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I'm all hears for a solution to this problem. I've been thinking about it and failing at it. The system is really ubiquitous at the moment.
Easy: Ask for too much salary and too much equity at the same time. When negotiating compromise just on equity.
If only there were a struggling US mobile provider looking to be sold that already had a large Android user base...
Why make it a service? Why not open source it and let anyone run it from their machines?

I'm sorry but even for the client side, I'd feel happier with my users making a request to my own server where I can definite my own caching as per my applications needs.

Calling a third party service should be reserved for advertisements, tracking, and queries to proprietary data (e.g. Google Maps).

I'm not disparaging your efforts here, no doubt its a fine service but I'd want to run it myself not have it as a SaaS.
I would guess they are really +/- 50% for Progressive because credit really does play a large part. I can't imagine they won't get sued again by these companies for falsely posting their rates as higher, so that they can sell more policies with the companies that actually pay them.
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Actually the 'math' was done using alchemy, the shader was pixelbender http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pixelbender.html
However the example was flash then (3 years ago) vs webgl now. This is flash now; a version with 1.4 million particles using the new molehill http://www.simppa.fi/blog/1_point_4_million_particles/
I can't say anything about the content, but I love the minimalistic theme. I want it for my blog.
Sorry, I was talking more about calling them a relatively small company. Considering the products separately makes sense.
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The first Diablo was a mostly single player game with added multiplayer content. The second was either way you wanted to play it and definitely shined more in Multi than Single player play.

The third takes all the good lessons Blizzard has learned from WoW and SC2, and made a hypersocial experience that's tons of fun to play with people.

Borderlands is an interesting game to bring up: I've tried continually to play the game. It's a bit lacking by yourself, but with friends it's great. However the slightest internet blip loses progress in the game for whomever has it due to the player-hosted nature of the game. If the host loses internet for a small window, then everyone loses progress. Lag is horrendous as well on that game depending on who you play with.

Played entirely LAN based, BL was a lot of fun...but as soon as we lost about 40 minutes of playtime from a small interruption, we just stopped playing it.

I get you want your D1 experience back, but the D3 experience, as designed, is fantastic. Go play Kingdom's of Amantur or something like that if you want a great solo 1 player game. There are TONS out there in that genre. No one does phenomenal multiplayer like Blizzard does. There are tons of companies that do great single player. I'm very happy they committed heavily to multiplayer for this game.
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Is this only for Chrome? It doesn't seem to do anything in Firefox 12.
How you can determine this based entirely on the complaint? The firm has not had a chance to defend themselves.

How do you know they favor men? Maybe there is a bigger pool of talented men than women in this field?
I wonder how long they could play that game before running afoul of antitrust legislation.
I'm not sure the comparison to other industries is apt- servers serve you, and the majority of the quality of their output comes directly from their personal interactions with you. Contrast this to, say, a programmer, where the majority of the quality of their output comes from their product- if the software they write is good, their interactions with the customer (if any) are not very important.

Tips in serving and other interaction-heavy professions (doormen, barbers, delivery people) allow a much more immediate feedback loop for poor service than the traditional "If you suck, you'll get fired in a month or two" system.

The reason there's a standard tip amount is because that gives people something to deduct from for particularly bad service. If the default were no tip, customers would have to fall back on the traditional feedback mechanisms (that are both slow and considerably more effort) like complaining the the manager.

Personally, I'd say the biggest argument against tipping is that it tends to reflect many things that are largely outside the server's control: food quality, food preparation time, atmosphere, general dining experience.
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I read an article a few years ago that correlated the desirability to do business in a country with the perceived likelihood of fairness and low corruption in institutions and government. The US was high (possibly first?) in that ranking.

I wonder at what point that starts to change for us?
I think his argument is premature. His app is < 5k installs, he's only targeting phones, he's still using the option menu (i.e. using an old sdk), and his UI is simply an iPhone port.

Just from a UI perspective I'm not sure he has addressed: ActionBarSherlock, black vs. white (or any?) Option Menu icons, portrait/landscape layouts (i.e. sideways keyboards), and multiple layout folders (3x just for tablets).

He's confident now because the app is small & easy. When you get to ~100k installs you start to encounter the niche users and when you're missing something "critical" and unique to them you'll get a lot of 1-star drive-bys...
I rarely tip. But when I do, I do it with just the tip
"The primary concern of Kaczynski's writings is freedom, and he argues that the complex systems required by modern technology necessarily force individuals to give up too much liberty in the bargain."

