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"You do realize that there is an entire IT Industry outside of Facebook and Google?"

Was there a single fiber in your being that believed I did not...? I cannot imagine a human brain believing this is a useful post for even a single second. Yet, here you are defending it...

"You are using your experience at two of of the best technology companies in the world to trash the author's criticism of the recruiting in the "IT" industry."

No. I'm really not. I am a recruiter. While at Google and Facebook I met hundreds of recruiters. Since there is a world outside of these two companies (Wow! I did know that! Who knew??) almost all of us now work at other companies. At these companies, none of them behave the way the author describes.

So you managed to read my post, respond with completely embarassing, useless snark because, like the author, you didn't bother to understand what you were talking about and instead just said "I have projected some extra idiotic/mean spirited behavior on this complete stranger and now I will get mad/snarky about it". If you're going to communicate with others you need to have it either be useful or pleasant. Unfortunately you seem to have fell short of both...
> The main problem with this project is that the SoluOS itself is mainly a UI/UX innovation, but for some reason they had to provide HW and OS too. Why can't I install this on my Mac/Linux laptop ?

I wonder if the whole hardware part might be just a marketing thing. Tangible, pretty-looking products are easier to get people enthusiastic about and preorder than "we're offering a new kind of cloud service you can run in your browser". Possibly they mainly just intend to use this to generate a bunch of publicity and hype. Then after a while unveil their browser interface that you can use on any device, and get to market that separately as something new and totally exciting that opens up the system for more people, pulling off another hype wave that might work better than if they'd gone with the software-only approach right from the beginning.
Does that stop the ones that spam you on Github?
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When I wrote my first article, a lot of people said "Why are they using old technology in a space probe?"

By creating that chart, I wanted to show that a space probe is not a phone or PC. You can't just throw octa-core SoCs inside, pack it up and send it flying into the night sky.
Thanks for cutting through the BS, it was suffocating to read the page with the heavy-metal level density of buzzwords.
I will open an issue with your suggestion. Thanks.
Because it's dumb that they want you to suck it through their straw.
I'm sure that Jack the ripper thought those murder laws very stupid indeed and that he very much disagreed with the arguments against murdering prostitutes. According to your argument, would it be fine for him to kill, seeing as "laws are nothing but opinions backed by guns"?
It's good that they have the 'Give feedback' button at the bottom of the page in a rather unobtrusive manner. Often times, I go to a website for a large company and before I can even do anything on the site, they ask for feedback in an obtrusive popup.
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I learned a valuable lesson about the state of the Internet throughout the rest of the world. Many of us are fortunate to live in high bandwidth regions, but there are still large portions of the world that do not.
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lol, I'm in China and all what you're discussing just does not exists here. What you'll get is just a "Connection Reset", no matter how compact the page is.
If Facebook had EU servers, then they would need access to the data on those servers from the USA. Technically the NSA can still force everything out of Facebook in the USA, I guess.

But this will again be incompatible with EU law. According to the ruling of the CJEU (at least what I understood from it), any company collecting data cannot hand this data over to an entity which is suspected to take part in a system of mass surveillance. Thus, as long as the NSA can reach Facebook's EU servers, it shouldn't legally be possible to have Facebook in the EU.

So I'm really interested in what kind of solutions they will find. If I needed to guess, and the CJEU ruling is the guideline, I'd say that this is a thing that Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc. can't really solve by themselves. Rather, the US government needs to take action. There needs to be some agreement.

But, if the EU insists on its stance, that agreement had to be really weird since not even US citizens have that kind of protection from their own secret services.
Does this offer anything over just using OpenVPN?
Are you familiar with the proposed TPP laws for DRM circumvention and destruction of devices, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-...?
>[something semantic and pedantic about maritime vessels vs taking other's property]

Piracy, or copyright infringement, or whatever the fuck you want to call it, 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 in cause & effect, if not in literal, philosophical definition.

I said it in my first post. If paid channels are byzantine and draconian, don't pay. You still don't have a right to the content. Just don't buy it. That's "fight" enough. That's "protest" enough.

>[some extremely condescending and pretentious teenage bullshit about "not giving up the fight"]

No, buddy, you're not on some morally righteous journey to freedom. Ironically enough, the DRM, DMCA, and the Gestapo-ification of the MPAA and RIAA only exist because of people like you. The executives and middlemen (i.e.: cable networks, record labels, publishers) hate piracy because it severely harms their bottom line, the artists hate piracy because it harms their livelihood, the consumers hate piracy because it leads to annoying DRM and other counterpiracy measures that end up harming paying consumers most. The only people that are lifting their fists in the air with you are, bingo, other pirates.
FWIW, I meant respect as in follow, not to agree with or to look upon with reverence.

