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Speaking as a Google employee who does NOT speak for the company, I remember reading the notice about this. This is separate to life insurance (which we also get).
If it's salary and doesn't include equity or benefits, its value is reduced another 30%-50% as a multiple of compensation.
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You're supposed to randomize characters and put them in so that more than 32 chars are there. Am I the only person in the world who does this?
It's not like there are no other jobs in the software field right now. If he was being mistreated at GM and is only qualified to work in a factory that's one thing. There are more software jobs than qualified workers right now. Quit, go get a job at a company that isn't the scum of the earth.
Yeah but that's probably just a purely theoretical concept; let's be honest. It's like saying "I could be Einstein or Newton if I just found physics interesting." It's just kind of self-serving. I don't think learning RoR to get a $60K job is that much effort. There are many "programmers" that make six figures that don't know anything ... and then this is like something is unique to our industry and may not hold for so long. I mean, good for him, no ill will, but let's be honest.
Yeah, I was going to say. This is on top of Google's free, portable, standard life insurance, from a big conservative company. Which even when it's free, is better than any of the life insurance policies people have already mentioned in these comments. And which, if you want to, you can pay extra to upgrade.
You're not going to develop for both platforms simultaneously because that is a recipe for headaches and higher costs - especially if you're still figuring out your product-market fit.

Let's not even talk about Android device fragmentation, which I can only imagine is a serious problem. The difference lies in that while Androids may dwarf iOS installs in terms of units sold, the iOS platform dwarfs the Android in terms of the size of the market of people willing to buy apps.
We do want to develop for Android, just didn't have enough time and resources to do them both at the same time. Sorry for that, we'll bring it to Android soon!
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Serious, non snarky question - how are you different than Path, then?
Agreed. I love the Feltron Reports and the stuff Wolfram Alpha does with his own personal data, but I can't really get down with this. ThinkUp (for social media) and Day One / Daytum (for personal data) is all I need. You can't really reproduce Feltron Reports on scale.
Really? There's a techcrunch article about a quora post?

Fuck this shit. This isn't journalism.
Paying down principal is a postive return investment strategy, equal to your interest rate (minus tax deductions).
It wouldn't be particularly good karma to dish dirt here on hackernews, and my prior description pretty much says it all. Fortunately I was only 18, and only stayed in that environment for about 3 months before quitting without notice (on July 5th, as it happened), while many of those who did stick with it and who succeeded in that environment, remain virgins to this day. It's all about which lifestyle suits you, I suppose. I can tell you that Schap once asked me how I liked Orlando, because it was where I could continue to live as long as I did good work for him (I lived there 13 years after I quit, before moving to the tropics).
Sometimes the same is true of techcrunch articles. Case in point.
Sadly, fuckcompany.com is ... fucked.
Very cool! Does anyone else think the interactivity adds nothing and just makes looking at a big image more difficult?
They use SHA1, although they make a couple of tweaks. I've implemented the bnet login stuff (https://github.com/Strilanc/Tinker/blob/master/Bnet/ClientCr...).
Quoth the guidelines:

"Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter."

If only the moderators actually enforced this anymore.
This is blogspam. Original is here: http://www.quora.com/Zynga-Stock-Price-Collapse-Summer-2012/...
>How could it possibly be cheaper? The insurance premiums will have to be enough to cover the costs of the payouts plus overhead and some additional margin of profit for the insurance company.

This isn't completely true. Most insurance companies make additional income on investing the float[1]. Warren Buffet started his economic empire through his insurance company and his ability to prudently invest the float it generated.

For the majority of companies I would assume it is still cheaper to buy insurance than it is to self-fund since they do not have the actuarial or investment expertise that many insurance companies have built up over the years. And I doubt Google is going to be doing something like that in-house, though it is possible. It's also equally possible that they are just taking out life insurance policies on their employees and then sugar-coating it as a "death benefit".

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance#Insurers.27_business...
Every comment so far (except for developer responses) is negative. Sad state of affairs.

With that said I would like to congratulate the developers. Good work. More choice is good for everybody.
Simple attribution. That’s all.
if Walmart actuaries knew that Walmart employees die sooner than non-empoyee peers...
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Lol!
"I could teach myself more in an afternoon than I would learn in a 10-week class."
Really genius?
"Calculus B: F" Any it says repeated!
Why didn't you take five afternoons and graduate then?

