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I hope nobody is dissuaded from working on side projects by this post.

First of all, restricting contracts to only work related to the company's business is not unheard of (even outside of California). Every company I've worked at has agreed to that.

Secondly, it ignores the abundant evidence that people successfully turn side projects into businesses all the time without being sued by their ex-employers. In fact, I'd even posit that the median startup is begun while the founder is still working for someone else.

Don't sign draconian contracts and don't be afraid to work on side projects. Be mindful of Joel's bias (he's a CEO, not a developer).
Lawyers write human readable code that's compiled and run by a judge or interfacing APIs (institutions such as financial ones)

Your advice is akin to saying "hey you inexperienced coder, write some production ready code but don't test it and when the only time it needs to run, give it a try. Hope you don't screw it up! When there's another coder in the room who can claim 'oh no he meant to set my financial variable 100X not 10x' and can convince the compiler to agree with them"
Except all those budget supermarkets, clothes stores, ebay, uber to some extent etc etc.
If you consider the purpose is to monitor the entire computer to see if you have notes pulled up, you can see why they have this requirement.

I thought the entire premise of proctorU and proctorTrack (which gatech is now using instead of proctorU) was ridiculous though. A cheap hdmi splitter and a long cable would be all you needed to pipe the test out to a second monitor in another room where someone could scoop up the whole test for later. Or maybe even feed back answers to some tiny headphones hidden behind the ear. Impossible to detect.
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And ever since 1990 or so the percentage of the population that is working has dropped. Very slowly at first, then much, much faster since 2008. We're currently at ~5% less employed, relative to total population than before.

Granted, there are more employed persons total, but population is growing faster. Therefore the experience that people keep referring to, that less people have jobs (relative to the total they know), is accurate (not in the Bay Area, though only by the slimmest of margins. It is not far from the truth that employment has been stagnant for coming up on 30 years even there).

In the US 152 million people have a job, for a total of 321.6 million people total, plus about 12 million (wtf) illegal immigrants.

So in the US, today, a little under 46% of the population is employed. 10 years ago that was about 47% and it was over 55% in 1990, about when the decline started. That means, of course, that the economic value a single individual provides today has to be distributed over 1/46%, or 2.1 individuals, whereas it used to be only 1.8.

Since the financial crisis there has, from this perspective, been no recovery. In fact, things continued to become systematically worse since 1990 (but with a huge dive downward in 2008). There is an uptic since middle 2015, but, frankly, that looks a lot more like a blip than a recovery.

Granted, in Europe, the situation is much worse, especially in Southern Europe (but it will be as bad in Northern Europe in a decade or so, as we're getting close to the point that even the massive and very much unsustainable immigration Europe is experiencing cannot keep those countries' labour forces from declining).

And of course, this situation is about half due to baby boomers retiring and half due to people "leaving the labor force" (having 2 family members who have "left the labor force" I feel the scare quotes are justified. They have not left the labor force voluntarily)

This is also disregarding that there has been a massive shift from manufacturing into service jobs. The problem with that is that it's a massive shift from $25/hour unionized, rigid hours, stable jobs for decades, with benefits into $9/hour without benefits, shifting hours, no unions, jobs lasting about 1.5 years, tops. That has happened, over the last 20 years, to close to 20% of the labor force, or over 30 million people.
Those are great, but those are all HBO, if I recall, which is decidedly not TV in my opinion (I have HBO Now).

You'd be hard pressed to find something on live cable television that isn't trash or available somewhere else without obnoxious ads (loudness mitigation is a lie) and cheaper.
DT's "victory" has encouraged a lot of folks to feel like they can speak their mind freely. For many, the "victory" is a symbol. It says "you are not alone." It's not that there's any more of them than there were last year; now they feel like they're on the right side of things and are feeling confident.

In hindsight, I observed the same thing with Obama's two terms. A lot of talk about rape culture, safe spaces, etc. Everyone who didn't agree was out of step with where America was really going and was gonna be left behind. So they thought...

That side felt really emboldened and overplayed their cultural hands. Now it's the right's turn to over estimate how much everyone agrees with them.
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Not screencasts, but my React/Redux links list does point to tons of tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics. Tons of good info linked from there: https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links .
Thanks! But what does "infused them with money" money mean? They wrote them a check for a few billion dollars? Would you mind explaining like I'm completely clueless (which I kind of am)? I literally don't know (or if I did, remember) anything about this so the missing details are not helping. Thanks!
Not really, honestly.

My car is useful. An adaptable car would take more design effort, so likely cost more. I have no use for a monster truck, a boat, I can't pilot an aeroplane, and if I did sink or crash-land my car then I'm out one car that I have use for, and need. (Wheras, if I hire and crash a boat now, my car is still fine).

