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Warning: Limit Break ahead. (Yeah, you thought I was always Limit Breaking. No, this is a real one.)

This is complete and utter douchebaggery and your IQ will drop 5 points if you read it to completion.

I'm sorry, but if I'm going to go anywhere near a pre-funding startup, I better fucking have some domain X over which no one will ever fucking be hired above me. Sorry, but if I wanted to work at a company where people could be hired above me without me having a say in it, I'd take the $200k+ hedge fund job and wouldn't touch your startup with my worst enemy's dick. This is how talent sees it. Accept it or fail at your own peril.

Job titles don't matter for fuck-all early on, but companies tend to have a weird dynamic. For a long time, titles don't matter and they're so inconsequential that they're never used (business cards are blank on the title line). Sure, someone might be "Chief Revenue Officer" but the only people who even know he has that title are the CEO and Board. When titles are inconsequential, you hurt yourself by bringing them up. So don't. The title is something you have, for later on when you need it, but not something you use-- at all. It just sits there for later purposes.

So, in the early stages, while it's important to have titles, I will agree that you shouldn't explicitly "use" them much. For a 10-person startup, they don't mean anything, operationally, except for where a person will be when they start to mean something. Through this, they motivate talented people to stick with the company even when things get painful.

And then... the company gets to a point where titles do matter and, by that time, I better fucking have one. Unless you can convince me that your company will never have job titles, in which case I don't want to be "that guy" who brings them into existence.

OP seems to support the idea of an early employee taking a pre-emptive hit ("Engineering Director" instead of "VP/Engineering" or "CTO") so other people can be plugged above him, often without his consent. This is because the real perk of being a VC is being able to hand out executive positions in other peoples' companies to your underachieving friends. Fuck that. That's bullshit. You'll never get talent if you take this guy's advice.
It's awkwardly worded but they meant that the salesforce stockprice ( not exact targets) is down 2% to its (at the time current) stock price of 40.16. As you can see from this link, http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRM. Its now down to around 39.56, a 3.59% decrease.
And now it's our turn to break the DRM!
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We've got this in the conference room at our office. The first time we put it on we did not sand the walls smooth enough before painting, And it ended up being difficult to dry erase. We re-sanded & reapplied the paint, and it's been fantastic.

Also handy for entertaining visiting nieces and nephews or our employees' kids.
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X-Rated Google Glass App Gets Banned
Good then, they are catering to a specific demographic while it's clear it may mislead and be unclear to other.

I still think it's not a good idea, and the fact that it's a likable idea doesn't fix that for me.
Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string
Is it easy to paint over, either with more IdeaPaint, or regular paint?
Read JavaScript The Good Parts. Some chapters are pretty difficult. I'd say if you can fully understand and apply everything in that book, you're an expert.

Also Addy Osmani free books on large scale javascript applications and design Patterns patterns are very good.
This is the first time I see this. I'm not interested myself, I know lot's about Angola and personally it's not a place I'd like to go. I'll share!

It's a good cause, I just see how horrible it is having to do charity, when the country as so much money kept in the pocket of the president and his daughter: billionaire!
Regardless whether or not people are imbeciles, they still have a habit of abstracting away common knowledge, and then forgetting that the common knowledge exists. I see this all the time in the computer industry. It's good to remind everyone now and again that free is not necessarily free.
Strange... My HAVP proxy picked up some of the JS as an exploit??

http://skycraft.io/skycraft.js	HTML.Exploit.Heap-2
"A RESTful API should be stateless. This means that request authentication should not depend on cookies or sessions. Instead, each request should come with some sort authentication credentials."

Doesn't that mean you need to do a database lookup to verify the user with every request? Seems like a lot of overhead just for the sake of avoiding sessions.
But it can be about you trusting your device. And the applications of trusted computing are absolutely about preventing medical records from being compromised, but that's not a sexy headline in the same way that DRM is.
Swarm.js: real-time object sync library
Right, with regard to use. Early on, titles mean nothing operationally. However, they're armor against people being hired above someone. Frankly, although I can't officially prevent it (unless a majority-shareholding CEO) if someone's going to be hired above me, I fucking want it to be a company-wide earthquake if it happens, in order to discourage the phenomenon where high-level positions are handed out as political tokens. It goddamn better be painful and dramatic for the company if some outsider is hired above me, to take advantage of my fucking hard work.

