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You're right. When you fire someone, experience layoffs or people quit in disgust, the best thing to do is to let it go and if some negative publicity comes back at you, the best thing to do is to kill them with kindness, especially when you were actually trying to retain said employee. Which I assume was part of the buyout deal. Yes, the employees, especially the engineers, are company assets.

"Shay is a great engineer who we were unfortunately unable to retain. I'm sure he'll do well wherever he lands." Would have sufficed as a tweet. One comes across as not being pricked by the story and if he's actually the weakest guy on the team and ends up hired by a competitor, you win.

A CEO is always recruiting and promoting, even to employees. To use the petty language that he did only weakens his position amongst his team and outsiders interested in the company.
By that standard most governments are undemocratic. The UK is a particularly interesting case with a monarch that can dissolve parliament, appoint the prime minister, as well as hereditary and life peers in the upper house.
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That's true. I was simplifying because even without a grandfather clause, any literacy test would have been racially biased at that time.
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It's part a matter of semantics and part Apple who are dodging the law:

Where I live, what the EU law provides is not called a "warranty"; we use another word. Here, warranties are optional and for the manufacturer; if you build sturdy products, you can have a life-time warranty programme, if you want to. The warranty applies to the manufacturer.

What the EU provides is - in English - a "warranty" with a fixed period of, say, two years that applies to the seller of the product, not the manufacturer.

As sellers, Apple have probably not wanted to comply with the two-year seller warranty, but the other part of the problem is that they have mislead consumers to believe that they were not covered by this protection for the full two years. And even if they are not the seller, the consumers purchasing Apple products would still be covered by the European warranty, albeit through the seller of the product, leaving little if any reason to get AppleCare.

Take [this link](http://www.apple.com/support/products/ipad.html) for the iPad:

Every iPad comes with one year of hardware repair
coverage through its limited warranty and up to 90 days
of complimentary support. AppleCare+ for iPad extends
your coverage to two years from the original purchase
date of your iPad and adds up to two incidents of
accidental damage coverage, each subject to a $49
service fee.

This information is misleading according to EU consumer law. Apple has continually been sued in countries such as [Italy](http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16339651) for misleading customers, and I imagine that they've seen that their prospects of winning an appeal case are slim.

In other words, what is new is probably that Apple have found out that they can no longer dodge European consumer laws without a litany of suits and bad PR, so now they're resorting to this statement.
"... Currently if GCHQ were doing intercepts in this way it would be unlawful, and as such evidence obtained through such potential intercepts would be inadmissible in a court ..."

True, but wouldn't the sources be covered under OSA and hence not disclosed?
they just got lucky

Can't stress this enough. I liked OMGPOP from the start, when they were still that obscure flash-site for 6-12yr olds. But that was before the CEO announced that he's an asshole...

"DrawSomething" most likely got popular mainly because the implementation is much better than the other Pictionary clones (which have been around forever). And that's an aspect that Mr. CEO probably wasn't involved with at all, but rather his lowly developers.

The one thing that Mr. CEO could attribute to himself would be if he smelled the opportunity early and executed on it. But he didn't. It took them 3 years to port their most popular flash-game (then called "Draw my thing") to the cashcow mobile platform.

That doesn't seem like a calculated move to brag about, does it?

No respect for this guy.
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It's very childish, to say the least, to take offense and lashing out upon hearing of someone else's morals.

Or more accurately, it's self-centered, oblivious and aggressive. I'm more than content with the outcry all over the net.
Funny, I don't believe that she is being prosecuted of a crime. The ones asking her for the password is the Education Board, who have no legal recourse but to demand the password.

If this was a prosecutor, they would file a subpoena to Facebook via the court system.
That's true, when I started using Linux there was no flash support at all, literally nothing.

That did not stop large numbers of sites being built around it though.
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Porter's been the CEO of OMGPOP since 2009, and was a SVP at Richard Branson's Virgin Group before that.

"SVP" of "Virgin USA", which was an absolutely minuscule offshoot.

He has been a CEO of a tiny company for two years, prior to that acting essentially as a glorified salesperson. That is absolutely green.
It looks very nice, but I'm genuinely curious as to why someone would go to the trouble of TeXing up a document and choose to use anything other than the standard Computer Modern font. Is it purely a matter of taste?
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An ant throws a pebble at an elephant, and the elephant stomps on the ant in response. How courageous of you to side with the elephant here.
I haven't used IE in 4 years (Firefox in 2). I think the only time I actually need to use it is for site testing.
you have hard proof that said employer is actively clubbing baby seals

From all we've read about Zynga they seem to fit the bill just shy of actually clubbing animals...
It's very childish, to say the least, to take offense and lashing out upon hearing of someone else's morals.