And I don't want to imagine the insurance, MOT, or servicing cost for a vehicle which has to meet flight safety regulations but which is also waterproof and which has brakes able to stop a full minivan.

Minivan, might have limited use - but where would I keep the minivan part while it isn't on my car? And if I had somewhere to keep it, I may as well get a trailer or a roof-rack right now to get most of the benefit for almost none of the cost, or hire a minivan for a day if I need to carry more people instead of more stuff.
It's funny - my couch potato father just retired 3 weeks ago.

After 10 years of trying, I had totally given up teaching him to watch YouTube or Netflix.

When I called him a few nights back and asked him what he did that day, he told me he spent all day watching YouTube.

Made me wonder how many other baby boomers might do this once retirement gives them more energy to try new things ...
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>the Kappernick debacle

Earlier this year, ESPN had 10 million fewer subscribers than they had in 2013; they lost 1.5 million of them between February and May of this year[1]. That was months before Colin Kaepernick's first anthem protest in late August.

[1]http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-loses-1-5-million-sub...
What I like about the cali coast is that while there is a lot of space, most of it is not developed. Besides a road, and the occasional vantage points. I don't think "mandatory developement" plans like this which just sprawl and sprawl is that good of an idea, it really takes out from the landscape.

More information regarding Scott, https://www.crowdpac.com/candidates/559c008cac423b7c02c95011...

Damn land developers.
Yup.
You can get a camera that is good enough with a built in mic for like $20 these days.
The funny thing is, had they followed some of the subclassing practices already in the kernel, it sounds like they could have had cleaner, more easily testable code with what from what I can tell tends to giv them a pretty unified interface.

The belie, however, is an appalling response really:

I realize you care about code quality and style, but do you care about stable functionality? Would you really merge a bunch of huge cleanups that would potentially break tons of stuff in subtle ways because coding style is that important? I'm done with that myself. I've merged too many half-baked cleanups and new features in the past and ended up spending way more time fixing them than I would have otherwise for relatively little gain. The hw is just too complicated these days. At some point people what support for the hw they have and they want it to work. If code trumps all, then why do we have staging?

Wut? If you want stable functionality, then you follow the kernel conventions, practices and coding styles.

This whole screed equates to: "We've got some code we've put together in our silo, you amateurs who want perfection are wrong and our unified layers and push to get our processors to market mean you can't comment on our code."

The bit about cleanups makes little sense to me, they seem to have some fundamental issues baked into their code that will necessitate these very cleanups...
Infused them with money? If you are talking about the legal settlement then this is a very charitable description on what happened from Intels side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v....
Any tips for the things that should be covered? Do you actually go into a lot of detail, or do you just suggest that the high-level area, and whether it's a commercial endeavor?
These are large scale economic issues. It makes little sense to discuss one idea, in one line of business. It only really makes sense to look at the whole and what is happening there.
This was a huge problem for me at Gatech's online master of computer science program (omscs).
I ended up having a small windows partition just to take the exams.

Also note windows 10 isn't explicitly on that list. There were problems early on.
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Really weird dichotomies they're drawing. Clearly the intent behind the right to be forgotten is to be removed from whatever indexing Google does to display results regardless of where the query comes from. Trying to map national boundaries over data is why this person is having such a hard time trying to make a convincing case.

Data does not care about countries and national boundaries since clearly the google servers doing the indexing could be in space. In which case would they be allowed to not comply with any requests by people to be removed from their indices? Or would they be compliant depending on which continent the servers happened to be over at the time? Bordered data is an absurd concept and this person is being very disingenuous by framing the argument in those terms.
I have a hard time agreeing that these new series fall under the category of Television. TV _is_ explicitly the format in which the content is delivered (device and delivery). It used to be broadcast live, whether over the air or by cable, and those formats required payment for said delivery.

Now actual televisions aren't necessarily part of the equation. Plenty of people are watching these series on their phones and laptops and tablets, and sometimes televisions, but not in the way they used to be delivered to said screens.

I agree that we're in something of a golden age for episodic story-telling. I agree that this story-telling was born from broadcast television. I don't agree that it, in its current incantation, can be plainly categorized as "TV".

In the same way that a mobile device is no longer a telephone, though we may still call it one from time to time, and a TV remote is no longer a "clicker", no matter how many times my parents call it one.
Any more insights about applying drones to 1? I work on deep learning for aierial imagery startup (tensorflight.com). It seems like we could structure some information from drone images.

