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There will always be politicians trying to ban things on the Internet. They will slowly chip away at it until all sorts of things become banned. I really think we need technical solutions to make it impossible or much more difficult.
You might try sending this to the author (e.g. as an email) for them to fix it.
tldr: The author is actually talking about firing an employee, but communicating it as "we need you to leave the company", while at the same time "being generous in financial terms and emotional terms".

Just some perspective: Not sure about the EU in general, but in Greece at least, asking someone to leave the company is synonymous to forcefully making one quit. This arm-twisting has far-reaching implications for the person leaving the company; Namely no unemployment benefits or severance package. I wouldn't want to work for such a company and would actively discourage others to do so.

Just wanted to add some cultural perspective; I am aware the situation in the US (and the author's) is totally different.
I don't think Twitter is as stupid as people think. They surely have thought about all of these options and soon we'll see how that is going to play out.

I think this is a little of a biased analysis, and without real data, there is no way you can just propose a solution and say it's the best.

It is a good solution but if they chose not to implement it, they probably have a good reason to do so.

Another thing you don't even touch is how hard would it be to actually implement this advertise tweets coming from the network and showing up in tons of different clients. It's not as easy or simple as you insinuate.

Good article, but people have to remember that Twitter is ultimately a company.
I got that commute for a week, hell on earth!
Am I the only one that feels discouraged that Java still maintains this level of popularity? I thought Google's primary language was Python, why isn't that running on Android?
The choice between leaving and being fired may have an impact on your next job, perhaps??
Not OSS code, but at least some pet projects?
It took me awhile to get used to it, but there's really no reason not to use virtualenv.

The more you use it, the more you have to use it. I had two projects with different authentication mechanisms that were unfortunately named the same thing. I accidentally deployed one without virtualenv and spent the next whole day figuring out what happened.

Virtualenv is a life-saver, and it's so easy to do that you might as well just always do it everywhere.
So Dell's long-term plan is to become an enterprise software company, just like HP was planning at some point?
I was looking for something like this for quite a while. From time to time, I want to write about code organization, but always struggle on how to present that. Being able to embed a Github repo in a post seems like a great way of doing that. Its not like I would embed the repo of an actual, big project.
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Not in the case where it is one fairly respected hiring manager calling another in a smallish industry. Not corporate HR (startups, not like HR is more than form filling).

It would be exceedingly difficult to successfully sue someone for failing to return a call or email from a random outsider. Plausible deniability.

This is also one of the cases where being part of a "mafia" is awesome -- you can actually call up and get unvarnished opinions, or at least, cagey "I don't think I would" "That might be difficult" etc.
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Why would you have a space in a directory/file name though? I wouldn't call this a show-stopper.
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> They could also have fed the hungry merely by allowing prices to fall.

And giving money to the needy, if necessary.
The form on that page is meant for organizations, read what it says:

"Individuals: Go to the action pages at Access, CREDO, EFF and Free Press to add your name."
How about "we have decided to end your employment"? Seems the most honest way of putting it to me .
It depends on the circumstance. I have a separate post that illustrates that this might not always be the case.

Also keep in mind that there's a difference between what you might say to the employee, and what you subsequently report to others. Fred talks about how you need to be sensitive to how the news affects others on the team. And so you might have a direct conversation with an employee who warrants firing, but you may prefer to tell other employees, investors, or the public that this person was "asked to leave."
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For me, I talk to my children all the time, so they know the standards I expect and I know if something's bothering them. If they do want to look at something I disapprove of, they can and will, so I don't try to stop them directly - as that will just make them do it in secret and never tell me if they find something that really upsets them.

However, I don't think this kind of legislation is aimed at that kind of parenting.
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My UK mobile provider (O2) requires you to opt-in (with a credit card) to "adult content" for their mobile web service. I haven't done this, because I really don't need porn on my mobile, and also because I don't have a UK credit card. Anyhow, during the revolution in Egypt, I discovered that one of the most prominent and important Egyptian bloggers -- "Sandmonkey" -- had for some reason been blocked by O2's adult figure. So although I doubt that this was their actual intention, vital dissenting thought is already being censored by these filters.
Yes I have evidence it won't work: the only person who has control over that individual's behavior and beliefs is that person themselves. You can't change one group's behavior by focusing exclusively on a different group.

