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by danssig 15y ago
People often forget what a scumbag company MS was. I would be shocked if they didn't have tons of such stories.
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by danssig 15y ago
And Facebook... and Skype, etc.
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I wonder how much longer this sort of thing will need to keep going until others start following their lead.
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>I am entirely in favor of this. Mainly because I'm four blocks away and am trying to hire engineers. That should make you even madder than. If you're having trouble hiring engineers it is just because you're not paying enough. And th
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by danssig 15y ago
Actually, given the instability of a startup, they should be paying more than market rate right out of the gate. They tried to do this by using stock options but enough crooks have found ways around it that I expect the labor market to a
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>It may not be human, but they're ran by humans Wasn't there a report some years back that showed most CEO's were sociopaths?
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by danssig 15y ago
No it isn't. A big corp I worked at in the US had a 1/7th per year vesting period. Then the dot com bubble came and they gave everyone 4-year cliff options. That is, no vesting until after 4 years. They absolutely could have fired peopl
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>You are acting as if they are being asked to give away something that they own They are . They own those stock options, with the provision that they stay out the life of the vesting period. They are now being prevented from holdin
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by danssig 15y ago
All your posts here make you sound like a really ignorant person, in regards to the subject at hand. The best thing for you would probably be to stop posting and start reading instead.
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> However after two years, and a few splits, I have 128 shares. You're not a "4 shares employee" you're a "% of the company employee". The 4 shares are worth some percentage of the company and after all those splits they're still worth
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by danssig 15y ago
Sometimes I pine for the good ol' days where this kind of unethical behavior would be met with a good old fashioned ass kicking.
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I do this on normal contracts. Just mark out the parts you don't agree with, add things you want in there, initial all your changes, sign and date it. Sometimes it will go through without anyone noticing (so make sure you have a photocopy
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>And pre-IPO options are better than post-IPO options. Not if they decide to take yours back so they can get more money. pre-IPO options with Zynga are worth nothing.
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>But I am confident in saying they will always be below average. Of course there are and what I'm saying is that this isn't a static group. People will move in and out of it. I'm sure there is a very small percentage who stay at the b
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by danssig 15y ago
>It's a lie, and you know it. [citation needed] What is the "truth"? That e.g. artists will be fine because they can make more from concerts? Too bad about artists who make incredibly wonderful CDs but have no stage presence. I gues
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by danssig 15y ago
Ads is the one people keep reaching for, but if we continue with this route what will we be advertising exactly?
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Agreed. I'd say 10% is probably fair.
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But your model isn't right either. An author has to have a way to be compensation and depending on charity (of thieves no less) just isn't valid. The book has value or it doesn't. If it has no value then it shouldn't be created.
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by danssig 15y ago
>Here, it's more like the distributor left their books around in a library, and some people got to read them for free. I would say it's more like some people walked out of the library with them. The author most certainly did lose somet
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by danssig 15y ago
Many of us are developers on here, so I propose the following: rather than be lead around by the nose on this, why don't we change it? We could define our own XML (or JSON? optional?) based data markup format and a separate presentation
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by danssig 15y ago
>If a Web page is to contain data and a service wants to act on this data, it has to scrape the Web page. This is completely the wrong approach and this isn't how people who know what they're doing work now . A web page is just a prese
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>To add, I think being rich is overrated, and that it isn't a coincidence that the biggest influencers and successes in our industry don't care about money. The biggest influences and successes in our industry don't care about money af
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Did the OP?
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by danssig 15y ago
So you feel confident in saying that nothing on earth could make these guys improve? I don't believe it. I believe some people just need that "aha" moment. Others don't get it simply because they don't want to understand it.
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The deludedly optimistic youth of America(blogs.reuters.com)
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>the last thing you'd want to do is to work after-hours and find out your employer is owning the IP of your project Has this ever happened? I would imagine that if some guy got his FU money taken away and given to some big company wher
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by danssig 15y ago
>And yet, I can guarantee you Google has hired at least two dim bulbs. No you can't. I really hate this kind of attitude people have. A person is not a static thing that is always X. Maybe they didn't like your company. Maybe they w
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>This compensation will not last and plans are already in the works to put an end to it. Like the collusion big companies were already doing and got busted for? It's going to get harder and harder to distort the markets with instant co
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>The company could pay you 115k, resent it, and use it as justification to give you various shit-work So if that starts happening to you, you get out. And when the next place asks you how much you made at your last position you're $5k
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by danssig 15y ago
Polish up that resume and start the search (the easiest way IMO is via contracting agencies, since they only make money when you do). Everyday you spend working below your market rate is a day you leave cash just laying on the table. You

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