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Interesting read, I found the tips at the end to be both...
extremely practical, and kind of a mix of "You suck...BUT YOU DONT HAVE TO!".

However, I feel the writer is massively ineffective at communicating the
tips at the end.

I think a few things could improve this to be readable by more than just the curious.

* - Stop lumping a 30 year gap into one group/personality.
// While aware that you may not be, it doesn't come off as that, I may feel this way because I was born in '91.*

* - Start with a problem. Fix the problem, before the next problem.
example: A lot of people with this mentality share another slightly dysfunctional mentality, with this [subject] you'll come across this [problem]. Here is how you fix it, and work past it. *

* - Work on the wording. You seem either pretentious or born in the 40's and pissed about how the world changed, unable to accept advancements/changes through the world, while being angry with a younger
generation. (Also, this is the internet, just to be clear, I'm not trying to be an asshole.) *

I hope you understand. I was born in this generation of "GYPSYs" as you (or the author) called it,
I don't feel a sense of entitlement, my sense of being 'special' isn't "I am better than you.", it's
more so that I have a love of education, technology, and programming, and that's 'special' to me because
quite a few of the people I've known in my generation strongly dislike those topics.

Frankly, I love working my ass off and seeing a small blade of grass popup in my metaphorical soil.
I hope (not expect) some day this metaphorical soil will be covered in countless tiny blades of
grass that end up becoming a gigantic metaphorical greener-grass that is my life.

There are plenty of people (young and old-alike) that feel they are entitled to things. Respect,
Success, Money, Fame(?). Those people suck. But your entire mentality isn't based on the time
you were born. I feel like the things experience it, mixed with your environment are what attribute
to those types of mentalities. (Yes, the old Nature VS Nurture)

- Ash
The fact that, if sweatshops are allowed, sweatshops will be the best option people can find, does not entail that if sweatshops are not allowed, the best option people will be able to find will be worse than sweatshops. This is because markets are not magic, and the conditions of employment don't come 'ex nihilo', but are rather a function of (amongst other things) what employers are able to offer; so, changing what employers are able to offer changes what alternatives are available.

'Able' here is a complex thing; to look at just two countervailing parts, how little can employers get away with paying, but also how much can they afford to pay?

If the sweatshops do more than break even, then the employers can afford to pay more and have better conditions for their employees - but they won't if sweatshops as they are now are legal, common, and accepted. Most sweatshops do a lot better than breaking even, so if we got rid of them, a better alternative would be able to exist. (If you believe in General Equilibria, a better alternative would be forced to exist).
Sort of like gas tanks?
This is pretty messed up. You make the potential employee do a one week trial run and then you make an offer?

Maybe I'm missing something but if you quit your job to do a one week trial run you've lost a great deal of your negotiating power.

Its also been pointed out many times that many employment agreements would forbid this work with another company while employed meaning that you'd have to quit to do the trial period.

Please, please,

1) never do a one week trial run unless you are really desperate for a job. I won't tell someone never to do something as individual situations are always different.

2) if you do a trial run, make sure the employment agreement is finalized before you do it. If you negotiate salary and benefits after you quite your previous job then you've got a much better chance of losing this negotiation.

A question to pose to companies that do this.

I've said a few times now that this type of policy means that you won't be hiring the top 10-20% of developers as I don't believe that they'd put up with this type of behaviour.

Do you disagree?? or do you agree and realize that your company doesn't need the very best developers but you want to make sure you are dead right on the developers that you do hire?

I've phrased the above to sound as neutral as I could, I'm trying to get some honest feedback not start a flame war:)

> As such, we make sure to let them know where we stand in terms of funding, cash, revenue, and other important metrics.

This on the other hand impresses me a great deal. To me transparency is the sign of good management.
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"Airport trips"? Can you elaborate?
I wonder how much of the current BTC price spike is due to new Chinese coming into the market?
How fun. It doesn't require you to send requests to people who don't violate your trademark, but they did anyway.
That is completely subjective. A lot of people hate Unity, the same way people hate every DE that exists. So much so that some do not even use a DE. Using a DE as an argument for Ubuntu's advantage is weak as they're usually ambiguous. I say usually because it tends to be that Unity, like Mir, isn't really adopted into any other distribution in official repositories. Even more so after Mir's release, since it'll be dependent on it.
to me these are the most important points in the article:

General Motors and Nissan make the top-selling electric cars in the nation, the Volt and Leaf. Neither knows of any real-world blazes in those vehicles. A Chevrolet Volt caught fire two years ago after a government crash test, but the government closed an investigation into the incident after GM agreed to a safety campaign to bolster shielding around the battery.

