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In April, when Microsoft stops devoting resources to fixing security issues, it very much is broken.
Well, granting stock gives some pretty serious incentive to increase the value of said stock, as an employee. Stock options aren’t quite as compelling.
Please tell me again how Marissa Mayer is an effective CEO.
My hunch is "accepted practice". Would quality executives work for a company that refused to provide that? I dunno. Perhaps. Are there executives who'd willingly work for less money in order to undercut their competition in the labor market? Probably, but are there enough to affect anything? Less likely.

All guesswork. But it seems plausible to me.
But wait, there's more!

According to Bloomberg, he's also receiving $64.6 upon termination, for a total of $109 Million from Yahoo!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-15/yahoo-chief-operati...

Since arriving at Yahoo in November 2012, de Castro’s salary, bonuses and equity grants totaled $44.8 million ... Upon his termination, de Castro will also receive $64.6 million, including accelerated equity grants, in accordance with his contract
CoffeeScript showed up in 2009. GWT has been around since 2006 and got widespread publicity when it launched. A number of the other options also came out well before CoffeeScript - Python's Pyjamas came out in 2007.

What CoffeeScript did introduce people to was the idea of a language that compiled to only Javascript. And as such, it didn't have a pre-existing language community to point out the shortcomings of the JS implementation. The problem with most compile-to-JS languages is that you never get the semantics exactly right; things like float semantics, string encodings, prototype chains etc. usually make the JS version just different enough to hold surprises for programmers used to the server-side implementation, which defeats the purpose of using the same language for both (Rhino had the same problem, which is why it took V8 before Node could really catch on). CoffeeScripters have no such preconceptions, though - it's a completely new language, so it's adopted on its own merits as a browser-side language by those who like what it provides.
Taleb's books are full of stories, random ideas, non-sequitur thoughts and a quite a few rants about things that bother him. This essay was clearly an invitation to rant about something and the more controversial the better.

Sure, he comes across as arrogant, confrontational and uncompromising and he is unapologetic on top of that; yet dismissing the bulk of his writing based on his personality and style of writing is a shame as the recurring theme throughout all his books are worth the time spent reading. To paraphrase: We believe and accept a lot of things without question and let fallacious thinking and cognitive biases lead us into making decisions and actions that do us harm.

Also, his books are that rare type that you can pick up, read a few pages and have set off a train of thinking for the rest of the day.
There exist many football players who are very nice people. They're attentive dads and loving husbands. They're true and loyal friends. They give generously of their time and are considered pillars in the community. If you are a fraction of a second too slow, they will push your face into the dirt, commit an act of violence upon a good friend of yours, and cause a collective endeavor you deem very important to end in painful failure.

I generally treat business as more PVE rather than PVP (as you could have guessed, football is not my game or metaphor of choice), but I sometimes work with great people who have rather the opposite inclination. They're ruthless cutthroats, but I mean that in the best possible way.
If you are interested in North Korea, read The Orphan Master's Son. Fiction, but based on true stories. Won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. (I've heard the audiobook is excellent, but the book is quite graphic, so the audio could be a little "intense." I didn't risk it.)
"Sounds like a hardware kickstarter project :)" Exactly!!!

We may as well try it out! The concern will be the goal of the project...

What will be the output ?

Will it be just an experiment or business based project?

Never the less, it is exciting to see that a unique device can be made actually!

I would love to see how secure it would be at the end!
>>Also, are good executives really worth the money

I wouldn't hire these executives to do anything, let alone run a company. Most of them only get into a company because of their network. And once they come in, they have a gang of sycophants built up to assist them through their loot. They last 2-3 years any where they go. After which that 'you cant fool all the people all the time' thing kicks in and they are fired. But what's the point any way? there are enough idiots who will be ready to hire them again and they have a big enough network to help them out.

>>or is this something that's just become accepted practice

I attended a start up conference here in Bangalore. A exec of a big company was invited to speak. His full talk was BS, of course. But he repeatedly emphasized start up's were missing 'expert exec leadership' and VC's weren't paying up enough to ensure such leadership came on board. In short his whole talk was cribbing about how start ups were asking them to perform to get payed and were not just paying them while they wish to sleep on their jobs.

>>I've never known anyone I'd give $60M for 15 months of work.

