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In japan, there is a strong pressure to not be the first one to leave the office (especially in small companies). Being a workaholic is considered good and being the one who works the longest carry a certain aura of prestige.... So the manager doesn't even really try to persuade you it's the environment around you, when it's officially time to leave for the day and every one around you continues working, it's hard to go back home and you even end up using an excuse like if it was somehow wrong to respect you working hours.
Another thing, if you finish normally at 6pm, if the company organizes a dinner between coworker at an izakaya (a kind of pub), they usually plan to go around 8pm since everyone will still be working or busy at 6pm anyway...

On the flip side, a lot of smaller companies have rest areas and it's not really looked down (at least for programmers) to go and read the newspaper or a manga during working hours to decompress from a problem.
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An open letter to Steve Jobs about approving the amber alert application
I use weed rarely nowadays, but have consumed my fair share.
The effects differ a little bit per person, but in general:

Weed makes you think you're sharp and insightful, but it actually makes you really stupid and slow. You forget things constantly. Using before work is only interesting if your job is mind-numbingly dull.

Some more facts:

1. A single joint has about the effect of 4 glasses of alcohol, or 2-3 cups of coffee. But it's a downer instead of an upper, making you more relaxed.

2. Marijuana is the Spanish name used by advertisers against the use because it sounds more foreign and dangerous.

3. Propaganda in the 50s (as lobbied by alcohol producers) gave weed it's bad name.

PS: I live in the Netherlands
Spot on.

However... if the original poster feels up to it, he might decide for fight rather than flight.

I'm not a confrontational guy, but I like to get my point across when I think it matters.

Assuming the original poster has a significant share of the company, even if he retires it is very worthwhile (for the good of the company) to convince the CEO of a few points that are essential to the well-being of the company:

1) Recognising technical talent is very hard. This CEO is no doubt able to recognise management talent (or lack thereof) but that doesn't mean he will be able to pick a VP of Engineering who actually has technical ability.
The VPofE position needs strong technical ability to be able to interface effectively with the dev team (no developer will have any respect for a technically weak VPofE and they'll play him like a fiddle), and so he should be recruited by both the CEO and CTO together.

2) If the original poster doesn't enjoy the whole politics game, he should be happy to step aside out of the political line of fire. However, the VPofE (particularly as a new hire) still needs to be held accountable to someone technically qualified. The CEO ain't it. Management meetings involving the CEO and VPofE should involve both the CEO and the CTO, with the CTO there to ensure that the VPofE is not exploiting the technical inability of the CEO.

3) There's nothing especially wrong with the CTO stepping out of day to day development. However, that's a different job than being part of the dev team. So what should the CTO do? Well, there's plenty to do, I presume, in terms of driving the strategic direction of the company and ensuring the technology part of the company functions well with the non-technology part (which apparently is not the case at the moment). I think it would be a very effective shift for the poster to start focusing on "the real problem": "the front office's lack of vision and an inability to communicate clearly whatever vision they might have". That can largely be done by walking around and talking to people.

Freed from operational and dev duties, I think one of the CTO's primary respponsibility becomes to close that gap - and then any other "high-level" gaps that exist.

In short:

* Let the VPofE deal with development and managing the dev team.

* Hold him accountable in joint meetings with the CEO

* Focus on fixing the larger problems between the company's tech and non-tech silos

Of course, this requires building a stronger relationship with the CEO. However, this need not be such a tall task once the development responsibilities are delegated away, since those appear to be a big point of friction. Also, I imagine the CEO will respect this kind of reaction (much more than "Really? Then I quit! cries", anyway).
Well, it depends on!
I have already done such a thing before for my startup, and here is what I did:
1- I created adwords campaign with $105 (I paid $10 only, and I had $100 adwords coupon), and I made the landing page is my startup's homepage.

2- I optimized the homepage to make it ready to use for the users without having to signup. So when the users visited the homepage, they knew what they should do - it was clear to them.

3- I added Google adwords' code for conversion on another page to measure if the users will reach to the point I want them to.
Google Adwords will provide you with a code that you put on the target page that you want users to reach to, and if they do, then it means for you that they acheived your target.
For example, if you ask users at the home page to signup, then you add that code at the other page that will be for completed signup.

4- I found more than 90% of the people reached that target page, and I was so glad that I made something people want and would use.

It was a service that I provided online. I did not make signup because I just wanted to know if users would even be interested in using this service or not, and for how long.

I was so glad with the results.

If you want free $50 Google Adwords coupon code, I don't mind sharing it with you.
I'd have to disagree a little here: I think the "free" aspect of the web is a tendency towards marginal cost. If the marginal cost of a user is a fraction of a cent, it does not make sense to charge every user -- they inherently know that the service should be free, and even if they don't, a competitor can gain an easy advantage by replicating what you do and offering it for free.

Amid all of this "free" bashing, it's also very important to note that not all "free" services are supported by ads. The "freemium" model (free services supported by paying users) works quite well for many services, including those that have a high enough marginal cost that making money off of advertising isn't enough -- these should be the same services people are willing to pay for, since they cost a lot more to support.

