skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a matter of respect for yourself, and the time of others.

People who don't respect their own time won't respect the time of others that much. People who think their time is more important than others time will also abuse the time of others.

If I bust my tail getting something done for you that you needed and you can't do the same for something I needed, I'm now doubly under the gun. If I said hey, I have to be there for thebrokencube and you believe in not letting me down, guess what, we have that magical thing of having each others backs and supporting each other.

Sadly, most offices are daycares for adults. People act out their high school insecurities on an epic scale and wonder why they aren't getting anywhere in life.

The key is to be clear that I'm not here to play clean up for messy people. I am happy to pitch in when things go sideways, but do my job and lift the business up.

A broken person, or process will only drag things down.
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OK -- I didn't mean to leave Reddit out of this. I'm not a regular there and didn't read the initiating post, so it's fair I'm over-estimating the solo value of HN in this. Either way, it's impressive when you look at the small numbers of HN users and regular Redditors who took a stand on this and got results so fast. This is dirty democracy in action.
FTA: "No sooner does he hire a Java programmer and train him in the company's music industry niche, than the programmer is recruited away for a higher salary."

Pro tip: if the salary wasn't higher, the programmer couldn't have been recruited away for a higher salary.

There's nothing wrong with the programmer. You're just not paying her enough.

And yes, this is endemic to the industry. No one (outside the Big Tech Giants anyway) gives raises remotely close to what the employee could get by quitting. They only want to pay market wage at hiring time. And the employees aren't dumb.

Really the only notable thing here is that someone decided to write a news article whining about it.
Go Daddy is knowing how it feels to be blocked, internet reaction against Go Daddy was a reflex of what SOPA want to do. How does that feels Daddy?
At it's simplest: The first "people" to walk out on "job security" and careers were the companies. So, fuck their incessant whining. (As yea sow, so shall yea reap.)
Maybe Musk has a mad scientist program researching Martian terraforming. If he decided to crash a couple rovers carrying nukes into the Martian polar ice caps to create a greenhouse effect, does the US government have the legal or technical capability to stop him?
It does make sense to modernize it, but it emphatically does not make sense to use cua-style bindings. This isn't because all Emacs users are "die-hard purists", it's simply because the Emacs way is much better and trading long-term efficiency for short-term gain (ease of learning) is definitely not a good choice.

Additionally, you should use the C-whatever bindings for moving around instead of the arrow keys. Once I learned them, moving around code became much simpler. Not only do you not have to move your hand to the arrow keys, but you also start using some of the more advanced moving commands that let you move by expression or paragraph (the latter is great for code because it takes you to the next blank line, which is usually what delimits parts of the code that are logically together).
Re-reading that this morning, I see how I communicated that. Sorry.

I meant to say that while you have to be insane to support legislation like SOPA, most normal people who don't live in castles made of double-platinum records aren't opposed to much more moderate and appropriately-scoped legislation. Some very sane people are opposed to it, and that's okay.
I have no real (non-software) engineering background, and I could probably design, within current technology, shelters and mechanisms sufficient to keep people alive on Mars indefinitely.

The problem is, there is no way you could possibly get my contraptions to Mars. They'd be huge and extremely heavy.

The easier it is to get stuff to Mars, the bigger and heavier it can be, and the easier it is to keep people alive.
The cynic in me is wondering whether this was a strategic move by SOPA supporters to remove a very easy source of negative press. I suspect the other pro-SOPA organisations are going to be a lot harder to boycott effectively.

The anti-SOPA movement is going to view this as a major win, which may distract from the bigger issue.
This can't be reiterated enough. A company that is so evil, that it could support SOPA in the first place, will not lose that evilness and rotten culture overnight.
That is correct. I'd say Reddit is the one solely responsible for this.
(If) What's best for you is making the most money you can.

and .. if you want to achieve this by doing the least work possible, and creating work for others, they will not help you be more successful at your job.

A real successful team, person, and company will all believe in getting more work done with less collective effort. So, if I make my job easier, it shouldn't make your job harder.

Sadly, too many people in management don't get team building, team development, but instead narrow minded views and babysitting everyone through it.

Edit: Added the word If at the beginning, I was examining what I interpreted the previous commenter to be saying.
I'm not quite sure why more people don't do this

It's currently pretty hard to get a job again on the other side of the vacation. Plus for most people in the USA wages are so low it's hard to even save $10K. 48% of the population are living on or below the poverty line.
Did you know most stores close at 8PM on weekdays?
It's too late GoDaddy! You're an evil company and have been so for years. Now the internet community has finally seen your true colors. Take your war-mongering, right-wing founder and go to hell for all I care. I hope everyone continues the backlash against you.
The question is now, if they do not "support" SOPA, willthey comply with any SOPA related domain takedowns should SOPA pass?

