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I know two Bay Area H1Bs that were just recently offered over 180K base salary with 250k+ in RSUs over 4 years. That's roughly $250k/yr total package.

The good H1Bs will get extremely high salaries and the shitty H1Bs will take all the jobs that pay shit.

There is no exploitation, it's just how the world works. If you're good there's nothing to fear from competition, and if fact it helps you.
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> The difference is that the government agency's source of revenue is not dependent on its performance

I'm not sure even this claim is warranted, from either side. Each has mechanisms for attempting to ensure the link between funding/performance, but from my perspective it seems like those mechanisms fail as often as they work in both sectors.
This criticism against OO programming is more of a criticism against junior-level OO programming. A lot of beginning OO programmers go crazy with complicated object models that aren't necessary. Composition is often a better way to go than inheritance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance
Yes -- and a quarter are illegal! From your link (http://cis.org/2012-profile-of-americas-foreign-born-populat...)

"We estimate that 28 percent of all immigrants are in the country illegally. Roughly half of Mexican and Central American and one-third of South American immigrants are here illegally."

Per the population figures in the link... Approximately 6 million people from Mexico and Central America alone don't have legal status. Those people are more vulnerable to all sorts of employer abuses, usually don't have healthcare, can't legally drive in many cases and face all sorts of other challenges.
I am not sure I believe it, fuck believing it. I have worked on enough software projects to know its not entirely true. But why should I not get excited? I got excited when Obama announced his policy and I will continue to get excited. It means people are still thinking about Mars and space exploration and that is a positive amongst all this cynicism.
There's a way through this mess.

First, focus on people that want to be hired. There's lots of people out there who tried to roll their own and realized it's a lot harder than it looks. Plenty just want to focus on the fun tech stuff and leave client communications, marketing, and all the other small-business drudge work for others.

Second, be willing to build people up. Promote from within and let people grow into the role they want to have. Fuck a foosball table, I want room to grow. Convey this clearly in the interview. Leave off the X number of years in technology Y nonsense, and, if you're feeling particularly froggy, the demand for a four-year degree. Nothing about having one makes you any better at technology work, it's function is purely signaling. You can get a much better feel for who someone is just by listening to them talk about their pet projects or what inspires them or what they want to do.

Third, drop the pretentious bullshit. It's a seller's market for talent, you're courting them, do what you have to to minimize HR's influence on the process. Be responsive, don't ask stupid questions, do whiteboard exercises, all that tech interview bullshit that just skews the signal-to-noise ratio rather than increases it. You can get away with that shit if you're Facebook, but even there it's a dick move and it doesn't really help.
You just described the problem with public schools.
As I understand, this is precisely why companies like Plastic SCM exist: to service game dev and other projects that need to manage large assets.
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Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, it's a seasonal business so the bulk of our sales comes in November and December and needed to get something besides PayPal checkout implemented before the Thanksgiving rush. It was just dumbfounding how long it took sales@stripe.com to reply to my e-mails.

The last e-mail we sent was November 25th at 5:50pm and didn't get a reply until November 30th at 5:03pm with "Thanks for clarifying, and I apologize for a delayed response on my end." ..by that time we already found an alternative, got it set up and installed in less than an hour.
What if you change the layout of your files? There's a very thin line separating schema and schema-less databases.
I hope it didn't come across as me trying to diagnose you, because I obviously don't even know you well enough to say you have a cold. It's just, devoid of context, there's a really high chance that comment that sounds like that is a product of mental illness, and that's why people are prone to downvote them.
If it was about costs, why wouldn't they simply off shore it? I made another post on a similar thread here a few days ago.

I live in Mexico and there's plenty of companies here that do work for US companies, it's great for both sides, on the US business side they're getting what they want for cheaper, and often by some really talented people. On the Mexican side, the company is getting paid in USD and through exchange rates and what not this turns out to be better for them than doing consulting for local business.

So why would they bother opening the borders even more? When they can get the same people to make it for cheaper from this side?

http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/06/this-map-reveals-exactly-w...
Thanks for the feedback and the link, will definitely have a look at it!
It's not the same. The Soviets inspired a level of cultural disgust and existential terror in the US that China just can't match. We not only wanted to discredit communism by winning the space race, but make sure they couldn't glass us from orbit the first chance they got.
We don't know it's not. The early trading explorers were doing it for potential, however unknown profit.
What? This is nonsense. We have an social and industrial complex that would not exist if not for the space program. This internet. Your cell phone.
The attempt to do great exploration begets the technology, which changes the world. This has been true since sailing ship days.
> So far nobody is able to come up with a way to recoup the many hundreds of millions of dollars it will cost to get humans to Mars and back.

