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THE PRICING OF POLE ATTACHMENTS http://www.phoenix-center.org/pcpp/PCPP34Final.pdf

It's a wacky wacky pricing scheme to get space on poles and in utility rights of way.
Check out this excerpt from his 2001 semi-autobiographical film, "Confessions of a Sociopath":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-tHqOz5zTo

More information on the film:

http://creative-capital.org/projects/view/154
I guess my question is, since you are employee #2, why are you not any of the guys you have named that "takes care of things". Like, it would be pretty normal for you to be that VP of engineering or Engineering manager. Have you sought for a more senior role?
Until they get rid of that annoying endorsement system, I submit to SSRN. The endorsement system is a major hurdle for unaffiliated publishers and it still doesn't keep nonsense and wrong stuff from occasionally appearing on the site. The traditional peer review process is very time consuming and difficult, and I think it's time to replace it with an open review or some more democratic form of review. The future of academic publishing could be journals being replaced by Wikis that allow researchers to continuously update stuff in real time, making the results available to public free of charge like this example of page that been updated since 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stockequation/sandbox

If somethings sounds promising and or passes the smell test, researchers may try to verify the results independently , with or without peer review
The two are not equivalent, as you need different attributes in each case. The CEO needs to have the product vision and complete information about the company (see http://www.bhorowitz.com/why_we_prefer_founding_ceos for discussion), which typically only the founding CEO can have. You'll note that this is a continuation of the role they had when the company was small, though of course it requires a massive amount of learning.

However, for all other roles in the company, the important thing is having the experience to scale and lead that part of the company: sales, marketing, product, support, engineering. When the company is young, those roles will be filled by allrounders: people a few years experience who do everything in that area. As the company grows, you'll want to hire VPs who have the skills to lead those areas, often people with >15 years experience as a practitioner and/or leader in those areas.

It's not just engineering: you want a VP of Sales, a VP of marketing, a VP of product, etc. Those people will have the skills to take your existing sales/marketing/product/engineering org, and scale it without damaging it. If you have that skillset in your engineer #2, than it would make sense for them to do that role, but it's unlikely that they do, and certainly doesn't seem like it in th OP's case.
Typical timing?

You posted it ;) Can't really complain about this!
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This is great advice. I will also add that if you want a leadership role, model your resume around your leadership experience at this company. You've led a team of 10 people. So say that on your resume. It was your high water mark and you don't have to tell people that you're not leading 10 today. Go out and get that leadership role if that's what you want.
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Exactly. If he doesn't have an open line with the CEO, then I would leave, assuming I have some percentage of options that had vested. I would stick around long enough to vest, then go start your own thing or be a cofounder of something.

I know this situation well. I am employee #1 in a 55 person company and I feel like I might as well be employee 55. But, since I'm remote, I can do my thing, write code, and generally be left alone while getting paid regularly. So being cut out of the loop does have some advantages, especially if you're remote.
I hope you negotiated for a whole whack of equity.
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[Bank] robberies work because they imply violence will occur if their demands are not met, hence the bit about the obvious fear from the first teller.
Push the processor status onto the stack.
"does not mean... " -> what does "isomorphic" mean to you? that would help me. thanks!
Know that this is a thing that exists in the world. At least one HNer could get it approximately tomorrow if they wanted it. Typical form is a large equity grant which, for a publicly traded company, is indistinguishable from cash with a vesting schedule.
??? I get "15 000 Thai baht = 386.683376 Euros".
Made me think of the trisquel logo, although that is apparently related to many other historical symbols and is probably less math and more design.

http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/logo
If you're referring to "...if you measure society by how much people believe they have...", I still don't agree with you. Transactions can cause externalities that can be a negative for third parties.

If you're referring to something else, then I'm curious.
Yikes, that's bad. Do you use any accessibility settings like changing the font size on websites? Or are you on an older version of Chrome? Thanks for sharing.
A good part-overview and part-prediction on the blockchain.

The author however has a rather dismissive tone when he says that "The blockchain literature is packed with graduate dissertations from the Rube Goldberg school of systems design". Perhaps I misread the tone, but IMO, the most important achievements come exactly when such dots are connected together.

That said, there's not a single mention of one of the most important issues in the adoption of the blockchain today - what are the things that prevent the creation of a high throughput blockchain where each individual transaction completes much faster, in order to realistically scale to the kind of workloads that the author's uses cases are likely to throw at it?
A 10-year exercise window has to be extremely rare to the order of non-existing in SV startups. Maybe it's picking up stream since the article was written and I am not aware of it. Can an employee vouch for his/her employer (company) that does this? Do more recent YC companies do this?

