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Say it with me, everyone:

FUCK YOU, PAY ME.

If I work hard and add more value to the company, I want a raise, and if you don't give me a raise, I'm going to leave your company and go somewhere else.

As a member of "Generation Y", I "crave" positive feedback as much as I "crave" a hole in my head. I'm not working for warm fuzzies. I'm working for money.
Sipping away on rum + energy drink as we speak. Alcahol + caffeine + sugar all in one small glass for sipping. For me it's a kind of magic combination that really helps me focus although that's not necessarily the same thing as creativity I suppose.
...circuit?
Of course I have a bias just like any one of his supporters would too. In my case, he had threatened violence against me and I have heard from others that they received the same treatment too--this is anecdotal but what isn't in these situations? His behaviour towards me and others is abhorrent and just because he has yet to be convicted does not mean that you can completely toss aside my views of him as an individual.

However, it is disingenuous to suggest for a moment that I am asking for all fair trials to be put aside for those who I have personal issues with. I want everyone, regardless of foe or friend, to have the same treatment that I would expect for myself.
This seems like a couple of nice anecdotes thrown together due to an unfortunate preoccupation with a barely-related cliche.

The way I'm reading it, the point is to concentrate on your product and making it, in reality, better than the product(s) of your competitor(s) rather than... pivoting? Building a different product? Making your product into something else? Changing your target audience? I guess the only real lesson I'm taking away here is that "if you have product, sell it; if it sucks, make it better." Not exactly groundbreaking, though certainly true.

If the desire was to communicate something more general, taking it out of the context of existing product-based businesses with market share and competitors would probably be necessary (but would have probably killed the anecdotes... which is why I'm guessing the article didn't really get off the ground in this regard).

So yeah, it's mostly true... but where it is, it's sort of trivially so.
My friend and I have 'Tuesdays'. School used to suck, so we went to the bar every Tuesday to get away from it. We've been doing this for about two years now. It's an open time to talk about whatever comes up. We've built some nice mental structures over the years.

Ideas are so fragile, interruptions often shatter them. The idea 'zen' is off when there's distractions. You can't really get in the zone. So we go to the bar alone (where no one can say "I don't know what you guys are talking about"), get tanked, and talk.

Alcohol absolutely helps with creativity. It makes bad ideas sound better. It lets you see the world differently (if you're still capable of thinking while drinking). It lets you gain perspective, although a muddy one. I think it helps significantly with seeing better pictures in your head. I can sometimes place where a thought came from (I thought of this, saw this picture, thought of this, played with this picture), but when I'm drinking, I get the final picture "HERE, TAKE THIS!". I don't see any of the intermediate steps (they've gone subconscious or something). It's a pretty fun way to think of ideas.
...what?

That would be quite ridiculous. And the "safe" browser thing will never happen, so long as open-source is alive.

Nobody can control the Web. The W3C is forgetting that.
The Web has DRM, implemented in proprietary plugins: Flash (and to a lesser degree, Silverlight).

And this proposal involves DRM implemented with proprietary plugins (known as CDMs). There is no requirement that CDMs be available across platforms, on open operating systems, available to license by any vendor. The CDMs are the new proprietary plugins, they just happen to do less than Flash, leaving more of it up to the browser.

Is it really so much better to trade one proprietary form of DRM for another? What does that actually get us? More crappy services, where Hollywood decides on a month by month basis which particular services get to offer its content, so you need to sign up for 5 different services just to watch all of the content that you watch? And each one of them supports different set-top boxes, doesn't work on open platforms, and restricts you from backing up media that you have bought?

This isn't improvement; this is just wanting to get browser vendors to implement anti-features that users object to, instead of getting Adobe to do it.
> Because accounting and law has an fairly even split between men and women then every other field (where physical differences don't come into play) "should" have similar representations too?

No, but when fields that are very similar in terms of intellectual demands have dramatically different gender representations, there is reason to be suspicious about what is really driving the disparity.

A good example is teaching. There is no reason teaching should be more attractive to women than men, yet in the U.S. most teachers are women. But this disparity is entirely cultural--in some countries there is not only no stigma against male teachers, but a preference for them. Isn't it valid to ask why social structure is keeping men out of a solid, socially useful career?
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No other offer? Unemployed for a year? It doesn't matter.

Oh, but it most certainly does.

It may not affect how you negotiate, but it will certainly affect overall outcome.

By the time a company makes you an offer, they're emotionally invested.

With the exception of rare cases and poaching, no, they are not. This is not reflective of 99% of job offers. If you have built up a reputation as a superstar that can write their own ticket, then fair enough, you already have a BATNA and didn't even realize it - play hard ball.