If they aren't (ie, the YouTube example), then you're probably just fucked. But it may very well still be early to call the game on YouTube, for example: the internet has a notoriously short time span, even though it might take a long time to "mature" a business. I'm not familiar with YouTube's specific financials, but given the size of the site and audience, I would be very careful to rush to conclusions on the current and future profitability of the site.
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I don't really know anything about the games industry, but I worked in Japan as a web programmer for about a year. The other programmers were pretty bad, probably the worst I've ever worked with. I also got the impression that programming was viewed as kind of a lower class job, something weirdos and foreigners did. Somehow I got lucky and was paid pretty well, but the local guys were making horrible salaries.
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Oh really?
I am sorry because I did not know it before.
Thanks for informing me, I really appreciate it. I am so glad that I am learning something new here everyday.

Thank you so much for your explanation, I really appreciate it.
Whether or not every comment should be proof-read is up for discussion.

However, comments making wild claims about the writing ability of a recognised leader in the field should be proof-read for obvious spelling disasters. Otherwise, you get what one could call an "epic fail"..
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That would be really skewed. Most websites making money from advertising don't bother getting on Crunchbase. They don't need to go the whole 'schmooze VCs' etc route.
The difference between PR and publicity
I'm skipping over the issue of your CEO's motives - he could hate you and want you out, but assuming he doesn't..

despite the fact we've always done what we said we would when we said we would.

So you've got the commitment thing down: you make commitments and then stick to them. That's a reasonable baseline for reliability, but there is a whole world of value-add beyond it. The VPEng should be working to improve the company's ability to deliver product - even when the problems that need solving aren't with his direct reports.

In particular, you say the front office has problems communicating their vision. Do you work to improve their flawed and/or vague requirements, or do you let them hang themselves, and point to the requirements document when they're unhappy with the end result?

Longer term, have you tried to move towards more iterative processes (prototyping during requirements gathering, agile processes, etc) to reduce the damage done by poor requirements?

You sound like you are happier around, and have performed better in, the technical aspects of your job than the management aspects. Your CEO may (grain-of-salt) have noticed this. He could even be trying to give you what he thinks you want.

Consider that your CEO may have a management structure in mind where the process-and-timelines guy sits between him and the development team. Maybe you could have this job if you wanted it - but it would mean hiring a CTO to worry about the bigger picture, architecture, product etc. Your boss probably doesn't want to pervert the reporting structure he has in mind just so that roles in it matches what you want to do.
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They do seem to have a lot of employees (80?) - quite a few more than Reddit.

I'm guessing if they chose to they could get rid of employees, the swish office, and be profitable pretty much when they decide to, if they can't grow earnings or get acquired.
It's a good idea but it's not practical. It won't make a proper measure.

Sometimes I make 3 or 4 comments on a submission that I wish I could down-vote it.
He could, but is there any reason to assume that he will? There's always out-of-nowhere conditions that can kill off an operation. He appears to be having no trouble thus far, so I don't see any reason to predict that he will encounter trouble without a basis in reality.
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It might well be this article for those interested in reading it themselves: -
"Effects of Acute Smoked Marijuana on Complex Cognitive Performance" - Neuropsychopharmacology section of the medical journal Nature

URL: http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v25/n5/full/1395716a.html
The letter points out a number of competing methods of delivering mobile applications, but the way it is worded leaves me wondering if the AMBER alter application is available on any these platforms?
I did a search for this and it does not appear to be.
What's really missing here, if you want to do this right, is a way to have the application run in the background with GPS active. Then I could get alerted to missing children who have been abducted close to where I am.
From what I've seen, becoming a PM does indeed require serious breadth of smarts. I don't know about MSFT, but at Google being a PM requires technical skills, communication skills, design skills, and market insight. I interviewed for a associate product manager internship at Google, which is extremely selective (I was told they only take 10-15 APM interns a year). I had two on campus interviews with PMs, then an interview with a PM at Google (most people have a technical interview at this point too, with a Google engineer, but I had interviewed for engineering in parallel so I had effectively had that one already), and then the final step was to write a three page essay to be reviewed by a hiring committee. I didn't get the internship, but they had told me that the essay was the final round either way. Four interviews and an essay might not sound like a lot, but keep in mind this was just for an internship.

The APM interviews and the essay were very nontechnical. They mostly focused on product design and consumer experience (not limited to web/tech stuff), as well as one or two about industry in general (which I was pretty crap at answering). The most technical APM interview question I had involved coming up with strategies for improving AdSense performance and helping suggest keywords to advertisers. However (if the technical interview that regular APM candidates get were like the ones I got as first-round engineering interviews), the technical interview is pretty tough. Not impossible, but harder than MSFT or Amazon first-round...probably on par with MSFT second-round. And as a CS student I found the APM interviews the hardest of all.
Great facts, but do you have references?
I'm confused..

You're broke, but have "two rental properties and a condo"? It sounds like you have room for lowering your expenses.
Not me. I'm of the opinion that lighting things on fire and sticking them near your head to breathe just sounds like a bad idea all the way around.

I'm for legalization though. The idea of outlawing a weed that does less harm than alcohol is ludicrous.

