I am with you, bought it 9 hours ago.
I just checked my invoice now and the content indeed modified from "startup plan" into "basic plan".
for the record, when I buy it, it was still "startup plan" and it still showed me that i bought 500k points in startup plan.
I hope someone from mixpanel can answer this, i think it is very wrong to change invoice content like this.
I speak Indonesian and Javanese as my native language, "forced to learn" Japanese, English, Malay, and a bit of Chinese here in Japan.
Contrary to common opinion, I regret that I learn and speak a lot of languages because I don't feel adequate enough in any of them, even my native language. Being able to use a lot of language really broaden your view, but at the same time, you will incline to develop multiple personalities/conscious in your effort to speak like the native. I find it difficult to express myself in a "constant" way regardless languages, hence the feeling of inadequate.
If it is that easy, why don't you and others just create an open source project for this matter and submit the result to university. I am sure they will glad to have it for free.
The reason why they shouldn't go public : very bad timing in this volatile economy. I don't know if AFF can be categorized as startup, but startups that do not have enough cash flow (the real cash) for 2 or 3 year of expenses and etc should not go for public unless you want to get burned by short-sellers and opportunist. I work part-time in Japanese startup in my leisure time. We are only 10~ people (not all of us are developer) but already generating $4M of net income last year(not try to brag on it, since I'm sure we're not the best) and by the way we did end-year party last night I am pretty sure it's more than doubled. We choose not to raise fund or sell IPO because we feel steadier without it. Unless you have great growth that can ensure market (remember, todays market is mostly based on fear) or you have great trouble and IPO is the only thing that can save you, don't enter the market :)
This would be nice. I'd like to suggest a few things too. Sometimes I find good threads or interesting submissions that I want to read/analyze in the future, mainly because I don't have time at the moment, so I upvote threads. My saved list keeps growing even though I have done dealing in some of them. it would be great if you can delete it from saved list.
I have been working part-time in fairly fast paced Japanese startup, and next year I graduate and choose to enter a company in research area. My decision is mainly because of culture and demand from my parents (the type of parents that ask you why you work at home instead of applying to "real" company like IBM, etc). One will learn more in area that suit him, no matter it's a startup or a company's research laboratory. One thing for sure before you make the decision is that you have to know exactly what you're going to do/face and whether you're going to like it. I learned a lot from startup but I felt that you don't get much time to learn deeply about new concepts and implement them. In startups, you get limited budget, limited devs team and basically you don't have enough time to implement/test new ideas. The most important factor for me is: since I'm not the kind of top level coder who knows everything, I feel insecure working at startup with lack of assistance from someone who really knows what they're doing.
Yeah, I feel cheap too, but it's almost like the standard here :(
Unless you enter google or bulge bracket banks, you won't get too far from $2k/month base salary here.
Just my curiosity, did you find this cheap after reading my other comment too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385479 ?
And btw, by CS graduate I meant B.Eng. or B.Sc. not M.Eng or M.Sc.
So, Is it save to assume that entry level programmer will get above $50k/year in US?
Thanks. If I read your comment right, poor to average programmers in big cities will get $40k~/year after taxes, etc. Hmm... I guess it's not so different after all, I was thinking fresh programmers're getting $70k/year after taxes.
In my experience (I'm still in univ. but got some offers from companies), we will get base salary: $2k ~ 2.5k/month after taxes etc, plus apartment(simple one) and transport fee. The yearly bonus is 5 times of base salary, but usually we get only 4 times. This is from fairly big Japanese company, slightly lower than SONY or HONDA.
The job being talked is core software development at company's main business. Too bad we don't have 401k plan like in other countries.
I went to Deutsche Bank last year, and it's alot different.
We'll get $64k/year after tax, almost no yearly bonus
and small allowance for apartment. The job being talked is the usual software development for desktop products.
Hi guys, I want to know how much exactly do fresh CS graduate(B.Sc) gets in US nowadays?
I'm based in Japan, and we will get 2147 USD(200k yen) for base salary only no matter how good you are. It seems very cheap :( since the high living cost here. The yearly bonus is about 4~5 months of base salary, but you don't usually get it unless you are really recognized by the management team.
EDIT: I must say, this is also the same for big companies like IBM Japan, SAP, etc.
I remember a few years ago, Yahoo Aussie hired penetration testing IT consultant to do the "test". As many have pointed out, it's expensive. I forgot the name of the company but you can google it for "penetration test". dguido said a few cheaper solutions too.
This is true at some point but can be dangerous if you neglect it entirely. I have worked as server admin as a part-timer in a company that stalled because they don't use grid technology for their shared plan right from beginning. We have clients complaining the server response and lots of problems with I/O etc. Converting this 500~ shared servers into grid system is painful to do when we have limited time and resources. But, this problem would less occur if we have chosen a slightly expensive but reliable for the long run grid system or the like.