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You know what else is a cost center? Engineering. It's perceived as a massive step up from Call Center or Customer Support or QA but it's just marginally closer to revenue generation than the sales reps and can suffer many the same issues.

At a previous company I managed to end up doing my software development work under a Sales title, so I could get the quota and commissions that would come with it. All of a sudden I was earning a percentage of revenue every time a customer bought the software I wrote, winning recognition from the CEO, going to Presidents Club, etc. and total comp basically doubled. Doing exactly the same job under Engineering in previous years won me maybe a few thousand dollar bonus, or one year a gift card for dinner.

Somehow companies don't realize that you need everyone working as team to hit that revenue number at the end of the year, and every member of that team is doing essential work. You can have Customer Support rockstars, just like you can have Engineering and Sales rockstars. It's just that the Sales rockstars are trivially easy to measure (bookings) and so much easier to reward. I have yet to read about a compelling solution to this, because a low-base / high-commission model is proven to attract and incentivize talented reps and drive out the low performers, and there just isn't an equivalent process you can apply in the cost centers.

Not every employee wants or needs to be on variable comp, but the way we manage and reward employees is often very much dependent on how closely they are to driving revenue. I would be interested in case studies on companies that have managed to Think Differently on this, and I don't just mean a "profit sharing" plan.
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Even with your edit, you still don't get it. McDonald's employee's don't make > $50 an hour. No one can make $300k+ working at mcdonalds, even if they work 24/7. Even if you worked LITERALLY every single hour of the year (8760) minimum wage would get you to ~63.5k. That's a far cry from 300-500k

Any banker type that says something like that is an asshole or is really bad at math. Assuming he's a competent banker he's probably not actually bad at math and is just an asshole.
I understand your perspective and in the rational, everyday setting I agree with you. Thank you for your considerate reply.
Chick-fil-a is known for this. One of my family members called the store to let them know they left out one sandwich on their order. The store manger drove immediately to them with 2 free sandwiches and some coupons. That's just insanely good service for fast food.
Would be nice to replace that with git hooks so you can just use regular git commands. Any idea's if that is feasible?
Cog?

I use it on the Mac because it is small and light, and I organise MP3s by album directories with their own M3U playlists and a global large playlist anyway; I rip my own CDs. (Yes, this is considered archaic by some but at least I still have 16bit lossless physical media and fascinating sleeve notes to refer to, right?)
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I agree.

Normal distribution, arrived at via the central limit theorem, assume that the underlying distributions are independent. They may well approximate independence most of the time, but when extreme events happen, the distributions are correlated, the CLT doesn't apply (not in the simple way it is normally presented), and the overall result is most definitely not normally distributed.

Normal distribution is a terrible model for estimating risk.

The quote isn't the first to confuse bad statistics with some inherent weakness in statistics. Black Swan was a worldwide bestseller based on the same canard.
From working with clients in different timezones (and in a previous life running global projects) this is par for the course.

The fact that you only get 4 hours joint meeting time is just as good as if you were collaborating on east vs. west coast.
Hands up, real quick, everyone who would NOT like to hire a reasonably competent developer, who actually understands what marketing is asking for, and is capable of coming up with a satisfactory solution & deploying that solution in time for it to actually help with the goal marketing needed it for.

You might end up bouncing off a few more HR firewalls, but those are mostly not the places you would be happy working anyway. Your goal in finding new gigs is mostly to bypass HR until they've been given an instruction to walk you through your hiring paperwork.
Zynga's new CEO was also its first
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well considering we still live in the industrial age system of factory owners and factory workers (concept of managers and even lean startup has roots in car factories), I would find it very rare that a non monopoly software business would view their engineering team as profit generators.

software and everyone involved in it's development are becoming commoditized via open source or money being injected by venture capital or a non-monopolized industry over time ends up on certain standards and margin falls for everyone.
But obviously poorly marketed!

I wonder if it'll be available in the UK. Hopefully! I say "hopefully" because attempting to upload photos from my wife's iPad to photobox-like websites is incredibly painful or impossible (or you must use their app due to the iPad having no filesystem access, where ordinary file-access HTML elements just appear as blank spaces in forms, making it IMPOSSIBLE to upload from a website, thereby forcing you to install some rubbish crippled app).
If you want s3 support consider using git-annex. GitLab.com and GitLab Enterprise Edition support it out of the box.
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Yup. Same one. Doesn't matter. Straw man argument.
I don't think any of us are ACTUALLY berating ourselves. I took "asshole" at least partially facetiously--like saying "I dun fucked up" when the pasta boils over. The point is just that it's good to recognize and question the assumptions our mind make.

