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People often use this very semantic, very pedantic difference and expand it to make it a difference in practical effect. Piracy and theft have the same practical effect : you're accessing a consumable good without paying the requisite cost, your individual crime may not have a large effect on the ability of the seller to provide for that good, but, on the large scale, if everyone committed your crime, you would severely affect the seller's ability to both 1. provide for him/her/their-self and 2. provide that good to the people. So, for all intents and purposes, yes, piracy is theft.
> Piracy is the correcting hand of the free market, where obtaining things for free is easier and less byzantine than by paid channels. Psychological research has proven time and time again that most people are willing to pay, but unwilling to have their personal rights trampled by draconian licensing and DRM.

No, the (ethical) correcting hand of the free market is not buying things, not deciding you are entitled to any entertainment content anyone produces.

> Luckily your opinions, however misinformed, are irrelevant because anyone who understands this will never give up the fight. We understand how international trade deals and copyright law are being used offensively against the public, and we will not relinquish control over the devices we've rightfully purchased.

Yes, if you rightfully purchase something, then I'll agree you have every right to skirt DRM if it is not letting you use what you purchased. But just stealing it outright is exactly how we've ended up with things like TPP and the DMCA, or Hollywood's relatively recent trend of spit-firing bad movies so they'll at least make something in the box office.
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I don't give my email or contact info to recruiters or random job sites!
>And if you add a new machine to the cluster

Then you'll probably be running the whole playbook again, including those settings changes you made before.

>Or of a machine was temporarily offline when a tag was run

Then it'll fail and give you a warning. Shrug your shoulders and run it again?
It's a really cool device and it sounds amazing, the only problem is that you can't really bring it with you often, especially around airplanes :(
To be fair your friend got fucked over but predominantly because he didn't read the contract. If he was offered £40k and then a contract came and he signed it without checking, his fuck up. If he didnt sign a contract and moved cities on the word of an individual he fucked up.

If he didnt attend and interview or discuss these perks prior to signing a contract he fucked up.

If he was genuinely misled then he can actually make a complaint and pursue it but it sounds like he didnt do much checking at all.
It should be noted, this is often how the US federal government works as well, to satisfy the requirement that they consider veterans for jobs.
I think of recruiters more as a "realtor for my skills."

It's totally OK to not use a realtor to sell your house to your coworker's son and his new wife in rural BFE for 20k $USD.

When you go to sell your mcmansion in a small town suburb for $80k USD, you might have a lawyer look over the sales contract, but you might not use an agent. There just isn't that much at risk and you probably know the person you're selling to.

When you sell your house for $120k USD in a bigger city, you almost definitely use a seller's agent and might use a lawyer. There's more risk because it's a bigger city and you're playing for more money. There's probably some negotiation involved and you don't sell a house every day so you need to know what's normal, what's legal, and where hidden traps are.

When you sell a house for $500k USD, you sure as hell use a a seller's agent and a title company and a lawyer and everyone reviews the contract. That's a lot of money to not have many eyeballs on the deal and rounds of negotiation.

Selling your skills is like selling a house. When it's not that much money and you trust the people you're dealing with, you don't need a recruiter. When you're negotiating salary and benefits at higher tiers, you need to know what's normal and what's acceptable, and that's another service a recruiter provides. They also represent you to many buyers and help you with the negotiation and feedback process. Like a real estate agent, they are a critical impersonal cutout that helps everyone maintain face during a negotiation.
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But one of the central points of Continuous Delivery is that there is no difference between "configuration" and "code", and that changes for either of them will result in a new release candidate. Every release candidate goes through the same automated quality checks before going to production.
Fluorine disagrees.
"Piracy" isn't counterfeit because pirates have no intention of defrauding or deceiving anyone (you're confusing them with bootleggers). Nor is the media they offer in any way a forgery. It's the authentic product, perhaps undergoing augmentation (i.e. to disable copy protection) or some lossy compression when transcoding video or audio. These are not equivalent to forgery.
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Lol, I'm a C++ games programmer and make $30k/year. North East of England + games industry.
Before software, a thing's representation and underlying mechanics were inseparable. It's weird to see producers greedy over their patterns now that it is (legally) possible to distinguish between the two..

For a while it was illegal in the US to "unlock" your phone: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/unlocking-your-new-smart...
Lab-on-chip tech exists. It is just very expensive.
Love to see Stanford leverage their successful models in incubating large part of Silicon Valley huge startup and franchise/multiple/clone into Stanford NY, Stanford LA, HongKong, Shanghai, Bangalore, London, etc.