Anyways, I'm not saying that the conclusion is wrong, just the argument
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I download books from my library (Boston Public). They are DRM'd and only usable on my Kindle for a few weeks. But that is enough. The range of books available is good. ANd if it is a text or something I like, I can then buy it. If it is just a garbage novel to ease a flight, then that is good too. The Kindle, on a per book rate, was really cheap and the library is even cheaper!
> “The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it’s grotesque,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon. The head of DARPA, Adm. John Poindexter, was forced to resign and the project was squelched.

How idiotic. It sound like a very good idea. Anyone with "insider knowledge" but no participation of a terrorist attack, will be very tempted to place a bet. By checking the bets you can avoid attacks.
Create such a market using bitcoins, and you'll get very valuable intel. It's like having ears everywhere.
Thoughtful of him.
link? would love to read!
Why expensive ? in theory it was supposed to greatly reduce costs.
I was thinking off writing almost the same blog post today. Its the same shitty situation here in Austria... Recruiters should burn in hell.
How far away are we from celebrities licensing their likeness for puppeteers to wear in high budget films?
... thank you for trying to explain. I am still too thick to get it on first read. I have saved this in Evernote and will keep coming back to it after researching terms etc., until I understand in full.
Very speculative, but if this could some day be adapted to humans, I'm deeply curious how (if at all) this will figure into treatments for PTSD.

Considering that debilitating nightmares are a common and harmful symptom (as it's hard to function when you spent the night back in $trauma), I wonder whether temporarily "switching off" dreams during treatment would be helpful, if nothing else, allowing the person the occasional restful night.

But, on the other hand, it could be harmful, too, if the traumatic dreams are actually a healthy (if not pleasant) manner of processing the trauma.

Interesting!
"Chaplin’s Law: every eventual hand-held device has shrunk from an earlier portable incarnation, one that had to be borne by two hands, if not an arm or two flung companionably round it."

The magnifying glass - icon of detective fiction, daily tool of jewelry appraisers, and source of the modern symbol for 'search' - did not have that progression.

Nor did writing utensils. I have a pen in my pocket right now.

Overall though, an enjoyable read.
For better or for worse, the 'real' meaning of words is what people intend them to mean when they use them. Piracy currently means copyright infringement.

Language is not fixed, the meanings of words shift all the time.
It's very rare that "going back" ever turns out well or as people hope (there are a few exceptions).

Keep in mind that you left for a reason...and the only thing you can really change is you...have you changed so much that you are missing it? That you can't move on without it?

My advice, as long as you have other reasonable options, take one of those paths instead...
I have seen that done, basically a company I worked for had a contractual agreement to use a certain agency for their contractors. The agency finds out contractors are being hired and they are not being offered the opportunity to out forward candidates. The recruiter came to a meeting with my manager and was very cordial and asked why they were not being used, the manager said he didnt like them (or something similar, basically making it a personal issue with them). The recruiter simply said they had a contractual agreement and whilst they probably would not pursue it legally they would quite happily use his company as a resource to select contractors from.

After 2 staff members were offered new positions the manager decided he didnt hate the agency that much. Whilst I liked the manager it was refreshing to see someone combat this situation whilst expressing clearly they would not pursue it legally.
But the equivalent resistance always decreases as the grid of resistors increase. I don't see how having "fewer paths would result in a large flow".

See: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/2072/on-this-infi...
> The real reason the industry is so slimy on that end is because enterprise companies are too old fashioned to view technology workers as people who deserve to be paid salaries on par or exceeding middle managers. Therefore, the salaries simply aren't high enough to attract talent beyond H1B indentures and fakers who are horribly unproductive. This creates an IT department that isn't very good or effective, and thus isn't thought of as deserving high pay.

Absolutely true.

Simplifying a little, there are companies here that everybody wants to leave and companies that everybody wants to join. It's difficult to leave the first category since the employee's skills have atrophied (see https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/09/how-to-be-awesome/).
I think the complaint is that the author could have instead made this argument in a rational, not irate, not mean spirited and substantiated way. What would have been so bad about that?
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Using jinja2 for markup compounded the issue in my opinion, as it has no loops and logic is less than obvious
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This comment makes pretty much no sense at all. Example of a loop in jinja2:

{% for item in ("one", "two", "three") %}

item is {{ item }}

{% endfor %}

The logic is pure python minus perhaps setting variables ie:

{% set name = "dorfsmay" %}

{% if name == "dorfsmay" or name.startswith("dorfs") %}

You're spreading FUD about jinja2

{% endif %}
+1, I'm equally baffled by the title and introduction paragraph.

