louischatriot

Being an "exec" at a 2 or 3 persons startup is not far off being a grunt. In fact it is the same thing. Putting "CEO" on your resume is not impressive if your company failed.

Yep you're right, founders have that upside too. But raising a seed round is not that easy (don't believe Techcrunch :)), and if you can't do it your story will be "I spent xxx months/years on something nobody cared".

I agree. I was not trying to defend jobs at startups. We're hiring but can't afford high salaries so I totally understand that such jobs are no good for most people : not well paid, you lose it if the company fails, long hours, stressful. There are good points too (I wouldn't be doing it otherwise!).

To be blunt, you don't seem to have founded a company. If you had, you would know that some businesses just take some time to become profitable. And that's not just Internet-based business, look at Tesla or SpaceX for example.

Impressive that his two professors took 1 whole month to finally believe him, even though the article gives the impression that the error was obvious (a bad formula).

Summary of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/5171189e1a18dac804000170/meet-the-28-ye...

Some good points, BUT. The first employees do not take nearly as much as risk as founders. Yeah you might lose your job if the company fails, but at least you were hired and got a salary from day one, you didn't have to work for a year or more on no salary and not knowing whether you would be able to raise money to even hire that first employee.

Seriously, start a company before stating stuff like this.

Actually, there is: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50509fb5e37267fc34000007/tl-dr-what-is-...

But this page is a bit outdated, this is what we use now: http://tldr.io/tldrs/514d1c2ec02bf6ba46001aba/more-on-the-tl...

This is an important issue, but as the article says, Auth Basic over SSL is perfectly secure (if you don't redirect 80 to 443 of course). And since it is so simple to set up and use, I can see why some providers would use it (I do for example).

Summary of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/516fc7e340d4a84c4100020e/why-the-hell-d...

People like to guess a pattern (i.e. "from the first 5 secs I think the song will go like this and I'll like it") and like when they're right. That's also why we tend to like more songs we've already heard several times (even though we didn't like them a lot in the beginning).

Summary of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/516bfd54649fcf9e0a000de0/why-does-music...

I completely agree. A few months ago, I switched from being ultra busy on my company to taking some time to do what I really enjoy. As a result, I actually get more done now than before.

The article is well written, you should read it. Here is a tldr if you don't have the time though: http://tldr.io/tldrs/51680e1bc2bdcc645c000169/busyness-is-no...

Looks very much like Hipchat. I'm curious as to why it's better (if it is).

It's great to get some insight on a deal that, frankly, I couldn't understand.

I am of course biased, because I believe (like many others) that algorithms are bad at summarization, except for already well-structured content (news are usually like this). That includes most blogposts and videos. My startup (tldr.io) is trying to actually solve the summarization problem using crowdsourcing. For example, here is the summary of this article: https://tldr.io/tldrs/516542c52dcbc1ab3b0000d2/heres-the-rea...

This situation is very acute in "top tier" firms such as the management consulting big 4. The hiring process is designed to avoid false positives at all costs, even the cost of rejecting extremely good candidates.

DHH points are valid, and I agree with him that this move shows how much Yahoo trusts its employees. That basically means they have no clue why they're falling appart and think the answer is "people need to work more".

But we have to keep in mind that 37signals is a very differend kind of company. I'm not sure remote work is that suited to big companies. So they may be right in principle but they're handling it poorly.

tldr of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/512b80b57ad42f2e2500000a/no-more-remote...

There is no general answer to this one, but I'd say those 6-12 first months are when the company is most derisked. If you're going to be employee #1 of a 12-months-old startup, it means it still exists (vs all those failed projects), so it is much less risky, and founders are compensated for this risk (don't forget that in most case, their huge share of equity will be worth nothing in a few years!).

Of course once employee #1 joins he usually works as hard as the founders and I understand if he wonders why he got so little equity but those first months are more crucial than appears.

Let's take the example of the company I'm cofounding (tldr.io). When we started 10 months ago it was nothing more than a crazy idea with a very low chance of success (summarizing the web). Fast forward to today. We're still not ready to hire but we're getting close. The crazy idea has become a "there actually is a chance, although small, that it will succeed". I feel that the difference is huge.

Only someone who hasn't tried to start a company could say that founders and investors don't deserve to have most of the equity. Try to start one and give all employees the same equity you own ...

Some points you make are valid though, it's a shame you are so single-minded.

For a few months, I've been working some serious hours and as a result slept about 5-6 hours per week nights. For one week now I've forced myself to sleep 8 hours even during the weeks, and noticed my productivity shoot up. It is worth it!

Tldr of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/5123bba2793151711c00001b/good-sleep-goo...

Funny to see that this happens to everyone. A week ago, while testing some stuff to locate a low-importance bug, I erased the whole user database. Fortunately we have a good restore so the problem was solved in a few minutes, but still, cold sweat here ...

Sales commissions are the best way to maximize short term returns. Then your operational teams leave because they're paid much less but don't see why their work is less important, your clients leave when they understand the solution you sold them is not adapted and so on.

Tldr of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/512258d5ace532876b000003/eliminating-sa...

That's a pretty hyprocritical statement. Big companies know how to legally pay almost no taxes, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

And that's probably not "our" politicians who are to blame.

I'd like to become rich. Not to buy stuff I can't buy today but because of the possibilities it gives you. If you have a few millions in your bank account, you can take whatever job you like, create a company without fearing that failure will put you on the street etc. Then again I can imagine the downsides, as the article explains. I think it all boils down to "dont tell people how rich you are".

Tldr version: http://tldr.io/tldrs/5113da0cb507aa413100001d/is-getting-ric...

Python noob here, I am very interested in what you think makes Python a better browser scripting language than JS (which I use a lot on client and server side and like very much).

Great app, kind of tldr for stack overflow :)

Of course thorium reactors is not a proven technology but if there is a scientific consensus saying it is promising, I don't see why utility companies and civil nuclear reactor manufacturers try to make it viable. They have everything to gain, in my opinion.

Tldr of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50f73bbe983c81b86a00012b/thorium-reacto...

I anxiously await the day (that may never come) when legislators actually understand what they do when they try to regulate technology.

When beginning working on our current startup, we decided to switch from Windows to Linux to make development easier. I was planning to keep a partition with Windows but I soon found out how being on Linux I didn't have to worry about shit like this anymore. Needless to say I don't use Windows anymore.

Reading suggestion for him: Lean Startup.

He went with an idea that needs to be validated (I don't find obvious that condom key chains are a sure kill ...) and instead tries to produce 10,000 of them the first time. Wow.

That's something that happens a lot in the JS/nodejs world too. It has the potential to be disastrous if you're not rigorous, that's for sure. But it still enables very concise and maintenable code.

That's especially true for high-paying jobs in finance, law or management consulting. Here your wage raises so fast that most people don't see how their tastes are evolving. For example, after 2-3 years most cannot go to a nightclub without buying a bottle of champagne.

I quit Bain right before my first big pay raise and I feel that was a good decision. I eat pasta more than often but most of my friends who stayed have lost sight of their dreams. "I would like to quit but I can't" is something I hear SO often.

I'd go further. They don't know that people will not like them if they keep on saying 'yes'. Someone who can say 'no' when he needs to is more respected than a yesman.