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I would check with an accountant before I implemented this policy. I imagine FullContact treats these $7500 payments as supplemental wages. However, I would not want to explain to an auditor how this is a legitimate business expense. From the IRS:

"You can generally deduct a bonus paid to an employee if you intended the bonus as additional pay for services, not as a gift, and the services were performed. However, the total bonuses, salaries, and other pay must be reasonable for the services performed."

You could try to shoehorn this as vacation pay, but an auditor would question why workers are getting effectively a significant bonus for time not worked.

Any employee who elects not to take a vacation would have a pretty good case to demand the vacation pay anyhow, since he performed more services than other bonus-receiving workers.
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don't call it UTF8!

While I don’t know the history of MySQL, it seems to me that when they implemented it, their implementation was indeed in compliance with the standard (Unicode 3).

The standard has since grown from 16 to 32 bit code points.

Why MySQL had to introduce a new name for the UTF-8 encoded tables that can contain 32 bit code points is strange, but I assume there is a technical explanation (probably having to do with binary compatibility with existing tables / MySQL drivers or similar).
That's the exact opposite position from what Kay said:

"...what you definitely don't want in a Web browser is any features.... You want to get those from the objects. You want it to be a mini-operating system..."

Essentially he's saying that the way we think of browsers is holding the web back. We could have collaborative WYSIWYG editing of Wikipedia or blogs, for example, but instead we're stuck with just reading documents.

Perhaps it would be correct to say that the web was designed for reading documents, but it shouldn't have been (at least according to Kay).
I've used .NET from the start and since 3.5/4.0 its just ramped up. Feels like every day there is a new acronym to master!

ASP.NET MVC 4.0 projects now include knockout.js by default. So that may be around for a while if only to support .NET devs who are just using out-of-the-box technologies.
it's treated as a bonus and taxed as such.
Bravo :D

By the way, I think the sweet spot for this is online journalism, where there is a need for very high-quality content, but ads never have been sufficient and never will be. In other words, a way to save our beloved newspapers.
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> So whats the issue here?

Mainly the battery. You can't just shred it like you can a car.
Yes. I don't like it either, but you can't have your pie and eat it, too.
Interesting. I thought about this. I think they will have their own market and not open to the official android market so that they will the cut of profit that games generated.
Their DNS is broken. They have a CNAME at the root of their zone, which is forbidden. If you're using the "Unbound" DNS resolver (I am), and it's in DNSSEC validation mode, then it will SERVFAIL when it comes across broken DNS like this (even if the zone isn't using DNSSEC).

I don't know about other DNS resolvers, but IIRC didn't Comcast switch to using resolvers which support DNSSEC for their customers recently?

[edit] - Can you see http://imgur.com/ on Comcast? That (well known) site has the same problem. I tried to alert them to this fact a few weeks ago but never heard back. I'd be surprised if Comcast users can't access that site.
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Also worth mentioning that while that's the minimum, for most types of jobs the practice tends to be 25 days + the 8 bank holidays.

The change in the law to increase the minimum to 28 days inclusive of bank holidays was relatively non-controversial as it affected a relatively small proportion of businesses.
Umm make it more similar to current postal system?
As an incentive for the nodes you could increase the price a bit and give back CPUtime credits to the nodes.
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Any flight in particular? I can't give it all away as that would be unfair to Flightfox, as well as other experts. Flightfox really is a very good site where experts work hard finding you the best price for your particular needs.
In Brazil you get a 13th month salary and 1/3 extra for vacation (they don't necessarily overlap in time).
Wow. I've actually done a lot of reading in epistemology and done a lot of thinking about these issues. I would have really appreciated a serious response from you.

For example, I would have liked to hear whether you agree that 2 + 2 = 4 (for example) can be proven from looking at actual concrete objects in reality (e.g., I take 2 pens from the left side of the table, two pens from the right, put them all in the middle, and count them... and then you can, of course, abstract away to get a concept of "unit"... etc).
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Government currencies have the benefit that the government creates demand for them by using it as denomination for tax debts. Non-government currencies have no such external creation of demand.

It's actually quite curious that Bitcoin was able to take off the way it did despite this lack of initial forced demand. I wonder which was more important: the fact that there are so many anti-government ideologues out there, the fact that Bitcoin can help with illegal transactions, or simply the fact that it's a neat technology. I'm certain all three played a role, perhaps to a different extent at different times.
The problem is, if you want to replace email it needs to play nice with email. You're not going to prise that from businesses unless it's out of their cold, dead hands.

