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Let me clarify creative work on new or multiple ideas is not easy to turn on and off on command. It tends to take a while to build up the domain knowledge, project specific tools, project specific API to be creative on the project. That's consistent with your emphasis on practicing day in day out.

The example you gave is for the main project you are working on day in day out. Yes, you can easily resume work the next day. What the OP advocating is working on multiple different projects for 30 minutes a day. It's just more difficult to context switch into multiple projects with such a short amount of time.
P/E is a crude tool sometimes, and it's important to know it's limits of utility. Amazon, for example, has more than 10x the revenue of Facebook and has been undertaking a great deal of expansion, hiring, and investment in recent years, which has kept it's earnings relatively depressed. More so, the future growth potential of Amazon is very straightforward. They will almost assuredly garner a larger portion of the retail goods market over the coming years, especially throughout Europe, Asia, and South America where they have only recently started making inroads. More so, their digital goods businesses (eBooks, MP3s, video on demand, PaaS hosting, etc.) are on track for a hefty amount of growth as well. More so, Amazon is an enormously diversified business. Betting that Amazon will continue to execute well in enough areas to continue to expand immensely and to bring in enough profit to warrant today's seemingly inflated P/E ratios is not actually that crazy of a bet. Amazon's market cap is only around $100 billion total, which is barely twice Amazon's annual revenue.

Now, compare that to Facebook where they already have more than 10% the population of the entire Earth as users and yet have less than $4 billion in annual revenues and yet are slated to IPO with the same market cap as Amazon. In order for that bet to make sense Facebook would need to grow its business by one or two orders of magnitude and dramatically change their profitability structure. In short, they would need to fundamentally transform their business. That's the bet that people are making when they buy facebook at a 110 P/E ratio and to me that seems a lot riskier than the Amazon bet.
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I think that NaCl is more geared towards being a target of a port for an existing application thats been written (like the supreme commander game that google managed to coerce a studio to port to NaCl).

I htink the pie is big enough for both NaCl and javascript apps.
Want to know if a company has good engineering culture? Look up the company's engineers' facebook and twitter feeds and see what they're saying. Engineers who are happy tell everyone about it. Big monitors and choosing your email addresses are great; for a couple of weeks. Then after the big monitor honeymoon phase is over and the daily slog begins, the engineers realize that they have a big monitor that buries them in the horrible culture of the company that attracts people based on looks and surface happiness. Two big monitors and nice chairs are byproducts of a culture that is good, not reasons that a culture is good.

Find a company where the engineers are happy, where the engineers don't leave, and where the management understands that happiness doesn't mean a couple of monitors or a nice chair. Happiness is having your opinions valued, getting fulfillment out of your work and being able to effect change within the company.
Because I spend at least 8 hours of every weekday- often 60% of my waking day (more if you skip commuting/eating/etc). Salary generally improves my life outside of work, but niceties at the office improve the chunk of my life that money can't. A $900 chair that lasts for 5 years is negligible next to my salary in terms of actual cost to the company, but it huge in terms of the impact on my life.
>To be fair, I do think that Amazon is overvalued. While their revenue has grown well, their margins and profits haven't.

Except Amazon is killing it in the cloud. I don't think looking at profit margins is fair when you have a company that is heavily invested in R&D in a known, growing market.

I think they're well aware that the cloud market is going to be dominated by one or two major players, and are investing quite heavily in an 'amazon land grab' to quote Joel Spolsky.

It won't matter if you have 50 retailers competing with amazon when the majority of them are running on EC2...
Interesting that however fast the startup world runs there are often ideas that are sat upon for years that still remain viable, without direct competitors coming on the market (and the idea still being one that is good). I bet it's a fairly common story of "I've been thinking about this for years and STILL no one has done it. Let's do this."
I've talked with one of the core devs, who has said that the primary reason they haven't switched is of them use Windows.
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A good test of Gmail filtering abilities, I suppose.
I've been posting my e-mail addresses in plaintext all over the web for a good decade and a half. I still use those same addresses. I see no spam. Spam filters work.

