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No. I noticed it too. In the license he revealed his possibly real name and email id, but tried to be anonymous in the blog by using an ID looking like a Bitcoin address. Or maybe he just wants you to send him more Bitcoin for the code.

Talk to the person who says you're condescending and ask them for situations where you were. Then analyze whether you were or not. The problem with a lot of developers/scientists/"people who have been told they are smart all their life" is that they may think they're making a point or describing something but most of them can be condescending because they think they are always right. It is an attitude change.

If you cannot confront your critics, you cannot correct yourself if you're in the wrong. Also it will help you maneuver social situations better.

To be or not to be condescending - that is a situation that needs to be understood, before you actually act it.

Great article outlining how disconnected the startup culture is from real life and empathy towards its employees and contractors. If this is the direction these startups are going, it will be no surprise that they will all shut down soon. Same fate as Homejoy.

Saudi Arabia criminalizes adultery which is "having an affair". Polygyny means you're legally married which is allowed in Saudi Arabia but having an adulterous relationship is criminal.

Why work for a startup then ?

So if you don't exercise your options, then why take the pay cut and work twice as hard for a startup ? The whole thing reeks of a scam against early employees.

Having an affair actually is illegal in almost half the US, and in some states, it's even a felony.

Wow! United Saudi Arabia (USA)!

sell it to another startup that is starting up and take 1% Equity

What about the fact that developers are writing more and more bloated and slow applications ?

sounds like majority of the folks on Hacker News... a javascript developer !

tell that to that Brendan Eich guy at Mozilla

Facebook cannot sells ads to inmates because they cannot purchase anything, hence the takedowns. Isn't that obvious ?

>I think some people get so combative because their identity is wrapped up in being right. It's unfortunate, given our capacity to collaborate and build, that we still struggle with these scuffs.

Unfortunately, that is very typical of Western (USA/Europe) nerds as they always claim to be right. I cannot make that claim for nerds of Asia.

There are users who are pirates and then there are corporate pirates whose businesses are built on copying and pirating popular games and making them look professional. They are the real danger to indie devs not end users in their mother's basement with no money in their pockets.

You're assuming the application that wants to protect its assets and other IP will let you run it in a simulator which is not going to be the case.

This can easily be bypassed by the application itself if it checks that the DLLs or .so files loaded in memory are the approved and check-summed ones and only then progresses to doing anything. This is a non-issue. Applications that are worried about their IP already do this today. Many encrypt even their DLLs and only load then as necessary based on when they feel they are not under a debugger or a malicious DLL or .so is not loaded.

From what I understand when I read the blog, they're trying to demonstrate that you can use encryption/decryption on the GPU to create some form of DRM unique to your application. Their previous blog cites they are into researching some form of copy-protection systems.

As a once-upon-a-time iOS game dev, I can see it being used to handle In-App purchases where your game will only progress after you have purchased something and you get a key to decrypt the next level stuff. I can see it being used in that way. That's why I posted it here. It seemed interesting.

sounds like something designed without consulting the CJK users...

Paperless bathrooms exist in various parts of the world. The folks there use water to wash which is more cleaner.

And it will be called .. wait for it.. the Internet of SLOW Things !

You should feel good about it because they are able to communicate without reliable electricity or peace.

Learn Perl and increase your value instead of being a one-trick-pony !

Yes but the "Don't copy that floppy" adage is definitely an American thing. So is CFAA, which makes it easier to have prosecuted Aleynikov under CFAA instead of some other laws. It worked for Swartz.

Install VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox, give it most of your RAM and hard disk space. Now run Linux on that. That's your best bet for sticking to Linux for most of your work.

You can use browser on the Mac if you want to be able to use the latest and greatest firefox/Chrome but for coding and software nothing beats Linux. All the OS X brew/ports etc are just not good enough compared to apt-get.

You can run the VM using VirtualBox in background mode too and then just ssh to it using the Terminal.app or iTerm.app on OS X.

Copy-paste works really well on iTerm so you can copy-paste links from your OS X browser like Firefox/Chrome to the ssh terminal and use it in case you download software using wget/curl sometimes.

For email, Thunderbird/Mail.app both work really well on OS X and that should be good enough unless you want mutt, which you can then use from your Linux VM.

Most likely your production environment is Linux, esp. if you're in a company that is giving you Macs so most likely web development. Even better if you mimic your production environment in your VM and develop on that instead of developing on a non-standard environment like OS X and then hoping stuff works in production. (Tons of devs do this and it makes no sense.)

"exploit" => "cyber security" => "hey look, i can do cyber and you can hire me"

just a way to market oneself I guess here by using the hyperbole of "exploit". makes sense if you want to join the knee-jerk infosec industry.

National Security letters for open source code ?

Or is it for just the private repositories ?

Or is it to be able to "subtly add code" to existing repositories without being seen ?

What would it be for ? I am stumped.

Don't join Silicon Valley. Your skills are more valued and paid for in Finance. Real hard cash not worthless options that may have value in the future.

EDIT: also do not "commoditize" yourself by becoming a web developer or an iPhone/Android developer either. Do the difficult technical stuff, aim for the "non-low-hanging-fruit" and you will make tons of money, esp. in Finance.

You don't think we did ? That's just silly to even think that employees who are more emotionally vested in a startup will forget to ask what their equity is. They don't tell you. That's the norm. Consider yourself lucky if you are told what your equity is worth. And it will be diluted to nothing regardless.

no equity %. The savvy CFOs will not tell you what your percentage equity actually is. this allows the CEO/top brass to dilute the pool by issuing millions of options before the sale of the company to a buyer. Since I didnt work for a startup that went IPO, $ haul was 0. i didn't exercise the options, they felt useless compared to the effort I put in.

EDIT: also as a traditional employee (in my case developer), you will not be aware that your company is being readied for sale to another before it actually happens. Only, if you're a very tiny company like 10 folks maybe you can know. Otherwise a startup that grows from 10 to 100 or more, then forget it.

To clarify I was an early employee after a funding round and not before. Those who are employees before any funding round are basically "founders" and can get some sort of decent payout.

In my case, both the startups were "sold" off to another larger holding. I personally, did not get anything worthwhile in a serious dollar amount so I chose not to exercise my options. Really, after the dilution your employee stock options are miniscule. And savvy startup CFOs will give employees small quantities of options not large.

EDIT: Yes, and these were not traditional Silicon Valley startups, they were NYC/Finance area startups. The original founders were not developers (your "bros"), they were finance guys!