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I will agree with that in certain cases such as Apple or Google, but the startup world isn't really that way.

If you're working for a startup and just think of yourself as an employee you're doing it wrong. You should think of yourself as an investor, not an employee, because you very likely are in every sense of the word.

This is where the friend thing comes in. You're not building friends at company X, you're meeting other people who happen to be investing in the same thing you do. I've kept great friends from previous companies I've worked at who understand that you're an investor and you must look at the company as an investment and be able to walk away if you don't like where it's going.

It does keep you working 60 hours a week, sure, but that's your investment for the shares your received in your offer letter. You stand to make a large amount of money without any capital put in. Regular 40 hour a week employees never get those shares, so obviously they shouldn't put in 60 hours a week to make the CEO a few extra bucks (however there's a caveat here when it comes to bonuses, and i'd argue THATs the return on investment for google employees).

A clearer example of a difference here is that I've seen developers walk away after 5 months at a job. In a regular employee universe that would be career suicide. Because this is the startup world, you only have to say "I didn't like the direction the company was going..." to other potential employers and so long as you're competent they totally get what you mean, because obviously many startups fail and if you see true disaster coming you would be crazy not to bail.

Often times it's actually these "employee" types that kill the startup. They just ride the funding into however many rounds they can until the ship crashes, then find a new place and continue the dragging.

Sorry for the wall of text, but I came here from a place where the "employee" mentality is king (40 years x 40 hours a week x 401k = retire), because it's the most common thing in America and it took me a very long time to get this (I'm an investor, not an employee). There's also the other factors like most people here REALLY enjoy their jobs and have been doing this on their own time for 60 hours a week already, so doing it for a paycheck is just a really cool side effect.
we can “move more,”

surprisingly this is difficult, not impossible.

Back in 2007 I did a simple experiment myself asking, 'at what point do you fail when repeating exercising?' The idea was pretty simple: pick a arbitrary impossible distance to cover and move each day to reach it. The impossible distance I chose 1000km in a year.

So I selected a difficult 10km source and set out each day moving 10km per day until I complete my target. I reached my target by late November and decided to push-on to 1000Ml (1600Km), the last 400 in 20 days.

The key failure point I found? Just before I started. If you could psychologically push through any excuse made not to go, just before you started, It's pretty likely you will start and finish. I keep this up averaging about 2000km/yr using that insight into failure. Up to 300km so far this year (with min/max 1kg weight and 8kg pack).
Why isn't the relevant number the valuation per share? (which they have to tell you, because that's information for your tax return, right?)

In other words, if I have an option for N shares that are currently valued at $X, why do I care whether N is 10% or .0001% of the company. The "value" of the grant is the same in either case, no?
There's really no reason for the hd to be powered most of the time, for this use-case. Download the backup (couple of days to a week for 500gb?) -- spin down the drive. Only needs to spin up if anyone wants to read the data. Now if we move away from the idea of "backup" to just: lets make a set of torrents, and try for many copies of each chunk/DHT -- then that's a different story. It'd be interesting to see how efficient one could make such a "massively distributed content dispersion network". Imagine: suddenly the www is distributed, not centralized again!
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You are quite right! never thought about it but yeah, it's more copy protection. Thanks.
Of course the irony is that much of Apple's dominance has been cemented by their tyrannically analytical optimization of all aspects of their supply chain!
> it's just common sense that the body is a machine and the more you stress a machine, the likelier it is to break

Except a biological system gets stronger if you stress it in a progressive manner. While athletes constantly pushing themselves certainly do get injured, doing nothing seems to cause far more harm long term. Everything from heart health to bone density is usually better in an athlete.

Almost everyone in my family is obese with a host of maladies. I've been running 23 years and am incredibly healthy despite the occasional hamstring pull or achilles tendonitis.
Come and interview at Amazon.com. We have offices in CA too. The culture is somewhat mixed, and there are places that keep things sane while respecting most people's, um, peculiarities.
It coincided with BABA losing 10%.
Whether it was located in her home or not, that building is probably quite secure given who she is and is married to.
I see. Make sense. Thanks
This is not DRM, it's copy protection. DRM is about stopping you from using a product you paid money for - as Wikipedia puts it "[controling] the use of digital content and devices after sale." No matter how many years in the future you travel, no matter what happens to Maxis, the original Sim City will still work (assuming you still have the manual, and hardware capable of playing it.)
Could do--the phenomenon was first seen in sleeping animals. Replay during REM is probably at 1X speed, non-REM (aka slow wave sleep) is in the 10-20x range. The dreams you remember (long, emotionally involved) tend to happen in REM. Of course, we can't ask rats what they dreamt about, but the patterns in the neural activity are very specific (we can decode the rat's position with ~5cm accuracy, and during replay we see coherent trajectories through space that look just like real movement.)