If however, you are like a vast majority of job applicants, you are really nobody special. Some talent maybe, but not enough to make me drool. In this situation, the negotiation is very similar to every other purchase of goods. You are the vendor and the employer is the consumer.

In a land of multiple vendors, the consumer is king. I don't care how much you think your time is worth, I've already got a value in my head that I'm willing to pay for, and I'm going to do everything I can to pay less than that value and get myself a 'deal'.

Suppose instead of effort hours you are selling bananas. You and about 20 other banana stands. The first thing I as a consumer do is figure out how the banana market is looking these days, and determine the average quality and average price that the vendors are offering. I'm a savvy consumer now, so I figure that in order to not waste anyone's time, I'll pre-define the quality of the banana I'm willing to purchase (let's say higher than the average, but not the gold standard banana) and publicly state my intention to buy a fixed quantity.

Seeing a sale, you (along with others) contact me I take a look at your wares. I like what I see, and I know the market value, so I offer you the average price and see how things go....

Scenario A) You counter 30% higher. That's still in my price range, but I've still not seen the other banana vendors yet. I probably want to talk to them before I just give you that extra 30%. What's the rush after all? Your's isn't a bad offer, but I'm not sure it's the best...

Scenario B) You don't really counter, but simply tell me that you only have 50 bananas until next quarter and there's another guy down the street that's already told you he'd give you 20% more for them. He's on the other side of town though, so you don't really want to go out there...

In what scenario is the banana vendor in a stronger position to get that extra 30%?

If the outcome in this situation is so influenced by said externality, how do you figure it does not equally translate into a job negotiation?

A good BATNA can be an existing job, a high degree of skill, or a lot of comfort in your current situation. Regardless, having one gives you a tremendous advantage in any negotiation.
True, but the risk weighted return is quite good, at least for now. You won't make a billion dollars as a doctor, but your odds of pulling in $350k/year for 40 years is probably better than your odds of a $3-5m exit (two outcomes with similar present values), at least if you have the personality of a typical doctor.
Anyone that decides rides the emotional rollercoaster of starting a company, has surely dated. Here's some insight to their perspective. Not bad Startup GF, not bad.
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I was pretty surprised how hostile the interviewers were. It seemed like they were trying to trick him up rather than interview him.
Anything in particular? Or just being curmudgeonly (that's OK too).

I was encouraged by the sentence "... This is what makes React composable: a key tenet of maintainable frontends."

In my experience, using concepts from functional programming is a good sign for the long term health of a program.
This is very helpful. I've been impressed with my Stock Option Counsel clients' thoughtfulness in the "Run the Numbers" step. This is not easy with private company equity offers, but there is a right answer for each person if they put some thought into it.
The one time I've gotten my heart rate to 192, I had about two liters of Mate in the in the morning, then ran up our local training hill (approx. 1200ft elevation gain) in about 30 minutes. No problems with arrhythmia, though.
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Requiring my full name and cities where I grew up caused me to become wary and leave. That information can be used too easily on stupid sites that have account "security" questions like that.
>When you need this, you need it. When you don't, prefer static html.

He didn't said "static html". He said "straight html". Which I presume means "also factoring in plain JS code".
However, there do exist a number of built-in, biological differences between male and female brains - see, e.g. [pdf] http://www.benthamscience.com/open/toanatj/articles/V002/37T...

While this isn't the whole story, it's important to understand what may be attributed to innate differences and what may be attributed to cultural forces.
I don't think it's fair to say Apple was the only company focusing on design, simplicity and ease-of-use prior to 2001. For example, the palm treo was much easier to use than other "smart" phones of the day. The difference between iPhones and other phones was epic, but it was also generational.

There were people at Motorola focused on these things and they made the RAZR, which dominated the world mobile market for years. Compared to other "feature" phones of the day, it was remarkably awesome (granted some people hated it but its hard to deny its success).

Apple did it better, but they weren't the only ones trying. The fact that they did it much much better than their competition does not necessarily indicate that other companies weren't trying.

/end rant

In other news, Apple watch should be a solid touch screen bracelet. IMHO.
"A civilized society doesn't rely on the generosity of philanthropists in order to take care of the most vulnerable among us."

I don't understand this sort of logic. One of the hallmarks of civilization is people doing the right thing even when they aren't forced to. People marvel at the fact that you can lose your wallet in Japan and get it back without anything missing. Yet you're saying that using force to provide for the needy is somehow more civilized than people doing it voluntarily?