I would guess the campaign is pretty US-centric, as I think in Europe Kobo readers are more typical.
Since it wasn't stressed yet to you: The article talks about recruiters from outside of tech companies, not recruiters at FB or Google. I have to say I'm doubtful you "know" hundreds of recruiters (inside or outside the companies), unless you mean you got an email from hundreds of recruiters. If you just reject the emails, you probably won't get the experience described in the article.
Uber legal in London, because smartphone is not a meter
Even for entry level that seems way low. Unless of course you're referring to typical IT support and tech role, not SE.
I've wondered if this might be a better approach to VR in the future.

If we could turn on a dreaming state and somehow a computer could control what you experience in the dream. You'd get full motion and haptics for free. No motion sickness, etc.
Anyone with insider knowledge of a forthcoming terrorist attack should be telling the police, not placing a bet to make themselves money.
absolutely. My email is jen@mikandi.com.
Weak currency = it becomes cheaper for other countries to purchase from you. It becomes more expensive for you to purchase from other countries.

Strong currency = you can buy cheaper from the rest of the world, but you're more costly for the rest of the world.

A balanced economy is good.

The US have a negative current account balance --> the buy more than they sell to the rest of the world. The US$ has to weaken to balance it.
Germany is the opposite, so German currency should become stronger because the current account balance is extremely positive. But it can't because Germany shares a currency with other countries. Oh, shit, Greece uses the same currency. Wtf, this shit can't work. 2015: "Oops"
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Thanks! I also hate flashy popups and stuff like that when I'm browsing a website. I hope that giving users a way to quickly send feedback while they're on a page will not only help owners improve the website but also create a sense of participation for visitors. Maybe not on the level of Wikipedia but in a small way you can also contribute.
All private hire drivers licensed by Manchester City Council, including Uber drivers, have to pass a DBS disclosure check[1].

[1] http://www.manchester.gov.uk/directory_record/72535/new_hack...

As richthegeek said, all the private hire taxis here have a yellow rectangular sticker with the company name on it. There's strict limits set by the council for branding, car colour, car age, etc.
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They grow faster with the restrictions. Digital music was doable, but wasn't easy until Apple did the business work necessary to make the iTunes Music Store possible. eBook access to the latest publications on day-of publication across fiction and nonfiction was functionally a non-starter until Amazon did the business work necessary to make the Kindle Store possible. Their competition who didn't want to play by the rules of the restrictions the content owners wanted were plowed under by the volume and convenience generated by successful business partnerships.

It's inconvenient for those who prefer a world without business-driven constraints that the processes that create those constraints also create massive convenience. But they do, and the world is full of potential customers who want that convenience. Because the alternative of a marketplace where they can pay someone (and play by that someone's terms of service) to do the work for them is to learn to do that work themselves, and that's not what people want to specialize in.
Exactly, it's more a measure of broad appeal than quality.
Lying would be a functional workaround rather than active pushback. I specifically wanted them to justify their reasons for wanting the number, and why it would even be necessary to provide dial tone. Are you administering a government benefit? Are you acting as a tax withholding agent? No? Then you don't need to have my SSN, and it is a significant risk to me for me to give it to you. So I really need some rational justification for it.

I already suspected the true reason. It was probably so they could more easily send and receive credit reporting information to the 3 big CRAs. And that's why I offered to pay for a year of service in advance. But they stuck to their "we just need it" and "it's company policy" non-reasons to the end. And when I heard about their data breach in April, I felt so much schadenfreude welling up within me that I just couldn't stop grinning, until I remembered that no one actually cares any more.

I can't wait until mainstream businesses and government offices drop their PSTN numbers and start accepting synchronous audio-stream sessions (or "calls") between endpoints identified by a URN or user address.

I hate, I hate, I hate "the telephone company".
I know combi ovens have their fans and there are some fairly reasonably-priced options these days. I don't have a personal opinion which is why I didn't mention them. I do have a pressure cooker which I also use although not as regularly as you apparently do.