Have you seen the price of "sovereign" islands lately? Say what you want about the validity and enforceability of the claim (and the sanity of the people who buy them), but land separated from any Earth government by ~55 million km+ doesn't seem like it would be a hard sell at any price.
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True. But we DO know the asteroids are valuable. The recent comet rendezvous was invaluable information for future mining missions.
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There are two kinds of feedback. The one that makes people stronger, and the one that makes people weaker.

I believe it's so much more worthwhile to be supportive. When you have any kind of an adventage over others such as when you know something better, have move experience, have more money etc., you have these two options: either use your adventages to help, or to bring down.

To ridicule is not the best method of educating others either. And a person who feels strong doesn't have to show any sign of superiority, because with true strength comes security.

I wish the author of the original question will not find it too difficult to get back on track after loosing the bag. Good luck to you.
> Charter schools pass less students, but maybe that's because they don't pass students who can't read.

Yep. The same logic can be used on the (supposed) higher suspension rate at (some) charter schools. Is it possible that maybe some non-charter schools just don't care to discipline problem kids as aggressively?
I guess you are right on that one ... any specific experiences with content marketing and how long this really takes to show some impact?
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FWIW I generally have had excellent customer service experiences with Stripe. Often receiving responses within an hour after sending them at 2 am.

In fact, once an employee out of the blue sent me a mockup showing me how I might use a whole new feature, completely integrated into my sites js and html structure.
Cool idea! I think there are a few things on the usability side that you could do to make it even better:

* Lock the body when you open the modal by setting overflow: hidden. That will prevent people from scrolling around accidentally while filling out the form.

* This is related to the first point, but you should probably position: fixed the modal

* Make the label for the monthly donation clickable - people shouldn't have to find the little check box!

* Lighten the .iframe-subheader-text as it can be pretty low contrast when the background is white

* Add some subtle animations to the open and closing of the modal. It feels very jarring right now.
The mechanism is the voice in the case of government, and the exit in the case of private corporations; opinions definitely differ on the effectiveness of either.
Aren't these quite different tasks, though? There's a big difference in 'learning to play a specific game well' vs. 'learning to play arbitrary games'; such a big difference that I think they're entirely different disciplines. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the software in the research you reference was given the ruleset to the game, right? And DeepMind's software is not given that information, I think. I doubt they intentionally omitted that work, I think it's more likely they didn't consider it relevant enough.
Ah, I didn't realize this. Wow, that's...restrictive. Thanks for the info.
It's debatable whether OOP "matches the way we perceive reality". Many have come to believe this, but is it true? I don't perceive all of reality as a strict hierarchy of things constructed out of templates, with "is a" and "has a" relationships between them.

I don't think the main problem with OOP is performance, either. The problem is that it's not always the right or the most natural design approach, regardless of any performance considerations.
Okay, thanks for sharing your opinion on that. Myself, I'd rather see it paid off as costs are incurred, if we spend the money at all. If we weren't so in far in debt already (i.e. if future kids weren't so doomed), then we could take a chance on those revenue enhancements coming to fruition.
Love NASA but we heard this tune many times. If only 'we are going to Mars' actually took us there.

NASA is not even close... Not with this budget not with the current brain drain, and 1970's style management.
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Such "studio" formats don't make sense for end-user listening, but they make sense as inputs to further processing, mixing, etc. Having a pile of headroom in frequency and amplitude means that after further processing you can subsequently output a sensible 16-bit 48kHz file without loss. If you start with a 16-bit 48kHz file and then do a pile of processing, you won't necessarily preserve the same degree of quality.
The estimate in 1996 was ~30 billion for a trip to Mars. SpaceX has been accumulating the needed rocket technologies.

Roughly, the tech needed is:

1. heavy-lift

2. Mars EDL

3. artificial g for the trip and return

4. in-situ fuel production

5. methane rockets

SpaceX has been developing heavy-lift at a profit, so that takes care of #1. They are also working on #5, although I'm not sure off-hand who their customers are. (Methane has volume advantages over LH/LOX that might make it better for smaller missions.)