Just because assumptions correlate with real statistics doesn't de-facto mean the assumptions shouldn't be questioned. For example, why should we assume a gender one way or another at all?

Also it is worth entertaining the possibility that our assumptions can have cultural effects. Assuming it will rain today because I'm in London doesn't effect the weather. However, one can imagine that our assumptions about gender can impact the cultural zeitgeist making women feel more or less comfortable in tech. And for both selfish and altruistic reasons, I want women to feel as comfortable in tech so their numbers increase. It's not random happenstance that there are so few women in tech. Maybe this sort of thing has zero effect, but there's no harm in not simply yielding to our base biases.
Does Github really do this using git's "smudge" and "clean" filters? That would mean reprocessing the whole file for each access. That's inefficient. It's useful only if someone else is paying for the disk bandwidth, and necessary only if you don't have control of the storage system. Why would GitHub do that to itself?
Don Mattrick gets about $15M for leaving Zynga
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You should think about why California is growing almonds for the rest of the world.

Almond growers are acting against the best interests of their community for personal profit. Using fresh water that California cannot afford to use to grow their own bank accounts, with negligible benefit to Californians. Californians shouldn't tolerate this.

"But they pay tax on that profit, that means they are giving back!" you might object.

That is little more than a bribe to shut people up. What is California going to do, use that tax money to import fresh water? From where? From everywhere that they are shipping almonds to? Using that money to fund desalination plants might be a decent idea, but Californians seem fairly dead-set against desalination and I doubt the almond tax money would cover it anyway.
It is apparent in small things like the inability to easily send videos to the AppleTV from a Mac - a doddle with the iPad or iPhone but a dreadful experience on the Mac (use iTunes if it'll support it, perhaps?)
> When I started my role I missed one business trip as my wife was pregnant, fell down the stairs and had to be hospitalised – this was listed as a ‘performance issue’ on my record and brought up during a one on one with management as a major ‘miss’ on my behalf.

What the fuck?! How the heck can this happen between two human beings who happen to work for the same company? I'd rather plant potatoes for a living or even go to war than having to deal with people who have no soul inside of them. Empty shells.
Would certainly reduce the difference between dev and live testing environments!
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What was the more polished version you saw? I've been really interested in Dasher for quite some time but the last time I looked it appeared to have stagnated in terms of progress
Very very sad but true :-(
If you deliberately made it that way and told your candidates, it might work well. If you're a web dev and can't figure out how to un-hide a field, then you don't deserve an interview.
Why not just binary ratings?
I didn't say they should have thrown it away. There are many organizations that accept food donations from private events as long as it is still fresh and in good condition.

In the funeral scenario, the problem was that the funeral was on a Friday and the food was stale and gross by the time it was served for lunch on Monday.

In the other scenario, a lot of people were offended that they were being served left-overs from a private party they weren't invited to, despite being a part of the company. The CEO not only gave preferential treatment to engineering but then went one step further and served the leftover food to the rest of the company. To me, that clearly communicates what he thinks of non-engineers.
I am very happy with Sublime. The only thing I really wish for is AST based autocomplete and code jumps. I know it's slow and won't really work for JavaScript but other editors did something about it. Specially with ES6, it's easier to resolve module imports.
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I think people need to remember that Apple is a tiny, tiny innovative core surrounded by a huge bog-standard "big-corp" full of the same chimps from the Career Builder commercials that all big-corps have. If you're not part of that tiny core, you just work at Office Space.
Does anybody know whether the original was destroyed by the NYPD? If so it's a real shame.
Its painful to watch them struggle so much. The once mighty Zynga, now cant be seen anywhere.
It's 11 pages long. You can't read that in one sitting?
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I am surprised Don Mattrick would be let go, especially since most of the projects he oversaw have not been released yet. But given that we're dealing with Mark Pincus, the founder famous for wanting control, I guess this was expected.

To those who are unaware, Mattrick was primarily let go for his failure with Zynga Poker. The updated version killed user engagement so badly, the game may never recover. Zynga Poker is one of the company's most interesting assets, given that online gambling will be legalized in the next few years.

Mattrick represented a shift in Zynga: instead of low-brow clones of competitors, Zynga would focus on high-polish triple AAA games. It was a daring strategy, since Zynga's reputation single handedly scared away many amazing game designers. You can copy a farming game easily and get decent results if you have a team of data analysts. It is quite difficult to copy a great hardcore RTS and get good results. Zynga spent 500 million USD to buy NaturalMotion, an excellent game developer in this space. They spent a ton of money on their slots game, acquiring valuable IP licenses + great slot designers. They spent a ton of money getting the Tiger Woods license. Etc etc.

