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I think it's possible to use newer technology more tastefully and minimalistically. I was going to add a huge analogy to the end of my comment about the subdued use of color in recent films, comparing that with earlier color films which were more vivid and gaudy, but I don't think I have enough of a grasp of film history to really tell whether that was the case.
I find myself "allowing" typos for spellcheck lowering my WPM considerably from several years ago when I had to remember and not "offload" to spellcheck "easy" errors of words. 45 WPM (ugggg) vs 90%+ several years ago. Spell check is the bane of some quality writing :)
Ask HN: Boss fired me. How to warn former employer about him?
I just got fired by my manager of 6 months at a Rails dev job I had had for 1.5 years.

For background, the person who managed me for the first year gave me nothing but glowing reviews. The former department head gave me a raise and approval to work remotely when I said I was having trouble making ends meet where I was living at the time. So I'm pretty sure I wasn't the problem. I was, however, the only employee working for the manager who fired me. So it was my word against his. He admitted that he was resentful of the fact that I had gotten approval to work remotely, and he and I routinely disagreed about the technical aspects of the work. In spite of that, I did everything he asked me to do to the best of my ability.

The organization (which shall remain nameless) is doing great work that I truly wish to see succeed. But the manager who fired me is a toxic individual who should not be in charge of anyone or anything. How do I effectively warn the organization about him now that he has fired me?

They have obviously already decided to take my former manager's word over mine in authorizing my termination. And if I go into the exit interview railing against him, the HR folks who will interview me probably won't take that very seriously.

So what would you do to convince this organization that the manager is the problem?
Why do you make a specific point of the symlink?
Thanks sam, i guess i'll use python to solve Proj Euler and thanks alot for your time :)
And, GitHub is probably hosted on Linux? ... And, GitHub is hosted on GitHub?
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Whoa, I didn't know the story of git beyond "Linus made it to manage the Linux kernel."

BitKeeper actually prohibits their customers from contributing to competing projects? They forced some guy to stop working on Mercurial in his free time because he used BitKeeper at work and they were afraid that he "might be moving BitKeeper technology into Mercurial." That's an impressive level of evil.

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.mercuria... )
You often can use a homeless shelter as the legal address for many of the purposes that you state in your above reply, such as getting drivers' licenses, etc. (I'm an attorney who volunteered on behalf of homeless clients in Washington, DC. Check your local area to see if there is a legal clinic for homeless clients that might be able to help you.)
They at least had a "how will the Google logo fit in" moment.

I do wonder how far ahead they plan these and what the process looks like.
Maybe unrelated, but as a non-programmer of Sys / NOC guy (but technically centric (driver hacking, registry, etc.) if was a four hour stint of Google, tweak, reload, tweak, driver, connectivity to have zero luck with boxee linking up to my CPU / HD TV. Many reviews cite the same. Will try Roku next.
Or:
Because we are aiming to become global players, leaving a bad economic structure for tech startups and huge taxes.
This theme appears in the comments here a few times. The gist seems to be "Why not just confront the person?"

There are a few different answers to this one. The one you postulate is that the CEO lacks assertiveness. Presumably this is not a terribly common case.

A second situation is that the CEO is sufficiently assertive in the general case, but there are major power differentials between the players. One of the other commenters pointed out that a first-time CEO might not feel comfortable telling one of the titans of the industry to fly coach. This is presumably also uncommon, but more forgivable, although that CEO will need to get over it fast.

My circumstance, and I assume that of others, is that I regard board matters as a long-term interaction of fallible people. Matters of face, allegiances, and frankly who's in a bad mood on what day determine outcomes as often as logic. My job isn't to be idealistic about what should or shouldn't matter; it's to maximize the outcome for the company. Sometimes that may mean picking a fight over nothing to prove a point. Much more often, it means saving my bullets for big game. Others have different styles, but I find this a useful tool to have in the kit.

That said, this sort of minor-conflict-annoyance backfired on me once. I'll see if I can bang together a blog post about that soon.
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Yes - but you can imagine that it's not Priority One when you're a 5 person company and the only travel is being done by a tightfisted CEO and acting CFO who are staying in Motel 6's.
I disagree if you mean "usage" to be "direct usage".

My guess would be that most "equations" in biology curriculum are not really related to biological or physical processes directly, but rather to statistics, experimental setup, i.e. data interpretation and manipulation.