With large amount of the Stanford class contents already online, it is probably just setup small local campus for testing, group study local students and meetup.
While the feds haven't done anything about them yet, Nevada just started cracking down on daily fantasy sports: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/sports/gambling-regulators...
The idea that illegally downloading or distributing copyrighted content is a fight against copyright laws is about as ludicrous as murderers fighting against all those killing laws.
Not in London it isnt. £15k is below average wage, way below for London. Unless this IT job was excel monkey or perhaps keyboard cleaner original commenter is full of shit.

I know trainee developers (no education but some skills) who have started off on £21k and that is low for IT in London. I find it hard to believe that any IT role in London was filled for £15k by anyone other than the most junior of people.
Because you'd prefer that other people not casually erect their own legal structure where your interests are concerned.

The law exists, among other reasons, to save us the N! negotiation of appropriate barriers. In that way, taking some aliquot of entertainment is not different from sleeping on your porch. Or in your living room.
> The Russian mindset is different. It's more... brutal? I'm struggling for the right word.

Severe is the word I use. If I were permitted to generalize the Russian people, I would generalize them as severe. Extremely warm and loyal people, but quick to swing to the opposite end of the spectrum when disturbed.

I'm married to a Russian and spend lots of time with Russians. My wife tells a joke about a westerner hanging out with some Russian friends. The Russians spend the night joking around telling him shit about Russians, being heavy drinkers, quick to violence, as if it were a competition to see which culture drank more. The westerner disagrees and says no, you are a great and warm people. And they continue to try to convince him with their stories, saying "we're all friends here". At the end of the night he finally agrees, "OK, you're right, maybe you guys are heavy drinkers". So they beat him up.
I "came out" on Facebook because I changed my gender to "gender nonconforming"... but the only reason I did that is because my friends already know me, and Facebook isn't my friend.
I hope they don't kill the free version of Ansible!
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This is correct. Laws only have significance in so far as those subjected to them have agreed to a consensus, and if there is sufficient investment in enforcing these laws.
I torched my linkedin account a while back after recruiters wouldn't stop hounding me. I also despise social networks of all sorts so that contributed to my decision.

Before I torched it though I tried a little experiment. I left my tech skills in place, but also added things like "Blacksmithing" and "Former POTUS" as my skill set. I also said "Do not contact me" and "I hate recruiters" and something along the lines of "if you contact me, you clearly didn't read my profile" - the spam seemed to increase for a while before I finally deleted the profile completely.
Of course "the Room" was worse, by a long mile, but it was enjoyable. I have long been a connoisseur of "bad movies". Look for movies like "Hillbillies in a Haunted House" or "Rock and Roll Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Ape" or one of my all time favorites "Poor White Trash II" (originally titled "Scum of the Earth"). "The Room" had many (unintentionally) funny scenes. "Snowpiercer" was not bad enough to be entertaining, so instead I found it turgid, overwrought, melodramatic, and extremely implausible.

The point is though that this is a question of taste. Maybe my tastes simply aren't aligned with what a lot of other people like. But it is for that reason that I simply don't trust RT. For many things I used to use Ebert, since I could usually predict from his review wether I'd like it.

(I havent looked closely but I do wonder if selection bias impacts review sites. If a limited appeal movie comes out, and the mainstream reviewers ignore it, and all the reviewers that RT aggregates are from the world that the move does appeal to, does it end up scoring much better than if all the mainstream usual suspects had reviewed it.)
None of them can enforce any of this. Its government. The institution we all have to give money to. Also, the impression the EFF articles gave was that big tech was against much of the same clauses the tech community is.
These manacles are always sold to the public as "for your own" or "for your own protection" as if they were an inevitable fait accompli of how things should proceed. Very Machiavellian, very gangsterish. We have evidence of these libraries growing without these restrictions, so we know it's simply a lie that we need these restrictions.

The ends do not justify these means.
Facebook isn't always supportive of life circumstances:

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As a London based developer (VR these days), I have to say that I immediately recognise the hammed up picture this guy paints of IT recruiters in the UK.

I only ever found one recruitment company that I liked who I felt was consistently top notch when I was freelancing. They didn't ever call me unless I signaled I was looking for work and always negotiated better rates than I felt I was able to when I was first starting out. They were called Recruit Media, but they were later swallowed up by a larger company that I cannot vouch for.

