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No warning is required. In practice it depends mostly on the size of the company and the size of the layoffs... I think most companies would like to layoff without warning, but that's not always practical. It also depends on if they are hoping to reduce headcount in general, in which case they may make a general offer of some money if employees leave... this isn't generally a viable strategy if it's e.g. a division that's being closed.

If the company isn't in dire financial straits, it's common to give some severance pay, usually tied to length of employment. This isn't a requirement.

With the US's ridiculous system of getting most health insurance through your employer, it does mean that you lose many of those health benefits. There is a legal provision called COBRA where you can continue for a time on your previous employer's health care (at your expense). The ACA (Obamacare) makes losing your health insurance less dire than it was in the past (for things like "pre-existing conditions"), but it still sucks.
It doesn't have to be Salesforce, but yes, I think you should help them find the right CRM solution, and configure and integrate it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CRM_software_companie...

Giving the customer direct ownership of their CRM database is a feature, not a bug. They will benefit from a CRM development team who has dedicated experience and expertise in CRM, plus they'll benefit from the feature and security requests of the other CRM customers. And it will make them less dependent on you, specifically. Which, from the client's perspective, is a good thing.

Edit to add: what's more likely, that Salesforce goes down, or that you are unavailable for some reason?
Technically speaking, it is miles better: faster and more robust, as well as more polished.

However, it's losing the standardization field to VirtualBox, all OSS tools are using that by default and vmware support is always lagging.
As a person who is currently in process of loosing weight through diet I can say that eating less calories doesn't mean feeling hungry. There are plenty of foods that are high volume and low calorie at the same time: salads, fruits, groats, whole bread and cereals. Also, the funny thing is that foods that appear high calories, like meat, are not inherently like that. Meat is pretty low in calories until you start to fry it.

EDIT: I wrote my comment in hurry, so I will now take some time to clarify my point.

Feeling hungry comes from the fact that eating foods rich in sugar and fat puts your insulin levels at a roller coaster, going up and down like crazy. With balanced diet, after initial few days of adjustment your insulin level stabilize making hunger go away.

Also, whole foods, vegetables, grains contain a lot of fiber, which stacks up in your bowels making you even likely to feel hungry.
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I think it's fair to say "invisible" things are generally all pretty high on the list of frightening things people don't know about.

Including but not limited to: software, nuclear radiation, CO and chemistry in general, electricity, microbiology, politics in practice, macro-economics and banking, ... (it's a pretty long list)
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This phrasing I think minimizes the positive impact you can have with those endeavors.

This is well put. It's almost as if I'm saying you don't need to make a dent in the universe if you want to make a dent in the universe.

Ultimately I'm saying there's no need to build a massive company for the side effects - material wealth, political influence, financial independence. Don't spend all of your time and energy working on something for its side effects.
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There's probably not much social benefit to getting pricing resolution down below 100ms.

However, there is an enormous benefit to getting pricing resolution down from the double-digit seconds level it was at when humans were able to keep up. The market driven by human intermediaries was crooked as a barrel of fishhooks. When these discussions come up, I always urge people to Google [odd eighths scandal] for an example of what things were like prior to electronic trading.

Once you have electronic trading, it makes sense that there either needs to be some "figure of merit" to allow different electronic traders to compete, or else some sort of permanent monopoly for the most successful initial electronic trading firm. Better, I think, that firms compete pointlessly to price instruments at subsecond granularity than that Goldman Sachs simply buys the (thankfully nonexistent) market maker version of Google.
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I don't really care. And that makes me sad.

I was really excited about Firefox OS when Mozilla was announcing it. I've been playing for years with free smartphones like Neo Freerunner, GTA04 and (surprisingly free) Nokia N900, and the situation on Android market was far from being good for me. I still cannot really change my phone without downgrading my user experience. Firefox OS offered me some hope.

Unfortunately, it turned out that Firefox OS was just Android-me-too, without much of added benefits when it comes to user freedom. Sure, the development model was more like baazar than cathedral, but how did it matter if most of the Firefox OS devices out there were as blocked and closed as Android ones?

Mozilla even had a certification program you needed to pass in order to use Firefox OS brand with your device - and guess what? Closed crap like ZTE Open was passing the certifications. Mozilla was basically endorsing devices you had to break into in order to be free to use them as you wish. How is that different from Android?

