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Give the asker a bit of a break. He just got run over by a truck, and some are taking him to task for not bouncing right back up and picking a fight. He got run over by a frickin' truck. Emotionally. He's looking for reassurance and contact with others. Once he heals, he'll be the kind of person who put a 40-man company together again, and he'll do what needs to be done.
I am not familiar at all with UK law, in California you can show someone the door because they hum out of tune if you want, its the other side of the 'right to work' thing.

But if you, or someone reading, knows UK law, is there anything that prevents you from renting an separate office with a telephone and re-assigning him to work in that office? Still pay him and all but just keep him out of the way where he can't do any more damage.
There was no motion blur conversion, the 24fps version was made by taking every second frame.

The film was shot at 48fps with a 270 degree shutter angle, which is equivalent to a shutter speed of 1/72s. This was done to balance the look of the motion blur midway between the look that you'd get shooting 24 and 48 with a standard 180 degree shutter angle (1/48s and 1/96s respectively). So the motion blur should still be a bit sharper than a usual film, when watching the 24fps version, but not as extremely sharp as it would be at 1/96s since it would cause more stuttering and strobing.

I believe the author's point is not that the lighting was different, but that it 'appeared' different, which I agree with. The difference in the appearance I put down to getting twice as much visual information per second. Even though the spatial resolution is the same for each frame, you're getting twice as much. For example a small detail like a facial pore may not resolve between two 24fps frames, but you can see it in the 'in-between' extra frame. This could be especially an issue since the original plates were shot at 5k, resized down to 2k, potentially 'anti-aliasing' away details.

This is probably having a similar effect to when HD spatial resolution came in for television, everything looked more 'real' and productions had to adjust makeup and lighting techniques.

(disclaimer: I work in the visual effects industry)
I agree, most providers want you to register with a RADb anyways before you advertise networks upstream don't they? Whether you register with a RADb and it issues a cert, or it creates a database entry, seems trivial. Heck, ARIN appears to already be running an RPKI for their customers. I haven't applied for an allocation in well over ten years, wonder if they require registering once you get one, or if it's optional.
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> It only sets the prime interest rate, which affects the ability of people to borrow money (specifically does it affect ARM mortgages)

It's even less than that. The Fed targets the Fed Funds Rate, which is the rate at which banks lend to each other overnight. ARMs are not based on overnight rates, but rather on rates of debt of duration of 1,5,7,10 yrs etc. (Granted the overnight rate may pull down the short end of the yield curve, but not necessarily.)
I pretty much gave up games too. Especially console games. Especially shooters. I'd still like to try this out with some more chill indie/puzzle games though (i.e. English Country Tune)
I don't know why you got downvoted.

When you have a relationship with a man/woman, it's with this individual, not with every single other human being on the planet.

If I'm not with anyone and I try to seduce your girlfriend, it's HER job to say no. Unless you don't think she is smart enough to make her own decisions. But in this case we have other problems...

As opposed to jetti, I'm not sure the wife would just have found somebody else. But regardless, she was the one in couple with the boss.

I'm confused by most of the reactions I see here. It's as if they expect the boss to be able to tell employees who they can fuck.

Kudos to this boss for at least considering that firing the guy is not the only solution.
IANAL, but I'm fairly sure a tribunal would look quite favourably on a company which fired someone for adultery when it had destroyed working relationships. I think it would come under the 'gross misconduct' provision.
One of the things I remember distinctly in High School oh so many years ago was the overwhelming impression handed down by the administration that if you couldn't make it into a top tier college you may as well just go vocational and rebuild transmissions for the rest of your life.

It was such a pervasive piece of propaganda nonsense that entire groups of my peers, with their wallet terrified parent's blessing, made long reaching life long decisions not to pursue an upper education but try and land in the best possible vocational job.

I personally was so terrorized by it that I flaked out and never even took the SATs, convinced that my mediocre high school GPA had damned me to a life of cleaning drainage gutters, resurfacing outdoor wooden structures or at best tech support in a call center that, defeated, I didn't even try.

It wasn't until several years after graduating High School, fed up with dead-end bullshit jobs that I signed up to the local community college almost on a dare. I met with a very old, nearing retirement, placement councilor who completely turned my world upside down.

He carefully and patiently explained to me that the myth the education system propagated, the one that I, my classmates and our parents had been fed, was a complete a total line of nonsense. I sat there, in raw disbelief as I found out that I could finish my first two years of my undergrad there, then transfer every single one of my credits and start as a junior at the local state university. And I could do it at some ridiculous price that I, even making next to nothing, could easily afford.