In fact, even Quora hadn't actually implemented a 10-year exercisable window by the time (or right before the time) Sam's article was written: see comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7610668. Note that the article simply mentions it as an idea; not as an ongoing implementation. I wonder if it is now actually implemented at Quora.
While it's interesting to get the original comments, it didn't take long before there were a number of books published with full disassemblies of both the BASIC and kernel ROM's with extensive comments out there, full of disclaimers about how they were "just for reference". It's kinda hard to prevent extensive reverse engineering when the each of the twom ROMs were just 8KB each...
without putting value to Angular, many companies that say "works in Chrome" mean "developer friendly". And from "developer friendly", it seems a small step to Angular. Maybe because many developers don't want to invest time learning real JS.
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I never want to work for a company that gives a crap about who has the "power position." There's companies I'm interested in and companies that are interested in me. I have an idea of what they can afford and I know what I need. I set a number there and if they can't pay it I can't accept.

If a recruiter's goal is to shave off $5,000 or $10,000 from your ask then they are wasting time because they could likely just as easily find someone who can fill the position at that compensation level.
I can definitely see a market for stuff like that. The first cam site that adds that could probably rule the world.
> When you pick a password, either you pick something simple and totally insecure (password, 3jane, god), something not so weak but still easily crackable ("kLY8rT"), or you use a password manager.

No I don't.
No, you're telling me that that's what I'm thinking. I haven't said what I'm thinking.

If I _were_ to do so, it would sound like "There's no point in hating the rules, because the rules don't care. Hate the players, because they are the ones who care enough about them to follow them."

I don't care if these rules are explicit or not; I care that they don't produce the outcome I want. And the people who follow those rules are not absolved by weakness, ignorance, self-interest, or any other excuse in failing to resist those rules.

(There's no rule that says anything done in self-interest is correct. Sometimes it is correct to make sacrifices for others.)
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> makes it seem like you're not open to dialogue.

Complaining about downvotes without replies makes it seem like I'm not open to dialogue? I think it makes some people in here seem like they live in a bubble, to each their own huh?

> But this thread isn't about $40 smartphones

Actually, it is; GGP said he "knows people too cheap to pay $1 for apps" and that is completely valid for Android as well. The rest of your post's premise is wrong on that basis. I'm not claiming iphones are popular amongst that sector of the population. But even if I did, as someone else said below, actual pirated/resold iphones do cost around 30-40 USD making them just as accessible.

Edit: And I don't mean to be rude, it just disgusts me how some people here are so full of money it doesn't even register that for some, $1 is a big deal.
Yeah. That too. Being a European I have slightly different possibilities than in the U.S., but fundamentally, having lived in both places, I belive one can be the change here, and there.
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If I was in your position and not in a lead role I'd be upset too. Either they think your too valuable to lose as a developer or they don't think you can't handle those jobs. Either way you need to express your desire to grow. If nothing happens then it is time to find your next gig. It sounds like your a kick ass developer so I'm sure that won't be hard. Just make sure your next gig knows you want to do more than just development.
> Do let me know where it goes.

:|
Your "1. Going through the DNS process" starts with records the USG controls! Yes, "the best they could do" would be to defeat the entire system. What do you think happens in a TLS MITM? They USG isn't trying to sign your keys and publish your addresses!

This is not, of course, the only problem with DNSSEC. It's also an archaic 1990s cryptosystem built around 1024-bit PKCS1v15 RSA, which by default makes every DNS record in the system public, trivially dramatically amplifies DNS traffic, and does all this without actually securing DNS lookups from browsers, which still run the old insecure DNS protocol to talk to DNSSEC-enabled caches.

It's a silly system, has been since the USG paid TIS to design it in the 1990s, is nearing two decades delayed, and isn't going to happen. Look at what Chris Palmer from Google has to say about it. Whatever the opposite of "betting on it" is, that's what Chromium is doing with DNSSEC. We should get to work designing a modern alternative.
>We include 10 million resolutions per year for each domain you register with Google Domains.

Hmm, what does that mean for an average website?

100 readers * 365 days * ~273 (html+css+js+gif/png/jpg) ?

I guess some browsers cache the DNS requests too..
I can understand refusing the money on principle, but it's always nice to have money for a rainy day. Healthcare ain't cheap
Great service. Bonus link: how to conduct an Heurist Evaluation: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-to-conduct-a-heuristic-e...
"... it feels more like a sign that MS is embracing the open source community. So they can focus their energy on what's important, developing their software and maintaining good connection with the developer community."

