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If Facebook is serious about setting an example with prodding employers, they should take it a step further and expose which employers have asked for this information and make it public. I am sure Glassdoor.com would love to add this information to their database of reviews and having this viewable by those looking at prospective employers could be good metric to see how the company or management actually values their employees. It would be a deciding factor to me to work somewhere if a company I was interviewing for was trying to gain access to employee accounts and they were flagged publicly.

I am fortunate to have a desk that has adjustable legs, so I was able to try out with a standing desk. I have been doing this for about two weeks now and my verdict thus far is the same as yours.

The first week was a bit brutal and my heels were really sore at the end of the day, but luckily my dad does ergonomic consulting and had an anti-fatigue mat lying around, now I can stand 8+ hours a day and not feel any pain or soreness. I get to walk around more and I feel a lot more productive than when I was sitting. Oh, also I am burning about 1300+ calories for standing each work day, which is about an hour of intense cardio.

If you have been on the fringe about working standing up, I say do it. Just make sure you get an anti-fatigue mat because that will take a lot of pressure off your feet.

Merry Christmas everyone. This is the best community I have seen ever on the internet and hope we all have have a strong finish to 2010. The content shared here has made me a (subjectively) better person since I joined. What a great gift, thank you!

I learned to code before I took up the design end. I always keep in mind in how to code the site when I design, and it makes an over all trouble-free experience when I get to work on the code. But I learn all the time that a simple design aspect can be a bear to code, something that I wouldn't think about if I didn't have to code it.

Coming from the non-technical perspective, I see little value that a non-techie can offer to a company for <=97% of the shares. Someone making you this kind of proposal surely does not understand how a web startup works because the value is in the development team and their resulting product.

In every endeavor I (try) to embark on, I always offer 50-60% of equity to the technical person, to show that im not a control freak and value their expertise.

So does this make Manchester the "Graphene Valley?"

Am I the only one running on Flock?

Well put. While people say dont worry about the business plan, just get your product launched, they really need to look at the overall idea of how the big the market is. Know exactly who you are targeting and how big that target is. Personally, i find the best way to do this is to write a detailed plan out for your teams own benefit. Its worth the time to write your plan out now and make changes before you spend hours on end coding the product, only to change course. But thats the business students perspective for you...

"Hanging out with friends."

I tend to value the time I hang out with my friends. I certainly dont think its a time waster.

Eastern Washington. Heard of it?

I know this is amateur question, but I am taking my intro to programming class this quarter, and we are learning with Python(and pseudo-code, if that counts) am I doomed to being a crappy programmer? I was notorious for being a Lego addict when i was a kid, and i am taking the classes because i need a formal education on programming, so i would like to think I am not part of this group, but am I getting off on the wrong foot?

Every time I hear that song I can slowly feel my brain decompose.

This are some great tips. Ill live by these.

When i got a business license a couple years ago, someone bought my company's .com domain mere days after i registered the trade name. The domain is absolutely useless to them, but they keep it in hope that ill pay them big time for it. not in their lifetime...

'We can't hire the guy. Everyone I knew in college who liked to play hoops was an idiot.'

This rule still applies.

This is why people unlock their Iphones...

We all know what this means, approach them at the end of their fiscal year when they haven't made enough acquisitions to meet their annual quota. Guaranteed buyout :P

Great article. I cant write code if god could help me, but i understand it to a decent level. But i hope to take on the business end of things in my company because i have more experience there. Knowing how the program works is a great value for a business guy like me, because i can communicate with the hackers on my team, and speak in their dialect. Its also kinda necessary to understand how your product works.

Ugh, Im tired of Seattle stereotypes. Seattle is a well cultured city, and his generalizations are pretty weak to prove his point, not mention irrelevant. Sorry, I just have to stick up for my home town. BTW, it rains more in NY than Seattle.

I bought this book 2 months ago, its a good read, especially for the nonprogrammer like me. I recommend everyone who is interested in RoR download this.

This here shows that you have huge doubts about the startup, if you are willing to leave it for a less risky decision. It saddens me to see your operation come down to you deciding to leave it for a job. To keep it business running, I would try to get another coder, tell the marketing guy to focus on current products, not future side projects. Take control of the company...basically what everyone else has been saying.