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I've also shifted all my business from newegg to amazon for that reason and also this one: newegg's packing is horrible. What am I supposed to do with an enormous pile of packing peanuts from the box that's three times larger than it needs to be? If you want to collapse the box, good luck pouring all those peanuts into a garbage bag without getting them everywhere. And if you don't have access to a dumpster, you get to waste a ton of space in your garbage can.

With amazon, you get to stab the air bubbles with a knife and wad them up.

Also, reliable ship times are neat.
Actually it was in DOM1 HTML and moved to Core in DOM2.
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Regarding planning for the future, this seems like someone who was used to buying machinery was put in charge of buying technology. Sure, in five years the library might need a gigabit of bandwidth, but by then the Linksys WRT may well handle it for $100. It's not like you're buying a work truck, which may well serve the government for 5, 10, or even 15 years (assuming low usage), or a lathe that might be used intermittently for 35 years.

There's a lot to be said for uniformity in deployment, but that's why you would define, say, three tiers of supported hardware instead of kitting out everyone with top-of-the-line.
That's for basic testing. The post also says they still keep a long tail set of devices for more comprehensive testing.

"We figured out the optimal combination of devices to give us maximum coverage. We are able to reduce our daily smoke automation devices to around 10 phones and 4 tablets and keep the rest for the longer release wide test cycles."
Termination sucks but a they would never have called it a cliff unless you can get pushed over it. Your termination agreement sounds like the typical thin futon parked at the bottom of the cliff. If you can dig up receipts you could ask to get your expenses paid. Suggest you sign and move on unless you have a discrimination lawsuit in mind.
"I don't think it is a coincidence that as the Baby Boomers retire, the economy feels like it is entering a long period of stagnation."

Coupled specifically with everything else that happened over those 20 years.

An ever increasing workforce, with an ever increasing productivity rate, employing an ever increasing amount of financial leverage, purchased at an ever decreasing cost.

It's certainly a recipe for a peppy feeling decade or two, and a well deserved hangover later on.
Finally! A small glimmer of light at the end of a dark tunnel. Yes, emailing a dev, give it a shot! Hell, in my first post I even just suggested posting your question on StackOverflow (you do know what stackoverflow is right?), then if it gets answered people can more easily google for assistance.

This new concept of thinking about how you can interact and contribute, awesome! Cultivate that mentality instead of the learned helplessness stuff.

Keep going down the path of communication that isn't just cathartic, useless complaining! You may actually learn something and be useful one day. I hope that this is just your first step down the path of giving freely of yourself, instead of ONLY complaining to yourself in a dark corner. There is no difference to me if you sit in your corner quietly or do what you are doing now, which is sitting in the corner and mumbling to yourself. There is assistance you can provide, the moment you stop being a victim and pitch in is the moment you can start to grow.

I'm not angry, and I don't think you insulted my community. You're just being such a hilariously awful person, and come across like you feel helpless and have nothing to offer, and I feel like I am Mr. Bennet and you are Mr. Collins, I am quite diverted. :-)

Also, if you suck at programming and using tools as much as you seem to indicate, you probably should add "installed phonegap" to your resume. :-D

Also.

Quit deflecting. I clearly distinguished my scope. Also, writing a guide requires 0 installation of anything so your boned with that excuse (though I am sure you have a nearly unlimited supply of excuses, the ignorant entitled usually do).

My sandwich point still stands, do you think the complaining sandwich guy isn't an asshole? By your response you seem to indicate you think he is in the perfectly justified in his complaint.

I never said "YOU SHOULD BE QUITE", in fact I thanked you for it. I said that given the circumstances, and given the way you are complaining, you're being an asshole. If you want to be an asshole that is your prerogative.

My tirade is about your being in a bubble comment? Now I know you aren't reading my posts. Since you didn't read my last post all the way through (hell I even put wrote in a little easter egg to see if you had read it, which you confirmed that you didn't), I am going to stop wasting my time on you, as entertaining as I find you. Also, you can't be bothered to learn the tools you are taking advantage of? Seriously? Are you still in highschool? That's one of the excuses your going to use for mindless complaining? Ok, I get it now, you aren't a coder and don't want to learn. Got it. In your current state you're exactly the kind of person who has nothing to offer, you fail even at simple error reporting. So the community doesn't/wouldn't feel any loss.