In a civilized society, we'd be able to solve our social problems without forcing people to do it. I'm not sure how we get there, but that's the society I'd rather live in.
I hate when a site doesn't let me delete my account. Apparently, drupal.org hasn't been able to implement this feature in more than 11 years already:

https://drupal.org/node/8
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This is awesome, will read it later on and post back. But just by a glimpse over it, it seems to answer questions I had when I started out (and which I had to learn the hard way.) Thasnks
Also: Asian. Lots of Indian and Oriental men in tech too.

But you're right that the 20something hipster demo in tech definitely skews to the white.
Well this article talks about eliminating rewards like gift cards as a way to motivate people. You are entitled to get a fair salary that you deserve and there is no doubt in that.
That's the only natural evolution; for example the news sites will say:

"Why the movie industry have protection but we don't? We need HTML5 DRM in our writings, is our copyright less important than theirs? I say no sir!"

And slowly an internet where you can't use browser extensions, where you can't copy anything you read, where you depend on the existence of a company, a functional internet connection to play (just once) the content you bought, but a content that you certainly don't own.
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They cut him off a few times, not sure if they would have gotten away with that with Jobs. I would have stated that the market still follows Apple, sure there is competition but rarely do new game changers come from other companies. Apple is still a leader. Name one thing (other than a phablet) that other companies did first... Google Glass is one, and there might be more but largely the market still follows Apple's lead at least for now.

I do think the sidetrack on the market and taxes is something Cook needs to hand off if he wants to be a product guy, again Jobs would have slayed the shorts and not given them another minute. Cook is an excellent operations guy, needs to stay focused on product to be guy. Getting tired of the 'post-PC' era line.

He should have asked them what devices they use and what other companies have come up with that wasn't following the Apple product path. Samsung makes good products, but they were making phones before Apple, now they follow their lead.
I've been waiting for this, looking forward to getting stuck into it.
And why would you her expect to do that? Those were not her positions.

It's the difference between one-sided propaganda and reasoned argumentation or discussion.

It's fair enough that it's fiction, and thus perhaps unfair to hold it to a standard. But making an intellectual argument using your characters as a mouthpiece and then declaiming responsibility for propagandizing strikes me as trying to have it both ways.
> Private loans are not though

Really? Who takes responsibility for the deceased person's loan?
It seems that Login systems is becoming a fragmented space, there's Persona, Google, Oauth, Wordpress, etc. and now Amazon.
The way I see it is if DRM is going to be managed in Firefox and Chrome then it wouldn't necessarily block a determined person from circumventing it. Both browsers are open source. HTML5 DRM will only stop people from using regular copy/paste.

I have a feeling that the EFF is over-reacting, but only time will tell what the right action should have been.
That's a great question.

React is designed for building big UIs. The type where you have lots of reusable components that are handling events and presenting and changing some backend data.

In a traditional MVC app, React fulfills the role of the view (and maybe the controller, depending on your definition).

React's technique is to break your view down into smaller, composable components. These components provide a render() method which specifies how the component will generate its markup. render() can either return normal DOM elements (like <div>s) or can return other components.

When your data changes, the render() method is called again. We compare the old render()'d version with the new one and the framework determines the most efficient way to update the DOM. Often this will be faster than hand-coding it, as React knows about the entire state of the page and can do cool tricks like batching reads and writes.

The way we're able to pull this off is by constructing a very fast, lightweight representation of the DOM which knows which parts are dirtied and which parts are clean.

Because this rerender is so fast (on the order of 1ms for TodoMVC), we don't need the end user to explicitly specify data bindings. We've found that this is an easy way to build apps.

We have many examples of using React with Backbone as the backend, or using it in conjunction with something like Bootstrap's JS widgets. They're available at https://github.com/facebook/react/tree/master/examples/.

Does this answer your question? As we've just launched I could definitely use some feedback on how we could explain it better!
What if netflix released its own browser, perhaps a fork of chromium, and all it could do was go to netflix and other such approved (read: drm-ready) sites that paid a fee to netflix?

And what if parents made that the default browser on the device? To protect the kids, of course.

Of course.
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Well said, and I'm very curious about your proposals for making salary negotiations simple. Care to share more? www.stockoptioncounsel.com
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Markup generated from javascript isn't manageable enough. That is why it is not recommended to have templates/markup generated from js.
What is the n+1 selects issue?
>Developers can always quit. The only reasons they don't is that they love to code, and they are hoping for an equity cash-out from an IPO or acquisition down the line.

Or they need to feed their family.

