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You should read Google's corporate filings. It's clearly not a fiduciary duty of their executives to maximize shareholder value. They were very clear about that when they went public. There is also no SEC - or any other - regulation stipulating this as the prime directive for corporate officers.

The constantly repeated 'duty to maximize shareholder value' line is nothing more than a myth.

In the case of Google, the triangle of Page / Brin / Schmidt basically control Google outright, regardless of the other shareholders, due to their voting shares. So they absolutely do not have any duty what-so-ever to maximize anything. Buyer beware, is basically what they stapled to the prospectus.

http://investor.google.com/corporate/2004/ipo-founders-lette...

In fact it's no more complicated than this: if some random shareholder is upset, they can stir the pot accordingly, and the waves they'll make is almost always in proportion to the shares they can vote directly or indirectly. There is no singular objective qualification on what would lead to the maximization of shareholder value, it's an opinion that varies from one shareholder to the next as to what they think is "best" for the company.

Simple example: some shareholders might think it'd be better to slash salaries at Costco to boost the bottom line. Others believe part of the reason Costco is so successful is their employee culture.
Thanks for this a lot! I'm planning to move to USA when I can and this helps to see the whole picture.

My best bet would be a company that really wants me to work for them and arranges all of this.
> little list of tools, nothing more nothing less.

Which was my point. :P
warning: I am not a lawyer and thus not qualified to give legal advice, etc.

I don't know specifically about your situation and the VWP but it's not allowed to do things in the country other than your stated purpose, and other than what your visa allows.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_visa#Uses_of_a_B1.2FB2_visa

Looks like most normal work is not allowed, except for the last provision there. If you follow to the source, it says "These would-be entrants are not allowed to receive remuneration from a US source (other than an expense allowance or reimbursement) and must be customarily employed by a non-US firm that will continue to pay their salary during the temporary assignment in the US.". So there you have it.
Well i've to agree with you. It's not just in india in Sri lanka also the price of Windows is just too high for a normal person to afford. The price of a genuine Windows is about 40k. And the price difference of a laptop with Windows and a laptop without windows is around 15k
I might be wrong but I don't know why so many people prefer Windows over linux. The unity gnome interface is pretty horrible imo. Plus i don't find good alternatives to my windows software for linux. There are alternatives but not as good as the ones i use on windows.

Also when I used Ubuntu i've update my whole system once in every 6 months. Also if i don't the latest softwares will not support my old ubuntu. After getting a new laptop I switched back to windows.
Yeah. The key word here is "was".

In other words, installing (and upgrading!) software in Windows has not made much progress since 1997. I blame MS's decision "oh sure, you can integrate your program into Windows Update, it will only cost you $BigBucks per year."
Wouldn't it be better to buy a new keyboard and expand the range of languages you can type in comfortably?
> The precise word that is used to describe your role in specific situations matters a lot less

The main point made by people studying career imbalance between genders seems to be that it tends to do at a statistical level.
I think he was confused with the situation when you actually win it. If you start the process of getting it, it will show immigration intents and you have fees to pay.
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This more or less sums up what I think about "duct tape programmers" (as Joel Spolsky calls it).
This is one submission where the title was heavily editorialized to express a political opinion - not very nice.
Angular, Ember, React and Vue.js benchmarked with TodoMVC
>>Economies of scale are powerful.

A lot of companies dealing with products like these spend insane money on advertising, marketing and other mechanisms to sell their product. I think Pepsi can sell their drink at 1/10th price if they dropped the ads, sponsorships, marketing etc.

And not to mention. People themselves perceive cheaper products as that of low quality.
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Branded pads retail range Rupees 10-25 per pad - some variation in capacity. So the contemporary ratio ranges from 4:1 to 10:1. So 16:2.5 is good estimate even for contemporary comparison!

@pja you are hereby awarded 1 Fermi (see recent link on the topic of Fermi estimates).

The saving is significant because one can also buy shampoo in sachets that cost Rs.5, so the savings expand access to a range of basic hygiene products.
HMRC: Tax treatment of activities involving Bitcoin
This is a truly killer move by apple. No longer will you be bound by the 24 month term of your carrier to an apple handset, but you will be tied to using an apple device for the duration of your vehicle ownership.
That's certainly true: it shows immigration intent at that point, like any application for permanent residence, but no fees will be refunded if for some reason your application gets denied.
Visual effects mastermind behind Gravity talks NASA imagery & Physics
Eight reasons why programmers make the best boy/girlfriends
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I'm aware that the standard of living, including what's considered poverty, is much lower outside the OECD / G7 / G20 nations. Simply put: for the most part that wouldn't constitute a sufficient standard of living to interact with the working world in the US without imposing significant handicaps of opportunity. The reality is that it's not only the ceiling that's higher in the US than in India, but the floor.