It is a well-known fact that becoming a "high-level" web programmer doesn't require brains or a degree.
Now this post makes it clear that, even such people who miserably fail to get a degree can write PHP programs and Javascript.
Most books don't break even. Also, many books scanned by google are not easily available, out of print, or out of copyright, so I would be very surprised if google is costing authors anything like $750 per book. In fact I would suspect, if anything, it will help drive book sales.
I completely agree with the sentiment about high college costs, the state school I went to cost ~44k for all four years, add in various scholarships (some of which I got as I'm pretty sure I was the only person to apply for them) and internships and I graduated college with no debt and more money than I started. Going to college does not necessitate taking on crushing debt, it just requires some extra legwork and picking a school that more fits your budget.
This is amazing. I was expecting an algorithmic conversion of the video, but...just, wow.
Time to go bug hunting...
Not that this is a particularly insightful point, but I keep wondering, why does it never come up in these discussions that college is FUN? Regardless of its financial value or lack thereof, it really is an experience like no other.
The job lead I got from my college advisor alone was worth the opportunity cost. And the humanities classes opened my mind up in ways wikipedia just can't dream of.
Question.

Suppose you work at Zynga, and you're at the bottom-to-lower end of the hierarchy. Nobody with a C-title knows the name of your manager.

You're stuck working 10 hour days forever. What's the expected value on your equity? You obviously have some minuscule fraction. Are people really killing themselves over a $100k bonus?

Is this all based on the "pre-Facebook IPO" world where tech stocks were expected to triple in price over six months?
grellas, I've read your thoughtful and thorough legal analysis on HN for years and wanted to say yet again, thank you.
While the mapping between C and LLVM IR is rather straightforward, things are more complex with C++. C++ constructs get dismantled to be compiled to IR, and the binding generator would have to restore all the C++-ish information from metadata and type info, which isn't easy.
"I could teach myself more in an afternoon than I would learn in a 10-week class."

This is either outright bullshit, or your college was complete crap. Most likely the former.

Don't do this. You think you're gaining respect or credibility, but in actuality you're losing it.
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I dunno. I tested out of it based on what I learned in high school, so it seems likely it merely reinforced the same techniques.
Don’t look now, but Valve just humiliated your “corporate culture”.
The real moral of the story: make most of the NOW.

You didn't do that in college, and failed.

You did that afterwards, and succeeded.
On my system these are the results for the class selector test:

1.7.2 4,123 ops/s 242 microseconds/op
1.8.0 4,061 ops/s 246 microseconds/op

Are you seeing some large difference? You'd need to be selecting things by class several hundreds of times a second before it could possibly make a difference.

In practical terms, the speedup in custom selectors is probably the most important, since they are so slow.
What I find appalling about the Zynga, the Facebook and the Groupon IPO is that people at the top who actually are responsible for the mess can cash out early whereas people at the bottom who have to rely on people at the top who already cashed out themselves. CEOs and founders should have to wait longest to sell their stock. This would protect not only employees who get stock, but also investors who bought stock early on. There would be much higher incentive to build an actually working company instead of having a scammy IPO followed by a quick cash out.
It's one thing if a company fails and everyone loses. It's another if everyone loses, but people who are most responsible get many millions.
A problem with startups and startup hours is that in a startup, there are real existential threats, and this enables a class of narcissistic managers to present their own bikeshedding and ill-advised pet projects and unreasonable demands as existential issues.

If you're an entry-level engineer at Google and your manager tries to convince you to work a 60-hour week because of some existential threat to the company, you're going to say, "I'll gladly do that, but I want an EMG award and a double promotion." It's just not plausible that a sophisticated, large company would bet itself on the work of a low-level grunt and if it did, this would be one hell of a great time to ask for a promotion. But at a startup, for there to be an existential threat is plausible, and a lot of managers at startups abuse this (both down, in exerting long hours from subordinates, and up, in misleading executives).

I recently saw a 25-year-old on his first white-collar job, using existential-threat FUD arguments, convince the CTO and CEO of a $100m+ startup that the entire codebase needed a "rearchitecture" that turned out to be the worst idea ever-- botched in every possible way from political deployment, language choice, schedule and scaling. It was a complete and utter disaster, and possibly killed the company (it's teetering, the culture has been completely destroyed, and a number of that company's best people have left or been fired in the past few months).
You could still do fuzzy matching with a one-way hash, you would just have to generate the fuzz beforehand. Create ten or twenty strings which you will also accept and hash and store them all.
What does non-government have to do with capitalism? Libertarianism is a different word.
see e.g. Kevin Mitnick for a famous example
Quitting and getting a job at a company "that isn't the scum of the earth" is easy. Getting an opportunity to do great things is hard. Blue-sky R&D is dead, and very few people ever end up with the money to own their lives instead of renting them from a boss.

