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There are two options here:

1. Keep working, and stop crying about it.
2. Quit

Yeah it sucks, but as someone who worked these kind of hours in the military, without the ability to quit, I don't feel any sympathy.

You empower your employer to treat you like this, and there are many industries where this is near the norm.
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If you're already using Jekyll, you might consider moving to Octopress if you like the design, plugins, or rake tasks. It's MIT licensed, so if you would rather just snag those and integrate them into your existing blog that's fine too.
This is opinion versus opinion. I'm sorry to say there's no real content here. The author went from Yahoo to Craigslist so there's no such thing as premature optimization at that scale and with the small staff at CL you can be sure that chasing NoSQL as a fad can ruin the company. Obviously he doesn't fit the bill of the essay he's criticizing but most devs don't experience the scale of his problems.

You can't do the topic of NoSQL vs SQL justice with an essay because it would just be semantic, we're talking about a different theoretical representation of data structure. You might as well scream "better taste!", "Less filling!".
It's got nothing to do with HN, true, but "X blog engine for Hackers!!!11" grabs more eyeballs than "x blog engine"
Now, they could bring back the TRS-80 name with a line of non-PC-compatible computers ;-)
I wrote a similar post last year (http://rossduggan.ie/blog/codetry/extracting-information-fro...); it's one of those things you can't believe you worked without before. Easily one of the best tools in a developer's arsenal.
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This is a good question and I have no idea why you're being downvoted. I think I've heard there's evidence that interbreeding happened in Europe as well.
Considering there are hundreds of millions of Gmail accounts, that statement may be pretty accurate.
There is nothing wrong with suggesting something radical. At the same time, you have to be able to show the strength of your beliefs. A strong signal of belief is your willingness to place money behind an idea. Probably the best example of someone placing money behind a radical idea is Peter Thiel when he created Thiel Fellowship.

I think you would be well received if you were to offer full scholarship and stipend equal to the participants salary.
You know, they could also not delete our accounts without giving us the ability to adjust what they don't like. This could all be automated, and wouldn't require much if any human involvement.

But you know, that would be too obvious.
Is that so? You see, I thought, democracy was about what what the majority thinks or does. Commercialism however is only concerned with what the powerful and wealthy want.
Seriously. I keep seeing "science" articles with that word in the title. Quite frustrating.
Or 3. Call the bastards on their bad behavior so other programmers think twice before applying.

There's nothing wrong with outing a company that treats their employees like expendables. The gaming industry's had a bad reputation for horrid working conditions for some time. Maybe it's time to wake up.
Ambiguity in contracts is a major pain in the ass. To the employee a "reasonable amount" of unpaid overtime could well be ZERO. I'd certainly want to be paid for it. But to the employer it might be an extra 40 hours a week, which to me is ridiculous.

The only people in the company that should be working unpaid overtime are the founders, because its their company. If you're an employee, you should do your work that you're hired for and then go home.
New Zealand and Australia have strong notions of 'unfair dismissmal'.

My gut feeling is that a more effective response, legally, than going to the papers would be to simply refuse and go home.

If they fire you, start a court case. You will likely win.
Every first year law student knows that copyright related court cases are exclusively a matter of federal law. You can’t bring a copyright suit in state court, period.

Sound recordings made before 1972 are under state copyright, not federal.
A French-owned company? Does anyone else see the irony in this? I'll add a link to an old article if I can find it, but I remember a small software company owner in France being fined when some of his workers exceeded 45 hours a week.

Edit:

Here are two articles from when the workweek in France was shortened but I haven't found the article I'm looking for yet. My point isn't really to denigrate France's laws but it would seem that these jobs were shipped out of the country so that more work could be expected from each employee.

http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_18/b3627192.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06/25/european_working_pra...
> could not MS find better mouthpieces?

