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Yeah, you're right: the problem of executives getting paid too much? Investor problem. The problem of stupid programmers getting paid too much? Investor problem. Can regulation solve it? I doubt it. When we get down to it, it's not like there isn't an abundance of regulation on companies going public and releasing projections anyway.

But as a programmer, it's easy to avoid: Avoid buying into risky IPOs. Whee.

Are you a good programmer contesting that the system as-is reduces your pay or your options for meaningful employment with fair pay? I doubt it. If anything it makes it harder for "good" places, which would like to employ you meaningfully at a fair value, to hire anyone-else, increasing your odds.

Now, if you're a good place who wants to hire good programmers and these stupid places compete with you raising your costs, that's another matter, and it really must stink for you... but it still sounds pretty implausible to regulate this problem away. If investors are going to be stupid about throwing around their money at the wrong companies, I expect government bureaucrats to be exactly as stupid about trying to hammer down the wrong companies, and now you've just made the whole process of being a company more risky and capricious for everyone.
Ask your kids.
Just to add: make sure your applications handle SSL certificates properly, and only trust either verified signed certificates or only the known certificate from the API server. Otherwise MITM could still expose everything.
Following your reasoning, there is no reason to criticise any entitlments. "MEPs have huge salaries?" "Mayors are giving social housing to their families?" "Government Railway employees get gold-plated pensions?": "Stop complaining! Just become one of them!"
International candidates?
Me gustaría conocer su ambiente de trabajo,herramientas, metodologias, implementación de nuevas tecnologias, estandares de trabajo, vision del lider o equipo, etc..
Maybe at the moment, but not by the time he's 30. It will go the way of people turning in a resume with "HTML" experience. It'll be expected as a minimum.
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>It's very, very easy to criticize from afar when you have no skin in the game.

neither do the execs, if they get paid anyway. (which was the point)
My shortlist is Feedbin and Feedly, although this time I'm a little more inclined to go with the paid service (Feedbin) because I don't want to have to transition services again for a long time.
Not saying you have to be a robot (I've been emotional about all of my comments in this thread), but there is a point at which emotional logic in an argument clouds the true purpose of the argument.

In this case, the purpose was to criticize the company and its leadership - there's nothing wrong with that, but mapping a projected idea of "unfairness" into the criticism (unless unfairness actually HAPPENED to you within the context of the subject being criticized) then you're clouding the soundness of the criticism.
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And tons of oil money flowing around Texas right now and into venture capital, courtesy of the fracking boom.
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One might also argue that a "regulatory solution" will inevitably make things even worse than the market forces it tries to correct.
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If you just want to reload the file do the first once and the second any time you want to reload.

user=> (use '[clojure.tools.namespace.repl :only (refresh)])

user=> (refresh)

What is described in the article is a little more advanced and has to do with how to control how your reloaded code deals with the old state.
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VCs might not need this (yet). But I can see this selling like hotcake to the impending ballooning new group investors in the startups scene enabled by the ranks of wefunder.com, fundersclub.com, etc. Go Danielle and team!
I guess I'm not getting what you're not understanding, Ixiaus.

If you accept the premise that an injustice exists, of what use is it to argue repetitively that one should "get on top", if one has a problem with it? You seem to assume that the OP is saying "It's not fair, why can't I be on top??" when he's not arguing anything of the sort. Not everything is about winning.

Is it possible that you're presenting a clever, sardonic caricature of an entrepreneur, and the joke went completely over my head? If so, you got me! Good one!
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What is the level of acceptance for (a) post-money option pools and (b) investors paying their legal fees amongst firms versus enlightened angels? I know Spark Capital publicly adopted (b).

If I asked for these terms from a firm today, would I get laughed out of the door? (Not that that should stop one from asking).
How? Hotlinking of images on someone else's site has been viewed as inappropriate as long as I can remember (was it okay before 1995?). It's not wise design in any case: what if they remove it or reorganize their site? (Hyperlinks to other peoples' pages have always been okay, but that's not what we're talking about here.)
What would the equivalent C++ code be?

How would you do a select on multiple blocking calls and send values across channels?
This is the video of the launch, or, "What integer overflow looks like":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUrqdUyEpI
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I think this basically nails the attitude of every single go convert that I have spoken to. I am starting to get tired of hearing lines like "that lisp stuff is too complicated, I am a go programmer" or "why would you do x in y way, it's so much better in go".

