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I wanted to let people know that the person with possibly the most credibility for developing young, startup talent in the state of Virginia announced just now he's available for hire - Spencer Ingram.

https://medium.com/@SpencerIngram/spencer-as-a-service-34bcd...

He started http://hackcville.com/ at the University of Virginia, developing young talent as a non-profit without taking a salary ever. Many important people including Alexis Ohanian has repeatedly praised his work, including here http://hackcvillemedia.com/2015/04/29/making-world-suck-less.... Anyone hiring and especially hiring young (21-25 year old talent) should consider putting him on contract immediately.

(if this does not belong on this thread someone let me know and I'll remove it, but it seems like it does to me.)
First of all, you should always value equity at zero. Neither your landlord nor the guys at the farmers' market want your stock certificates, which are overwhelmingly likely to end up worthless (if they aren't already).

Second, most companies don't pay bonuses. Those that do usually have a bonus pool that depends in some way on the company's success in the marketplace, and they can almost always abolish bonuses at management's discretion. A good rule of thumb is that the more you need a bonus in a given year, the less likely it is that there will be anything in the pool. Don't even think of budgeting for a bonus. Ever.

Knowing what you're actually going to get as long as they keep you on is the right information. The other thing you'd want, which is very hard to get, is how likely they are to keep you on. For public companies you can read the 10Qs and look for news about layoffs, but it's much harder to discern how secure you will be at a smaller/private employer.

HTH.

Signed,
A Veteran of 2001
5K raise is a good deal in some countries/industries. It might mean a 5% increase in a 100K sallary but it can also mean a 25% raise in a 20K sallary.
Willpower is great for when you have no belief in your own instincts or smarter approaches to getting what you want, which for some people is always. It's a great tool for smashing square pegs (with sufficient force) into whatever shape of hole you are faced with.

> The most difficult is discipline over your own thoughts (which tend to change with your mood and emotions),

I think thoughts come before and inspire moods and emotions, more than vice versa.

It's hard to maintain discipline over your own thoughts because it's like trying to redirect the Amazon river with a teaspoon. It tends to be more effective to try to gently steer it in a certain direction, or try to quiet it altogether (meditation).
We are all* bad at bad at negotiating when we desperately need a job, this is one of the biggest reasons I suggest people look for a different job while they're still employed, if they have that luxery.

Job hunting while you don't need to helps you overlook those places where you know you might not be a good fit for whatever reason, and interviewing when you don't need to helps you build your negotiating skills.

I got my current job while happily employed at my last one, the only reason I applied was quite literally for the interviewing experience. But I liked what I saw, they agreed to a salary that I decided ahead of time was the bar that had to be met to be seriously considered as a potential new job, so I said yes and so did they.

2 years later, I'm loving my job, my team, and my management team. Job hunt while you don't need to.

How do I know I'm making market rate? I check glass for periodically and share salary info with colleagues who reciprocate.

* we aren't all bad at negotiating but enough of us are that I think its a safe generalization here.
The experiment you propose is what aresant is describing in point 2.
As I stated, I was using America as the context, as I thought the parent post was. Our history with drugs and alcohol does not match all places, in all times.

More importantly, we are talking about people's _perceptions_ of these events and how they influence modern thought. Most of us are taught things like "the pilgrims served beer at the table instead of water". The reason for it, or whether or not it is even true, doesn't change that we all grow up thinking that "beer is no big deal - even the pilgrim's children drank it".

You could even extend that to Sherlock Holmes - it is subtle in the stories, but no one checks or cares if it was actually legal. We _are_ all left with the negative impression that he was a secret drug addict, who often disappeared for periods of time to indulge.
Forget about mobile, it runs at like 5 FPS on my Core i3 laptop.
It has recently become popular to be anti-REST. It makes you seem smart and more knowledgable than average.

In practice, I think that an GraphQL API is still a form of REST.

People hate on REST when they should be hating on the bad instances of things that others made and said 'But it's REST!', regardless of whether it was or wasn't or that person had RTFM
https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/fielding...
Okay, I was hearing about this weeks ago. My main question is 'does this infringe on Amazon's patent?'. Apple pays Amazon, so that they can use this unique feature. How is this different?

source: https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2000/09/18Apple-Licenses-Am...
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> Don't stop until you've got a sheepish grin on your face.

When you hit "sheepish grin"...go up another two steps. Then practice saying it with a straight face. This is probably closer to your actual market value.
C89, so it's also compatible to Microsoft's vcc.

