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ouch, you're going in very specific here. It's going to hurt.

About the EU law : you are not subject to it, it's countries who are subject to it. It work by fining the infringing country. EU laws generally mandate countries to have national laws in this or that way. If a citizen gets a condamnation by an infringing national law, and after having tried every possible national appeals, he can go to the EU court and get his country condemned. I'll stop here on that subject.

So, on a French level, we have work laws (Code du travail), regulations and "collective agreement" (I hope my google translation is correct). In computer science the collective agreement is called "syntec" it has force of law (it's not the case for all agreements). Collective agreements can offer better benefits than the law, but not worse. In the case of computer science, the employees are classified in 2 layers, basic employees (secretaries etc.) and "Managers and Engineers" (Cadres et Ingénieurs) in startups, almost everybody is an engineer. Then engineers are classified with a number, depending on experience, autonomy, degree of skills the job needs, and people managed. This number (coefficient) correspond to the minimum salary you have to pay them, and the other way around, if in everyday work, their job goes into a higher level, their minimum salary have to be increased (if you were already paying them high than the minimum, you don't care). For computer science we are generally way over the minimum, but it's good to have someone check the employment contract before signing it. Employers tend to give lower number at employment, I tend to raise it to their true level, because I value my team on paper too. People whose number is high enough meaning their seniority is high enough are to be paid by the day and not the hour. Those people are paid to work 218 days a year (waiting for some backlash here:) ).

Then you have the limits on the number of hours worked, like no more than 13h in a row, sleep time etc. It's not really about salary, it's about security and well-being. As far I as know it's not a issue in computer science.
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In The Netherlands, you are not allowed to give your employees free food. You have to charge them (a little), otherwise the IRS doesn't agree.
>It looks like you disabled Chrome's resizing on purpose too, which seems unnecessary/annoying. Why break existing functionality just to add new functionality?

That functionality can be re-enabled by changing the "resize" CSS style[0].

[0] http://davidwalsh.name/textarea-resize
At my previous firm, cuts in these sorts of things was a rounding error in their balance sheet--completely immaterial. BUT it was viewed as an indirect signal to everyone to think frugally in your projects, work harder, and temper feelings of entitlement during difficult economic times. So I've always viewed these sorts of actions as a management technique, not necessarily a financial cost cutting one.
Who wants this? Are Google so hopeless in strategy that they have to borrow from Facebook?
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They go on to say:

As the industry shifted from desktop GUI development to the web, it seemed natural to port the most successful patterns and designs to the new paradigm. After 15 years of trying, we feel that there are still no component-based frameworks that have successfully achieved this. We recommend not attempting to make web development into something that it fundamentally is not. It is time to accept
the page and request-based nature of the web, and focus on the frameworks that support - rather than work against - these concepts.

This seems reasonable, but single page apps don't have a page and request-based nature, and Backbone seems a good fit for this case.
I'll have to get back to you on that when I get home.
A guess at why people hate paying for (certain) things… and a possible solution.
Steve Blank says its a sign of a company growing and you didn't notice. So that sounds natural and should be expected. So is he criticizing soda-jerking or not?

I would think if it were managed, with lots of communication about new benefits that reflect the changing company behavior (more execution-centric, less skunk works) and new work-hour expectations, then it can seem ok.
It's been a while but those look like ANSI escapes so I think if you add something like DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS to your CONFIG.SYS then you should find it starts to interpret them correctly. I think ANSI.SYS uses up less than 30K.
When you bring in an outside CFO, chances are that you're getting a highly paid individual whose main incentive is to increase the valuation of your company to make it look good for an acquisition, increasing revenues substantially, or going public.

Cost cutting is just one tool in their toolbelt to work towards it. But it's the sharpest and most easily understood tool they have so that's why they will reach for it so often.

In an ideal world, you'll get a CFO that totally jives with you culturally, accepts a lower salary (or limited equity stake), and just handles all the paperwork. But such people will rarely carry the title of CFO.
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No, in this context "metabolically disadvantaged" means "fat and don't want to make an effort to fix it". There is no intolerance, it is just "I want to stop being fat, but pretending to half-follow a fad diet didn't work, so I will call it a medical problem".
Cool. I also heard that Duke Nukem Forever[1] was recently released.

