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>I really could not imagine a similar reaction in Europe

As far as I know, nobody was fired, but at last year's EuroPython a male participant was publicly shamed for twitting an "inappropriate" joke while eating at a restaurant[1].

[1] http://www.roguelynn.com/words/really/
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I found this to be a great post on common startup misconceptions about SaaS/Enterprise sales.

We learned a lot of these lessons the hard way at awe.sm, not necessarily because of misguided principle or bad advice, but more because we didn't properly understand and prioritize what we needed to do.

A lot of startups seem to be enamored by the "consumerization of the enterprise" trend and think they can be the next Dropbox. IMHO if that's how you want to build your business, then you must also make sure your product and market are conducive to the dynamics that made Dropbox successful (i.e. a very simple product that could be deployed in a decentralized manner and still deliver value).
Best response I've seen. Right on the money
(I realise that you might or might not be a troll, but hell, I'll bite).

You probably can't do this for $ 5 per delivery using professionals. Delivery is expensive, because it involves humans.

Also, the market for same-hour delivery is probably smaller than you think (there are people doubting even the need for same day delivery). It's not because you can code it, that it will be a good business.

You should validate your ideas before you start coding stuff. Read a few books on doing a startup ('Lean Startup' by Eric Ries, 'Customer Development' by Steve Blank, 'Running Lean' by Ash Maurya).
I was thinking the same. It's very dangerous to a career to come right out and say such a thing. What happens if he ends up working for another YC company? His employers will know how he feels about them and it could hurt relations.
I believe companies do not offer ginormous 401k matching because 401k plans can't be too "top-heavy". So for that to work, the less compensated at the company have to contribute a lot.

http://www.irs.gov/Retirement-Plans/Plan-Sponsor/401(k)-Reso...

Other employer contributions. If the plan document permits, the employer can make additional contributions (other than matching contributions) for participants, including participants who choose not to contribute elective deferrals to the 401(k) plan. If the 401(k) plan is top-heavy, the employer may be required to make minimum contributions on behalf of certain employees. In general, a plan is top-heavy if the account balances of key employees exceed 60% of the account balances of all employees. The rules relating to the determination of whether a plan is top-heavy are complex. Please refer to section 1.416-1 of the Income Tax Regulations for the rules describing how to determine whether a plan is top-heavy.

NOTE: I am not an accountant or lawyer.
I got downvoted for saying it at the time and later quoted out of context on shithnsays, and I wish I wasn't in a position to say I told you so, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4982330
Right. So statements like this are the crux of the whole issue, and shows the lack of insight into the matter that makes this so frustrating.

The idea that men do not have unique hardships in this new world culture and specifically American culture is wrong. It's just a short sighted and ignorant view. It's sexism, by the very definition of the word to lump entire genders as being homogeneous. The feminist movement fought against this exact kind of rhetoric you're espousing.

The entire idea that men are derided for even suggesting that men do have their own unique set of unfair social pressures and prejudices is the proof of that bias existing.

Some even acknowledge the bias and in a very sexist way state men should just get over their issues, and we should instead devote all our efforts to empowering women. Oh.

Comments like yours only show the truth of the idea that people think men can't be victims because they're men.

If there were not hard set cultural biases against men stating a rather simple idea that half the population might have unique adversities then this whole debate wouldn't exist. The backlash wouldn't happen, the blind opposition to a problem people seem to not even want to know about wouldn't happen.

For some reason people seem to think that the idea that men might be cultural victims as well implies that women now aren't; as if there is a pedestal for the persecuted that only has room for one.

Now, I expect full well to be attacked for saying something so innocuousness and easily apparent as this point.

I'm not being sexist because I've made zero claims about women, or compared women to anything, or even insinuated that in any way women are the root of this issue or even related. I've only talked about men, and how like all people have their own injustices levied against them.

But sexist is still the label that would be used for some reason because I dare to say that men are actually as susceptible to pain, and attack, and abuse from the culture that harbors them as women are. I dare to compare us, to them.

But no, stay silent, stick to your role. Be a man, you can't possibly be a victim.
Well, what can they really say? Either throw her under the bus, or agree completely. So realistically we're down to one option.
True if your $2M sits in an account earning zero interest. In reality you need quite a bit less than $2M if you want to guarantee 20 years at $100k.
Great post. I wrote something similar a while back -
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/16/the-way-things-work/

But he takes it to another level. There's a lot to be said on this, and education is super important, but ultimately one has to sort of ... surrender, at least to some degree.
I deal with a lot of high school students. To them, Facebook is identity. Email is throwaway.
I believe your observation is correct. I'll also throw out a possible reason for women being less okay with sexualisation in conversation: We're the target or object of sexualisation far more often than men are, and sometimes in quite threatening contexts. If you keep getting exposed to something in a negative context, you stop liking even fairly mild occurrences of it. (I'm sure a black person hearing even quite mildly racist jokes will be more annoyed than a white person would, because they are usually the target of these jokes.)
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If your startup is well funded you should offer these benefits. You should want to reward the people who work so hard for you.