I experimented a bit as a teenager. As I recall, it didn't help my analytical skills at all -- unless by analytical skills you mean finding doughnuts at 3am or being able to smile stupidly while listening to Led Zeppelin tunes.

I think intoxication is a natural state of mankind, so if you like toking or drinking or running until endorphins seep out of your ears I can understand that. I just don't think any of that, no matter how good it feels, actually makes you a better coder. If anything, I think good coders learn the natural rhythms of their bodies and minds, then maximize their performance based on that.

Now can it make you think you're a better coder? Sure thing, boss.
Yes, I do (although I just ended up in a new country, where I haven't figured out where to get any yet).

I don't smoke a lot of it, and quantifying the benefits that I receive from smoking marijuana is a bit difficult because they're rather abstract, and (at least for me), the effects of the plant vary from use to use. They don't vary widely, but there's a decent range of effects, which has a lot to do with the strain of the plant, but I digress.

When thinking about high-level design of a project that doesn't have anything put to code yet, I find that marijuana can help me visualize how things should fit together.

When doing exploratory programming at a REPL, I tend to try out more new things, put feelers out in a larger portion of the libraries of whatever language I'm using. I think this is objectively measurable - I may take a stab at it in the future, but I'm unable to right now.

When reading new things, or studying up on languages with unfamiliar paradigms, low doses of marijuana make it easier for me to snap my brain out of "language x" mode and into "new language y" mode.

When coding things in a language that I'm very familiar with, it makes it easier to get in "the zone". Not so much with languages that I don't already know like the back of my hand.

In general, I get a creativity boost from marijuana - and I'm fairly certain that it's more than a placebo.

Everything is not rosy though; If I smoke too much marijuana, my anti-social tendencies tend to be more pronounced. I'll have problems speaking casually with people, and my short-term memory will be shot.

I don't like smoking it with people who stare at the wall when they're high. It doesn't make me want to do that at all - it makes me want to do something creative right now. Play music, code, paint, something.

But yeah. I use marijuana in moderation. I know how I feel at different dosage levels, and I know what my limits are. I also know that a lot of people who use it turn it into more of a lifestyle than a part of a life, which is rarely a good thing to do with anything.
When the "functional spec" is the exact same thing as the html code, it is no longer recognized as a functional spec.

The functional spec usually comes before the html code.

Sure, Fried treats his html code as a functional spec, but others who work differently would not be able to find what they are used to calling a functional spec.
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Its probably a throw-away line, but

Do you think I could fit all that and still get straight As and have lots of time left over for playing World of Warcraft? No.

spoke to me. I gave up World of Warcraft to start my business. The business pays rather substantially better and takes up much less time.

I sometimes wish I had enough graphical talent to bling out my UI with incremental visual rewards ("purple pixels") for various accomplishments, as a means of self-motivation. Charts help, but if it were charts and little icons of e.g. "2k visitors in a day, have a new blue Boots of Modest Traffic!", well, you'd probably have to bring a crowbar to get me away from the business.

On second thought... no trophies.
I've never heard anyone call Jessica "x" though...
I use it. For me, it can help coding with regards to formulating new ideas and approaches to problems. It can also cause me to become so engrossed in these that I get distracted from the real work so I have to second the age-old "moderation is key".
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As far as I know it's not illegal anywhere in the United States (yes, making that assumption here) to admit to using it, talk/write about using it or publish information on growing or using it. That is what freedom of speech provides us.

Acting on any of those things is a different story.
Whenever I smoke marijuana I just want to eat and watch movies. So even though it's impossible to measure, for me it has an absolute negative effect in terms of coder productivity.
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The new CEO is taking away your advantage of working in a startup:
- when you were CTO, you were critical for the company. When the VP comes, you will eventually become commodity (and expandable)
- your influence in the company is being cut into half
- you will lose your flexibility (or agility) in getting things done (the process guy also now has to put his say)

Talk to the founders and the new CEO. If the VP engg. makes sense have him to report to you. If not move on like Spolsky says.
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Though I smoke Marlboro Lights but still I hate Marijuana or weed.
I've been using webmynd recently, hopefully this means it can include guardian content now. Cool if it does.
Why do we still have vendor lock-in?
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Depends on how much you want to do. This year i want to (a) eat, (b) marry, and (c) get my degree. The first goal demands a little time to earn money. The seconds one demands mostly time, since debt is inevitable. To get the degree i have to learn.

I'd also like to work (d) on my project ideas, but there isn't enough time left after (a)-(c).
Yikes, the answer to this problem is so simple. I had a similar problem, and really, all you have to do is call the folks at apple. There's a number hidden somewhere for the app store team, you call them and they will escalate the matter for you. It worked with 2 other companies we consulted for and it worked for my app.

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Although I understand the awesomeness of this video I don't get that a marketing company comes up with this video. The nerd community is already familiar with the potential of SSD's and their speed increase. I think that the consumer market should be steamed ready for the 'next-gen' in hard disks via a video that's not focused on RAID configs, 6 TBs, a benchmark of 2GB/s and stuff. Focus on things like homevideo editing or working office, photo apps, mediaplayer and stuff all at once.

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I don't really need it! I just found that this option is not available although it's realistic.
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