Honestly, I just found out, and I am trying to figure out when and how to bring this up. It feels like there are several good timings for bringing this up:
1. When I've just delivered something of high business value
2. When the company is really needs me to deliver something of high value
3. Annual review
4. Right before quarterly/annual budgets
5. When I have a competing offer
I've asked for a raise, not too long ago, without any information in hand about competing salaries. That conversation did not lead to a pay increase. I found out -- not long after that conversation -- that the post-funding folks make substantially more than the pre-funding folks.
Salary aside, it is an excellent job. I enjoy working there, believe in the mission, and I am relatively unlikely to leave for a more lucrative offer. I think management knows that, which is why they don't feel the need to pay myself (or other early employees) market rates. Management pays the least an employee will work for.
I gave my company a choice: raise my salary/title to reflect the new hierarchy or lose me to a competitive offer. They fed me a line about how the company was making money, but not enough to raise everyone's salary (translation: we don't think you can get a competitive offer).
I took another job 3 weeks later for 25% more money + actual equity (not bullshit stock options).
Startups can be fun, but in terms of compensation, the early employees will get screwed over.
Management is hoping to keep employees happy by maintaining them in a state of ignorance, which never works. That is not a good sign.
Think carefully and explicitly about the decision-making processes that could have plausibly created this situation where people doing the same stuff get paid substantially different amounts. Think about the values reflected by those processes, and the odds that the company does not have some major storms ahead given the people at the helm.
I've worked at a few places where it was against the rules to talk about your salary. I asked the owner why (quoting what Spolksy had said) and I was told that if the employees know what each other earned, half of them would leave. I asked why some people were being paid more than others for the same job, and the owner told me, "Some people are better at negotiating than others." And I knew for a fact that I am terrible at asking for more, so it was time to look for another job. Shame really. It was a good job, but I'd always feel like someone had negotiated better than me and was earning an extra 20%
Setting aside small towns, I find it a bit alarming how many huge cities I know nothing about, places like Tianjin, Dhaka, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, and Yangon. (Of course if everyone but me is familiar with these cities, I'm sure you'll let me know...) My theory is that the "culturally important" cities that everyone knows (Moscow, Cairo, London, etc.) lags by decades behind the actual growth of cities. Of course, renaming places like Rangoon to Yangon also doesn't help.
What jumped at me was the fact that list seems significantly inaccurate/unrepresentative. For example, Delhi which has a population of 11 million according to its wikipedia article is missing entirely from the list (It would be between 10 and 14 rank as it stands now). The article is controversial due to conflicts in the definition of the boundaries of a city, but by any definition, Delhi should definitely be up there.
Being in Asia, I'm more familiar with those cities than the ones to the west. The renaming often just corrects bad names picked by Europeans (e.g. Tienstin vs. Tianjin, though everyone still uses Bangalore when I was there last).
i've lived my whole life in california so monterey, ca. is what popped into my head. wikipedia confirms it's about 28k population. the peninsula area has more though.
after poking around on google maps, most historical towns are quite large now (roanoke, va and plymouth, ma are at least double that size).
bangor, maine is right around 30k. i bet most have at least heard of that town.
most of the famous little towns in the south like savannah, tuscaloosa, galveston are 50-120k+ population. key west is 25k though. with tourists in town i'm guessing it's right near 30k. there's also some really small towns by it that are probably not counted in the city population.
i think you'd be hard pressed to find a more famous 30k population town than key west. i'm willing to bet nearly every adult in the US has heard of the place, and has a pretty good idea in their head what it looks/feels like in terms of population.
(This is not a well known place, but one of its schools was in "Saved by the Bell" so there's a tenuous pop culture link.
Wikipedia has several lists of US cities and, being polite, they tend to obscurity at the latter half of the lists. And those are places with over 100,000 people. My town - Cheltenham UK - has about 100,000 people.
So, how do you give an idea of how big a town for 35,000 people is? Number of high schools? Number of Starbucks? The article lists one church. A UK equivalent might list twelve pubs.
(my niece fibbed to me and said it was in "Greece" - something I believed for years. She also told me "oh yeah Deerhoof, they all went to my school" which is also totally untrue.)
I'd be curious to see the specific numbers on that spreadsheet as well. Where is the data sourced from? Is it one engineer that conducted multiple interviews or do they pertain to statistical averages.
"He said a lot of the drivers pocket the cash for themselves which is why they demand cash."
Uh. No. Where else would the money go? Cabbies pay everything upfront. They keep all earnings.
The problem here is that both cabbies and customers are in a bad deal. The bulk of the profits go to taxi medallion holders which are typically investors.
It's much easier to not pay taxes on cash income than on credit card income.
Also, cabbies don't pocket the income, the medallion owner pockets the income. If that happens to be the cabbie, great, but frequently, cabbies simply lease the medallion from an investment company. If you're a non-medallion-owning driver, you can increase your hourly rate by requesting and not-reporting cash transactions.
Looking at a (failed) login flow, it looks like they are using Oracle SSO
Markers:
* Cookie named site2pstoretoken
* Http header: Oracle-Application-Server-10g/10.1.2.3.0 Oracle-HTTP-Server
* Layouts are still done via <tables>
Does this mean you won't have traditional memory available at all (outside of L1-3 cache)?
Or is it able to mix and match between real DDR3 memory and SSD?
Edit: Yep, looks like it. Congrats to the Amiato team.