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Watching the videos full-screen on a decent-size monitor creates just a bit of the sensation of the drops and turns.
It's 2015. Worker rights have been dead for a decade now, not to imply they were strong at any point before.

We don't have rights via our skills. If you want to have better working conditions, bribe the politicians to make it so (unlikely because you probably aren't paid enough) or organize your fellows into striking until you get better terms (even more unlikely).
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> How long does the period of continued employment need to be in order to be considered further consideration?

Non-zero.

In reality, my guess is that because courts don't love to see non-competes overbroadly upheld in the fist place, if you have a super restrictive non-compete that was given to you in exchange for $20, and it was given to say, a burger flipping teenager, or someone with dubious employment status, or huge medical bills, something else that made it an unequal bargaining position, it is very likely a court would reduce the scope of the non-compete or throw it out completely.

There are no hard and fast rules in non-compete-land. Courts can and do throw them out or reduce their geographic or conceptual boundaries relatively often. And the rules are not particularly byzantine or arcane - they are pretty straightforward. Sophisticated parties making a deal that includes valuable consideration in exchange for a business restriction will be upheld - a punitive contract for little money that basically prevents a worker from practicing his fungible skillset and keeping out of the taxpaying economy may not be.
I can't explain why but I like this, and I've been checking the timeline a few times today.
Hey, I clicked through, read the tutorial, got excited about your examples.. tried to download and found out it was windows only! I would have totally evaluated it further if there were an os x/linux option.
Years of effort put into their compiler optimizers.

For example, without any benchmarks I wonder how Rust current code generation relates to optimizing Ada compilers, specially the commercial ones like Atego.

It is hard to believe a language with an 8 year old compiler already generates better code than a 20 year old compiler battle tested in many production systems, even with the help of LLVM as backend.
Sure. Bad chemistry happens. And in that instance, it sounds like bad chemistry with a bad person. But if your friend had been "politely" telling this woman to fuck off, then I'd have to say that he was at least contributing to the bad relationship.

I feel like anotherangrydev is more likely than not "contributing to the bad relationship" in his (or her) work environments. When someone has multiple bad interactions with HR, at multiple companies, it starts to look like they're the problem and not HR. Why are they having so many interactions with HR at all? Or was there just one bad experience that they're extrapolating to "99%" of HR employees?
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It's about time. This is long overdue. The combination of the mainframe architecture's strengths with Linux's API/ecosystem could be pretty awesome. Anyone wondering why buy a mainframe should focus on these areas:

1. Reliability. Some have gone 30 years without downtime. Probably strongest selling point.

2. Channel I/O [1]: dedicated I/O processors plus scheduling that lead to high utilization (80-90+%) and throughput vs commodity servers. Second strongest point in mainframe's favor. I wish my desktop & servers had this rather than a knockoff.

3. Hardware partitioning that's more robust and rated at stronger security than most virtualization. Certain cutting-edge projects in INFOSEC are doing similar things at CPU and I/O layers. Mainframe's version, although not as cool, is decent and field-proven.

4. Built-in, proven software virtualization.

5. Hardware acceleration for some things such as databases and crypto.

6. IBM's ecosystem of apps, third-party providers, and services. This might matter to existing IBM customers.

So, those are a few advantages I hear from people who use mainframes. The z/OS-based mainframes have extra benefits in terms of software reliability, security through obscurity (obfuscation), and seemingly better use of both security (eg memory key) and functional (eg decimal) aspects of mainframe processors. The z/VM product has also been doing for decades what modern virtualization systems only recently do, even self-virtualizing since 70's.

So, there's some things to ponder. Whether it makes since financially vs other setups is a whole, different discussion. However, mainframes do retain strong, technical advantages over commodity architectures. They were doing cloud in one box before it was a thing. Their reliability is still unmatched with only VMS clusters and NonStop architecture getting close. So, it's a sensible choice for a business to spend extra $$$ to get high-throughput with no downtime and strong isolation of logical partitions.