GM has sold more than 50,000 Volts in the U.S. since late 2010. Nissan has sold almost 38,000 Leafs. Tesla has sold an estimated 16,251 Model S cars in the U.S., according to Autodata Corp.
" How did we do it before there was such great online help like StackExchange?"

Books. And if you were lucky you would buy 2 or 3 so you could triangulate something that didn't make sense. At least that is what I did.

Also plenty of trying and iteration.

Try this.

Try that.

For hours on end. (Not sure by your question if you had done this or were just asking btw.).

When I bought a Unix system (mid 80's) it came with a bound set of maybe 10 manuals iirc. Getting other books was difficult I had to drive miles to a University bookstore to even find anything on Unix or C. Software wasn't free of course. It cost real dollars and was pretty expensive and came on floppies.
A long time ago, I held edition #1 of this paper in my hands while attending school in Madison. Then, in a complete lack of foresight, I threw it into the trash. Still, it's good to see that campus paper have done so well.
I had typed up something similar already but abandoned the post.

But that's pretty much exactly it. Google managed to build something early on that is difficult to compete with, and now they are resting on it. The company revenues are split up into 3 parts: search/ads, backbone internet, and "other". Where "other" is a tiny fraction of the whole that is almost inconsequential to their profit margin.

It's a "problem" that a lot of companies have where they are in a position where revenue is actually too easy. That may seem like a blessing but it has many downsides and typically chokes growth potential. The consequences for failure at a functional company are usually pretty significant. If SpaceX builds a rocket that doesn't work or if Toyota builds a car that absolutely nobody wants that hurts the bottom line. And it drives the company to do better. But at google what are the consequences? If someone at google makes an unprofitable product, well, that's the norm. It just gets tossed in the "other" bin with everything else and everyone laughs and goes back to their free lunches and complementary massages.

It's a romper room filled with nerf toys. And many folks at google are seemingly content to luxuriate in that environment. Why would anyone at google willingly push themselves out into the cold, unforgiving, and desolate world of real-world business where actions have serious consequences when they can just futz around in the "other" play room, slap ads on their "products" and call it a day?

Google has no drive to make youtube the best it can be. And the same goes for gdocs, gmail, app engine, or any other thing they make.
The main reason gasoline engines catch fire is they overheat - i.e. not due to an accident, but rather poor maintenance.

So when you read statistics on car fires you should try to exclude those if you can.

Fire from road debris would be very very unlikely. How would that even happen? I suppose it could cut a water pipe, and then cause overheating.

Fires from a violent crash do happen of course, and no one would criticize Tesla for those types, but from road debris? That shouldn't happen.
any Trademark in a domain name or URL

Is obviously bollocks though as by that reading you couldn't have an article about Ubuntu with Ubuntu in the headline without permission if you used article headlines in your sites URLs like every online magazine ever does.
The 'Unbelievable' Revenue Growth Trajectory To Justify Twitter's Price
Market cap is what matters when valuing a company. Share price is nothing more than market cap/outstanding shares...
Awww, that's sad. I always like being able to pick up a print version when I visited "the big city".
Yet uninsured American's are being treated for cancer across the country.
> But is it completely improbable that a gasoline-powered car could suffer from the same result?

Yes, quite improbable. It might break the engine, but there is nothing in the front of a car that would catch fire from such an impact.
Yeah, okay, I'll take a train...

That requires that I get from where I am to a train station. That also requires that the train leaves NOW to get to my destination. That also requires that the train has anything like a reasonable route to my destination. That also requires I get from the destination train station to the actual destination.

I'll just take a train to the Grand Canyon.
Good Lord no. This isn't about going after Tesla. Just think of it in terms of %. 3 fires in 5 weeks. If they Toyota Camry had the same ratio that might be something like 3000 fires in 5 weeks. I'm a big Tesla fan and hope they succeed but this is starting to look like a real issue.
and that is the purpose of the Constitution. Eventually, governments can force their way into anything. Which is why the Fourth Amendment is so explicit. They are breaking the law.

A few months ago they were using the "metadata" argument. Where are the prosecutions now that thats obviously BS?!
This guys is enjoying life while making money and seeing the world. Who am I to argue :) I'm not sure what I would do without internet for that long (especially since I listen to internet radio all the time), but if you can get past that, more power to you.
Yeah, the issue is GPU/CPU power required for photorealistic rendering is really high right now and it is costly. If there is some way to bring it down, which is outside of my area, then you are right the economics will change and we can always do live updating progressive rendering for nearly nothing. This will happen of course at some point, but I think we are at least a few years away.

For now we just have high quality viewport that is similar to game quality graphics, that is super cheap because it leverages the local GPU rather than cloud resources.
>I did the math on Tesla when I invested in it early this year, and it should have topped out at around 44-46 a share

What math did you do? An intrinsic valuation? That would seem very speculative given Tesla's uncertainty.
As they were previously running client jobs, I can see an attractive side to building up the team experience on new tech using their in-house project rather than on client projects.