Many would see Pierce's media efforts as childish and unprofessional. I originally saw it presented with the title "The one smart OMGPOP employee", and it was pretty obvious what the deal was (when you make demands and the other side ignores you, it means you aren't in a position to make demands).

Further his "morals" went so far as demanding that they provide some sort of oddball waiver for him, which they didn't feel worthy of the time required. I'm not sure if you're reading a different story than I am, but the one I read had him completely fine with joining Zygna until they said stuff it, at which point he retroactively gained a higher calling.
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> "Corporate ethics and compliance may be similar, but their cores are different," says Oshima from his home in Sendai. "From the perspective of corporate social responsibility, we cannot say that there is no need to question a company's actions just because they are not a crime under the law."

If only we could see those actions before they result in disaster. So many of these decisions happen behind closed doors and the public can't see what future risks are being assigned to them. Whether it's apps downloading a user's entire address book in the name of "standard industry practice", pink slime in a hamburger, or a dangerously constructed power plant, we don't get the chance to participate in these decisions. Sunlight would really help.
Here is my unpublished example from about 18 months ago:

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It's unpublished because it doesn't work very well, (webkit only I think) but it does 'work' on arbitrary content and will create a seam even in the middle of a line of text.
I also agree - but then he said something potentially defamatory :-)

However, I think if an employee looks up Shay's details, they will first find his op-ed calling Zynga "evil". I guess if they are concerned about the OMGPOP tweet, then they will be REALLY worried about the op-ed!
I'm sure we'll get the real story from Zynga PR on how Porter's was one of the accounts hacked via Tweetdeck.

In other news, they're excited to announce the opening of their Siberian office.
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Yuk, that font look horrendous...

> Is it purely a matter of taste?

I'd like to believe otherwise, but you are probably right. :)

It's pretty easy to change fonts, I include one example for Linux Libertine in the code.
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Within the same industry there are people like Dan Porter and Notch. Both are at the top of their game. With one major difference..

One bad mouths a former employee because he refused to join the acquirer on grounds of principles. The other distributes wealth among employees.

I have no doubt Mr Pincus and Mr. Pierce will have a lot in common at Zynga.
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This is spot on and. I've used other J2ME emulators in the past and it shocks me that the current Android emulator is acceptable and hasn't improved that much. I mean, one can't even begin to convey how ridiculously slow it is and in this day and age, that's unacceptable. Especially when you put it next to the iOS simulator - which has been fast from day one. In fact, this can be said for all the Android tools.

The people making Android might see all this as great and feel good about working with the OS community, but as someone who has to deliver apps using those tools, they - imo - suck and are counter productive. But, that can be said about most of the Java stack/tools, which is why I abandoned it years ago.
Most times I see a sensationalized twitter post where everyone is saying, "I can't believe they just said that!" I just look at it and shrug, and wonder where the PC police will strike next. This tweet, however, had me staring at the screen in disbelief.

Now, I had read Shay's post when it made headlines on HN. Maybe I have to go back and re-read it, but I didn't click away thinking that OMGPOP's best programmer decided to bail on the buy-out. I don't think Shay claimed they would fail miserably without him.

Obviously Shay was seeking to gain some publicity off recent events, maybe even boost revenue on his side-project game. Yeah, I can see how Dan Porter might think Shay's pissing in his soup. So, Dan, respond to the damn allegations, don't just go all ad hominem on Shay's ass.

I would have gone with something like "I disagree with what Shay had to say about OMGPOP, we're loving it here at the evil empire, but I wish him the best at his next venture." You even have 2 characters to spare, Dan!
Just to be clear, you are comparing two hip hop artists, two comedians, two actors, and an avante garde pop artist to the CEO of a mobile games company? In fact you are comparing a group of individuals who are all famous or infamous in their own way for being edgy and/or a mess, to a company that makes family friendly games. There is a very large difference between the responsibilities of an entertainer and a CEO. The responsibilities of some of the aforementioned celebrities could arguably include being "offensive". Witness the scorn heaped upon Eddie Murphy when he decided to shed his Raw persona and turn to family movies.

If you are worrying about having to censor your public persona in the future, go into a line of business where being edgy is part of the attraction. However, it is never a good move, whether as a CEO or public figure or basic human being to get up on a soapbox and say bitchy, petty, mean spirited things. The OMGPop CEO is not speaking "brutal honesty", he's just acting like a dick most likely because his ego has swollen out of control by the sale and the success of Draw Something and he can't stand that this "little guy" is pissing on his parade. This is the behaviour of a child, not a leader.