The cost of living -- food, shelter, clothing, services -- is simply higher in the US. You're arguing against US Federal standards for poverty, quite standard definitions, by the way, and which, contrary to your assertion, are not normalized for high-cost coastal cities (as I indicated: the costs would be higher there, and living at the poverty line would be distinctly challenging). Living expenses vary across the US pretty markedly. I'm not finding a direct link to lists, but city-data.com has some good lists of various demographics by city:

http://www.city-data.com/toplists.html

http://www.city-data.com/

As for San Francisco: supposing you do happen to live there, the cheapest available housing will run around $200/week or $800/month per room. Few properties will let you have an unlimited number of tenants, so figure on 2-3 people per room maximum, the higher values only if you've got young children. Cost of living also tends to correspond to earning potential. And while housing might be slightly less expensive further out, you'll need transportation: BART will run $15 /day or so, for much of the US car ownership is all but necessary, carrying with it gasoline, registration, insurance, parking, and other costs.

I don't doubt you could establish a lower prevailing subsistence wage in India, but it's not directly comparable to what the same lower bound would be in the US.
There are two sides to this, the other one being that Russia also gain from the relationships that are in place at present and will be wary about risking them.

Wealthy Russians deal with the UK because it benefits them and because they (in many cases) like living here. Yes they can take their money elsewhere but that's not something that comes without an impact on them - if there was somewhere just as good or better for them they'd already be doing business there.

The same applies to Germany - they are each other's largest trading partners. Sure the Germans don't want to ruin that but nor do the Russians. 30% of Germany's oil and gas comes from Russia - that's not a customer the Russian's will be eager to upset.

This is why trade supposedly stops wars - we're all interdependent - and that works both ways but it does make things complex when things like this do happen.
The imoverished areas also have a large supply of cheap labour (themselves). If you bring the manufacuring local, then it could be cheaper.
As an Indian, I can see what pain this guy went through. Fighting the society to build a start up like this, with this kind of taboo attached to the product? All the best trying to build a start up at the first place. You are almost treated like you are doing it because you absolutely are incapable of doing anything else.

And having the gumption to fight years of laughter, isolation, mockery and ridicule to only chase what you believe in is a very different thing than just building a company. You are fighting forces that you would do anything to see you fail. And this is beyond the merit of your product.

I salute this guy for not just what he has achieved. Though the margins he achieved will be eventually matched by bigger companies.

In many ways this is like the first man climbing the Everest or first space agency going to the moon. Others have been there after the first attempt. But the people who do it first, face significant obstacles. And they inspire all of us.
Personally I find it very worrying that the UK government/politicians (probably other govts too, but the article refers only about London/UK) are trying to protect the short term economic interest of an exile elite over the sovereignty of Ukraine. Without wanting to jump to conclusions from a one-page document, this shows how convoluted and undemocratic "democratic" governments are.
There's a lot to this article. See how the distributed form of production really works, and these sanitary pad machines really aren't that different from open source software. See how they change the world and again, the distributed ownership and small business approach does it.

And additionally, why it is never a good idea to underestimate someone because of a lack of formal education.
No it can be worse than that the install instructions say:

`curl http://example.com/foo/install.sh | sudo sh`

or if it does request the script by https there is a fair chance that the install script itself will then download by http.

Equally bad is adding a new key to apt/(other package manager) and add a new source then apt-get install (which definitely runs as root).
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I don't know that the bigger companies will achieve the success. This guy's brilliance is in grasping the same economic reality that exists behind open source software, namely that the wider dispersed ownership of the tools one uses to produce things are, the easier it is to achieve long-term success.
Well, there's fusepy and fuse-python.
Title is deceiving....
I'm 21 and my son turned 1 in February; I know what you're going through :)

If there's one thing I've learned over the past year, it's that any employer worth working for will understand and support your need to spend time with your family. No sane founder would ask their employee to put the startup above their family.

A few other tips:

- Take 15 minutes to yourself every morning, get a cup of coffee or tea, and read HN.

- Listen to industry podcasts on your commute. I'm a big fan of ShopTalkShow (front-end dev), This Week In Startups, and Javascript Jabber (between these three I almost always have something to listen to between work and home).

- Twice a week (YMMV) wait for the baby and lady to go to bed, then hack for an hour or two. Don't do this more than a few times a week though - I used to never go to bed with my fiance (always working), and we started growing distant and fighting more.