There are still some other pieces of the pie that need assembled. Rockets are surely a part of #2, but Musk is essentially building a company that will sell him a trip to Mars.
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After reading through the quora article, I agree that different tranches may have different terms. However, if investors are buying 70M shares at $1 each, it implies that they believe a share of the company is worth that much. If the company has 3.5B shares, that's an implied valuation of $3.5B. In that sense, the investment does value the company at $3.5B. Whether that valuation (or a higher or lower one) is realized through a liquidity event is a different matter, and if/ when that happens, the valuation would be specific to that point in time.
The summary here is to just rip everything losslessly and then to go ahead and use 44.1/16 since it's actually better in some ways and not worse in others.
I'm not familiar enough with the author's work to know if his credentials merit it, but to me his tone is unbelievably snobbish and offputting.
Good for Stripe. Many companies are receiving frothy valuations in this environment. IMO a small fraction of them have even a remote possibility of growing into those valuations. Stripe is one of those few.

Disrupting the payments industry, with its labyrinth of regulatory issues, entrenched gatekeepers and competitors, and massive risk management issues, is a Herculian task. Pc and the rest of his team at Stripe have successfully confronted all of these challenges, and I can't wait to see where things go from here.
So you are calling all Indian developers are dirt-farming Indians and only the western countries have well educated developers?
That is difficult to achieve when you're embedded in a culture that often puts money above everything. Everyone (as in, those competing [often corporations]) are focused on the dollars and market share over the technical merits of the solutions.

There is a strong desire to own and control solutions. The facts are that image registries and container execution are lightweight abstractions over already existing protocols [DNS, HTTP] and technologies [Linux Containers]. There's not much to own in the space other than through having the 'best' technical solution.
I don't understand how " the logical conclusion of your argument is that if you hate the President... then the logical thing to do is get rid of the government." The voice vs exit paradigm has been employed in some arguments for anarchism, and many arguments for limiting the scope of government, but those arguments have nothing to do with the executive, and I didn't make any such argument.
Is it not interesting that Mr. Obama evolved from "Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their government is doing," to "The administration’s war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I’ve seen since the Nixon administration" [1]?

What could have caused this?

[0] http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOp...
[1] http://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-...
No, you can write queries that are not really possible to express without it. Basically, it allows you to execute a table-valued function for each row in an earlier query.

For example, in SQL Server I find a common use of CROSS APPLY (which appears to be the same thing) is where the "table-valued function" is a SELECT with a WHERE clause referencing the earlier query, an ORDER BY, and a TOP (=LIMIT) 1. (In fact, this is exactly the example given in the article.) It allows you to do things like "for each row in table A, join the last row in table B where NaturalKey(A) = NaturalKey(B) and Value1(A) is greater than or equal to Value2(B)".
I'm confused by this part.

The summer Milky Way will look brighter.

If the author is referring to the galactic center being in view, then wouldn't that depend on whether it's summer in the northern hemisphere, or the southern hemisphere? After all, each hemisphere's summer is looking the opposite direction.

If the author is simply referring to the season, well I'd think the winter - having longer nights, colder atmosphere, and, at some latitudes, having nights period - would lead to darker skies and better viewing.

Can any one enlighten me?
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Probably because the people he is offending are (stereotypically) a notoriously snobby and off-putting group...audiophiles.
I didn't(actually, can't) downvote. Before I dig further, can you try 1.4 rc2? We heavily refactored DNS this release.

Secondly, your dns-lin.bin, is that with go built with CGO_ENABLED=0? Ie...if you ldd both files, do they both claim to be statically linked?

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Maybe a bit far fetched, but creating a colony on Mars would be the foundation of creating a new, highly advanced trading partner.

Colonists on Mars would have to deal with extreme environmental conditions and therefore be forced to invest the majority of resources in science and engineering instead of politics and entrenched systems.

Also, martians would be natural space travelers. Mars has a gravity that's less than half of Earth's, so they would get off that rock much easier and they would have a wealth of natural resources through asteroid mining that they could sell to earth together with advanced technology.

After a few centuries the martians would push the technological boundary far beyond what we have now and give Earth the motivation to follow suit to ensure sovereignty.
> the assumption that the private sector somehow will do it better needs to be supported

Well, the assumption is that a healthy private sector can't support itself with coercion(1), so if a private organization fails too much it changes its direction or ceases to exist. Also, you can disrupt private initiative peacefully, but disrupting the government is usually a pretty drastic action that costs a lot of resources, even lives.

(1) There are unfair practices in the private sector like monopolies and fraud... which are at least nominally against the rules in liberal democracies. If we allow that the government fails to enforce its rules, I'm not sure why we're confident about its ability to execute in other areas.
early employees who make a couple million in a start up are not going to want to WORK for a salary cause they have a couple million

This is empirically false.
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It's entirely possible that Elon Musk doesn't care about recouping his investment in SpaceX. It seems like the end goal of the company is to start a colony on Mars so he can go live there.
> So is Canada in the wintertime.