Any one who is that capable is likely making doing his own work. And never this way.
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I do, since 1992. Have used almost all other major GUIs, but at the end of the day, I always come back to Windows.
Don't offices and residential buildings have different building regulations, not to mention licenses. I don't know much on the subject but it would't surprise me if this was either illegal or only legal in a small set of cases where the buildings are up to standard.
Hah, I've been working on this recently with Facebook, on a TV set-top-box. It was painful and I ended up giving up. xd_arbiter.php is the key, I think.
youth thinks they are invulnerable.

As you grow older, you realize what the world really is and how vulnerable we really are.
> Please tell me again how Marissa Mayer is an effective CEO

She's from, like, Google, which makes her ultra effective.

For some reason. Apparently.
It will depend on what your laws on squatting are. In the UK these are very biased in favour of the squatter; invading someone's property isn't a crime here, so the police won't do anything, it is a long drawn out and extremely expensive process for the legitimate owner to go through the courts to get an eviction order, and other than having to leave, the squatters get off Scot free.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/i-moved-out-for-decorators-an...
Actually Skype works quite well. As soon as candidate says "my mic is not working" and "camera is broken" you know that guy with name Ashish really does not exist - it is just imaginary person made by contracting agency.

However, odesk just recently started id verification process but I still relay on simple Skype calls and actually talk to person.

If it is agency I want to talk to manager/tech lead and actual programer.
Clearly the guy is a good negotiator. And I'm not sure if you're serious regarding "$60m for 15 months of work". The idea was that he would work at Yahoo for a much longer time.
"What One Entrepreneur Taught Me About Inspiration And Appreciation"
It would be nice to have a view also on the raw html code, e.g., to create a field containing the url of an image in the page.
Executive compensation committees are stacked with people lining other people's nest on the expectation that they themselves will be moving in soon, if not to the same position, some another that has a compensation level that has similarly drifted into the stratosphere.
All they need are data-phones and sims. Soon they will have the ability to communicate with less risk and in "town square" web venues like twitter and forums. I think it's a hard counter to the situation there. Collapse in under 5 years.
Openbox looks good on my Chromebook Pixel:

https://github-camo.global.ssl.fastly.net/52b6558796f033771c...

Elementary doesn't. They don't support high-DPI.
I have stopped paying attention (well, obviously not entirely) to all the coffee stories, because I realized how tiny the effect of coffee is compared to other things.

Trying to solve a tricky problem that I already know well (that is I don't have to read tons of background material first) keeps me very focused regardless of time of day. Same thing with some kinds of debates I have with people. Time of day only makes a difference when I'm not focused to begin with, and that difference is huge.

The other thing is that standing up and moving around is orders of magnitude more effective than any substance. It works instantly.
This is nothing more than legalized theft, nothing more.
Also he was consistently beating other people using the same tactics as him over a long period of time.
lol, I meant to say that they will be installing linux on the old XP machines, without buying new hardware. There are plenty of tiny distros that could keep those XP machines running safely for many years.
The documentary referred to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7067402
Doesn't the money you paid to visit help fund the oppressive regime?
Thanks, for the suggestion. We're rolling out advanced mode soon, which will allow you to edit the CSS selectors and RegEx operating on the page's HTML to define the selected data elements
People in North Korea are probably well aware about the hard truth. And also, in my opinion, it's very difficunt to create a good foreign made documentary/educational movie, which is not a propaganda itself, and is not insulting or misinformative in some way (even unintentionally).

So, it makes sense to simply share the good things the North Koreans don't have access to. It's a small improvent to their life, but it's an improvement, and it makes them happier. One of the defectors said that she never smiled in NK. They should live better, that's the objective, I think. And the persuasive power of such seemingly meaningless things is very high, actually.
> It's great that someone is finally disrupting the squatting market.

You mean _anti_-squatting market?

These kind of companies have thrived in Europe over the past few years due to a wholescale clampdown of squatters rights, with the Netherlands and England* making it outright illegal in 2010 and 2012 respectively.

