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At very conservative estimates for bay area salaries, 2 weeks is probably like $5000. Complaining about that is not "whining" in my book - that's quite a bit of money where I'm from.

That said, there are various things involved with the decision.
[I've deleted the contents of this post. I apologize to readers for the inconvenience and confusion. I related a story similar to that of the OP but decided I shouldn't post about it here.]
My model is simple. It's also markedly better in financial performance than most actual works' sales, which are heavily front-loaded. That is: as weak as the case the perpetuity model is for copyright any real-world revenue stream model is worse.

Prices rising with inflation is only keeping them stable in constant dollars. You'd have to apply an inflation discount to your future revenues as well.

My model isn't trying to argue that you'd value the actual real-world value of a book in terms of a constant, real-value, revenue stream. Reality is far less remunerative than that.

It's that even if that were an accurate model, the distant-future revenues would provide a minimal incentive to a current opportunity-cost analysis of writing for publication and income vs. alternative activities.

Which is to say: copyright terms are far longer than can be justified on an economic basis as incentive to authors.

That they're an incentive to present copyrightholders of aged works with some present value isn't at debate, but that's the only justification for post-hoc copyright term extension.
I started a (now dying of bitrot for a couple years) accounting system in C++ that let you see your balance at every point in time.

All transactions were recorded as individual entries and every single one of them had to match for it to be processed.

So for a specific point in time, it was easy to simply re-run the transactions from last start to that point.

Some years ago I would have really appreciated the help of someone with your knowledge.

Right now I'm focusing on a videogame.
Reading the description of a company should take no more than 1-2 minutes. I understand that drawing takes time but I could easily do some form of creative blurb writing at $5 a pop and make $50 an hour. Couldn't you?
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To be pedantic, in all modern browsers the order is deterministic. But it certainly can be surprising.

For those who aren't aware, browser Javascript maintains insertion order, except for numeric keys, which are in numeric order ahead of all other keys.
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I'll second what vacri said. of course there are bad publishers. just like there are bad software developers. that doesn't make them all bad.
This...this is glorious.

Far more interesting and helpful than autotools debates.
Not to be a jerk, but as far as I can tell you have 6 people who work for your company. I don't really think 6 people counts as a culture because you haven't really started to solve the coordination problems that define cultural issues when you are that small. You don't have any layer of management. Let us know how things are going for you when you 10x or 100x that team.
How big is the battery, and how long does it last? That'll put a firm upper bound (and, I imagine, a quite small one) on how much energy the cat could be absorbing from this.
Cloudflare throwing it down with authority...well played.
In the end the consumer really doesn't give a hoot.
They want simple.
It strikes me that this ability to integrate arbitrary DSLs into a language in a typed fashion could be useful for a shell: if you aliased the built-ins to functions with parameters known to be globs, paths, filenames, regexes, etc. you might be able to add syntax highlighting or auto-completion or even just better error messages.
$5? At $50/hr that's about 6 minutes; at $30 an hour that's 10 minutes. Barely enough time to load up a stock file, slap some text on it in Illustrator, make some default gradients, and call it a day. And that's exactly what you get.

Cheap things are cheap because 1) they take very little materials/labor to make, or 2) they cost a lot to make, but there's a lot of it and the cost is spread over many duplicates.

In this case, you're getting the latter, obviously. And you get what you pay for. I'd say, if you're the kind of person who thinks paying for a $5 logo or $300 logo is good enough, you might as well learn Illustrator yourself and whip something easy out, since it will satisfy your two constraints: 1) it's cheap/free, and 2) it looks okay to you but not to anyone else, but that's fine, because the $5 logo would have performed the same role anyways.

This is like asking: "What kind of branding do you get for $5?" "What kind of a PR rep do you get for $5?" Etc, etc.
is that so. i'd love to know which publishers you are referring to that do absolutely nothing for the publishing of their books. No editing, no marketing, no design, probably not even paying for the cost to print the books are they? How about getting the books into barnes and noble and walmart?
If you are happy with the end results as a consumer, that's what counts.

I would argue that with a talented artist and a slightly higher budget, you would of gotten a better result.

The real pain point (in my opinion) , is finding the right designer/artist that you can work with on a constant basis, that search alone makes websites like 99designs an optimal choice.

EDIT: 99Designs seems to have changed their model since my last visit. Definitely more sustainable for all parties.
Agreed, on that particular chart at the 2010 point there was actually an increase going forward after the 2007-2008 drop.
If your parents are intelligent and motivated, having a strong work ethic, and yet have still failed to make ends meet and establish a fulfilling life then the indications are that no matter how hard you work you can still fail. This can look at lot like "you will still fail".

