apalmblad

Hire slow, fire fast.

He's new. If he's still in a probationary period - either by statute or contractually - get rid of him. If he's not, and he's a brand new employee, consider adding wording to future contracts regarding a probationary period.

Obviously, still talk to a lawyer.

I remember speaking to my partner's cousin about this, a phd working in Ottawa for the federal government. No love lost between her and our previous federal government, so I figured I'd hear a great rant.

However, she figured it was turned into an issue by the media, and roughly supported the ban; her opinion - adjusted for brevity - being that scientists without media training shouldn't necessarily have carte blanche to speak to press.

First of all, I'd suggest addressing the issue company wide. Before firing, tell everyone pii outside of the office is unacceptable. Figure out a way you want to deal with that that lets people keep working, whatever it's work through a VPN, anonimizing data, or what not. Address it as the privacy issues it is, and ask all developers to acknowledge and agree to the policy change. It might smell funny to some, but it's not an unreasonable policy.

After that, offer increased severance as other posters have suggested.

Sounds like a broken culture. I won't comment on the normalcy of your situation, but I do not think it's acceptable.

If you want to stay, talk to your manager and explain you need more mentoring. Talk to the friendliest senior you can. You may just need to work on building g a relationship with someone. Junior employers should get mentoring, trading; they should be encouraged to make mistakes. You can find that somewhere, but you may need to search that not only excel technically, but also excel at managing people.

I'm shocked; I saw a talk or two he did in Vancouver, and really enjoyed that he tackled deeper technical topics. He's too young to have passed away.

I did the test and came out 37% ahead. I was surprised.

That said, I often find myself fiddling with the cursor to mark my place when I'm reading something long, so the idea that extra indicators of place might help doesn't surprise me.

I feel better line spacing might also help - their test seemed to have the lines pretty tight together, although I'm not surprised a test would be designed to best showcase their software.

A while back (some time in the last year), they had a few of the files zipped up. There were a lot of support requests for help unzipping it. The files had a >4GiB file inside, requiring zip64 extensions. I remember at the time, my out of the box version of unzip on OS X did not support zip64 extensions - I think 6.0 is when support is added.

I'm not arguing for rar in particular, just commenting on the difficulties I saw and experienced when using the zip files they provided at one point.

I'll toss out another warning to those thinking of using this for back packing. I've seen baffles come apart on MEC sleeping pads with a similar design - it's a big enough problem that they acknowledged on their website for their first gen pads. I'd be leery of trusting a brand-new product from a team with limited experience in producing camping gear. It's not as simple as finding a factory in China to produce gear.

I notice no mention of sales. Are your cofounders able to sell the product, if raising investment is not going well?

Have you actually launched? Are you close to launch? Real sales and real feedback from real customers is really the only way to validate what you're doing. A year is a long time to build something without real customers - if you don't have customers who believe in the product, there's no reason you should either.

I feel like the author is overstating the benefits of a like button on every page. Google - and many other ad networks - also know the products being viewed if the site owner is using retargetted ads. Might facebook offer compelling retargetting? Sure. But I imagine the conversion rates would be, at best, comparable to other retargetting networks. Probably not a game changer.

I'm not even mentioning the reach of analytics.