The reason VCs don't like to see CxOs already in place is because it makes it harder for them to use the company to hand out jobs to their underachieving middle-aged friends looking for executive sinecures.
but you're assuming that this improves the upbringing.
I completely agree. SFDC is really looking for a quick toe hold to get into the market and Exact Target gives them a ready made product and a solid base to integrate with their existing platforms. From there, it's a simple up sell to existing SFDC clients.
Google Charts. It's not d3js but it's good stuff.
Of course it's the first amendment! Just don't protest any wars near where Important People are trying to do business, like some kind of gross hippie.
Interesting article. You should do an analysis of the DC realtime bus position API next, that thing goes down all the time!
Since you have no written contract, you can only try and negotiate whatever you can at this point. Think about the time it will take to negotiate vs the pay for those extra 6 hours or so. There will be a point when it will not be worth it and you just need to cut your losses and move on.

My advice: cut your losses and move on asap. You have certainly learnt a lesson the hard way which is always effective. You will never (hopefully) get into this situation because you know better now. You are wiser now.
Ask HN: Are you put off by non-USD prices?
US residents: Are you put off from paying for an SaaS service if the price are not listed in US Dollars?

The reason I ask is now that Stripe has finally entered the UK, I'm thinking of using it as my payment gateway for BugMuncher.

My only concern is that with Stripe I can't accept USD directly with out an American bank account. This is an issue as the vast majority of BugMuncher's customers are American. My current gateway (Fastspring) allows me to list prices in USD, or any currency.

Changing to Stripe will mean that prices will be listed in GBP (or EUR) and the buyer's bank will exchange it to USD (and probably charge them a fee for doing so). Do you think this will affect my conversions?

Thanks in advance.
My Clojure Workflow, Reloaded
What does exacttarget do?
Aside from a couple postings from India, I was slightly shocked (disturbed?) that there wasn't a single posting for any Asian country. Feels like a huge opportunity is being wasted.
You should pay at least minimum wage which is intended for unskilled labor. Even training that person will provide value to you and you will learn so much about yourself.
You are looking at the problem backwards.

What do people want so badly that they will give you $100,000 to get it?
Watch F*ck you pay me: http://vimeo.com/22053820 and never let this happen again.

The only thing you can really do now is talk to them and try to get them to pay you, but you have no real leverage.

Consider yourself lucky, freelancers get burned and not paid for a month or more of work all too frequently. Protect yourself in the future with a solid contract.
yes!see here: http://workshops.opengeo.org/postgis-intro/clusterindex.html
SoftLayer is in Dallas because The Planet, a company dating back to the late 90s, was in Dallas and SL was founded by TP's stupidly-fired COO Lance Crosby.

SL ultimately merged with/took over TP after TP had merged with EV1 (another company dating to the late 90s), Crosby continuing as CEO.

None of these were startups in the ordinary Silicon Valley sense. They were, fundamentally, managed datacenters (something their geographical location was well-suited for). The companies were built to survive and turn a profit, not achieve a massive exit in the startup lottery.
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I'm doing another relaunch soon of this group chat app I've been working on in the past year. I've learned a lot after each launch and since I'm not getting any traffic why not just keep testing different methods until I get it right? Art! Science!

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I stated that a responsable fiduciary monitors where they spend their money. This then allows them to make good-faith decisions. I never said that they're trying to chase nickels and dimes on the ops front.
(1) The 'news' is bait for the ad hook. (2) Good bait needs
to get attention. (3) The ancient Greeks discovered that
a sure-fire way to get and hold the attention of an
audience was to use the techniques we now call 'formula
fiction'. (4) The news is staffed heavily by humanities
majors well acquainted with formula fiction. (5) The news,
in order to get attention, is really mostly just light
entertainment based on the techniques of formula fiction.
(6) The old idea that a free press was to help create
an "informed citizenry" as needed for a good democracy rarely competes with the approach
of light entertainment. (7) There is more information
available, but long "the medium is the message" held true --
that is, when have just a few major news outlets, those
outlets go for the mass audience and omit special interests,
the long tail, details, etc. and just stick with their
light entertainment. (8) With the Internet, there are
millions of 'outlets' so that we can be on the way to
much more information beyond just light entertainment.

