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I was in Ops, but I knew people in RCX, Customer Service, Data Warehouse, Search, Fraud, Identity, and a bunch of other places who were absolutely miserable (and have since left).

I lasted 24 months. Management was mediocre for the first 18 months, accelerating very quickly downwards in the final 6 months after repeated re-orgs.

The seeds were planted early though - one of the major reasons I left was the constant death-marches due to the high attrition rate, and some boneheaded desire to "maximize engineering utilization" by instituting a hiring freeze in the middle of 2010, despite the fact that we already had more work than we could do in 3 lifetimes. It took a little while for the full impact of this to materialize.
It is NSFW because it is a screen capture of a porn web site. Not because of nudity.

Some US employee avoid anything that could be used against them.
An amusing article, but the point it can make seems closer to to "don't assume an instance of file-sharing sharing is illegal", than file sharing is a business, not legal problem.

It sort of reminds me of when my friend thought I was breaking the law by torrent`ing Ubuntu.
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A good employer will talk to you and try and work things out before giving you an ultimatum. You lose little, and can make things a lot easier, by doing the same.
It might be easier to know which direction your turn is, but using bearing vs. north=up maps makes it a lot harder to learn where things are around you in general. I keep my "next turn" vehicle-relative, but the map display itself north=up, which seems to be the best of both worlds.
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I've got the same problem and gripe.

Apparently one cause is design mock-ups in which text is ipsum-loremed and muted to reduce distraction from the overall design.

Other useful tools include console-mode browsers, or plugins such as Readability Redux. Though I find my self increasingly editing out elements (in addition to fonts, especially static headers/footers) which get in my way.
There are people on Earth who try to communicate with dolphins and apes. Unless there were some kind of, er, directive against attempting communication, some enterprising individuals in the advanced civilization would try to contact us.
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It's called "the spike", but it's nothing more than EventSource triggering an event to refresh or inject.

The client code (for both remote rendering & codecasting): https://github.com/remy/jsbin/blob/master/public/js/spike.js

The server side: https://github.com/remy/jsbin/blob/master/lib/spike/index.js

Very simple, but requires an event based server - so Node was the obvious choice for JS Bin.
I have no problem using my real name, In fact, I'm already using it on YouTube. The only 'vloggers' who would benefit from anonymity are the ones who have something to say that could be consider 'controversial' by someone else.
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I love the sentiment, but I doubt it will come to pass. That's exactly what people have said at every stage of industrialization. But the gains always end up being consolidated and the long work weeks and boring jobs march on.
He clearly has a strong interest and is very self-motivated. When introducing theory, be careful not to reduce his enthusiasm and excitement. If you plan to introduce some fundamental programming concepts, perhaps, start by helping him improve his existing code. He might also be interesting a game development platform such as Unity3d, which has support for C#, JavaScript and a Python-based language.
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I'm also from Europe, and find it shows a poor sense of judgement, mostly because the image is not necessary to prove the points being made.

The other problem I have is, as you say, the image is suggestive. Imagine someone at your office glancing at your monitor whilst walking past. Would they bat an eyelid? I can't think of many workplaces outside of the porn industry where your professionalism wouldn't be called into question, however briefly.
>It's been a really bad idea for many long historical periods.

Name a historical period of longer than 15 years in which the market as a whole has lost money relative to inflation. That didn't even happen across the Great Depression.
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If you're using Comcast Business, I've yet to find a way to do this. Comcast Support (email, phone, live chat) also have no idea. If anyone knows how to do it, please let me know.
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I'm on the polar opposite end of this. We component scan everything we can, and I couldn't be happier. I have never once been surprised by what annotation based config assembled for me.

So, approaches may vary.
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They seemed to be doing well for a desktop application - so well they got acquired by Google.

I think the general consensus was that the correct characterisation of that was that they were doing so badly that an aqui-hire was an attractive exit. Google certainly didn't buy them for the app...
Not yet, but there will be. For the moment, anything you can set in CodeMirror's config ( http://codemirror.net/doc/manual.html#config ) you can set via `jsbin.settings.editor.[key] = [value]` and it'll apply it to the JS Bin editors.

There's a couple of others, and docs will be coming soon. In addition, there's an exposed API that allows you to point JS Bin to a JSON file and it'll load in and save those settings - which is useful for starting a class for teaching where you want the editor in the same mode across all the students.
Personally I have no incentive to pay since ABP removes them already...
Cmckay,
Good luck with the project - looks nice.