Now, of course, stats are very important and are probably basic knowledge is key in reading and critically analyzing any scientific paper. So I am not criticizing that. However my opinion is that mathematics is not as critical to biology as it is critical for physics.
the first impression i had when clicking on the link, it's got to be a old and unmaintained project because it's on sourceforge... nice to see some new projects are still going there, good for them.
Endorsement? Linus said he threw it up on github as a temporary mirror to see if github is any good because kernel.org is down. It's more of a trial than an endorsement.
Really? I've only ever heard bad things. Can you provide examples?
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Yes, AFAIK it's a part of every standard law firm's templates. To be clear this refers to Series A (>$1mm - in our case $4.5mm), not seed.
I agree completely. In general it has good value, but to me it's in no way near being a bible, which some people ascribe it to.
Show HN: My weekend project
Hey HN! I had some extra time this weekend and I built a prototype of a concept I had for a social network.

The idea is based around a concept I call "microevents". Basically I want to be able to quickly generate an event like "I want to grab a coffee". This event will be posted in a stream where others can say "Hey! I wanna join in!" and be listed in that event. The original poster can then proceed to create a "meetup" where he/she describes where and when to meet.

This is just the web app but a mobile version will definitely come if I feel that I am getting positive feedback for the site.

On the tech side its some pretty jQuery, basic PHP and storage is on MySQL. The authentication is through Twitter's @anywhere. Not the greatest but really easy to deploy. I plan on constructing my own authentication system in the future where the user can populate his/her social graph by connecting to Facebook and Twitter. That is a future plan though.

Tell me what you think! It is kind of empty right now but if you will all join me in the Ann Arbor, MI we can populate that local list some.

Ah! I forgot to mention that I am only supporting a few cities. I will be featuring a full set of cities in the future. Sorry about that.

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Interestingly you might find that once you are aware of such details it is hard to go back and "just watch a movie".

You start noticing color gradients, lighting techniques, camera angles, and many other technical details, and spend mental effort categorizing and critiquing them instead of being immersed in the experience, like, perhaps, you were before.

As computer geeks notice bogus computer terminals in the movies, and it is somewhat irritating and frustrating "no, dammit, that is not what a mainframe terminal looks like!" film geeks do the same with movies.
> Those internal documents are property of PDVSA; it even say so in each of those internal documents, that the information is confidential and property of PDVSA

I have no idea about Venezuelan law, but in the U.S., that's more of a statement of intent than a legally dispositive statement. Try this google search:

http://www.google.com/search?q=this+document+is+confidential...

Am I breaking the law by reading those?

A search for "internal PDVSA memo" shows that journalists inside and outside Venezuela have published information from them before, so maybe the law is not so different there.

> which is not clear if they did through backdoors in the software or just with spies inside the company

Well, probably somebody emailed it to him with a comment like "Is there any truth to this?" or "Any comment?" or "You might be interested in this." I suppose you could call them "spies", but I doubt they got compensated for it!
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you are being downvoted because your comment has a fairly obvious chicken and egg problem which I don't think you fully reasoned to it's logical conclusion.
The USA is special, when it comes to demographic statistics. I've heard the US is often bimodal - there's one distribution for people who live in reasonable areas, and people who live in places where there is generational poverty, gang violence, drug dealers everywhere, no jobs, and so on.

OK, immigrants also do a little poorer, especially informal immigrants. And some states are wealthier than others. But this is all stuff that other countries deal with as well.

The US seems to allow large areas of their cities to become extremely poor. Maybe it's a hold-over from the semi-apartheid days before the civil rights act, when there were black areas and white areas; I don't know.

Maybe the solution is for local councils to try and mix up the communities more, encouraging low-income housing to be dispersed throughout the city. Yeah, it sucks to have a few poor families in the neighbourhood, but it's better than having whole neighbourhoods of poor people.
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I don't know you, so please don't take too much offense to this, but isn't that sentiment simply batshit crazy? "Sure, DNSSEC literally bakes an implicit trust in world governments into the core security model of the entire Internet, but at least it's up front about it!"

Please understand this: you can stop trusting every HTTPS/SSL CA today, and, as you visit HTTPS sites, accept their keys individually.

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for anyone to settle on this point, either with negligent corporations or with governments.
I suspect that people visiting Google.co.jp might already be familiar with the Google brand.
"... I was very poor & the thought of a Stratocaster was way out of my price range. So me and my Dad took it into our hands to make the guitar... It took about 2 years and we made it from all sorts of scraps and pieces ..."