I had high hopes, but Firefox OS disappointed me.
> Instead of learning a new framework I wrote my own.

Hands down, the worst code I have ever inherited from another developer is in a scenario like this. Happened to me a bunch of times. Worst ever was a former boss who didnt "trust" Prototype.js nor jQuery and decided to write his own version. Pure hell.

Please be kind to your fellow programmer brethren. Unless the problem you are trying to solve is uber simple and obvious or you are just "doing it for fun/knowledge/etc", find a well-adopted framework, with good documentation and get to work.
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> Millions of trades a day each contain teensy, tiny little updates about the state of the economy. Think of them like tweets, not like State of the Union addresses. This married couple wants to send their daughter to college more than they want Google. That hedge fund likes Coke more than Apple. This pension fund doing it's weekly buy of an index to prepare for 2075.

Can you explain this further in context to the parent comment? You lost me after "married couple wants to send their daughter to college more than they want google".
Do "real" traders want microsecond immediacy? I would think a person would rather have a better price, even if it means waiting a whole second.
No issues here on the latest El Capitan and iOS.

Though I wonder if this isn't "accidental" sabotage on Google's part. Wouldn't be the first time. Didn't something from their side break something just for Apple users not long ago? But then again, they have lots of Mac users inside their own company..
I don't know about "rapidly". From what I can tell, there is a committed bunch of us who will carry on as long as our devices continue to work. Just because they're no longer being sold, doesn't mean they don't continue to be used. The demand for a relatively cheap high-capacity portable music player hasn't just disappeared into thin air.
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My next cover letter will start with "Most Illustrious Lord". FTW.
On the other hand, I'd contest that a way to move foward is being the the better UI for products that already exist. The interface to my Samsung smart TV is so terrible that although I can use it for Hulu, Netflix, etc, I'd rather just get an Apple TV for the same task
I absolutely hate the FF UI. I WANT to use FF, I actually switched a few months ago and did it for a couple of months. I THINK my problem (I say think because I feel like someone will measure the pixel and say I'm wrong) is that it feels like there is a ton of wasted space between the tabs, above the tabs. etc. I can't control the size of the top bars and they're huge compared to chrome. I'm a fan of tiny icons and very, very compact UIs so that I can get more on the screen at once. Here's my comparison on a 28" monitor https://www.dropbox.com/s/k32gln7s3ev5a7t/Screenshot%202016-...
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Protectionism at its finest.
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Author of Nim in Action[1] here!

After spending the last couple of months working on this book I am excited
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Hence why I qualified "new drivers". Obviously new drivers (after the settlement) can not have opted out or been part of the class.
Reported top speed. And it was seen as shocking enough to spur the investment into new torpedo technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa-class_submarine#Impact

Like most fears over high-performance Soviet hardware though, the threat turned out to be overblown compared to the actual numbers build / operational state.
Very interesting, but needs gimbal lock correction.
That's actually a big waste of time instead of just keeping eye on calorie intake. I mean if you enjoy running, by all means go nuts. But substituting poor nutrition by hours of running is plain dumb.
EB doesn't have an externally visible degaussing facility.
Its hard to parse these responses because everyone says that their browser that they don't use uses RAM at ridiculous rates.
So like if the ticket scalper was the one running the ticket booth?

Is there really a difference between:

I see you want X, so I go buy X and sell it to you at a slightly higher price to make some money.

I see you want X, so I take my X out of stock and sell it to you at a slightly higher price to make some extra money.

I'm not sure they are really different.
I'm assuming there's an extension to merge the URL and search bars to get Chrome-like behaviour?
I'm British too, and I'm a bit pissed at you for trying to tell people how I speak and write.
No, but by being able to react fast they can price what the service of bridging more efficiently, and thus more cheaply to those taking part in the service.
A deeper question is: should you build software that facilitates users going off and forging their own path? Build something that eventually gets its own email system?
Summary of the article? 2 paragraphs in and I have no idea what it is going to be about.
> the movement — which has dropped off sharply the past two years — may be more anti-Republican than antiwar, a U-M researcher says

You don't say...
Not limited to subs, the same principle was also used on ships via degaussing coils: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degaussing
You got any recommended readings on these non-string theory emergent space-time theories?
I remember the talk about it at the time. I still have my sheevaplug at home, I pre-ordered one of the first dev kits and used to be active on one of the plug forums. I don't use it for anything much any more but I did a power-supply replacement a couple of years ago when it blew.