Sure, they don't overtly claim to support this law - but their actions after the fact shall really show whats going on inside.

Anyone recall when Earthlink was the only company to refuse to comply with allowing Carnivore boxes in its network?

Even though Earthlink, as a Scientologist founded provider, already had an internal policy of scanning all the traffic on their network to begin with.)

When the government shows up and wants something, very few companies refuse to comply. Even when they do not support the actions of the government.

We should be standing up to those companies as well - but we tend to forget quickly.

Nobody stood up to AT&T when they spied on EVERYONE for the crooks in DHS/NSA/CIA.
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I think it might slam inboxes early in the morning and late at night but over time (I would hope) people would learn to prioritize communications....

Ever tried making plans with someone who doesn't have a cell phone? I damn well make sure I'm not late because I have no way to reach them. Maybe the same will happen with less available email.
The employees are not in control and their input isn't wanted. If the argument centers around making them "feel" a certain way, then that's called delusion.

Throughout the article there's no mention of anything tangible done for retention.

Combine that with the lack of interest in exploring a retention model and I (and seemingly most other contributors here) have little sympathy for someone crying "I can't keep anyone".

Quality people are easy to find, they're out there in droves. Finding a quality company is the difficult part.
Anonymous threatens net blackout over SOPA
Nathan is a cool guy, a very talented designer, and a self-taught programmer.

I really enjoyed our video conversation about how he prototyped his app idea, contacted speech pathologists for feedback, gave them free promo codes in exchange for feedback and online reviews, and worked the linkerati for buzz.

Check out the two-part interview for more insights about his process and marketing strategy.
Not quite...

Corrected:

2011-11-16 23:41:13 UTC (ports tree)

2011-11-17 01:10:16 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.4-STABLE)
2011-11-17 00:36:10 UTC (RELENG_8, 8.2-STABLE)

2011-12-01 21:13:41 UTC (RELENG_9, 9.0-STABLE)
2011-12-01 21:17:59 UTC (RELENG_9_0, 9.0-RC3)

2011-12-23 15:00:37 UTC (RELENG_7_4, 7.4-RELEASE-p5)
2011-12-23 15:00:37 UTC (RELENG_7_3, 7.3-RELEASE-p9)
2011-12-23 15:00:37 UTC (RELENG_8_2, 8.2-RELEASE-p5)
2011-12-23 15:00:37 UTC (RELENG_8_1, 8.1-RELEASE-p7)
A lot was spread on Twitter too... There I saw that a number of registrars were offering discount codes.
Geeks of the world unite! :)
Next step: GoDaddy's General Counsel, Christine Jones, who is an architect of SOPA, needs to resign.
Go Daddy's cut/paste responses to SOPA critique and turnaround on Twitter
House Co-Sponsor Defends SOPA #Idiot
A lot of behind the scenes action was probably going on here. Lots of negative scenarios could have played out for GoDaddy. Bob will do as he pleases, but other executives and board members could have pushed back to save key relationships.
> It's not (yet) possible to shield astronauts from enough space radiation to keep them alive during the 9-month trip to Mars.

I'm sorry, but this is not true. See for example http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-general-03w.html.
a little too late now, I guess
Telnet is still quite common in the embedded world. Existing tool boxes have implementations, busybox has a telnet client and daemon built-in, etc... It's easy. If the box never goes beyond a development rack it's safe. And if it's what you've been doing for 15 years there's not a lot of value in change.
Most of the people I talk with don't like the idea of their pictures and words being shown to their friends as ads for products. Most of the people I talk with don't like the idea that things on their profile and in their feed are influenced by how much money Facebook can charge from ads. Most people I talk with are already sick of Facebook changing their interface and pretty skeptical about Timeline (they don't have the time to invest in tweaking it, they're concerned about old status messages and photos becoming a lot more visible) so get irritated when reminded that it's main goal is to maximize -exploitation- revenue.

So yeah, it's true that at some level nobody's particularly surprised by this any more. People are sick of Facebook and waiting for what's next, and for most of them Timeline will just reinforce those feelings.
Occupy!
This isn't even close to enough. I want to see GoDaddy actively take a stand against SOPA, much like (other) tech companies have done.

If they do that, perhaps I'll consider staying with them.
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> What's best for you is making the most money you can.

I can't even begin to fathom that mindset. No amount of money is worth my health. None. I walked out on a great-paying job that turned into a clusterfuck and voluntarily did nothing for a year for exactly that reason.

I worked way below market for quite a while for that reason.

I'm working somewhat below market even now for that reason.