Some former employees set up a new agency that continued in the same vein as Recruit Media - http://www.wearefutureheads.co.uk/. They focus on web and digital content creation specialists. They know what the acronyms mean as well as how to spell them properly. If you're looking for a no-bullshit web/digital recruiter in this in the UK then you could do a lot worse.

Disclaimer: I have never worked as a recruiter and I have no links with Futureheads beyond being placed by some of their staff and also using them to recruit freelancers for projects I have led.

Obviously it goes without saying that you're much better off developing your professional network, negotiating a good rate and going direct if you can.

Just felt compelled to write this to illustrate that not all of them are bad. Sadly I'd estimate that at least 99% of the firms here in the UK are complete time wasters.
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It depends on what you pay for. High speed color banner printers that use inkjet are faster that color lasers. That is partly because there are few large banner laser printers.

Lasers are faster because they compute the exposure pattern, then expose the drum in a written band that then goes past the toner brush(a magnetic low force brush) where toner is attracted to the pattern defined by the laser or LED beams = 1 color, squashed, into color 2, color 3 and black. Once computed you can print a page every 2-3 seconds until toner or paper gone.
Inkjets lay down a colored stripe, advance the paper, lay down another, advance. They can be made faster and bidirectional. You could make a banner printer that was cut down to 8.5 x 11 that would print a page a second
After watching the kickstarter video, I think it's terrific if they can pull it off.

This is their killer feature: A computer where you don't have to do backups, don't have to set up a new system when you upgrade, don't have to worry about losing any of your data? Just buy a new machine, login and BAM! You have the same environment you had on your other machine? Yes, please!

But, I do have concerns. Chiefly, I don't see how this product could ever generate a profit. Storing every user's data on the company's servers at all times can't be cheap. That's a lot of data to store per user. The subscription fee would have to be massive to cover the overhead. And then there's the apps. The lack of individual app pricing isn't going to make developers eager to make apps for this device. It also cuts out a potentially lucrative source of revenue for the company.
I don't usually object to recruiters and haven't had any major issues with them (one saying "I notice you have Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP experience... what about LAMP, do you have any experience with that?" did make me laugh though!) but one did go too far and when they couldn't get hold of me, Googled my name, found my name on an info page for a club night I DJed at, called the promoter's number (who was a friend of mine) and told him he urgently needed to get hold of me regarding work. Needless to say both I and my friend were pretty p*ed off (he used the line "come on, I know the best people are hard to track down" as if that made it okay) and he didn't get the time of day from me!
That may be the case if it weren't for the fact that DRM both completely destroys fair use (I should be able to move my Amazon/Audible purchased books to any device I want), and is completely ineffectual at its stated goal, stopping copyright infringement.
In NY during that time period one company got a cold call from a head hunter asking to speak to "Mitch" or some name like that. That was the dog's name. They had gotten some list of names and it included the office dog.
Shenzhen is one of the best city in China. From your standard and perspective , other places seems looks like hell .
I think that might be the main difference.

I worked in Germany and in the US.
The only time that recruiters got a tad annoying was when I was working in Germany and got 2-3 UK agencies.
By far not as bad as the post makes it seem, but some slightly annoying things such as calling me on a Sunday evening, trying to give me prep speeches and overusing my name, script reading, trying to not tell me the client name, mispronouncing the skills they were looking for, ...

In the US, the recruiter eMails are more frequent, but usually pretty civilized.
Especially the bigger companies (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google) that have their own in-house recruiters tend to be pleasant to work with.
If you have a good recruiter (the last one I worked with was such) they'll negotiate for you. This one asked me what I was looking for, said I could get more than that, and then got even more than that for me. Just because they have industry data and like jobs to back up the negotiation.

I've had bad ones of course, I think everyone has. But the good ones can do a lot more leg work than you have time for and find you a much better situation than you could find on your own, plus play both sides to make their comission as big as possible which benefits you.

The best are agents, the worst are pimps.
>Suddenly, smaller markets around the world have their industry gutted by piracy, smaller labels have to shut down, bigger labels have to fire hundreds of less successful artists that they used to be able to support from the money they made on the more successful artists, the more successful artists have to stop relying on royalties from album sales and have to whore themselves out doing nonstop touring year-round for money.

There is no evidence whatsoever for that end-of-world scenario of yours.
And when the law is broken, backwards, or wrong?

Slavish adherence to the law regardless of its nuance is not noble, it does not contribute to some greater whole, it is mere obedience, nothing more.

