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Well, it looks like a standard PR puff piece to me - I'm not sure (from that article plus looking at geekli.st) exactly what the draw is, other than publishing stuff on the web? I can do that on my own site.

Plus your design kinda sucks, usability-wise - massive fonts, huge whitespace and line spacing mean that I can see the cards from my secret moonbase lair. I also have to scroll, even on a 1920x1080 monitor, and squint, because your colors are like, #999 on #EEE.

You also need to figure out a way to get people to fill in details about their cards, or kill the extra info part. Every card says "I did 'X', details: <no info> with: <no contributors>". (That's not a bug in Chrome, I just checked in Firefox too). So if you can't get one of the founding technical guys from Skype to brag a bit more (http://geekli.st/taavet/helped-grow-skype-from-zero-to-first...), what's going on?
Agreed. PR has its own problems and allowing marginal parties a place in government also means that you're going to have fascist and nationalist parties represented in your legislature as many European countries do.
Usually, I too think survivor bias. However, in this case, his action seemed to be a no-brainer. This was 1999 - not 2008 to 2012. I had just graduated from undergrad with a CS degree and was very naive. Yet, I had companies and groups within companies fighting over me.

So ... he was in a hot job market, had a bad boss, a job where he didn't seem to be learning anything and a low salary. The course of action seems pretty clear to me. I don't think he needed "Jeff Bezos'" call to action to help him on this one. Quitting less than 2 months into a job does seem harsh (not sure if I'd do it) - if he waited a year or so, the tech boom would be over and then things would be different. So, perhaps he did get lucky with the timing.
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You really need to specify your current buildout, budget, ROI requirements, and timeline. There are multitudes of possibilities, but good choices depend on your reasons and limitations.
Verne Global has a new data center in Iceland that is run completely off of geothermal-based electricity. Maybe offload some of your computing up there?
Search for "party" in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-nazism , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_neo-Nazi_organizations and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascism . Every European country has a nation-wide neo-fascist party and almost all the parliaments of south-Europe have MPs who publicly stated their fascist ideology.

The latest to win seats in parliament is the Greek Golden Dawn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dawn_(Greece)
Adding "your mileage may vary" (YMMV) to the end of that sentence might not have been quite as poetic. I'm ok with that.
Serious, but yes, I do worry about real messages that didn't get through. Hmm.
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I think it means registered at the PPI.
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Thanks. I ended up creating an issue for this and they mentioned a url like yours, except that I needed to append a master at the end, like @BHSPitMonkey suggested bellow.
It's just that ZeroMQ had too many features and too much code.

Wasn't ZeroMQ supposed to be the simple, lightweight alternative?

I'm feeling better about my decision to ignore all the whole *MQ circus.
I think it could also be fear of sticking your neck out and failing. Now, a lot of places simply don't recognize execellence. I had to quit my job at Software GlobalCorp because my manager didn't know anything about technology or the project we were working on.

I did however, continue to stick my neck out.
"So let’s just suppose that Alan Turing is just the same personally: he’s a mathematician, an early computer scientist, a metaphysician, a war hero — but he’s German."

When the name von Braun is said, slave labor may come in mind for some, but for most they think rockets.
By "greener" they mean "we want to lower our utilities bill."
I should have been more specific. I work for a large corporate but am low down the food chain. We run a massive data centre that houses in the region of 10,000 servers. I can't go into specifics around the data centre as I'm not sure if I'm allowed! But I am specifically after good, simple green tips.

For example my company used to have screensavers on all their machines (and desktops) - I suggested we remove these and that the monitors turn straight to standby after a period of un use instead. This resulted in huge savings. This got me thinking that there must be more simple, effective green ideas for IT companies - especially in the data centre space.
In a manufacturing facility I worked at last summer we had a company paint the roof white. It was previously black and attracted much more heat. We noticed a material change in the temperature in the building after painting it white and could reduce our air conditing usage.
A simple payback analysis will allow your firm to calculate how long it will take to recoup the initial cost of painting the roof white with savings in reduced electricity consumption.
I really can't wait to filter whatever anti-ad spam Nevahold is going to start spewing allover the internet.
> Last I checked, it's being completely rewritten in a different programming language.

The rewrite you mention is, I believe, Crossroads I/O ( http://www.crossroads.io/ ). Martin Sustrik was one of the creators of ZeroMQ to begin with.