But, in all seriousness, I'll probably end up installing this over the weekend :(

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem
That's interesting. The story here is always "taking away free sodas is just an indicator that things are screwed up and the company has lost its way." I wonder if it actually goes one step deeper -- the fact that employees are willing or feel justified in lifting flats of free soda is the first indicator that the company is screwed; taking away free drinks is just the more visible manifestation of that.
I think you missed the point of his coding. He doesn't code part time; he uses his knowledge of coding to enable his primary job. I think this is brilliant. When I became a PM I was in a much better position to guide software updates and recommend "easy win" enhancements because of my coding experience. More people need to do this.
What exactly are these "Plus hassles" you refer to?
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No, genuinely trying to get some debate going. We have debated upgrades for a while now at the Arduino head office in Torino where we work. We thought of tapping into the endless wisdom of the HN community for a fresh perspective.

The learning curve plateaus eventually, but it's also about experimenting control within new environments, "go around mommy's feet" "circle the kitchen counter".

In it's basic form no numeracy or literacy is required to approach Primo. This is key, but what do you suggest a suitable upgrade should be bearing this in mind?

We have a Primo 2.0 for schools in R&D right now that will allow for multi play (or super hog play) by controlling several vehicles from the same board. what you think about that?
Is `noob' considered acceptable terminology?
But they got you to click!
To me, this is a much bigger issue than the possibility of always online. I can sign into my friends Xbox and we can play together, but I couldn't just let him borrow the game. And the fee can be up to full MSRP, meaning that you can't ever really sell your game because it will, by definition, cost someone else MORE than a new copy. I understand that PCs do something similar, but I don't buy PC games with the idea of sharing them with my friends, but I do with my console games. GameStop, gamefly, and others are in a real interesting position as to what they will do with the new Xbox One.
Other professions have perks analogous to free soda for engineers. For example, medical sector professionals go bonkers over free samples.
Whatever you say, Mr. Lawdawg. What a great last name; I wish I could have one like that.
I see a bunch in Boston/Cambridge on their jobs page: http://dev.hubspot.com/jobs
I use Aptana and enjoy it.

I get automatic updates periodically, last one was within the last couple months I think.

Tried sublime 2, I couldn't find any good highlight themes, no printing support (then again Apatan's printing is not great on linux, i usually copy/paste to gedit or something that prints decent)

I like Aptana's editor, easier highlight theme modification, catches some syntax errors, and flag files in the project tree that have issues, pop up references to functions in your project (ala PHP documentor?) and used veriable in your code, highlights open and close pairs when cursor is next to them.

I'd say try it out, only takes up space in your home folder, and if you don't like it you can just delete it.
Define smuggling. If I pick up a soda when leaving the office, I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. If I start taking boxes, that might be an issue.
If you had an 80% success rate but were 18 for 20 you'd be some sort of wizard. :))

Anyway, I think the author is assuming that each time you apply, you're applying for multiple jobs, getting multiple offers, and turning down all but the best one. I was a little surprised that my score was so low, too, given that (as a junior) I've only had 2 on-site interviews but have received 4 offers, which gives me a score of 60. Meanwhile, interviewing for 100 jobs and getting 60 offers gets you a score of 120.
"there's a morale penalty applied every day when someone walks past where there used to be refreshments, and has to keep walking another 30 feet to the water fountain or vending machine."

True, but there's a measurable labor cost. My dept bathroom is at least 300 feet away. (You'd think that would be a building code violation or something). Anyway its a good extra 2 or 3 minutes of walking per visit. Lets say I stretch my legs 4 times per day. Thats perhaps 6 minutes per day for me, but in a 20 person department that's 2 developer hours per day.

Lets say 2 hrs/day * $50/hr * 5 days/week * 52 weeks/yr = 26 grand per year. Remodeling to put a door in the wall to cut 2 minutes off the walk via a direct route might cost $5K, only 10 weeks till pure profit for the company.

From a health standpoint I get up and walk every couple hours (no interest in experiencing leg embolisms or whatever, plus plain ole health reasons) so this wouldn't actually work, I'd just find another way to walk for about 1 minute every hour. But it shows the math is pretty fuzzy.

In your situation the cooler situation was "several" and 500K/yr. Either you were getting overcharged or we're talking about more like 50, not "several". I live in an area where we have more fresh water than we know what to do with, I know its not like that out west, so I could see costs being a little higher, but not like Frank Herbert "Dune" level. Anyway from a purely financial standpoint I'm not sure in your example that they're actually saving even one penny of money.
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>Some people said that it was only a matter of time before this person started charging money for this crank product