These benefits also make an employees life easier, giving them more time to spend on your precious startup.

There are other ways to weed out the "another job" candidates.
Your income is not determine by how hard you work. It's determined by how much value you create and how strong your negotiating position is for capturing that value.
Forgive me, I'm not an MS person, but is there no opportunity to augment/customise/replace/mix-and-match/etc the ASP.net components?

From what I've read on http://highscalability.com and the like, they love to tweak.
> Google presents an interesting challenge here because the free services die without even trying or offering a paid version

And would-be concurrence dies a quick death as they can't compete with a price of 0 and can't compete with a search index and processing power of essentially infinity.
> she does have a virtual mob at her disposal, and mob justice can be a scary thing.

Becomes abundantly clear when you look at her twitter feed. She seems to have an army who hangs on her every word.
A Case Study: How I Failed Being Lean?
The product itself can easily be replaced, but the pain of researching the best alternative, installing new browser extensions, new mobile apps, and changing your workflow is a pain in itself.
I'm not trolling. I'm literally talking about my experiences as a contractor and the conclusions I've reached.

> I prefer working with clients to having a boss. I prefer having customers to having a client.

To me, it was just trading one noun for another.

> I'm starting to develop a picture of you under-billing, if you felt obligated to do so.

Projects have deadlines. This isn't a matter of under-billing, it's the fact of life.

> Except for the part where if you're the type of person to prefer working on 5, 10, or 15 different things a year as opposed to one thing for 5 years, you're penalized as an employee because you'll be seen as a job hopper.

Not really. Go work for an agency that does lots of different things. I own a digital agency, and we build lots and lots of different things every week. My creatives/engineers can jump on stuff they're interested in (we actually encourage that).

If you feel like you're more "free" as a contractor, great. Personally, I found I thought that until I realized it was nonsense.
The Sony might be the better buy in certain regards, but as someone who has owned a ContourHD and an HD Hero (1), mounting is huge. Much more important that you would have thought at first. It makes all the difference in whether or not you can get good shots, and mounting is one of the biggest things GoPro has done right.
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Lots of companies I know use a custom version of bootstrap as their styleguide/pattern library. I'd pay a lot for a functionality that can enable us to use our visually different bootstrap somehow to make dev ready UI.
That would be the most important differentiating feature for me. None of these do that
http://playground.webflow.com/
https://www.easel.io/
http://froont.com/
http://html.adobe.com/edge/reflow/
http://jetstrap.com/
http://www.divshot.com/
Added context: Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out (twitter.com) [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5391667
The takeaway from this is if you want to build a startup run by adults (gray neckbeards), these are their concerns. Forget the foosball and lunches, focus on healthcare for families and gym memberships.

It's not 1995 anymore. Now there ARE candidates who have been there and done that. It's clearly better to have employees with startup experience who don't operate always in crisis mode.
Has that not been my point all along? ...
hah!

so much for import base64!!
> Google has lost touch with its core business model: search.

It's not and it's never been their "core business model", sadly. It's their hook.
Just another (linux) fanboi.
A good point, well-made. I would edit my post, but I don't have much to add to your reply.
I think there are a few points to be made here:

- First-offense phallus jokes should probably not be dismissable.
- Phallus jokes should probably not be made in professional, public contexts.
- It would be surprising if the guy was a valuable member of the team and fired on this basis alone.
- Adria's reaction probably didn't follow any principle of measured escalation.

I take issue with folks who say "it's a harmless joke!" But I'd also take issue with someone saying the dev who got fired earned what he got.
Yeah. the "Safe Harbor" thing is weird, but it's probably realistic to have $45k/yr in extra compensation for every employee if you're a 5-10 person shop where everyone is a professional (with high compensation). I've seen it work at consultancies where everyone was a partner or otherwise highly compensated, but I've never seen it at a company which had receptionists, etc. (You could probably hire through a temp agency or contractor for things like janitorial/reception/etc. if you wanted to get around this)
in soviet pycon ...
The Large Combo Fallacy
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> the "forking" reference turned out to be a fabrication.

> She never exchanged a word with the men.

