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As always, it comes down to "if you want your employee to stay, give him a raise (salary, title, perks, ...) according to his skill BEFORE he tries to leave with a competing offer".

There was a post on hacker news a few days ago where everyone was saying that in their experience, non-minimal pay raises always came with changing job, not with normal raises within their current position. Same for me, pay raises always meant changing job, with my employer realizing "oh wait, we were paying you as X but you're actually worth Y, now that you noticed let us offer you an appropriate salary". No thanks.

That's why when google started giving huge pay raises to a lot of people a couple years ago to keep them I actually thought it was a good idea, and more people should do that; if your employees are good, giving them a raise is usually a lot cheaper and easier than finding someone of the same skill and experience.
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This has not been mentioned on all the other patent threads.
Mainstream delivery pizza has reached an all time low on all fronts. The glorious Jolt cola has shown the way to a plethora of marketing dollars, leaving once fringe energy conscious beverage consumers disillusioned. And it is yet to be determined whether the Unix beard is the cause or the effect of godly low level programming ability.
> I'm not going to be browsing Nextdoor if nothing has happened to me.

As a Baltimore denizen, I respectfully submit that not everyone thinks that way.
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They most definitely have private functions that do not have prefix. The iOS Three20 framework used to have a bug where you tap on a tab bar button a second time and it crashed because a cateogry method had the same name as an existing private method.
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Congrats and I concur. I wasted 2 years at the gym before I stumbled over "Starting Strength". I just decided to go for it, because I had the feeling that most people, including me, are just messing around wasting time at the gym.

And here's why. _Proper_ squats and deadlifts are hard. You breathe heavily, your whole body (as opposed to just certain muscles) exhausts itself in just a few movements. In the beginning you go to bed with every muscle sore. But I figured: It's pointless to go to the gym and avoid strain and exhaustion. So I might just as well aim for it.

And I did the Ripptoe program, and my life changed for the better.

My posture, ruined by years of computer programming, was fixed in less than two months. People started asking me if I've grown recently. I was just standing and walking properly.

My mood nowadays is good 99% of the time. It's just hard to be depressed or care about the little annoyances (or the whining of some people) when your body is strong. I don't know why exactly, but the mood improvement is significant, lasting and one of the best benefits of weightlifting. I can still enjoy every good thing that happens, but I don't sweat the bad stuff as much. I just shrug it off. A wonderful feeling to be able to do that consistently.

People react differently to me. Women, as you would expect, initiate flirting and so forth, but also I get the feeling that other men, children and the elderly, just look at me in a kinder way. Perhaps increasing strength also makes one seem more reliable. Or maybe they think I am used to hard work. Well, I guess they are right. Building strength is hard work.

There's one downside to all that.

When I started to follow the Ripptoe program, the barbell area at my gym was mostly deserted. After a year or so it's almost always busy. Perhaps I inspired the others or it's a general fitness trend of "less BS" and "back to the fundamentals". But if they don't expand that barbell area and install a few more chin-up bars this year, I'll have to find a new gym where I don't have to wait up to 30 minutes to start lifting.
> Europe needs to deregulate companies with less than three years of age, less than 20 employees that are not yet profitable.

While I'm in favor of deregulation, conditions like these generally prove to carry with them a lot of unintended consequences and perverse incentives.
This has the potential to be a great example of software making a real difference. I'd never heard about nextdoor until a few days ago when my parents of all people told me how great it was and that they had heard on nextdoor of a series of break ins around our neighborhood. I've now heard greats things about nextdoor multiple times from different people since then
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I noticed the same kind of faucets at my friend's place in SF's Mint Plaza (probably one of the most expensive condos in the city). It blew my mind how hard to use they were, even without soap, with just wet hands.

Overall I think that modern design has had a negative impact on kitchen and bathroom utilities: much of the functionality is lost with minimalistic design. There's also quite a lot of difference between countries and most bathroom faucets etc I have encountered in the US are horrible to use. It's also surprising why infrared activated faucets aren't more popular, they can't be that much more expensive for public restrooms (they are everywhere in the Nordics). I could go on forever about this subject as it's such an everyday thing affecting millions of people.
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I'm getting married in a couple of months and we want to collect our guests' photos of the wedding.