Lastly, this isn't about "holding people to high standards", as if it is some sort of conscious thing we participate in. In societal interactions there is a implicit understanding of the range of acceptable behaviour for a public figure, it is unconscious and breaching those boundaries will have immediate emotional consequences on how people perceive you. If Snoop Dog says fuck or calls himself a pimp nobody will blink, if he punched a child in the face people would immediately react negatively. Likewise if he stopped all of his Snoop persona and started working for the Rick Santorum campaign. If you are the CEO of a company that makes family friendly mainstream games, people expect that you will act like an adult in possession of self-control are good judgement. If you are the CEO of a company that sells coke spoons, maybe less so.

Notch is able to say what he did because he has garnered significant good will, and because it embodies the mass public reaction to the OMGpop tweet. If he tweeted this kind of thing all the time he would lose that good will eventually. As a one off though.. it IS idiotic and insane to publicly belittle former employees as a CEO.

Moral of the story is don't be a dick in public view, unless you are in public view for being a dick ;)
Just another pathetic roach who works for zynga... nothing new to see here move on.
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At first I thought this article might be about array programming languages[1], but then I remembered today's date. If I understand correctly, this "technique" relies on the fact that PHP "arrays" are associative structures that might be called a map in conventional terminology- wouldn't "Map-oriented programming" make more sense?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array_programming_language
Would love to see more variations on that. My own CV looks very similar to the CVtex version but the length becomes quite a problem - on the other hand I find the githup version too much squeezed down and "wordy". Any other alternatives?
Awesome. Thales/nCipher or SafeNet or something else? I'll assume that since you're in the UK and doing HSM stuff it's ex-nCipher people from Cambridge...

Overall this is quite an impressive application, especially on the backend/server side. I wish more people used HSMs in a productive way (I've done some stuff with them in the past, and am working on related things now)
They do—yours looks unreadably compressed to me.
What about the use of microtypography?

I think that you'd get optically cleaner margins (on the right) by using the microtype package. \usepackage{microtype} just works, though you could feed it \usepackage[expansion,protrusion]{microtype}. Since you have the \ifxetex switch and since XeTeX doesn't support expansion yet, you'd have to throw a \usepackage[protrusion]{microtype} in there, given that you have the XeTeX-microtype-package installed.
>Very good fit for Zynga.

This was the first thing I thought when I read the headline.
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It was bound to happen that the internet would be regulated, just like all other innovations and media before it. Once a technology becomes mainstream it is regulated, that's like a law.

We are going to miss the open internet, but there will always be "ham radios" like Tor or other technologies in the future.
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Also check the german wikipedia article, for more references.
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OK HN, time to put this guy in his place. Who's got enough Rails experience to re-implement this by tonight?
While I appreciate the work you've done, it looks to me like you could have saved quite a bit of time and if you had created your resume in HTML+CSS. In fact, it looks quite a bit like HTML5 already with proper sections and such.

My understanding of LaTeX (which is surely lacking) is that one creates the content and the engine turns that into a document. However, it looks as though you not only created the content but also extensive rules on how to display it. This feels much more like HTML+CSS-like than a LaTeX script.

Can someone help me understand why this particular example of LaTeX is a good thing? Am I wrong in my analysis?
Thank you for taking the time to look and comment. I really appreciate it.
You are correct. PHP arrays are actually just ordered maps, so "map-oriented programming" would be appropriate in PHP. However, there is no traditional array implementation in PHP, so calling it "map-oriented programming" within the context of PHP would be ambiguous.

That all said, this "technique" could be used with a traditional array, in theory. The array in the example is fixed-length, and the keys themselves aren't really used at all.
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The date being what it is, I was expecting a résumé printed on Latex 'paper' ... or something.
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I don't understand what it is about Palatino that people find attractive; it looks ugly as shit to me. I've cycled through most of the fonts available in LaTeX (and beyond, with XeTeX), and always end up reverting back to lmodern.

I guess it is a matter of taste.
Many would see Pierce's media efforts as childish and unprofessional.

Well, he explained publicly why he opted out of the employment offer.

when you make demands and the other side ignores you, it means you aren't in a position to make demands

And so what? Should I look down upon him because he's "weak" when compared to Zynga?

Further his "morals" went so far as demanding that they provide some sort of oddball waiver for him, which they didn't feel worthy of the time required. I'm not sure if you're reading a different story than I am, but the one I read had him completely fine with joining Zygna until they said stuff it, at which point he retroactively gained a higher calling.

Well, it was your post which introduced differing morality into the question, as a justification for Porter's tantrum. Pierce himself waives any claim to being an "idealist", in his words[1]. On the "oddball waiver" I won't comment; that's a Silicon Valley thing, don't wanna be culturally insensitive.

1. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/167244/Turning_down_Zynga...
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