I should play with Watson more. I have the link on my Bookmark bar but I haven't really explored it much.
Yes I think the language is not important : after 6 months coding in a language you loathe, the Stockholm syndrome will take effect and you will start to find excuses for it (some people still defend PHP ... need I say more ;-).

All else being equal and if it's about your career path, I'd say the C++ / Go offer is more interesting : you will add 2 more languages to your skill list and I'd bet 20 years from now you will still find C++ offers. On the contrary you can't be sure iOS will still be a thing and even if it's still is, it will probably be completely different from what you do now.
Have you had to use CFEngine in production though? It's atrocious.
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e-books have zero ethical concerns. DRMed books do.
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He was also Prime Minister, because "modern" Russia has this crazy PM + President system where the President is not even the executive.

And somehow his first term was 8 years despite the limit being 6 years.
If I don't care about the EULA for my current devices, what makes you think I'll suddenly care about another, slightly different EULA?
Actually your CV can be hijacked by a recruiter, effectively keeping you out of a job.

Imagine this scenario: You get a call from a recruiter. They seem to have an interesting position/client/network so you send over your CV. A couple of months later you are actively looking for a job, so you make a list of cool startups in your area and send your CV and a customized cover letter. They all answer that they got your CV from the recruiter and that they can't afford the recruiter's fee. They can't hire you for 6 months/2 years/indefinitely, depending on the recruiters terms.

Oops.

Maybe I'm exaggerating?
"backwards compatible bug fixes" don't exist: fixing a bug changes the program's behavior.
A core dump is when your transistor-based computer has a fault and has to dump the magnetic cores to tape. You parse it by running a magnetometer along the tape to read the values. Real programmers just harness gamma rays directly.
Correct. There was a time, pre-acquisition, when some separate management-console bits were not open source, but nobody cared about those bits anyway and now they're long gone. The "GlusterFS" file system part, which is the part everyone except one misguided CEO (now at Docker) cared about, has always been completely open source.
The idea that theft has to include rivalrous good is a strawman. You are just taking the difference between theft you don't like and pirating and then saying that difference is hugely important.
So you deserve a particular piece of entertainment because it exists and you pay someone else for an internet connection? What exactly are your criterion for the thinness of the straw before you feel justified in routing around it? It sounds like a moving target to me.
How is a $700 grinder better than any burr grinder?
Assuming for the sake of argument that all your figures are correct, that still puts you $40k/year better off with the $100k salary than without it. I am still not seeing how it can possibly be correct to describe this by saying that it's at about $100k/year gross that you start to "pull out the other side".

Programmes for which "you can't just stop working and start claiming them" are surely irrelevant to this particular discussion, which is entirely about the effect of earning more or less (at, presumably, a fixed level of assets).

Also: 4160 hours of work is over 11 hours/day, 365 days/year. I'm sure there are people working such hours, unfortunately, but if you're implying that that's in any way typical then I must gently suggest that you might be wrong.

(For the avoidance of doubt: I think "poverty traps" are a very bad thing, and I would love to see taxation and benefits everywhere reformed so that effective income rises smoothly as a function of gross earnings, and I agree that the US tax and benefit system is a mess and makes it unprofitable for some lowish earners to earn more. All I'm disagreeing with is the suggestion that the point at which this stops happening is anywhere near as high as $100k/year gross.)
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Wer hat uns verraten? ... Well, the CDU primarily but that was to be expected. The SPD certainly tries to eliminate the "S" from its name, though.
Brute force - if it is not solving your problems - you are not using enough.

> Your suggestion does not really do much towards furthering mutual understanding between people of differing opinions.

Depends if you prefer to convince or break your opponents. I always find the later more pleasant and amusing.
I am a lawyer...I know these definitions pretty well, so Ill chime in.

Let's take George Bernard's famous quote: “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” According to your definition, one could not engage in theft of an idea, because one could never be deprived of an idea like with the taking of an apple.

However, let's look at the actual legal definition of theft: The actus reus (act) of theft is usually defined as an unauthorized taking, keeping or using of another's property which must be accompanied by a mens rea (mental state/intent) of dishonesty and/or the intent to permanently deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use.

You limited the definition of theft to only include when one's mental state intends to deprive someone. The actual definition is not limited though, but alternatively includes when the taking was done dishonestly. Therefore, if someone takes something not belonging to them, and does so dishonestly that in fact is theft. Since I foresee the definition of dishonesty being the next issue here, that has been defined in case law, but generally where the person intended to take property they did not have a legal right to take.