I'd envisaged embedding a 3rd party service in the website, which collected guest name, email address and let them drag and drop their photos in to upload - but can't find one.

I haven't the time to build this, and don't want to resort to guests emailing (attachments too large) or burning CD's (no one will do). Do you know of such a service? Is there another way I've overlooked?

[Our older guests won't manage this - they can't even complete a simple RSVP form online - but hopefully the rest will!]
I'm fairly sure that each processor designed solely for AI has been a failure. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer

By the time you've finished designing your revolutionary new chip, Moore's law has caught up, and you might as well have just used standard hardware!
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Why it is divorced? The demoscene is related to games who have more constraints (performance, assets compression) than a OS distribution. Also the QNX demo shows a real operating system in a mush reduced scale.
Yes, I agree that reasonable people can disagree. BTW, I used to like Rand, but then I became older and wiser. My experience is typical of many, not not all, of course. Same thing with Santa. I never actually believed in him, but many did when they were younger. Some still do. Most grew older and wiser (some not so much, same with religion, I guess). That's all. No need to get angry :) Anyway, like I said, "Circle back when you are wiser and compare what you think then to what you think now." If you are "normal," you will grow wiser with age, you do realize this, right? :)
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"Despite the best efforts of Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, and the Linux Foundation, booting Linux on UEFI Secure Boot Windows 8 PCs continues to be a problem . The easiest way to avoid Windows 8 lock-in is to disable UEFI Secure Boot from your system before it starts to boot. However, this option may not be available on all motherboard; isn't available at all on Windows RT devices, such as the Surface; "

There are also more hoops the Linux vendors have to jump that are explained in the article:

http://www.zdnet.com/linux-foundation-uefi-secure-boot-key-f...

Also, what I didn't understand myself - is the $99 Fedora has to pay for the key just something they have to pay once? Or do they have to pay $99 for every single machine? Because that would be pretty ridiculous if Microsoft managed to make Linux as expensive as Windows licenses, through UEFI.
> If you said the world was flat...

Thank you, thank you, thank you for giving me such a beautiful piece of clay to work with.

If I said, "the world is flat!", and it was around 400 BC, you, being an educated fellow, might say, "but what do you make of Pythagoras then?"

If I said, "the world is flat!", and it was circa 100 BC, you, being a clever and worldly fellow, might say, "but what do you make of Eratosthenes then?"

If I said, "the world is flat!", and it was the 1400s and you were friends with sailors or were yourself a sailor, you might say, "well, then why do the sails appear before the ship on the horizon?"

If I said, "the world is flat!" and it was the 1600s, you would think I was an idiot, because by now Magellan's voyage was well known and trade had begun to circle the globe, so you might just bite your thumb at me or ignore me.

But if I say, "the world is flat!" and you say, "citation needed", that is the stupidest possible "skeptical" response.

See, I'm not saying it's wrong to ask for a citation for a questionable claim. I'm saying that we should do better than that -- a request which you are arguing so vehemently against that, by now, if you actually were interested in whether or not "the design can be flat!", you could have come up with some examples to argue with.

Every time you, or anyone, says merely "citation needed" without further thought or consideration or argument or inquiry or contradictory evidence, what you are actually doing is holding an enormously loud sign which says, "I am not smart or curious enough to ask you a good question about this, but I am suspicious of it anyway."

And that's really lame.
That's meaningless. It opens a whole range of attack vectors for absolutely reason. No least your inky password (which they presumably use as the key). They allow a minimum length of 6 chars on that, which can be brute forced within hours on todays hardware.

They very clearly have no idea what they're doing (security-wise), consequently this is very likely not the only fatal flaw in their implementation.
Well for a start, using the same company will make it much harder to move. Often the price shoots up after a year too. And then there is the risk of somebody getting access, it is easier usually to hack a website than a registrar so a cracker or their could get access to your domain through a security flaw in your website. Also, companies are usually either better at domain management or hosting rather than both, I have huge respect for good support teams like Krystal Hosting have,which is easier when they are focused.

I'm not saying don't use the same company, but I always tend to prefer them separate.
It's easy to get into a world of hurt even when Apple does its best to make their frameworks well-behaved with GC.

