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I have been in similar situations with very distracted CEO's who just thought of everyones input as opinions, or content to digest. Big problem, but solvable if you get another engineer to help make cases with you and help mentor (without explicitly stating that as a goal of course) the other founders a bit on how to run a tech startup, as opposed to a marketing effort.

You can get another engineer!
Interesting, this morning it was quoted as 25,000 jobs.

I'm actually quite surprised to hear that 10,000 of the cuts will come in the enterprise area, since I was under the impression that it was an area that HP was going to focus on, squaring off against IBM and Oracle.
> As a company, it's great to have a process for incremental changes, but you also need to have a process for critical hot-fixes.

And as soon as you do, everyone thinks that their problem is a good candidate for the critical hot-fix path. At the very least, you now have to sink minutes per day into arguing them down from using it. Worth it? Possibly. But not always.
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I see it every day, beginners have a hard time picking up git. Aside from the DSCM concepts, the command line is not easy: it is aimed at people who know git.. advanced nerds, not beginners.

This project is an attempt to make the git command line a friendly place: it eases the learning process by providing guidance and high level commands.
Does the Firefox 'No 3rd Party Cookies' setting avoid Twitter-tracking?
Try telling that to the Indonesians.
Is this really true? As in, are savings accounts in the US essentially useless now?

I don't know about the rest of the world, but in NZ standard saving accounts are ~2%, and more investment focused (fixed term and variants) are 4-6%.
It's exactly this situation that made me leave a large company after only 5 weeks. I'd come from a smaller, more agile environment and having to go through multiple layers of process and bullshit just to get the simplest thing done was just too much for me.
I know 100% that if I'd have stayed there I would have ended up hating my job and affecting my passion for writing code.

The main situation I remember is a code review of a few lines I'd written kept on being rejected by some of the more process-indoctrinated programmers purely because I didn't use the correct type of verb in the first sentence describing my change! I mean, when that is the shit that matters and not solutions to problems, I'm out.
Funny enough I didn't get a private office but we got walls built for a private office when the sales guy joined because he was disturbing everyone. If my non developer coworkers realized how disturbing it is to be in flow writing code to have someone tap your shoulder and start discussing a totally unrelated issue to what you've been coding.
Yeah but I lost that war because my boss hates Skype and doesn't get why someone sitting inches from me should have to Skype me.
So if I understand correctly Twitter is not storing what pages a given user visits. Although, they could easily find out this information. If this is the case then this is the correct way to do this. The average user does not expect any of their browsing history to be given to a service just because they are logged in while browsing the web even if this is common practice.
Related:
http://xkcd.com/1053/
Apologies, I stand corrected.

(I'm actually rather embarrassed to have made this mistake)
I don't think gmail is exactly analogous, the twitter situation is something that you can't avoid in all of your activity anywhere on the web; simply having a twitter account at all makes every website a tracker, and you have absolutely no way of knowing until you get to the site and it's already too late.
Why Quit?  Because the other company has bigger monitors.
Best of luck in your future endeavours. :)
Ideally that should work but projectX is what the whole company is working on and key pieces of it are being tested throughout the day so it's impractical to have a cut off time.
You are missing the piece that all conservative economists miss: access to the medium of exchange. It doesn't matter how well you identify the customer, satisfy their desires and add net value for all parties involved: if that customer doesn't have a job that gives them cash to buy your product the economy grinds to a halt.

It can be summed up by the famous if possibly apocryphal line by Ford: "I pay my employees enough to afford to buy my cars."
Yes, the No 3rd Party Cookies stops the twitter buttons on other sites from working at all.
How many TED talks revolve around global warming, despite the fact that the right treats it not just as alarmism, but a liberal hoax? TED doesn't seem to be rushing to pull those down.

I've never attended Ted, but I've been to a few TedX events in San Jose as a small sponsor. For Global Warming and some other business issues, I was happily surprised that it had a lot of diverse viewpoints, and that the after event discussions indicated that people were considering these thoughtfully.

But I still fear that there is a political correctness at play, independent of the 'partisan' aspects. Al Gore is welcome as a speaker, and clearly is a partisan giving a partisan speech. That's good. But I don't know that Steve McIntyre, who has strong non-politically correct views on Global Warming but is extremely non-partisan, would be welcome.