*In England, the term "squatting" is defined in legal terms to mean "the act of knowingly entering a _residential_ building as a trespasser and living there". Entering a non-residential building without permission is still not illegal, provided you don't cause any damage.
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They don't need reasons to arrest anyone they want at any time. They just do. The reason gets made up later, if at all.
Amazon Employees Vote to Reject Union
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The trick in France is, the last line often belongs to the former National Monopoly (which has been privatized since, and is now called the "historical operator"). Since monopolies are bad, the historical operator has an obligation of leasing its copper wires.

It's still bad, and we still have a relatively high barrier to entry, but it is possible. There exist for instance a number of little non-profit providers (not among the big 4), who make do by sub-leasing part of the big one's network.

There are still problems of the sort you're talking about (like "it's not us, it's the other company your data goes through"), but as people are now able to cut themselves off completely from the historical operator, their actual provider has to (and do) take responsibility, and fix the line.

As an aside, it is somewhat written in our law that to be called an "internet connection", it must provide a public IP address, and the user must be able to do whatever she wants. There are violations (Orange blocks the outgoing SMTP port), but it mostly holds: users are all allowed to host servers —though asymmetric bandwidth makes this impractical. Note that mobile connections are called "data" deals, not "internet" deals.
That "what" was, I believe, a response to the implication that they want to encourage risk-taking, something that is not generally seen as unconditionally desirable (especially in the light of recent developments).
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Cute FROZEN Winter Formal Proposal
Flipping the flip side, actually your point is what I found most challenging from working remotely. You really need to probe each day that your work can't be outsourced that easily. I've constantly put myself over the last few years to ensure that I deliver value each day or each week at most. And that has proven incredibly productive for myself.

If you have a hard working person that understands that very simple concept then he or she can work from anywhere as long as he or she stays really focused, only then will hardly be beaten by a local folk or folks working on an office and subject to all sort of distractions.
Yahoo's stock is up over 150% since he arrived. That no doubt has massively inflated the pay package beyond how rich it already was.
You'll learn to take the derivative of |x| in high school calculus, shortly after learning how to take derivatives in general. It's not complex, and the fact that it's not defined at the origin doesn't mean there's a problem in taking it; it just means the function behaves "badly" there. I don't understand the focus on the discontinuity anyway; in working with the function, I'd be more concerned about the fact that it's piecewise defined.

Consider a variant on the absolute value function:

f(x) = x (when x >= 0); sin x (when x <= 0)

It and its first and second derivatives are all continuous (after which it comes apart at the origin), but if you were working with the derivative, even though it's differentiable everywhere, you'd have to constantly be aware of whether the origin was in your domain. The great advantage of working with x^2 instead is that it behaves the same way everywhere, not that its derivative is continuous.
The rationale for these kind of severance packages is that this is what it takes to hire a top executive away from a top company and into a entirely new role at a riskier company. When an executive leaves a top job to join a new, undefined, risky role at a riskier company, they do so knowing: 1) they will not get that (relatively safer) top job back, a job that represents all the years they spent ascending the org chart, 2) they might not survive in their new job, especially if it comes with performance targets [1], and 3) getting fired for poor performance will permanently tarnish their (previously skyrocketing?) reputation. With that in mind, these executives will always get a golden parachute in their contract.

[1] I'd be interested in seeing data on how many executives do survive in these situations. I wouldn't be surprised if the data showed that a large (~40%) proportion do not hold onto their positions.
Microsoft should spin off Windows XP (perhaps in combination with IE6) and sell it to some private equity firm for exploitation. It would live on for centuries ;-)
Why? (Genuinely curious...)
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Executive incentives are negatively correlated with company performance. There's a body of literature on this.

For example: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/CEOperforma...
Wow, corporate parazites. This is why I simply struggle to be anything else than entrepreneur. It sickens me to see how these "managers" screw stockholders and employees.
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Ah, that’s fair, I didn’t think to interpret it that way.
previous to the (failed) swiss referendum to limit top executive pays by law I saw an interview from the proponents.

The statement that caught my attention was:

"we tend to believe that executive positions are a free market where good wages goes to those that merit them, but it's not, it's a collusive system in which offer and demand is played by the same guys. I give you this board place now, then you leave, you'll get me a board position later in your next company and so on."