A distributed client/server system would probably work, and you could go via REST, but if you're wrangling data along those forms as well as trying to fluidly integrate email into the experience (as it's not going anywhere), it might be easier to spec out a data format/protocol from scratch, you could even base it off REST if that floats your boat.
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I can't shake the thought that if I could only forward an email to my trello boards, (a la Evernote) my problems would be solved.
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I respect the sentiment, but for me, this is literally the worst advice i could get, and i suspect it is for other people too.

Your whole comment is centered on the technology you use, not what you're doing with it. Also you're talking about every of those piece of tech like it's easy to do something in it. But see, when you switch technology with every project, even if you learn plenty of things, you :

1. Prevent yourself from becoming really fluent in one piece of technology.
2.Force yourself to learn a myriad of details that are really useless to what you ultimately want to do.

Ultimately you can burn yourself out, learning 1000 things, and all you have to show for it at the end is a collection of unfinished crap projects.

My advice for somebody who feels like this would be quite the opposite :

- Find what you want to do

- Think about it, in a technology agnostic way

- Pick your technology, pick the technology you're the most familiar with at the moment you start realizing the project, even if it seems dull to you, if you're sensible to the kind of syndrome outlined in the OP, it probably isn't :)

- Do it. Don't switch techs.
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I don't believe that competition is the primary driver of innovation either. But competition is an inevitable consequence of comparability. If you cannot compare outcomes of different approaches to the same problem you cannot improve the solutions. I also think that competition mitigates some social developments that lead to stagnation, like cronyism and lazy establishments holding on to resources without delivering any results.

But at the end of the day I think you are right to dispute the popular notion that somehow a cut throat environment that pits everyone against everyone else is the most conducive environment for innovation. It just causes fear and fear makes stupid.
I'd rather continue the other thread of discussion we have going, than this one.

Anyway, you can look up "consistent" and "valid" in any dictionary to find out what I mean.
Maybe they are just renting out a botnet while it's not used for spam?
Except that without certifications like this costs of waste, environmental degradation etc. become externalities for the companies and individuals involved. It's not viable to dump laptops in a landfill batteries and all, so who is going to pay to remove the glue from the new MBA battery? (I know, apple says they will, but they don't have to and only do so for marketing purposes).
>>But they feel soundly engineered overall.

The 'feel' so because you are made to believe so. We haven't seen anything else better in comparison. But those who have, talk about it.

>>As a systems programmer, I've been amazed by the ingenuity of things like process forking, pipes, the proc file system, regular expressions, lexer and parser generators (the list goes on). But I can't remember a single web-related technology that made my jaw drop in amazement.

Web means? Back end engineering is very much a part of the web. And the most of the things that you talk of like Parsing, regular expressions, pipes et al are all there in languages like Perl.

Perl is known as a the swiss army knife of the Internet.
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Publishers at the moment are a necessary evil. Traditionally they publish your work, handle the distribution and all the stuff that's basically not the writer sitting their ass down and writing.

You've missed a few vital parts of the publishers' role here with your handwave about 'all the stuff that's basically not...writing':

Publishers (the good ones at least) provide editorial support, illustrations, research, design (cover and insides), pr and all the other bits that go into producing a published book (ebook or printed, there isn't actually a huge difference in effort). A book without this is often not a very satisfactory affair. Much as music publishers provide an umbrella under which various services like recording, mixing, production, pr etc are provided which are essential for most musicians to produce their work.

A book at manuscript stage is often inchoate and rough at the edges, and the role of the editor can be critical in suggesting changes or cuts and guiding the author. This is esp. true of non-fiction, but also true of fiction. Just like shopkeepers, publishers are a profession which will probably always exist, as there is a gap between the raw materials and what the public likes to consume, they're not a necessary evil, they're just an intermediary, which is sometimes a useful thing to have.

The publishers have of course taken advantage of the dominance they have over these services to try to wring every last bit of profit out of writers and leave them with the minimum of money for their efforts, and a correction is IMHO due, but there may always be publishers who seek to promote, nurture and improve writers, just as there will probably always be musical publishers/patrons who pay for the ancillary services up-front which musicians can't afford/are not skilled in, but which are essential for producing quality music. That doesn't mean musicians or writers should not have more control and be more fairly recompensed, but there is more to writing and music than is dreamt of in your philosophy.