Seems to me you're saying pretty much the same thing as the post I replied to earlier. The point, as I see it, is that while what you say is true, it is still the case that some kids who see evidence which would seem to support a conclusion of "you will fail" still manage to go on to greater success than their parents.

The question in my mind, then, is "why"? What results in the "unreasonable" kids who say "screw the odds, screw fate, I'm doing this anyway", despite the evidence?

As far as looking at it from a parent's perspective... I don't have kids, so I haven't thought about it much from that angle. But I think if I ever have kids, I'll want to teach them a lot of the same basic lessons my parents taught me, including "work hard and you can achieve anything you want". Note, of course, that "can" != "will". But I think kids are smart enough to understand that sometimes bad/unexpected things can happen, and that sometimes even when you "do everything right" external factors can knock you off the rails. The important thing there, IMO, is the attitude of "it's not how many times you get knocked down, it's how many times you get back up".
Read some Peter Thiel and he will tell you that in the ideal startup there should be no "competition" at all. Competition is a horrible and destructive thing.

Although, as a fact you have to realize that many people who excel in competition for example professional athletes keep an exceptionally good balance. In fact those at the top of competitions are almost always those who are very good at keeping balance. So your theory simply doesn't hold.
That reminds me of this anthropology essay about the Naciremas:

http://www.ohio.edu/people/thompsoc/Body.html
I'd get the salary etc sorted, then negotiate the secondary benefits: I'd bring up a sign-up bonus (and golden parachute) then. As compensation for the risk, and the rights that you've built up with your current employers.

At C levels I'd expect someone to bring it up in negotiations.
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Rather prideful response there.

Most systems I've ever worked with (I end up working on existing systems much more than implementing from scratch) are brittle somewhere in the sense of being potentially incompatible with some random enhancement X sans major rewrites. And when major rewrites aren't possible we resort to complexity.

As developers we're all aware of this and often refer to it as managing technical debt, no?
@ davidw: oh yeah I don't mean that this guy actually is whining, or that he didn't get screwed by jerks. I'm just saying that you can get screwed even harder by handling things like this in the wrong way, no matter what the rights and wrongs of the situation actually are. Reputations are important.
I'm completely with OP's decision here. You can't unring a bell, folks.
I love this idea and the videos where Dan agrees or disagrees with you are hilarious. Email overload is real and I think the form is a fairly unobtrusive way to filter contact.

Edit: It's also up on ProductHunt now: http://www.producthunt.com/posts/shortwhale
Even better is that x86 started translating its instruction set into an internal RISC-like set, so RISC kind of won anyway.
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I used Fiverr to design logos for most of the "future-proof" business ideas at StartJumper: http://startjumper.com (a side project of mine).

There are three that were "professionally" designed and not by Fiverr. Can you tell which ones?
Not saying you are wrong, but you have to consider this - people who left everything behind to come to the US to work in tech field (even with all the visa problems etc) are typically more educated, have marketable skills than the people pointed out by your parent comment. While their lives aren't easy - it is better compared to those working for minimum wage (or slightly above minimum wage). If the engineers are sent back to India/China, their chances of getting a job is higher (because of their marketable skills) than people with no valuable skills moving from one US city to another.

Also "mild indignity of moving to a different US city" - how would you feel if you lived in a city for 40 years, and suddenly find yourself priced out of your home?

This is a more complex problem.
I wanted to trust my ISP. Then they inserted an ad when I was browsing HN.

I changed their domain in my hosts file to localhost, changed dns and started looking into vpn.
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I had the same thought. Harper has lots of interesting posts on his blog: http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/ (not to mention his research).

I was delightfully surprised running into this comment in a footnote :)

Here's the direct link to Harper's comment: http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2014/08/05/type-safety/#comment...

The way that Harper talks about types, such as, "It is not a matter of opinion whether an untyped language is unityped, it is a matter of fact." gives me a different perspective when I program in a language that is effectively unityped.
> I've looked into it, and it just isn't worth the expense and complications.

Let's talk about this. What expense, what complications? I, and many others here, will gladly help you figure it out with not very much fuss (hopefully).
Last line in the license summary link you provided says:

4. Please be aware that all usage of vector icons as company logo is prohibited.
I didnt know this was a common problem until today - whenever some UFO appears in the stream (might it be space waste or some other object) NASA commences technical break.
I'll note that you can upgrade Vim itself via plugins. The easiest way I've found so far is to use a 'distro' like spf-13: http://vim.spf13.com/
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If I were to run the code

Object.prototype.d = 4;

I'd be asking for trouble.
The difference in price between hardback and paperback books is not due to the difference in production costs (which is minimal). The difference in price is because it provides a way to capture consumer surplus. Some people are willing to pay $20 to read a given book, and some more people are willing to pay $15. If you charge everyone $15, you get the largest number of sales, but you don't get the extra $5 that some people would have paid. But you can give people an excuse to pay that extra $5 which they would have been happy to pay for the regular version of the product, by providing a slightly superior product at the higher price.
I agreedly disagree. Windows managers are apparently not interested enough or advanced enough to do this, but having branchable/rewindable/taggable history is something most Window manager don't do.

