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The article does not support this claim. My reading is that GOOG's HR department kept/keeps the salary curve artificially flat (over-rewarding low performers) to manage pay within …

Buried beneath a stack of preferences it makes little sense for founders to make any sacrifices to save the company (i.e. not take a salary for a while) since all money will go to …

>$25/hour flat rate? Why? That's not even half the market rate for an average developer. If over half the developers are worthless and you are buying an unknown quantity this seems…

Ex post facto, such as the retroactive changes in CA tax law?

One perspective is that a friend got screwed out of shares. Another view is the real drivers behind the company were smart to not give a dispensable person a third of the company, …

Receiver pays in the US.

The simple answer is that this perceived benevolence is forced upon Facebook anyhow, having a substantial presence in the EU and being subject to data privacy laws there. On the pg…

uninformed prediction: "pg called us to correct their mistake, we got an interview and we're in" by the end of next week, though you might be asked not to talk about it in public. …

No claim is made under the DMCA, it is merely made to look similarly scary.

"pivot" as commonly used now is code for "we did not pull an @ev (i.e. undo existing investment on change of direction such as odeo->twitter) and chose to continue using the $incub…

That, or we buy a car to commute.

What I dislike about Euro VC is not so much this focus, it is their insistence on risk reduction in the above way coupled with low valuations not properly accounting for said deris…

This is a javascript based demo which teaches you something. Think about it.

Some of the attackers previously lived as engineering students in Germany.

A key difference: the problems at LHR with the UK Border Agency stem from public employees effectively holding travelers hostage to extort higher pay whereas the the terrible way D…

peers may offer to process bitcoin transactions for free, and the original paper posits there are always going to be participants who will.

google the symbol names and you will see the javascript is copypasta.

The fake achievement racket is reason enough for my future children to grow up in Europe.

How do other founders deal with non-committal VC nonsense? I feel like only taking targeted meetings where social capital gets spent on introductions to avoid this takes too much s…

I am only speculating here but the server may be verifying a client's simulation to prevent IAP/multiplayer cheating. (Who hasn't played the old SimCity games with infinite cash?)

10% may seem fair when the company is small but it will cause trouble later. What if the company becomes Facebook? Will future hires be angry that a short-time contributor gets 50x…

With regards to founder vesting, it is worth pointing out that if the fallout happens before the one-year cliff he gets nothing (if the usual terms apply).

If you are charming like me you can get a SIM card at a T-Mobile store for free (did so last week in SF). Everything is negotiable.

It is quite possible that Apple is, technically, breaking EU law but the Commission are letting them get away with it because they have more important things to deal with. With no …