Channel I/O [1]
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My thoughts for a good freelancer platform (after having used them extensively) --

1. Require specs. If needed make this be marketplace listed work too, to write a spec.

2. Require flat-priced projects. Site moderators will handle scope-creep disputes.

3. Track each project's overall cost and analyze how much each developer actually costs for projects.

I think this would help eliminate the problem that low cost hourly devs sometimes make up for their pricing in quantity.
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From related Reddit thread[0]:

Note: This is not related with that paid "intermediate Python" book in any way. I became aware of it today. I had been using this name internally for a couple of months. If the author of paid "Intermediate Python" has any issue with this I would be more than happy to change the name of my book because he definitely beated me to the finish line. :)

[0] http://redd.it/3hbb46
Seems to be a little lacking for companies in health IT.
That particular case isn't helped by labor laws, as the threat isn't enforced legally. They put your name on a blacklist and all of a sudden you find that nobody will hire you. I don't know the specific provenance of that legal precedent, but I doubt it had anything to do with Hollywood.
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At will means you aren't owed the job you currently have. You are owed pay for all work currently done, but you aren't owed being employed tomorrow.

Say I have a contract with you so that every week I give you 50 and you paint my chicken coup (I want it to be a different color every week to confuse the chickens). Now one day, you say you will terminate my contract unless I pay 55 instead.

Is this you getting 5 for nothing (this is the delta between the old contract and the purposed one) or is it you getting 55 and I getting a painted coup? Well, as long as the contract allowed you or I to end the arrangement at any time, I'd say it was the latter.
I'd love to be able to provide you with a few competitors that I already know of and then have you give me back the ones I missed. Cool product!
That is totally different from my book :) I haven't read it so I can not tell how much different it is from mine. Perhaps you can tell if you have read it?
Really great article, spending your weekend making the animated step-by-step diagrams was worth it!

The fact that browsers don't get this stuff right by now is pretty worrying. Makes it difficult to imagine the web being the platform of the future and complex applications being built atop it.
". A contract between an employer and employee is not an employment agreement"

It seems you are limiting the term "employment agreement" to cover fixed-term employment contracts and what they entail.
As a practicing corporate and IP attorney (which I am as well), you should pretty well know nobody uses it that way, not even courts. There are such things as at-will employment agreements. You are correct that non-fixed duration employment contracts are generally at-will, but that does not make them any less of employment agreements. If you do not believe you can make an at-will employment agreement, i don't know what to even tell you.
Would you like me to cite 50 cases that disagree with you?
:)

All employment is by contract, and all these contracts are employment agreements, whether they are implied contracts (which is what most at-will employment is, for sure), collective bargaining agreements, explicit negotiated agreements, or whatever. I can make a verbal at-will agreement too! It's still an employment agreement.

It is true that, in for example, california, labor code specifies at-will employment as the default employment relationship without a contract, but that does not mean if you have a written contract you cannot be at-will, or you cannot have an employment agreement (most of the written employment agreements that are at-will make you explicitly agree you are at will and cover a salary. These are very clearly employment agreements, as they cover your employment status and terms of your employment, etc). It also doesn't mean a verbal agreement wouldn't overcome that default.

But I guess if we fundamentally disagree on terminology, we aren't getting to space today.
> I still play "Choas:The Battle of Wizards" on an emulator every few months

I remember my cousin introducing me to the game early on. I think I spent more hours playing Chaos on the speccy than any other game, possibly more than any other game combined.
After 9 different interview rounds I've all but giving up on trying to get into there. Any advice on trying to get in?
Correct. (note: I believe none of our users have asked that ;-), but I appreciate that HN cares about that.
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It's not just the employees interviewed by the Times. I've read roughly 100 comments (across this and several related HN articles) from ex-Amazon employees who confirmed that their experiences at Amazon were similar to what was described in the Times article. And maybe 100 comments from people who wrote that they would never work at Amazon based on what friends they knew at Amazon have gone through. At some point, the evidence begins to build up. I think it's pretty unlikely that there's a vast conspiracy of former Amazon employees and their friends who want to spread nasty lies about Amazon.
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>It's an absolutely fantastic idea but this tool is worthless to me until that isn't the case. Why are you doing this?

Thanks, law is not an easy thing to scale. Not unlike most startups we are growing, eventually every jurisdiction be covered and by multiple law firms, but Rome wasn't built in a day.

>Edit: Upon further reading, it's because one of the founders of OP's site runs a law firm named after this site which is conveniently one of the firms registered. What a racket!