There are quite some compiler bugs remaining in Nim and the standard library could be improved.
Unless current employer a) receives your permission to pull your tax return transcripts or b) receives your permission to contact your previous employer and you provide permission for previous employer to divulge said information, you will almost surely not be found out.

Disclaimer: Not a lawyer, not your lawyer, but fairly confident based on past experience with this over ~15 years.
As a user, having to file a form using EchoSign, I would to cringe. It requires flash and has some really bad usability. An example of that is requiring at least two non-standardized date formats. UX is important for forms because humans make errors when information is not clear.
How Putting Money on It Made Me Learn Swift
Very cool. This looks like a solid answer to a simple question that many people would like answered. Now if only I could think up good side projects like this to do. : )
Microsoft Open Sources RoomAlive Toolkit
I would also like to know what that was in reference to. Talk about vague, unspecified "toxins" tends to trigger skepticism on my part (but I suppose "LPS" is something specific I know nothing about)...
There's an important distinction here though. This isn't a discussion about disclosing salary requirements, it's a discussion about disclosing previous salary, presumably so the company can make you an offer only marginally better than that. That's a big problem if you're already underpaid.
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I had an interviewee tell me he "likes to rock out with my cock out" this week... so don't do that.
There is an emphasis on .NET experience for application development as our production software stack is mostly based there (at least the bits that aren't embedded). So yes, having some experience in this environment is a plus.

For more R&D positions, this balances against experience with libraries and techniques, and we have done some dev work on linux, etc. for these reasons.

For the position(s) I most care about at the moment, significant industry experience would easily trump platform familiarity, but obviously that might not be true for all openings. C++, particularly modern C++, experience would be a plus too, as would familiarity with a range of numeric and image processing libraries and the like.
Most comments have responded assuming that it is a startup, and it was a correct assumption.

But it's helpful to know that large publicly traded tech companies can offer as much as 30%. If or when I do choose to work for one, I'll keep that in mind.
And if you don't have intelligent HR/legal counsel, you're on the receiving end of a lawsuit by said previous employee.
What you're asking is basically the concept of statistical power. Assume the original study found an effect size E, and we take that as the truth. How likely is the replication attempt to find a statistically significant effect?

The Reproducibility Project calculated the sample sizes necessary in advance, so if the effects are the size the original researchers claim, they'd have good power to detect them.

Their power could be worse than they expect, though; pioneering studies tend to overestimate effect sizes, because their sample sizes are too small and they filter for statistical significance. I call the problem truth inflation: http://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/regression.html#truth-inf...

Anyway: understanding the random nature of results is exactly the job of statistics, and the Reproducibility Project researchers are being very careful with their statistics.
There are lots of known risks of cancer from excess alcohol consumption. Not sure why you would think otherwise.
This is very interesting as the Wikipedia entry in English [0] never mentions this part of the accident. They mention the security guards locked the door, but never return to the reasoning, nor if the security guards were also charged with anything.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_nightclub_fire
I have yet to find any case law where this occurs.

Regarding gossip, "Would you trust a company who checks up on someone's previous paycheck?" seems to quell that pretty quickly.
Look on the door in the room, and it'll show the rate, which is typically far greater than what you paid (typically 2-3x)
Really excited to see this being published (and under MIT License), and hoping to see more developments in this area.

Corresponding video[1], if you need a refresher on RoomAlive.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILb5ExBzHqw
[chx] > Sorry but most bug reports, even from QA departments are noise at best, nuisance at worst.

[eropple] > Your experience certainly doesn't match my experience; I've worked with brilliant QA people who were able to diagnose problems both when deviating from spec and when performance is a feature that isn't being properly met.

chx conflated the two, not eropple.
Perfect timing, was just thinking about ways to do this, to store which images have already been viewed by the user, with fast lookups to ensure that the next image hasn't already been seen by them.
As an employee, I think it's important to remember that your manager isn't going to withdraw his initial offer just because you make a counter offer.

The worst thing that can happen is you'll be told "no" and you'll have the same raise (or job offer) that you had before.
Wouldn't this be a great case for fecal transplant? I have to wonder how effective oral probiotics can really be, give that the oral route includes an acid bath on the way to the intestines. Seems that a fecal transplant would get the desired results near-instantly.
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Myers-Briggs four-letters are usually self-imposed ("I am an ENTJ"), so it's as good a wearable marker as any other trendy trinket, useful or not.
What's with the PVG-ANC route? Is Apple doing U.S. fulfillment out of Alaska? Those phones still need to reach the mainland, so I think you need to double the ton-kilometer number to get them down here.
The article is talking about #talkpay, a hashtag about gender pay equality. And the article is tagged "Women in tech". So yes, it is applicable.
Looks like a candidate for a fecal transplant:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/clinical-upd...