- Use time at work (especially lunch breaks) to play with new technologies

- Help your wife with the baby wherever you can. She put her career completely aside for your child, so she'll need to see that you're making sacrifices too and giving it 100%. Your relationship with your partner is invaluable.

I'll end this list with one final piece of advice: cherish the time you spend with your family, and hold it sacred above all else.

I'm currently in SF doing some contract work with an early-stage startup, about halfway through a 1-month tour. It's been harder than I could have imagined; and while I FaceTime with my family every day, the extent to which I miss them every day has really helped remind me what's most important.

I hope this helps, and if you ever want to talk some more (or hang out, since we're both in SF for now), send me an email: address is in my profile.
You make a very good argument, and I have to agree with you. In the end, it comes down to self-discipline and an internal desire to maintain real human contact.

> I understand the hatred for dopamine triggers, wrapped in HTML. Meditation helps.

You are quite the brilliant wordsmith, I can't wait for the next opportunity to use the phrase "dopamine triggers wrapped in HTML".
Does Microsoft know just how quickly the average user closes a popup that they didn't expect?

When you provide support for an average user and they want to demonstrate you what problem they have, you almost have to wrestle the mouse away from them so you can at least read the various messages that popup before that user is able to close them.
Does Thought Crime Pay? [video]
warning: I am not a lawyer and thus not qualified to give legal advice, etc.

I've been heard similarly about the DV lottery and immigrant intent before. That said, if you're from one of the lower immigration countries, apparently the success rate is reasonably high for multiple retries.

Page 12 here has more info on the issue: http://www.wolfsdorf.com/articles/DV_Article_2004-05.pdf
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That is the piece, but the part being discussed doesn't start until 2:23.
Productivity Tools for the Modern Marketer
I've gotten pretty good at doing the reverse operation(given an RGB value, guess the color) because I'm red-green colorblind and that's how I figure out what color something is :)
Does Kremlin have shills even on HackerNews? They're really going all out.
It's getting ridiculous... Startups should value security way more, especially financial ones.
I have a de longhi machine. It's our favourite appliance. Pays for itself easily.

http://www.delonghi.com/en-US/products/coffee-and-espresso/c...
Contacting users and offer a discount maybe?
As someone who occasionally builds open-source programs for Windows, code signing is a nightmare.

Now, not only do you have to use some weird kludge like Mingw or Cygwin to get an autotools-based program to build on Windows, you now have to either pay a bazillion dollars to some shadowy certificate cartel in order to produce a binary, or convince users to click through a scary-looking dialog which assures them your program is an evil virus that will steal their data, format their hard drive, and empty their bank account.

It's nothing more than a protection racket -- "Sure would be a shame if 'somebody' started telling users malicious lies about your program...Now, about our fee..."
This starts to feel like the banks in the Wild West.

I'm really curious about how it will evolve.
As a UK citizen I am making a living as a software engineer (contractor). Would I be able to get live and do the same work in America?
>Former US presidential candidate Senator John McCain said he was "disappointed" by the UK's position and said European countries were "ignoring the lessons of history".

I'm not normally one to agree with McCain, but he does have a (sad) point here. As opposed as I may be to fighting costly wars in far away places, it's disheartening to recall what happened when this attitude of non-intervention was applied to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia.
> Is his definition technically accurate? No, but then words are malleable

I've taken to calling simple XOR/Rot based schemes like that "encoding" instead then encryption, as it would seem have others, as they are essentially static alphabet changes - converting ANSI to UCS or UTF16 would be almost as effective. Of course marketing are going to use the best sounding word they can in any small way justify rather than caring about any disconnect between reality and what things actually mean to the people they are marketing to.

Obfuscation is another work I'd use for such simple schemes. They have much the same effect as code obfuscation: they hide something from the most casual of viewers but offer no protection at all against anyone with five minutes to spare.
> What if you have a bug in your destructor then?

This is a straw-man. A bug in the destructor would lead to resource leaks and to eventual program failure. "Slightly" different from a complete and silent failure to perform a critical security task.

> Bugs happen, in any language.

Another straw-man. Some languages are more conducive to certain types of bugs. See PHP for example.

> You could rewrite it in prolog for all I care, it doesn't address this core issue.

The core issue is bad software engineering. If you look at the code more closely, it doesn't even use a consistent convention for signaling failure. The code looks something like

if (ret < 0) { ... goto fail; }

and at 'fail' label you find `ret = 0` followed by freeing resources and returning ret to the caller.