Like he explicitly said he was going to do from the start? Man, those people must be clairvoyant.
I can do voice searches, but the conversational aspect (asking "how old is he?") isn't working, and I can't seem to get hotwording to either. Is this still rolling out?
Forgot to mention the most important part: I let her pick the font and we set the point size to 72 (the max). Large letters help.
This is exactly my confusion about this parade of complaints. Google Account --> Google+ Account. Nothing about that says that you ever have to use a single aspect of Google+ the Facebook-competitor, and your empty profile can sit doing nothing. I do not understand the outrage simply that it exists.
And then you get a completely inconsistent viewing experience across browsers and operating systems. The whole point of having a designer work on content presentation is that they can actually know what type is appropriate for the content they're presenting. You're probably going to want to use different type depending on whether you're in a header, navigation, paragraph-heavy body copy, or bullet-point lists, because different type is more readable in those circumstances. The designer also needs to be considering things like how many characters per line are displayed, because it's much easier to read copy when there are 75-80 characters per line than when there are, e.g., 200. These are all things that the browser does not do for you. Sites like c2.com's wiki are what you get when you let the browser handle everything. That is not an optimal reading experience.
It's a way of framing an argument that discourages rational discussion of the actual merits of each side. It's not whether or not I agree with that value judgement that matters; it's that assigning those kinds of judgement is often a way to preclude any deeper or more nuanced discussion.
Why tax corporations at all? It's not like they're a magical pot that you can tax without taxing people. People disagree with how much corporate taxes fall on consumers vs shareholders, but if what you're concerned about is equity you can pretty easily target an income tax hike toward rich folk.

I'd say taxing corporations is a fool's errand anyway, because they'll always have the resources and the centralized control to figure out how to escape taxes as much as possible and carve out further special tax breaks for themselves. Disaggregate individuals can't do that.

Limited liability is one externality that needs to be corrected for, but the idea that it adds up to hundreds of billions of dollars strikes me as implausible.
Maybe it depends on your work load, but thats not true if you just want a regular K-V store. LevelDB and LMDB are usually way faster: http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/

Of course, neither of these systems have indexing. If you want to use them directly, you have to organise your data so that you can translate your queries into range queries on an ordered set. The FoundationDB guys talk about this here: http://foundationdb.com/documentation/beta1/data-modeling.ht...
Valid points, but instead of complaining, we need to understand why these trends are coming back? For. e.g. back in a days hit counter were a sign of credibility and popularity, popups are to grab user's attention (there is no excuse to auto play video!) same way twitter followers are displayed to show how popular the user is, popups and modal screens are used to say this is a different context (per say). Even though they are misused just for the sake of a developer doing 'cool stuff'. We should figure out is there more creative way to address these ?
I think the animations (bounce effects) on this page are a little too much and it actually hurts the UX. It needs to be more subtle.
I allowed myself to Google everything and got 23,100 points. I got 3 out of the 5 locations basically exactly correct. The challenge is here: http://www.geoguessr.com/?s=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MjMxNjgsInZl...
Cool one! Good luck guys!
isn't this how Steam (the platform gamers love) already works?
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This sounds like a necessary evil of the "disc-less" gaming feature.

As long as the used/borrowed copy still plays fine without any fees when the disc is in the tray, I don't see any difference to the console status quo.

Used/borrowed copies wouldn't get the play-without-the-disc feature (for free). But that doesn't even rate as a 'bummer'. That's just a logical, necessary architectural decision.

Otherwise a group of friends would just buy 1 copy of a game, pass it around installing it and then everyone would be able to play without the disc needing to be present. They could even sell the physical disc to Gamestop when they were done and still all be able to play the game.

Obviously, no publisher would sign up for that. So you get account-binding on install. Again, as long as having the disc exempts you from the fee, we're not talking about an experience any different from today. And it would still be more consumer-friendly than purely digital services like Google Play, Steam, iTunes, Origin, etc.
Why they thought they could launch their flagship at the same time Samsung did is a mystery to me. The phones became available on my carrier in the same week. It's a nice phone, but not shockingly different from the S4. Guess which phone everyone was talking about?
Oh yes, I agree, there are all kinds of differences between the two. A partially completed degree at any level of CS helps you in your career (in fact, the blog post was written by someone who does not have a college degree).

I've discussed this with people on HN before, and I really wish I could find better stats on MS attrition rates, especially at good schools.

I was once a PhD student at UC Berkeley, and I felt it was pretty much a horror show of failure and attrition (the experience caused me to view claims of a "shortage" of US grad students in a very different light). It's tough to get into med school (or a top law school), but looking at the numbers, it doesn't appear to be any worse than top engineering grad schools (where GPAs and GRE scores are sky high). But in the professional schools, once you're in, attrition rates are very low. Yale law school, for instance, has no 1L attrition. Columbia's 1L attrition rate is 0.3%. Attrition rates for elite med schools tend to be well below 1%. Something odd is going on when congress claims that there is such a severe shortage that we need to start awarding green cards to anyone who gets a grad degree in STEM from a US university [1], yet attrition rates start at 35% (in engineering) and only get worse from there.

