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Reminds me of when apple switched to intel hardware and it was believed that you couldn't boot windows. Throw some money after it and people will find a way.
UEFI Secure Boot. Not UEFI. Two very different things; it's a shame they're conflated so frequently. One is a sane way to bootstrap a system, the other is a lockdown mechanism.
Garbage disposals are essentially unknown in Canada (except on US-originated TV shows), and we use essentially the same sinks. (It is possible to purchase and install one, but I have never seen one installed in a home.) Food (at least appreciably large chunks of it) is prevented from going down the drain by the basket strainer that is part of the plug (which isn't completely removed when draining the sink). The strainer/plug is them emptied into the food waste/compost container that is in the kitchen anyway.
I upvoted the article just because of your ignorant comment.
My wife was on a flight from Taipei to LAX when they called for a doctor. She didn't see whether or not a doctor responded, but there were no further calls or announcements after that. Later when she went to the bathroom she saw a body bag on the floor near the bathrooms. When the flight arrived there were police waiting. Nobody could leave the plane until they were done with the body. No details were given to any of the passengers.
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These are nice to haves.

The must have is don't be an asshole.
Thanks for the shout-out. It's always nice to hear from someone else who's crossed the email Rubicon. Can't disagree with any of your advice. (Did you try to add a Yahoo! account?)
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I can't find it now, but my favourite 'doctor on a plane' story was from an anesthesiologist who struggles to sleep on a plane, so on a long haul flight took something to help him doze off. He woke up to the 'is there a doctor on the plane?' call, and called the flight attendant over. It turned out that he was the person that they wanted to attend to, they were concerned since he was passed out and drooling on the passenger next to him.
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first, I think this list is a great conception. But personally I've worked in companies and in situations where many on this list were already there. So here's my personal take on several on this list, these are all just my suggestions and thoughts feedback is welcomed, since I'm very interested in building up a good work atmosphere :)

1. "No defined vacation policy" - you do consider this, but I think it will still be a problem actually making people take time off especially if this is just left up in the air for the developers, as a dev you need time off but you're so consumed with your project and its such a part of you that I find myself never doing this unless I know that I have to take 4 weeks or whatever per year, then I can alot time for it. So I think the "loose" idea is good but there probably needs to be a basic timeslot for vacation, or suggestions or something so people don't get burned out.

2. "Company credit card access" - this is another really good idea, but I'm the type of person that feels uncomfortable with this sort of thing (don't know how others are?). Personally, I'd just like to know that hey, you have such and such amount of money for general courses/books per year, if you don't use it, well ok it doesn't get added to your salary but its always there. I don't know that's just my opinion of what I like. Then I feel comfortable, buying resources that aren't %100 percent work related (say a book on Functional Programming, when all I do is build rails apps).

3. "They pick their computer" - yes, dead on, this is a must in my opinion, though if someone picked windows I might actually be apt to deny them - jk. Also I might go so far as to say dual or tri wielding with the monitors is a company mandate.

4. "Let them pick their own email address" - I actually disagree on this one. I think there should be a well defined email schema from the onset such as firstname.lastname@company.com so that you end up with descriptive namespaces for individuals in the company that everyone can remember and looks professional on businesss cards and in to/from headers, not things like cooldever@company.com.

5. "Dedicate time and resources to learning." - I agree with just about everything here. I would actually even go further though (haven't tried this, its just a thought), and concretely set asside a time, say Friday afternoons, where no one is allowed to work, but its hacking time, where they can work on side-projects or experiment with new things, just so everyone can stay uptodate, work on their own stuff, and head into the weekends with a good relaxed feeling.

again great list :)
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>Yoga was developed over thousands of years and specifically to heal the body

Yoga is a collection of meditation techniques. The transformation of a very specific form of yoga (Hatha) into an exercise routine is a western development.

> The serious kind. Lots of bs out there

In fact I think that for physical fitness, it would be better to concentrate on western-style yoga rather than the "serious" stuff (prayers, sleep control etc).
XBMC is another one.
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Even easier: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/install-ubuntu-with-wind...
I tried this at my office in August. When hosting the VM on my (somewhat old) laptop, raw performance was the issue -- there wasn't enough RAM and CPU to run both Win7 and the VM concurrently, and as an intern I couldn't justify the laptop upgrade.