"Speed Limit 65" on major highways is a law too, and one that has roughly as much respect among the people as copyright law. And we're a more efficient society for ignoring it.
I think it sticks out because, in the UK, we're not used to people just lying directly to our faces. And in the recruitment business it seems to happen a lot.

(Omission, elision and euphemism is the British way!)
Has it ever occurred you to that the majority of modern Western culture hasn't been grassroots for a very long time, and instead is largely a product manufactured by an industry? Denying people access to it because of constraints like income or geographical proximity is to make them culturally illiterate, and it goes well beyond "free movies".
Over the course of my career in Cali and Silicon Valley, I've been fortunate to work for some top tech companies on exciting projects (all through recruiters). I'm very thankful to recruiters.
"Y Combinator has struggled to hold on to its founder-friendly mentality"

This assertion wasn't backed up by much and it's not my impression.
I came out on Facebook, after telling my 20 most important friends in person. I didn't set my preference to "gay", I just wrote it in a picture, in the hope that Facebook itself would have a harder time registering this information. Therefore I don't think I qualify for their stats. From my experience the guesstimate of 10% people being gay is close to the truth, so Facebook is missing 30m gays in the US...

Concerning privacy, on the other hand, Google Reader, The Old Reader and Tumblr have extremely precise details about my tastes. I wonder what my profile at the NSA looks like: My facebok is registered under a false name against an email which is now defunct and I browse it in a separate Chrome profile, but they could easily recoup me if they notice I use the same camera to post on facebook and other websites.

Or Facebook could notice I browse gay friends with more interest ;)
> Lisp is not and has never been the right tool for configuration management.

Why not? Configurations are collections of items, and among the things Lisp excels at is…lists of atoms.

Take a look at https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples/tree/master/lamp... (a simple LAMP stack implemented in Ansible).

It uses a .ini-style file to manage lists of hosts, e.g.:

[webservers]
localhost

[dbservers]
bensible
sensible

Why not put that in a list?

(hosts
(webservers localhost)
(dbservers bensible sensible))

The Ansible playbooks are YAML lists. There's no particular reason that:

---
# This playbook deploys the whole application stack in this site
- name: apply common configuration to all nodes
hosts: all
remote_user: root

roles:
- common
…

is more readable than:

(playbook
"This playbook deploys the whole application stack in this site"
(play
"apply common configuration to all nodes"
(hosts all)
(remote-user root)
(roles common)
…)

or:

(playbook '((all '(common) :user root :comment "apply common configuration to all nodes") …)
:comment "This playbook deploys the whole application stack in this site")

In fact, I'd argue that both Lispy representations are much more readable.
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As a programmer, I think it's better to just "Let it crash". The reasons that they left are so high level, they are meaningless. This is a 10 paragraph article on an evaluation of the global economy. How was this published with any degree of sincerity?
more if you as an individual are not good as negotiating (and in IT there can be a higher % of people with less than stellar social skills) then these people will negotiate on your behalf. Its their job to negotiate so if they want to place you you tell them you want $x per day and if they dont get it for you you don't do the job.
Not a bad approach at the uncanny valley. Reddit face swaps are about to get a lot more fun.
I would like to add three other dangers of e-books.

First, that a central authority could reach out and change all copies of an extant work. Not delete it, but selectively change it. The Information Ministry never had it so good!

Second, and this is true especially for kids, I think e-books are psychologically problematic. A physical book has fewer degrees-of-freedom, and that's good because the content has nearly infinite-degrees-of-freedom. The way the device works is no mystery to kids, and once you've read it you put it on the shelf (or give it away). With e-books, you always have your whole library right there, and focus becomes an act of will instead of the default.

Third, and this is true especially for thoughtful books, you can't read an e-book with a pen. I shudder to think about reading Marcus Aurelius _Meditations_ without pen in hand!

As an added bonus, books trap carbon! So the more books we have, the better off our environment!
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I'm not suggesting the author is necessarily wrong, but I've been in the IT industry long enough to notice that there are more "Recruiters are terrible people!" articles whenever there's a boom in tech jobs and people can find their own role. As soon as the market contracts and jobs become hard to find, all the articles stop.

I think people's view of tech recruiters is a function of the market rather than a de facto truth - recruiters are perceived as bad as the market gets better because people don't need them in order to find a new job. That doesn't automatically mean recruiters are bad. Come the next downturn they'll be useful again. We just need to recognise that.
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