Most facilities do it the fancy way (use a tube down the nose or up the rear), run tests and, as usual, charge you and your donor out the a! But I've read of DIY'ers who simply spun out the solids, held their nose and swilled the goods(I suppose a real man would use a spoon) or took them in an enema:

http://blogs.plos.org/publichealth/2013/05/29/why-diy-fecal-...

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27503660

Either way it works.

"Compatible" donor? Healthy family member(s).

As the author of the article notes, probiotics can't possibly match the variety of organisms that a typical human has in their gut.

Business proposal: a repository where people deposit feces prior to taking strong antibiotics, so that, should they find themselves consequently absent intestinal flora and fauna, those could easily be restored. Kind of a new twist on the old curse "Eat shit and die!"
This has happened to me several times. It's not nearly as rare as you think.
The funniest one I ever had: Going from my wife's startup to Google.

> What is your current salary?

> I make minimum wage, plus founder equity current valued at $X Million over the next few years.

I soon made it clear to the recruiter (who was very nice and understanding, btw) that previous compensation comprised of intentionally-minuscule salary and startup equity with funny-money valuations would not be a good proxy for my value-add. Worked out fine.
One of my profs told the class (NucE) that after the cold fusion announcement, people would come around the department to furtively ask for heavy water and such. So you can bet that smart people aren't going to pass up the opportunity to confirm what would be a major scientific discovery.
A lot of companies are starting to hire for capability instead of experience in just the specific tech. But I can't imagine if you have no experience in their stack that there would be much interest from a company. Unless you have significant domain experience or the stack is very similar to what you have been working in.

So to answer your question, I don't think going after a RoR position would be worth your while given what you have said. But Angular vs Ember seems reasonable. e.g. framework switches aren't as critical to me as would be you having no experience in the core development language, depending on the situation of course.
Healthy marxism and healthy capitalism actually look pretty similar. A free market for people, aware of their market value and able to move between employers without artificial restriction looks a whole lot like the proletariat seizing the means of production.
H2i – An interactive HTTP/2 debug console
If the #1 rule everyone should know is 'Never Talk to Police', #2 should be 'Never Reveal Your Salary'.
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Patrick's got a ton of great insight into salary negotiations, and this post is no exception. Everybody (especially engineers) - needs to get comfortable talking about compensation and wages in safe spaces. This shouldn't come from a sense of ego, but from a much more humble and sincere sense of information-sharing.

The people who are hurt the most by keeping compensation info secret are precisely the ones that need the information the most - folks from low income backgrounds, people worried about making more than their parents, etc.

As a practical tip, one thing I encourage everybody who's a client to model their equity grant in a simple excel spreadsheet. You need to know

* your strike price
* preferred share price
* company valuation
* total # shares outstanding

As a rule of thumb you can assume your shares are "diluted" (that is your total % ownership relative to valuation) will decrease anywhere on the order of 15%-40%) after each funding round depending on company's performance. Plotting this beforehand, along with where you believe the company will end up, will give you a great sense of what your equity is worth.

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They have an office there as well. Just no engineering jobs offered at the moment.

https://www.dropbox.com/jobs/austin
I haven’t contributed to those comment threads, but I have found them much more interesting to read than the original article, regardless of the putative quantity of neocortex supporting their authors’ brows.
Great comment.

Can you point to any more info about Caltech's honor system? I haven't heard of it before and you piqued my curiosity. (Couldn't find much on Google.)
I am not an HR wizard but in general, why don't companies like paying market value for people? If they underpay you're more likely to be disgruntled and leave right? Or worst case you get a rep for lowballing.
I think this goes back to the VA-Tech shooting, where some nutter chained the doors shut and shot everyone inside one of the buildings. After that there was a great hue and cry because his therapists knew he was dangerous but it was illegal to tell anyone.
HTTP/2 removes some of the overhead of requests, but there is still the problem of multiple round trips.

For example, if you request your top three friends and their most recent post using REST you'll probably need to do four requests. And you can't parallelize them because you need to know your friends' IDs before you can construct the comment requests.
Toward Reusing Code Changes [pdf]
Do they know they are being charged by weight if their product is dense, and by volume if their product is not-dense?
Why Inequality Matters: A Review of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
FBI Releases 'Cell Phone Tracking for Dummies,' Plus 4,999 [Redacted] Documents
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I vaguely recall them discovering a number of bugs in the spec along the way as well.
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Yes, we've discovered several spec bugs, as well as bugs in other browser engines.
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