Pincus has never shown the ability to manage high quality game designers. He has only showed the ability to manage MBA-types, who aren't considered the most creative of the bunch. Mattrick would have been a better leader in this vertical. Any midcore/hardcore gamer would rather want the XBOX CEO over Pincus.

What does this signal for Zynga's future?

1) All of Mattrick's high-polish products are now under the leadership of someone who isn't as geared towards this vertical.

2) Increased importance for social casino and real money gambling for the company- The fact that this is the main reason why Mattrick got fired highlights Pincus' goal of dominating real money gambling.

#1 is a negative signal, #2 is a positive signal. I'd agree with the rest of the market and say this is a net-loss for Zynga.
He would either need to cut a space for the track into the board (there goes an expensive board if the results are poor) or put two tracks on either side of the board like training wheels. I don't think either makes sense as the first is too destructive and risky and the second will severely limit turning even more and most likely add unneeded weight.
If it wasn't for hacking, we would never have had the first video games, and there might not be an ESA to care about it. Most early video games came about by hacking around on the computers and video terminals of the day, making them do things they were never intended to do. The same goes for many early console games on Atari and Nintendo systems, where the programmers found ways to make games do more than the system designers thought possible.
I hope they introduce these cloud systems in parallel and do not force it for those who don't want/need/use it. I certainly don't. I can see it being useful for my mum, but not for me.
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This is not at all surprising. Statistics isn't the right tool for financial analysis... it's just the best tool that we have. Incredibly unlikely statistical events happen all the time in finance.

A great read on an alternative view on the topic of using statistics for finance is The (Mis)Behavior of Markets by Benoit Mandlebrot [1]. It's very well written, basic enough for most to comprehend and first book on finance I read in college (before I went on to major in finance + math).

The aforementioned book has some very interesting notions with Trading Time being my favorite. Basically one can near-perfectly "forge" financial data with fractal objects called "financial cartoons" [2]. The objects are composed to two distinct fractals - one for price vs trading time and another for trading time vs clock time [3]. The latter rescales the volatility seen former, either compressing or expanding it. Rescaling volatility isn't a new idea, but it was a parallel "discovery".

There has been some work on figuring out how to use Fractal Geometry to analyze financial time series data but it's still in its infancy. The problem is figuring out how to transform the data into the fractals domain + figuring out what the results from a fractal based analysis would mean for forecasting future events. I've been working on these problems for many years (in earnest in college and as a hobby thereafter) but made little true progress.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Misbehavior-Markets-Financial-Turb...

[2] http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/randfrac/Market/Fake/Fake.h...

[3] http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/randfrac/Market/TradingTime...
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as noted elsewhere, apple actually employs over 90,000 people. it's less significant in that scope.

Also, while I have no doubt his experience sucked, he was also in customer service as opposed to being a developer/engineer. I suspect those areas differ somewhat. (Not suggesting it's ok at all, just that it may not be completely representative of the entire company)
That looks very interesting!
Using HR lingo, try "s/employees/resources/". Now it parses, neh?

I've read that book (audio) - that was one of the more cringeworthy passages of the book. What I gathered was that Tim probably felt like "hey I wouldn't do this, but it's Steve and he's my boss so I have to put a marginal defense out there".
I used to struggle a lot with procrastination/motivation, but these days I very rarely have trouble with it.

It wasn't an overnight change, I just tried to be aware and accountable to myself, tried lots of different things, and gradually improved. It took about three years or so, and I'm still working on it.

My friends often ask me how I'm so productive, which feels really weird to me because I still feel like I'm lazy and unfocused. I only have maybe 1.5-2.0 hours of "free" time these days, with occasional weekend days where I get 5-6 hours of project time. I think part of it is just knowing that my time is so limited, I had better make the most of it.

To "drown in free time"... I can't even imagine. Don't take that for granted. Don't judge yourself for wasting time yesterday, just sit down and do something.
He is wrong in this article: CDs did not suck. Compressed audio sucked, unless you had NIHL and love reduced dynamic range and poor attack transients.

I am glad CDs are still around to stop this MP3 slime from washing away all the uncompressed audio!
Yes and no. Yes, you can't run an experiment to prove God to five sigma certainty.

No, in that God is not (just) a philosophical question. There is a reality which exists. Either there is a God who actually exists in reality, or there is not. It is a question of what is the truth about what actually exists, not just a philosophical question.
You know what else is illegal? Selling something to someone and then taking it back whenever you feel like it.
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In 2010, melons, squash, and cucumbers combined accounted for 10% of the irrigated crop area of almonds and pistachios in California.

Source: California Department of Water Resources http://www.water.ca.gov/landwateruse/anaglwu.cfm

Further, per the same source, over twice as much water is applied to each acre of almonds and pistachios as each acre of melons, squash, and cucumbers.