He's got a writeup as to why he should have used C to begin with ( http://www.250bpm.com/blog:4 ).
Ah right, thnx.
Description of EU:

Parliament: Good
Commission: Bad
Ask a LEED (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Enviro...) person.
Keyword is PUE (power usage effectiveness)

e.g. water cooling or use heat from data centre as heating for buildings.

http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/05/18/green-grid-pub...
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Some of them do have representation, but only under the flag of "Democrat" or "Republican", like the religious evangelists and the "Tea Party" are represented by Republicas, unions and Hollywood by Democrats, and so on. It's close to impossible to form a movement around a 3rd party, that can actually get in the Government.
Exactly. By greener I mean save money, which I really need to do to safeguard my job in the current turbulent financial market.
Well, zeromq has nothing to do with amqp (rabbitmq as the prototypical example), so there's not much of a circus.
America is deep in debt, but its economy is doing comparatively well.
I had the same initial reaction, but then thought "It's actually quite cool that adobe supports a project that builds something cool and useful based on adopted standards." Adobe has always been a mixed bag, some good and useful ideas (they created the PDF document format) and some rather less good ideas. (Though actually flash was cool at the time it was created. Everybody loved flash). So why not brackets a chance to earn a reputation on it's own.

[Spare me the Adobe Updater though, please.]
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He is taking an easy shortcut (nationalist == nazi) but his message stands: however you call it the ideological family to which once belonged the Nazis and their friends is making progress everywhere in Europe. The FN here, in France being the first example that comes to my mind but similar things happen in the Nederlands, in Spain, in Italy, in Greece, in Austria… We are far from the Germany-1933 situation, but we don't want it to come back do we?
http://www.crossroads.io/ looks like the sane path to follow after the community implosion of zeromq.
Brilliant, thanks. These are exactly the sort of simple ideas I am after.
Anything described as ultra-rightwing are fascist in sheep's clothing.

I know of openly fascist Golden Dawn party from Greece. And I think there are Tricolour Flame, New Force and National Social Front in Italy.

There are also plenty of horrible evil parties with a similar agenda (but not identifying as right-wing or fascist) growing like mushrooms all over rest of the Europian continent.
Fantastic, I needed something like this just the other day. Might be worth looking at implementing something similar as an editor plugin.
> Seriously, I live in Europe and never seen any.

Then you couldn't have looked too hard. The NPD is present in 2 German Landtage, and most European countries come with their own flavour of right-wing nuts.
It's not the Right and Wrong interpretation that matters here -- it's the spin. Orbitz is probably run by a bunch of techies, and techies don't understand PR. Orbitz messed up in how they spun their story to the Wall Street Journal.

They could have spun their story to say that Mac users have a greater preference for, say, the Westin, Hyatt, and Marriott, whereas Windows user prefer Super 8, Days Inn, Motel 6, and Econo Lodge.

Then they would have gotten an uncontroversial story out of the WSJ -- possibly even a positive story.

This reminds me of the Coca Cola vending machines that would automatically adjust prices upward from $2 to $3 on hot, sunny days. This was met was public hostility. If instead they had promoted their machines as automatically discounting their normal price of $3 down to $2 on cold, non-sunny days, then no one would mind.
There are three things to look at:

1) consume less resources - when passive ways are there to cool your server room that would allow you to cut back on the cooling system

2) seek greener alternative sources - could you supplement your current source of electricity with solar power, even if it is just to reduce your usage of power from less green resources

3) what waste (heat probably) could be used to, for example, heat up the water that is used in the building. Perhaps use it to run a greenhouse for yourself or a charity / community project (good PR that)

But first you must be in a position to measure the effectiveness of any solution. Get records of your power usage, preferably by task - how much is used to run the servers, how much to run the cooling etc. Including the cost! Make it more than a PR exercise, you could save some money too (in the long run)
> We have to make it greener.

Is this to comply with an edict from your boss, or to comply with some a piece of legislation or a law?
No problem. I'm sure the reduced temperature would be much for valuable to a data center than our facility as well.
Goodluck!
You have it entirely backwards. Markdown is successful precisely because it isn't a semantic format; it's a reaction to overengineered semantic formats like HTML. Markdown is a purely presentational format; asterisks don't represent some abstract notion of emphasis, they denote italic text. The whole point is that you don't "maintain plaintext and annotations separately"; the formatting is part of the text.
Thanks. Draft here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-http-forwarded...
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I think the relevant portions are:

> 1. Deprecates the "X-" convention for newly defined parameters (emphasis mine)

> 4. Makes no recommendation as to whether existing "X-" parameters ought to remain in use or be migrated to a format without the "X-"; this is a matter for the creators or maintainers of those parameters.

