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I haven't lost a race in the last 6 years and I must say this is freakiest accident I've seen by far.

Ruben's lost a spring on his car, and it ended up in Massa's helmet. What the chances of that?

The injury was due to the spring (although the crash didn't help)

If anyone wants to see a demonstration of how F1 car is safe have a look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZqBbLyp6oo Kubica was pretty much on his legs the same day.
Yes, uniform acceleration under gravity is equivalent to remaining still!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universality_of_free_fall#The_E...
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This probably sums it up better than I ever could:

http://c2.com/xp/DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork.htm...

My personal philosophy is to just get things done, but don't forget you've got to maintain what you write. So I guess I'm kind of in the middle of both camps. I just feel that developers sometimes unnecessarily complicate their work-flow because they want to maximize their productivity; and in between all the hand-wringing, they lose track of what they set out to do.
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You generally have to buy/acquire the leads from somewhere. If your target audience is generic enough, most decent organizations will be able to help you with that aspect as well.

After that, they are mostly mechanical turk. You'll give them a script and some basic info/FAQs/etc. They will generally present themselves as employees of your company.

I don't have any direct contacts in the Vegas area that can help you out though, sorry.

My contact info is in my profile. If you want to hit me up, we might be able to do a phone call and I can lay a lot of this out a little better for you (wish I had the time to type all the points I would like to make out here).

BTW, my role the last 6 or 8 years has been getting sales operations in startups off the ground from the tech perspective. IE: I generally own all the pre/post-sales functions, but as a result of that have been heavily involved in comp plans, lead-gen, etc.

What you're looking for sounds like an "inside sales" role. These are, IME, usually $60-$80K positions depending on the candidate.
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Seems like a good solution. But what happens when no one answers your question? Then some guy can just come by and say "ZEEP SHEEP HEAP" and get all your money. How do you choose nothing over him?
I have that now, its just that I used to use Yahoo before, and with 27,114 emails in the inbox its a little hard to find what websites have that email on file. That's why I wanted to change the recovery options, to pretty much make that account inaccessible.
Yup! Burn-out Zone ! Take some time out, chill, assess what you want out of life. Some questions to consider :

"Demanding full time job": who is doing the demanding, your boss? you? co-workers? How can you deflect or reduce the demands?

"A company whose values don't match mine": why are you stil working there? Life's too short to be stuck in self-invalidation.

Like you, I couldn't get enough energy together after work to productively work on my side project. So I downsized and quit. The side project has turned into full-time PhD research and a consulting business. Haven't regretted taking the leap. For me, happiness is doing what I'm passionate and interested in. The big mortgage was just a trap to keep me working for The Man.
According to their hastily uploaded press release, the comment was "tongue in cheek":

http://www.horizonrealtygroup.com/UserFiles/file/PressReleas...

Not the kind of thing to make light of when you're the bad guy!
What data are they collecting?
Like all things the answer is not black and white. The most important thing people should do solve the environmental issues related to consumption is to consume less or pre-cycle. It's true we shouldn't be recycling plastic bottles, in fact we shouldn't be using them at all.

Similarly we shouldn't be using recycled paper we should stop using paper.

The line "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" is ordered by importance and effectiveness.
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Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

I generally lean toward getting it done in the minimum amount of time possible, but with an eye toward maintainability.

I absolutely agree with you about the dangers of trying to maximize productivity. I think that sometimes people spend far more time trying to figure out how to use someone else's wheel than it would have taken to just reinvent it, only to discover that the tires don't fit anyway.
I like to craft an elegant solution, but I should hammer out code quickly.

The "elegant solution" philosophy usually ascribes more importance to our code than it deserves. The reality is that most of your code will be thrown away, and most of the rest will be written and forgotten. There's only a small kernel in most programs that absolutely must be elegant, and usually the only way to find it is to write lots of crappy code first and extract the parts where the crappiness is really getting in your way.
edit: You have to use CMD+C to make it work, not the mouse buttons.
Good info thank you. Without a doubt I need to learn more. I'm just a dumb tech person.
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.294 * $900000000 = damn.
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It can't be a tower, at most a sort of bridge and barely at that. Harald Welte's OpenBSC is more advanced http://bs11-abis.gnumonks.org/trac/. It is built on Siemends industrial design and not USRP as the BTS.
Is becoming an asshole an inevitability? I mean, sure, a lot of CEOs I've met have come across as assholes, but isn't that part of the reason why many founders hire somebody to be the CEO?
So how is this different than a limit-order book? Some exchanges work exactly like this (esp European electronic markets.) This explains both the structure and the "algorithm."