They need knowledgeable people with low moral standards. That's hard to find.
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it looks unfair from every angle!!! google is looking very bad right now. why not just tell the guy what he did? doesn't he have the right to know that? you have just wiped out his whole online existence and he doesn't even know why? if it because of a user name, that is ridiculous!! "For the privacy of those involved, we don't discuss motivations behind account suspensions but we are confident in our actions in this case." You don't even discuss with those involved? that is really all he is asking for. please respond
If we can't tap into it, then it certainly isn't a reservoir. For headline readers like myself, the choice of words is misleading.
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Maybe they just need to balance out their portfolio for short term as well as long term returns? And perhaps they feel that these bubbly companies are the best way to do so?

For some reason this just feels like the fundamental error of attribution to me. Yes, I accept that I might be wrong, but it still does. http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html
Try your startup for a time. If it looks like things are not working out, go back to college. I hope you have some form of a team assembled, one person starts are really hard. Have fun.
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As the NZ Herald fails to mention the original source, here it is: http://is.gd/it8IWV
Oh my, if what you're saying is correct, then thank you. I saw this story on Ars, Discover, and a couple places and took the wrong thing from it (both individual vs. population, and the presence of neandertal genes in some africans).

To be clear, are you saying the more accurate statement would be: "Neandertal chromosome segments found in all tested non-african populations, and some tested african populations"? (Which, when you put it that way, seems like a somewhat weird distinction to make.)

edit: I followed the link upthread, but it was only to the paper abstract. Is the full paper available for free online somewhere?

edit2: It seems the distinction might be no neandertal geneds found in sub-Saharan African population samples?
It depends on how skilled you are. If I were young, had little debt, and no responsibility, I would go to college, have a blast, and build something on nights and weekends. You have plenty of time, enjoy it.
"Apple’s OS update clearly has not removed and replaced the system’s UNIX foundation with something sane..."

And that was where I stopped taking him seriously. This author sounds to me as though he is complaining that his free pony is dappled, not purebred. His arguments all sound, ironically, correct - in a skin-deep way. He discounts, with wincing ease, the evolutionary steps that are the necessary prerequisites to getting to where we are now. Reading this is like listening to Stephen Wolfram talking about cellular automata - it is a shining, glittering, many-tined work of an absolute crank.
There's more than one form of democracy, and the one in the US (and over here in the UK) isn't about what the majority wants. It's about what politicians who the majority elected decide. And as many flaws as that system has, and as much corruption as there can be, I'm still bloody glad there is, because frankly I'm scared to think of how much less we might have developed societally.
Importantly, domain expertise is how you get to the big $, which I'm sure is of interest to most young programmers... The amount I can get selling myself as a developer with expertise in my field over selling myself as a generic developer in some other field is quite substantial.
I don't think it's wrong to go public, but going to the department of labor seems backwards. I'm not familiar with the laws there, but I don't see how this could be regulated outside of a collectively bargained union contract?

Edit: I'd like to see a response behind these downvotes. As a business owner and employee, I'm confused.
Slightly larger: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/09/neanderth...
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I guess they never heard of Tokyo Promenade. It's a blogging engine implemented in C99 with no external dependencies on top of Tokyo Cabinet.

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Really, I had this in my contracts a lot as well (Germany).

I tend to accept it if it's rare (like - release work with some pressure, for a limited time). But - it was a learning curve for me.

When I started my first 'real' job I was constantly working overtime (10-12 hours, daily), no compensation (and a low salary). I sold myself far too low - but at that time it didn't occur to me. Evil team dynamics can make this even harder: IF someone from our team decided that 22:00 is late enough and packed up, we'd half-jokingly complain about him being on half-time. In retrospect, this idiotic behavior just helped our employer to milk more time (not really work, I'd argue.. Productivity goes down fast after a while) out of us.

My last contract again included this clause, but I grew up and learned to say no, leave if I'm tired and turn off my mobile. If you're no jerk about it I'd expect it to work flawlessly. Of course your employer would love to see you work more for less/the same. And he certainly is free to ask me to 'do this one thing'.