Also Hassabis knows this literature well--he has published work on decoding human memories in hippocampus from fMRI data and we talked shop about replay a long time ago. (Very thoughtful and friendly person FWIW).
>Yes, you'd have to be completely insane not to think that

Well, I think that, and my doctor agrees that I'm not completely insane. Programming for 15+ years, CS degree et al.

>My parents live in a small town in germany, and they rely a lot on me to get basic information about things like operation procedures they will be undergoing, diet advice both in the form of explanations of basic structuring

Yeah, nothing like getting medical knowledge and advice from the internet to fight misinformation...
There are several sayings in fitness circles that are similar to this: "You can't outrun your fork." Diet is the primary reason people are obese, not lack of exercise.
It's just a ubiquitous marketing term. What I mean is it's the standard fine art quality marketed by others. Acid free, varnished, thick canvas, "archival" inks.
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Interesting. They're capping individual participation for that 5% pool at $2,500. If Bloomberg is right that they're looking to raise around $300M, that 5% pool is $15M. That comes out to 6,000 shareholders in the pool if all the members fully allocate.

I wonder how many individuals participate directly in a typical IPO process. I'd assume that this will be strictly additive, and that banks (including MS) will still do their opaque preferred-client treatment on top of the 5% pool.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-14/etsy-s-ipo...
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What do you think about setting up a "How's this idea?" I often come up with random ideas while taking showers and ask my friends if the ideas seem any good to them. Any thoughts?
I seem to recall CIA director Deutch keeping highly classified information on his home computer. CIA Director Patraeus giving classified info to his mistress. National Security Director Berger taking national archive info? Snowden. Its alleged Leon Panetta revealed classified info in his biography. Its almost as if some of the intelligence community leadership could, possibly, lack humility and believe they are infallible. There have been one or two cases in history where a lot of power combined with secrecy has led to bad decision-making. Perhaps this is another example.
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> Clintonemail.com currently uses an invalid TLS certificate, another method that a man-in-the-middle might use to intercept or spoof emails from the server; but Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer points out to WIRED that the State Department’s own TLS certificate is currently invalid, too.

The invalid certificates are a red herring. These are certificates used by SMTP servers[1], and since SMTP encryption is currently opportunistic (i.e. completely optional and trivially defeated by an active attacker), it does not matter whether the certificate is valid or not. Virtually no SMTP client validates the certificate presented by an SMTP server on port 25, let alone care if encryption is used. The only reason why SMTP servers present certificates at all, as opposed to using an anonymous TLS ciphersuite, is because some SMTP clients choke on anonymous ciphersuites.

[1] https://twitter.com/jonathanmayer/status/572779239281332224
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> and has dependably low latency

I am particularly interested in this part. If you are able to share any anecdotal experiences, I'd love to hear them.
Excellent rebuttal. I like how you clearly outlined and explained your counterpoints.
People who are studying that much for the interview are never going to make it at those companies even if they "pass" the interview. They will be managed out in a year or so since weeks of studying to produce actual work isn't really a viable strategy.

Having done 200+ interviews at one of the Big Companies you can generally see through "studied and memorized the question" from earnest attempts at solving it as well (asking them WHY they are doing something is an easy tell).

If I were going out to interview again, the main thing I would brush up on is coding small example problems on a piece of paper/white board. The transition from IDE+internet -> whiteboard in a high pressure situation is not something you want to be coming in cold for. If you are a senior engineer, the problems/coding themselves shouldn't be that hard to tackle blind, but doing them on a whiteboard will throw you off if you haven't tried recently.
If they were focused on the core mission of delivering and only killing people as needed, they'd probably have a stack of resumes metres deep.

Unfortunately it's not so simple. You start out as a Chemistry teacher who just wants to make money on the side giving people a quality product, and end up committing multiple murders.

EDIT: I just read what you actually wrote. only killing people as needed??? You're nuts.
Thank you. That's certainly more compelling than the AP story talking about how her "private email server was reconfigured". Given the language used, Occam's Razor was definitely leaning towards reporter misinterpreted what was said.
It must be terrible for you to have to look at those fourteen letters when you didn't want to. Someone should give you a warning of some kind.
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Yes, it's possible, but governments frown on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_traveler
I'm not sure, but you seem to think that (1) all children are the same, and (2) all children are simply small adults.