The bug wouldn't be there either if they just settled on using the POSIX convention of negative return value meaning failure. But no.., they have to translate it to a pseudo-boolean stored in an int.
Why mobile web application sucks
In economics, this is an information asymmetry problem if I'm not mistaken:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry

In other words, the people selling the bitcoin services know more about their own security than users do.
It's actually trivial, just make a teapot that responds to every request with 418 - I'm a teapot.

It won't make coffee, but it will comply with RFC 2324
Interesting. My experience with PA ever since version 2.0 has been that sound just magically works. Like it has been on Windows and OS X for years now.

Another embarrasment for a Linux user is finally over. I think the last one to go is X11 => Wayland.
There are two things that give me serious pause about living and working in the USA, and that have made me not pursue or accept opportunities that I've been offered in Seattle and San Francisco.

1) Visas & immigration

2) Health
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I actually did that once, for some badware on "download minecraft".

All but one of the badware ads I reported disappeared, within 20 minutes too! (but why one remained I have no idea!)
Yes, anything that only uses posix functions is less fragile, obviously. It's the user space libraries: UI, sound, notifications (for those last two, it's not just the API's that change, it's complete subsystems being pulled from under you), ...

Look, I'm not saying there is no Linux software that doesn't keep working, it's the overall time you spend over the lifetime of your software to keep up with updates in its dependencies. I don't see how anyone can reasonably argue that Windows isn't a whole lot better than Linux at that.

(I've been using Linux since 1998, I'm not new to this game)
Im not a business analyst but possible explanation: Intel want their chips in embedded, low power devices, beating ARM chips to new markets. Nobody is building x86 wearables, so Intel want to start the ball rolling by doing it themselves. similar to how they subsidize x86 tablets.
Is any of this affecting their products? I can't think of any Intel product I've ever owned that wasn't extremely well-made. Their prices are also good. $350 for a 22nm 4-core chip with with 8M of cache? That's nothing. I also like their SSDs and Xeon processors. The Haswell integrated graphics are also very, very good. (My $600 NVidia card has major issues with MST DisplayPort monitors. The Intel chipset Just Works.)

To me it just sounds like they hired a marketing firm to get people to pick Intel over AMD when they don't actually care what they're getting. Nothing wrong with that.

(As for mobile, Intel is getting their lunch eaten by ARM, so I can see why they might want to put more skin in the mobile game. Although, as I understand it, Intel just sells ARM manufacturers time in their last-gen fabs, thus making ARM cheaper than current-gen Intel stuff, but with not as much raw power. ARM cores make up for lack of raw power with lots of special functionality on-die, like video decoders and encoders, which your x86 Intel chip will just do in software.)
Yet again, why coins are only secure in your own wallet. Giving them to a third party is throwing them away.
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All of that is wrong.
Not a single "sorry" uttered. Shameful.
It isn't the default in Apache, and I don't think anyone uses GNOME any more.
It's even more ironic that companies which make astounding profits (cf Apple) and largely ignore the whims of shareholders (cf Apple) are constantly berated for this.
Shouldn't this kind of notifications be handled with the Paypal / Amazon API directly for more reliability?
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Again, I find myself wondering "Why not just use OpenSSL instead?"
BTCChina announces they are now trading Litecoin
Yeah but I made an app to send your friends links with one less click!
If you don't want to use a database, go for one of the many static site generators. That way, you won't even need to muck around with PHP.

This project as it stands, quite frankly, looks like the worst of both worlds.
As I keep posting, bitcoin has far stricter requirements than conventional banking for software security. One bug - including operating system zero-days - and your bitcoin can be irreversibly transferred to another address which is hard to trace to a human and even harder to recover.

It's in the same category as rocketry, nuclear reactors or medical software, not "move fast and break things" startups. There is no room for error.

Entertainingly, they've left the FAQ up:

Q: Are there advantages to bitcoins?

A: Of course! It is secure, anonymous and it removes the middle man resulting in very little transaction fees.
Any word on how they were Hacked?

I know that Bitcoinica, Gavin Andresen's faucet and TradeHill all got hacked through Linode's support system a while back, in which the attacker managed to reset all their passwords.
I was worried my head might explode with a colour overload, but in the end I was fine. Pretty cool though
Please guys, please please use your own BTC wallets. It's not that hard, really. Only put up your coins online in exchanges(Like BitStamp) for a few hours to trade then immediately transfer them back to your OWN 100% trustable wallet.

So many hacks and people are just not getting it. Trust no one, stay safe.

My Mac wallet of choice: https://electrum.org