Retrofitting a conservative GC onto C is really hard, and they were never able to fully make it work. If you look at the Boehm collector's page, you see a lot of potential issues that can and do arise. Having these issues in an optional add-on that you adopt (or not) after weighing the issues is one thing, having them in a system-component that is declared to (a) be the future and (b) "Just Work™" is another.

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/issues.html
That won't let me set the width above 80%, so I prefer http://evernote.com/clearly/ . (Again, not affiliated)
You might not have read the article :) It doesn't say "don't have that conversation - just let them go", it says "preemptive strike that conversation! Pretend they came to you with an offer, think about what you would come up with to try to retain them [implicitly: you should make a counteroffer in this situation], and then go ahead and do so and give that to them for free even though they didn't even come to you!"

It's pretty much the exact opposite of what the title leads you to believe :)
Ehh. Personally, I find Bing's example there to be identical to Google's, along with all the same flaws. It's readable, but for instance there's no contrast between the search results and the "related searches" sidebar.
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Strengthening your back and hips, with posterior-chain exercises (squats, deadlifts, chin-ups, rows, kettlebell swings) will do a lot more for back/hip issues than swimming will.

Though swimming does give you a modest amount of lats and trunk stimulus.
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Maybe I'm missing something really obvious, but I don't understand where Flask fits into the picture. The article seems to introduce the first few steps of how you can debug any Python with pdb, not just Flask applications.
This article was worth it for wiringPi alone. As a software guy, I find it magical when I can connect custom hardware to my computer.

I'm off to connect some LEDs and relays and see if it can turn them on and off.
News of the massacre of thousands of Polish officers in Katyn in 1940[0] by the Soviet Union was hushed up by the Western Allies during the various 3-body conferences. It only came out after the war and when Cold War tension rose[1]

Contrast this to when Dachau was liberated, where the western media were given an official tour and relayed pictures, stories and the news only days later.

Eisenhower sent out a press release when Dachau was liberated[2], but kept quiet about Soviet atrocities.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/katyn-massacre-hush...

[2] http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/camps/dachau/dachau-01.html
Everything I said in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4972943, plus:

If you're actually interested in a claim and you need help finding further information about it, then say so. And if you think it's obvious bullshit, then say so by pointing out why.

"Citation needed" is a meme. First it was just a good practice on Wikipedia, then Randall Munroe made a comic with it (http://xkcd.com/285/), and then because lots of geeks like xkcd and it was political season the joke spread everywhere, and now, just like every other stupid meme, it is old and boring and misused and needs to be put out of its misery.

It's "lol" for pretentious people.
One thing to keep in mind is that the alleged infringement has been ongoing for nearly 10 years. Over that time, they sold over 2 billion of the infringing chips. A billion dollars sounds huge, but $0.50 per chip doesn't necessarily sound huge.

I believe that the current standard for figuring out what damages should be is based on trying to figure out what deal the parties would have made had their been a negotiated license deal under the constraint that both parties feel that they MUST come to an agreement. This should take into account royalties that the defendant has paid to license similar patents before, and the importance of the patents to the defendants business. There is a whole big list of factors used to guide this hypothetical negotiation. They were established in a case involving Georgia Pacific, so googling for that along with patent damages will get more information if you are curious.

To find out exactly what happened in this case, you'd need to get records from the trial. Both sides would have had hired experts prepare damage reports that look at the Georgia Pacific factors and argue for what royalty should result. It sounds like the jury decided to go with the plaintiffs estimate.
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Honestly I prefer embedded ruby and rails helpers plus JavaScript and HTML where appropriate.

To me ruby's terseness makes sense as its an independent language, but something like coffeescript as well as haml and the OP's thing just feel like extra baggage and an arbitrary abstraction.
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The $99 is a one time fee.. but frankly even that is absurd. Why should fedora pay microsoft so that I can use my presumably IBM compatible dell PC? It is madness.
STONITH is designed for critical failure so you don't end up with a split-brain situation, which is far worse than a dead node. STONITH is a good thing. The problem here is more than cluster wasn't configure to survive a catastrophic switching failure.
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Easy account sync between devices is a good enough reason for me. It can be implemented securely, so in general I don't see a problem. Hey, Google Chrome syncs saved passwords, online password vaults like LastPass do this too, are they security-incompetent too?
Don't know what hash function and encryption they use, but I think it's possible to pick/configure them so that brute-forcing even 6-character passwords is impractical.
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Its close but not quite the same. I'd like them not to get into the address book at all until after x sent messages.