First, no I am OP and I do not have a law firm that is on TicketTitan, but another founder does. Do you consider Orbitz a racket? Was AirBnB a racket when it first started with only 1 listing, a air mattress in the founders apartment? Orbitz connected travelers with flights (but Orbitz was owned by the airlines), AirBnB offered an air mattress to sleep on in SF but that air mattress was in the apartment of the founder.
If what you're saying is correct, if subsidies were removed across the board taxes would go down, energy costs would go up and solar would take off and replace coal because it would be the (real) best deal.
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On the subject of new discussion software, I'm interested in finding or creating a system where the typical end result is consensus among the participants, and future readers reading the end result will be likely persuaded of that consensus.

Even the most civil of online discussions don't typically end with one or both people changing their views, and the end result is, like you say, just a chronological discussion. Not only chronological, it tends to end up a bit cyclic.

I'm imagining something like a flow-chart, seeded with a single node, some assertion under discussion. Someone can make an argument for or against that assertion - and then future participants cannot make the same argument again. They can refine it, substitute their own version, or offer supporting/denying evidence as sub-arguments.

Ideally, at the end of that discussion, their would be a single flowchart, with each argument laid out exactly once, in its strongest/most persuasive form.
Before I forget (and I do that quite a lot), thanks for the interesting conversation.
Please don't post routine political stories to HN.
Texas may be "Right to Work" but right to work has nothing to do with this. It has everything to do with the doctrine of "Employment-At-Will" of which 49 states follow. (Montana, I thank you for not following the employment at will doctrine)

I can't believe that there are so many people out there which get the two terms confused. Maybe we need to teach public high school students basic employment law in their civics classes.
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Honest question, how is it simpler?
I've found IPFS very interesting and reccommended it to peers, but it lacks the collaborative editing aspect.

Trusting the initial public offering of a resource is still an interesting issue. IPFS is content-addressable by hash, addresses map to their content in a computable way.

The idea for the distributed hash table in Uroko is that the keys are existing URLs. Imagine thousands of peers all saying they have a new page on the domain "google.com" and you can see what makes this a fun problem to solve.
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They have nothing in common except being a language.

Esperanto is an indo-European conlang designed to be as easy to learn as possible. As such, it borrows vocabulary from as many languages as possible--which, due to when it was made, really means "as many languages in western Europe as possible, plus Polish and Greek"--and has a deliberately simple, minimalist (by spoken language standards) grammar.

Loglan, like the more famous Lojban that's inspired by it, attempts to make it possible to speak in a completely unambiguous way. It makes no attempt to be easy to learn and is not designed for casual conversation, although people certainly try. I have no idea why you would learn Loglan over Lojban, since the former has had a couple of copyright feuds with people trying to follow the language and has a much smaller community.
You are preaching to the choir! I am not an IBMer, so I have the same gripes.

Mainframes gradually exited academia in the mid-80s. It was a terrible mistake by IBM, because they essentially eliminated the next generation of mainframers. They've since come to their senses with a program called the IBM Academic Initiative [0] which promotes the use of mainframes in Computer Science courses. It's only about 20 years too late.

But I think they could do a better job. Up until recently, the only way to try z/OS without accessing million dollar hardware was to break the law. You literally had to torrent a pirated copy of z/OS. And it's not easy to find. A few years ago, IBM changed this with their tool: Rational Developer and Test for System z [1]. It's essentially Hercules but you get a legal copy of z/OS. And it's $9500 per year per CPU. And there is some stupid hardware license usb key.

And regarding your questions, your points are valid. Vendor lock-in is a concern. IBM is the only player in the business, and they know it. But look at every major industry that's been around at least 30 years: all the mission critical stuff runs on a mainframe. Maybe it's because it's the only thing that runs their legacy COBOL code. But it works and it's rock solid.

The poster child of migrating to Linux on z is Nationwide. They successfully moved almost all of their x86 processing to Linux on z and saved a ton of money. There's the definitely-not-vendor-biased white paper out there. Do some googling on "Nationwide Linux on z".

