumping up consumer and government spending. Treasury suggests budget stimulus added 2 percentage points to GDP growth last year.

It goes on to point out that this was insufficient in itself to explain the growth in the economy.

Clearly, demand stimulus by government hand-outs isn't a sustainable, long term model to grow an economy. BUT contra-cycle government spending can be an important tool to stimulate growth, especially through periods of uncertainty. (To make it clear this isn't a political point: Australia was able to do this because of large surplus budgets run in the period up to 2008/09 by the previous government. That was good policy during that period, and the stimulus was good policy during the crisis).

Note that in the US the stimulus package was radically smaller (compared to the size of the US economy) vs the Australian package. Additionally, it actually did reduce unemployment[1]. It is unfortunate that the US didn't follow that up, and instead made things worse via austerity measures.

[1] http://www.cbo.gov/publication/42715
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Google+ has the grand hypothesis that the simplistic and transparent approach Facebook takes to sharing is not what the market wants. Instead, they say, human nature is to have different personas when you interact with different social groups. That you have different identities depending on who you are interacting with.

This certainly is how it feels to me and those older than me. But to the next generation, growing up with Facebook has forced them to have more singular identities. Their Facebook identity and their person are one-to-one.

Google+ is doing the hard and expensive work of disproving this hypothesis for you. Take advantage.
wandered into your starting referly through hacker news (new giget button) and sounded interesting. for a simple tech user, the entry to site was simple, all the material interesting, like the disclosures & credits (shows ethics & professionalism). probably spent 40+minutes enjoying your material... as well as learning the higher complexity of launching what you want. especially interesting was your doorbell system... sort of the reverse of getting called by an alarm system...much liked the way you instructed it.. just a note from new mexico. my name is margarita, 60+ grandmother... it was real...nice....glad to read you. sonrisas (smiles) /ms
It only takes one person to submit an article. Given the number of HN readers out there, most TC articles would be submitted simply from a probabilistic standpoint.
Some sites have bots auto-submit all of their articles to HN. I don't know if PG alters his algorithm in response to this.
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Yeah but are people just submitting them because they think HN readers foam at the mouth in excitement every time they submit a TC article and that it's easier to get karma for submitting a known site?
Exactly.

My point is that money-in-pockets stimulated demand, not marketing...
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I didn't live there that time, I am much younger.

But as for receipts, we have this system till now at some stores, in car or computer parts stores, except that you write down item codes on a sheet of paper by yourself, or select them in a database, then you go to cashier to pay and get the receipt, and then you go and get the items from a guy that doesn't deal with money. Don't you have such buerocracy?

There were food supermarkets (универсамы) where you collected items into shopping carts and payed at the exit.

In 1986 there were just enormous queues and deficit of everything due to reasons out of scope for now...
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This is a good question. It's next to impossible to stop this kind of behaviour unless someone reports it I guess. Most other sites have the same issue.
It's precisely because I've gone out and experienced different cultures that I don't use lazy stereotyping to describe the world. It's the same with your left/right political stereotyping - again lazy and inaccurate.

EDIT: keeping this short as I don't want to get into a slanging match but my for the record politics aren't on the left, I don't have the belief that cultures are morally equivalent, etc, etc.
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Just being honest has worked for me.

I'm a freelancer, and over the last couple of years I've transitioned over several positions. It is much easier to negotiate a new salary when you have a job offer in hand, though I've never taken a counter offer.

It helps to know that there is usually a large-ish cost in acquiring a new hire that most folks want to avoid... and that just because you have a job offer from someone else you don't necessarily have to take it.

The last two clients I worked with were quite flattered when I asked for a counter offer, though because a) I'm still kind of new as a developer and b) it's my second career neither of these folks were paying half what my new offer was neither could really match the newer offer.

Perhaps it would be different if I were a w2 employee (and I believe that I only have one or two more transitions to make before I top out at what I can effectively earn, though I am quite good at what I do).... but having a job offer in hand doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't specifically ask your current employers to make a counter offer.
I don't know how old you are, maybe you've got better info than I do about America in 1962. I wasn't aware of much in 1962, but by the time I could read newspapers in the late 1960s, there very definitely were "no-go zones" for white people in America.

And substantial portions of America were still "no-go zones" for non-white Americans, and had been for generations. You might want to look into the term "sundown town".
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Yeah, the office thing has always been a function of available space for us. Some of our folks want complete isolation, others like an open environment. I've always tried to accommodate personal preferences, so I try to pull that from folks as we work together. Sometimes, what somebody wanted last year changes with this year; I try to be accommodating to allow everyone to change around; no need letting the workplace get stale, when simple movement can solve a problem.

I always give our engineers their choice of platform -- windows, osx, linux, whatever. I count on them to make sure they have the environment available to develop on. It's up to them to make sure they can work locally. (Shared services like data/caching/etc. are of course handled remotely.)

Our last few hires requested 17-inch Macbook Pro laptops, with dual Thunderbolt displays. Done. I do not sit around wondering if the cost of the tool is worth the expense, as it simply doesn't compare to the cost of the time of the engineer involved. Even if anyone might consider the developer is getting the "better end of the deal", I don't care -- I trust my team to produce. I just simply refuse to let hardware get in the way of potential output.