Why are people afraid of having their e-mail address out there without obfuscation?
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That's not playing a good hand, that's being a dick simply because you can probably get away with it. Don't be a dick.
Ctrl+G is a key combo in FF/Chrome on Win/Ubuntu and I only tested Chrome/FF/Safari on OSX when I made it.

Press the keys in sequence (not simultaneously) and it should work.
In some large Silicon Valley companies, "firstname@company.com" is a badge of honor because it indicates that you were an employee back when the company was small. New employees don't receive that option at some point.
Actually on a related topic, do people know what's the typical ratio of capital spending vs revenue of a typical software company? Capital spending should include equipments, IT infrastructure, operation infrastructure, etc.

I was at one company with 1% cap/revenue ratio and it was horrible. People had to bring in their own big monitors if they wanted a bigger one. Of course the CEO was proud with such low ratio.
I have heard it many times here and elsewhere, but customized email addresses are a huge boon for having your own domain that I'm discovering.
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I don't think he lies, have a look at his CV (pdf):

http://ap.resume.s3.amazonaws.com/alexeyp-resume.pdf
May I ask how many letters there are in your last name? Mine has nine letters, and it killed me to work somewhere that my username was "mschiral" and I had to type most of it but then stop two letters early.

It's like Shave and a Haircut without the "two bits".
You use this phrase "trust me" more than is probably warranted in this circumstance.
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A minor point: he applied to renounce 16 months ago. The date 8 months ago was when it was finally accepted.
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Looks great for a few hours of work. I think this is the second RubyMotion app from App Store, first one is Mustachio.
I find myself clicking ads on only two sites: Reddit and Facebook (among the 20 or so sites I don't adblock). Facebook has been pretty good at personalizing ads towards me (although I had to hide the ads that went along the lines of "learn to code at so-so online uni"), but what gets me to click is the "This many friends liked this". Digital word-of-mouth really is effective. Maybe I'm some extraordinary exception... I would still think Facebook has an amazing potential make a profit. I mean, it sure helps that it has 900 million customers/products.
Personally, I don't think it was a real offer. He was just trying to see what the reaction would be.
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Is it a cloud issue, or is it just that HP has lost their "touch"?
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(I understand, but I just find it fascinating that no two monad explanations seem to be similar on the surface...)
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At my previous work we used docking stations for the laptops. So at desk I had my big 22" monitor, mouse and regular keyboard connected to my laptop and whenever I am away I still had everything that I worked on with me.

Then again I was a manager so all I had open most of the time was Thunderbird and Excel. I don't know if the extra pixels helped in my case ;).

In any case I would recommend that setup for work.
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So what does this offer that Khan Academy doesn't for free? Looks like they manage to use social media effectively and I haven't checked but may be they have more targeted or traditional education friendly content over there?
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I don't mean to derail the conversation, but I just noticed today that one of the sites I work with (aptcorner.com) has dropped off of the first page of results for the company name (it was previously at around position 4–5. Is it not enough that I've set the preferred domain in webmaster tools? Will setting a rel=canonical tag make a difference?
misleading title. researchers are using their own implementations of google's page rank. that can mean anything.
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Not that your conclusion is wrong by any means but given that Shakespeare is well known for skillfully breaking and rewriting rules he's not really a good example to persuade prescriptivists.
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I thought the last line would read "Weeks of notice given: 2"

Why are you putting up with that crap Ed?
Then after you have found that company ask for the equipment you need? Sure the culture is more than just a few monitors, but I think a company not giving you the optimal gear is less likely to have a good culture.
this happen all the time. if employee accepts more money to stay, the company is given time to backfill the position, and in the best case for the company, this employee can train their replacement... probably without knowing it.

if you accept such an offer to stay, the company knows it is about money, and that you are a flight risk because as soon as a better job comes along you will be gone. the funny thing is, most everyone would leave for a better job, but by going through this back and forth you will now have a target on you (company now realizes how critcal you are to the busness and will work harder to cross train)

I have seen this from both sides, and the author made the correct decision to walk in my opinion.

if some project needs finishing, negotiate a part time contractor stint, if you feel really really nice.
Natural light can't be emphasized enough. I just moved to a window-less fluorescent fishbowl shared by three analysts/developers, and I've never had so many headaches.
A friend of mine in college had a name that would be mildly offensive and embarrassing to him if it was his first initial and last name. Having your own username/email might be something to think about and would be a rather painless perk to offer to prospective employees.

