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Several times I was provided a list of my team members that needed to go, and when I asked "why this guy?" or "why her?", the answer was never performance related. A few times I was able to argue the team member to safety, but most of the time it was already a forgone conclusion.
Each faction would come into and out of favor with upper management as the rounds of layoffs came and went, and the business priorities changed. Enemies of that faction were always targeted, irrespective of the cost to the business of the loss of that talent.
The way I avoided all this WITHOUT choosing a side was to quietly make myself invaluable to the upper management as the key "goto guy" for skunkwerk projects, to always accept technical due-diligence projects on upcoming acquisitions, and keep showing "projects I'm working on in my spare time" to the uppers.
What I would suggest is convertible equity. Take the stock, but get in writing that if the stock isn't worth X by date Y, you have the right (but not the duty) to convert it to debt, payable upon presentation, with a 1.5% per month interest rate if not paid immediately.
You're still unlikely to see a dime, but at least you can sell the debt to a collection company if things get bad.
You might also check out less-overhead Python frameworks, such as Flask (http://flask.pocoo.org/) or WebPy (http://webpy.org/).
The idiocy with this agreement is that it says "fully paid", and without any renumeration actually getting paid to you, that test fails. Irrespective of that idiocy, even if "fully paid" is struck, it's irrevocable, so you could find yourself losing AND in a lawsuit with Nissan over the priority of rights, yours versus theirs.
LinkedIn has a feature called InMail, that allows you to connect directly with people like Paul Graham, but does not guarantee a response. I've had some success with it, but it does heavily rely on your own ability to craft a cogent message.
Users of PostgreSQL (I am one) should ensure that rights under its license have not been impacted by Eolas or any other entity that may have acquired or be acting as a Trustee for the patent(s) in place.
I've been developing on Windows since 1.0. Windows 8 is a huge steaming pile of camel dung, in my humble opinion.
Windows 8 will be the next Windows Vista 32-bit for Microsoft.
The White House will say nothing about this, as usual.
The guy you mentor may become your boss, and so might the guy you are a dick to.
In the tech sense, DBAD typically means be nice, and don't be a technology nazi. There is no "perfect" technology for a solution. If the team wants PHP, and PHP works as a solution, DBAD, make it work for the team and don't force Ruby or Java down their throats.
Thorium234 is much safer than uranium or other fissile material, and unlike those, it can be used to make neighborhood reactors, allowing energy independence on a local scale.
a) Nice clean UI.
b) Move send/cancel to top or side, away from the word-suggestion-list. I kept cancelling when choosing words from the word list as I typed.
c) Any way to allow me to choose the radius? 21km seems arbitrary. I might want just people on my block to see it, or people in Dallas/Fort Worth (50km away). Obviously there should be an upper limit, but that could also be opened for a price, say for political campaigns.
If they've just seen an accident, they'll want to post a URL. If they're at home, not likely.
You might even ask users to "mark" private locations from which location can't be sent, like school, home, or work.
You could also allow the user to vary the accuracy of the position by zooming in/out, to give them control of proximity for their posted locations.
If it's more CraigsList in nature, I don't think it will have the staying power.
When people start using it to broadcast events like accidents, fires, etc., you're going to want to use URLs, not pics.
Additionally, people should be able to block posters, and the weight of those blocks can ban a user if there are enough and the velocity is high.
In that vein, it would seem that an IRC approach with "channels" might be better, so that you can have a private "channel" with your friends nearby, or move into the "starbucks" channel to get deals and updates from your local Starbucks.
Perhaps allow people to create "private" channels, by invite only, if they buy the paid version of the app..