jayp

Many reasons you got only luke warm response:

(1) Comments were disabled in the original post (for reference, see original post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945582.) Disabling comments for job posts is not ideal in an open community. My hypothesis is that it hurts more than benefits YC companies. Pile on the fact that you're trying to hire for a non-traditional role.

(2) You're trying to hire for your core value-add. This is what founders should be owning. If your founding team can't do this, look to add a co-founder, not an employee. If your founder's aren't looking to get your customer base to a critical mass, and thus make the marketplace more favorable to both customers and dealers, what are they doing?

(3) A dangerous attitude. Your voice in both these posts lacks empathy. Your original post is highly presumptuous. Your follow-on blog post doesn't clarify things much further, and fails to provide concrete motivation/reasonings to apply.

I hope these criticisms help.

rtm and trevor blackwell have other fulltime commitments.

I think the euphemism is the other way around to: (1) remain legal, and (b) not sound discriminatory.

Thought I had put the location. Fixed. Thanks.

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if you don't mind, why are you limiting to US citizens?

I do.

At many/most well-known US research universities, a tenure-track position in Engineering (and possibly, Sciences too) is up for evaluation after six years from start of hire. The exact term may vary from institute to institute, but is six for most of the top universities. At that point, they either give you promotion (i.e., tenure) or a one-year notice (i.e., fire you).

Note that this is not "full" tenure, this is technically a promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor. However, it is still tenure, and you can keep the job for life. It doesn't have the prestige of a full tenure. Full tenure is likely to follow, if you keep similar pace, in 3-5 more years.

In summary, tenure can be had in as little as 6 years after completing PhD for professors in Engineering. But, those are probably the 6 hardest working years of their life. Makes the PhD almost feel like a cakewalk.

Cliff vesting is deferred compensation. Your concern about an ethical paradox is invalid.

What does "our hackday" mean?

no. by end of 2010 (tentative).

Bahrain may have similar legal foundations as Qatar, but those are definitely two different countries. Someone standing up on a pedestal should probably know that.

But this time it is mandatory.

I went to grad school first. Now, time for a startup. ;-)

Actually, my parents have been very supportive of whatever I want to do. I think yours will be too -- just speak from your heart. Try to convince them how you feel about things. Most parents only want what's good for their child. However, often this leads to making/forcing decisions on the child -- but only if they feel the child may be directionless. State your goals succinctly. Back your reasoning vigorously. You may be pleasantly surprised.

100% effective uptime, with 99.9..% actual downtime.

s/down/up/

WTF, why am I getting moderated down?

To be clear: I was referring to the "fact" that real estate prices are not being affected in Ahmedabad due to a car plant being built in a location about 50km away from the city. That is simply not true -- my parents are in the market to sell their house in Ahmedabad, and the price is nowhere close to what they would have gotten a year ago.

your claim about real estate prices is surely in jest.

Here is a list of papers from the "Advanced Distributed Systems" course at UIUC: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/sp09/cs525/sched.htm

Full disclosure: my advisor teaches this class.

Speaking only for myself, I anticipate the greatest of times ahead.

1. He didn't mention that to the judge. 2. That is not an admission of anything tangible.

As the article states, lawyers aren't allowed in small claims court.

The same para-legal would have sufficed with better preparation -- finding out the reasoning for account termination (i.e., non-content domain).

AFAIK, to win a small claims court, you still have to prove that you deserve the money. I see nowhere in the story he admits to the judge that he violated to ToS. He simply used the lack of customer service at Google/AdSense to win this case. As I mentioned it is amazing that Google sent an unprepared para-legal to defend themselves.

Looks like Googe send in a pretty useless paralegal to defend their case. Instead, if they had send you (or someone with the same arguments as you), they'd have probably won.

I think it is fairly obvious what this guy did wrong. I am just surprised Google's paralegal was not apt enough to figure this out.

These people obviously weren't well read. Iceland was well to do even 10 years ago.

Top marginal rate is 35% now.

The SSI stops after 105k (or so), so it is immaterial, because the marginal fed tax rate is 28% at that point.

True that state income tax is a big one, for some states. So I completely didn't bundle that in my estimate.

Phaseout deductions never _increase_ marginal tax rates, so also immaterial.

Nevertheless, exceeding 50% marginal tax rate with today's tax rates is unlikely.

Wow, I believe this is the first-ever "security guarantee" payout by DJB? Not bad!, not bad at all!, considering how popular both qmail and djbdns are.

Please don't find it insulting when I say I find your numbers hard to believe. A claim of a marginal tax rate of 75% without any solid numbers is hardly doing justice your thesis. If you'd give a more detailed breakdown, your case would not seem so dubious.

This list is deceptively compact.. so many experiences summarized in so little space. Yes, I agree: nothing really unheard of...but all presented succinctly in one place by one cogent voice.

Absolutely superfluous comment: I heart pg.

Can we please stop posting every article from Signal vs. Noise here? If anything, that blog is overrated...here on HN.

FYI... Gandhi himself was born to a very affluent family.