I keep score in happiness and satisfaction, not dollars.
People in my office are actually cheering. I hope this is just the first of many companies to rescind their pledge.
And yet their products are the best there are.
So I was thinking - after SOPA passes, what's to stop us (i.e. those opposed to it), from uploading copyrighted things to every site related to the people supporting it (RIAA, MPAA, movie sites, government sites) that have some comment feature or whatever.

And then requesting that those sites be taken down. Let loose 4chan and the absurdity of the whole thing will become clear.
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If you routinely find yourself dredging up stuff from deep in the kill ring you might want the browse-kill-ring extension, but you also might want to think about using registers, which are emacs's idea of a solution to your problem: If you often find yourself wanting to explicitly distinguish between delete-forever and delete-for-recovery, you should probably try distinguishing between delete-for-recovery and add-to-the-kill-ring-in-case-of-emergency instead; it's safer.
The bankruptcies are from living expenses, not medical expenses.

Families can generally house other family members. They can't pay $90k medical bills.

All poor people in the US are eligible for medicaid. Many don't bother to sign up until they get sick.

How are poor people supposed to know this? I didn't know this. I went to the website and it wasn't the least bit clear. Discoverability is absolutely terrible.

The rest of your statements are just silly extrapolations. There will always be edge cases that cannot be fully served.
At this point the damage has been done.

Backing down from a position they had such strong convictions in only makes them look like more of a rat.

They have no honor and now they no longer have my business.
I don't know why companies complain about loyalty. If it was the other way, and had no use for you, they would not think twice about letting go excess costs.
This is pretty hilarious. It was going to happen eventually, but I love how they're like "we're backing the internet community and this bill just isn't good enough yet" when they were gung-ho about supporting it before.

People would be fools to buy this. Their original stance really speaks volumes about their inner workings and mentality. Just because they're backpedalling doesn't change a damn thing about who they are as a company.

"In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support."

That leaves a bad taste in my mouth, too.
They get overtime too. Something related to being a government contractor, if I recall correctly.
I know that there is a statistical likelihood that as a 32 year old programmer I am probably a huge cynic. So this is a fun little project for me on a sick day, to try and come up with a scenario where I can accept their 180 reversal at face value and find all forgiven.
I just finished transferring the one domain I own from GoDaddy. I'd like to believe that was what changed their mind :)
tldr; The only way to stop the mob is to pay more protection money.
This is only the case if they only thing people are doing about SOPA is moving away from GoDaddy. A lot of the people who have taken a stance against GoDaddy and taken their business elsewhere have been actively working against SOPA, and this is just another step of that.

Consistency is good, especially when it's applied towards geek-centric companies that can be immediately impacted. GoDaddy's about-face here was more or less within 24 hours of being put in the crosshairs. Their capitulation sends a very strong message that they didn't think it was financially worth it to consider to support SOPA - because if the boycott wasn't having any impact, why would they change their tune? Other companies will take a look at that and realize that if the largest registrar in the world can be pressured through consumer action to pull a full 180 in under 24 hours, that it's going to be risky to support SOPA.

Any way you slice it, this is a significant win for SOPA opponents. It's a battle won, not the war, but it's a win nonetheless.
Someone who lives near me has one of the Tesla Roadster. The only reason I know that is because I've seen the car outside with a Tesla technician working on it. He's got a Tesla uniform and the van is labeled.

On the one hand, nice that they come to you. On the other hand, it seems like it's getting serviced a lot relative to the time being driven.
Hmm, good catch, didn't know that. Though, I think the usage is common enough to be colloquial. The article itself talks about the sense of entitlement that developers have, for instance.

Maybe a word like arrogated would work? It isn't totally right, though, and it'd be sacrificing communication for the sake of formal correctness. I'm guessing entitled has taken on its contemporary meaning through a need for a word that didn't exist.
For the sake of completeness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwxTRNzLZ9M
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Boycotting is one of the most effective strategies to use when dealing with a company whose actions or stance you don't like. I'd wish more people started doing this when dealing with insurance companies,ISPs, record labels, facebook, heck even the government. After all, they are nothing without their customers.
Why you won't see me serving as a brand ambassador for LG anytime soon.
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You meant jointly.
That's 1 down, 141 to go. Who's next? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
Sorry, I was unclear. I was referring to the position of Thomas in this story, not asking the question of people now.
HR isn't going to read your blog, and HR is, sadly, the gateway to (just a guess here) 90% of job opportunities. If you have an 'in' at the company, you can bypass HR's initial gating, and your plan will work, otherwise it's unlikely.
Is that supposed to be different from the states, where many retail stores close sometime between 7-9pm?
the same way congressmen who are against sopa in certain states can get ahead and can get bigger campaign donations - then thats a real change
Thanks for pointing that out. I had no idea that this wasn't a "standard" registrar feature. I'm with 1&1 and have been dying to switch forever, but this will make me look twice at any alternatives.
2012:  Year of the Android Tablet?
Ha. At least not right now. I have little faith and trust in the company now.