I don't think I have ever seen such unrelenting fanboyism in a programming language. It very well may be a fantastic language but its not an end all be all, we would do well to remember that.
It probably went something like this: Zynga is in the hit-driven games business. Engagement around games has shifted to mobile, and Zynga is weak in mobile. Draw Something could have potentially been a new big franchise, and given the current state of affairs at OMGPOP, was probably already up for sale. $200M is not that much money to a company like Zynga, especially when they are handing out stock and not all cash. Add that to a little hype, and you've got the makings of a deal.
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A question about floorplans:

Is the floorplan cost flat? I ask because if you take into account both sunk costs and the fact that two identical models would have the same floorplan cost per day, why would they care to sell the older car first?

Let's say you have two cars on the floor:
Car A - just arrived
Car B - sitting for 100 days

The cost of the floorplan is $10/day (let's say)

If a customer comes in and buys car A and then car B sits for another 10 days, how is that different than a customer coming in and buying car B and letting car A sit for 10 days? In the end it should cost the dealership the same. It's all about moving inventory, not necessarily moving specific inventory.

I assume I'm missing something here, can you explain?
OK, what does this mean exactly - "All founders equityshall be subject to a repurchase right"? Sorry if this is supposed to be obvious, but this is the first term-sheet I've encountered.
You could check out this very interesting upcoming course on coursera. https://www.coursera.org/course/malsoftware
> He expanded on this dilemma with examples from major languages: http://research.swtch.com/generic

My god, this is such completely dishonest bullshit strawman I'm impressed he had the balls to post that garbage. Java's boxing does not come from its generics, it's the other way around (java's non-Array collections have never been able to hold unboxed values), and C++'s template are pretty much unique in their complexity (and definitely not what PL people think about when talking about generics) and compounded by all the rest of C++'s baggage (D has C++-style templates and is nowhere as slow to compile).

And his reaction to comments (that is, his complete failure to acknowledge how huge a strawman his original post is, and complete absence of response to any mention of C#, Eiffel, Ada, Haskell, MLs and others)... that is supposed to be a defense of goteam's thought process?
God, I'd love to work there. I'm an Asp.Net developer. Well mostly a JavaScript Dev who leverages the C# backend to parse recordsets.

I wonder if I should apply anyway lol. It sounds like a dream job.
If you have a marketing budget, use Facebook Ads. Target married people in a certain age range. The age range may vary based on education level.
"But a human life is not just a means to produce outcomes, it is an end in itself. When we evaluate our friends, we don’t just measure the consequences of their lives. We measure who they intrinsically are. We don’t merely want to know if they have done good. We want to know if they are good."

There's no shortage of people who would describe themselves as good (and whose friends would agree). By and large, citizens of the developed world share the same emotional reaction when they hear about children in Zambia dying of malaria. But very few of us sit down, rationally consider what we have to offer, and then put in the hours to do something about it.

We each have our own most efficient skill for volunteer work. If Jason Trigg had gone to nursing school instead of MIT, he might choose to spend most of his time at a local free clinic - or he might get flown overseas for years on donor money. In the absence of any special training, his most efficient skill might be the ability to walk from village to village and physically deliver bed nets, and he might make this a long-term occupation.

I'm confident Trigg would do any of these things. But right now, his most efficient skill happens to be his aptitude at writing high frequency trading algorithms. He uses that skill to bankroll efforts to fight preventable illnesses around the world. He has chosen to spend the majority of his hours doing so, and relatively few on satisfying his own needs. It's an advanced level of volunteerism, and anyone else who follows in his footsteps has my admiration.
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Well, the purchase is a onetime cost, and revenue is recurring. If they spend 2x what they are paying now they'd recoup the cost (in terms of revenue) in 5 years. Plus, that's not counting new customers for ExactTarget's services. If you are a heavy SFDC user and were previously deciding between Marketo, Hubspot, and ExactTarget, you may go with ExactTarget because you know it'll be fully supported by SFDC.
So it's basically a showroom.
Best part:

> A human life is not just a means to produce outcomes, it is an end in itself.
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Oh I'm sure there are difficulties in our day and age, I don't mean to trivialize it - but the idea that "people being paid $20M a year while I write code and get paid $140K a year is unfair" strikes me as ridiculous. The resource available to people in the modern time is far richer and available than any other time in history.

Sure there are a lot of hurdles, but if you want to be that executive being paid millions, you can do it - whether you're a programmer, a writer, whatever.
Which is exactly why this is an appropriate place for introspection and even harsh criticism of what has happened. Two years ago people calling this event would have been "haters" - and because of the difficulties of forecasting, it was reasonable at least to say "we'll wait and see."

But now we've seen. The question is whether we will treat this as a freak accident purely unique to Zynga, or learn something from it. First, though, we need to allow that discussion rather than just saying "just make your own company if you think Zynga was bad." Really?
While the article has collected an impressive list of public failures and post-mortems, I wouldn't exactly call them common. It also closes with the assertion that "some networks really are reliable. Engineers at major financial firms report that despite putting serious effort into designing systems that gracefully tolerate partitions, their networks rarely, if ever, exhibit partition behavior. Cautious engineering (and lots of money) can prevent outages."