If you are interested in helping us understand the problem and potentially solve it together contact me at kozikow@tensorflight.com
It's directly proportional to how unprofitable they think the idea is. [/snark]
I don't remember where I read this, but as I understand it, Intel is required by various contracts (military, aerospace, various other mission-critical stuff) to not become a monopoly on certain classes of products. In other words, if AMD went under, Intel would have to give the x86 license to someone else.
I'm curious as to what set of rules you're referring to?
> Sitting in a chair is either a) not an act of faith or b) the word faith itself designates nothing at all.

It's the old "God of the gaps" argument. "Faith" here means ignorance. The reason we don't know the chair won't collapse is because we didn't pay attention in science class, or we don't know how structural integrity works, or we don't know the properties of certain materials, or whatever.
Ultimately the whole concept of a "channel" like ESPN is an unnecessary path dependence legacy of a time when we only had limited TV bandwith on broadcast spectrum and analog cable systems. In the long run I expect sports fans to be purchasing streaming video access directly from teams or leagues, or perhaps via an aggregator like Apple iTunes / Google Play.
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According to the comments in this thread google expects you to notify them when you hack on things off the job, and feels entitled to deny you those activities. Sounds quite hostile towards creative people. Nightmarish, even.
I've had luck buying off marketplace sellers on Amazon as well, but YMM (I've bought a pair of HP 4Gb FC cards for $40, the Mellanox NICS, DAC's, a dirt cheap LSI 9200-8e for $30, the list goes on - most of it's been new in box even).
>those are all HBO

>You'd be hard pressed to find something on live cable television that isn't trash

Breaking Bad and Mad Men were both on AMC.
Sounds like somebody just figured out that most of the people inside the helmets and pads are black.
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CA desperately needs more housing, especially places like the Bay Area. If this proposition passes, it might be a real good thing.
"Its like a virus that infects the mind, 'there must be a RIGHT answer!' and the infected mind goes in circles arguing with itself."

I think that's a strange and, honestly, naive way if looking at the whole thing. As far as I see it nearly every philosophical position basically makes a sense. They're all valid, and as far as their soundness goes, often the subject matter doesn't allow us to have any good strong opinions. It's interesting the variety of thinking there is and the arguments to be made for one position or another.

If you're caught looking for the one right answer then yeah, I agree that's a virus, but it is independent of philosophy.
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You can see this by looking at their balance sheet or cash flow statement. Easiest to see these on Yahoo Finance or Google Finance.

Looking at the quarterly data, as of Sept 2016, you can see in the Balance Sheet, there is a "Capital Surplus" line showing they have raised $8.2B of equity over the life of the Corp. Now look at the "Retained Earnings", they have lost $7.7B of it. They also have $1.6B in debt.
> If a stadium isn't a good enough business proposition to get funded privately, it shouldn't get funded, period.

Yeah. In Munich, for example, the Allianz Arena stadium was built for 340M €, which were brought up by FC Bayern and TSV 1860, in cooperation with Allianz insurance which sponsored the name. FC Bayern paid off the entire debt two years ago (after 9.5 years, it was projected to take 25 years to pay off the debt).

But I'm not totally against public partial funding/investment - especially in the lower leagues the pitch usually is open to all kinds of sport clubs as well as nearby schools, so it makes sense to fund at least part of the costs via public channels as long as the public gets some value back beyond interest payments. (Anecdata: I'm living across the pitch my former school still uses. It's weird to see lots of the teachers random on the street...)
It's so weird that we create personal products to address noise in public spaces rather than addressing the unnecessary noise first.
I was wondering why so many submissions seemed politics-related. I miss the experiment. It certainly wasn't perfect, but it was better.
> all the schools Google have these Google-tied products to will be bound to Google's service products, so, it benefits them in that way as well.

I mean, yeah obviously. But I wouldn't really expect Google to give MacBooks or Windows notebooks to those schools, and it probably would be a worse option even if they did.
I think it's fantastic that some companies use their platforms to help the disadvantaged—it's a good use of their resources, in my opinion.

Sometimes platforms and politics don't mix, though. I don't watch ESPN because I want to hear about politics, I watch it because I want to veg out and hear about sports.

Even if I agree with their politics it becomes grating to hear about it 24/7.
It's not about the servers, it's about the users location.

If a judge in France can succesfully that no one in the US can no longer find results for XYZ on Google, I find this troubling.
Please don't get me started about Sales Loft.
I should preface this that I work in the astronautics industry, and I'm only loosely familiar with aeronautics.

For spacecraft we are typically building avionics in very low volume - most of the time we're making 5-10 boards, or 10-100 if for whatever reason it's some sort of constellation - I haven't personally worked on a constellation, so they might be buying more for spares or further qualification testing, but the overall point being it's not in the 1000's (or higher). So that in and of itself limits electronics designs to (board) components that are "off-the-shelf".