And I can always decline, and do so most of the time now.
There's no official affiliation with Github. I started thinking through the branding for Octopress in 2009 when it first came out. I was looking for a good mascot and around the same time David Lanham did his 'Bubble Bay' design for a firefox campaign http://davidlanham.com/art/bubblebay/

I started thinking that an Octopus would be a great mascot. They're intelligent, flexible, and have loads of personality. And I asked David to do the artwork for the logo.

The 'press' part was taken from Wordpress, but mainly because I really like how subtly different it is from Octopus.
What? I'm not sure where you live, but the vaste majority of countries/states/territories/whatever have laws that protect employees with respect to working hours.

Your remark is so odd to me, I feel like I either completely misunderstood it or you live in a very sad place.

edit:
What you are saying to me sounds like "It's odd that you called the police because someone shot you; I really don't see how this could be resolved except for forming a vigilante group"
Check out the plugins for sharing code http://octopress.org/docs/blogging/code This was obsessively designed with hackers in mind.
Promenade don't have a lovely orange octopus. :D
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Actually flying cars exist now and have been approved for use by all requisite governmental agencies.

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That's what having a monopoly doing to them.

If the market would be more competitive (cows could walk away en masse), surely they would treat cows as humans.
A few things ignored:

A. The PhD concept, like academia itself, is broken. For most people, it's 5-7 years to get narrow training for an industry that has sold out a generation and a half and probably won't exist, in any meaningful way, in 40 years on account of how badly it has treated young entrants. The last time a disaster as bad as the academic job market occurred in the U.S., two countries got invaded.

B. You'd think the philosophy degree would give him the ability to avoid inverted-causality fallacies, e.g. "I know how to think a certain way because I got a philosophy Ph.D."

Don't get me wrong. I think there can be a lot of value in a Ph.D. program. But I think for a successful person in technology, it's a really bad idea from a career perspective. I'll focus on this:

Because the thought leaders in our industry are not the ones who plodded dully, step by step, up the career ladder. The leaders are the ones who took chances and developed unique perspectives.

Does he really think that everyone who takes 5-7 years off to pursue a humanities Ph.D. gets some kind of magical career rocket fuel that propels him or her into a decision-making role where broad-based perspective is crucial? I doubt it.

Now, I will agree that society would benefit immensely if our leaders (including in technology) actually understood the humanities, and many don't. On the other hand, that doesn't mean that taking 5-7 years off to study philosophy increases your chance of becoming one of those leaders; I think it lowers it, sadly.
I've used XQuery in Oracle quite a bit and I wouldn't exactly say it isn't an issue.

My use case is weird - thousands of xml files that have to be uploaded and then queryable/joinable to an existing relational model. We found that the only way to pull this off with decent performance is to pull out the "most queried" xml nodes and node values in materialized views with indexes.

I've also experimented with nested sets, which work very well for our situation.

Regardless of how we store the XML and query/join it to our relational data, I continue to struggle with a decently performing "pivot" step. The XML we have is really messy, with each independent XML tree having lots of 1 . . N nodes for a specific element. This makes "flattening" the XML out with relational data messy. If it was only a single XML tree, it wouldn't be a big deal. But our user queries tend to hit many of the XML trees and we wind up with lots of "empty" node elements in the total result set.

Plus, node order from our XML is extremely important to users, so node A containing node B containing node C with node order represented by depth in the tree must now swap over to left-to-right order and preserve the relationships between A->B->C.

It's actually fun . . . the whole ordering, "pivot" mess is really a presentation layer thing, our users want all this cranked out in grids with Excel export capability. From a pure programmatic standpoint, cranking on the combined XML and relational data model is not difficult.
The page is not served with the correct encoding. How ironic.
"You see, I thought, democracy was about what what the majority thinks or does."

