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---"I didn't fire him, or any of the other early hires. From a purely business perspective, this was crazy. It was the wrong thing to do. I didn't care – I could have made more money, but I made enough. I trained every last one of them to the best of their ability. The Designer in question changed jobs rapidly, from Coder to Sound Tech and eventually landing into a Director position about two years later with stats in the hundreds where he had begun with barely 30 in each."---

This post was surprisingly uplifting considering it was about a mobile game. I can't help but think game devs have it tough compared to devs in other sectors; their market seems to brook only a few winners, and everyone else just labors for a shot at the big leagues. It's easy to lose your way like the programmer who "chased software development contracts outside the games industry for meager and ever-diminishing rewards until he no longer had enough to pay his staff." (He happens to be a friend of mine, but I think the story is instructive on its own.)
Great, but how much can you squat or deadlift relative to your bodyweight? Your posterior chain, from your mid-back down to your ankles, is far more important to your long-term stability and comfort.

It's key to your complaint of discomfort standing up, and it's key to avoiding back or knee problems long-term.
This is a lot of effort to go to just gain the ability to handling recurring payments in USD[1].

I considered a similar path, since here in Australia we are very similarly constrained[2]. However I was not willing to accept the risk and complexity of incorporating in an unfamiliar legal/financial jurisdiction and I really don't feel the OP has made me any more comfortable although they seem flush about it.

Since I have an alternative billing model available that will be acceptable to my customers, I've abandoned the whole subscription approach in favour of annual prepayments.

Instead I have added "solve Australian online service billing" to my list of possible future projects (not a pipedream, issuer/acquirer systems knowledge is in my utility belt).

The guys at Pin (www.pin.net.au) will, hopefully, beat me to it, and I wish them the best because it's a problem seriously needs solving for Australian startups.

[1] Neither Paypal nor Worldpay's recurring options are palatable to me - both are seriously underspecified, and are UX catastrophes to boot.

[2] There is one option available; there is one bank that offers USD-capable merchant accounts, and the signup takes months of paperwork, and has huge up-front and per-txn fees, at least huge from a startup POV.
This article is half as good as it could be. The underlying assumption here is that you already know an employee is bad and that you need to fire them. But how do you know an employee is bad?

This is a question that no one seems to get right, unless its fairly obvious. If they stole something, no brainer. If they sexually harassed an employee, should be a no brainer. And if the company is in a financially distressed position, it may be unpleasant to fire someone, but atleast its understandable. What if the company is healthy and employee did nothing obviously wrong?

Then I guess, you look at the quality of their work. But judging quality is subjective, and you're likely to have a sliding scale depending on employee's past experience and delta to their start date. And what about periodic reviews? What about quarterly objectives? What about what other employee's think? How long do you warn an employee before you go ahead with it?

I think one of the better ways of dealing with firing is how it was handled in grad school. At my school, you had a series of qualifying examinations and you had a committee. The rules were pretty clear: 2 chances to pass and if not, goodbye. One of the tests was an oral examination in front of the committee of 5. There weren't any clear answers, but the committee would convene and in an hour they'd have a decision with lots of feedback. I failed my first attempt. But guess what? After that, I honed in on their feedback, worked my fucking ass off and passed my second attempt with flying colors.

I don't see this happening at many (or any) companies. I'm not sure why, but IMHO employers use the "at will termination" too liberally. Either that, or they let the bad employees stay far too long. Sometimes I wonder if a second chance would help bubble good employees to the top when you had previously mis-classified them as bad or vice versa. Firing scares the shit out of people...why not make this process less of a surprise than it has to be.
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Interesting fact. Or urban legend (who can tell the difference nowadays?)

What blocks microwaves is thin metal plate in the door. With holes so you can see inside.

It's a Faraday cage. And if you read specs in the manual, it' says the percentage that it blocks "for sure" to match some regulation. Hint, never close to 100%

And there's a percentage of radiation that goes out, and fry the inpatient that keeps it's face there
Russians are somewhat nice people too, but their regimes from 1900 until now, scares the sh*t out of me, more than any other regime, ever. I think we should take their nukes away from them as soon as possible.
The video is of a 30 story hotel built in 15 days. Your links are to a 15 story hotel built in 6 days. I agree the entrance is plain, but maybe that was a design decision for that particular building. Overall the design is consistent, probably due to the modular construction.
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My predominant reaction as well
Why bother posting it?
It's not that hard with a bit of electronics: Japanese homes usually have big electric kettles with temperature control. Green tea, as an example, needs 80C I think.