Wow, where have I heard that before?

There is a common theme, in a number of these rants, whether its Kaczynski, Stallman, or Joy. The theme is that complexity begats obscurity and our inability to predict the behavior of mostly obscured, highly interconnected systems exposes us to an 'unnecessary' risk.

I am not persuaded by the 'enslaving', 'grey goo', or 'police state' scenarios, but I do recognize the potential harm here. Generally however we've been adapting as these challenges have come up and I expect to continue adapting. I have yet to hear a credible argument for going back to living in caves (other than its demonstrable that with population management and technological restrictions one could create a stable non-growing human population).
FWIW, I read the article because of the attractive title you gave it. I found the beginning exciting and the rest quite informative. If you had titled it more boringly, I wouldn't have chosen to read it.
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99% of the time when battle.net accounts are hacked, it's from keyloggers on internet sites that revolve around the game. They even sell keyfobs with one time codes (I got one with SC2 that also works for Diablo), that help greatly with this problem.
No, unfortunately refunding the deposit doesn't necessarily clear him of liability. If I say I'm going to do something, and I don't, I can't always get out of the situation by saying "let's pretend I never made a commitment."

That said, I doubt it's as bad as he fears. He needs a lawyer.
Thanks, looks like a great resource!
There are a lot of strange practices that exist within society and there are probably good historical reasons for why tipping emerged in the United States. Perhaps it'd be better not to fuss over it and instead focus on changing things that really matter, rather than fighting arbitrary social norms that are inconsequential in the long run.
You're jumping to conclusions that she is doing what is right, and isn't either trying to get a pay out, or views her companies actions through a lens of default sexism.
Update: Engine Yard has posted about it from their perspective at http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/engine-yard-is-teaming-w...

Oh, and JBoss director Mark Little: https://community.jboss.org/blogs/mark.little/2012/05/22/jru...
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I'm assuming you refer to the teacher's ongoing correspondence with Kaczynski which one imagines means a lot to the prisoner, and could be seen as some form of 'comfort'.

Do you see the need to examine the arguments at all? Would it be ok for the teacher to discuss the manifesto as a text without the dialogue with Kaczynski?
If the CEO has been a success before at a level you want to be: consider equity.

If there's no track record, the equity isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

You'll come out ahead with the high salary until you are really on an all star team with a track record.
You ask reasonable questions, the problem (like anything else involving disrupting an existing practice) is implementing it. You can’t just go around not tipping, in the hopes that decent waiters will start demanding higher wages from their employers. I mean, you can, and you’ll save some money, but you won’t change the system by yourself.

Also, your objection to paying a percentage of the bill is not the strongest point in the article. It’s true that Fedex charge me the same money to deliver an envelope containing a contract worth $10,000 as they do to deliver a birthday card worth $5. They would probably love to charge me more for the contract, that would help them with price discrimination. But since they can’t peek at the contents of the envelope, they try to find a proxy for value in the form of speed of delivery. Rush service costs more, ostensibly because the sooner you need it, the more valuable it is and the more you’re willing to pay.

Sometimes, that’s way off like with a birthday card you’re trying to get delivered in time for a birthday, but on the whole the system is good enough. Likewise with tipping. Forget about trying to value the service by the cost to deliver it. The system is trying to charge you what you can afford, and the amount you spend on the food is close enough to make things work out most of the time.

The entire system is sitting in a local maximum that’s good enough for most purposes. If you try to deviate a little, you’ll end up with worse outcomes for everyone. You need a dramatic and disruptive change to the entire thing to move it to another local maximum.

I encourage you to think of this as an exercise in startup business planning. Imagine there was a YC company that “fixed” the system. What product or service would it provide and how would it extract value from the current inefficiencies?
Something about this doesn't sit well with me.

I am just a consumer of Zed Shaw's "Learn X the hard way" series...but this feels like a blatant mooching of his hard-earned credibility and intellectual property.

I would a) consult him and either distribute it through him with his permission, or b) rename it.
It's my (uninformed and second-hand) impression that tipping-culture is often defined whether the waiters\servers are given minimum livable salary or whether the tip is the larger income.
A really cool tool, and extremely well presented. At first I thought: 'well why not just resize the browser window?'. But the options for device screen size is what makes this useful. Great job.

Just one point. The dark overlay that comes up when the mouse is over the preview is a bit distracting. Maybe you could make this more subtle?