Hyperlinks on the other hand are easily tracked, moved, rewind, etc.
Bloody hell, that is horrible, do you mind me asking, if there were performance issues bad enough to pick up on in the first few weeks how were they not picked up on in the interview?
It sounds like he was working for those two weeks he is receiving pay for.
Not compensation for any troubles, but rather payment for work done.
Not ordinarily, no. But I can't think of a circumstance under which it benefits you to disclose your grievances with a former employer to a new or potential employer. There is nothing but downside in doing that.

Just as most companies are too incompetent or uninterested to search out your dirty laundry, most companies are too incompetent or uninterested to sort it. If they see it, they'll just acknowledge its existence, and probably think twice about you because of it. They won't dig deeper, or spend any effort sussing out who was right and who was wrong. They'll just note it as a red flag.

This is why people advise against "bridge burning," even when you have no reason to believe you'll ever cross that bridge again. It's all about perceptions. "Optics," as they say in corporate parlance. Being seen as a malcontent is never good for your employment prospects, even when you're completely justified.
Also:

All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein (http://faculty.uca.edu/rnovy/Heinlein--All%20you%20zombies.h...)
Exactly. These things are ugly and this is a cautionary tale for anyone looking to work for a new startup but it's also really important to keep from looking like a bitter employee who will turn on you and make you look evil if things don't work out.
In addition to what everyone said, for future start up roles, make sure to grill the company on what need they are looking to fill. Go in depth why that's a problem and how they arrived at the needed skillet to be the solution.

At start ups every days that's a lightbulb that goes off with the thought "Wish we had someone for this". The smart ones don't rush to hire and see if there's really a need.

I was laid off from my first post-college job 2 weeks before I was suppose to start. It was definitely not the way I wanted to start my career. It actually turned out for the best because I ended up going into a completely different industry I really enjoy. Now it's just a professional story I share.

No need to stress. Follow up on previous offer to start and all will be good.
Most people that are a--holes enough to pull out their phones and play on apps while with their friends wont mind $1 lost imo. Unless they are really on budget.
If the vehicle has enough time to detect someone has fallen in the road to be able to swerve and hit a wall (killing the driver), then the vehicle should also have been able to detect that someone was close to the road (or that there was a blindspot near a crosswalk) and it should have been traveling a speed that would allow it to either stop or hit the wall without fatally injuring the passengers.

About the vehicle killing someone, every object ever made can and probably has killed someone. Cellphones, pencils, car keys, snow-skis, etc. If someone tries to get hit by an autonomous vehicle I'm sure it would be possible somehow, but the car should not drive off of a cliff if someone jumps in front of the vehicle or throws a mannequin in front of it.

Basically, if there is plenty of room on the side of the road for avoiding unexpected objects and there is a clear line of sight in front and around the road, go fast. If there is a very narrow road with a wall on one side and pedestrians on the other or blindspots where pedestrians could potentially be, go slow enough to avoid having to choose who to kill.
If you feel that way about your genes, adopt.
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It seems he was offered compensation for the two weeks he actually worked for them, which I'd take for granted. What the comment above is probably alluding to is termination of contract compensation.
This is basically the same response native coders have when encountering Javascript for the first time.
Not sure which came first, but that sounds very much like "Motel of the Mysteries", a 1979 pseudo-future-archaeology book by David Macaulay.

An archaeologist in the year 4022 walking through the ancient land of "Usa" stumbles across an ancient U-shaped structure with dozens of individual or double-sized tombs. He uses these to piece together the burial customs of that long-lost civilization of Yanks and deduce the meanings and usage of items such as the ceremonial Sacred Urn - found in the Inner Chamber - and the Great Altar towards which the body on the Ceremonial Platform was clearly intended to face in the afterlife (holding the Sacred Communicator in its right hand).
No extra advice here but didn't want to read and run, good luck to you on finding something new. Like others have said, I'm sure there are a few doors still open if you're willing to get back in contact
In my programming, I have not built it in a way to prevent a malicious developer from changing object prototypes.

If there is actually an attack vector that gets closed by checking hasOwnProperty I'm interested.
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Most of the time you don't need integer overflow. When you need it, you can insert a check.