Anyone got a source for those claims? I thought her actions were undefendable the way she described them, but this would make it a whole different beast. And thanks to a lack of sources at the pastebin I don't know if that's true or made up (and I hadn't seen those mentioned anywhere so far).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the kinds of companies in question normally don't have the capital to offer that kind of compensation. That's why I added the edit to my comment: the employees should certainly get to share in the reward as compensation for their risk.
You're what Jaron Lanier means when he talks about "digital Maoism".
When it is finally agreed that it has left (which presumably will occur within the next year or two), What Then?

I'm not hopeful that we'll be surprised in a major by the data coming from outside the heliosphere; to be honest I'm a bit worried that a lack of novelty will increase public apathy - 'We made it out! ...and that's all folks, shows over.' It's a bit like the moon landings; having been there and run out of convincing reasons to go back, we're heading back to that situation of no living person having walked on the surface of another world (http://xkcd.com/893/).

Props to Elon Musk etc., but I'm not all that optimistic about private enterprise just filling this niche.
As a different configuration, I'm looking for a free solution that would let me dial 800 numbers from a VoIP connected home phone.

I dial into a lot of conference calls and this would be an awesome setup. Just wondering if anyone else has tackled such a config yet?
If you do not know your language/framework well enough to adapt it to your circumstances, you certainly are not well qualified enough with said software to list it as something you "know".

This is one of the largest lies perpetuated on this site. If you know just enough of something to follow some tutorials and crank out cookie-cutter sites using Rails/Django/Asp/Grails/CodeIgniter/etc, but fail the moment you encounter basic ecosystem problems, you aren't a polygot. You're a liability to your team for not understanding anything well enough to work around common issues. You're probably curious and love to try new things, but the implied part of being able to proficiently wield whatever tool is correct, or at least on hand, is something escaping you.

If by polygot you mean you know some syntax, the basics of the ecosystem, and generic system design, algorithms, etc while expecting to dive as deep as necessary into any given environment, you're still failing the definition. This would be the point where you RTFS so you know where to override/monkeypatch/workaround.
Seems like a legit way to loose hardcore fans. People generally do not like corporations acting like dks.
One weekend with Go
This is a good point, so why not just come out and say it!

I see a lot about how these start-ups state "competitive salary, great compensation, etc."

Instead, just say, "hey, we will pay you crap but come work for us anyway because you believe in our idea."

Somehow, I don't think that would get traction, when its put that way.
Look up, for example, why top Napa vineyards go for low yields.

I tried and failed (wikipedia) -- can you point me to something informative? I don't know what I'm looking for.

There is a finite number of nutrients in the soil, and the plant can make a finite amount of such things out of these nutrients (like phenols in the grape skins and... er.. this is not my subject, but I can look it up again myself should I have to).

In general they're not finite. Phenols are just C,H,O -- they're made from water and CO2. All of these compounds, as far as I can tell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenolic_content_in_wine

I haven't found anything that says that, for example, soil nutrients correlate with phenol concentrations in vines (for example). It's not obvious.
It looks to me like they're just obfuscated words. If you look at one of the hierarchies, you see "TUdKmf-xhiy4-haAclf", then "TUdKmf-xhiy4-DKlKme-haAclf", then "TUdKmf-xhiy4". Seems like they're just taking a normal class like "note-body-wrapper" and "note-body" and obfuscating it.
Let's cool down a little here. An irresponsible tweet doesn't really constitute a "personal vendetta" (it's not even personal -- as far as I can tell she never knew their names). And while the post was (apparently, I don't know what the evidence here is) the proximate cause, you really can't say that she "got [him] fired", as she wasn't the employer nor did she advocate for his termination.

It's just a bad situation all around. Yes, people shouldn't be fired for bad jokes. Neither should they be pilloried by the community for losing their cool and tweeting about it.
You will probably find that some companies tries that regardless of where they are located. I doubt it is unique for any specific country.
Looks nice, but I'm gonna hang onto SimpleNote, thanks.
I already sent SendGrid's sales department an email that I will boycott their company and recommend others do so as well moving forward.

Where I work we were considering between SendGrid or Mandrill and this incident practically made our choice for us. We cannot and _will not_ support a company that backs[1] a person like this.

[1] - https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/314452708549603328
Google Further Highlights Wrongful DMCA Takedowns
and there goes the freedom of speech
Please offer something, _anything_, before I have to sign up with my email.
I wondered if Symphony was going to show up here! I'm also a fan. I've built small websites with it for over a year.

As to XSLT: I find it close enough to HTML to feel that I'm straight up writing the front-end, but with a lot more efficiency.
I wonder if Softlayer leaned on DigitalRev at all.
Well actually I believe it is against the CoC to take pictures during the conference, so it wasn't her right at all. Yet that's ok because?
She smiled at you as she took the photo, gave you no warning?