Japan in general is a great example for optimizing people's daily lives without compromising on quality. There are many of such rituals to explore that are very specific to that country.
Even SC resolutions, which are in theory binding, are frequently ignored.

The brass tacks reality of the internet is that the ICANN roots only have power because individual networks expliticlty cede them that power. If you want to secede from the ICANN DNS, you can replace your root.hints file anytime you want.
Interesting comment:

"A proper microwave designer would know that the best position to get something out of the microwave is how it was put in, and take care that regardless of microwaving time, the turntable would always stop in the position it started."
The "Israel April attacks" mentioned in the text:

http://m.upi.com/story/UPI-85701335473868/
Very nice, missed this.

Seems to me two reasons to set up in the US:

1. For US-based investment
2. For taking payments using excellent services like Stripe, Braintree etc

#2 should be inspiring localized entrepreneurs all over the world. Fix the payment problem and 'boom', instant business.
No, seriously, our terrorists won in Libya and Tunisia, and Allah is about to give them a nice victory in Syria too. So believe me, ours are much better (and they pick much nicer names like "freedom fighters")!
I got the impression that he was complaining about the exhibits that have no explanatory plaque at all, not even a paragraph.
Are you saying that if you had a billion bucks, you would be working on this startup?
From the Western perspective, Chinese regulations and processes have a long way to go. When was the last time a brand new building in the US or Europe simply collapsed before topping out? In China it was 2009:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5685963...
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Come now, be reasonable.

If we released some sort of libc for embedded systems, specifying only fprintf(), your analogy would be valid.
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I enjoyed this article. The emphasis on firing someone and still being friends or peers is a nice separation between business and relating to other people.

I'm curious about employer/business owner and worker relationships going forward. There's major downsides to full-time employees: it's difficult to hire someone that's skilled and gets along with others and firing a full-time employee is not a pleasant experience for anyone. There's also additional overhead associated with benefits and hr departments.

The modern tech ecosystem has eliminated much of my need to hire other full-time employees. Github takes care of version control. Mixpanel takes care of analytics. Even Airbnb simplifies traveling to the extent that I don't need any help. I can just pay contractors and freelancers for the work where I do require help.

The point is that full-time employees are looking less and less attractive to someone like me who's starting a new company. The path of least resistance is to just adjust my business structure or model to minimize the number of full-time employees I might need in the future.

There are certainly upsides to having full-time employees. And many companies require them. I think the extent to which I'm avoiding full-time employees long-term is interesting. I doubt I'm the only person considering this. So I'm curious how the employer/business owner and worker relationships will change in the next decade or so.
Absolutely

But for most of "math" you would go for floating point. You won't reinvent some fixed point math using integers just because...
http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/06/15/vc-per-capita-europe... implies (nationwide numbers only) that it is quite high...
Hardly. My first impression - brilliantly short name. Equally short URL. It fits the target spot on.

Rather envious actually ;-)
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How'd you delete your data?

I'm trying to remove my account too..
I keep reading about how managers fire employees and I can't help but think there was something under the surface going on when I was fired. I wasn't given any warning or explanation, and it came as a shock to coworkers that I worker closely with. Unfortunately, I'm take with trying to describe this situation to every potential employer anyway. Its great to hear that maybe my case was there exception, and that most employers are more transparent and open about performance expectations and how their employees are doing at their job.
Something I've been curious about relating to this topic, what do you do in a situation where an ex-employee (or ex co-worker) is lying about their position with the company?

Are you allowed to sue for misrepresentation (if such a thing exists) or is it pretty much deal with it? For example someone claiming to have been with the company for a year longer than they really were in a role they never held (eg: someone working in customer service at Facebook from 2008 - 2009 then claiming on their resumé they worked in the engineering department from 2008 - 2011).
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Based on Wikipedia, the 945GM has a GMA950, which supports Pixel Shader 2.0. That should be enough for WebGL.