You would not have an Ebay-like system, because stock is fungible. One share of IBM is exactly like another share of IBM. You don't need reputation, etc, because of the way clearing works.

I don't understand how you are able to think that this is not in some way an exchange.
Gates made it a race issue; Obama backed him up on the matter; the media agree.

The cop was doing what cops always do. The solitary difference is that he came up against a professional racist.
That's not quite right. Conway originally intended that no pattern could grow indefinitely, but a pattern was quickly found that could grow forever: the Gosper glider gun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_%28cellular_automaton%29
It's official: jailbreaking aids terrorists and drug dealers. But I was surprised not to hear about it also aiding child-pornographers. Were Apple's lawyers having a slow day?
It's on the first page of the report, last paragraph, lines 4-7: "Whalen...told me it was she who called. She went on to tell me that she observed what appeared to be two black males with backpacks on the porch of [redacted] Ware Street."
Actually, this isn't completely a new thing; It's just Google is doing it.

http://openviewproject.org/

Check out our fly ride!
http://openviewproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/polycy...
That's already the case for AJAX requests in most browsers. The problem is that Tynt doesn't use AJAX for the communication (they can't, because they communicate with a domain other than the one serving the content). I'm guessing they use a hidden iframe instead.
no wonder.. i felt obliged to retweet the story
Not always. I have a weird bug with my iPhone where I'll receive voicemails, but the phone itself doesn't ring - others have reported this too (whether it's an O2 UK problem or what, I don't know).

Thus it's actually really useful for me to know if I have a missed call or a voicemail that never rang through. It also confuses the hell out of a system that'd try to guess which missed call the voicemail belongs to...
Rotten Apple.
hmm just tried it with Chrome on my machine and it seemed to be working, perhaps they've already updated?
Ask HN: What to do when a company shuts out its shareholders?
Background: A few years back, I left a small, privately owned company that I had worked at for 7 years. A few times during those 7 years, I was given small amounts of shares in the company, partially in appreciation for my hard work and partially in lieu of increased salary. Two other long-time employees were also given shares.

Due to personality conflicts with the CEO and other department heads that were later brought on, I was forced out of the company. The other two share-holding employees also left shortly after. At that time, there were about 10 shareholders, with the CEO owning the majority stake.

Since our departure, the three of us have asked the owners to buy our shares back, but they have ignored us. They do not have shareholder meetings, do not produce annual reports, and will not share any financials with us. The three of us would rather cash out our shares now than wait for the company to go bankrupt.

What are we legally entitled to being shareholders? Can they get in legal trouble with the state for not disclosing information to us? Can we sell our shares to a competitor if the owners are ignoring us?
The police report states that Whalen said "two black men". In reality, Whalen said "two larger men, one looked kind of Hispanic, but I'm not really sure, and the other one entered, and I didn't see what he looked like at all.". The "black" aspect was entirely invented after-the-fact by the police.

During the phone call the caller clearly states "hispanic". The police report says that the officers heard her say "two black men" at the scene of the incident (not during the phone call). We do not have any recording of that conversation. Whalen's lawyer says that she never talked to the police at the scene of the crime. But the lawyer also says that she never mentioned race at all, when she very clearly did: "She never saw their race. ... All she reported was behavior, not skin color." Lots of contradictions all around.

Crowley claims that Gates was belligerent and yelling racial epithets. However, Gates had returned from China with a bronchial infection[3], and was unable to yell or raise his voice. This has been confirmed by his physician.

From my reading of the Gates interview, the physicians report confirms that he had a bronchial infection, not necessarily that he could not yell.

A photograph from the scene clearly shows Gates with mouth agape in a yelling fashion: http://www.theroot.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/large-... This seems to contradict Gates' testimony.

Also, the report of officer Carlos Figueroa, who arrived on the scene after Crowley, confirms the report that Gates was yelling: "As I stepped in, I heard Sgt. Crowley ask for the gentleman's information which he stated, "NO I WILL NOT!" The gentleman was shouting out to the Sgt. that the Sgt was a racist and yelled that "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO BLACK MEN IN AMERICA!"

Someone is lying. Either Gates is lying, or two police officers are both fabricated their reports. If the police are lying they would have had to actually premeditate the lie and synchronize their stories. That would be very serious, certainly grounds for termination. Maybe I'm just an apologist for the Man, but I think it's unlikely that an otherwise very well regarded police officer ( http://feministx.blogspot.com/2009/07/henry-louis-gates-jr.h... ) would completely fabricate his report. While unlikely, though, I do think that Cambridge city government should investigate the matter further.
base + commission. 50% commission is considered aggressive, but offers job security to the sales person. Less base, and it's almost a commissions-only job. Which is acceptable: lots of people work as rep, where the retainer is 0 or very small.
Lots of people compulsively select text when they read, and this feature makes that distracting.
Note that this is not identical to withdrawing MD6 from the "SHA-3 contest" -- they are just not entering the next round of the contest, because they haven't figured out how to prove the resistance of MD6 to differential attacks while making it as efficient as NIST require.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/md6/
Which state is this company incorporated in? That's the key question.