You have proven every one of my points better than I ever could. Good day. Dismissed.
I don't know. It seems to me, from reading SICP, that functional programming doesn't mean lambdas or map reduce, it means pure functions as the main programming unit, instead of object or instruction or declaration. Then it is possible to write functional code in python without lambdas, map, using streams (iterators) as the state keeping data structure.
Anonymous is becoming more and more of an embarrassment to the community it's supposed to represent.
Remember - these decisions weren't being made by the library, or for a 500 person company, they were part of a $126 million dollar infrastructure upgrade for over 1000 sites for the state of west virginia. The point I was trying to make was that the decision that makes sense for that library (individually - say the local librarian was given $25,000 and given freedom to spend it however they chose - they would probably do exactly as you suggested - drop $60 on a linksys and the rest on computers/books), no longer makes sense when you are rolling out $126 million worth of equipment. The most realistic alternative decision would have been to downgrade the library from a $7800 Cisco 3945 to a $2800 Cisco 2921 (an ISR with less capacity, but reasonably similar features and management). The Library would then have been on a 75 mbit/sec platform for the next 10 years. They wouldn't have received any of the savings to spend on books/computers, etc... They would have just gotten less capable networking equipment.

I could probably defend either decision (Going heterogenous 2921 (small) + 3945 (big) vs homogenous 3945 across the state) - but I know the one that would let me sleep easy for the next 10 years.
democrats are clearly the party that is guilty of more spending and even bigger government.

Let me guess... military spending doesn't count as "more spending". The $800 billion allocated for 10 years of stimulus is a paltry sum compared to the $700+ billion we intended to spend every year on military, and we all know that money is spent very efficiently.

Meanwhile, federal spending has increased every year under both parties for the last two decades, so you don't really have a leg to stand on with regard to your "democrats are the big government spenders" FUD.
Interestingly, the CEO of Cisco is from West Virginia and went to WVU - I believe he's one of the largest donors to WVU. (only know this because I'm also from WV, not suggesting any conspiracy here)
It's not a big/small government thing because you are being played by what people told you the two party system is about, i.e. republicans are for small government and democrats are for big government. It's a bunch of bullshit.

I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but our current presidents and congress members do what will appease the general population in the very near term, no matter what they are supposed to do according to their party lines. They are all equally guilty of spending.

You know, the TSA in the airports, which has a larger budget than the FBI? Guess who created and nurtured that entity? Your small government friends. And, who spent so much money on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that it is bankrupting the country. We can't even get involved in another war right now because we simply can't afford it. It is questionable if we will ever be able to lead a war like that again, due to budget constraints.

Then, we have the wall street bailouts. Which, by the way, aren't republicans supposed to be the only friends of wall street? Not if letting the banks fail mean that you are going to have to line up for the bread line tomorrow morning.

The big government people aren't exactly cherubs either. How many RIAA lawyers have been appointed to the Justice Department by the current administration? I think it's 5, so far. Enjoy additional Internet censorship.

Sorry to be such a downer, but things are just getting worse and the current two party system is a complete facade. I'm envious of countries like Germany that are seeing a surge in pirate party support. Unfortunately, it's going to take decades to undo this mess and, frankly, a large majority of baby boomers are going to need to expire naturally before the voting population comes back into balance.
$40 per day is weak. Less than California minimum wage. And the risks are considerable. Reminds of the work of Sudhir Venkatesh who found that average wage for drug dealing grunt is about $3.30/hr - not far from what we're seeing here, though at least bot herder doesn't risk being shot. He is right that this thing has no future for him.
> As soon as I get paid for what I love, it becomes a job. Work. And I hate work.

I disagree. I hate typical work (cubicles, meetings, gossip etc.) too but getting paid to code does not necessarily imply work. There are so many things I want to code, from dynamic warehouse simulator in three.js and VOIP over HTML5 audio/websockets to Arduino wireless sensor-fed dashboards and in-memory DB apps. But time being a limiting factor, I can't just spend weeks and months on a fun project at the expense of taking care of bills and family. So if someone's paying me to do the things I want to do anyway, I'm a happy camper!

I think the happy medium between #1 and #2 is selective consulting. It takes time to build a clientele where you can pick and choose your projects. But it sure beats working for the man. And it's very different from being a technical co-founder - fewer responsibilities, more time to code.
It's been about ten years since I last read it, but as I remember the basic argument is:

- Technology can always be used for both good and evil.

- As technology gets more powerful, the potential for causing harm will be greater.

- Each new technology will require new laws in order to minimize the potential harms of that technology.

- Each of those laws is going to have unintended consequences that will result in the loss of freedom.

- As the rate of technological discovery increases, the amount of freedom approaches zero.

He proposes it as a universal law, and I think it makes sense. But I also suspect that the idea that we're approaching the singularity is actually a cognitive distortion caused by observer bias, so things might not be quite as bad as they seem.
What is that kudos dog barking at the bottom about?
I typed it from memory, so it might be off. Regardless though - the URL had "secure" and "server" in it, but no "visa".
I am in a love-hate relationship with Blizzard, love their games, hate their big brother approach. Scan my computer memory because I might be cheating is both insulting and an invasion of privacy.