When moving the VM to a server, the raw performance issues went away, but network lag became a pretty serious obstacle when using the GUI. In the end, I ended up just SSHing into the VM, and mounting part of its filesystem using Samba.

(And assuming that I had been able to get a working graphical environment, it's still a very low standard of "working." There are dozens of little annoyances when you're nesting a completely separate window manager inside your current window manager.)
You sacrifice an enormous amount of flexibility and extensibility by enforcing such distinctions. Much of the power and elegance of languages like lisp comes from blurring the boundary between code and data. To the C etc. mentality, it's unthinkable, but in lisp you can maintain (modify/extend/fix) a running application, without having to unload and reload everything.
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I went with Bootstrap, I'm not much for front end design so I just scraped together what I could as quickly as I could :)
Way to blame the victims instead of the group actually responsible: the Taliban.
intense bladder pains mid-flight which turned out to be
the result of downing a huge quantity of beer before the
flight and being unable to urinate

was that due to the altitude or something else?
> - meaningful work

One thing that you didn't mention and that has been very important in the decision making process of my recent job search would be:

- hard work

The vast majority of the jobs out there are run-of-the-mill scale this CRUD thing jobs. Nothing wrong with that but if a company can offer me the opportunity and trust to work on something that is technically very hard, then that is a definitive bonus (although it's not possible for all types of companies to offer that kind of work to engineers)
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I must be out of the norm.

Every raise have made me happier.

I will welcome every raise with open arms.
Journalists have a responsibility towards facts that is just as strong as a scientist's responsibility towards facts. The major difference is that journalists are not necessarily expected to discover facts, but report on them, which greatly shifts their scope of attention.

Helping readers draw connections and get context is valuable, but only if it's done within the facts. A journalist or a publication that reports something that is factually wrong has to loose credibility.

Reporting something as fact when it is merely speculation is a milder form of reporting something that's factually wrong, but it's almost as deserving of our criticism.
A good point, and I would add that if you explore even deeper, you will find that what is usually referred to as yoga in the west is already itself a western adaptation of a very small part of yoga which aims to improve physical (rather than mental) well-being.

You don't see many people at gym yoga classes singing prayers or trying to control their dreams :)
It's kind of obvious that the guy who wrote that email has never had to put together a workplace. 'Pick your computer'? Come on! You'll have 10x more hardware support!! 'Pick your OS'?! Are you insane? How is your team going to work if they are all on different OS?! The no vacation policy is horrible. It only encourages people to work more. The 'clear salary' system is just not feasible. You have to have leeway in the compensation you give to anyone.
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Thanks; this is great feedback. A couple responses:

- See security comments elsewhere. Inky does not send our servers your Inky password.

- Grouping emails by subject: email threading information is pretty broken in practice; many clients don't populate References: properly, and Outlook uses its own thing called Thread-Id. So we have to use heuristics in many cases.

- Email thread structure: you're the only person who's ever asked us for this. GMail's pretty much killed real threading as a design.
Agreed. Even an analogue mechanical timer wheel is better than many of the digital designs.

I think the sad fact is that anything that adds mechanical parts also adds cost, and is therefore avoided now that the cost of electronics has dropped.
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This list is bogus, silly and probably plagiarism http://www.linuxhaxor.net/10-special-purpose-linux-distribut... (2 years ago)

I would propose CNK or CNL Linux. These are stripped down version of Linux that run on the compute nodes of a super computer. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute_Node_Linux
Picking the spouse is orders of magnitude more important than picking the ring.
What do you mean by hard? Hard like design an exciting new nonosql datastore? Or hard like refactoring and fixing an enormous crud codebase with myriad of hidden dependencies?
Consider getting the Free Spotter (http://www.shermworks.com). Its about the safest way to go, and is endorsed by a few professional lifters. Nothing in your way to corrupt the motion, and you simply let go if you get in trouble. You don't even need a rack for bench or shoulder press, as you can set the empty bar at your chosen height, load the weight, and lift!
Many people ferociously criticized Crash Bandicoot when it launched in 1996 as well; people just don't remember that.

Please let us know how Inky works for your huge inbox. Like you, some of us (including me) have enormous inboxes, and we've worked hard to make Inky's indexing use very little resources on your box.
I can tell from your post that you did not even listen to the talk (I just saw it live).