What does lots of money actually get you in this case? The more esoteric the hardware, the less real-world testing I would expect it to have gone through. Something like Solaris on SPARC might avoid unreliable NIC/drivers combinations but that's only one of the failure modes listed.

Having a completely identical set of hardware purely for testing would be nice which is where lots of money would help, but some of these failures are so arcane, they sound like they'd be hard to replicate on duplicate hardware, never mind testing for them in the first place.
It functions the same way as options vesting for employees.

Founders usually purchase all their shares up front, so this term says that the company can buy a percentage back if they leave before 4 years.
It's kind of silly, but people here think that annual legislative sessions will lead to a larger government. It's a real problem for budgeting, however.
Well, yeah. I basically am saying "stop complaining" but I'm not directly saying "become one of them" I'm saying "become what you WANT".
I was in The Galleria mall in Houston Sunday, and they have a "showroom" with 2-3 cars in it (they were closing so I didn't have time to stop and look). I wonder what the point was, and if they have any pending orders here.
I'm curious how you know so much about what's happening at Zynga. You haven't supplied any evidence at all to support your speculation that undeserving people are benefitting. I'm not particularly up on the situation either, but it looks to me like the OMGPOP people had a one-hit wonder and timed the sale of it perfectly. Do you have any basis for your accusation that cronyism played a role?
Given the history of bankruptcies in the car manufacturing space, it would be interesting to see how the effect of mandated dealerships affected the overall profit margins and viability of the car manufacturers.

Think about it for a second. Requiring a car manufacturer to sell cars through a dealership network naturally reduces profit margins for the car manufacturer thus affecting their long-term viability.
Well, the Tesla dealership in Shreveport, Louisiana will be happy to hear that.
But that's fundamentally because of the stupidity and laziness of the shareholders

Absolutely, I agree 100%. Our Democracy as a whole suffers from the same problem. That doesn't imply, however, that the problem can't or shouldn't be fixed by someone other than the shareholders. Our society may decide that it would be a better one with some checks and balances in place to keep shareholders from shooting themselves in the foot.

Note that I'm not arguing, one way or the other, that there's a problem or that it should be fixed. I'm simply pointing out that You can start a company too! and even It's the shareholders' fault may be true statements but they don't address whether the problem should be fixed.
That's actually a very deep insightful article, if you look beyond the profanity and monkey analogies...
Three pages in total, and all in fairly plain english. The simplicity of this term sheet speaks volumes of the confidence the investor has in their investments. I wonder if there is a correlation between the complexity of an early stage investor's term sheet and their over all success?
I've always negotiated by the "open book" method [1]. I've said that I want a fair market salary and I've shown that I am aware what the market is. I have always ended up at market or above, and I'm really not exceptional. I guess I'm just a good negotiator.

[1] The advantages of sharing information during negotiation have been well documented. http://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/negotiation-skills-daily/wh...
Most babies come with perfectly serviceable thumbs for this purpose.
This only will not work if your page is loaded over HTTPS and your assets are done over HTTP.

If your site and all of the linked/embedded assets are HTTPS, it will work as intended.
Always with the us-vs-them mentality. Maybe both sides are risking something. Maybe both sides have something to gain? Those ideas are hard to consider when you only have one perspective in mind.
I went to college with dozens of Jason Triggs (including myself). We'd talk all the time about the money we'd make right out of college and how much good we'd do. ("$36k to work at a soulless consulting company? That's amazing! I'm living on less than 1k/month in college. I could save 5K and give 10k away and not even notice!") We had plans to give 20, 30, or 50 percent of our income away. Some of us even managed to do it for a couple years. The world gets to you, though. Your coworkers that dress nicer and go to happy hour with the boss get promoted. It gets tiresome to commute from a tiny apartment in New Jersey. You buy a house or get married to somebody who doesn't make much money. The stock market tanks and takes your savings with it. You figure out that you hate consulting and end up teaching science in a junior high. After a couple years, I'd bet that the average charitable contribution of my peer group had gone down to 5% or less.

I wish Mr. Trigg luck, but we've already lived his story. He might get a few good years in, but his life is unlikely to work out like he plans.
One reason for grabing a C-level title early on is to avoid someone else getting it later as the business grows.

Often, if there's no CTO for example, they might be tempted to hire a more senior person in that role. But if it's taken, well...
BKRGB which was a signage platform I built last year with a partner and sold and ShaiSoft, which sold networking library software that I sold in 2002. I'm not rich because of it but I have tried and succeeded.

It's interesting how you belittle me because my numbers aren't big enough on the Brabble app. If I had bigger numbers could I criticize then?
>This is true. However, are you actually arguing in fact?