I think you need to up your PR game. First I would rework the video and make it a bit more professional, at least to a point where I wouldn't have any problem embedding it in my website. I would also make it a bit shorter.

Next, I would draft an email with a story. I think the story you got is great and if you can write something concise and send it to the press you might get their attention. You could send them emails, call them, find someone who could intro you. You just need to be persistent and not give up. I've found many times that following up many times get me an answer. Sometimes it's better to get a NO than no answers.

Approach more sites, gadgets, mac related (it's for an iPad right?) etc...

Good luck!
An earlier (favorable) review of the Tesla Model S

http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2012/07/06/review-tesla-mo...

also seems to have been based on a rather short test drive.

". . . . The car’s flat, floorpan-mounted battery pack (85 kWh) accounts for about 30% of the significant total vehicle weight, 4,642 pounds. And yet, with a C-of-G comparable to that of a Ford GT supercar, the Tesla corners like it’s tethered with magic. What do you call that?

. . . .

"Out on the street, suspended with the speed-adaptive air suspension, the Model S has an utterly unshakable, gantry-like vibe to it, even with the big meats in the wheel wells. And yet, given the constraints of our test drive, I can’t really describe the car’s handling. I’ll need at least three months to be sure."
You have to buy cheap houses and used cars; we're not talking about dumpster diving and knitting your own socks here.

I'm hardly a model of thrift.
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Such is the fate of China also, they're just a bit further removed from it.

Automated manufacturing is vastly more reliable and higher-quality than anything manual labor can pull off. As the standard of living rises in China and cost of labor exceeds the threshold, automation will take over just like it has here.

The death of US manufacturing is a little overblown (though not entirely) - what people are really talking about when they bemoan the death of American manufacturing is the death of American manufacturing jobs.
the short answer is yes. The slighter longer answer is that the application shortcut is just some extra command-line parameters, and doesn't materially alter the workings of offline stuff like AppCache or LocalStorage.
Exactly.

My Audi A3 was the best car ive ever owned. I did have my navigation always on, but because I like to have a constant ETA.

I would drive from SF to Tahoe/Reno every weekend and I looked forward to the drive because it was so pleasurable, especially when I got up into the mountains.

Driving 120 in that car felt like going 60, with faster visuals.

Audis are, IMO, the best cars made (that are still in an affordable range)
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OpenDNS does redirection of unresolved domains itself. I don't see that as any better or worse than your ISP doing it.

(Google - of course - does the technically correct thing)
It's a 30 year old movie.

Alien is nearly 35 years old.

There have been a bunch of movies made since then that OP may have thought he needed to watch - thus not having time to watch the actually good movies.

I'm about to watch both of these in the next month, so it'll be interesting to see the clunky bits. Visions of the future from the past are fascinating. (See also the Gibson story "The Gernsback Continuum".)
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So the screencap of a (rather boring part of a) porn site is actually enough? I remember a blog a while back that discussed how porn sites push account selling to the max with full-page-unredacted screengrabs. It was an interesting example, but I can't imagine that anybody would be punished for that here. Some people might look twice at the screen to confirm that it's not actual porn, but otherwise I wouldn't expect any consequences. So where's the border drawn here? Would the screencap in this case be fine if the girls were painted over? Or would that still be NSFW? (I'm aware that that's a fine line that can't be answered with a definite "here's the line and don't cross it")
I don't know, look at (for example) the excitement around the news of Steam for Linux as well as stuff like Linux Humble bundle purchases. I think most Linux users would welcome having polished commercial software available in addition to open source software. Ubuntu seems to be betting on this for one.

The "Free as in Richard Stallman" crowd seem to be a minority of Linux users.

Assuming these people are paying for Photoshop on Windows , would they not consider buying equivalent Linux software?

Not to mention that extra software in these areas can bring in a very different category of users.
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In running similar events in the past, I have found adding a single checkbox to the sign up form labeled 'Please include my name and contact information in the official attendee list' is both simple and effective.
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Why not directly link to the actual Facebook post by MadFinger?

https://www.facebook.com/DEADTRIGGER/posts/228353737287174
Thanks for the suggestion. You're absolutely right when you say, "When introducing theory, be careful not to reduce his enthusiasm and excitement." :-)
Apparently people who flagged this article reference didn't read the article. It is an excellent and very informative article. Flaging it was indeed abusive.