People work for the Zyngas of the world because they expect to be able to do great things after the big payday, but that rarely pans out.
I posted this before some one said "It's not in lieu of normal life insurance. It's an additional benefit."

If this was in lieu of normal life insurance (Which every major tech company supplies their employees) this would be a crummy deal. And a sneaky way to skimp on life insurance.

If this is confusing I will give you an example.

John works at say Firefox. He is given a 500k life insurance plan as part of his benefits.

Mike works at google and he is given (100k / 2) * 10 as a death plan (but not life insurance).

After 20 years of work John leaves Firefox and Mike leaves Google. Both leave to do contract work.

John's life insurance plan is portable so he is able to keep it by paying a small amount each month.

Mike has no life insurance plan. He has the option to buy one on his own. This is expensive as he is 20 years older now and has medical conditions that he didn't have 20 years ago. It is so expensive that he can't afford life insurance at this point.

John has the exact same condition, but his plan was portable so he doesn't have to pay high amounts each month.

Both John and Mike die a year later due to their condition.

John's family is given $500k. Mikes family gets nothing. And google got away with paying $0 to provide Mike with a death plan. Firefox spent thousands of dollars over the last 20 years to provide John with a portable life insurance plan.

Moral of this story this is why a death plan in lieu of life insurance is crumby. However, it turns out Google is giving away both, so everyone wins :)
So how do you implement this? In your Rails apps, what kind of library do you use to write log messages in this format? Is it an open-source library or one you wrote just for your company?
The wood will move slightly when it's cut, so that won't work.
Well hopefully with your support we wouldn't have to shut down ;)
they have a "I am an idiot and forgot my password" button so people forgetting their passwords is no additional support, and if they allow longer password it actually makes them easier for people to remember and harder to crack, win win.
Great point! We are working on getting our prices down. But we are still less expensive than off the shelf Lacoste or Ralph Lauren Polo (which range from $95 - $145 retail). And we believe our quality is higher. Plus, we are custom. I like your second point as well. With dress shirts, precision is extremely important to get the right fit, especially in today's style trends towards tighter fitting clothes. That is why so many measurement points are needed when getting custom fitted. With polo's and other casual wear, because of the way the garment naturally drapes, we don't need to collect the 12 or more measurements needed to get an ideal fit. If we can hone in on your general body type and make adjustments to bottom length, sleeve length and body width. We can get darn near close to the perfect fit. Make sense?
Oh poppycock. This was Carnegie's line, only it was about libraries. Without the Internet, libraries were there for everyone to use. How are kids that can't read going ... Oh come on, can we stop with this "The Internet solves all of our education problems" nonsense?

I know it is, because this well educated populace doesn't exist and yet the Internet does.

I submit to you that there is very little you need to use the Internet to learn and I also submit that by your reasoning about how easy it is for people to learn then if if they were to purchase physical books, all they would need would be the "canon" of Penguin Press books. But yet people have never done this en masse or even in any significant other than ... wait for it .. outliers. :)

So, basically, the whole view is just one big unproven naked assertion.
I'm glad you are motivated enough to give yourself a complete college education with an internet connection, and smart enough to parse all that information in a vacuum without advisors/peers to help.

Not all of us are as fortunate as you are.
Sounds good, despite my first post Meteor is the most interesting framework out there atm IMO.
I 100% agree with this. I was able to easily sync my settings between Linux, Windows and OS X for ST2, and easily find options because they are all in ONE file (Ctrl+F -what I need-), esp. considering they are very well documented. Still not as good as Netbeans for PHP/HTML (especially since it's not free), but a good settings system.
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Another startup being prominently featured on Techcrunch started by "ex-Googlers" I swear every startup that gets Techcrunch coverage was started by ex-Googlers. That all side, I don't see what makes Everyday.me so special (I don't mean to sound so cynical) but what makes this application different in comparison to all of the other available services and mobile applications that do the same thing? Evernote is one of those applications that comes to mind.