Yeah well you're wrong. There is much more to democracy than the tyranny of the majority.
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I guess you only hear about it when it has the Streisand effect. Perhaps there are many more cases that succeeded which you don't hear about?
When I worked at RadioShack (several years ago) there was a near-constant stream of people coming in to purchase cellphones. As an employee I got a fairly good cash bonus every time I sold one, so I imagine RadioShack made a LOT of money off cellphones and accessories. For example: The cellphone sale itself was $X cash to me but accessories were $2X, $3X, or $4X as more were purchased. A brand new featurephone with 3 accessories and a warranty netted me roughly $75-100 cash for the sale. The warranty was actually good, too. We sent lots of different kinds of phones back in a re-usable plastic box to a repair facility somewhere. People seemed to trust Radio Shack more for cellphone purchases than the brand stores across the road.

However, that was back when Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T stores weren't as easy to find as they are now. I imagine they're not able to attract nearly as much cellphone traffic as they did before.
When someone talks about 'equality' in terms of values, they're probably talking more about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and less about ability at basketball or sprinting.
"A spokesman said legislation did not stipulate the maximum number of hours an employee could work (..)"

Really? Is this common/normal? A problem only in that (IT) sector? What about other professions (I assume medical personal, public transportation drivers etc. at least have rules for that)?

This is one of these eye-opening moments where something I took for granted (my bad, I guess) is realigned with reality.
"A blogging framework for hackers"

If it said "a blogging framework for writers" do you think it would even get mentioned at hackernews?

It seems like YABF, with the possible exception of pretty good support for code display.

Other threads here say it's basically Jekyll. I did some searches. It's not Jekyll. Jekyll has zero branding, it's just a github project.

Good taglines define a brand. This one's a good tagline. Good enough to get the front page here.
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Does this mean that you think that relational databases are the best tool for every data storage job?
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The integration with git hooks is an awesome idea.
The only time I ever feel productive is when I develop a full-on obsession to do something and improve at it. Other times it's the feeling of being part of a greater force for the better. Then I start cruising and here I am.

Cardiovascular exercise is one helluva drug but my experience tells me it's effects on behavior are pretty domain specific (although there is a lot of research on how it will enhance mental functions and executive brain functions). It clears my head like nothing else but the spillover into the other aspects of my life isn't that dramatic.
Even though this has a bit of blue vs. red lurking in it, I like overstock.com a lot more after learning about Patrick Byrne claiming that Wall Street are like "Sith Lords".
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Some simple research into NZ law brings up a fairly well organized page about the minimum rights:
http://www.dol.govt.nz/er/minimumrights/index.asp

Of interest, the Break entitlements doesn't cover anything relevant. However, the Health & Safety section seems relevant (IANAL) and then there's this beauty:
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That's great news, finally we can do

$a = [1, 2, 3];

and it also will make function calls with named parameters much more readable.

Sadly, it will be years before the majority of hosting providers adopt 5.4...
Yes, and I imagine a large number of individuals, white supremacists or not, are going to do some mental gymnastics to reconcile this finding.
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Yes it is realistic to expect all users to continually make backups of their Google services. Maybe google just hasnt made it easy enough yet... but that is what the goal should be.

Allowed access to banned accounts in "Read-only" mode is ripe for abuse by spammers and phishers who could benefit from still being able to access information in the violating accounts. Its the wrong kind of solution to a problem that really comes down to personal responsibility.

I think most people know deep down the responsible thing to do is have backups of all their important data... the cloud is just making people lazy. And providing a "read-only" access to a banned account will only make people lazier and more apathetic about it. "oh.. no worries.. Googles got my back" But what happens when Google is hacked, or suffers a natural disaster, or other catastrophic failure? It only serves to make the problem worse. Losing your data, to even a wrongfully banned account, is nobody's fault but your own.

There so many more reasons to backup your data before something bad happens, not after.... thats what we should be promoting
The objection is that people should be able to voluntarily interact in any way they see fit. If they want to work lots of hours then there is nothing wrong with this.

This is very different than being shot, which is a violation of someones rights.
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Me neither, I expect an all-weather elected official.
Why does a contract ever provide for unpaid overtime?

Surely overtime is necessary once in a while to match a deadline. However, having a modest premium on it is an easy way of ensuring the amount of the overtime will remain reasonable.
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Those are all special cases of the cache invalidation problem.
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