They would probably bomb the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
They say they save $100,000 per year, but what was the cost to implement this, and how much does the battery maintenance cost?
Spring's Java Configuration can mean a few different things.

One is using @Autowired, @Component, and friends to build up your context. One could argue this violates IoC, although I disagree, but that's actually not the interesting meaning.

The interesting meaning is the use of @Configuration and @Bean to replace XML-driven config with Java-driven config. Basically you can replace a Spring XML file with a Java class that creates the same beans and assembles them in the same way, but in cases where you need to do something awkward to create a Bean instance that would be trivial in Java, you just do the trivial thing in Java.

So you haven't lost any of the abstractness provided by IoC. Bean classes don't change at all. It's simply how they're assembled that changes. Instead of writing a giant set of XML files to create a giant set of POJOs and wire them together, you write a similar set of Java classes and have one less language to deal with.
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While I agree, I don't think of things you can find and verify with a dozen sources in an hour online as 'expertise'.
I think we have to factor in the VAST increases in quality of life that industrialization brings. Increasingly automated car manufacture undoubtedly still involves boring jobs, but it also brought car ownership within the realm of possibility for millions more people.

The same applies for anything from textiles (we can now buy clothing for a few dollars that would once have only been available to royalty) to electronics (in a world where almost everybody carries a mobile phone).
I'm sorry, I think that I may not have communicated my point as clearly as I would have liked :)

Nobody else could have registered with that address and (rightfully) expect a confirmation email.

I regularly receive confirmation emails from websites where the user believes their email address to be john.doe at gmail, instead of johnathan.doe at gmail. If this is common enough for my name, it must be really common for more popular names.

So, following your example through, john.doe receives the "Hey, you're already registered!" email, and johnathan.doe first thinks they have registered successfully, and later on thinks that my service sucks because they can't log in, reset their password... and registering appears to do nothing at all. User confusion - and support headaches - ensue.
I want to believe your story based on strong emotions, but there's two things that bother me to the point that I think this is BS.

1. Stack ranking? Nope. Amazon has no desire for "up and out" like Microsoft. They're happy for a competent person to wake up and do the same job everyday for 15 years. Raises are non-existant, so it's cheaper to keep that same person in the same role than hire a new person. The review system is NOT like Microsoft. Firing someone takes 2 months end-to-end, not 12 like at Microsoft.

2. If the guy was really selling drugs in the parking garage, then it would be trivial to prove. If you actually worked at Amazon you would know that the physical security at all buildings is insanely high. Guards at every entrance who look at your badge. Roaming patrols. Off duty police officers. And cameras everywhere. If he was on company property (you said the parking garage, right?) there was a camera recording him. Even if HR was out to screw you they also would put a stop to the drug dealing for fear of a bigger lawsuit.
This change has been a positive development for me.

It made me realise that in all my many online identities, 51 at last count, I use my real name in exactly one online service provider (excluding banks) - a non-Google email service for "In Real Life" communication.

Just now, I changed this service profile to safeguard against the consequences of future copycat Google+ -like forced changes.

Thanks for the heads-up, HN'ers!
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And what about Akka?
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Actually, yes. I'd be absolutely unconcerned to have the picture on my screen since it's obviously a screen cap in some article. In some work places I worked I'd be more concerned about coworkers/clients seing me reading a blog on paid time instead of coding than about that screencap.
1) Collaboration. Figure out some way he can work with other people his own age, talking to them about code and coding. The sooner he starts clearly communicating his insights the easier his life will be.

2) Whatever coding he thinks is fun. Even precocious childhood (and the best parts of adulthood) are about play. I'd encourage automation and code in as many areas of his life as possible: let him get a smartphone if he writes an app for it first. Let him get hosting when he finishes his game. Rewards are a great way to guide without getting in the way of letting him do what he thinks is fun. Even if he wants to head off into writing prolog code it's not likely to do any lasting damage at this point ;-)

3) Hardware/networking. Much of good programming comes down to interacting with and adapting to users; much of good networking and use of hardware comes down to ignoring the users and telling them what they should do. Let him disassemble boxes, put them back together again. See if he can scavenge working machines from discarded towers. If there's a local non-profit that refurbishes machines they are a great way to get into this and find a good community.

