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I know it's hard, but stay positive here. You just had someone effectively offer to put in a good word for you with several companies in your country.

Instead of 'I ran out of money and will have to move back soon', which reads a little negative, try 'Thanks! I live in São Paulo right now, but I'm willing to move anywhere in Brazil for an opportunity, though my funds are a bit low so traveling will be tough. I'll send you an email/my email is in my profile'

It's because the organisms get trapped between your clothes and skin, and they only cause a problem in large numbers. Bare skin doesn't trap enough to do anything, usually. Also, when you rinse off, rinse off with saltwater. Fresh water kills them, which causes them to sting you.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabather's_eruption

Your rant is quite misguided. In this case, the CEO explicitly asked for people to email him:

"I discovered that Legere put an emphasis on customer service -- listening to calls and even sharing his email address."

From the other article: "had customer complaint emails forwarded to him. He also gave out his email address, ..., for anyone to contact him."

Probably because it's split between everyone renting in the building, and while the tax is higher, it's not so much higher that you end up effectively paying the same amount.

At least, that's my guess.

Assuming a 40% tax rate (overestimating) and the expenses listed here, that leaves 2700/mo spare, still a good bit, but:

That 2k/mo child support payment is what's insanely high(that's rent for an entire family!). Most families don't have to deal with it, and, further, get by with significantly less money spent on their children, assuming they run the numbers and figure out an appropriate budget.

You should check out http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/

It's a blog by Bob Arno, a once stage pickpocket, who now wanders around the world looking for thieves of various sorts (and then interviews them)

Would something like the above code be on your interview? (pow = 1 : [ 2*x | x <- pow])

I'd probably fail it even though I do understand recursion. I don't know Haskell, and the above is rather cryptic to me. I can infer that it raises 2 to a power, but I'm not sure how it works -- both in how it's called (does that define a function? Pow(4) --> 16?) and the why (the last part defines the recursion I assume, but what happens when you need multiple args, and what does it mean?)

This site is broken on an iPad...scrolling doesn't work at all

It would also be good to be able to change the 'expenses' field for ownership.

For example, if you live in NYC there's pretty much no chance you'll find a place which doesn't have (at least) a few grand/month in "coop fees" or "condo fees".

Also, there's "how much will you spend on maintenance", which you don't need to worry about when renting. Replacing a roof, hot water heater, etc. I'm sure you built in some numbers for that, but it would be good to be able to set.

And, as other comments have said, the 30 year mark seems to just be broken. I filled in some random numbers (100k, 60k) and I get 339k expenses in year 29, and -125k in year 30.

There is, actually, a loss to the provider. Every person's version of pirated movie X will be unique, which means the provider has to pay for more storage space than they would without encryption. (since without encryption they could compute a hash of the file and point to it on their servers)

It read to me more like it was annoying for them. They want to get rid of ads so they can quit spending time writing reports for advertisers/vetting ads, and spend that time working on new content instead.

I don't see anything that mentions where he is...it's entirely possible that he's in the middle of nowhere tech-job-wise. If that's the case, the first move should be "go somewhere with a tech job market".

One more issue...if you login with a non-ec2 amazon account there's no logout link. I end up having to clear my cookies.

Just in case it hasn't been considered, this is all stuff that can be negotiated with the original company.

With proper legalese (read: talk to a lawyer to get a proper contract) you can trade your shares for the company agreeing that they will not sue you for trade secrets/ideas/code/etc.

If the employer wants loyalty, then they can pay for it. Maybe not literally, but when I really like my job it takes a hell of a lot more than an extra $10k/year to get me to switch.

Or they can heavily encourage it, with vesting stock options, seniority based raises/promotions, etc.

Relying on "loyalty" to keep people when the employer has shown none (an employment contract that has penalties if you're laid off? Only for senior execs) is just a bad idea.

Thirding. The "what is freedombox" posted here tells me basically nothing. It sounds closer to marketing fluff than an actual description of what freedombox is and does.

Is it a social network? Twitter? Both? Something new? Why should I want to start using it, aside from claims of anonymity?