There is something to the "Don't be Evil" motto as company fountain of youth. Once a company loses my trust as a core audience/customer of theirs, they'll have a hard time winning it back.
Nonsense. People stick with telnet because of ignorance. That is why you remove telnetd, and force them to update. There is no difficulty in switching, and thus no valid reason not to switch.
Paying money to stop something seems counter-productive. Why wouldn't pro-SOPA supporters just keep trying to pass the bill? We'd have to be sinking $80M into politics on a recurring basis. When I think about something so depressing as this, it makes me want to stick my head in the sand or move to another country.
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If that's true, then I'll go ahead and transfer them now. One of my concerns was losing money on transferring them way before they expire. Thanks!
Well, nothing would stop us from doing so, but whatever governing body has the authority to enforce SOPA will probably have exceptions for certain sites, especially to those who monetarily and non-monetarily supported SOPA itself.
Repeat - the official post from GoDaddy is already #1
Think like a venture capitalist
Read their press release. They still basically support it, they're just temporarily pausing public support because we're all upset about it.

Action speaks louder than words. Let GoDaddy know they actually have to _do_ something that is in the interests of a free and open internet. Taking action that is harmful and then giving lip service to freedom and spewing platitudes is not enough. Let them know it:

Stephanie Bracken, PR Specialist
480.505.8800 ext.4451
PR@GoDaddy.com
I think it's naive and dangerously idealistic for the tech community to sit idly by, decrying the state of legislative affairs and refusing to play the game for the sake of honor or some arbitrary sense of intellectual superiority. I'm not saying that the situation isn't shitty or that we shouldn't work to fix what is clearly a broken system, but the IP lobby is playing for keeps here and we're throwing around open letters and hashtags.
My first thought when reading this is that there might be a pile of money to be made in "investigating legacy codebases and providing thorough and succinct reports on their architecture as a service". However, as an aspiring academic, I'll show myself the door now.
Can you recommend something like this for android?
SOPA is never going to be used on anything that the lemmings would notice (Facebook, for instance). The people who want SOPA in place can't risk losing the tolerance of the general public.
$ echo "No kidding. Hash tags need to die, this isn't twitter, and I don't come here for 100-character-long spam bursts of groupthink and newspeak." | wc -c

> 140

Not sure if that was meant to be ironic...
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Does anyone know when Bob Parsons stepped down as CEO? I realize he's still the Executive Chairman, but the "About GoDaddy" section at the bottom of the page still refers to him as CEO. The article also refers to Warren Adelman as "Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO."
It feels wrong to endorse this as a solution. This is one of the biggest problems with the current American government. Instead of contributing to this issue we should be trying to fix this system that allows for open corruption and corporate interests controlling politics.

What's going to happen next time a piece of legislation turns up that we don't like? Should we just continue to pay off congress?
In the meantime, Nissan sold more than 20,000 Leafs. That's tiny compared to the 2 million Priuses sold, but it's still 10 times the number of Roadsters out there.
Because,if you have a dispute with them its easy to move your hosting, but they can make it as hard as they want to.move your domain name, which is essentially your identity. If you got the domain name for "free" with your hosting, you might not.even own it.
So, I specifically said that SSE was better for the vector arithmetic that games do. Almost any game you pick will, in the source somewhere, have Vector3::Add(), Vector4::Dot(), etc. functions.

Scalar code is not trivially fixed by using SSE, true, but the majority of really obnoxious math being done (skinning, vector arithmetic, etc.) should be really easy to make really fast.
I've found that a difference between the "top" guys and the "very good" guys is that the very good guys are smart enough to do great work, but just aren't as into it. I know many guys who were mathematicians, physicists, or near-professional violinists and fell into programming because they couldn't make money from their other interest. These guys are often really good, but you can tell they wish they were doing something else. That said, the worst dudes are the ones who are really into it, but are really bad.
There is no way they didn't understand the bill. They fully understood the bill and probably were vying for a way to benefit from the bill. Everyone understands how bad this bill is for the Internet, unless someone has something to gain from it.

GoDaddy must have had something either legal or under the table that would benefit them immensely if they supported the bill.
Free anti lobbying activist paying dirty money is SOPA ultimate victory.
Money drove every regime since the Roman empire (and probaly ever).
We have to let the new tools emerge: Internet, sharing, connect people. Let them work and evolve. Yes, it will take time. Yes, we will loose battles. But Ultimately we will win for good.