What an outlandish comparison. I know that Canadians seem to pride themselves on how cold it can get in their neck of the woods, but... come on.

Indians and inuits managed to live there even before there was any concept of "dollars" on the American continent. Now, surviving on another planet? It's like comparing swimming in a lake in the fall to swimming in a volcano.
This is elegantly simple, puts the right market incentives in place for all the affected parties, and makes so much sense I'm sure it will never happen.

(For the reason cited in your parenthetical comment.)
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What did you go with and how is it working out for you?
Over what timeframe? All the evidence is that failed states can stick around for quite a while before collapsing or being subjugated. As the US has been (re)discovering the hard way, there's a massive cost in taking over a failed state even where the intention is to rebuild it and leave - and countries like Afghanistan and Iran were obviously dysfunctional for decades. Even the Soviet Union persisted for a long time despite its fundamental economic contradictions. Even if we hypothesize some similarly fundamental dificiency in the private sector of the US of the sort that Marxists are fond of toying with, in an economy of this size it might take most of a century to play itself out. Look at Japan, whose economy has been stagnant for 20 years and whose territorial security basically derives from the US nuclear umbrella.
At face value, I can see why you think that. Supply and demand, as supply dwindles and demand increases, the price increases as well, right? Simple economics. I understand it and I get it, but I don't think the instance of developers that it is fair that bigger companies with larger profits and reach should be able to take all of the talent in the area by offering above average salaries to get them to sign. Smaller companies with half the profits and budgets shouldn't have to compete or die, it just is not fair.

While I agree that companies should not see it as an excuse to hire cheap talent elsewhere, when there is nobody to pick from in the pool (nobody decent) then where do you go? When the likes of Google are actually offering students jobs before they've even graduated and entered the job market, how does little ACME Corp or Joe Startup compete when workers are being plucked before they even enter the workforce?

Forget the money for a moment, when there is nobody to pick from or you are constantly entering into a bidding war with Application A who has received an offer from Google for $250k per year and all you can offer is $125k and perhaps some other perks, is that fair? Google aren't paying $250k because they think the applicant is worth it or that is the going market rate, they are paying this much because they know the application nine times out of ten will say yes to a ridiculous sum of money, because they need a developer and the cost is irrelevant to them and because they can.

Proper average market salary and inflated market salary are two different things, wouldn't you agree? And people ask if we are in a tech bubble? When graduate developers fresh out of college are being offered the kind of salaries close to what the prime minister of Australia earns (about $500k AUD for reference) you have to ask yourself, is it fair for smaller companies to compete or die because some big companies have set the bar way above average market rate?

But like I said, I know there are companies that take advantage of overseas workers. I have heard stories of people being forced to work ridiculous hours because they are on a H1-B and know that if they fire the employee, everything they have just packed up and moved thousands of miles will have to be packed up and transported again back home. But not all companies are like that, just like not everyone is a racist. It's always a handful of people that ruin it for everyone else.
Claim on this website: "Accept donations on your site instantly, from all cards and countries".

Truth is: in Germany the prefered way for paying on the internet is Lastschrift (direct debit). Paying with credit card is not very popular and credit cards aren't that common in Germany.

To put it harshly in other words: the statement on the website above is simply fraudulent. I can't pay with my EC card by direct debit.
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"government agencies and projects almost never get closed down or cancelled because they did a bad job, wasted money, or were plain incompetent."

In which universe?

Government projects get stopped for incompetence or wasting money about as much as they do in the private sector.

And it turns out that the private sector is just as capable of firehosing money at bullshit as the government is, otherwise all those repackaged loans wouldn't have screwed the economy.

There is a different limit on money for governments, given they back the money, but to assume that some form of cost/benefit analysis isn't generally practiced in public enterprise is to be working from a purely faith-based model of economics.
I know "thanks!" comments are frowned upon, but I wanted you to know that I appreciate your response. You are absolutely correct, at least in my case, about Westerners being unfamiliar with the underpinnings of this society. Thanks for shedding a little bit of light.
That CTA button is pretty epic, though.
Even equity isn't especially compelling. Unless I'm a founding team member, I will always take higher pay in lieu of equity. After being with a company for a year or two and having a solid idea of where it's going, I'd probably consider it, but until that point equity is worthless to me.