As for your vapid White Knight accusation, I'm not speaking up for women, I'm speaking up for myself against your illogical assertions. Lack of reason offends me.
Women are welcome to do whatever they want and they certainly don't need you telling them they are Doing It Wrong.

I believe women should be welcome to highlight their gender or not, because in neither case does their behavior directly hurt me so it's none of my business or yours. I do think men demanding that they do one or the other are way out of line, though, and people taking that as an excuse for why they ignore their existence are just acting scummy.

The obvious solution is for men to stop assuming everyone is male. That, in fact, has nothing to do with women at all and isn't their problem to solve.
That is where government is supposed to step in and provide at least a small incentive, or buy the supply for a more modest sum before distributing it. Protecting the life and health of citizens is pretty much the most fundamental role government is supposed to serve. If it is failing in that duty, it should be toppled.
Presumably the good ones deploy, "parenting". Talking to their children, etc.
I had the exact same thought at the very beginning, until he says this " 2) Be generous - Unless the employee has acted in extreme bad faith or done something terribly wrong, " Which implies that if someone is being "asked to leave" than it's not their fault per say.

I imagine that if it is their fault and they screwed up, "you're fired" is the appropriate thing to say, and generally pretty instantly.
You have options. You can pay for and run just three components on AWS, and still have the power of dynamically scaling your application when you need to.

You can then pay for three really cheap VPS's and load balancers around the world using something like Linode (or a much less reliable VPS, doesn't really matter) and replicate your data occasionally to the VPS. When your AWS instance goes down (because you foolishly rely on the same Virginia datacenter that has more breakdowns than Lindsay Lohan) you cut over to the hot spare VPS and rate-limit your incoming requests until AWS comes back.

You end up paying for 6(ish) services, still relying mostly upon AWS but with a tiny DR site you can use during emergencies.
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We all know PHP has its shortcomings, but there appears to be a witch hunt going on here.

I think some of the witch hunt comes in attempt to steer people away from a language which is badly designed and has a million bugs which cannot be fixed without breaking most of the existing code written for the language.

Pestering a language like that is only fair.

While I'm sure it gets tiresome for those who for whatever reason have to work or prefer working in PHP, it is only a polite gesture to the software-developers who has yet to take that dark path.

If they can be dissuaded, they should.
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"Not necessarily, if you are doing CS at a top university and aiming to attain the highest possible grades this requires a huge investment of time and effort to most people."

I would argue that you're better off with a B and a full portfolio than an A and an empty one. It depends on where you are applying, though.

"Also it is not like a 9-5 where you can 'clock off'"

Until you have kids.

"no serious open source project is going to want your patches."

That's not necessarily true. Often either your patches are small and trivial and can be accepted or they are large and useful enough that the other developers will provide feedback. This feedback is often more useful to the student than just getting the patch accepted.

And nobody can reject your patches if it's your own project you're building.
For me, I'd rather go dedicated or colo at least, simply because I know what the process is when TSHTF and can communicate it reliably to my clients.

With black-box cloud services such as AWS, Azure, you just don't know what is happening.

Peace of mind is also important!
Come on, the guy is right about a lot of things. But as he said, there are things about any language that he hates. What's the big deal? Defame php all you want, I won't defend it, I just use it!
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I'm sure Twitter must have looked at the possibility of rolling out the kind of features Nova describes in his post. Anyone who works with the twitter API for any amount of time can recognise the potential for pushing Ads down the API pipe. I'm guessing they looked at it and the numbers didn't add up. Thinking about it there are lots of challenges with such a proposal. Top of the list would be control of the visual display of ads. Google maintain tight control of Adwords and Adsense. As does Facebook - and I'm sure they'll do so when they roll out their Adsense competitor. Taking it further there would be nothing to stop me from detecting ads which get sent down the pipes and not displaying them.

I think the Ad guys just see this is being too complicated and to be fair I suspect they might be right. I'm sorry to see Twitter going this way. Their open API was their major ace in the pack and now they seem hell bent on destroying it.