Typically spacecraft are doing something "non-standard" in the electronics: it's the premise of many space missions, to do something worth doing in space. Most of the time the electronics development done on the spacecraft side (where I've had most of my experience) is to support some instrument or some "payload" that's one of a kind - lots of times those one of a kind instruments have supporting electronics. And lots of times those electronics can be communicated with via standard electrical interface types (for example: EIA485/RS485, LVDS, LVCMOS). However, very rarely is the data protocol, or the temporal functionality standardized. Couple this with significant performance requirements to support the operation of said instruments/payloads (amount of data that they produce, relative timing of several spacecraft components to autonomously control spacecraft attitude, etc..) and a single chip that can both support software for higher level directives (a processor) and programmable logic for lower level and non-standard electronics interfacing (an fpga) seems like a very logical choice.

So long story short: lots of times spacecraft require non-standard data protocols and timing, and due to the typical production volumes and time horizons, doing this development with an fpga/processor combination is very advantageous.
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What's the alternative here?

The intent of the bill isn't to force development where there shouldn't be any. It's to encourage it where it's needed most, but hasn't happened yet due to NIMBYism etc.
Having spent an embarrassingly large amount of time working on small libraries or side projects, I'd say you are probably underestimating the amount of time that was spent on those frameworks.
> That doesn't fit my understanding of the law. Do you have references?

Do you live in California? If not, I have no idea what law applies to you and your work.

But if you live in California you are in luck: Section 2872 of the labor code is explicit in this matter. In fact every employee assignment agreement I have handed out to someone I've hired (going back to 1989) has included the text of that section, for example:

in accordance with Section 2872 of the California Labor
Code that the foregoing Agreement between you and Company does
not require you to assign or offer to assign to Company any Invention
that you develop entirely on your own time without using Company’s
equipment, supplies, facilities or trade secret information, except
for those Inventions that either:

a. Relate at the time of conception or reduction to
practice to Company’s business, or actual or demonstrably
anticipated research or development; or

b.Result from any work performed by you for Company. To the
extent a provision in the foregoing Agreement purports
to require you to assign an Invention otherwise excluded
from the preceding paragraph, the provision is against
the public policy of this state and is unenforceable.

This limited exclusion does not apply to any patent or Invention
covered by a contract between Company and the United States
or any of its agencies requiring full title to such patent
or Invention to be in the United States.

Don't use the company's computer, phone, network, IP etc.
Don't try to make your day job a side project.
Don't let your side project get in the way of your day job (or you'll get fired just 'coz you didn't do your day job).
Otherwise: no problem.

This law is widely cited as one of Silicon Valley's advantages over other places.

California went through a period of rational law making, e.g. laws like this, a presumption that drivers know what they are doing regardless of the posted speed limit, etc. Then they went insane (three strikes etc) and the rest is, sadly, history. Still not as crazy as the rest of the USA though.
An interesting proposal in this area is Google's "Liquid Voting", which implements an idea that I've wanted to see tried for a long time.

Essentially votes can be cast on every subject (for the very interested voters), or delegated to another representative (for the less interested voters).

This could have some interesting side-effects, not all positive; I'd expect volatility and cult of personality to increase. But then that's the trajectory of politics in general recently, so perhaps there's not much more to lose. Benefits would include the ability for voters to actually enact the legislation that they want, but which no legislators will choose to implement (e.g. anti-corruption/insider trading laws).

[edit: link is here: http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&co...]
NFL is a joke. It has more ads than any other sports in this world.
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I fail to see how industry problems ripe for technical solutions equate to cash grabs. Problems are essentially the basis of every startup (if we generalize a little), and I can assure you that engineers can be passionate about solving a problem.

I also don't really understand what you mean by giving people the experience of something you were creating in the past. What does that mean? As advice it seems exceptionally vague; something an writing teacher might tell me to write about, but not solid advice for founding a startup.
Not to forget another gem from the same book that I ardently recall when it comes to self-doubt.

> Don't make the mistake of underestimating yourself.

> I'm not suggesting that you'll go out and write Rails in 3 weekends. What I am suggesting is that the more I meet "famous" hackers and the more I meet people from this community (online and offline), the more I realize that there's not really all that much that separates us.

> Lot's of people are obviously brilliant. And even for those who are a little less brilliant, brilliance is only one part of the equation. Work habits, determination, perseverence, passion, and maybe most of all, belief, are just as important. Don't sell yourself short.
I'm really not a fan of the new brand gTLDs. It's very pro-centralization. :(
He seems to have changed his mind in recent years:

http://theundefeated.com/features/michael-jordan-i-can-no-lo...