For the OP, for the light entertainment based on the
techniques of formula fiction, getting details, facts,
etc. correct was not very important. This is not new:
There is an Andy Hardy movie from the 1930s that has
Andy laughing at the poor accuracy of the news. The
audiences for that movie in the 1930s were quite prepared
to laugh at newspapers. For anyone with the discipline of a good STEM
background, news is outrageously bad and irresponsible
junk.
Guess that means HN is now hosted by IBM. :)
They can still cherry pick the best indicators for their stats, and/or favourable statistical tests.

Still, I can understand why you'd feel that way, and I don't really disagree with you that that's more what I'd find interesting. But as to whether that's what most people would be interested in, and whether that's what would sell.... -shrug- I'm not sure that all attempts at sales makes you a con man. Trying to demonstrate to people who may not understand how a certain thing would advantage them that it would, or that people who are like them think it would, doesn't necessarily amount to a stitch up job. I can understand that you'd view it as noise, but it seems to me at the moment to perhaps be a little harsh to call someone who may just be trying to put the best foot forwards a con man when they may be operating in good faith.
What do you have against pacifiers?
Meredith Whitney's book is about exactly this, that U.S. economic gravity is shifting "away from the coasts" for a bit.
(It just came out today, so I can't say I've read it, just that I've really been looking forward to it.)
For those who aren't from the world of finance: Meredith Whitney was one of the first people on wall street to predict the mortgage crisis.
The book: (not an affiliate link) http://www.amazon.com/Fate-States-Geography-American-Prosper...
Others in this topic's comment page made observations to the contrary. Thus a discussion can go no further without more information. That's why you were asked for "citation referencing these problems."

You responded with an extreme, which was disingenuous, I agree.

In any case, any Hofstader fan knows what you mean now. Thank you for confirming that you agree that there is no meaningful basis for your opinion that the UK government should change its aid policies, and that your personal observations of the matter are not relevant.
Thanks for joining the discussion.

Qualified it is still bad advice. The last thing the software industry needs is a hazing period for unscrupulous companies to take advantage of. If you're really lacking in any demonstrable experience then work on a personal project or an open source project until you can show that you know what you're doing. The pay is the same and what you'll have to show for it is just as valuable (if not a lot more) for future employers -- at least the ones you're likely to actually want to work for.

>> "fast-moving, multi-faceted company with real clients"

Before I got into software I built a public relations agency from the ground up. I used to dream in corporate double-talk. Even I don't know what that phrase means.
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I'd guess equity and money. Zynga does not seem to have conditions different from EA (not surprisingly as it's managed by the same people) and EA is not really able to poach somebody with its working conditions.
In general, Yes. I would prefer to see prices in USD as a US resident. However, can you not show both depending on the location of the user/visitor OR just display them in a table ? Something like:

USD | GBP

20 | 14
Wealthy parents. An ethical issue with working for free is it gives an advantage to kids with wealthy parents, lowering mobility.
Dart plugin for WebStorm sources
I haven't actually tried it but I will be giving it a shot on my next project. The concept is certainly needed, I just don't know how much I will actually enjoy working with it yet.

I wouldn't worry about not doing complicated things within postgres though. Change management, even of basic database structure alone, would be a great thing.
STRICTLY speaking you should stay on the path, however, we also encourage a spot of exploring too! Have a wonderful day.

The grammar nerd in me is grinding his teeth.
Supercell, a small studio with just 2 games, has higher revenue in the app store than all of EA's 900+ mobile games combined.

The mobile games market is still young.
As well as the other similarly named programming language: Go! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language) )

To be honest, I hate the name "Go" even for vocally conversing. It's such a common term that the context is completely lost with verbal communication so I'm often having to explain things in a long winded way. eg "It's programmed in Google's language named 'Go'".

Google probably should have just released it as "Golang" from the start to save a lot of trouble and confusion.
I promise the ejdb .Net binding will be available within June 2013 =)
I know Mark Pincus is a pretty big dick, but "worst possible people"? Come on.
It is indeed about the demographics - I don't think the age is a great factor, but it fits UK culture very well. In fact, its innate Britishness could well appeal to older age brackets more.
The tangled web of self-tying knots (2007)
3D Printing Vending Machine on the UC Berkeley Campus
We've done this on a couple apps, and I think it worked well.

This biggest pain point I remember was that UIScrollViews need to be told their contentSize, which I didn't find a good pattern for our interaction designer to use. I believe she ended up just going with one size fits all, and on screens with less content there was simply a big blank space at the bottom.