Seeings as a lot (MOST!) developers are not "rock stars" by any stretch of the imagination, don't make that much, and some are not willing to relocate to another state/city.
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News sites would be all over that. Gaming websites too. Sports websites I imagine...
Yeah, only time will tell us if watching sitcoms on the browser is really worth to lose an open internet. </sarcasm>
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Thank you for your kind words, could you tell me which grammatical points are incorrect so I can improve? Thanks!
Er, no? You merge the unfixed version via the web UI (to get the PR marked as merged), then immediately force-push the fixed version to your own repo, not their's.
I am skeptical of any value in having "standards" agreed for this for consumers which would be any different from having third party plugins.

If you want your content to be protected, fine, you can go back to using third party plugins. Then users will have a clear choice on whether to consume your content.
Very true. I have an illustration of this here: http://stockoptioncounsel.com/blog/negotiation-rhythms-2/201...
As you suggest, I think the point was that there's often no brilliant idea that will provide a magical solution to a hard business problem - be that a product pivot or a new sales/marketing gimic.

Instead, you often know what you need to do - it's a long, hard slog, and it's about sticking at it longer than your competitors.

It's a recurring theme in Ben's blog:

>> Mediocre CEOs point to their brilliant strategic moves or their intuitive business sense or a variety of other self-congratulatory explanations. The great CEOs tend to be remarkably consistent in their answers. They all say: “I didn’t quit.”

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/04/01/what%E2%80%99s-the-most-diff...
Can you show me a copy of this social contract I've supposedly signed? I hear so much about 'social contract' this, 'social contract' that, but I have yet to clap eyes upon it...
The estate, just like with other private debt.
The title is "60% of Top 25 Tech Companies Founded By 1st & 2nd Generation Americans = 1.3MM Employees, 2012". It was created to support a thesis (immigrants found highly successful companies at a higher rate than their share of the population suggests), but it presents an incomplete data set. Either the authors are naive and didn't understand how misleading the chart was, or they chose to structure it that way to support their agenda. It's so wildly misleading that it makes the rest of their "data" suspect.
Wow, OK. This could definitely do with being included in the introduction - my first impression was "calling render() all the time and rebuilding the chunk of HTML must result in terrible performance on mobile devices etc". Your explanation here makes the whole system make a ton more sense.
well that still begs the question: "how many cores did they use per frame?" Did they just render 12500 frames in parallel?
Great link. Here's another one, with pictures: http://stockoptioncounsel.com/blog/negotiation-rhythms-2/201...
What prevents that with or without DRM in HTML5?
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Are you seriously making the argument that all blog posts should start with basic definitions of terms for people who are too lazy to use Google?

And on this particular topic, it's reasonable to suspect that the people who have the "please spoon-feed me the basics" objection would just have a different objection.

For example, despite being provided a good starting point, you didn't say something like, "Thanks, now I'll go do my homework." Or, "Ah, now I understand." You just continued grumbling. And from an account fresh-created to comment on this topic.

This is a common enough problem that it's listed in a catalog of anti-patterns: http://www.derailingfordummies.com/derail-using-education/
When I was in medical school, I taught myself some Python and C++ to help automate some of the data collection and analysis for a cancer research project I was doing. That project was attached to a drug that I now have a minority financial interest in. Been interested in technology since I was a kid. This weekend I was toying with the Keccak hash function code just for fun, even though it has absolutely no relationship to anything useful I could do programatically. The simple pleasures...

I have a financial relationship with Epic Systems, but that's more of a nepotistic thing than it is something I earned. As far as investing in new products, I don't really have an interest at this point. Things are stable and I like it that way.
"To keep the soft ground from collapsing, engineers snaked coils of coolant through the soil to form a protective arch of frozen earth. That let crews work safely while traffic rumbled overhead. Cost: $1 million per foot."
"the "safe" browser thing will never happen, so long as open-source is alive"

So people who choose to use only free software will be excluded from large parts of the web. How is that a good outcome?
Presumably if you run the pre-processer as part of your deploy (the jsx node.js command-line tool) you don't have to ship the pre-processing library to the client.
DRM: Software with the intent to take control with force over someones else computer.

Sorry but there is nothing intrinsic valuable about DRM in the web, in the exact same way that any other form of malware is not intrinsic valuable to the web. Just because its current legal to offer media products with malware embedded, doesn't make it a logical choice to include in a web standard that describes an open web of cooperating nodes.
Significant whitespace is evil.
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The alledged siver bullets, as I understood it, where the set of partnerships and acquisitions that would broaden the product line and surround the web server with enough functionality that we would be able survive the attack.

I wonder if this story is related:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
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Oh, I thought you meant updating the pull request by force-pushing on their branch. Your solution is racy, thus only acceptable for projects small enough that the likelihood of someone pulling during that window is sufficiently low.