I guess its just a matter of preference.
you mean warm up, not stretch, right ?

Stretching happens after if ever, not before :)
I've never tried a barbell, partly because people seem to have someone helping out when they use it. Would you recommend using one alone, or should I stick to dumbbells to avoid possible injuries?
We have an infrared-activated faucet in our Japanese kitchen sink and it's really great!
I've been thinking about why you see these in restaurants, upmarket nightclubs, corporate boardrooms, etc. IMHO it is that:

1) they look impressive

2) They look like you spent money

3) The only task that they're actually used for is washing hands.

This is a different set of purposes from home use. Making your home bathroom look like a nightclub bathroom at the expense of usefulness is a particular kind of folly.
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I'm sorry, but what does IBM compatibility even mean anymore?
Thanks for the extensive comments.

What do you think about Silver Peak virtual WANOP solution ?
I.E "i'm rich because you are poorer than me". It's not about wealth , it is about human nature , domination and power. There is enough wealth in this world for the rich to be still filthy rich and the poor to live a decent life and have an education. But wealth is a mean of domination, by keeping people poor you can make them desperate and enslave them.
Why is it toxic? People are under obligation to their shareholders as much as companies are. It's not personal.
The disadvantages of flat sinks don't end there. They're harder to clean, because dirt tends to stick in the corners.
This situation was used to great comedic effect in "Blackadder's Christmas Carol".
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> instead of trying to change things, I simply leave them the way they are and stop "bitching" about it

Please don't do this to yourself. This is likely to go one of two ways:

1: You stop caring about quality.

2: You forget what quality looks like.

The end result is more or less the same: the quality of the software you produce is likely to go down.

I have had very similar experiences before and watched colleagues take the same path you're proposing. Whilst they may be happier in their positions, their QA goes right out of the window and things start getting even worse.

It's better to have a reputation as somebody who doesn't tolerate shit, than to have no reputation for anything other than shipping crappy software.
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In this case it's even worse because I'm sure they did consider the consequences and went ahead anyway.

They had pretty high levels of proof without the DNA. The DNA was political ass-covering. Personally, I think they would have been better off going in, attacking a compound which had high assessment of being UBL's, potentially killing a couple of people if they were armed security and resisting (but, if it wasn't UBL, it's unlikely), and accepting the political fallout, vs. subverting the independence of the vaccine program.

Killing Osama is great, but eradicating polio may ultimately be more important long-term.
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Wow. It's so interesting to see how our own biases can completely transform the meaning of what we're reading.

Where did I bash Windows RT? How am I an Apple fanboy when this article barely mentions Apple, and only to say designers are getting tired of Apple's aesthetic?

I'm a little bit sad for you. It seems you see all discourse through an "Apple vs XYZ" filter, and that must be extremely restrictive. Just think of all the information you're missing out on by reducing every single piece of information you come across to a binary dichotomy…
This is one of the best lists about employee benefits I've read in a while. IMHO, the best point is about the vacation policy. Startups that I've worked at generally have a flexible vacation policy, but the hardest part is making sure that team members are actually using it. It's easy for the lines to blur and to keep working with no time off.

Another thing that I think startups struggle with is letting people work when they want: ie. if I want to work and am productive late at night or on Saturdays, and I feel like taking the morning off or a weekday off, I should have the liberty to do so. But, this is really hard when you have other employees who all adhere to schedules and you want to have meetings. Perhaps it can only be accomplished at a later stage.
I'm sorry to say that I've had personal conversations with faculty researchers in diverse fields that gave me the distinct impression that these people really should not be doing research. It's very easy to go through the 'form' of good research. Interview a lot of people, look at a lot of data, but that's no guarantee for good research.

When someone says: 'here are 7 habits of unsuccessful CEOs' and does not even attempt to account for the problem of 'how do we know it's really these habits that caused the company to fail?', but rather just flat out assumes it in the face of decades of findings that suggest that this is an easy trap to fall into, I for one can't take them seriously, and academic credentials have almost nothing to do with it.
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This is a genuine question not a troll - which allies of Germany behaved in a generally ok manner. Maybe using the western allies as a benchmark. I struggle to think of any who didn't participate in the holocaust or similar such atrocities.
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