I thought he was a liar, a schemer who was trying to put me onto something. Everything he said sounded like such a polar opposite of the system described to me during my teenage years that I went to another campus for the school and spoke to a completely different councilor who only confirmed everything, and also told me that the degree program I was interested in was so close to another program that if I took 2 more courses I could get both degrees almost for the price of one.

It's like spending a fortune on off-sale, high fashion brand shirts only to find out that if you wait a season you can pick up most of the same stuff at discount clothiers like Ross for $10 a shirt.

It took me a long time, as I was working and had significant living expenses to handle, but I finished my B.S. in 5 and a half years and my M.S. in 3 and a half -- debt free, paid for either on my own or by spending 20 minutes filling out grant applications at the student aid office.

It was madness. And it was the truth.

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a previous set of back of the envelope numbers

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753975
That he's thinking about this situation this hard and is trying to find a safe path through this emotional minefield makes me respect him more than if he had simply fired his employee out of passion. I don't agree that firing his employee outright would show the same strength of character, though I understand your point of view.
Perhaps this would be a good time for schools to reevaluate the number of MBAs they have hired. Some amount of management is clearly needed, but when a university has as many MBAs as professors, something is very wrong. Also, perhaps schools should stop trying to turn their campuses into the equivalent of a suburban mall, and reconsider having students do some of the work that is being contracted out.
Looks like there is an exception to the rule that "my private life is none of my employer's business, no exceptions".
I dunno, could just be that he's antagonistic by nature but also could just be that he wanted to get a lot of publicity for betapunch. I'd assume a lot of people who have never heard of betapunch, have heard of it now and he'll probably get a few users out of it.
Agree. Trust is the most valuable economic asset in the world. Its the foundation of all co-operation (informal) and contract (formal).
Information theory is a tricky and subtle thing. A dance song at 300BPM may not actually contain any more "information" than one at 150BPM.

And the idea that the brain will get too tired processing that much data explains too much... you just explained why reality is too real for the brain to handle.

Also, I'm not claiming More Is Always Better, but in this case we've got a pretty decent bound being put in place by the bandwidth of the eyes and ears themselves, both impressive, but both quite a bit less than our brain convinces us that they are.
> Also it's not as though panties are as difficult as bras to purchase. T&C is trying to do the hard work; doing relatively unrelated easy work alongside that might be a distraction.

We call that "add-on sales", and it's a good thing. If there were a way to do it on the site they'd probably 4x their profit instantly.
The UK has restrictions on why you can fire people (unlike CA which is at will), but they're largely quite fair (IMO). See https://www.gov.uk/dismissal/overview
The details of wording or occupation aren't really key to the story though. It is however relevant whether his pause was due to being uncomfortable with the author's sexuality or due to his determining which interpretation of an ambiguous statement was correct. Although I suppose in the end the author's experience of the situation is the main point.

In short, your comment was less constructive than that you criticize. (as is mine)
Yes, mine is one data point, as is Danielle's, as are a few others' stories on this page. I wanted to add my data point to the list to provide some balance, I think it's a great service and I never had any problems with him.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the HFR debate -- and basically the main reason for it -- is the brightness, which as Kottke notes seems to make makeup and internal lighting look fake.

I don't believe the film itself is any brighter. What happens is that with 48fps your eye works less hard compensating for motion blur and is freed up to perceive each frame more brightly.

From what I've read, the effect is limited only by how fast projectors can change an image, so I suspect we're only at the precipice of discovering the ups and downs of HFR.
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The very best way to convert HTML to PDF is using PrinceXML[0]. It's a commercial product but by all accounts it is completely worth the money.

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> How does better temporal resolution (higher frame rate) enable better spacial resolution (see makeup detail)? In no or low motion, there can be no difference.

Because you're not watching a single still frame - it's more like your brain is taking in an integral of visual information over time. You don't need much motion to be able to perceive a visual difference (even if it's just a 'feeling'). Eg. http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/
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It seems to me that what you've demonstrated is that side effects are possible in Clojure, esp. with sufficiently obfuscated (read: un-idiomatic) code. But you're working too hard anyway; Clojure explicitly admits mutability already, through various concurrency pieces like atoms and refs.

That said, if any admission of mutability is sufficient to disqualify a language from claiming to encourage or support referential transparency, then Haskell fails the test, too. unsafePerformIO is a trivial example. I'm sure if you were determined to introduce nondeterminism, you could find a lot more. But that's not the point, is it?