Another example is I was registered with them in one country and now moved to another country - they won't change my country status unless I give them a copy of my passport (or similar ID) and a physical copy of a utility bill.

Just who do they think they are?
Ask about, and submit your expense report. Never feel bad about being repaid for money you've lent a company.
I don't think his goal is to have no arguments. His goal seems to be "fix this issue, god damn it!" And amusing rant can help bring attention to the issue (note tomayko comment in the original thread). I don't know about you, but the rant is entertaining to me.
Democrats controlled two of West Virginia's three House seats, both Senate seats, the Governor's mansion, and the state legislature (which they have held since 1928).

One of West Virginia's two current Democrat senators, Joe Manchin, was governor at the time of the stimulus and appointed Mr. Gianato.

The executive branch of the federal government in 2009-2010 was controlled by the Democrats, along with both houses of congress. The federal stimulus was passed with no Republican support.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29obama.html

The entire chain of custody from the grant through request for bids through the eventual approval was controlled by Democrats. The only people involved in this fiasco without a (D) after their name are those people who will have their taxes raised in order to pay for these routers, because of course they were not paid for with existing revenue.

This is very much a failing of Democrat administrations at a federal, state and local levels.
Yes. That's the hole point of the article, and matches very well with my understanding of SICP: functional programming is possible only if you model changing state in streams, which are just called iterators in python. All the fuss about python missing some parts too be really functional seem to have missed the point to me.
Why all the lime green?!
But it's not the same plant if it is built cutting corners on the design. Or even if it is the same plant, of waste is disposed unsafely or workers are abused, the plant doesn't cost less, the costs are pushed onto unconsenting parties.
The problem with this argument is that the blanket purchase only provides giant imagined future capacity for the smallest users. If they will actually need this quality of a router in 5-8 years, then the big users will definitely need even bigger ones. But apparently the state is OK with the biggest users not having that much breathing room. So why do the smaller ones need it?
Yeah,

Adding Facebook as your sign-on adds another significant point of failure.
Disrespect and corruption will exist as long as human ambition exists.

I don't believe humans are necessarily always evil. I believe that they are largely malleable in their goodness and evilness.

It is not unique to democracy as is demonstrated every day in places like China or India.

I didn't say that democracy is the only type of government that foster corruption. I did say that democracy help fosters corruption.

What people don't get is politicians are a perfect reflection of society. For better or worse.

Do you believe in the idea of incentive? If so, incentive can determine what kind of politicians we elect. If the incentive is bad, we'll elect bad one. If the incentive is good, we'll elect good one.

I believe democracy, as we westerners practice it, leads us to politicians who are often corrupt.
> So yeah. GitHub won't fix it, because it'll be bad for their business.

I don't think so. Read tomayko comment in the original thread: GitHub acknowledged the issue with Pull requests.

Even if you were right, GitHub could add a way for a project to make its own (enforced) rules.
Democrats in West Virginia are hardly liberal - they're sort of a party on their own compared to the Democratic party elsewhere in the US.
I generally pro-anon, but I agree entirely with TPB in this matter. When I read Virgin's statement, I thought, "here's an ISP who gets it." They weren't seeking to punish pirates; they just wanted legal alternatives. That's all any of us want.

The danger and strength of an amorphous group like Anonymous is that no one person or group controls the message. Rather, its actions are a reflection of the collective consciousness of the members that comprise it. There are certainly those who would view Virgin's position as a sell-out, but there are many more who see them as one of the good guys.

Ultimately, any attempt to cast Anonymous as being a particular sort of entity based upon one action alone misses the point. The anons who defaced the UN home page in support of Palestine are not those who set up darknets in Zuccotti Park, who are not those who attacked Scientology. Too often, we see people who decry a particular action and claim that Anonymous has "jumped the shark". Whether or not there was a shark to jump is beside the point: the actions of any given anon are only indicative of their, and only their, beliefs.

If there can be any description of Anonymous as a whole that applies to all "members", it is this:

Anonymous is a moniker taken up by those who feel compelled to act, and yet fear to do so in their own name.

That's it. There's really not much more that can be read into the group.

Note: the above descriptor is primarily intended to describe moralfags, although it can be adapted to describe lulzfags, as well.
Interesting! I got the idea from Hunter S. Thompson, who apparently recopied The Great Gatsby before writing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson#Early_journa...
This is pure, unadulterated nonsense. There are plenty of ways to manage everything you mentioned with a tiered approach to the IT needs of the municipalities of the state without resorting to grossly over accommodating every location. Hell, they could've even used some of that money for regional IT management positions, putting people back to work.