BTW: if a developer wants three monitors vs. two...great. Again, I trust my team and I have faith in them to make good business decisions about resources. Somebody tells me they want three monitors, it's a task delegated to our asset team. Done.
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I expected Virgin, the "hip" airline, to be the exception to this rule, but their site is also terrible. Half the time it throws an error at the end of the checkout process and tells me to call a customer service representative in order to complete my order. I've also seen a lot of tweets about the issue, so apparently their site is just FUBAR.

Banks seem to be in the same boat. Has the bidding war for programmers at startups and major tech companies made it impossible for these companies to hire anyone good?
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Reminds me of the days at the Sun offices in Santa Clara back in 2004. One personal office, two top of the line Sun workstations with 21 inch monitors, an additional windows PC if required. One big whiteboard and two phones. Damn, get into your office, shut the door and get on with your work. It felt like your own personal control room :).
As a corollary, I've found that salary is a good indicator of how good a company's culture is. Not because of the actual money of course (money doesn't buy happiness, blah blah blah), but because a company that pays its engineers more generally values its engineers more. Most of the "hip" companies with good culture (FB, Google, Palantir) pay quite well, whereas other companies associated with a bad culture (which I will not name) tend to pay poorly. Not always true, of course, but a good heuristic.
this is exactly what we used first PoolParty, then whatsapp and now G+ for. Its not like everyme is the only one, but once everyone got on board for g+, sharing of everything, along with scheduling live video became easier.
> Black America in 2012:http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/uncensored---video...

> If we could sit down together and watch WSHH for an hour, how exactly would we disagree?*

Out of curiosity, do you have any opinions on modern black culture that aren't based on videos you find online?
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The teachers I know must be total slackers. Workshops and conferences all summer long? Really?

Fact remains that most lesson planning involves repurposing old material. It is never from a clean slate and now with testing pushed so much there is little time for a flexible curriculum. How many times are you going to rewrite the fractions lesson?

Next response will state that teachers actually work more than 365 days a year as they have mastered time travel. I respect teachers, but blind statements that they work so much actually does more harm than good. Work smart, not hard. Which is why people are buying lesson plans than writing their own. And going on vacation instead of that boring workshop.
"Even tinted glasses of any tint percentage aren't allowed" You are either misinformed or deliberately misleading.

"heavy vehicles like lorries ... get speed regulators ... a over speeding accident" Studies have shown and statistics in India have shown that most accidents are caused by excess speeds.

Apparently you just don't laws. Careful, people like you end up in jail someday. Just because piracy is a difficult problem, doesn't mean that you don't put pirates out of business. Stop buying stuff on the footpath.
Not sure what your point is. Are they or are they not a substantially weaker company than Ford? When comparing financials between the two one would be very hard-pressed to make a case as to why he believes that it is.

And btw, just because the Department of the Treasury has holdings in a company does not make it a "state-run enterprise." At least if you are going to make a sensational statement, try and ground some of it in reality.
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Agreed, the article itself reads almost like a piece of satire.
It's kind of funny to hear wealthy individuals complaining about not taxing their class proportionally. As if they are saying "This is wrong. But unless the government tells us we have to pay, we're still not going to pay."

Why don't these individuals, e.g. Buffett, this TED speaker, and others, just lead by example. Overpay their taxes to amount to whatever they think is fair.

Why do they have to wait for the government to tell them they must pay?

Or they say they will pay more only if other wealthy individuals do the same.

Either they believe in paying a bigger share or they don't.

This "I'm not going to do it unless he does too" attitude is child-like behaviour.
The patent in question:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=avgEAgAAEBAJ&printsec=f...

And yes, it does look like he just took fairly common statistical methods, added a bunch of awkwardly-worded stuff about how it's financial data, and you're storing it in a computer memory, so that makes it special. Or my interpretation could be off; it's not exactly a miracle of clear writing.
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Well, if I create secret groups and add my friends and others add me to their secret groups, I will be in about 50 secret groups - which doesn't make sense. Also, managing groups, like circles in very cumbersome. That's where apps like Path & Pair help a lot.
Latency may be an issue on a Rasberry Pi. You can subtly feel a latency of 10ms-30ms in the sound when playing a guitar. And over 30ms is outside the Haas effect zone, so is glaringly obvious. Rasberry Pi also has no audio input, and only HDMI audio output, which is digital. Guitar amplifiers take an unbalanced high impedance analogue input. I don't think embedded OS is as important as the programming OS. I would certainly like to see the other OSes supported for developing patches.
While I agree that Vimeo and DailyMotion should not have been blocked since they don't allow pirated video, it is possible that KolaveriDi did appear there and that evidence must have been presented to the court to get a block on those sites. If that is not true then I am sure someone will appeal.

However, I strongly support shutting Pirate sites and illegal file downloads. There is a good reason why Bollywood is so much smaller than Hollywood - rampant Piracy in India. Remember you are doing India a great disservice by pirating - India loses jobs and creative people suffer.
Just read that story. Guess they just built out sales/marketing way too fast. Says they've still got $5M in the bank though, so they'll be around a while.
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