The whole point of arguing in fact is that you can prove someone wrong! The poster makes specific claims and you rebut them -- if I cared enough, I could do some investigation and see who is correct.

That's not true when an argument consists entirely of a metaphor.
It's better for everyone who will use/reuse/maintain/improve that code in the future (including the person who wrote it). But of course it's not easy, and takes extra time.

Personally, at this time, I feel a lot more satisfaction when I'm able to truly understand the problem I'm working with, and refactor complicated/hacky/duplicated code into a functionally equivalent but simple and elegant code. Smart/complex code that works is a great intermediate step though, it's way better than no code. :)

Rob Pike has a very relevant article [1] on this topic.

[1] http://commandcenter.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/less-is-exponen...
I would guess that Uber is a good example.
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I spent a year living in a third world country but somehow it failed to make me an expert on international aid and development.
Not really. Like sendgrid if you start generating spam complaints, lots of bounces, etc. they'll shut you down. Their total deliverability is adversely affected by any spammers that use their service.
TianAnMen "sneak publishings" on Chinese media.
I'm adding this as another data signal for my "are we in a bubble index"
Real time censored Weibo tweets for Tian'anmen Day:
http://weibotrends.com/

China censorship stats:
https://en.greatfire.org/
Hey, that's great. I hope Brabble succeeds, and the next one and the one after that. Perhaps, someday, one of your ventures will fail. You can minimize the psychic pain by learning not to equate business failure with bad intentions.
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State-sanctioned corruption.

If you're looking for the justifications, here's an explanation from a Cato article (pp. 3-6):

Why Restrictions on Online Auto Sales?

The franchise laws that inhibit the new business models for car sales from spreading online are defended as being important for protecting dealers and consumers from automobile manufacturers. Defenses of those laws, which became widespread in the 1950s, revolve around two arguments: first, that restrictive franchise laws are needed to protect consumers and, second, that such laws are needed to protect distributors from rapacious manufacturers[...]

http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/bp58.pdf
Interesting read, I wasn't aware of the tax situation around donated cars.

Probably not related, but I'm also interested in the advertising for people that buy "junk cars". I'm saving the SMS junk car spam I get, planning on plotting the advertised price against a timeline for fun.
While I'm not in a position to assess the risks, and unintended side-effects have been documented, e.g. unexpected elevation of mood in subjects receiving cranial MRI, I will note that the "nuclear" in NMR, of which MRI is an off-shoot/specialization, refers to the structure being imaged rather than to a nuclear reaction with the latter's attendant risks.

I remember when this technology was "up and coming" and "NMR" was the term/acronym. I wondered a bit when "MRI" started cropping up; perhaps you are right that "nuclear" was a bit scary for the general/patient population.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging
It works exceptionally well if you can lean into a market fully. Microsoft was heavily constrained by anti-trust issues.

Oracle is perhaps a better example of how well it can work than Microsoft. Ellison has openly admitted his strategy was acquired from the Office approach that Microsoft leveraged. Oracle has spent a huge pile of money, far more than Microsoft, in consolidating their space, and all without having a monopoly to lean on.
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> I don't think I have ever seen such unrelenting fanboyism in a programming language.

It's died down, but discussions involving C# used to be rough, take pretty much any PL feature added since 1.0 (generics, lambdas, local type inference, etc...) and any time they were suggested before their official blessing and addition by Microsoft would be met with charges of useless fancy-pants PL wankery of no use to Real Programmers in the Real World who were Very Productive and this was Abstract Useless Stuff for CS Undegrads Who Didn't Work In The Real World.
It is in the nature of some people on the libertarian / autistic / engineering spectrum to look at any issue out there and reduce it to trivial financial arithmetic. It's not out of ill will, it's just that this is their entire reality.
>No option pool. Taking the option pool out of the pre-money valuation (ie, diluting only founders and not investors for future hires) is just a way to artificially manipulate valuation. New hires benefit everyone and should dilute everyone.

This is my favorite part. For example if you have an early exits and don't use the pool the founder still is diluted for shares never optioned.
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The most recent Planet Money podcast is also about patent trolls, and goes into a bit more depth about the guy who declared himself a co-inventor of podcasting.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/05/31/187374157/episode-...

EFF's effort to find prior art and raise money to fight this particular troll can be found here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/help-save-podcasting
There is a difference between politicians that work for the people, and career politicians that work for themselves.
Is it really fickleness? Even hardcore games have a relatively short shelf-life. The only real exceptions are games like WoW which have been able to maintain some staying power.

For nearly everyone else all the money is made in the first few months after which it disappears into the bargain bin. It seems like social gaming is no different.
IBM to acquire cloud infrastructure powerhouse SoftLayer