At that point, the issue is more likely to be driver quality. Allowing people to use weird fixed-function corner cases of the OpenGL spec would make problems more likely.
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Who came up with the magic percentage of 30% for distribution of apps and games for FB, iTunes, and Google Play? I feel this is such an arbitrary percentage, maybe even price fixing.
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In practice, we certainly dont (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PzJdv4K9pOY/TNpvMuWL58I/AAAAAAAAA6...) store the waste in a way so we know for sure it will not be used to fertilize the crops of future generations.
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I think if you focus on the win{16,32} API, it doesn't do any justice to, for instance, the C library. FreeBSD has always supported binaries from various UNIX systems and I think this heritage goes back a bit further then 1995. Also, windows bundles a c library of its own which implements a significant subset.

Sure win{16,32} support a GUI with bells and whistles but that's because it evolved several years later specifically to support this newer mode of UI. It does not support 50-year old teletypes.
If I recall correctly, those green phosphors were long persistence, so they could have a lower refresh rate. Amber and white phosphors came along later when it didn't matter anymore because logic got faster. Some of the first terminals I used had core memory, so they still retained their contents when turned off.
It's absolutely absurd to calculate the emissions based on the weight of the material.
You've probably set some kind of record for the number of incorrect things you've managed to pack into a single post. I wonder if you believe them all or if you are a troll.
The 2003 Directive you quote (2003/30) is for biofuels, whereas 2003/54 deals with renewable electricity. Both refer to 2001/77, which details the condition of access to the grid for renewables. The language is relatiely clear Art. 7 - 1, if we distinguish between "access to the grid" meaning in the first part "right to connect" and "right to output" in the second part.

> Without prejudice to the maintenance of the reliability
> and safety of the grid, Member States shall take the necessary
> measures to ensure that transmission system operators and
> distribution system operators in their territory guarantee the
> transmission and distribution of electricity produced from
> renewable energy sources. They may also provide for priority
> access to the grid system of electricity produced from renew-able energy sources.
> When dispatching generating installations,
> transmission system operators shall give priority to
> generating
> installations using renewable energy sources insofar as the
> operation of the national electricity system permits.

However, it is superseded by 2009/28, which states in Art. 16 - 2 (a):

> Member States shall ensure that transmission system opera­tors and distribution system operators in their territory guar­antee the transmission and distribution of electricity produced from renewable energy sources

I believe the confusion stems from the distinction between right to connect to the grid and right to offload power to the grid. It seems clear the latter is indeed mandated at the E.U. level.
"What apple did wrong is that thy judged a person’s Intentions and residency by a spoken language." That sure is how the article makes it seem. And that sure would be wrong of Apple.

Yet the customer was planning to send the iPad to Iran and I wonder if that intention didn't some how come out in conversation such that the Apple employee knew of that intention? It would be interesting to have more details and it's difficult to tell when we have only the customer's recollection of events. It will be interesting to hear Apple's response.
There are no real unions in China, these organizations are all part of the Party. If you run any organized civil group in China with more than 100 members, you can be sure to be invited for a "talk" to the local Party headquarters, and depending on your willingness to cooperate, that visit may end very negativly for you. The one thing the Party is really afraid of are people organizing themselves.
Assuming modern microwaves have a microchip on which computation can be done, and an electric motor of controllable speed, couldn't the microwave calculate the speed required for the specified time to end at the right angle, with no delay?
Well, saying that it's "compressing as it falls" doesn't quite explain the observation either. What you see is the original slinky with a sudden catastrophic "sound wave" at the top propagating across it. It doesn't look like the whole slinky is contracting as it falls.

It's important to understand that as you hold it, each part of the slinky exists in a condition of equilibrium: since it is not accelerating upward or downward, the force of gravity and the force of the spring above pulling the slinky up must exactly cancel. If you slice the Slinky up into different "chunks" as a function of height, each chunk (call it dm) has the relationship (up-force) - (down-force) = g dm. It only connects to the parts immediately above and below it, and only moves when those parts move.

So actually, as long as that bottom part remains stretched just the way it is, the bottom edge cannot go up or down; the tension up top is the same as the tension on the bottom.