I'm not painting Ted as being left-wing or right-wing, or unfair to either party. But I worry that if they start playing the game of avoiding topics because they are "partisan", the give up too much room to both of the major US political parties to declare topics untouchable. I'd rather they ignore the political implications, and help the search for truth.
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Agreed. Was very impressive seeing Googlers respond, and respond helpfully which is not always easy in tech esp to outside parties, and have forums and regular G+ hangouts so it isn't a one time thing. Not to mention other people with similar problems point out the delay in reapplying the signal, etc..
'Increasing demand' is itself a supplier-directed activity; it's one of the primary functions of marketing. It seems baffling to consider this from a political/macroeconomic perspective; how would you increase demand but through marketing activity, without your methods becoming coercive or oppressive?

Wow, seriously?

As an extreme example, and something no one is proposing: give all unemployed people a $1 million cash payment. They'll spend at least some of that money, which will create demand.

More seriously as an actual example that happened, in December 2008 (during the worst of the GFC) the Australian government made cash stimulus payments to most Australian families. This is credited with stimulating spending (ie, demand) during the Christmas period[1], which of course keeps retail employment high, which in turn puts money in employed peoples pockets etc etc. A second cash payment was made in April 2009.

The Australian government also spent large amounts of money on infrastructure projects. Being government, this took longer to spend, so most of that spending occurred right as the effects of the cash stimulus was wearing off. Construction is a big employer, so that helped support employment too.

Finally, the (huge) Chinese stimulus[2] kept the Chinese economy growing, which in turn increased demand for Australian exports.

The outcome was mostly positive: Australia was one of the few developed nations to avoid recession in 2008-2010. Unemployment is at historically low levels and inflation is also low.

Note that NONE of this was supplier initiated. Businesses were worried and were laying people off, and it was increases in demand via economic stimulus that reversed that trend.

[1] http://www.canstar.com.au/global-financial-crisis/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_stimulus_progr...
"It Takes 6 Days to Change A Fundamental Business Practice" sounds a lot more reasonable.

Should you be able to extend the backlog of a factory by an entire month just by changing a variable, pushing a build and going for lunch? No.
Just to throw this out there: imagine the forces a space elevator would have to bear to be viable. Don't just imagine what acts of terror could do to it, imagine the amount of force they'd have to play with just to do anything directly to it!

"Great, now we have a space-borne cable slicing through the Earth's crust. Oops."
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Yeah... this is actually a surprising (at least to me; certainly irritating) liability of allowing users to access your website via https..
That works until they goto the boss and the boss comes to me...

"So I know your project is important but projectX is still our #1 priority so to the extent Jenny needs you please prioritize her work"
I had a similar experience where I took the SAT three separate times and scored exactly the same on the verbal section each time. The math section improved between tests one and two, but was the same for test three. And they weren't "good" scores at all. 560 on verbal and 590 to 620 on math.

But I also took the SAT 2 subject area tests which I felt were much more accurate assessments of my abilities where I scored 670 in writing and 680 in math without studying at all and only one exposure to the test.

I never really cared about those scores so much, but it definitely makes me question the value of the SAT for much of anything.
A perfect example of why companies should seek commodity & open source systems
I agree with you that this is overblown.

However:

Serious question, where are the people/businesses that buy peoples browsing histories? It's an argument raised a lot of the time as responses to this sort of thing and I've never seen evidence that a market exists for it.

There are plenty of businesses that pay for this.

Look at the "DMP & Data Aggregators" and the DSPs section of the chart http://imgur.com/M60MM for some example companies.
It seems you in turn are having difficulty distinguishing "arrest" and "prison". The former involves being put in a jail (or "gaol") for a short period of time, while the latter involves being put in a prison for years on end.
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I completely agree. When the perceived value of a company whose only asset is a clever idea and some hype is bigger than that of a established company with a real business model (say, Philips) you know you are treading into make-wish territory.

But nooo, say that to most people in the industry and they'll chew your head off for being narrow-minded and oblivious to how 'the economics of startups' works.
When you do that you are doing nothing more than applying heuristics, preforming limited simulation, looking for repeated states. All of these things are things that may be preformed by algorithmic computation. That we don't have IDEs already doing all of this for us is a reflection of nothing more than the current state of machine learning and the relative computational densities of today's electronic computers and the human brain.

Being able to solve the halting problem for programs generally seen in real life programming does not imply in the slightest that you can solve the halting problem for arbitrary programs. Can you look at arbitrary Turing machine tapes (large enough to eliminate the possibility that you are simulating it without realizing it of course) and non-algorithmically decide if they will terminate? Can you in fact do anything non-algorithmically? That is in essence what you are suggesting, the non-algorithmic nature of the human mind.

