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That whole "we're a big, happy family is annoying". The company I previously worked at it was big into it.

It seemed to work for them when they were small (<= 50 employees and before I was there), but once they got to a certain size it just became annoying.

They used to have these monthly "before work hours" meetings that turned into bi-monthly meetings that were especially annoying. They would trot out some executive to say this and that and also had this weird group of employees that would dress up in costumes and put on these weird little skits.

But the final straw for me was when we were acquired by another company and they started trotting out the new executive team. One lady was showing pictures of her family riding 4-wheelers. That was it.

"I'm sure you're a nice lady, but I don't care. We have our own families".

I told my boss that I wouldn't be attending these anymore and I would give my resignation if he wanted. He grinned and said he understands..it was annoying to him too.

I think I left a couple months after that. The whole sappy-happy family wasn't the main reason, but it sure was annoying.
If it gives you any clue, here are some famous photos from the early days of Black Diamond, Chouinard's first company:

http://www.prolificmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/P...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Tom_Frost...

They sold their gear off picnic tables in Yosemite. They themselves were (are) climbers, and they climbed on the gear they made.

(I think the answer to your question is "both")
1. Very few employees are in a position to demand concessions from their employers at all.

2. My experience is that typically employees are more concerned for their employers' interests than employers are for their employees'.

3. In Aesop's fable, the farmer helps the viper out of the kindness of his heart. I have had some good employers, but not once have I had the impression that they were employing me just to make my life better rather than because they hoped I would do work for them to their benefit.
I agree that you could use a bit more direction on what users should be giving money to. Very Cool idea though!
Google cuts off Android (OS) updates when phones are older than 2.5 years. The minimum OS version supported by apps is continually rising. A 6 year old Android phone is near useless.
These are companies that in the Valley are referred to as "lifestyle businesses" in a derogatory fashion, as they'll never be "IPO" money. Yet, they have happy customers, happy employees, and generate a profit.
I don't get it. What do you think he "wants" to hear?

I think this is a great question, that's honest about the nature of a skilled employee's relationship to an employer. I don't think it's at all about the employer pretending to care about the employee - it's a straightforward way to find out what the prospective employee wants (other than loads of money, which this employer doesn't have), so that the employer can try to offer it to them. It's classic SPIN selling.
> "Everything is ease-of-use optimized, to the point that you can query Mongo via the browser console."

meteor remove autopublish

meteor remove insecure

The Mongo-accessible frontent is genius. This makes your prototyping much faster, and you can totally skip the "model" layer of your frontend. It matches your backend automatically. No further configuration needed. No REST endpoints, no callbacks. And yes, it's secure.

Meteor's security model is very well-designed. The list of things left for the developer to do, security-wise, is very short.

It's still important to learn your tools and understand how security works.

http://docs.meteor.com/

http://security-resources.meteor.com/

https://github.com/themeteorchef/security-essentials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_3pomxyp8M
Great article!
It's funny to think how our kids are overwhelmed by useless subjects and have no background on personal finance.

On the long-term, it's fundamental for building wealth and a future for oneself.
If you want to get pedantic, I think a Nespresso would fail the Istituto Nazionale Espresso Italiano standard - espressoitaliano.org :)

But really I disqualify it because Nespresso simply does not look or taste like an espresso. The crema is always a bit pale and it lacks in concentration of suspended and dissolved solids. They later being important if you want to make a milk based drink that tastes of coffee.
Competition is like medicine.

In moderate doses, it inspires you to work hard and achieve personal growth and exploration in any number of areas. I myself benefited immensely from friendly competition between academically gifted peers.

However, take in too much of the competition medicine, and you quickly overdose and will start to suffer a wide array of negative symptoms.
> Perl... performance?

You have to remember this idea comes from the late 90s when Java was slow as a dog, and Perl solidly cleaned the floor with other scripting languages like Python, Tcl, (was Ruby even known then?).

Perl even outpaced C++ for I/O related stuff due to the way Perl buffered input (or maybe the way C++ streams were so badly implemented). Of course a clean slate implement in C++ that avoided...well C++...and used mostly C style code would have cleaned the floor with Perl...but that was the state of C++ in the 90s.

Yeah...Perl had its heyday.
When I was 8, I had a ScotiaBank Getting There savings account. It wasn't online, but then again, that was 20 years ago. Is that still a thing?
Man sets Guinness World Record for farthest hoverboard flight
A big difference with the iPad ( the other product people were skeptical about) is that once you start using the iPad you realize its use. With the Apple Watch, not so much.