The alternatives were a custom controller per scroll view, or have the controller inspect the view hierarchy somehow, making it more complex.

It can certainly get unwieldy if you add lots of screens, or have complex navigation flows.
As a SoftLayer customer of ~5 years, this has me pretty bummed. I'd hate to see SoftLayer's straightforward product offerings get subsumed by IBM's enterprise-driven culture.
Thanks for suggestion, a3n. I had a wild thought that I would either take all money or none of it and hit them morally, but after talking to a couple of people, I feel real world has its own mechanics and bargaining is an essential part of it.
You can create a virtual machine with arbitrarily large resolutions (VMWare supports it) and test there - The vm's screen will be rendered into a window with scroll bars.
It says they ran a $21MM loss on almost $300MM in revenue last year. Their growth rate combined with the LTV of their customers is probably very promising.

Reminds me a lot of Palantir.
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But is there any way to exploit this effect? I am a big believer in federalism and even further devolution of power to smaller polities. It's a good tradeoff of liberty vs. society: If you don't like the way your city is run, it's a lot easier to move to the next town over than it is to leave the country. As a result, despite being a pretty laissez faire guy, I'm much more tolerant of, say, San Francisco banning plastic shopping bags than if the EPA were to do so.

It also has the pleasant result of giving voters much more direct control over the way the government that affects them most is run. Their vote really does matter; it is, in many ways, a "bet" on which policies will provide the best outcomes for them.
Agreed. I originally clicked on it because I thought it might be a way to get Netflix working on my raspberrypi. I'm pretty sure I physically wilted in my chair when I saw it was nothing of the sort.

As others are saying, it's still a good hack though. And while just installing a custom distro meant for XBMC on your rpi might be easier, putting something like this together by hand is a much better experience.
Oh, I stand corrected. Thanks for this little bit of knowledge :)

My point was that if the dictator wants some sushi, then enemy or not, hes gonna get the best guy for the job, and where else do you look for a sushi expert than Japan? Thinking about it more, how much of a missed opportunity this was for Tokyo, they could have had the perfect spy planted right next to King Jong-il!
Impressive. Sad to know that many promising projects fly under the radar. The Changelog featured Stringer and that probably helped putting it over 1000 Favorites, but this project easily comes out on top, yet isn't well known.
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Interesting to read of a 'normal' person sustaining an ACL injury and the subsequent fixing thereof (especially detailed costing breakdown - thanks for the detailed analysis). There has been somewhat of an 'epidemic' of ACL injuries in the AFL[0] this year. So far at least 15 players, some of them quite well-known, have succumbed to a season ending ACL injury already[1], much more than previous years. The difference? They have access to a complete rehabilitation package of priority surgery and follow up physio program. Such is the professional sports industry I suppose...

[0] Australian Football League; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Football_League

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-29/afl-acl-injuries-2013/...
Given the scanning that the likes of google do to gmail, it seems advertisers can "discover" me based on email. Just need to extend that to every one else.

Privacy issues very much accepted.
I'd look at AngelList jobs, set the slider to $100k minimum, and see what comes out.

https://angel.co/jobs
Dive into something that compiles.

And also, what is the job pool like around you? Certain companies just don't pay as much as others.

If you want to continue web dev, learn the backend. Take some time, and write a small webapp in Django, Rails, Play Framework, Node, and anything else that sparks your fancy (and learn their accompanying languages).

Also, one other thing that will get you paid really quickly is databases. Learn your RBDMS theory, optimizations, normalization, etc. And learn about some noSQL databases, and you will qualify for a whole different class of jobs, which will be higher paying, for sure. Much less people are knowledgeable about databases.

These days, the easiest and quickest way to get a rise in paygrade is to switch jobs and renegotiate.

[EDIT] - philliphodgen's answer is possibly more right than this one. A practical application: go look on job sites like glass door, and see how much money is getting paid on average for which job descriptions, then get those skills.
It'd be interesting to know whether this sort of exploit would be possible when targeting a web server as opposed to building a vulnerable go binary. Perhaps fuzzing the Golang built-in web server would be a good exercise for security researchers looking for a way to improve Go security.

There's a cute and slightly scary use of go playground to demonstrate the exploit at the end of the article:

http://play.golang.org/p/fOxl250j8w

(no longer works as play.golang was patched).