With a little more reflection, the stretching changes must propagate at the speed of sound in the slinky. That's just what sound is -- changes of pressure (in this case, tension) propagating through the solid. If you could send this sort of information faster, then sound would propagate faster commensurately. The speed of sound is fundamentally thus seen to be a connection, for the spring force, between "wiggle this side over here" and "that side wiggles."

Now, there are other forces at play in the slinky in theory which can propagate much faster: I imagine that a sound wave which spirals through the plastic (using it as a waveguide) for example, might actually travel to the bottom much faster. The top pushes on air which has a faster speed of sound, and emits light which goes even faster. But, those forces are not the crucial force which holds the slinky up and therefore needs to change.
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"the expenditures of the academic division at UVA have increased about 80% since 2001...In-state tuition has increased about 275%."

This says to me that some other source of funding (state subsidy?) has just about disappeared, is that right?
Actually, a colleague recently convinced me to start using signed ints for, e.g., for loops instead of unsigned ints. His reasoning was that if you're overflowing with signed integers, you'll probably overflow with unsigned integers too (we work with very large numbers), but it's easier to notice if you have a negative number rather than silently wrapping around to a still-valid value.
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Not sure if you've seen it yet, but you might be interested in https://pin.net.au/.

I haven't used it, but it seems to be Stripe-for-Australians...

Edit: now I've read your post properly I see you have seen Pin.
When I was about 11 or 12 years old, I was chatting with a friend on AOL Instant Messenger and suddenly was forced into a black screen with green text where I communicated briefly to someone who was forcing this new chat session onto me. The crack scared the absolute crap out of me. It ended once I told the person that I was irritated and that I was going to contact the police (I didn't and I doubt there was anything that really could have been done). Once the fear subsided I became more interested in how this person did what they did. It's one of those weird technology-related moments that sticks out in my mind to this day more than 10 years later.
Isn't that the same situation as only storing signed integers? The arithmetic is just a little different.
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Not really, some company is only annoucing that they are planing to do something that sounds innovative.

Tiny difference.
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Indeed. I may have to look her up.

The most interesting things I've seen written about debt in the past 20 years comes from an anthropologist, David Graeber. Debt, the first 5000 years. Insights I've never seen from an economist.

I'm curious as to what a sociologist has come up with.
But 4-5% increase in faculty expenditures since 2001 only produces a 60% increase. If the biggest line-item increased by 60%, why did the budget overall increase by 80%? Something else must be growing a lot faster than faculty expenditures!

And why does an 80% increase in expenditures necessarily lead to a tripling of tuition? Shouldn't tuition go up 80% as well? Unless some other source of funding has disappeared?
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I've been combining standing desk, couch and workdesk for some 2 years now. I've completely annihilated back and neck pain with that discipline.

Originally, I was using a standing desk just so I can go and smoke in the other room and not stop working.

As for BMI... Mine is 35, and I am a walking proof that BMI is a complete bogus for individual to measure his well being. I'm just big boned. My head measures 25" on height of 5'11".
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At my ex-company, I've always commented how well designed was microwave because it always end up in the same orientation as the start.

Turns out, it was just that it did a complete turnaround on a time segment (5 seconds) and it was easiest to input time in 5 second intervals.

Still, good, if not great design.
Adrenaline doesn't have any long-term health risks, unlike cocaine. If cocaine was safe in the long run, and I found that I didn't get negative side-effects and it helped me do <x>, I'm not sure what the downside would be in me using cocaine.

When I used to be a singer I personally found adrenaline would only come with more important performances (bigger concerts, live radio), never with smaller concerts on recording sessions - I never experienced any downsides, and it helped me do better. If I could have found a way to get an adrenaline rush all the time, I definitely would have grabbed it with both hands.

edit: Given the topic of this actual thread, an interesting side-note is that despite never having problems with music, I'm pretty terrible at public speaking.
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Thank you.

You've just given me my #1 salvo against systemd :)
Fantastic article. I had no idea the $400 model would not be fully compatible with Windows 8. This is insane, was looking forward to running VLC, Foobar and desktop Chrome+flash on a nice Windows tablet with a keyboard, but guess I was daydreaming.
Well despite proving my point.

What isn't innovative about this project?