Like you said, when was the last time you thought about your email address?
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I'm shocked at how few companies let their knowledge workers pick out their machines. I've been using OS X since 10.1, but I keep going to companies that stick me with Windows, despite the fact that I'm probably 10-20 percent less productive (maybe more when you factor in all the OS X-only software that I'm used to). My last job eventually got me a Macbook Pro, and I'm trying to work on this new employer.

I was able to get a big external monitor but only after asking. It's not something that you're asked about when you start.

I don't work for a software or engineering company, and I enjoy the work, but I'd really like to be on a machine that really worked well for me and my needs. I really dislike Windows software in particular, and have found some real gems on OS X.

Too many companies try to nickle and dime IT spending. Saving a few hundred dollars or so on an employees machine isn't going to do you a lot of good if that means a lot of lost productivity.

The problem is that the people at the top often spend more time in meetings than working and only do email, PowerPoint, Word and Excel. They don't quite grasp how a better system could lead to more productivity, because their jobs aren't to produce things.

Of course, if you don't understand how your employees produce things, maybe you shouldn't be at the top.
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Back when Usenet and mailing lists were the medium for most of the important conversations on the internet (that is, before 1994 or 1995) if you tried to post to Usenet or a mailing list with an obfuscated email address, people would complain (in replies to your post) if the admins running Usenet or the mailing list let your post through at all.
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As the resident "Been there, done that" guy with regards to teachers I think I'm 99.9% of the way to "You should probably build something for businesses instead -- for equivalent levels of savvy/work you'll get a lot more money while suffering a lot less."

Teachers: $$

Businesses: $$$$$$$$$$$

I just got an email this morning from someone responding to an AdWords ad for Appointment Reminder. The ad costs $8 a click, for reasons which will soon be obvious. The contents of the email: "Quote me a price for X appointmnts a month." I did. "OK, we want it." If they stay around for the year I just earned several hundred copies of BCC with two emails and a few minutes of data entry.
Counter offers are a way for the company to buy time while they find your replacement. Why not pay 2X if it means keeping things running smoothly? It's still a LOT less than the actual impact of your departure on the business.

Counter offers never work out in the long term. Now that you've put in your notice, you're no longer seen as loyal. Therefore, had you accepted (bad idea) they would not have kept you around any longer than absolutely necessary.

Even so, trashing your former employer after they offer you more money, however self-serving, is bad business.

I would not hire somebody if I saw them bad mouthing a former employer. What if they don't like my company? When they leave, they're going blast my business for not recognizing their genius/value/divinity earlier? Not good.
If you get a ludicrous counteroffer, it's probably the perfect time to also get a severance package if you don't have one or get an increase in severance if you do.
Thanks for the link, it has great comments, but for me the most important was: "every modern IT organization is actively destroying value in their company", which in the Big Co I work is totally true.
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It seems that the domain was purchased before the idea (http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8141/7217323514_0acc02941b_o.p...) so I'm not sure this is the case in this particular instance.
> but as a general-revenue tax it's a regressive one.

SS is not a general revenue tax - taxes don't have contribution-based payouts.

If you're suggesting that SS payouts should be completely means tested, you're opening the biggest can of worms. The SS recipients that complete means testing would most affect are among the most politically active people in America.

When I was younger, I used to argue against SS and the like as old-people welfare. I didn't see why my money should go to to folks who were better off than me. My age-cohorts disagreed.

Soon the subsidies will start flowing my way....
Great website, I love the design. This looks interesting, I think I'll try it out. Thanks for sharing!

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Khan Academy does not offer lesson plans, just videos and an exercise/practice framework.

