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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
As is pointed out in the wikipedia article, Warrant Canaries have not been tested in a court of law.
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
Unfortunately, the disclosure of information via negation will almost certainly not hold up in a court of law.
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
I can help out, and I do have a small (i.e. easily finished in a day) node.js project that I would love some help with. email me at the address in my profile if you haven't already found someone.
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
What is the most worrying about the revelation that Edward Snowden was the whistleblower, is that he is a relatively low level employee, especially in respects to security clearances. The material he would be able to get his hands on is ju
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
I would be shocked if information didn't come out about him that will "discredit" him. More over, I am sure there are laws that if don't flat out make leaks like this a crime, there are laws that can be interpreted in a
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Obama defends surveillance effort as 'trade-off' for security(reuters.com)
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
I am sure that it's just a consequence of lawyers using their distinct brand of wording that leads to every single one of these denials from various CEO's and PR teams looking almost verbatim, but I do have to admit, the similarit
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
This reminds me of a bit of old time wisdom that seems applicable here. It goes something along the lines of "If it doesn't spook the cows, leave it be."
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
Done and Done.
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
A couple of points: 1) there is a point at which a distribution skews so much one way, that it at least warrants discussion. 2) By "different fields", I assume you refer to technically driven fields. Though I do agree that some fields prob
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
I think your comment doesn't account for the possibility that even getting to the point of asking for funding may not be ascertainable for certain demographics. The types of things this article alludes to are very much on a macro-social le
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
One of the biggest issues with this problem is how complex the causation seems to be. There is no one single factor that a person can point to and say "This right here is how it happened". I suspect the solution will be equally complex. I
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
These sorts of problems are rampant in the higher ranks of almost all industries; startups are not special in their preference towards upper middle class males that happen to be "White non-hispanic" or "Asian non-hispanic".
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
that's a preposterous statement. I challenge you to support your claim.
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
You are arguing in hyperbole. If you were to include every american author to have ever lived, the list would be untenable. There has to be a logical cut off, and often in the world of the arts, that cut off is directly correlated to prom
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
In regards to the Wikipedia list of American Novelists, could it not be that sexism for the last many hundreds of years have rendered a collection of what many consider to be the "most prominent authors" being primarily male. I am not sayi
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
only a percentage of those people are engineers working on the client facing component (i.e. the game). More over, people consistently underestimate the complexity of building games, including the PM's in charge of getting the game out the
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
I agree with you as long as the candidate is sufficiently competent at negotiating. Unfortunately, a large number of developers are not.
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
Three pages in total, and all in fairly plain english. The simplicity of this term sheet speaks volumes of the confidence the investor has in their investments. I wonder if there is a correlation between the complexity of an early stage i
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
More people stopped playing because they got bored. The fickleness of the public is the real danger in games like these, not the idealism of a few (which is a tragedy, as the latter would likely lead to much better games)
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
Or the even simpler discussion: "They have a huge hit, and no money in the bank. Let's acquire them now, before they raise money, for relatively cheap, so we don't have to sink time and resources into developing a clone ourselves." Too bad
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
Especially at a company like Zynga, that at least as far as I know, had a fairly rigorous interview process. It's a chance to get a pre-screened engineer, possibly on the cheap.
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
Maybe. Then again, if the acquired individuals saw nice retention bonuses and pay outs on their equity that gave them some sort of (even limited) financial freedom, maybe they were the geniuses.
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
The inconveniences are by design. The bugs are due to aggressive deadlines.
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
Games take incredible man hours to create, not so much on the engineering side, but on the design side. Copywriting, UI, animation, integration, and game design are all very labor intensive tasks that are performed by highly skilled individ
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
Not necessarily. There are a number of ways in which you can lose the rights to your shares, including clawbacks, or clauses in a contract that may stipulate changes to the status of your equity post termination of your employment. A numb
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
Without knowing more about the specific company you are referring to, it's hard to tell, but I would propose that in _most_ situations, it's indicative of a systemic problem.
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
By the time you add in overhead costs (rent, those free sodas, computers, etc), insurance, taxes, and salary, ~150k per employee is probably about right.
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
> If you're going to treat people like QA people like they're low skilled, and that they really make no difference as people, then you're going to get wind up with people like that. I wasn't saying that. What I was trying to say is tha
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by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
I have known a number of people that work in Quality Assurance for games and they all have pretty much the same story. Though treating employees like this may not be ethically ideal, it is certainly not to be unexpected when considering a

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