I know it's hard to believe, and I didn't fully grasp this until I had some of my own, but children are remarkably varied in many different ways -- compared to other kids, compared to adults, and compared to themselves (even on a minute-to-minute or hour-by-hour basis).

As far as children being like small adults -- I think it's closer to the truth to consider them as small, temporarily insane adults-to-be.
EA bought Maxis in 1997. The Sims was released in 2000. We're now in 2015. I don't think that timeline is compatible with your theory.
That's rather hyperbolic. Battlefield 4 has done reasonably well - about 70% of the sales of Battlefield 3 since its release (1.5 years vs. 4 years).

As for Bioware, the success of the Dragon Age franchise both in terms of reviews and sales is indisputable. SWTOR is also profitable at a recurring revenue stream even though it's not huge.

I have no love for EA but there is a reason they make money - they do just enough to crank em out.
> I was, like most, disappointed

but can you even??
Except when a company dies, no people actually die. They can go on and create new games and new companies.
If one uses one torrent per chunk (500 MB), that's just 42K torrents -- as mentioned here[1]:

"Update: Here’s a copy of 17 million torrents from Bitsnoop.com, pretty much the same format but nicely categorized. It’s only 535 MB."

So, that's 17M [magnet]s, which means the archive could grow by some orders of magnitude from it's current need of 42K [magnet]s, and still doling out a subset to clients seems to be quite possible to manage.

No needs for trackers any more, [magnet]s work fine, and are regularly used to distribute ~1GB torrents (eg: hd tv episodes). Whatever one might think of distributing unlicensed copies of media -- they show that distributing vast amounts of data is quite easy with technology that is readily available and well tested.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/download-a-copy-of-the-pirate-bay-i...
A great question. Nginx is not typically configured as a normal proxy but it can certainly do it. A difference is that Templar gives you control of options applied to each request differently rather than the same the same to all.

From timeouts to caching, one Templar can be used for all different kinds of upstream APIs.
No. Nothing has changed.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/04/snowden-wants-...
I understand but keep in mind that the idea behind ghostnote is not to store your precious quotes but more something like temporarily important notes.

Having said that however we will be making it possible to export/backup the notes into something like evernote or other much more accessible format.
Very cool idea indeed. And here I thought what can people improve for a note app.
I'm thinking the SimCity Online debacle probably had something to do with this.
In general, you'd be right; in parent's hypothetical scheme, the trust model is different because your systems exist on both sides of the exchange (in normal Web communication, this obviously isn't the case). You simply configure your clients to only trust this single certificate that you yourself created and installed on your server. No one could MITM you unless they recreated an identical certificate from scratch, which is mathematically challenging.
A loan of the exercise price + 40% to cover taxes sounds like the best of all worlds to me.
What we need now is a torrent client that can prioritize. In other words: here's this absurd number of torrent chunks, here's the space I have, now what are the best chunks to archive for the health of the swarm?
Kind of like real Christmas tree vs fake Christmas tree, although in reverse. The reusable tree is not more environmentally friendly.
From the environmental point of view, each ceramic plate must be used at least 50
times to have less impact than a single use biodegradable plate...

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If your class is so big that you need to have multiple views of it, then it probably doesn't have great SOLID metrics.
He wasn't, like, totally most disappointed, duh. pops bubblegum

He was disappointed, a sentiment that was shared by many others.
And another 20% off if any further north than Oxford or Cambridge.
One way to avoid the whole stock option / RSU mess is to structure your company as a C-corp that is wholly owned by an LLC, and give your employees membership units in the LLC. This is a very unusual setup and it'll take a good lawyer to help you get it right; but the benefits are huge for employees who own stock, because there are zero tax liability and zero purchasing price until the ownership produces a return.
How can you measure your company culture?
Lets not forgot that EA took the BioWare name slapped it on a completely different studio and released mediocre games with it. DICE is in fact the exception, though they are like the golden goose, then consistently produce quality titles, I expect that if that were to change EA would attempt to terminate them as well.
Heh. A brand-new account and all your posts are complaining about trigger warnings and fat people? The key to a good troll is subtlety. Try harder next time.
I find it highly unlikely that the department of the federal government charged with corresponding with foreign nations and representing America abroad wouldn't have a satisfactory email system. That just seems dubious at best.
Actually the real strategy for those games is to buy exclusive multi-year contracts with the professional sports so that there is 0 competition.
How about this: I'm skeptical of YC and PG; I think much of the touted philosophies lead to success "in spite of" instead of "because of", and I think people naturally want to feel superior which in the case of this community means special insight or cold hard truths, when really most of the time it's just pretty pedestrian ways of operating that are echoed in thousands of companies. The concept of the guru is ancient; this is the latest iteration.
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You still can't schedule multiple simultaneous launches
I wouldn't try pushing this person back into things right away. A start up is a big deal, and maybe even something you'll regret doing wrong. Missing time with your new born baby, that's something you'll really regret for a life time.
Thanks, I only found a Neil Gaiman sci-fi book in a google search :)
"When i think about the email requirements of any corporation, every real job I've had, the use of personal email for company business is against policy and would be a fireable offense."