4) Other things that enhance a sense of aesthetics, communication and creation. Musical instruments are popular, public speaking or theater help enormously in getting ones ideas out into the world, reading and writing poetry is fantastic training for creating clean code. A design background and art classes can be enormously beneficial when doing web development.

5) The history of computers and software. If he learns about Turing and Hopper and Kay as people it'll make the contributions they made to software that much more interesting, and again it brings it back to "software is fun in part because it is about people." Lego Turing machines and cutting up wire into nanoseconds and fooling around with Scheme and listening to Steele's talk on How To Grow A Language are all great ways to start feeling like you are part of a larger community, doing amazing things together, rather than a lone magician in a tower.
Particularly with all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the supposed demise of news, it's worth hearing from folks who actually work in these environments.

More importantly, it's worth noting that they're doing some amazing work there.
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I was wondering if anyone knew of that game.
I wouldn't necessarily call it an RPG though (it seems as though lots of games are trying to blur that distinction though imo). Also the game (whichever puzzle) gets slightly more difficult as you get better (in some cases).
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It's worth noting that ISP-run DNS services aren't entirely free of these issues either.

In Australia, both Vodaphone and (to a lesser extent) Optus resolve all DNS queries from a server farm in a single location. It is unfortunate, because mobile clients are the perfect use-case for highly localized CDNs.
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Especially the empty search part. In my experience, the three search terms most likely to return all results are:

1) %%% (many sites limit the minimum search term length to three so a single % will not do the trick).
2) ' ' (trhee spaces)
3) '' (empty string)

Edit: formatting
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> CSS the width of a pixel is defined relative to the length of each user's arm.

I had to see this for myself to believe it.

"The reference pixel is the visual angle of one pixel on a device with a pixel density of 96dpi and a distance from the reader of an arm's length. For a nominal arm's length of 28 inches, the visual angle is therefore about 0.0213 degrees. For reading at arm's length, 1px thus corresponds to about 0.26 mm (1/96 inch)."

Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/
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Would these use-cases be supported?

1. User sees a listing of XLS or DOC files in the web app, stored in the web app's local storage, user clicks to open a file in a default native office application such as MS Office, and registers a "watchFile" callback to be notified of any changes to the underlying file data (when the user presses CTRL+S in the native office application), to enable syncing to the web app's local storage.

2. Web app is granted read/write access to a directory on the user's system, so that if a user opens a file in this directory from outside the web app, the web app can still watch changes made to these files to enable syncing to a backup server etc.

3. Packaged apps as complete binary installs, without requiring Chrome to be installed on the user's machine, and without requiring the user to visit a proprietary web store or sign up as a Google user. The user should not know that they are installing a packaged app. This binary would need to be able to be marketed and installed from outside of proprietary web stores if packaged apps are to be a success. i.e. a website could offer a .dmg or .exe download link depending on the platform. The app would include the Chrome updater and auto-update to track the latest packaged app apis.

It would also be a huge help if the POSIX, TCP, UDP APIs could match that of Node.js and have similar performance characteristics and capabilities (fsync etc).
I don't think it's fair to call it character-assassination. He didn't paint Zuck with a pretty brush, but I'm not sure any first-tier founders made it to where they are without delivering a few cheap blows themselves. There's definitely some sense of admiration for "Zuck the Doer", not "Zuck the Dreamer".
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I've seen what appears to be the Director's Cut, which is missing narration and a scene or two. My 'too young' comment was in reply to seeing the original version of Blade Runner in the theater.
I've seen a lot from the DIY companies and academic demos - what companies are designing this kind of production-quality cutting edge robotics and AI solutions though? I'd like to be a part of this future, but it seems like those jobs are in much shorter supply and harder to find.
Actually, yes. I'd be absolutely unconcerned to have the picture on my screen since it's obviously a screen cap in some article.

Wow, that's interesting and surprising; where are you based, and what types of companies have you been working for?

I'm definitely haven't worked in lots of cultures, but have worked in offices in the UK, Poland, Belgium and Germany, for major companies and for small, and in each one of them, Questions Would Be Asked were I to have that image on my screen, and in most cases - but admittedly not all - my professionalism would be called into question.

In some work places I worked I'd be more concerned about coworkers/clients seing me reading a blog on paid time instead of coding than about that screencap.

Hehe, well that's a very different argument, and one that you and I agree on :)
comments on youtube are a cesspool?

why not remove the comments feature?
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