I think it's quite possible they really blew it this time.
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Do the users you're supporting set up accounts themselves, or do you set up accounts for them?
>The kid will get a distorted idea of the value of things. //

Are you equating price with value here? Just because something is expensive doesn't mean it is valuable.
Not on this size companies. Mid sized deals involve 20 to 50 people 'in the know' and very rarely leak, even if the deals fall through. Any broker that can't tell a journalist from a serious entity won't be in business for long.
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That wasn't the whole of the back and forth.

We discussed opportunities within the company, what's a good fit for me, starting my own business and eventually that I'd been looking at what else is out there. I actually told him he should be looking too.

He did offer me more money, but I have to wait until our next bonus round to get it. So he used that against me too. It was well played.
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I had that exact experience, along with the representative telling me that it wasn't actually stored or checked case-sensitively, so I didn't need to bother identifying capital/lowercase.
> Companies that use group/political identity

Isn't this every brand since Bernays came along?
I never say "too expensive" to anyone, even myself, ever. If it's too expensive in the sense that I think it's a bad deal (e.g. that 1br/1ba 400sqft house is too expensive at $700k), then I express that.

Everything else though, I say "you have to save for it". A Model S isn't too expensive, I just have to save for it. My wife wanted a couch that I thought was a little unreasonably priced, but I said if we save for it, sure. Savings is separate from retirement and so forth so knock yourself out.

Interesting thing about this is it forces you to choose -- you can't save for 10 really expensive things all at once, unless you're prepared to wait 15 years for the money to accumulate. So this method forces you to choose priorities.

Works great for a kid I think -- you're saving for this $10 book, but you want a $3 candy bar... what is that going to do to your book savings?

You can have anything you want if you save for it.
So admittedly I was intentionally misinterpreting what you meant (Journalists must have a term for this since they do it all the time).

I think we can both agree that "Enterprise" is too broad, vague, and context dependent. Is there a good collective noun that represents the "enterprise stuff" (mostly internal management tools but not exclusively so)? It'd be a useful term to have.
I can imagine that Kafka might make more sense as we scale up further? RabbitMQ has the right trade off of performance / setup etc..
While Google has some enterprise offerings, I think Google is right now more interested in selling to people who sell to enterprise than selling directly to the mainstream of what people talk about when they talk about enterprise.
>but what's the point of incrementally optimizing perl, MRI, or CPython when the result is still going to be an order of magnitude slower than SBCL, LuaJit, V8, or CogVM?

because you can't write Perl or Python for SBCL, LuaJit, V8 or CogVM.
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The article specifically says to check references other than the ones given by the candidate. I wish Reid would expand on that. If I interview at LinkedIn, is he going to blab to my boss and the world that I'm looking for a new job?

I've been cold-called to give references on people I found weak. Frankly, I'm not going to blurt out a lot of negative data to a stranger. It's either a legal or ethical liability, and what's in it for me to trash a colleague?
>I’m guessing all that will happen when my coworker turns in an assignment looking like this is they will take off points for bad coding style and say nothing else about it.

While clever, "useless cleverness" does tend to lose you marks. :)
We replaced it with a phrase from the first sentence.

First paragraphs often contain a more accurate and neutral description of what an article is about. It's as if, having baited you in with the title, they immediately start walking it back.
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Angel will only invest in companies with female founders
I don't know what you're talking about. Renting here is insanely expensive. I pay $1500 for a tiny room in the tenderloin, subletting from a friend who is paying $2900 for the place. It's a small two bedroom with no common space; just two rooms, a small kitchen and a small full bath. Studios in this neighborhood start around $2200.

When I live in São Paulo, Brazil (which isn't exactly cheap and going out can be as expensive if not more expensive than San Francisco), my dad and I split the rent on a 2700 ft^2 penthouse duplex with 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, deck with barbecue pit, dining room, living room, family room. It was one block from Avenida Paulista on Alemeda Campinas. We each paid around $1300 to cover rent and the building fees.

San Francisco is stupidly expensive. The landlord trolls sue to block every single possible development that could alleviate the housing problems because it allows them to earn increasingly more from their real estate with little to no additional capital investment.
Historical ruins is our shared heritage and our countries should take blame for everything that lead to this situation, should they take harm. And I mean [almost] every country.

By playing petty and pointless political games we're about to lose things we have no hopes to ever have back. Will people learn? These days I think the only way for humanity to save face is to die off entirely.
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>[Hoffman is a] capitalist who made early investments in everything from Facebook to Airbnb

>I was at an Airbnb board meeting and I ran into two former LinkedIn employees who walked up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going? I'm working here now. I'd love to tell you about some of the stuff that I'm learning.' They know the way that we operate, is not, 'Oh, you've left LinkedIn, so you're no longer part of our tribe.' We continue to be allies.