What's the motivation for making this tool? Any ideas to monetize?
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Sure they do. They just call themselves "Rubyists" or "rockstar ninjas" instead.
Many regions of the world work just fine without tipping, so the difficulty would be in the transition. Have any cultures successfully made the transition from tipping to not-tipping?

Seems like the only start toward doing so would be to force minimum wage standards to be applied to all workers. This would benefit some but cause significant hardships to some others, so it seems to me unlikely to be achievable.
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I disagree that fragmentation is not a problem. I work on the mobile build/test infrastructure at Google, and fragmentation does cause us a lot of extra work. We have to track down and maintain physical phones from each vendor, and then we have to dole out time allotments for tests to run on each phone. (And of course, each model of phone runs a different build of Android for each carrier...) This is annoying because ideally we'd run tests for every affecting change, but there aren't enough phones to do that. (We can and do run the emulator for every change, but the emulator is a very optimistic simulation.)

iOS presents is own challenges; running emulator tests for every change is difficult because the build process is opaque and the emulator only runs on Macs, which we do not use in production.

All in all, the tools that are available to mobile developers are extremely primitive compared to what server-side Java developers get, and wasting time fighting fragmentation isn't exactly helping.
Looks like something out of Mad Max or Water World. It sounds like a hoax just by the fact - why didn't the guy just fix the car instead of building a motorcycle? Also, don't think he followed the desert survival guide (1):

"Stay as hydrated as possible before going out.

Take along food that packs the most nutrition in the least size and weight.

Wear wicking fabrics with a UPF of at least 30 as a base layer, and take along one warming layer (wool or fleece) and one windbreak layer.

Many deserts are prone to dust storms - protect yourself.

Travel at night when possible.

Try to stay as warm as possible at night.

Be wary of nocturnal animals that can harm you."

Typically you are meant to stay with the vehicle.

http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-in-the-Desert
>They waste million of dollars thinking CrapCase and other "irrational" tools are ok.

Oh God, yup. The last place I interned for was using CVS, and the devs wanted to switch to Git. This desire percolated up a few levels, and a couple months later it's announced that we're switching to ClearCase. Two months before a major version of our product drops. Cue 3 weeks of mayhem as ClearCase manages to mangle everything, then the same people who made the ClearCase decision are furious that we are so far behind target and begin to "question the competency" of the devs at out site.

Yeah, thanks but I'm staying the hell away from HW companies in the future.
This seems like a really clever social hack, but I'm not sure it holds true. It certainly stands to reason that people are more willing to give away the things they don't value, but does it really make any sense that a founders willingness to share equity is automatically an indicator of success probability?

I tend to favor sharing of equity, because I want commitment from my core team members. It's not that I don't value equity in my company. I do. I value it in the higest regard, which is why I don't offer it to any stragler who comes along. You can rest assured that if I do offer you equity in my venture, I hold you in high regard.

It's very hard to tell if you want to be in business with someone. I'm fortunate to have had an opportunity to work with some of my co-founders in a normal business relationship prior to becoming co-founders. Had I not had that experience, I'm not sure how I'd evaluate that decision, but I can tell you it wouldn't be based on whether I was offered a high-salary or stock options.
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She's a partner in the firm - the highest rank there is in VC. It's unlikely she would have been promoted to that level if they were all sexists.
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They've done several major redesigns that initially the users rebelled against but then came to like.

I can tell you that's not easy to do.
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But I think you have to admit that there's an expectation built into Amazon's market cap that they will eventually find a way to improve their margins.

Compare HP, whose market cap is around 1/3 annual revenue at the moment.
sure it's a simple first-pass approximation, but it highlights the real numbers behind Facebook's operations, and how those compare their primary counterweight in the space, Google.
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Actually I learned about this from Zed himself on twitter. From the tone of his announcement he doesn't seem to mind.
Google builds a self-driving car, forces competition to, um, I have no idea.
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Love this article. I worked in the restaurant industry for 6 years, mainly as a cook, so I didn't get tipped as my wages were decent, but when I did exceptional service, I did receive a "Please give this to the cook" tip and it made me feel good. I normally tip, but at the same time, I hate that people feel they are mandatory to tip... No it's a reason for exceptional service, not "I served you food, you tip me". If you rely on your tips then look for a different job. If you make me feel obligated to tip you, I won't and it won't bother me either.