[0]: http://www-304.ibm.com/ibm/university/academic/pub/page/acad...
[1]: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/ratideveandtesten...
The hack here is as much sniffing the GratARP as it is piggybacking on the subsidized hardware without buying the (high margin) goods which were meant to defray the cost of the device.

I shudder to think how this "ingenuity" could be prosecuted under CFAA...
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> “What we’d really like to see is these companies hiring people into their tech cathedrals,”

Few are opposed to this, provided the people in question have qualifications other than "needs employment".
Thanks for the explanation, no worries about not being given able to share code.

You do make it sound simple, so therefore I will make a typical HN comment (god help my karma :) :

If you can abstract it away enough, make it SaaS, sounds like a startup idea!
Screw pressing the buttons. Can I train an Amazon Echo to listen for me brushing my teeth?
For what category? What was your search query?

I put together a landscape for a friend the other day and within an hour had identified the top 100 electronic health record/electronic medical record vendors. :)
I had to try it: http://cl.ly/image/1c3X1h2D0z1S

https://rivalseek.com/search/index.php?searchterm=find+compe...

It seems there is a pretty major bug (see the results and their domains), but nonetheless RivalSeek is apparently supposed to be at the top, which if natural (not hard-coded), is pretty cool.
I think IBM is headed that direction with BlueMix. That is their public cloud offering. However, there are no mainframe offerings yet.
Currently using virtual-dom to power my front-end system, but have been waiting for something like this. Can't wait to see how it works in comparison.
I mean that most of the "important stuff" is running in user space. You can shut down the computer, spread viruses, and delete the user's most important files. The only administrator-owned files on a typical Windows installation happen to be the replaceable ones. The ones modifiable by a user are the custom, personal, and sometimes irreplaceable files.

This is mostly true on personal Linux machines as well. I'm just expressing my opinion that you don't need root access to pwn someone's machine.
No, like, in Canada and Europe the site just returns 404.
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Having used both WPF and Silverlight until 2010 (at which point I abandoned the Microsoft stack altogether) I agree, but I don't think the answer is either of those technologies.

Have you tried building GUI apps in Racket? That's the sort of thing I was wishing for when using either Java or .NET to build Windows GUIs.
Thank you for your comments. The fact that the author did no real research on what led up to this outrage did jump out at me. It probably still would not justify this level of force but at least there would be some context.
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Can you elaborate on the need? What possible reason, short of a very contrived one, is there for having to keep a large number of machines' clocks in-sync?

And for that matter, why would anyone build any process/system/software that requires a distributed system's machines to all have their clocks in-sync. I am baffled.
Interesting. That looks very similar to YAML's anchor/alias feature.
In my hiring process, I interviewed with multiple managers. I picked my favorite, and I ended up working for him. It didn't work out. Within a few weeks I was working for a new manager.

And frankly, I've never once worked for a company where I was immune from re-orgs.
They are not "starting from scratch" if they had such a focus on past work and research. I hope they publish something on that.
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What I find so funny about this is that people are now doing with containers what people have been doing with mainframes for decades. That is, running thousands of virtualized environments on a typical server.

I remember logging into a 3270 terminal to a screen displayed by VMS (the virtualization manager) which would immediately spin up a virtual machine running your own copy of CMS for you do development or other command line work.

It is so much fun to see things go full circle.
This sounds like a potential Kickstarter project idea. A generic version, perhaps a pack of stickers to put on devices symbolizing misc. everyday things.
This is an argument detached from two realities: (1) that fossil fuels receive enormous subsidies in the US and worldwide, and (2) that there is an enormous impact of CO2 on global climate, health, and ecosystems (not to mention the local environmental and health impacts of coal mining and fracking). When accounting for these costs, it becomes increasingly dishonest to claim that fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables.
> Are you implying that these actor libraries give you the data race freedom guarantees that Rust's mutability rules give you? If so, that's trivially false.

No they don't give the freedom, but they give them comfort for the average developers.

I deal a lot with 9-5 enterprise developers that don't even know that HN and Reddit exist, or whatever languages exist out there besides what they use on the job.

Yet they do write multi-threaded code with help of such libraries, happy that someone gives them training wheels.

> But doubly linked lists/tree-like data structures are hard in Haskell too.

True, but laziness helps. However Haskell is hardly a mainstream language.