95% of his talk was not about crypto.
Congrats then! I've seen mongo features start simple then end containing a bunch of embedded lists of primary keys to SQL or other data stores, rather than what would be a bridge table or two. Not as elegant if your not putting everything there (as some people here say here is mandatory to prevent the overhead running mongo on top of everything else like you mentioned
It was the link to a live-stream.
There is something to be said about the many distractions afforded to us by today's technology.
What has the response been like over the past day or two in terms of downloads and traffic, etc.?
I assumed the same, maybe the article is not perfectly unambiguous on this detail.
Other way around: the original spec did not require vendors to support disabling UEFI secure boot or using "custom mode" (meaning installing your own key). See http://mjg59.livejournal.com/139232.html for one reference to that: "Windows 8 certification does not require that the user be able to disable UEFI secure boot, and we've already been informed by hardware vendors that some hardware will not have this option."

Microsoft changed the spec in the wake of the controversy around UEFI secure boot. The current version of the spec (available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh7...) does mandate the ability to use custom mode or disable UEFI secure boot, for non-ARM systems only.
The stricken passenger had the option of using the restroom, but for unknown reasons could not urinate. They stretched him out on a row of seats which seemed to help the pain, but from what I recall was unable to go until they reached the destination airport. The total trip time was about three hours.
It really seems like that is the only way to make significant progress (as far as salary) in your career. You either jump ship or get a competing offer so your current company can match. If I came in with a competing offer that paid me 15-20% more and the company can match, then why didn't they just give me a raise in the first place? It probably would have stopped me from even being interested in other positions.
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>The aforementioned approach is recommended to avoid spreading flu virus, and other winter time bugs.

Citation needed.

I've never met the "do not touch anything dirty after you washed your hands" and "close the faucet with a paper towel" (!) as a recommendation against spreading flu virus.

Especially if by "dirty thing" you mean the faucet handle.
Requiring people to go out and get other job offers in order to get any sort of raise is toxic because it forces a great deal of effort and risk just to keep up with inflation.
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maybe in the next generation of engineering we'll stop trying to classify our engineering abilities and focus on the building of things in front of us. We'll accept that it doesn't matter how long we've been doing something (because we've all not been doing this very long) and we'll realize that even someone who just started at the "keys" has something for us to learn... (warm and fuzzy)... at the end of the day we have a shared goal "get it done"(ahmen)

- mature engineeer :P
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Really? Where are these designers you mention? Can you point to any specific example of them justifying similar crap?

(And note that it has to be an actual "crap", not just stuff you personally don't like).
My last company had some pretty interesting work, but a lot of people started looking to leave or left due to money. I think everyone who left got at least a 25% increase in pay leaving.

At the same time, a lot of people didn't leave because the work was interesting and their peers were all good to work with.

When a company doesn't give meaningful raises for 5 years, people will start leaving.
"FreshDirect, the online grocer that serves New York City and surrounding areas, suffered a website outage after failing to renew its domain name, showing that even a dot-com company can lose track of its Web address."

Just sad..
> Why did you not realize that “this guy is worth it” until he already has one foot out the door?

There are plenty of reasons this could happen. It's a mistake, and you should analyze the situation to see why it was made. But that doesn't imply you should let people walk out the door just because you made a mistake.

You assume that anyone who comes up with this thing implies a particular scenario, when it really doesn't. It could simply be that e.g. an employee got a cold call from some friends who recently got some funding and is toying with the idea of switching jobs, and the higher salary is the one thing that really makes him think of taking the offer.
I would just add that machines aren't the devil; Depending on where you live the douchebag level may be intolerable in the free weights area which can be a huge demotivator, machines can help blunt that a little. And no matter what any one tells you squats are great but there is a 100% chance of injury with them, it's just a question of when. The leg press machine works just fine and can prevent chronic back and neck problems.
Because I need more ways to waste time. The name fits perfect though :)
I saw about half of it, the stream is very intermittent.

It's more about listening to people like Jake in general than it is about what his talk says. He's got the wrong motives.
I for one find glimpses into other fields fascinating.
By that standard, every court case has "no net productive output." Should we disband the legal system?
A platform to launch - discover what people are working on in real-time.
As I said above: Hard like technically hard: AI, Machine learning, generally designing new algorithms, language design, crypto, distributed systems, computer vision, compilers, and so on and so forth

>exciting new nonosql

also nice try at drawing a false dichotomy between CRUD stuff and "reckless" NoSQL DBs.
Kinda useful app , if you watching alot of tv-series :)
I think we're well past the days of Microsoft being the evil empire[1] and I'm happy someone else is building an alternative to Android and iOS.