Before publishing we had the system of patronage, which served a similar function for artists/writers/thinkers but introduced other distortions (influencing what could and could not be written for example), I'm not convinced that was better, but the current system will certainly be disrupted by the web as Atwood implies.
Necessity is the mother of all innovation.

Wars just ensure such necessities occur at faster rates.
Perth is one of the remotest cities in the world (along with Honolulu), it is around 3,000 km to the nearest city, with a huge desert in the way.

It might be the San Fran of Australia if you are a miner.
______ employees should have the bare minimum equipment required to perform the functions required of it, because it's purchased from money that belongs to shareholders, which invested for the purpose of earning a return, and thus should be spent only on things that are necessary to support the business.
Yeah, but if no drug is not realy needed, you can't earn on it. Groceries and gyms does. Sorry, change of lifestyle made very big impact on my health. My immune system works so well cold can't become enough serious even to make me feel bad. I practicaly don't get sick. Moreover I noticed mood lift, better work of brain, no insomnia anymore, I have much more energy.

My body seems to know what is good for it - it prefers healthy food and don't accept stuff are not healthy. It even doesn't want beer anymore. ;) Why the hell nobody told me about that? If science made reserch on that, no flu vaccination or pro-immune drugs would be needed! Even more - there would be less cancers, heart diseases and so on. Nobody deny diet has big impact on those disieses, but noone what to use it. THEY KNOW how to do better, THEY DON'T!

And I'm not the only one. I know guy who treated asthma and alergy, which is in fact possible, in some cases, but no doctor even tried to do that.

And since he found information how to do that and I did - surely there are far more people does better than mainstream medicine. Think about it, some regular guys with no medical knowledge does better then proffesional doctors. Doesn't that mean there's something wrong with healthcare? Is there realy no reason to be sceptical about how it works?
There's a long history of other professions providing their own equipment: barbers buy their own scissors, chefs buy their own knives and builders/plumbers/electricians are often required to buy some equipment themselves.

I'm not saying I agree with it, particularly when working for big corporations, but it's not unprecedented.
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Do you mind sharing your list of trello boards (names/purpose)?
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Since you are getting downvoted, a quick point - the reduction of regulations was what helped create the crisis - removal of glass steagal in 1999 in particular.
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> in older models you could easily replace the battery

I wonder which variant of the battery is more environmentally friendly (including production): the one produced as separate unit, with casing and all, or the type used in Apple devices.
Also, retina MBP may be more difficult to disassemble. However it uses less materials, what's the net outcome?
We do 30 plus bank holidays, hence my initial misconception. People have to reserve a certain number of days for christmas shutdown, but generally there's enough for people to get a couple of big holidays in and time off around christmas/new year.
"1. Email has to be replaced with a new protocol. This new protocol should be a todo list protocol, not a messaging protocol."

We will always need a distributed, general messaging protocol. That's what email is. If you create a "todo list protocol", it wont replace email. It will either run on top of email, or along side it, but it wont replace it.
In Austria we get 14 Salaries per year. We pay less tax on the 13th and 14th one. I got my 13th just now for July and will get my 14th in December.

We have 25 days of paid vacation. You can work while at home or on vacation, but your co-workers might not appreciate it. Taking leave for doctor visits, weddings, relocations, funerals, etc. does not count towards that.

Also, our stores are closed on Sundays, which encourages spending time with friends and family.

I don't love Austria, but a few things here I find allright.
I guess that's technically true in terms of absolute numbers, but it's fairly meaningless. What did unlimited amounts of printed money do for Zimbabwe?
I've come to prefer the python style of object methods, where "self" is an explicit first parameter; it makes it a lot clearer what's going on.
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I've worked in places that gave particular allowances for certain things and while I appreciate the gesture my view tends to be just give me cash and let me work out what to do with it.

There are some exceptions to this (pensions mainly) but I don't think it's for a company to say how someone should spend their time off or their money and effectively penalise them if it's not in the prescribed manner.

Yes holidays are good for relieving stress but so is paying down a mortgage or paying of debt for instance. What is best for the individual is probably best decided by the individual.
Not really. The HTTPS requests can choose SPDY using the Next-Protocol-Negotiation(NPN).