I noticed a bunch of people doing the math on a 100k/year salary for a 3br. Presumably, if you need a 3br it's because you have kids and need to give them each their own room.

Is everyone assuming the other partner won't help with anything financially? You can come pretty close to the 4-5k/month number for a 3br if your SO/partner is also making ~100k/year. If you're single with kids, or trying to have 1 stay at home 1 working, it'll be much harder, but it's entirely possible to afford if you have two people who are both working.

This is something I'm going to have to deal with soon. I'm not looking forward to it, but I know that I'm getting significantly underpaid compared to new hires. I'm also better than those new hires.

I'll probably leave and find a new job if it comes down to it, but I'd really rather not. That said, if I do leave, there's nothing they can do to bring me back: Saying "oh, you're leaving? here's an extra 50k to make you stay" tells me that they think I was worth the new number in the first place. A place trying to get away with underpaying until their hand is forced is not a place I want to work.

Reminds me of my current job. They asked for a potential hire's salary history to determine how much to offer them. They previously made, say, 40k, so an offer was made for 45k. Why? Not because their skills were worth 45k, but because they previously made 40k. They were willing to go up to, say, 65k for the position. Also, the people in charge thought they should probably offer more, but didn't want to...because of the previous salary. Dysfunctional, but it happens.

I believe OoTheNigerian's point is that he likes it when the sharing functionality is rolled up into another thing that you do. Say, every time you rate a song 5 stars, or mark one as your favorite. He'd rather not get a popup asking if he also wants to share it on facebook (but have a config option which says "share my liked songs")

There's also Joe's impression of how much his employer values him: If Joe is perfectly happy working at 10k/year, but you're paying new people just out of college 20k/year it can cause Joe to start looking for ways to get poached.(for example)

This. ;)

When I'm mentoring fresh-from-school developers at work I constantly have to try to get them to think for themselves. They seem to want me to lay out the entire problem+solution and tell them (almost) exactly how I would solve it, so all that's left is for them to implement.

I try to encourage them to develop an understanding of the problem, and poke my head in for pointers/quick tips "you're doing a billing system, better have transactions for everything", rather than "You'll need these 3 tables with these 5 fields, and you'll need to surround these methods in a database level transaction"

Some recruiters I've talked to do actually have a magic wand that tells them when a new job posting has arrived. It's called a personal relationship with the hiring manager at the company. IE: The hiring manager informs the recruiter when they're looking for new talent. (we need 3 mid level QA, or we're going to be looking for new developers next quarter) Rare, but it does exist.

One minor issue: On windows XP/FF 3.6 the font is a little hard to read: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/543/201111041105.png/

I'm not sure exactly what firefox is trying to do (since both IE 8 and chrome are better), but I thought I'd let you guys know.

This isn't as simple as "push for equity". There are plenty of companies where equity makes no sense (say, a private consulting company, or a company with no plans to sell a la 37signals)

What other options are there? Guaranteed end of year bonuses? Commissions in the form of profit sharing?

Groupon's business is basically all sales and marketing. The v1 tech behind the deal-a-day offerings is trivial. (leaving aside recommendations and such)

You need to be very good at signing up businesses and getting good terms for your company to succeed. In addition, you need to figure out how to get a stable base of customers of your site.

Basically, Groupon clones have very low technical barriers to entry, but if you don't have a really good sales and marketing staff you're in trouble.

Same problem, windows XP/firefox 3.6. (dropping a .png file)

Plus there's the issue of time: If you have 100+million to throw at something and get it right now(in 6 months after due diligence), or spend the 100 mil on an in house project, wait 3 years, and get it then...which would you take?

Personally, if I had that kind of money to throw around, I'd want it now, so I can start implementing my vision now.

Don't take the numbers here too literally, 3 years might only be 1 year. I highly doubt it'd be less than that, given Apple's size.

The problem wasn't ruby 1.9, but ruby 1.9.1 specifically. I upgraded ruby to 1.9.2 and the stability issues went away. On 1.9.1 the server would randomly hang and require a kill -9+manual restart.

The chef irc channel can be helpful (http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/IRC)