That pwn-plug has had some serious mods done to it, with bluetooth, 4G and 802.11 wireless built in!
(--edit-- I see now that those are provided by adaptors, not built in to the box, that does reduce its stealthiness somewhat)

These new ones are much smaller than that by the looks of things though, seemingly on the scale of socket adaptors, rather than (to an up to date eye) quite a big power brick.

Thanks for the link, that was interesting.
But that's his experience. This man somehow got his computer with Excel preinstalled and decided to use it for drawing instead of buying a proper drawing application. As a result, he's now world-famous artist, not just yet another illustrator on Deviantart.
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From a technical standpoint, the paper is somewhat lacking. It's a standard Markov-chain generator with an additional prior defined on the cohesiveness of the generated text.

I'm guessing all the press is due to it being US election season, but this is really no different from King James Programming (http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com), which was entertaining, but nothing revolutionary.
Except, you also need to keep in mind the internal resistance of your power source. If that one is higher enough than the human body resistance, you could have a very high voltage which is actually not very dangerous.
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>One has the passion and enthusiasm of well respected open source volunteers behind it, and the other has a sleek high quality shine only our dear corporate overlords could deliver. This is minor, but it sets the mood the for the whole experience of add ons.

Doesn't Mozilla spend a lot on Firefox development? Like in the hundreds or tens of millions of dollars range? They have very nice and grand offices, lavish even interns with expense paid trips and food, so I don't really know what you're talking about.

[Edit: They spend $212M on Software Development in 2014 alone]

E.g. https://ryanseys.com/blog/summer-at-mozilla/

>Interns at Mozilla, myself included, are truly spoiled rotten. Competitive pay, free travel/housing, free snacks/drinks and catered lunches every week were really just icing on the massive cake that was my internship!

>Oh, and did I mention that Mozilla also sent me to Paris, France?! Yeah, it happened. For my final working week, myself and a handful of the Identity team met up in the Paris office and hacked on Persona, and ate… and drank… a lot!

http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-mozillas-amazing-offic...

http://ngokevin.com/blog/mozilla-day-one/

What kind of open source volunteers have perks like these?
That last point is far worse than you think. In my school the principal is entirely enamored with all things apple and google and wants to mandate certain staff have twitter accounts. This is unwittingly signing up lots of people for life long tracking. Although, many already do it to themselves with no thought whatsoever to what the repercussions are, or that there may even be any. Many other schools are even worse.
You are totally wrong, to put it simply. He is not making stuff up.

Flash Boys is an entertaining write-up of how the firms are inserting themselves, and how they are "seeing" orders at one exchange before the order arrives at another exchange.
I tried to cover my tracks here and say "increasingly" aware. For instance I saw an ad the other day that offered unlimited internet on your phone for $40 a month, but in slightly smaller text (not fine print, think H1 vs H2 relation) it said that after 1.5Gb speeds reduced to 128k. Disclosures like that I think will make people more aware of their data usage over time.

However my supposition is predicated on the continued restriction of data and speed by carriers. If any new business model comes along that upends that, then I suppose Americans won't become data usage aware.
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Having the guts to admit yourself you were "fixing" the depressed feeling with food was half the victory already. Now if it was so easy to convince the population ...
Yes you can enable search suggestions in the URL bar right in the Firefox preferences and hide the separate search box. I keep them separate because I don't care to have everything I type in the URL bar be sent to Google by default.
I am reminded of the often repeated saying "It takes three generations to make a gentleman". The gradual compounding of wealth opens up a lot of opportunity to safely take risk.
He can know when you leave and get home. Perfect time for a robbery.
It's no more an update on the state of the economy than a gambler making a bet on a betting exchange is an update on who is going to win a football match.

It's simply another mechanism for gambling.

HFT also rarely involves value investing (how much research can you do in a millisecond?). It usually uses low-to-zero-profit market-making strategies as cover for higher profit less than ethical trades.
What about this. You just bought all of my stock of X. I have no idea if thats all you want or why you want it, but there is now less X available.

If you think the price shouldn't be impacted by that, it means something very fundamental about markets.
That's nothing:

Feynman's proof of the Maxwell equations (FJ Dyson - Phys. Rev. A, 1989 (http://signallake.com/innovation/DysonMaxwell041989.pdf)) shows, that it is possible to derive Maxwells equations from Newtons second law of motion and the uncertainty principle.
> As a person who is currently in process of loosing weight through diet I can say that eating less calories doesn't mean feeling hungry.