Alternate protocol header would matter only to HTTP requests to know this server is capable of supporting SPDY. However, as per the latest post by Opera Labs[1], all 3 major browsers supporting SPDY doesn't handles this header correctly. Also, it's not mentioned in SPDY draft 3.

[1] http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-spdy-build/
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It's funny that the only thing San Francisco city has a problem with is the fact that you cannot dispose of the battery by yourself. That's clearly another way Apple removes power from the user (and forces them to go back to the Apple store for maintenance, recycling and all - as a company which LOVES centralization of power) but that's probably not the worst. The fact that devices such as iPad are locked to the death in terms of software do not seem to get any reaction, however.

Microsoft was judged on antitrust grounds for far LESS than what Apple is doing nowadays.
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1) Read, Write, Attach, Forward and Reply. Like it's right now. Maybe a "Mark as done" although the current mailbox system can easily do that by using folders and having an "Archive" folder (oh wait, we already have all that)

2) Labels and stars get me there. Oh wait, that's already in email as well. And remember the priority flag that lets others indicate how important they think it is?

3) Anything, as long as I can decide what's important and what's not.

4) Let's just stick with email. If it doesn't work for you as it is right now, stop using that webmail client you use and get a proper client. Email has always worked fine for me.

5) I sure hope not. I like email as it is.

Bottom line: I really don't want email to change. It's pretty good as it is right now, and mail clients such as Thunderbird offer all functionality any new system is possibly going to offer. If email doesn't work for you, you're doing it wrong.
I contributed a few chapters to a technical book about 10 years ago and hadn't really thought about whether I regretted having done it until I read this post. It was definitely a serious pain in the butt but how many of those trials shape who you are?

Pros:

- being abroad in a bookshop and finding 'my' book on the shelf
- sneaking in a picture of my cat (colour scheme example...)
- writing a silly bio

Cons:

- the deadlines
- near mental breakdown; felt like my brain was melting
- after the initial writing, the edits arrive
- shoddy advance
- no hope of royalties with a book that was quickly dated
When the headline "Drug made from toxic weed kills cancer" really means "Drug made from toxic weed kills [for some definitions of kill] cancer [for some definition of cancer (in mice)]", the scorn on the reporting is richly deserved. These sort of linkbaity headlines only serve to undermine the solid work and real achievements of the scientists doing the research.
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Also interesting:

http://code.google.com/p/rmep/source/browse/wiki/References....

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dusseault-httpmail-00

http://www.mailgun.com/
I think google wave was really fucking close; if it had been backwards compatible (to a degree) it would have been a headshot.
Instead of thinking it as your list, turn it around and think of it as lists of people (or circles/bubbles if you please).
The bubbles live in your "tank" of tasks. Your tank has different layers.

Each circle/bubble starts at the bottom but has a certain buoyancy - which guides its ascent to the top. For e.g., family bubble is very buoyant - so if you get a mail from your wife, it bubbles to the top really fast. In the time it takes to rise to the top, it can grow larger (more messages from your family) - which in turn increases its buoyancy.

The big difference is that you can change the buoyancy function at any time, causing the bubbles to start sinking/rising according to that change.
Bubbles burst after some time - which means they get automatically archived or some sort of autoresponder sends an apology-for-delay email

You can play with different visual dimensions as well, like stale bubbles floating to the left.
Living on Germany, I meet people who can't disconnect all the time. So not sure how advanced we really are. Glad that 30 days of holidays are the rule, though.
Rather than trying to replace the entire system, try thinking about the individual problems.

For instance, Dropbox have replaced a big chunk of where people used to email files to one another. I've seen this both inside companies and when operating as an independent consultant. In fact, I've had a surprising range of otherwise non-technical people ask me whether I have it installed.
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Agreed - however, I was merely pointing out that Alan Kay stated that Christians believe that "You can't go to heaven unless you're baptized", which is about as far as possible from the position of such a considerable number of Christians it's unfunny!

So it's not that I disagree with any assertions that there are many interpretations of what it means to follow Christ, but that I disagree that the statement was accurate for all Christians. It is my opinion that a very small minority of Christians really believe that.

I realise that I've been voted down for pointing this out, but I thought it was an important viewpoint to bring forth in the discussion, given that Alan Kay made it the basis for his "Socrates should go to heaven" argument. Alan Kay might be excellent as a Computer Scientist, but his digression into the Christian religion was remarkably uninformed.