I consider integer addition commands in MIPS a mistake. They take up CPU real estate, they slow down design and in the end they are not even used!

The handling of division overflow in MIPS is more fair. If you can have a division that may iverflow, compiler inserts a check. Resources are wasted only here, not everywhere.
"They can survive in an atmosphere that's TWENTY PERCENT PURE OXYGEN. They actually need it to function!"

"If you breach their outer surface, an aqueous solution squirts out. On top of that, the weather on their homeworld regularly involves pure water falling from the sky. They live on the surface anyway."

"They progressed from tool use to apex species in only about 100000 generations. They went from writing to spaceflight in less than 500. They are about to create artificial intelligences based upon their own."

"They are covered and filled with some form of microscopic biological material that completely overwhelms any compatible surface in a matter of days. Attempts to eradicate it result in rapid adaptation."

"They have some form of mental superpower that allows them to defy logic and reason. All of their recent technology has resulted from generating seemingly random propositions and then gathering the evidence necessary to prove those false, rather than generating only propositions that conform to existing evidence."
Thanks for the comments. I am not familiar with WiFi protocol, so I didn't know about amount of time/power antenna spends receiving/transmitting, and how the sniffing works (ie it seems to be entirely passive operation?). My karma has gone to hell ;P
In many markets, there are great opportunities to nibble around the edges of the larger companies. The crumbs of many of these companies offer entrepreneurs the opportunity to build six and seven figure annual businesses.

The way to win in markets that aren't likely to be "disrupted" is to go for the crumbs, not the cake. It's a shame so many entrepreneurs have been deluded by the appeal of "disruption."

Here's a Y Combinator example: Casetext says it is "disrupting" the legal research market dominated by Westlaw and LexisNexis[1]. Anybody who has any experience in this market knows how absurd this is. Bloomberg has invested approximately $1 billion trying to make a dent in this market, with limited success[2]. You simply cannot disrupt the incumbents because they have too many advantages.

That doesn't mean there's no opportunity in the legal research market, however. There are quite a few focused/niche legal research services that are doing well. I know one that counts close to 90% of the Amlaw 100 as subscribers. This service will never be a billion dollar business, or even a $100 million business, but back-of-the-envelope math says it's a business most founders would feel blessed to have started.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8011009

[2] http://www.adweek.com/news/press/fortune-reports-bloombergs-...
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Yeah, sorry about the US-centric answer. Having payouts labelled is a very nice thing. Obviously Las Vegas was built on the players not knowing or understanding their long-term odds.
It might be worth naming and shaming the ISP, so others can avoid it, if you are sure that it was definitely them and not some form of local malware infection, especially if you have some sort of evidence recorded from the incident (or can collect some by repeating it).
Hypothetical to the larger HN community:

If you got accepted a job offer, and within 2 weeks got a job offer for more money, and at your dream company, would you feel obligated to stay with your initial decision?

If you made the rational (but arguably unethical choice), do you think your reputation should be tarnished, and future employers think hard before extending an offer?

I know it's not the exact situation as the OP, but situations are rarely so straight forward, and often have nuances that we aren't aware of.

To the OP, at the very least, you probably dodged a bullet. So blessing in disguise.
>basic lessons my parents taught me, including "work hard and you can achieve anything you want" //

This is the crux though. You can't achieve anything you want, it might happen and your effort can help. As I see it the original comment was saying if the only tangible example is the parent telling you this and they haven't achieved anything like what they wanted - like are out of work, no money, living on benefits despite working hard, etc. - then how do you carry off that suggestion that it's better to work hard.

"It didn't work for you .."

"Well, no, but .." [what goes here?]
I think big music labels are another example of corporations that have been disrupted less than folks here on HN might think.

Yes, iTunes changed the music industry, but who got killed? CD retailers, primarily. The bulk of music sold through iTunes is still licensed from big labels. Spotify licenses music from the big labels. Ads, TV shows, and movies license music from big labels. Heck even the most popular videos on YouTube are almost all the official Vevo versions of big-label songs.

Piracy is harming album sales, but because big labels have so much financial leverage over new artists, they have simply started requiring "360" deals for a lot of new contracts, which give them a cut of all revenue streams: not just albums, but also tour revenues, merchandise, media appearances, sync licences (ads and movies), even publishing in some cases.
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I would talk to a lawyer before doing this... see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
How's that so different from Foursquare and stuffs anyways.
I agree, but the problem is that JS is part of HTML5; so we're supposed to just deal with it. :(
Generally I want to look at properties from the prototype chain too.
I think the key question is what is special (if anything) about tracking migraines versus any other event. Have you looked at the many generalized QS (quantified self) applications and SaaS?