I also think they're smart enough to know they won't beat Facebook or Google in this closed silo world. I can only assume this is the next logical step in siloing off the product in an acquisition play - most likely by Apple within the next 12-18 months.
When I was with O2, I remember having to opt in to "adult content" so that I could read a tech news site it was incorrectly blocking. I think it was theregister.co.uk, but it was quite a while ago so I could be wrong, or they could have unblocked it for everyone by now?
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I did that once. Never again. To be honest it didn't take long, which is good because I was being constantly gassed by people's arses.
I've fired people and I've been fired. Its excruciating for both sides, and embarrassing for the person being let go. There's very little danger of it being too "rosy."

Fred's further advice of getting right to the point and giving them honest, clear reasons is spot on. He's not advocating for bullshitting the employee; he's advocating for not being a dick when there's no reason for it.
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So if the leap second was handled in userspace instead of the kernel, just like a normal ntp time update, all would have been fine. Why not just do that?
This is great news for these guys! They've been working on the tech for years and I'm glad to see a good exit for them. For those of you who don't know, David Perry is the guy who brought us Earthworm Jim :D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perry_%28game_developer%2...
Did not sign. This is technological challenge, not political. Statements will get you nowhere. We need cold hard code (software) and balls (hardware).
Only if it is a permanent solution. I thought the main issue was that the (US) gov't was supposed to stabilize rapid price fluctuations, not exist as a constant state of subsidy.
That's not so much an issue with grain prices. Rice and bread and such are the most basic of staple foods, and pricing people out of that market results in hunger and starvation.
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I never intended to imply that this was a conscious assumption, but I do believe the assumption is there. Language matters and shapes our thinking, and there is no reason to think that "everyone does it" doesn't mean it's sexist. Even where is a cultural norm, it sets male up as default and women up as weird variations from that norm.

It has been shown in German and Russian that the gender of inanimate nouns changes how people respond to them. Why do you think that wouldn't be true of referring to everyone as male?
I was just going to say that is that really WebGL? Because firefox only reached 19% cpu and my fans were silent.
I didn't like that the weavr bot posted my physical address. I thought giving access to my location would allow it to work in my city, not my actual address. And there is no way to delete that first post.
You might have some pet projects but I'm not sure if that really proves anything.

For example I built PHP websites when I was at university but I would never show any of the code from those as a representation of the output I was capable of. Most of the programming work was very trivial (for example a form that sends an email) and the code quality wasn't great (because I knew the project would never have to scale and if I did I would just have rewritten it anyway). So it wouldn't prove anything beyond "can do rudimentary PHP" , I would think that having a high score in a difficult class (compilers, A.I etc) would be a far better signal to an employer.
"here I was being schooled by a homeless person". Get off your fucking high horse.

Nice story otherwise.
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You might consider posting this as its own Ask HN thread. I'm sure the HN crowd will have a wealth of knowledge to share with you if your question gets the visibility it deserves.
I think there's also a broader implication that "homeless people" are so different from "normal" people that their input is some sort of gem that this young man went out of his way to discover for the rest of us. There are a saddening number of stories hoisted to the front page of HN that exhibit such classist overtones that I wonder if it adds an out-of-touch quality to the site and really limits the discussion.
Have you checked underscore.js' version?

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I'll believe it when I see it. Solar power has "been on the precipice" of exponential growth for the past 20 years. Hasn't happened yet and solar is still ridiculously expensive compared to hydro and wind power.
A lot of people recommend you shouldn't badmouth your previous/current employers in a job interview. Which you can use as a reason not to say why you're not with a previous employer.
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Also, why wouldn't I? Why shouldn't I? There isn't a single file system that prevents me from doing so and there isn't a single other computer program in the world which has a problem with it.
I took it to mean a way of telling someone they were fired. I would assume the individual would represent the employee as terminated regarding unemployment etc.
"this is an example for those people who think that a government can engineer a better outcome for people than the people just left to their own devices"

Oh, but we don't need an example of that -- we can just compare, say, European nationalised healthcare with the US approach, and see better outcomes for lower cost in the European model.

No-one's ever said government always engineers better outcomes. A few examples only serve to knock down a straw-man.
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Most students aren't aware that a "B" and a greater portfolio is better.