No, don't apologize. She's a total bitch. A cis-scum Jewish-Nigger-Feminist Bitch.

I'm on my way right now to her place to slit her.
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>(415)-409-9557
>415 is San Francisco.
It's really funny when Founders are stodgy about giving more than a single percentage of equity per employee when those early employees will probably work just as many hours.
If you're super averse to switching costs, I don't imagine you'd ever switch to Google Keep from whatever you're using now in the first place. So surely that's not a major concern for the set of people that are actually considering switching?
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@Matt How can 1 bad link on a site take down a whole site? Is this normal?
It was unacceptable that Adria indirectly got someone fired by their employer so lets demand a direct response from her employer?
Note that this thread was Reddit-bombed, particularly by Men's Rights, so don't bother engaging with some of those commenters and take some of the upvotes/downvotes with a grain of salt. Meanwhile, my response to the victim, mr-hank (wherein he apologizes and sides with Adria as seen here lower in that thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681) was [Dead] as soon as I posted it (not sure why this happens).
How onerous our lives have become!
It defiantly makes me want to avoid PyCon with a 10 foot pole from now on, lest I get fired for joking around near a women.
You know, I've been thinking...

It's also pretty unprofessional to wear jeans to work, and beer after 4:00pm on Friday is just a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Also the schedule that the developers keep is really unprofessional. If one of the accountants tried to show up at 11:00am, they'd be fired!

I also saw some pictures of one of our devs at Burning Man last year. He was wearing some sort of black, canvas skirt, and no shirt.

TOTALLY unprofessional.

Don't even get me started on the guy who tried to start a "nerf war" at work. A WAR! Excuse me, but people DIE in wars. How on earth did he think that was okay? It's like he was saying that he wanted to kill his co workers.

/s
You're on the cutting edge of an extremely popular framework.

If you want, you're welcome to use Rails 2.3 or older and you'll encounter many fewer changes. I imagine the 3.0 branch will have much the same stability once major development moves to 4.0.
The amount of startup capital required to make a sustainable supply of man-made diamonds is probably pretty high.
True that, Tropo just needs a marketing team like Twillio has and the this would be more obvious to others...
What strange knowledge you bring from outside the blogosphere. Where is this "classical" world you speak of? ;-)
If his passion had been for music, he might have written "Hackers and Composers". Then again, I really don't know.

Why not? As someone who has dabbled in composing music and been a musician most of my life, in different types of groups, it strikes me that many a time creating software is much like composing. There are often grand overarching themes, and all the parts must fit together just right or it's not going to feel right. You write the score in advance, then the orchestra "executes" it. Making your sheet music legible, with a keen eye to what's possible on different instruments and using the correct key instead of shoving in accidentals all over the place ("readability") can make a whole lot of difference.
Génialissime. GH: @JeanSebTr thanks ! :)
Whoa, whoa, whoa. There's really no reason to go tossing pejoratives around. Honestly now, that really crosses the line beyond having civil, even if contentious, discussion and disagreement--and starts to make things here sound too much like the Reddit thread I just found on this issue, where the comments have deteriorated into a bunch of obscene name-calling.

To provide a different perspective, I took the message as attempting to provide a cautionary bit of context, lest I be swept away by internet adulation.

Or were you being sarcastic? If so, my apologies. It's rather difficult to tell.
Perhaps many of us question whether these startups are doing meaningful work.
Couple pieces to this.

First – the fact that this guy's employer made a kneejerk reaction is no one's fault but the employer.

Next – let's talk about this red herring of "sexism." Making a phallus joke might be sexist depending on context. Or it might not be. Sexism is not at issue here.

The individual in question concedes that they did, in fact, make the joke.

From PyCon's code of conduct:

"All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks."

A joke about dicks? That seems to run afoul of the code of conduct the attendees agreed to. Sexist or not.

There's a discussion to be had around the best way to confront these behaviors. But regardless of your position on that, it remains the employer's decision, and therefore their mistake, to fire this person.

(Disclosure: I am acquainted with Adria and we've appeared together on a panel.)
To be honest I don't know and I wouldn't have negatively responded to a comment indicating that or questioning it. However reading the article it sounds like it is an issue resolving asset paths so may affect you even when assets are precompiled.

Performance Regressions

There are performance regressions in 3.2.13 for both view loading and asset loading. Rails 3.2.13 changed the way assets paths are resolved, handing that task to Sprockets instead of resolving internally, which seems to be the cause of the performance issues.