Put otherwise, in their previous line of business, it matters to be current with regards to state-of-the-art application development. Where's the harm in experimenting with your 'on the side' app?
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One difference is the asymmetric information. There are hundreds of places to determine the fair value of your car. However your HR department uses every draconian policy available to keep you from knowing what your coworkers make. Until Glassdoor came along, it was very difficult to know what you're worth, and its dataset is still quite sparse.

Go around and ask most people (i.e. non-tech) what they make relative to their coworkers and industry and they probably don't know. Hard to auction yourself when the numbers are secret.
Lot's of choices on the West Coast as well, looks like you can go up to Alaska and down to Santiago, or over to Hawaii.

Interesting idea, although it's going to be a really tough sell to go without the family. :/
Hi all - sorry it was unclear. Our trial runs are not necessarily one week. In most cases candidates have full time jobs and can't commit that much time. It's usually 2 days (over weekend) or late afternoon for a couple hours.

Post has been updated to reflect this. Most our candidates actually appreciate the personal experience and we don't just bring anybody into a trial run unless we're already mostly sure we're ready to make an offer. I think that everyone who has gone through the process thus far can speak positively on it. It isn't just a one sided street, candidates can get a sense for whether THEY will like the job, team, and culture at the company as well.

Other people have done similar things (longer timeframes even) with good success. See David w/Weebly: http://www.sequoiacap.com/grove/posts/akzj/trial-week-our-hi...
3D file format conversion. It never works perfectly first time.

Currently, I have a Python script for format-converting and reapplying textures after an export from 3DS Max to an abandonware project called Mach Studio Pro, and I'm working on something similar to sort out opacity problems between Daz3D and Octane Render.

I've also made heavy use of a 3rd party script to mash converted World of Warcraft levels into a usable format for Max.
Placehold.it might have been down. They're great for development, but a lot of people were probably opening the templates and sucking up their bandwidth yesterday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tank#Placement_and_safety

There have been a lot of problems with fuel tank placement, with some designs being responsible for spraying passengers with flammable fuel, which subsequently catches fire.

The design criteria for internal combustion cars seems to be to place the energy storage such that it minimizes the chance of damage, and to take steps to ensure that the contents do not endanger the passengers. Gas tanks are not designed to withstand highway speed collisions with pointed steel objects and never burn. To apply such standards to electic cars is a double standard.

By the general standards of passenger cars, I'd say that the Tesla model S is a bit fragile, but still quite safe.
Ah, too late to edit my previous comment but here's the tweet:

https://twitter.com/sameersundresh/status/397791703391670273
Agreed. While conveniences are nice, so much of this cloud tech come at a huge cost. Whenever I see any reduced-feature app I immediately search for an attempt at vendor lock-in. Cloud only + required signup... yikes.

I used to code RoR & when I moved to Java my mind was blown by how advanced Eclipse's plug-in ecosystem & perspective switching is. (I know I know, you can code RoR in Eclipse...)

This looks appealing, and I understand this maybe if it becomes a complete cloud dev/deployment stack for Node & the scripting languages, but outside that I wouldn't trust configurations given by a web-app company that is trying to simplify my coding life.

AWS has a learning curve & some lock-in but people delve into that world because there is so much freedom otherwise. Cloud IDE tools are just like working from the file system of a very restricted machine. A big part of software engineering is the edge case, the freedom to use your box to engineer something really unique.

Semi-Tangent I may get ripped apart for:
When I first started working for a corporation I was a little uneasy about getting into a physical server, Java-based ecosystem. But after observing awhile and realizing a lot of the possibilities that this offers, I'm relieved not to have to live & die so much by the framework culture. I think Netflix is really inspiring to this end. I'll admit I haven't dug through their code repos much but the fact that they open-source things and maintain an interesting tech blog are a testament to the fact that a lot of ingenuity is still happening in the "this is MY stack" world (vs. "we need to rethink our business model to fit a pre-defined stack/framework/toolset").

I used to love Heroku as well, but lately I've been having so many 2nd thoughts. In a world of Machine Images... why trust a company that will upcharge based on "Services" (a lot of which are just pre-configured installations of open source software) rather than charging for straight resource consumption. If it were upto me I'd kindof rather keep a sysadmin on retainer to build some better images, and then maybe open source those. Except I'm sure Amazon is way ahead of me on that.
You are correct: MATE is the GNOME 2 fork that uses GTK2. Cinnamon is a modified version of GNOME3 that uses GTK3 and provides extensions to the GNOME3 desktop so that the default desktop looks and feels like a default GNOME2 desktop.