In practice, I expect X-Forwarded-For to live long and prosper for many years even if a X-less version standardizes.
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C'mon now, tylermenezes! Apple PR(opaganda) strived hard for that video. Give them some credit!
Maybe by "whipping" programmers and forcing them to optimise the software they write .. so that you won't need so much computing power and so much storage. Less servers less electricity consumed, less CO2 etc.

On another note, consider investing in some newer and more efficient equipment; keep cables tidy, well organized so that they do not block the air-flow (wrong: http://www.dcig.com/wrong4.jpg and right: http://www.dcig.com/right1.jpg); keep things clean (dust is bad for cooling).

If you really want to go green and have a budget.. switch the energy provider for one that supplies energy from renewable sources (it may be more expensive... but it's green).
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I would certainly agree that the path from product support to any of the product development arms is not an easy one internally, particularly for an FTE role where it is generally expected that you would have a CS degree. Especially after the move to eliminate the software test engineer position in favor of software design engineer in test, which basically eliminated the career path for people who were solid developers or sysadmins but didn't also have a good theoretical CS background.

The temp positions are much more lax in almost all groups. The individual with budgetary authority has nearly complete control over the vendor choice and individual hires, so long as they don't do anything unethical. So, if you can sell to that person that you are qualified, smart, and motivated, they will probably give you a chance. It's typically only a 6-11 month commitment, anyway, and so many of the contractors are checked out that anybody with a spark of enthusiasm really shines in the interview process.
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Just an update: Ulster Bank should be back to normal "next week": http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0626/break...

That's a two week outage. Is this sort of thing common in other countries?
"[...] we should be devoting some thought to a suicidal Artificial Intelligence. Nobody does this, [...]"

Somebody did, at least in passing. I remember an SF story where AIs were only useable for about six months - they'd go catatonic afterwards.

Memory fails me about details, not even the writer's name.
> They're the only ones people can vote for to express a negative opinion on the EU.

Demonstrably false. There are many decent parties whose position is "we want to stay in the EU, but a completely reformed and much better EU". People unsatisfied with current EU politics could vote them.

Most of the votes for neo-fascist parties are votes that come from fear (of other cultures or of losing money/job) or ignorance (as in "poor education"). Checkout the journal article "The Support Base of Radical Right Parties in the Enlarged European Union" [1] that analyses the demographics of the voters of neo-fascist parties in current EU.

[1] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07036330903145930
It's a little more complicated than that. First, the job was more painful than expected. Second, they lied to him about starting salaries, telling him that all new employees in that position started at the rate he got. Then they hired another employee into that position for higher, just weeks later.

And finally, you have to ask for things to get them. If he just quit without asking, he'd never know if he could have gotten that raise instead. Now, he knows. At a different company, he might actually have gotten it.

I think he made exactly the right decision at each step, given the knowledge he had at that point.

Personally, I probably would have chosen to stick it out at that company until I found that second job, instead of quitting on the spot, but that's me. But the end result wouldn't be that different.
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This is quite awesome… I would love to see support for uploading files though! For a Jekyll based site you also want to be able to put images etcetera in there…

A lot of similar functionality is provided in GitHub’s wiki editor Gollum… which you can use on any git repository, actually. Thought it was quite fun to try out as well.

These solutions get more useful when there are more mixed repositories with code and other content. In our design studio we have all kinds of content usually in our Git: so the standard git viewing interface doesn’t do it justice.

We’ve been trying to hack up a viewer for our git repositories, here is an example: http://osp.schr.fr/work/constant-flyer/view/latest/ the code of the viewer itself is here: http://osp.schr.fr/tools/visualculture/
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Somebody has to really manage to make d3 run on 7<=IE<10. This is a powerful technology for businesses, it may even replace Power Point (the famous software for torture) for some things (especially those that are updated often since you still do this manually in PP). But it needs to run decently and painlessly in IE.
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In principle yes, but in practice that's not always the case. Once chosen, a member state can't remove a commissioner, even if they're willing to. Simply there's no way. Now they have to wait until 2014. Imagine that some political party has (actually) appointed a commissioner because they won the national elections, not much democratic but it's something. Next election they lose, and the new government can't change the commissioner, where's democracy now? If only the commissioners would be elected at the European Elections, the whole Commission idea would make some sense.
You're probably aware of this, but for those that are not, you can easily get around this problem by adding a hidden form field with X-HTTP-Method-Override as the name and the method as the value. Assuming your web server supports the field.
So ... in other words there is a serious problem.