That being said, I am really bad at tipping $10 for a $5 beer... :(
It's not "considered" rude not to tip in the US. It is rude not to tip. It may not make sense to you that restaurants underpay waitstaff in anticipation of tips, but they do. If you want to protest the practice, don't patronize businesses that encourage tipping.

For whatever it's worth to you, tipping isn't just an incentive scheme to get waitstaff to do their jobs well; it's also a commission and recruiting/retention practice.

I have no strong opinions about tipping cabs. I tip them, but the economics behind cab tips are not the same as for service staff. Cab drivers in Chicago are usually sole proprietors of their own businesses and can select their routes to maximize returns; about the most you could say is that they also have to deal with fixed fare rates, which themselves might be set in anticipation of tipping.

But refusing to tip restaurant servers is from what I can tell morally equivalent to taking money out of their pockets.
Isn't that a bit premature? It may be a civil case, but presuming innocence until proven otherwise is still a pretty good policy.
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> Sure, its an unproven company with a high P/E ratio, but so are most tech startups when they go IPO.

Most don't go IPO at $100B. Even Google only started at $23B.
That would be a great game to port to the web.
Tipping would work better if people increased the tipping variance. When I have really shitty service => no tip. OK service 12% because anything less and I'm considered a jerk.

Why isn't 5% standard for OK, but rushed service?
Well, when I look at companies that I might legitimately invest in, arguably the most important question is "what kind of room for growth is there?"

Without getting too deep, its not hard to see Google become more than an ads company in the near future. Google Research. Google (self-driving) cars. Google ISP. Google Space Mining. Google the hardware manufacturer (hello moto).

It's very difficult from my little point of view to see the same thing happening with Facebook. Their room for growth seems an awful lot smaller than most other companies worth investing in, and with their stats (higher market cap than Ford, huge P/E, etc), one would have to expect massive room for growth, but they haven't floated much in terms of monetization ideas other than ads and things that people may not like very much (privacy intrusive things, etc)
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While doing a comparison, try not to change the things you are comparing. If you did the comparison this way:

On the web one only has to test on 4 browsers x two operating systems.
On Android, one only has to test on 1 browser and 1 operating system.
it still doesn't say what it is or does really.
I would pay cash money to get people to stop using that term unironically.
I don't see anything I really like a lot in python, and for clojure, is there a binary for windows?
any idea why i get the JS error "requestAnimationFrame is not defined" when I run the HTML page on my local system. Same browser (firefox 12)) renders the online-like just fine.
As i understand this method is part of the browser's JS api. So, why is it not defined if I run it "locally"?
Take the occasional break when playing Diablo 3.

Seriously though, make sure your chair is decent. I replaced mine, which fixed my posture which meant that I wasn't leaning on the wrong nerves. It helped.
I don't know about other Americans, but when I visit other countries I typically find the servers nice but slow and the overall quality of service much lower.

When I was a server I would work hard to make sure I got every dollar. The tip is always on your mind, all night.

The other good thing about tipping is that it also makes the job a sales job. The higher the bill, the higher the tip and therefore it properly aligns incentives with the restaurant. The exception to that is fraud where a server provides free items to attempt to get a larger tip.

I get that it must be extremely irritating for people from outside the US to get a price and then have to do the math to figure out what it really costs, but that is a small price to pay for superior service all the time.
This sounds interesting to me. Where and how did you gather feedback on your idea?
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That makes sense; it's easier to take a horizontal step than a vertical one. Someone should do up an infographic showing the effect of gravity on work required for horizontal versus vertical movement.

I think it's logarithmic, but my math is bad.
They're competing with the sorry state of transportation in the US. Private cars disrupted carriages. Public trains and buses disrupted cars. Better cars disrupted buses and trains. Self-driven trains of public cars are the natural next step.
Being European I have never understood the tipping culture. However the Brits (and other European countries) don't have a tipping culture but have a '12.5% service charge' at restaurants.

I believe to avoid any ambiguity you simply have a all or nothing policy.
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In the US, a waiter or waitress typically gets paid $2.15/ hour, so hopefully you will take that into consideration.
high salary.

Even if the startup is positioned well with deep pocketed investors you won't be able to cash out the equity for at least 8 years (a typical time span from launch to IPO or buyout for a successful startup) assuming you still work there (or you quit and purchase your vested options with your own money) ... and the odds of any given startup reaching a miletone where the equity is worth selling is small.
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What does 'just fine' mean? There is a large restaurant service disparity between the US and Europe.
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