This is marketplace for teachers to sell and buy lesson plans. Things like worksheets for in-class work, homework to assign, ideas for projects to assign, or material to supplement in-class instruction for the students. This is actually a really smart and obvious idea, and well executed it seems.
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To be honest these days I kind of expect the company to either provide me with a reasonable budget and tell me to go buy what I need, or let me bring in my own hardware.

Then I can be sure I'm getting what I need (which is, yes, two 27inch mons and a mb pro)
pfft, chairs. what, do you sit down all day long, you slob?
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(As eloquently put by Jimmy Stewart in "It's a Wonderful Life".)
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"you are responsible for fixing preexisting errors that violate new company policy"

That's insane.
>> Besides, skill may beget product, but it doesn't necessarily beget process.

Oh boy, talk about not seeing the forest for the trees. For skill to beget a successful product, you must follow a process to get from nothing to product. So in the course of creating a successful product you have automatically created a process -- the process to build the product. That process may be used one time, or multiple times -- but it's still a process.
I get a boatload of spam daily. On gmail.
Of course. Hiring people is only done in the service of creating value.
cnx-software.com seems to be pretty good, too.
Nowhere in the article does he mention who his former employer is. He vaguely implies that it's a hedge fund, but there's more than one of those. This isn't an article lambasting a particular company; it's about counter-offers in general.
Android has a heavily modified kernel.
The whole point of NaCl is to stop bundling runtimes with the browser. You can develop in whatever language you like as long as it can compile to NaCl byte-code.

That said there could be a Chrome app that is a Ruby interpreter running on NaCl.
It's not current revenue that determines price. It's prediction of future value.
So take the higher salary and buy yourself a $900 chair for work?
It's not the students that are paying to be taught, it's the teachers/schools that are paying to reduce (or perhaps refocus) the teacher's workload. Instead of coming up with lesson plan from scratch, the teacher can start with something usually better than they would have come up with on their own, and spend their time tailoring it to the strengths and weaknesses of their class, or even specific students. Or maybe they can spend more time giving feedback on students' assignments.
I think you meant Predictably Irrational. I haven't heard of Practical Irrationality.
This is similar to laws that require buildings be brought entirely up to code any time any renovations are done. The intent is to keep buildings up to code, but one of the nasty side effects is that buildings which are already substandard continue to deteriorate because of the massive expense (in time and effort as well as money) that is required. I've seen half a dozen instances with churches and other nonprofits deciding against simple renovations (like adding a wheelchair ramp) because they didn't want to have to redo the entire building's wiring, widen every doorway, and put in an elevator.

If you require a massive overhaul to be tied to a minor fix, one likely outcome is that the minor fix simply doesn't get done.
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> It's like Shave and a Haircut without the "two bits".

This is what makes me miss working at reddit.
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Of course, tax payers most likely footed the bill for her to come up with those lesson plans.
> Currently we have somewhere around 5 parking spaces for every car.

Not in the places with lots of population density.

For example, SF may have more cars than parking spaces. It certainly doesn't have 5x as many.

> I bet we could at least cut that in half with autonomous cars, making

almost no difference.

For example, I have two parking spaces. One on the street in front of my house and the other in my backyard. The latter isn't going away and the former won't make any difference.
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Yep, that's how it works with my employer. Typically, your email address and network ID are setup prior to your first day, which doesn't bother me much since what I got matches what I'm used to using.
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Same in mideast as well. Eight hours of formal schooling, then 4 hours of "tutoring" after school by the same teachers, and with same students.

Way to fucking rob my childhood of play-time, assholes.

Then I get dropped into an American high-school and don't catch up with my middle-school math & science until 3 years later. In the mean time, I couldn't play any sport or a music instrument; couldn't do any independent "project", be it art or science, as I was never tasked with creative work hitherto. I could parrot trignometric identities and chemical properties of hundreds of substance. I knew laws of physics cold, could derive them on paper, but couldn't observe & measure an experiment or design one or use an instrument to save my life.

Thank FSM I didn't let my schooling get in the way of my education.
I would donate in a heartbeat if they had mono support. Without .NET it's just not that useful to me.
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