Additionally, that is contextual. From my understanding Google would prefer the A. So a "B" with a "look at this side project" might get you iced against another candidate.
They have fund drives. I didn't say a centralized entity has to be a for-profit business, just that it has to bring in money one way or another. (I suspect Wikipedia has considerably less infrastructure than Twitter, though.)
On the other hand, though, if half the internet is offline with an AWS problem, chances are pretty decent a lot of folks will just go "oh, the Internet is having troubles again".
Here's a makefile: http://code.google.com/p/min-game/source/browse/makefile

Here's the dependency script: http://code.google.com/p/min-game/source/browse/dep.sh

Both inspired by code in "Recursive Make Considered Harmful", always worth a read: http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf

The built-in rules and variables for gnu make are worthless for anything but the most trivial project; don't bother with them. I'd be so happy if there was a makefile directive that forced make to run in "make -rR" mode.
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Dude, I really liked the story. I'm glad you wrote it and had this experience. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt while reading the comments, but your phrase "It would mean that our designs are simple enough for a homeless person to use!" really, really, REALLY rubs me the wrong way. Whether you notice it or not, whether you intend it or not, you are sounding incredibly patronizing to other human beings. It makes you sound sheltered and ignorant. Both in the way you phrase your story (Homeless people can be interesting?!?!) and in this concept that designs would need to be "simple" or someone who is homeless to use.

I suggest spending a LOT more time outside talking to strangers if you think you need to "simplify" things for homeless people. Talking to and helping a homeless person does not make for a blog post in my life, and many other people's lives.

Imagine replacing "homeless" for any other adjective. "It would mean our designs are simple enough an asian to use!" "It would mean our designs are simple enough an MIT student could use it!"

It's offensive.
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They looked very much alike because most of them were socialist dictatorships, or socialist oligarchies. Their economic system didn't decide the shape of government.
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> The product is geared to a specific kind of customer, and frankly I have no idea why companies like Netflix use them.

I'd imagine Netflix sees enormous fluctuations in required server capacity. Not many people watch movies at work, but when they come home, or when it's a weekend, traffic probably spikes tremendously.
Because that way they don't have to take responsibility for their actions.

Also note that their proposed solution doesn't solve anything; it might just prevent you, personally, from being able to complain about it. I'm guessing that is their actual goal.
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My 6 year old finished the first version, so we went and bought dragonbox+. a bit disappointed to find the same set of problems, with some additional bonus stuff. Was expecting an an entirely new set, could have saved myself a few bucks and just got db+.

that being said, an amazingly effective game. after she finishes the bonus problems, i'll be showing her how to work them on paper.
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I don't know if I'd trust Amazon to run links between their data centers. They had a couple routing related outages just this year alone (which lasted for some time), and adding complexity would make that worse. You could easily lose interconnections between hosts in AZs in distinct 3 regions, partitioning everything, making it irrelevant that all 3 actually stay up and are accessible to outside users.
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Not fabricated. I know the kid in question.
"Here is the deal, if you aren’t coding for fun, you are not suitable for a developer position in Hibernating Rhinos."

OK, fine. SO PUT THAT REQUIREMENT IN YOUR JOB DESCRIPTION! If this is a deal breaker and you fail to inform the candidate, the person wasting everyone's time is YOU.

To put some things you dismissed into perspective:

- Sometimes a company already knows that the candidate is leaving, in which case they are being helpful by telling you it will take some time to get a release on the code they want to submit.

- If someone passes you proprietary code without permission, bravo! You've just weeded out an untrustworthy candidate and you didn't even need to take it to the in-person interview! A huge time saver!

- Junior programmers straight out of school rarely have a bunch of open source code. They're fresh out into the field, looking for someone to mentor and guide them as they grow. There's a mountain of things they need to learn and another mountain they need to unlearn, and they're wide open to whatever culture you find important. If you're not up to the task, don't hire them. Don't even approach them.

Getting all bent out of shape over these things is a symptom of much deeper issues within yourself.
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The point about high-availability platforms is that your customer won't go "Oh, the Internet is having troubles again". They'll probably call you, or perhaps start losing money at an eye-watering rate.
What should someone who's been fired tell potential employers why they're no longer with a previous employer?

There is virtually no answer to that question that makes you sound like a better candidate than you were before it was asked. I'd be strongly inclined to say some variant of "It's a tough economy.", which is non-specific, virtually guaranteed to be a contributing factor, and avoids faulting either party.

The canonical answer is some variant of "We weren't a good fit for each other." Then, again, refocus the conversation on how you'll be a great fit with interviewer's company.
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