As a shareholder, you have fewer rights than you'd think. On the other hand, you can be a major nuisance to the owner if you want to.

I dont quite see a win-win here. What are you trying to achieve?
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That human touch is always really nice for any customer service. It sucks when it feels like you're talking to a robot.
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I love companies that actually send a thought out response! +1 for their great sense of [emotion]
Make a free version of the app that has one reasonably hard level, and let the user buy more content for $.99 or something.

Then, let people determine themselves if they're smart enough. They will either find the game intriguing enough to buy content for, or they will ignore it after being stumped.
Disclaimer: IANAL

Since it is still a private company, you're not entitled to much, really.

They are supposed to be holding some sort of board or corporate meetings, if for no other reason than to maintain themselves as a corporation for the legal benefits. You are supposed to get, or have access to, copies of the board meeting minutes.

To cut to the chase, you're not going to get anything out of those shares. The company has no enforceable obligation to buy them from you, and unless they got their legal contracts out of a pop-up book, there will also be a clause in there that would prevent you from selling the shares to a competitor. Besides, what would you sell the shares FOR, money-wise? You don't even know what the company is worth, or (I'm assuming here) what yours shares represent in proportion to the total. And, why would a competitor want semi-worthless shares in another company anyway?

For the most part, I would suggest you let it go and chalk it up to a learning lesson.
Out of curiosity, do you (and this question is open to other compulsive selectors) tend to play with things physically when you read as well? Eg. subconsciously pick up a nearby object and start playing with it.

(I do both, and I suspect they tend to go together)
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It is an Illinois Corporation.

The business has been tanking in recent years, mostly due to the shady practices of the owners. At this point I'd simply like to cash out my shares for a fair price, whether it's selling them back to the company, to another shareholder, or to a competitor.
Unless I am wrong, you can control what your application is rated. Just check the far right column in iTunes connect when it asks, and it should give you a higher rating.

There was some talk about not being able to get promo codes for +17 a few weeks back, I don't know if that applies anymore, but it might be something to consider if you are changing your rating just for this.

EDIT: I think I read this wrong
I never said it would not in 'some way be an exchange', I wrote that 'the way they are right now' they are outdated.

I figure buildings full of people and rooms full of traders are way past their expiry dates, if there is one thing that you could trade exclusively online it's stocks.

Of course I understand that you do not need reputation and so on, I already made it clear that ebay is a very imperfect analogy.

Currently there is much lack of transparency, stock market data is delayed from many exchanges to the general public, sometimes up to 15 minutes (for nasdaq, nyse and a whole bunch of others), people are riding in the slipstream of big traders because they have access to sensitive data. All that could go out the window (and the brokerage fees as well) by using a relatively simple in concept (but probably extremely complex in scope and execution) system that would take care of these functions automatically.

Redefine the stock market in terms of an API and let users either run software, use a website or have big traders write their own.

All the statistics would be live and available through the API.

Again, I realize that I'm just dreaming here but I'm pretty sure that if the will were there it could be done.

BATS is a (big) step in the right direction.
Can you please increase the size of the 'Comments' links under each posting? I often click on the comments first to determine if I want to proceed to the actual article.
How about removing the app store approval process altogether? And what about allowing programatically customisable homepages/widgets? Then users could have it work the way they wanted instead of begging apple to change things.
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Its kind of unfair that only big companies can get this sort of competitive advantage while smaller startups are stuck paying taxes through their nose under the draconian tax policies of the US government.

There should be a guide or services for smaller companies and Startups to incorporate in tax shelters so they too can enjoy the tax benefits and thus level the playing field with the big boys. Are there such resources around?
>"Systematic - that means happening all over the place. I don't think it is - the article points out a few brutal abuses of police power and doesn't give statistics for how common it is or put it in context of other nations."

Amnesty international does that.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/us-human-rights/page.do?id=1011100

This article was focused on the issue of how little most Americans care about the excessive powers granted to their police. Your own reaction only serves to emphasize the point.

If you really don't see anything wrong with having the largest prisoner population in the world (beating out Russia and China both in absolute and per capita terms) the second highest rate of executions, hundreds of people being tased to death by officers, officers being able to arrest people in their own homes for exercising their rights, and widespread surveillance on citizens without warrants, then reason.com may not be the site for you.
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For the most part, I would suggest you let it go and chalk it up to a learning lesson.