Rarely enforced. Executives in regulated industries do it all the time. Or (more commonly) when hordes of contractors use their own email systems to discuss client matters -- which is perfectly normal because they are covered by NDA. If someone is fired for using personal email, it's likely because a higher up was looking for an excuse.

Of course a contract doesn't cover classified or FOIA material which is where the questions regarding Clinton's setup will go.
Uber is so unbelievably horrible. It should not be the solution to anything.
But if I have a browser, I have a computer. And if I have a computer.. can I not RDC/VNC? I am honestly trying to question the punchline and not being sarcastic.
From page 6,

>> Instructions are first fetched, then decoded into internal micro-operations

Is 'micro-operation' the same as microcode? I'm not familiar with the ARM Cortex-A architecture but I always thought ARM didn't have microcodes?
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The assumption that 'manpower' is somehow equivalent to 'security' is heart-warming, but wrong. The assumption that 'manpower' was insufficient only because it was hired by some Hillary acolyte, and not by her ministry is wrong. Not sure what is 'invalid' about the certificates, but if it is self-signed, it doesn't mean the setup is 'insecure'. Finally, nobody is guaranteed a secure setup, some of us still remember the happy times when the whitehouse.gov's email system was an open relay.
That might be what they do, but I doubt it is fully intentional, since this is a remarkably stupid "game plan" which makes little financial sense. In the case of SimCity they have murdered what was once a popular and highly-profitable franchise.

Rather it is likely a combination of fantastically stupid middle managers driven by conflicting and dysfunctional incentives coming down from upper management and the board.

(BTW I just described 90% of apparently-stupid corporate behavior.)
you are 100% right. Right after I clicked submit, I started to realize I had recalled incorrectly. Thanks for the link and keeping me honest.
Not quite SF, but this might be close to your fantasy.
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If that 20k is net of VAT, and you're working through your own limited company, in the best possible case you could take home £17,767.20 of that £20,000 for an effective tax rate of 11.2%.

How? Start with the 20k. Pay yourself a 10k salary (tax free, pay £232.80 in national insurance). Pay 20% corporation tax on the remaining 10k (£2000). Pay the remainder to yourself as a dividend (which already has a tax credit applied and results in a 0% liability up to a certain limit).

Now, this does make the assumption this is either the first month of your tax year or the only income you make ;-) If you were to make 20k EVERY month, you would start to increase through brackets and pay more tax on the dividends.

By my calculation using ContractorUK's dividend tax calculator, at 20k every month and assuming no deductions at all, you'd pay around £53k on the total £240k for an effective tax rate of 22%, but I could be wrong. You would also be likely to pay more tax since you'd probably pay yourself a salary despite the loss of personal allowance in order to keep your state pension privileges.

Broadly speaking, direct taxation on income is generally lower than many situations in the US. It's the consumption taxes like VAT (20%) and fuel duty (the majority of the price of fuel) that bump things up a lot. I should also note that if you merely happen to be self employed rather than own your own company, your taxes are actually LOWER here than if you're employed - no equivalent to the "self employment tax" I've heard of in the US.
Not really: in this case the games sold by an infected game studio aren't copies of the original entity that go on to infect other game studios. They're more of a waste product. EA consumes game studios for sustenance and excretes a steady stream of sub-par sequels as it slowly digests its prey.
That has been my experience too.
Yup, hard not to see it this way.
Calling Mass Effect 2 and 3 "exceedingly mediocre" puts you in a camp that is, by pretty much any metric, very fair from the mainstream. And I wonder who these "many gamers" are who think BioWare is a laughingstock. Do elaborate, please.
I'm glad there has sometime, somewhere, been a literal, physical-realm use for the term "Copy Protection"
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