You are of course not the first to suggest a non-algorithmic mind. The likes of Roger Penrose have also suggested similar things (see his The Emperor's New Mind and later Shadows of the Mind). His reputation is enough to give me serious pause, and the fact that he does not seem to be a dualist further inclines me to listen to what he has to say.

If you want to delve further into this subject I suggest you check out Penrose's work, then read the criticism of it from his peers. Penrose has mounted the most qualified defence of the non-algorithmic mind of which I am aware, but even so acceptance of his thesis is rather rare in academia. It is not light subject matter but the general consensus among experts in the fields which he touches is that in order to support his thesis he made numerous errors. In absence of their expertise, I must defer to their assessment of Penrose's work.
As an aside: are mortgages even a good thing? They seem to create their own market.

I.e. if there are no mortgages, people buy what they can afford and housing prices remain low. If there are mortgages, suddenly house prices skyrocket since buyers can afford vastly higher prices, making mortgages a requirement for owning a home.

A good position to be in if you're a bank; now you get a big slice of all action.
It's better than stuffing the money in a mattress, but not much more. Typical savings account interest rates are < 1%.
Be a grumpy bastard. Someone taps me on the shoulder, I'm grumpy the first time, I growl the second time and if there is a third time I'll shout at them. Hasn't come to the shouting yet (although one guy got pretty close, but I just glared at him last time he approached and he grasped it).

Also, ask if you can work from home since your office environment is bullshit for writing code.
In what sense is Apache 2.4.2's event mpm event-based when this is the result of siege -c 1000 http://hostname:port/sample.txt

server-info selections
MPM Name: event
MPM Information: Max Daemons: 1 Threaded: yes Forked: yes

server-status selections
1550 requests/sec - 1.6 GB/second - 1.1 MB/request
9 requests currently being processed, 41 idle workers

W__W_____W_W_______R______W______W_______W__W_____..............
................................................................
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If those are asynchronous response writing handlers in the sense that they could be handled by an event loop, why do they have their own threads?
Well the converse of my suggestion adapted to your particular situation would be this:

Boss: Could you do this thing for me?

Badclient: Well, as you know, I have Project X as my highest priority. I'm happy to oblige, but Jenn has dibs on my time at the moment. If you can talk to her and come to an agreement on how I should distribute my time, I'll be happy to work on your thing.

Whatever happens, your boss is on the same page as Jenn, and all you have to do is execute the agreed upon plan.
Oh right, fair enough. Just checked out a couple of them and they appear to do as you say. Thanks for the interesting link!
I assume that the parent poster meant that granny is having the real value of her cash savings eroded through inflation because of the zero percent interest rate @ the US fed
Take a look at the Cinema Display. Thunderbolt is Apple’s docking station replacement. That’s its purpose and it’s awesome. They are pushing Thunderbolt because it’s a perfect solution for a problem Apple has had for a long time. You have to be blind to Apple’s ecosystem to not see that.

They are not pushing it to replace USB3. That doesn’t even make sense. When Ivy Bridge MacBooks ship without USB3 you can claim that. No second earlier.

Yes, Apple is, like Intel, not enthusiastic about USB3. They don’t think it’s so important to move super fast. It’s just not top-priority. They will add it when it doesn’t cost them much and doesn’t add constraints to their design. But they are not stupid enough to believe that Thunderbolt could replace USB. Both technologies complement each other.
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About a year ago (maybe longer) I encountered a website that focused on builing sites for marketing mobile apps. It had features like the ability to generate native links to the platform specific app stores etc.

Anyone remember who it was?
Buying lunch and dinner at the office. Related: keeping fridge stocked with drinks.

BUT I'm a cheap bastard. I wouldn't pay much over my own price of these things for someone to take care of them for me. In an ideal world it wouldn't cost me anything additional.

How that could work is if you could make an affiliate-style deal with restaurants to take 5% (or whatever) of their money.

Same thing with drinks. I buy them at a supermarket. You could buy them from a wholesaler and get them to me for the same price I normally pay.

To make these really big I think they absolutely have to be low-margin busineses. It's easy to do these kinds of business if you charge a lot but I think they could be huge if you figured out how to do it on a very low margin.
We have mandatory code reviews for all changes and I think it works quite well. A person making a one or two line bugfix may think it's quite innocuous but it may have a bigger impact on other parts of the system than they realize. Many eyes help reduce the likelihood of that.
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I generally agree that this process doesn't sound all that terrible for code that controls a large, live manufacturing line. Try changing the code that runs a pacemaker - you'll learn all sorts of things about process.