So he has ownership interests in both companies, and an employee moved between the two. He's like chief of one tribe and minor chieftan of another. He feels righteous because he can be allies with someone who left his major ownership to work under a different company in which he has less-major ownership?

This is the exemplification he is choosing for his earlier quote, "and that the relationship doesn't have to end when the worker leaves?" Come on.
Suppose that there are, broadly-speaking, two levers on a person's financial independence function: money brought in, and money spent. The FI subreddit and MMM focus, IMO, almost exclusively on reducing money spent.

I subscribed to the FI sub hoping to find a lot of discussion about efforts to bring money in. Instead, I find a lot of people angling for a definition of financial independence that includes wearing the same clothes for seven years, barely ever eating out, and vacations that resemble nothing I'd call travel. Whatever discussion around increasing income does take place is usually centered around picking up another job. For me, as long as the income earned is a linear function of time invested, it's a losing proposition. There's a reason why "work 10 jobs" isn't commonly suggested as a way to get rich.

I know this sounds snobby, there's not any way around that.

My definition of FI is not having to deliberate, rationalize and bargain with myself when it comes to purchasing something I want. Yes, reducing wants is a major factor in happiness, but finally there will always be something that I want, despite pursuing a life of frugality and parsimony. The FI/MMM approach leans way too far towards ascetism for my tastes.

Are there any communities, besides HN, which focus discussion more on strategies for increasing income and less on lifestyle amputation?
> With most classes, unless you design them really carefully, your methods are often at risk from being overridden by others in ways that don’t meet expectations — especially if it mutates the object and does so in a different way.

WAT. Because Ruby and Python programmers are just bleeding to death from the thousand cuts of overriding methods during subclassing. Or... not?

More seriously, is there something to Swift here that I'm missing? Because in just about any language I've run across with inheritance, either the superclass(es) are part of a framework that defines a protocol for the inheriting code (e.g. you may/must provide methods X, Y, and Z. These methods must behave according to the following rules {...}), or else the programmer writing the inheriting code takes on the full responsibility of integration.
Attaboy - this is what I thought when I read this. Land prices for the boomers made them. For their kids unless they are bequeathed land they will have to pay a vast chunk of their salary to rentiers.

Things have changed from the 1990s. The expansion of the money supply has detached asset prices from wages. Older people rode that wave and loved it. The price? Their kids are going to be farmed forever via the financialisation of housing.

Fantasy land. I work hard and I'm well paid, in a high percentile. My financial security is way below someone who went balls deep into debt in 2000 on housing. They could have done a low stress, low pay job and they'd have more equity than me as I've had to spend a tonne on rent.

ps in fact on his "about" section he has this:

"very boring conservative Vanguard index funds and a __rental house or two__."

The first time I heard about the compound interest for kids was this "bank of dad":

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/05/owen_on_parenti.htm...

Itself it's totally unrealistic now thanks to QE which itself of course is pumping asset prices which is great if you have "a rental house or two".

Retired in his 30s to have a family. Must be nice especially if you have a family slaving away in your rental houses for you so you can capture all their labour.
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Not to speak for OP, but my mother used to do that too, used 'too expensive' as a reason when she didn't want me to have something. That video game rental was 'too expensive' or those hideous velcro shoes were 'too expensive' and what have you. It was really confusing to hear that McDonalds was 'too expensive' and then have delicious grilled steaks for dinner that night.
I'm sorry, but how is this not also a form of sexism?
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I am one of those people who followed the path (and was told to) of "study hard, get a good job, work hard till retirement, spend wisely, ...". A few years back, I realized that one important thing nobody taught me during my childhood is that a very important part of everyone's life is to provide value to others in exchange for money that you live by.

At that time, I decided to teach my children about this. One of the ways I have thought of doing this is to ask my children to start earning a small amount of money early in life by providing value to others in ethical ways. I am glad to read that the author, who can be considered an expert at managing personal money, is being successful at a similar experiment.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs...

They most certainly do when there are national security letters involved.

You may argue that this was not Google's fault - it is uncertain how much choice they had with regards to providing access for PRISM, and they're welcome to the tiny compensation they received. The point is that they had the data at all, thus allowing it to be copied y others, regardless of google's intentions
Well, I said they are in a better position to do the things to earn your trust, I didn't say you should necessarily have it yet.