Linux Mint uses Cinnamon.
The idea of a "trial week" can probably upset some applicants, but that's not necessarily always the case. An applicant who feels confident about the culture fit and his/her skills may very well think that there's little to no downside risk starting through a trial.

In addition, the trial week also works the other way around, where applicants can determine if their initial gut feeling about the company is right. If not, there's an easy way out, and the worst case scenario is a loss of a vacation week - not unemployment.
Well, you are changing the subject of conversation. This is the second time that a fairly minor accident (nothing like the Mexican crash) resulted in a fire because of the placement of the battery. If the Tesla were gas powered, it is almost completely improbable that either of the two American fires would have happened as they don't have large amounts of flammable material under the front of the car where road debris can cause damage.

Tesla isn't the victim of a smear campaign, this is fairly minor news that gets amplified in the HN/tech bubble.
well, in "Escape from Guantanamo Bay" they did show a one who got it :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_rzQtNGaZU&feature=player_d...
This is really quite true.
I'd agree with you if he recommended doing this constantly. But to me it seems like a great way to promote a healthy work-life balance most of the year, with infrequent work-vacations for times when you do want extreme productivity, and even a break from your social life.

This tactic seems like it could be more of a sanity-booster than anything, if applied responsibly.
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Yeah, too true. A quick strole through the internet "freelance" boards will show that there's no shortage of people looking for comment bots for all of the major platforms.
I think you're mixing up some fundamental issues here. I don't think cars catching on fire is a stock correction from a frothy market. Stock corrections come from missing earnings by 5 or 10% and taking a 30% haircut. Your car's catching on fire can destroy your company if it goes on too long. It likely will cost you large sums of money's in recalls.
I went on my first cruise last year, 4 days, and it was one of the worst vacation experiences of my life. Don't go when school is out unless you're planning on bringing your asshole children and letting them roam free with the other kids.
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So currently I'm learning Javascript from a Python background. I like Javascript but lately there is talk about how you can use it for backend and I'm not sure how that works.

Someone explain to me these tools and how they all fit together to build a production site? or even a simple blog perhaps.

Javascript, jQuery, Nodejs, Backbonejs, Expressjs, Underscorejs and bower and NPM, Angularjs, Emberjs.

I'm having hard time understanding how these all fit together and how they help each other or use to build a website both frontend and backend, thanks.
He's serious, and so am I. Trains go on rails, so a driverless car can go many places trains can't. Can't wait for it to become reality either. Like in Children of Men, but with time better.
There is a big difference between typing "calendar" in Firefox's search box and typing it in the local desktop's search bar. You seem to imply that they're equivalent.

If Apple felt the need to monetize me every time I typed "Terminal" into Spotlight I'd switch platforms fast.
Twitter and Spotify and Soundcloud have incompetent leaders?

Where can I learn to be so incompetent!?
My question is this:

Startups I see here are usually looking for the same kinds of people to help build their products (Rails, iOS, UI/UX, etc.).

They look to really only hire people who are really good at things like this to build their product. Are these people the best people to have around later? Once your company has bigger problems than just getting something out the door are these people a hinderance?

I don't want to sound like these people are not smart but being REALLY good at one thing generally means you are lacking in other domains (only so many hours in the day right?)

I ask because I'm honestly curious. I'm not involved in the startup world at all but this was always a question I had when reading job postings here.
I can't speak for management, but our team would inform their team on what was broken, and it would not get resolved in a timely fashion.

We would get contacted by the client to resolve an issue on our end, and after some debugging we would consistently discover it was broken because of the other company. They couldn't produce code that worked.

This could have been a management problem. For example maybe they simply did not care enough about the project to allocate the necessary dev resources. But it also could have been resolved on the dev side if they did a better job of testing their code that they claimed was complete.

Edit:
I guess the most direct answer would be, since it was a problem that I could have resolved with tech, I didn't see a reason why they couldn't resolve it with tech.
"Maybe consider actually using Amazon through their app as a way of contributing?"

Affiliate site for when I am searching for products to buy, yes no problem, and link Rhythmbox in as well so Amazon can suggest music.

Pointless, intrusive and potentially embarrassing (slow Internet) automatic searching of Amazon for random desktop searches, no thanks.
Obviously fails the ELI5 but -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_database
I guess that was obscure - I meant it selects for the candidates with few other options, i.e. a weak resume.
If you think being in arrears to a bank is "a position of strength", you must have never overdrawn your account.
I used to be a freedom advocate. But making money from ads is making me think of ways to protect that income source. I should start looking at alternative sources of income or draw up some business plans. But I am not sure I will be able to. Eventually, you will find me at an association of adsense publishers pushing for laws to make adblocking illegal. With charges equivalent to piracy or stealing.
I am not joking. I seriously believe I am becoming that person.