This line however is the road to hell:

"if the company wants to spend $50,000 to change 1 line of code, and it's not going under, then that's obviously the right decision"

Just because a company is successful does not mean it does everything right and does not contain the seed of its own destruction.
I totally agree that we're not typical, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we're a bad niche to go after. On average, this is a well-educated and wealthy group, although a lot of us are cheap bastards... (hi staunch!) ;-)
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That works once. Then the next time you go to each desk, the person there has already checked with their boss, and says "my boss says you need to go through the correct channels and if you don't like it, you need to talk to him."
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How much will Facebook make off your data when they IPO on Friday?
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"It breaks my concentration. That makes things take more time. That makes things cost you more money."

edit: Suggest that he ask you if you're busy over skype. Talking face to face is more effective, and I'd hate to try to discuss something over it, but interrupting flow really sucks.
If these are the proportions then I really disagree. And actually these are the proportions I see (or better). If you have 19 out of 20 changes done correctly, that means probably 1 every week will fail. Now the question is how will it fail - spelling mistake? single request rejected? single request failed? customer data lost?

If you let too many simple issues through, you're likely to find yourself completely failing when a very simple thing breaks. First you'll find that your logging is not correct, so you'll need to fix that first and reproduce, then you'll find that the rollback doesn't quite work and you've got some bad data to fix manually, then you'll find that this is actually a simple error masking some really nasty bug, etc. etc. I've seen that once or twice and I really believe in the broken windows theory now. I'd be more glad with a reasonable slowdown, than people pushing ahead instead of stopping to think about long-term issues.

Yes, I'm the guy who rejects ~4 out of 5 changes during code review initially (on average). Then again, I'm the guy who gets woken up when things fail - not everyone does, but it really gives you the appreciation of why you want to test those exception branches. I hope that people will be as strict about stuff I submit too.
>> you have absolutely no way of knowing until you get to the site and it's already too late.

https://www.requestpolicy.com/

It works.
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My guess is it's the area they were going to focus on under apotheker until he lost all support.
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How do we figure out the value of your Facebook data?

Our math teachers always said “show your work”, so here’s ours. We calculate your personal Facebook valuation by blending macro info about the company with your profile info:

Facebook has 2,819,034,047 outstanding shares.1
The company expects a price range of $34.00 to $38.00 per share when they IPO on Friday.

We assume the midpoint of the range, $36.00 — we’ll use real-time stock quotes starting Friday. ($34.00 + $38.00) ÷ 2

At this price, Facebook will have a $101.485 billion valuation. 2,819,034,047 × $36.00

The company has 526 million daily active users.

An average user will be valued $192.94. $101.485 billion ÷ 526 million

$3.154 billion of Facebook’s $3.711 billion in 2011 revenue, 85%, was derived from user data (advertising).

An average user’s data will be valued $164.00. $192.94 × 0.85

We use the Facebook Ads system to compute the relative value of your profile info — your location, age, gender, sexual preference, relationship status, and education level. For instance, a US resident is 1.75 times more valuable to Facebook than an average user, a 25-to-34-year-old is 1.10 times more valuable, and a male is 0.94 times less valuable.

We combine these factors to arrive at the value of your Facebook data.
My place of employment is similar to yours, I've moved myself up the ladder in order to start isolating and enabling my dev team the peace and quiet they need to be most productive.

What if, while you code, you think out loud, like really out loud... louder than you would talk in conversation? Perhaps if YOU bothered EVERYONE then maybe they'd put you in a private office? It's worth a try while you are looking for other opportunities...

i.e. "LET ME THINK HERE... IF VARIABLE V EQUALS ENUM ACTIVE THEN CALL DOHICKY ELSE DO NOTHING... WAIT IS THAT RIGHT?! NO NO NO LET ME RETHINK THIS?! I BET IF I REFACTOR THIS CODE I CAN..." All day long...if they tell you to be quiet tell them to "shut up" you're trying to think and they are ruining your thought processes and they risk causing you to slow down and/or enter errors and bugs into the code... "what do you mean me talking and noise in general is disturbing to you and your work? How they hell do you think I feel?!?!?" :)
Curtis lives in his own little bubble where the average internet user is COMPLETELY unaware of the possibility that they're being watched. Even my parents, who are nontechnical, in the mid 90s, would warn me about these sorts of things.

Regardless, Twitter went about this the proper way and I'm glad they're doing what they're doing. Happy to have the Do Not Track option too.

Nice sensationalist story though... what will he throw a fit over next time?
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