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by davesims 15y ago
I think the two scenarios are similar, but in the first case, the employee's ability to leave was de-facto -- of course she can leave any time she wants. That's part of the risk the employer takes. But if you want to balance that equation t
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I completely agree that business can be more than just commerce. I actually love my current gig for that very reason. I would love it if companies that value local commerce and community responsibility could co-opt our typical idea of busin
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Yeah I'll buy that. ...oops
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OK, fair enough. But, ethics and nuance aside, I do think the implications in the long run, esp for founders and entrepreneurs who actually need the 'Google Chef' story, will be a simplistic account in the minds of developers that will ma
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Hi Jason, thanks for responding. I liked your post, and I appreciate that you didn't coin the term -- 'personal branding' has been around a long time. But the idea of 'Public Rhetoric' has been around far longer, and that's what we're reall
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Interesting -- this goes straight to some concerns I had about Zach's whole 'brand' and 'persona' response to the (overblown) controversy on swearing. I agree with most of what Jason says here. But I still have an issue with the notion of m
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For all of you trying to parse this on a purely business level and justify Zynga on some ethical or legal distinction between 'vested' and 'unvested', etc., understand this: The take-away lesson, from the standpoint of an experienced develo
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I'm still shaking my head -- really, Joey? You? You have to see how undermining the "Google Chef" narrative hurts guys like you probably more than anyone. It wasn't too long ago that you were looking for experienced Rails and Mongo devs to
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I'm pretty disappointed to see a YC founder taking Zynga's point of view on this Joey. You can finesse this however you want, some basic trust has been undermined, and this hurts entrepreneurs like yourself as much as anyone. Good luck on y
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The real problem Zynga has created is summed up nicely is this comment from the OP's blog: "Pincus has violated the basic tenant of start up economics and, thus made start ups vastly more risky for people to join. In short he's just ups the
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We all edit ourselves and present various versions, but hopefully the personas we create have an integrity beyond an intention to 'brand' ourselves in simple marketing scheme. I like the way you phrased that: 'consistent self'. It's true we
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Agreed to some extent, but imo it's not the swearing that distracts as much as the underlying intention to manipulate the audience, and the sense of egoism behind it. F-bombs-away as far as I'm concerned, but don't pretend you're Howard Ste
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Swearing doesn't bug me, it's neither here nor there as far as I'm concerned. But the idea that it's being used to carefully craft a 'persona' in order to 'build a brand' is annoying and frankly immature. I have very little patience with th
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And for anybody still reading...some "Knopfler Bends": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wADwIZ6V3NY
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Yes, exactly. Sorry for the guitar geek-speak. I guess for a second there I mentally collapsed the distinction between one of my nerd communities and the other. Maybe I'll go onto Harmony Central's guitar boards and start using acronyms lik
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Yeah, absolutely correct. Fender still makes some good guitars, but a lot of crap as well. G&L has been making sturdy, quality guitars for a reasonable price for a long time. They definitely have the mantle now.
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It's an asat classic about like this one: http://bit.ly/snDQPZ Definitely my favorite as well.
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My G&L Tele is out of its case leaning against the wall most all the time for this very reason. 5-10 minutes of working on my Knopfler bends and I'm good. Time well spent.
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This was exactly the model that led me to buy the full subscription to PeepCode after the first screencast -- watched one, was very useful to me, then bought the lot.
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A rising tide raises all boats. Increased hardware and database speed will not make Rails less attractive it will make it more so. Far from exposing Ruby's sluggishness (which itself will be less and less of an issue), it will expose how ea
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I'm not sure I understand where the pandering was, and for me the post certainly wasn't pointless, I learned some new things, and it provoked me to think deeper about the difficulty of language design. I read it as a humorous warning to wou
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Good point, but I think this is probably more true for a higher-level language (C#, Java, Ruby, etc.) in a domain that is probably more focused on feature delivery than performance. For an embedded systems C coder (which was the stated co
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...or in JavaScript getting 'var' everywhere for free.
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Ha! I love it. You're the guy to do it, Joey. I myself have a hazy dream of a promotion/tech/PR/consulting company that can hand-roll technologies, web, mobile and such, tailored to the creative ambitions of musicians, to find new creative
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This is all true, and it's important to distinguish between "The Industry" and the good indie labels. Bella Union is one I have first-hand knowledge of and they are incredibly fair, and involved in the artists' tours and PR to a large degre
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Very true, I really don't and I'm pretty burned out on trying to convince a lot of the very talented songwriters and artists I know and sometimes play with that they can't passively wait on some label system to put them on a treadmill to su
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One shining example of a band that "gets it" is Pomplamoose. They may not be getting rich, but dammit they're making good music on their own terms and it looks like they're having a lot of fun doing it: http://www.youtube.com/user/Pomplamo
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You make a great point, that artists usually are terrible business people, and in a label relationship are usually passive and unaware. I think that, as much as any other aspect of the music industry, is what artists need to change. The a
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I'd say this is only partially true. These days labels are not, and I would argue should not be the artists' primary target for income. Touring and new media are things artists have control over to a much larger extent and that's where arti

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