Yes, precisely. I'm not sure how you didn't get that out of what I said, but that's what was meant.
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I'm not arguing that there aren't any libraries.
Some subreddits of the reddit fork voat.co do this
> I claim that employment is non-meritocratic first by your measure: if access to a better education is not merited, then employers concentrating on qualifications alone are not hiring according to merit.

That doesn't follow. Maybe education changes your merit, and people with a better education actually are better at their jobs.
Yeah, if you're looking specifically for 1-person developers, it's hard to find them. But I think that's because most people aren't comfortable making the art or music for their own games. (Or choose not to out of time pressure.) If Derek Yu had chosen to sell the original Spelunky, I think it would have done well. I think Towerfall might count, since I know Matt Thorson has done the art and music for most of his games. Nidhogg has been pretty successful lately, as well as Samurai Gunn.

For the record, I don't think pixel art has to be particularly high quality for the game to be successful. Right now I'm playing an alpha of Vagante and having a ton of fun. It's looking like it's gonna be a hit. The graphics are muddy and kind of NES-looking with lots of cheap rotations — and that's OK.

> Try making something equivalent yourself this year.

I'm actually planning to do just that. So I guess we'll have to see!
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Namecheap has 2FA.
No, it doesn't. I'm surprised you care how I view human nature. Saying my views are cynical, though, is a little like saying it's sad the reason the earth rotates around the sun isn't because the earth loves the sun so much, it wants to curl around it.

What matters isn't whether I'm cynical or dry or cold, etc.; what matters is whether I'm right, and if not, why not.
I know! I posted it roughly 6 hours before it hit the front page. I really didn't expect it to get as high as it did. Sysadmin on a packed train isn't fun! Thanks for all the supportive and useful comments guys, really appreciated. I'll be sure to finish off the next article when I get chance. The site should perform a bit better soon. I added a nodebalancer, just waiting for the DNS to propagate.
Ask HN: Are there studies that compare development speed in different languages?
Our startup is built in Java with the Tapestry framework (for historical reasons). We're concerned that we're not shipping features fast enough, but also that we are kind of at the maximum speed possible for a "Java startup". We've done all we can to improve speed of everything a "around" development - e.g. product management - but we can't seem to get any faster.

Every time we try something new, it feels like we have to build it from scratch, whereas if you were using Ruby or PhP, there would already be a dozen open-source versions we could use or adapt quite easily.

One extreme option is to re-write our entire app in a more nimble language and framework.

I just wondered if there are any studies that give an idea of the relative speed of development between different languages/frameworks?

/non technical CEO asking...
I would love to know what Eric Ries or Steve Blank would say about this board game.
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Here's a nice overview of all the 6502 instructions: http://www.obelisk.demon.co.uk/6502/instructions.html
Four actually. Three for position in 3D space plus one for time.
Correct. However the point still stands that he considered $2M insultingly low. Not because he felt it was fake, but because even if it were a real offer it wasn't enough.
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Half a zillion idea: use sound echolocation principles.

Edit: http://www.gsmnation.com/blog/2013/06/19/echolocation-app-le...
Liquid nitrogen can be made on site from the ~80% nitrogen in air. Saw this cool machine at "the" physics show this weekend: http://www.elan2.com/product_elan2office.asp. Probably not exactly cheap, but great for medical offices and others who need a regular supply of the stuff.
Dominant among whom? People who want to gut public institutions and "The Commons" and carve up the spoils like post-Soviet kleptocrats for their own personal gain?

There is a large population of people (including many economists) who DON'T subscribe to your supposedly "dominant" theory.
Examine DNS lookups, examine URLs, MITM potential to read everything, all sorts of things they could do on just the network level.
This is the most interesting part of what I just read:

>“I left a message with my girlfriend’s sister and I told her, ‘Yeah, I’ve got into the city, I’ve got myself a room at The Bowery Hotel, I filed for Social Security, I robbed the bank and I went to the drugstore,’” the 61-year-old told The Post in an exclusive interview at the Manhattan Detention Complex on Sunday. “I told them, but they just didn’t pay any attention to the ‘robbed the bank’ part.”

Next time you need to break some bad news how about it! "I left a message with my investors saying, "Yeah we have another two hires, we've just gotten a small TC story, filed for a provisional patent, I closed a down round, and I went to meet with that guy who you introduced me to last week."