Restarting server / a server crash / a network outage and now potentially thousands of clients are in a bad state they cannot recover from. And this was by design. That was the point of the post I think. This isn't as much as an oversight as a bad design decision.
In this aspect, wouldn't blocking the windows with some kind of white paper or blinds make things cooler, by eliminating the greenhouse effect?
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I think it just comes down to differences between the OO approach vs the functional approach.

In OO code I try to create types to represent every concept in my code. It seems overkill at first but I have found in most cases it pays off with reduced duplication. It almost always removes the question of where to put static utilities. Lets say you have a postcode - by creating a Postcode type you can put postcode validation, postcode formatting, etc, directly on that type rather than floating in different parts of your codebase.

Additionally, in a statically typed language it adds type safety - so for example you can't pass a postcode into an address parameter.
you're going to have fascist and nationalist parties represented in your legislature as many European countries do

You mean, people with different opinions than yours (and mine) can be represented in government? Isn't that great?
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With Sabu, they caught him on mere chance. He connected directly to IRC from his home address, without proxies or going to a wifi hotspot to hide himself. Not everyone will make that mistake, and then it becomes infinitely harder to find them. It's about resource management.
But why people don't always use UTF8? Or when it makes sense not using it?
No. It strengthens the case for changing the EU, it doesn't strengthen any particular argument for the future state.

Abandoning the EU today would be an economic and social catastrophe, since it requires the re-erection of barriers at borders over which massive free flows of trade and labour currently exist. Germany's exports would be annihilated, the central European labour pool would be stranded, and several reintroduced currencies would collapse overnight.

It equally well strengthens the case for increased federalism, towards a United States of Europe with a federal parliament that actually can curb the actions of the Commission, and a single central bank (rather than today's messy compromise) to correct the failed madness of nation states that can issue bonds but cannot issue money.
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Without saying anything about this particular situation, can I just point out for the four hundredth time that $780 invoices generate far, far, far more stupidity than $7,800 or $78,000 invoices do?

Your argument is a classic case of the correlation/causation fallacy.

A modest invoice does not "generate" stupidity. Millions of freelancers around the world make a good living doing relatively small jobs for satisfied customers and submitting modest invoices that get paid on time.

If you are in a position to work on higher-value deals, then naturally you will be dealing with other people of the same level. To get to that level typically requires a certain degree of professionalism, whichever side of the deal you're on. So sure, people working with higher-value contracts tend to have less hassle.

But being messed around by someone who won't pay your invoice doesn't mysteriously become your fault just because the invoice amount was under $1,000. That really is akin to saying that it's your fault you were robbed because you forgot to lock your home, or that she was asking for it because she was wearing a short skirt and had a couple of drinks.

Many of you will be able to pick whether you are either of these types of people. I suggest being neither.

I usually agree with your comments, but in this case, I'm afraid your advice is like saying "Make sure you run a successful business and deal only with great clients!" If it were that easy, everyone would be doing it. In reality, even those of us who are successful today were the new guy once, and I expect that almost all of us have made at least one deal we would have preferred to avoid, so that we could pay the rent or fund a side project.
We're refinancing our house through HSBC and our account manager has been exceptionally nice. It's a premier account so we're still trying to get a handle on the different and new fees (recommended because we do a lot of intl travel).
It's not legislation or law - more just me wanting to impress and come up with some good ideas.
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You would have to weight that against possibly increased use of artificial lighting, but it might work.
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Not if your (U)EFI firmware is capable of booting BIOS-booted operating systems as well as (U)EFI operating systems (like IBM System x Server Firmware).
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Raise your operating temperature by a degree or two and reduce cost of air conditioning. There's a wealth of things you can do. Would be interested in novel ideas aswell so hopefully lots of responses to this post!
Or simply use [IKVM](http://www.ikvm.net/).
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The Pirate Party is a great example of what I hope is a continuing trend towards the death of nationalism. PP is a global political party whose candidates have shared values where national borders are essentially irrelevant. We're an increasingly global people and thus far have only shown the power of that in internet lynch mobs and DDOS attacks. It will be interesting to see if other global political parties like the Pirate Party emerge in the next few years.