Shame on you for justifying this nonsense in any way shape or form. This is textbook waste ala bureaucratic laziness.
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Yes - that's actually a reasonable alternative. I'm hoping that someone did the math, and looked at Option #1: $7800 Cisco 3945, $2800 Cisco 2921, $900 Cisco 1921 vs Option #2 - $7800 Cisco 3945 across the board) and then compared it with the costs of having to prematurely replace those 2921s/1921s when they realized the 75 mbits/second wasn't what it was in 2012 (or some service modules with cool feature (Telepresence?) wouldn't work in the 1921)

Another thing to realize - they probably get one chance to upgrade their infrastructure like this. Sticking a 3945 in now means they can save money on upgrades for the next 10+ years.
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What do you want to gain from this situation?

What position are you in professionally after this experience?

Meditate a lot on those two questions. Remember that there are countless stories like yours, and this does not prove that the people in charge are assholes, just that they are in the throes of the startup rollercoaster. They are probably failing all over themselves, and you were an easy fall guy. It does not excuse their behavior, but this is a very common circumstance.

If the answer to the first question is that you want to get another job quickly, take the high ground and ask them how you can make things easier AND how they can help you. If you did nothing unscrupulous they should be willing to help you find another position and move on, and you should be expected to put them in a position where they can honestly look future investors in the eye and say we negotiated a settlement with past employees that will not screw us and your money in the future. If you did not help them succeed at the level they needed to (and this does not say you are a bad person, it just says you did not succeed at the level they needed you to) then it is good that your future has been freed up. It is honest for both parties to look at it this way.

If the answer to the second question is that you are in a bad position after this, then you really need to make sure you act responsibly and rationally or you could have a very hard time the next time you interview. Saying to an interviewer "I can't have you talk to the people I worked with the last two years..." is a huge red flag. The best advice I ever got was when I was on the playground and another kid punched me in the chest and the teacher had us understand we were equally responsible. I was livid, and she was right.

Taking the high road at this point in your career is a great opportunity for you because this situation is common and there is nothing worse than working with someone who has a chip on their shoulder because of something like this. If you become the type of person who can get through this and take the lessons well, you will prove yourself as a valuable employee anywhere.
Take what they give you and move on. If you're good, you'll have a new job in no time, everybody's hiring in the Valley now.
Theoretically, it could be that with lawyer etc. you could get more. But fresh startup probably doesn't have much more than equity, and even that equity would not be worth anything for years, and chances are - never. And you'll spend your energy dwelling in the past and nurturing insults done to you. Not a good strategy for a guy in his 20s. IMHO just move on, you'll have many good opportunities. Next time you do startup remember to be more careful and have some cushion - in this case you got let go, but startup could also just fold through no fault of anybody.
So it is a doubly linked list, its name is deque, and its name is pronounced "deck". The levels of indirection here sound kind of like something Lewis Carroll might write.
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I wrote a cool iOS Text Adventure game framework for anyone interested, I was thinking of porting it to ruby motion but the niche I was going for ( learn to program ) probably don't have the cash for a Ruby Motion license.

http://wibblequest.com
It is open source free software. Anyone could send it to Cydia as iceweasel.
This made me shoot my drink out of my nose
The first thing that comes to my mind is that in 5-8 years, as the State of west Virginia starts to run out of headroom in the larger locations, they can selectively upgrade that 5% or so that require something larger, while leaving the other 95% on the previous iteration.

Also - one thing I've learned about networking sites (real world experience, two companies that went from a dozen to 500+) is that once you are able to satisfy one person with sufficient pipe - that same bandwidth is usually sufficient for the 20-50 people. The reality is that need for bandwidth is very bursty.
This is the reason this guy works at MIT and not Apple.
Tell them you'll sign the release if they give you the first 12 months of vesting. Firing someone at 11 months is a dick move. Remember: if you're not willing to walk away, you're going to pay retail (ie, end up with 3.5 months). I'll put odds at 70% that they give you 12 months and get the release they want, and odds at 30% that they give you no months and get no release. That puts the expected return of this approach at 8 months of vesting. In either outcome you keep your self respect (priceless), and the expected return is twice as good as caving.

The key to staying on good terms with them is being respectful and polite while you make your case. If you remain respectful to them, they will remain respectful to you. If you let them walk all over you, you're likely to lose their respect and may actually end up on worse terms with them.

EDIT: Even if you end up with no agreement, your situation still has an option value, a valuation exercise I'll leave to the reader. There's a reason they want that release, and that reason only matters if they become a successful company.
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