I think that engineering, math, physical sciences are a pretty grueling path compared to the professions - a point of view supported (at least at the PhD level) by a RAND position paper:

http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html

Anyway, none of this is meant to refute your point - you are right about the MS issue. Though I really do wish we had better info on MS attrition rates. When I was at UCB, there was some attrition from the MS program as well, though it was not anywhere close to as high as the PhD program.

[1] I support this, however, I don't support the reasoning behind it - that a poor educational system is the cause of the non-participation of US students in STEM grad programs. I believe the aversion is rational and market driven, and any policy to expand the engineering workforce at the graduate level should consider this carefully.
>what advantage they'll be able to offer over established meal replacement drinks like Ensure

Ensure isn't remotely close to nutritionally complete. We're not talking about your mythical unknown magic plant powers here, we're talking known vitamins and essential minerals, with established RDIs, that Ensure and similar products do not come anywhere close to providing enough of. If you can show me a product that is actually nutritionally complete (provides 100% of the RDI of all vitamins and minerals with an RDI) then you have an argument.
That's a really interesting point, actually. Though I should mention that the free pop ended long before RIM hit their peak. It was gone by 2007 (along with the Wednesday movie nights), but I don't know exactly when either of those ended.
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CONS

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- no mobile app yet, but I'm close to finish cloning Google Reader API.
I couldn't agree more. People complain that non technical people don't understand or value everything that goes in to our work other than 'writing code' -- look around, you are probably doing the same for other roles as well, including your 'bean-counters'.
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Benefits should be added slowly and if they must be taken away it should not be piecemeal. Few things offend people as a continuous loss of status.

Machevelli,the Prince (From obtaining a state by Wickedness!)..
Hence it is to be remarked that, in seizing a state, the usurper ought to examine closely into all those injuries which it is necessary for him to inflict, and to do them all at one stroke so as not to have to repeat them daily; and thus by not unsettling men he will be able to reassure them, and win them to himself by benefits. He who does otherwise, either from timidity or evil advice, is always compelled to keep the knife in his hand; neither can he rely on his subjects, nor can they attach themselves to him, owing to their continued and repeated wrongs. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.
Isn't BerkeleyDB the quintessential "embedded NoSQL" database engine? I'm an RDBMS+SQL kind of guy, so can someone enlighten me about the differences between bdb and UnQLite?
In the case of your company, it seems that the loss of the coffee machine was just the start of an impending death spiral (er...or am I judging too much from the preface of "in the original dot-com bubble")...but what about more moderate scenarios?

Take, for example, Tumblr, which right now is a pretty big success. Just a month ago, they laid off their entire editorial team. Who knows if it was at all related to the Yahoo purchase, or if it was a decision made because Tumblr really need to cut expenses? But sometimes companies change course and cut because of ostensibly responsible financial concerns.

In the case when an exciting company has to trim (but not just die), how should it handle the case of having a fancy coffee machine and possibly saving a job? It seems it would be a bit awkward if the company laid people off but kept all of its original ostentatious perks.
The advantage of the dual class, if you'll allow me to stretch your metaphor, is that you can solo a mission, specially if you have the right gear (open source software) to cover your weak points.
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Very well written. This is also a big reason why there are so many startups that don't last past 3 months. That to me is the threshold between fun and exiciting to actually getting to the real stuff. Much like working out at a gym for the first week or two and going crazy versus going to the gym on a regular basis and actually getting muscular.
"Rohit ... has been programming professionally for a decade" doesn't sound much like a "noob" to me
What kinds of problems are you working on where this change in behavior of the JVM has implications for your software stack? I myself work on a financial trading platform and these sorts of things matter to us. Curious what other kinds of problems/domains are affected by this issue.
exactly. It's all about producing a frictionless environment for your workers so they can actually be massively productive. Especially when a machine break down, takes your dollar, and makes you go to your car to look for some change. Then when you get back with quarters instead of bills, and the machine STILL doesn't work, that is just more friction and a waste of your brain thinking about these issues. At home, you have to remind yourself to bring a drink in case the machine isn't working, and bring enough change to get as many drinks as you need.

The best coders, in my experience, are very sensitive. They understand what great quality is. One little thing is off, and it will bug them. That's what makes them great.
One key difference is that the representational government's monopoly is backed by force.