Microsoft picked Satya because they were backed into a corner, but everything I've seen from this man tells me he's the real deal and believes that a multi-platform strategy is the right then and the best way to earn revenue. However, as with any company, expect them to have a bias towards things that will make them the most money. At the present time and the foreseeable future, for me, it appears that the interests of Microsoft are in alignment with the interests of users of all platforms.

If they gain the dominant or monopoly position in something again...what would that be, and in what decade do you suggest it will happen? If holographic computing somehow takes off, that appears to be the only place where they are positioned to lead a market in the near future.

If it's a question of Apple or Microsoft, Microsoft appears to be the good guy these days, as Apple is still building their walled garden. Microsoft is being a major contributor to Open Source code though. Everything on the new Microsoft stack is getting open sourced as quickly as possible. They make the best commercial software tool in the world for making software (Visual Studio), and it is particularly adept at deploying .NET software, so they are opening that up to the world to get .NET in as many places as people want it. They are also opening up Visual Studio to a variety of languages, and making it a development tool for cross platform development for iOS and Android. They want to sell Visual Studio.

Trust takes time though. Keep your eye on them and compare Microsoft to their peers, you may be surprised by what you see.
My point is that the effort incrementally improving these C runtimes would be better spent producing modern implementations for them with just-in-time or ahead-of-time native code compilation, like other dynamic languages already enjoy. In light of V8 or SBCL, tweaking Perl's C runtime just seems like a premature optimization.
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> We have to face it, the internet wouldn't thrive without ad-tech. Not many people are willing or able to pay for content. The digital ad industry is important and is here to stay.

How are ads in the browser relevant to websites that depend on ads for their revenue?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9589034
Any plans to open-source this on Github and accept pull requests?
I myself eventually learned to save up then purchase what I regard as being of the most lasting value.

I figured that out on my own - no one else taught me.

Yes I agree, I wear very modest close for example. Denim jeans because the cloth is comfortable and durable.
And unlike Silicon Valley, same salaries are still being offered. Hopefully exiting EU will ease the pressure and make the competition for talent more healthy.
So, auto-vectorization and auto-parallelization are closely related problems in compilers. The legality necessary to do either is mostly the same (the profitability is very different)
ICC used to do both. Now they mainly focus on vectorization.

The main reason that auto-vectorization is much more "advanced" is many-fold:
1. Most cores have more resources for auto-vectorization than parallelization.
2. Auto-parallelization has more communication overhead, and as you scale, communication overhead dominates, so doing both at once doesn't help as much as you'd think.
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> With Microsoft's improvements in how they do business and greatly improved understanding of open source I'm really starting to think more seriously about heading back into their technology realm for some years and see how it works out.

I never completely left it, especially not at <dayjob>, but I certainly feel more interested in it then I have for a while.
> These are companies that in the Valley are referred to as "lifestyle businesses" in a derogatory fashion, as they'll never be "IPO" money.

What's funny is that small and mid-size businesses that Silicon Valley looks down on can generate IPO money.

Founders, senior management and investors can make vast fortunes when companies go public, but "IPO money" for rank-and-file employees is typically in the six and seven figures, and that's in best case scenarios.

A lot of small businesses generate net profits of six and seven figures annually. My SO's uncle, for instance, makes over a million dollars a year running a services business. So every year, he's banking more than many employees will make in one-off IPO windfalls. There are tons of business owners like him in this country.
there are plenty of places like this in SF
Ok, we've added "clothing company" to the title.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=where+do+you+see+yourse...
FYI, I couldn't see your login button until I disabled µBlock (a Chrome plugin like AdBlock).
As others have said, it's basically substituting a big lie for a little lie. You basically told your boss that you're looking to leave in the immediate future. What Reid is talking about is more of a "some time in the possible future I'm looking to expand beyond what I'm currently doing here". When it's framed that way, the current company can keep that in mind and include you if something comes their way that matches what you wanted to move on to next.

Basically, when in doubt, be vague.
It's been quite some time since I associated Heroku with Rails.
Hey Jury. Thanks for the feedback. We have thought of changing to centerpiece to a video. I threw this together as a starting point a while back but we are looking to get something more professional done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG5wsSMvUn4

Do you feel that would be better than the current product demo?

I will also play around with the text and white space. Thanks.
That's not a killer app. That's a "Hmm, maybe" app.

When most of the population spends so much time looking at phone screens, a pitch like "Well now you can look at a much smaller screen, only you can't do so much with it, and it's a bit slow and unresponsive" is less than completely compelling.

Watch is a trinket at best. IMO Apple shouldn't be in the trinket business.
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I like hanging out in bars, not to get drunks, but to chat with the drunks.

I mostly drink coca-cola.