"I told them, but they just didn't pay attention to the 'I closed a down round' part."

can't say you didn't mention it!
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As long as one speaks/writes the truth and can back it up with evidence, one should not fear defamation/slander suits.

Unless you're in America, land of the dysfunctional legal system, home of the brave.
I think the lone developer, or lone lead developer as it truly is now, is still viable. It is probably better this thinking is out there though. Most games are a small team or require assets of many developers nowadays. The land rush is over but gaming is still the biggest draw.

Most projects we work on are in house or contract and they have a couple or few people on teams. Sponsored games and advergames were also the money makers with flash gaming and will be with WebGL and more. Internal IP or titles also help pad revenues and transitions. Gaming is big in agency promotions. Gaming is bigger still in mobile.

It is very difficult no doubt but even a single developer is more like a team now with things like Unity/Unreal/Cocos2d-x/etc as the engine team, asset stores for many things, contractors for art/audio/design/development and plenty of markets to get into. The age of the from scratch lone developer is over, but there is just as much opportunity as ever for teams of 1-5 or so.
I think we are headed for the dark ages of PC gaming.

Before, the top AAA studios made games with mods in mind. This allowed massive genres like Dota and Counter-Strike to come into existence.

Nowadays AAA studios see modders as leeches and try to cut them out of the game so they can sell DLC and skins to whales.

You can see this happening everywhere.

- No modding in Blizzard's new games.

- No modding in Dota2.

- CS:GO and TF2: Making 3rd party servers hard to find compared to official ones.

- Minecraft declaring freemium servers to be illegal

The indie games on Steam Greenlight don't make up for this. It is much harder to prove a concept by making a game from scratch. Most of them are quite shoddy and get abandoned after they receive a bunch of money from early access.
He's definitely meaning something along the lines of 'plausible' - 'the possible' here means 'what we consider possible'.

I think the quote makes that obvious though. If you hammer everyone's parse errors out of snappy quotes they end up pretty awkward and dull.
Or you know, you decide to bundle it in an emulator for fun not profit, then get sued by Microsoft.
>Modules such as the PTR5518 can be pretty cheap

Those are $8 each! That's way too expensive if they want to sell this thing for < $100. I'd think you'd probably want the total cost for making these to be ~$15 max.

I've also been looking into wireless connectivity options for consumer devices, and the options do not look too good for small companies or individuals. You can get NRF51822 chips for around $3 each in bulk, but then you are greatly increasing the difficulty level and making FCC certification potentially much more painful. (I mean, say you get it working but then it fails the emissions test. If you're not an Real Electronic Engineer, how are you realistically going to fix that?)

Also, not everything supports bluetooth LE, and consumers just know that their device has "Bluetooth" (if they even know that), and are going to get pissed if their Bluetooth device can't connect to your (ahem) dildo.

MicroUSB connectors aren't super expensive (less than $1 each in bulk).

Anyway, none of the frustration there is directed at you -- just ranting a bit.
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I second NameSilo. $8.99/domain and so far that's it - no jacking the price on renewal etc.
For the US - Depends on if you're exercising and holding or exercising and selling. If you didn't get the opportunity, or forgot, to take an 83(b) election as a founder, then you've been paying income taxes as your shares vest. If you were keen on taking that 83(b) election, your tax liability is negligible on liquidation and you pay nothing until that point for usual ISO arrangements.
> Middle managers have to not just follow it, but enthusiastically agree with it, even if they think it's stupid or counterproductive.

Clearly, my colleagues and I are doing it wrong, then. If you enthusiastically agree with everything the higher levels hand down, you are completely superfluous. In any decent organization, it is your job to disagree when necessary.

You are higher up than your reports, so you have a bit more context that helps communicate/explain things that come down from "on high". At the same time, you're still close enough to the trenches that you can speak up about issues that just weren't visible at the level above you.

Yes, ultimately higher management can override all your decisions. But if they are any good at their job, they listen to your input. That's the whole point of having layers of management - separate abstraction levels, and the ability to communicate important concerns up and down the abstraction ladder.

Yes, the manager who's just the megaphone to "his master's voice" is a common pattern, but it's not the pattern of a good manager. The same way that the copy/paste "programmer" is a common pattern, but not the pattern of a good programmer.
I have no problem with researchers claiming that their result only happens in a very narrow circumstance ... so long as the resulting drug is only FDA-approved for use in that specific circumstance ;-)
Maybe he lives in a developed country so has access to state healthcare.