I don't know if this is effectively true, but it does ring a bell.
The amounts of money that float back and fourth in america's top 1% is excessive. I'm not sure if this issue fits here but lately it feels like it fits everywhere. Start voting for people that will do something to fix wealth disparity.
I just read about that in Asimov's autobiography. He wrote it when he was a grad student at Columbia and was worried that it (a satire of chemistry papers) might harm his chances of passing his final (oral) PhD examination. His examiners never mentioned it until the very end... when one asked him what he knew about resublimated thiotimoline, at which time Asimov burst out in a fit of nervous laughter.

He passed.
Perhaps this could be automated by finding the same content in two versions of the dom and then doing a diff on the structure, updating the rules?
They probably spent twice that - Kaggle takes a cut.
No human being has ever been or will ever be worth a million dollars a week. The collective dilution that this is anything but criminal is the source of a significant set of problems our society faces.
"Hell, No!, Never! ... or so, were my first thoughts, because aren't we brainwashed into thinking that's the way how the market works?

But on second thought: maybe he isn't so of the tangent. How many games did i buy, but never played, even never touched, just they were on sale? And how many games, which i really, really wanted to try did i never buy, because i thought : "Aww i could buy three for the price of this one! So let's wait for the inevitable sales-offer.", just to loose interest, because i was occupied otherwise and a half year later already new games were flooding the market.

So it boils down to price, time and satisfaction! Maybe this is another triangle where you can move just on the axis, and never have all together.

The most limiting factor is time. You can only play one game at a time and if it produces satisfaction you probably would be willing to pay a higher price.
Hah, that’s actually the reason I edited to hedge with “as an employee”.
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In 1989 Anthony Daniels, aka Theodore Dalrymple, went to one of these department stores and describes how even the shoppers in the store were fake -- here's an excerpt (more at the link [1]):

It didn’t take long to discover that this was no ordinary department store. It was filled with thousands of people, going up and down the escalators, standing at the corners, going in and out of the front entrance in a constant stream both ways – yet nothing was being bought or sold. I checked this by standing at the entrance for half an hour. The people coming out were carrying no more than the people entering. Their shopping bags contained as much, or as little, when they left as when they entered. In some cases, I recognised people coming out as those who had gone in a few minutes before, only to see them re-entering the store almost immediately. And I watched a hardware counter for fifteen minutes. There were perhaps twenty people standing at it; there were two assistants behind the counter, but they paid no attention to the ‘customers’. The latter and the assistants stared past each other in a straight line, neither moving nor speaking.

...snip...

I also followed a few people around at random, as discreetly as I could. Some were occupied in ceaselessly going up and down the escalators; others wandered from counter to counter, spending a few minutes at each before moving on. They did not inspect the merchandise; they moved as listlessly as illiterates might, condemned to spend the day among the shelves of a library. I did not know whether to laugh or explode with anger or weep. But I knew I was seeing one of the most extraordinary sights of the twentieth century.

[1] http://www.skepticaldoctor.com/2010/01/15/classic-dalrymple-...
This article caught my eye. Just yesterday my GP in PAMF who also works at Stanford Hospital mentioned the H1N1 and how it is on the rise in the bay area attacking young folks.

Someone who never gets a flu vaccines I actually got one this time. He explained that vaccines today carry the virus protein not the actual virus and are a lot safer then before. Obviously the preservatives inside the vaccines are still debatable and the skeptics will finger point at that.

Even though there are more deaths from the standard flu in USA, it affects those with a weakened immune systems (elderly & sick). H1N1 attacks the healthy and young folks. That is more serious than a flu which prays on the weak.
It's because Mayer is an institutional executive, in the Steve Ballmer or Tim Armstrong model. She likes to surround herself with yes-people, and those that are from the same system that she comes from.

The things she is going to accomplish while at Yahoo are: 1) burning through the Alibaba money; 2) riding the stock market bubble until it crashes, temporarily making her look good; 3) not boosting sales or profits much at all if at all

And a few years from now (I'd peg it at three or less at this point), that'll be that, and she will be done at Yahoo.
From Yahoo's perspective, was the investment worth it?
I'm not gonna hate on the dude for making money. It doesn't look like he did anything illegal. If anything I'd like to have a coffee with the guy just to learn from him.
Whilst I agree, nobody should be paying 6 bucks for coffee and toast, you haven't felt the pain of getting breakfast in Sydney! Makes $6 look like a special!