It looks to me Everyday.me borrows heavily from the Facebook timeline except it's private. I don't see how Everyday.me is different to Facebook Timeline and Path especially. Am I missing something big here that makes Everyday.me a "killer startup" please kindly put me in my place if I am. To add to the confusion further, what do YC see in Everyday.me to make it worthy of being funded?
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Promising -- and delivering, asap -- a friendly export format would be more convincing at this point.
As an introvert who is in the process of deleting their facebook account for privacy reasons, I see real value in this. I'd like to keep a private journal more in line path/instagram/twitter - just for me. That being said I have a couple pieces of advice:

Make sure I can export ALL of the data, anytime.
Make sure you securely backup all of my data. CHARGE ME for this service, so I know you won't sell my data. Only way I'll do this is if you address my privacy concerns.
Oh come on. I just feel like this is another in a series of "let's indict education" posts. I take issue with everything in here.

$44,000 a year for tuition, why? Why did you choose that school if you had no intention of studying? You can teach yourself more in an afternoon than in a 10-week class? Really, let's prove it. I want to see it.

You made basically all Fs but yet you can teach yourself more in an afternoon ... because you're better than others or something?

You happen to have chosen a field in which it is very easy to make a modest income, $60K, without actually having very much knowledge (not saying you didn't have x knowledge).

I mean, sure anyone that is not slobbering on themselves can probably follow a RoR YouTube and make a blog engine and then know enough to convince someone to pay them >$50K. I don't know how long this is going to last though. But this is not much a real recipe for success in my opinion.

The idea that everyone can just teach themselves everything and that no one is actually learning any content in college, at best they are just learning "life skills" is just completely ridiculous.

I don't know, not to make another anecdote and I don't have hard data, but I have probably "self-taught" a lot more subjects than most that claim actually have and I wouldn't say I didn't learn any content from CS in college, not even close. In fact, I don't know any PhDs that would say they didn't learn any content (not just this life skills stuff) in college; I think it is just a fanciful notion and probably makes people feel better about themselves: "I'm Srinivasa Ramanujan, I don't need college to teach me anything."
Will the data be exportable?
FWIW, this is Battle.net's password policy. http://imgur.com/q2oPZ

It also appears that cut&paste is disabled for the change password fields which is REALLY annoying.
You've lost your time achieving exactly nothing. You may also lose the respect of those who have outgrown feeding their own ego.

The worst part is that since the other person didn't actually listen to you, they have no reason to believe they are ignorant.
All pledge allegiance to The United States of Goldman Sachs. The power this company has to do whatever it wants is absolutely atrocious. This is nothing more than a company trying to hide the fact a low-level employee gained access to highly valuable source code that is regarded as the secret-sauce of Goldman Sachs which should never have happened in the first place. I've worked for small companies that have better security than that.
Got it, we hear you and definitely feel the same way. Working hard toward meeting all of them.
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> This is either outright bullshit, or your college was complete crap. Most likely the former.

He says it was RIT or Rochester Institute of Technology. I went there (although it was a much better value for me, since I was in NTID, the deaf sub-college, so I basically got half off tuition); and now that I check, we actually overlapped.

It's a pretty good school for tech, but the quarter system is/was brutal for people who weren't very conscientious because you get very little chance for recovery once you screw up. The Rochester winter probably didn't help. Retention rates weren't too good, and people like him demonstrate why.
Yeah that's exactly the part that is so hard to quantify -- the liberal arts component. The purpose of all gen eds is basically to "open your mind", ie. to refine you as a human being. But what high school student goes to college for this purpose? Or a better question, what high school student truly knows that, or understands what that means? The only thing ever discussed seems to be how job-ready you are at graduation time.
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Pud did turn the best/worst of FuckedCompany into a book (http://www.amazon.com/Fd-Companies-Spectacular-Dot-Com-Flame...) after the site ended, at least. It's a useful artifact of the era.
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Agree flash is a dead end! And we will be migrating. However, we discovered the performance issues today were not caused by our flash app but due to config settings on our Apache servers. Again, apologies for the poor experience...
Am I missing something? $70-$90 for a polo shirt with no brand identity, from a website I can't pronounce. Can someone explain the appeal here? I see that the "perfect fit" is tag line, but polos are stretchy so the fit isn't a huge concern for most people.
Yeah thats the thing. There's so much more to cs than learning rails or whatever.

Learning the fundamentals of cs theory, machine learning so forth, make you a better developer indirectly. Yet a lot of this stuff is not covered in detail on web, sure there plenty of web tutorials, but a lot are superficial, following a "how to" format for HTML Php etc. Only now with edx and coursea are decent courses coming out.