Whether that alternative will actually take off is highly questionable but more choice is better for consumers and hackers alike.

[1] For one thing Steve Ballmer seems too incompetent to make an effective villain.
Off topic, but the as the sidebar refuses to resize it's really difficult to read this on the iPhone.
Maybe the $99 is a way to establish that a contract has been agreed on.
I begin to understand why HN is so filled with negativity.

A lot of people here are bitter because they failed or because they know that they'll eventually fail. This place is a hive of socialists who do not have what it takes for to create future wealth.

It's very ironic to see them using hardware and software made by Intel / Google / Apple / etc. to spread their poisonous words.

Don't forget what made your country great (I'm not american and I'm not in the U.S.) and which kind of men you owe the technological world you live into (including, but not limited to, computers, space rockets, medecine).

And please: stop to try to create things and stop being negative with those who do. Go find a job as a state servant and, please, leave enough oxygen to those trying hard to create future wealth.
I honestly can't remember the last time I used an optical drive (and I have one in my MBP). Alternatives are superior in virtually every way.
"Congratulations. You got lucky, and got a great trainer. The sad reality is this is the exception."

Ain't that the truth! My wife thought that personal training would get her motivated to lose weight and get in shape. Unfortunately the trainer was a complete jerk. He was inconsistent with making his appointments, to his credit though, he must have the unluckiest family ever because just about ever Saturday was a "family emergency" eye roll. But anyway, since he wasn't consistent with showing up and he didn't do much except count and look at his phone, my wife wasn't getting results. That's when he suggested taking weight loss pills. Actually he didn't suggest, he kept pushing them on her. She actually thought about it (to which I convinced her it isn't a good idea). There has been one good trainer at that place since then but he left for a better job (go figure).

I feel that if you go a big box gym, you are walking in to a personal trainer revolving door and that the trainers are sales people in disguise. I have notice that at the gym in my office building (which is an independently owned gym) the trainers seem much more knowledgeable and nobody I have talked to has had any complaints.
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You wrote:
> When someone says it's about the money, it's never about the money.

Sometimes, it's about the money.

I recognize this isn't a normal experience, but I spent a year and a half working on a team where I made 26k/yr while other team members made 80-120k/yr. There were some complicating factors (it was a state legislature, and I didn't have a college degree), but even localized, 26k for my skillset (web development focusing on open source mapping technology) was unreasonable.

When I left, it was definitely about the money. I was very clear that it was about the money. If somebody said, "Money aside, what's really bothering you?" I'm not sure my then 23-year-old-self could have managed to be civil.
The medical director of my paramedic program used to work for a hospital that provided medical control for a number of major airlines (generally speaking, even when they ask for a physician on a plane, they're also calling the airline's 'on call' doctor as well).

His scariest stories weren't due to the criticality of the patient, but rather the incompetence of the provider on board the plane (to the point that he, on several different occasions, had to instruct the flight crew to 'please keep him away from the patient for the rest of the flight'). Just because someone is a 'doctor' doesn't necessarily mean they're well equipped to handle a medical emergency (note: the physician interviewed here managed the patient perfectly appropriately).

It's possible he was just pandering to the room of soon-to-be paramedics at the time, but he said he generally instructed the flight crew to ask for a paramedic before a physician, simply because they're generally more comfortable working in the 'austere' medical setting found on a plane.
And no vacation policy sounds nice in practice, especially as an employer (we're all adults, be responsible), but it falls apart quickly especially if people are workaholics and don't take vacations.

Exactly. I would respond to this policy by never taking any vacation time ever, or, at the very least, feeling guilty every time I did.
iPhone? Hit the 'Reader' button in the URL bar. Anything else? Get the Readability or 'Instapaper Text' bookmarklet installed.

Then quit posting your personal problems here.
"By the time employees think about taking a job elsewhere, it's often already too late."

Is that really true? Well, not for me. Every time I changed jobs, it was because of the money. The only time I worked in a bad environment, my boss was let go before I quit.

All those times, if I could receive a bigger salary without changing jobs, I'd probably stay there.
Curious... I've never had a problem with it.
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