What I've found so far for beef statistics doesn't make a lot of sense to me. For instance, California has the 4th largest cattle population in the U.S. (half of Texas' beef population), but is not in the top 10 beef producers. California is the top dairy producer, but it appears that only ~34% of the cattle population is dairy cattle. Further, it appears that chicken has been the meat of choice for the U.S. since the late 1990s.

Source: National Cattlemen's Beef Association: http://www.beefusa.org/CMDocs/BeefUSA/Producer%20Ed/Directio...
doesn't really seem relevant to Hacker News
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Moderator's code would probably scare you :)
It was written in an era where optimization really matter.
Not that it's written in assembler or anything, but it minimizes the amount of reads/writes it makes to the datastore through interesting means at times.

It is unlikely, for example, you would ever be able to discern the voting and question scheduling algorithms from reading the source code, despite the fact that i could write them for you in about 1-2 pages of java.
I'm not sure, but I doubt a hook would do. An alternative would be to have a frontend script to git that would shadow the git command (using shell aliases) and call git-annex when appropriate.
Sorry, to be clear, I don't consider 4 "reasonable". It's more like it's crept up and I've set a pretty hard limit on more rechargeable tech.
Mmm. "Clever".
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Sure. The airline industry, for example, has been notoriously unfriendly towards most attempts at differentiation based on quality. Margins are razor thin (http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/03/travel/how-airlines-make-less-...) and customers are incredibly price sensitive. While many consumer's stated preferences are for things like more legroom and less delays, their revealed preference is they'd rather save $5 on a $300 ticket and suffer the indignities.

I would argue you're seeing the same narratives play out in the ride sharing space right now. Lyft tried to compete with Uber with their friendlier drivers vs we'll get you there faster and cheaper messaging and we'll see how long that differentiation lasts since Lyft seems to be rapidly backing away from their branding and into competing on purely on price.

Markets which are natural monopolies like Comcast also don't profit from extra CS. When your choice is shitty broadband vs no broadband, there's little CS, good or bad can do to sway your decision.

Markets where the purchaser is not the end user like enterprise sales also benefits from investing more money in sales than support. Every doctor I've ever been to has bitched at length about basic usability issues with the software they're forced to deal with but they have no real power so the software stays uniformly bad.

Markets where purchases happen infrequently. I recently had to buy a spare part for my refrigerator. Amazon didn't carry it, and the sites that did seemed uniformly low rent and amateur. I ordered from 1 site that said it was in stock and chose reasonably fast shipping. After not hearing from them for 2 days, I sent an email and they got back to me saying that due to a clerical error, it was actually out of stock and wouldn't be shipping out for another 4 days. Meanwhile, the website still listed the part as in stock. They didn't care, what's the worst I could punish this retailer for? Denying them all of my future spare fridge part purchases?

Sure, there's always exceptions to be found in all of these areas but by being the exception, you relegate yourself to a niche of the market and it becomes hard to expand outside of that niche.
> And native rsync interoperability too? I've love to banish cygwin from my Windows servers.

Hear, Hear! You and me both. I've never liked Cygwin and do my best to avoid when possible.
Perhaps we could have a competition here? Some childish teenagers likely flirted by nudging each other, pulling each other's hair to get attention or flicking elastic bands at each other.

Neither of them wore an Apple Watch.

Quite poignant.

(I didn't do these things btw).
Leanest cut of beef (eye of round) is 526cal/lb http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/7398?man=&lfacet=&cou...

Fattiest beef I could find (70/30 ground) is 1501cal/lb http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/3960?man=&lfacet=&cou...

Using 4000gal/lb, this gives us a range for beef of 0.13-0.38cal/gal. To get to 1.0 you'd have to be using pure tallow
This seems to be true. And also, while internet is full of stories of "what it's like to work at Google/Facebook/etc", you will have hard time finding a similar one about Apple.

My explanation for that is that the "tiny innovative core" is way too overworked to write about themselves and everyone else is just irrelevant.
Yeah, and hopefully weren't using an Android device?
Seems like a misnomer then, eating allergies wouldn't be considered hygiene related, would they?

Even pollen isn't really hygiene related.
Interesting that it never gained wireless but was still a phenomenal success.
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Apple wasn't marketing them to the audiophile - they came with cheap white earbuds, not Sennheisers.

CDs did suck for the mainstream consumer. Consumers are still opting for streaming music over high-quality FLAC tracks saved to their phone/PC/etc.

I think you meant to say: He was wrong as far as my use case was concerned.
Do you have plans to support replication from sources? Having to manually load data via a query takes away real time use and takes away the gains of the query in bigobject.
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Oh, the self-rigtheousness.