And what is the lesson?
My question is this: If you run a company and you caused this (I am in no way calling them out or anything). If you realized you just did this, how do you react? 1) Email the entire list again saying you apologize for that or 2) handle the email on a one-to-one?

EDITED: tsondermann points out they used option 1. I am not a member, so I did not know. I edited this to be more general.
"This email TOTALLY makes up for any |ERROR_SYNONYM| and I must say that you guys are the #|NUMBER| online voting tool in all of |LOCATION|!"

I think OP has stumbled onto a great start-up idea: "recipient modifiable email" Just mail merge parameter data from your own client to get the message you want. Never get bad news again.

Use the API to extend to forum comments:

One of the best |NOUN| I've read in #|NUMBER| days. Jose is a |ADJECTIVE| guy!
Yes, much of the methodology can still work. This is like multiplayer Extreme Hacking (http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeHacking). The full-on testing, DRY code, tight iterations, and frequent releases to the user all still apply.

Each user feature probably requires spiking through the expertise of all 4 devs. If people don't work together, APIs and workflows can diverge and then integration becomes horrible. So everyone (+client) has to get together to build acceptance tests and integration tests between different layers of the framework.

And I think the article is wrong - pair programming does work here, but not on domain-specific issues. The most useful way is to pair program the interfaces between layers/silos.

The database guy and the kernel guy should pair program the kernel module that spits data out, and the DB module that loads its up. This gives each person a feel for the other's assumptions, and lets them lay out a smarter interface that takes advantage of both devs' silo'd domain knowledge.

Also, even if you don't do cross-silo pair programming, code reviews are still useful. This can be totally informal, but saying "Hey can I walk you through my code?" discovers a lot of bugs, stupid misunderstandings, etc. Doing it frequently (daily) is useful because it makes you code with the understanding that you'll have to show it off later to someone who won't get it unless it's really clear - so the code stays clean, thus (hopefully) better. Once again, the bonus is that a common metaphor emerges even among more disparate members of the team.

The point of Agile is that it's agile. As in, nimble. Flexible. Suited to your requirements. Subject to your needs and intelligent application.
Astonishing how so many companies are relocating to Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. The weather must be really nice there!

/sarcasm
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Here's my experience with this. Maybe it will shed some light on your situation, maybe it won't.

At one particularly insane start-up, I went two months without a paycheck. It was such a bizarre place to work, and so interesting, I didn't care. The company officially went under. The State of California has ruled that they owe me $30,000 (including the penalty for not paying). I'll never see it.

They did, however, call a meeting and tell everyone when they were unable to meet payroll. There was no attempt to deceive the employees about this. There was no psychological pressure put on to continue working.

Bottom line: While they were meeting payroll, I made really good money—better than 99.9% of the human population. I learned lots of cool stuff, did some cool stuff, and lived in luxury despite working in a warehouse with a cement floor (I don't care about that sort of luxury, anyway). Even after two months without pay, I had saved up so much in the bank that I was still in nice financial shape.

I would do it again. The big danger, at least for me, is that the company might have taken a long time to officially terminate. The smart thing to do would be to set a date: if payroll isn't back on track by that date, then I move on. In hindsight, I was lucky that they officially crashed in only two months, since that forced me to leave and start making money again.
Get a copy of the corporate bylaws and go to a lawyer, this is much too complicated without further background to be answered here.

I take it that you can prove that those shares were transferred to you.

You can offer the shares to a 3rd party but the bylaws probably state explicitly that you have to offer the other shareholders first right of refusal.
3) wait until the next mass mail and intentionally poke fun at your previous mistake. address mails to "Dear [FNAME] -- Err, Jose,"
Submitted a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491003
That's not even the best part. They immediately followed it with:

Michael added that the company has a “good reputation it wants to preserve.”

Reputation -> FAIL
I actually just got my GV invite and set it up today. True story. Now I'm looking for a way to initiate calls from my GV number from the iPhone.

I'm sure Google will produce a slick iPhone webclip version of their GV site. Until then, even m.google.com/voice is incompatible with my phone.
And what is the lesson?

Get better documentation of total shares in the company next time

Understand that shares granted by a private corporation will tend to have little, if any, real value until such time as the corporation goes public or gets sold. If neither seems probably, you basically just own "paper"

Don't be swayed by shares of stock

Don't take stock in lieu of pay (granted, you might not have had much other choice here).

Make sure there is a clear, documented, signed understand of what exactly you can DO with those shares.