Brian May is no slouch either. The link is a quick 1992 interview describing how his Dad built their own TV and how they both built the Red guitar you see him play. cf: @neilmurraybass, "Brian May guitar 1992" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPD7_hQk7hk
You can recover from a breach like Diginotar's instantly; just remove their cert from your browser. You have no control over .COM's recovery from a breach.
"Maybe the solution is for local councils to try and mix up the communities more, encouraging low-income housing to be dispersed throughout the city."

The problem is that, as the Coleman Report showed us in the mid 60s, while this is in theory the best solution it requires you to have 12-15 high-SES people for every one low-SES person. And U.S. society no longer has anywhere near enough high-SES people left in order to socialize the low-SES people. So a long decline is essentially inevitable at this point due to simple math and demographics.

While there are theoretically other solutions, they are too complicated for the average person to understand, so they have very little chance of being implemented.
No, this is simply wrong. Individual resolvers do not get to decide whether to trust or not trust zone signatures. Signatures in DNSSEC inherently chain to the root. You are shackled to one trust hierarchy for all time. This is in stark contrast to X.509 CAs; the "300 central CA" model we have today is a mere browser configuration setting, and one virtually anyone can change.
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Ridiculous. Linus could have been working on a startup in his spare time and making millions. Instead he works on scuba diving.

HN, take this as an example of what not to do with your life.
I didn't say they should do it for Agile, I said they could do it for the benefits they could gain.

I agree there's a problem with cargo cult Agile. There was a problem with cargo cult design patterns, too. In both cases, you can certainly turn your back on the hyped thing on the theory that your team is already sufficiently awesome.
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> Hell, roughly half of American adults are so illiterate that they can't even read the one sentence instructions on their medications.

I'm not defending health illiteracy, but let's look at this rationally. What is the most logical and efficienct solution to half of Americans being unable to read labels on medicine?

A) Try to educate all those people

B) Make the damn labels easier to comprehend so that this problems wouldn't exist in the first place.

When the directions say "must be administered orally," can you really expect their meaning to be fully conveyed to every adult who reads them? Why can't we just change it to "drink it"?

Sure, it doesn't use the technical terms that healthcare professional are taught with. But despite all its scientific underpinnings, in the end, healthcare is about providing a (vital) service to customers. And if they lack the necessary skills to understand something, then the healthcare industry needs to respond to that deficiency, not the other way around.
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In the the article he says that both effects (nighty blue and sunset red) can't happen at the same time IRL...
I understand your point about the meaning of 'finite'. My point simply is that those who primarily viewed willpower as a limited resource, finite and exhaustible, did not perform as well as those who believed that exercising willpower increases it. It is not about the nuances of a certain word but how certain attitudes affect performance.
Dweck wrote a popular book 'Mindset'
where she contrasts 'fixed' mindset with 'growth' mindset.
Perhaps 'fixed' makes more sense than 'finite' here.
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Kinda sad. Github issues are great way to interact.
"Make the damn labels easier to comprehend so that this problems wouldn't exist in the first place."

The solution is threefold: education, simplifying directions/processes, and changing culture. Changing the labels and creating things like extended release pills (so you only need to take one per day) is definitely the most low-hanging fruit in terms of fixing adherence, but it doesn't actually fix our democracy, economy, or culture.
Find one that complements your skillset.

If you're perfectly capable with the technical field but useless anywhere else, a business co-founder or a design co-founder can complement your skillset and let you concentrate on what you can do best.
I see very little reason I shouldn't do everything in RSS. I agree with Marco that this presents a danger of being committed to too much, of being afraid to trash things; the solution is to clearly isolate in your feed reader the feeds you do, and do not expect to fully read.
That was actually my reason for wanting to go back to school. I wanted to be able to ask questions in case I got stuck learning math. I ended up with horrible math professors (each with 10+ years of experience) and had to teach myself discrete math, linear algebra, and differential equations.

I hope you will have better luck with professors than I, but in hindsight, I would have been far better off financially and emotionally if I hired a private tutor when needed instead of paying tuition.
> The USA is special, when it comes to demographic statistics. I've heard the US is often bimodal - there's one distribution for people who live in reasonable areas, and people who live in places where there is generational poverty, gang violence, drug dealers everywhere, no jobs, and so on.