No you can't. You can say that eating fewer calories doesn't mean feeling hungry for you. Apparently you're not in the fraction I was talking about. Good for you.

I also note that you're talking about changing your diet, while the post I was replying to specifically said you didn't have to do that.
Is this Hacker News or /r/wetblanket?

I'm sorry a few of us saw a historical cover letter for one of the most coveted jobs in 15th century Europe, then we decided to draw parallels to contemporary life.

Most of us have already been very well educated in Da Vinci's accomplishments, and rehashing them is somewhat boring. I respect your desire to do that, but it's not for everyone here. What isn't boring is using humor to show how a mind like Da Vinci's may have been overlooked by our current tech industry's obsession with brainteasers and academic pedigree. And I think there's room for both discussions without you snarking on our half.

So, I hope you feel good about yourself for thinking that listing some of Da Vinci's accomplishments in this thread makes you superior to us.
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>And what if the client wants a CRM...

SuiteCRM/SugarCRM

Salesforce

CiviCRM

vTiger

Insightly

Now figure out the integration between it and the WP site.
The problem I have with FF dev tools is that json responses are hideous, just one long string. Where Chrome's look like json with expandable fields.
If your foil hat is made of the correct metals (and mine probably is), you may have noticed that government agencies and paranoid citizens alike have been quietly preparing for armed rebellion for at least a decade.

Ignoring entirely the Chicken Little bleating from the professional rabble-rousers and conspiracy theorists that say stuff like "ZOMG why do Post Office and Agriculture needs all teh ammos?!", the mistrust-of-government businesses are booming, and many of the fnords in the mainstream media point to a coordinated propaganda campaign against not just people who defy government, but also against those who merely question it too deeply.

When I take off the foil hat, everything is still okay. It isn't good, but it isn't irretrievably broken, either.

I used to believe more easily that I wasn't really living in the real world when I had the foil hat on. But lately...

I was thinking that Martin O'Malley struck a deal with the Democratic Party to be the hand that Hillary Clinton claps against through the primary season, in exchange for a high level executive position in her government. Bernie Sanders is running for the Democratic Party nomination only because running for PotUS as an independent is futile. He was never given any benefit from the party large enough to convince him to give Clinton her the title shot with only token resistance. And he's so unexpectedly popular that they can't squeeze him out of the media coverage quietly enough to make him drop out.

And then I go to take off my foil hat, and find that I thought that stupid conspiracy theory up bareheaded. When I actually put the foil hat on, it just gets ridiculous.

Something is very wrong when my rational mind notices "there should be more people up on that stage contesting the nomination now, months before the early states start to pick," and comes up with a completely plausible explanation that is rather blatantly anti-democratic. I can't tell if my BS detector needs to be recalibrated, or whether US politicians have just stopped putting forth reasonable efforts toward passing it off.

You don't even want to hear my theories about the Republican Party nomination races.
The body's resistance is generally not what matters, it's generally the resistance of the connection between the body and the power source. If the connection is made via an air-gap spark you can need thousands of volts to ionize the air to allow the spark to form which allows the current to enter the body (corresponding to tens of thousands of ohms at a killing current, although that resistance is highly non-linear and drops suddenly after the initial spark connection ionizes the air). If the connection is made via EEG or EKG leads attached with conductive paste, the connection resistance can be a fraction of an ohm and the killing voltage can be well under 100 volts. The highly variable nature of the connection resistance is just one reason why the killing threshold is generally described in terms of amps rather than volts. If you're worried about whether a circuit could kill a patient and you must think in terms of voltage, you're not worried about whether you know the body's resistance, you're worried about whether you know the connection resistance.

In practice pretty much everyone who designs safety critical systems where electrocution is a concern focuses on current because it's a much better way to model and analyze the system risks than voltage.
I'm rather thinking about solar light testing facilities for space crafts here, such as ESA's Large Space Simulator.

The specs say:
'Intensity level with 19 lamps at 20 kW: 2000 W/m' (6m solar beam diameter) [2]

(Also, 'On request, the sun simulator can be equipped with 32 kW lamps'.)

[1] http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technolo...

[2] http://emits.sso.esa.int/emits-doc/ESTEC/AD1-AO-5580.pdf
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