"My hope is that our employees never, ever feel patronized, belittled or small."
Anyone applying to your company after having read that pile of patronizing crap are probably genetically incapable of feeling patronized or belittled.
(Seriously, I don't think I know a single highly qualified person who wouldn't quit the same day if you showed up and told them that this is how the company will be run from now on, and half of them would punch you in the face on the way out.)
I don't think you really added anything to the thread by posting that. Would you care posting why you thought it was patronizing and how you would improve it?
It sounds like one way to make money working there would be for debt-free employees to assume some debt at less than 5% interest so that the higher real wage and 5% top-up payments kick in. There are some interesting ideas here with the exception of section 4 which sounds like a cult. Not everyone wants their workplace to function like a commune.
Very good point. Need to work on the numbers more carefully but I hope you agree with the intention. Section 4 is definitely the least carefully thought out but probably the most well-intentioned. Right now Happy feels a bit like a commune as lots of students come to our Tiki House and enjoy our parties and help with the project. I guess I'd just love to maintain that vibe if at all possible.
Hint: you can use search engines to find job descriptions:
"As an AdWords Associate, your main responsibility will be to manage a portfolio of advertiser accounts. You will be working directly with your advertisers to drive revenue and customer satisfaction."
And of course they have phones. If you were the kind of customer they'd be interested in talking to, you would probably have their number already...
how many users do they want to store in their db with a unique md5 string? its just a really bad bet.
thats a script kiddie for me, assuming that a hash never collides within a database and than chosing md5. there are better, even very simple, ways to store hashes without forcing collisions.
There are an awful lot of md5 digests - so, even with an insane number of users it is highly unlikely they would have a collision. Hell; at work we generate insane numbers of hashes and it took us quite a while, and a large dataset to find a collision :-)
Nevermind the fact that if the gods did cause such a collision to occur it wouldn't exactly be the end of the world. (And the accessibility of md5 more than makes up for this consequence.)
Economist:
"A host of Facebook and other denizens have traced over 100 other articles that have appeared in the magazine to The Food Network, NPR, Martha Stewart, Sunset, and others. A Google Docs spreadsheet maintains the list."
"A canoe is deeper, wider and fatter (like some Canadians perhaps ;)"
Not sure about Finland (where the article's author lives), but a wide, fat open canoe is actually called "a Canadian" in many parts of northern Europe.
The concept of an "open kayak" sounds pretty confused, though, given how they were originally built (skins wrapped around a thin wooden frame) and used (coastal sea regions, including the open sea).
Anyone applying to your company after having read that pile of patronizing crap are probably genetically incapable of feeling patronized or belittled.
(Seriously, I don't think I know a single highly qualified person who wouldn't quit the same day if you showed up and told them that this is how the company will be run from now on, and half of them would punch you in the face on the way out.)