> OK, immigrants also do a little poorer, especially informal immigrants. And some states are wealthier than others. But this is all stuff that other countries deal with as well.

Just stop beating around the bush with PC euphemisms and say what you mean - "blacks and Hispanics are much worse off than whites, to the point that they have their own set of statistics. The states that have lots of them are significantly worse off than ones who don't."

> The US seems to allow large areas of their cities to become extremely poor. Maybe it's a hold-over from the semi-apartheid days before the civil rights act, when there were black areas and white areas; I don't know.

> Maybe the solution is for local councils to try and mix up the communities more, encouraging low-income housing to be dispersed throughout the city. Yeah, it sucks to have a few poor families in the neighbourhood, but it's better than having whole neighbourhoods of poor people.

Yeah, that doesn't work in America. Unlike those "other countries" you mentioned, we have virtually unlimited space, and the minute (poor) blacks or Hispanics move into a neighborhood, you get white flight all over again.
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It's gone 404 now, anyone have it in their cache?
> Dismissing a point of view based on the party, rather than on the position, is the definition of a tu quoque fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

Except that the original poster's comment was not a tu quoque fallacy. Note from your source:

This form of the argument is as follows:

A makes criticism P.
A is also guilty of P.
Therefore, P is dismissed.

In this instance "P" is "Hollywood color choices". The original poster did not dismiss P (i.e., a dismissal of P would be that Hollywood color choices are perfectly fine). The original poster dismissed the blog authors reputation to assert an opinion regarding Hollywood color choices because the blog author, by virtue of having made awful color choices in his blog, had presented evidence of lack of knowledgeable sufficient to assert an educated opinion about P (Hollywood color choices). Whether Hollywood color choices (P) are bad or good remains an open question, P was not dismissed.

Note further in your own citation:

Legitimate use

The legitimate form of the argument is as follows:

A makes criticism P.
A is also guilty of P.
Therefore, A is dismissed (from his/her role as a model of the principle that motivates criticism P).

The difference from the illegitimate form is that the latter would try to dismiss P along with A. It is illegitimate to conflate the logically separate questions of whether P is a valid criticism and whether A is a good role model.

Which is exactly the use made by the original ironic/priceless comment. "A" (blog author) criticized "P" (poor color choices). "A" is also guilty of "P" (poor color choices). "A" was dismissed.
I wonder why github's graphs page isn't available yet
Another way to look at it: http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/
I wonder if this model could work with Amazon affiliates program - ensure that the bookstore gets a cut from people ordering books on the Amazon terminal. Maybe Amazon would subsidize this kind of store, instead of the publishers, to capture the mall-goers that browse around Borders just because it's there and end up buying a random new release.

That would kind of remind me of an Apple store - they could have Kindles lying around for you to preview sections of new releases, a "genius bar" for recommendations, easy payments with your Amazon account, free coffee for Prime members etc.

I don't think Amazon would actually do it because setting up Brick and Mortar storefronts doesn't seem to gel with their business, but it would be kind of neat and I could see this type of specialty meat-space front end for web properties really taking off.
>> Matters of face, allegiances, and frankly who's in a bad mood on what day determine outcomes as often as logic.

This is so true. Matters of face can spiral out of control easily. I think you handled this specific one with real dexterity.

One related thing from my own experience - As groups grow you tend to get moments where the community norms that everyone took for granted can't be assumed anymore.

It always starts with a single person operating outside those norms. You're faced with the question of whether you have a one-off situation, or a systemic problem (of which this one moment is just the first inkling). Knowing which approach is the right one seems like it's frequently gut feel, but then again, if you know that you are going to need process or guidelines soon, you can use see those moments as an opportunity to get things right before you get bigger problems later.
Nice article. Interestingly, there's been a bit of buzz about Amazon finding local mail-holders (or distribution partners, or whatever) for "not home" deliveries. I think I saw an article somewhere today about a partnership with 7-Eleven stores - obviously, extending this to local bookstores could make lots of sense for everyone concerned (Amazon, customers, and local businesses who drive sales to Amazon).

The kiosk idea is interesting but would want some kind of transparent proxy to insert affiliate IDs, perhaps?
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Or you can do this on the Rack level: https://github.com/juliocesar/rack-pagespeed
Well, at least it does the coercion for you (unlike Java).