Maybe there's a way to demonstrate your point, but what you've shown here doesn't involve homoiconicity or macros at all.
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it's true, php core devs have some kind of a Java OOP/DP fetish. maybe because they think Java is enterprise so they should replicate what works for them.
Making the technical bits and machinery have never been easier or cheaper. I hope he can find people to buy them and play them.
rough consensus, running code

This is too much talk, not enough code. Whoever wants PKI needs to put together a POC and release it into the wild.
I did some work for BetaPunch last year.

It's sad to see such an error of judgement (a big one, but nonetheless) which will really hurt after slowly gaining steam.
If the OP cannot legally fire this guy then it is time to depart that jurisdiction.

Law prevents the OP from just shooting the bastard, and rightly so. We surrender whatever right we may have to fight and kill on own our behalf, in return for protection from others and enforcement of just outcomes. The point is to remove our personal biases from interpretation of "just".

But if the sovereign jurisdiction won't allow this guy to fire someone who has done this, then its "law" has departed from its proper functions and can't be relied upon. I don't know what it is doing, but it isn't overseeing justice. I wouldn't wait to find out how it goes wrong next. I'd just leave.
So if you learned that not just one but two people you had trusted for years had betrayed you in a really significant way (such as, e.g., a wife having an affair with a trusted employee), you'd just be mature about that, whatever that means?

A person saying this is either extraordinarily in control of his emotional responses (Dalai Lama level) or extraordinarily unaware of how highly emotional events can hit extremely hard.
It would be interesting to see colleges investing in people via education and getting returns via some sort of percentage of the first years of professional career... Say, let the university teach/prepare the kids, and then for the first 10 years charge a 10% "income tax'(numbers would vary)... Some careers would be quite idiotic to promote, while others very good, it would further incentivize colleges to shape kids into productive citizens and give better education and resources... and then people who chose crappy majors can no longer complain about how the system sucks, because they paid little to nothing for what they got...
I think we're grokking the same here, but one disconnect:

You're presupposing that the wealthy want _some_ return on their wealth, and I think that in many cases, that simply isn't true.

Take a look at all of the money stranded offshore that corporate America is waiting on Uncle Sam to allow into the US without taxing- that money is probably not earning much if anything; think of the tinpot dictator or the kleptocrat who squirreled away a nest egg in a Swiss or Cayman bank account, and think of the smuggling kingpin south of the border with a swimming pool full of cash.

They all share the following in common- highly liquid and inefficiently invested wealth. They have little hope of increasing the value of this wealth by investing it or consuming with it because to do so requires a big hit to its dollar value (taxation or risk of seizure). The best return (for them) is to let it slowly (in our case very slowly) inflate until a rainy day comes.

The only practical and sure-fire way to bring that money back to productive use is to redistribute it via inflation.
In Canada, Tim Horton's is much more popular than Starbucks. There is one intersection I know that has THREE Tim Horton's across from each other on three of the four corners. As you said, its to capture traffic going one way and cars/people are unlikely to cross the street so sales is effectively doubled at the three locations that it would be at one.

Also this technique works for businesses that always have a line up (like Starbucks does in some places) as a distributed way to serve more customers. No one wants to wait 10 minutes for a coffee, but if there are two Starbucks across from each other they will only have to wait 5.

I always thought the grouping of unrelated businesses had more to do with attracting more customers from farther away, as opposed to this Nash Equilibrium theory. So if there are five car dealerships on one street, customers will come from 50 miles away to go car shopping there instead of only one car dealer only attracting local customers. So the "car shopping street" is what people go to, not that specific dealer.

I don't know if its this way everywhere, but in Toronto there is one street that sells expensive clothes (Prada, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, etc.) and all those stores are within a block of each other, one street that sells computer stuff, one street that has a lot of restaurants side-by-side-by-side, one street that has a lot of dance clubs... Is it Nash Equilibrium or is it new businesses going where their target market already is?

If you want to open a dance club, do you go where there are no dance clubs, or where there are 5 others and you know there will be people on a Saturday night?
I thought that most scenes in The Hobbit 48 fps were fine, but a few scenes /seemed to be playing in fast forward/. Especially in the opening scenes, Bilbo was walking through his hobbit-hole at faster than natural speeds. I have a distinct memory of feeling like the speed of motion was out of sync with the sound.

This effect was only apparent in a few scenes in the film, but I'm pretty sure it was real, as I watched the film twice, once at each speed, and only noticed it in 48 fps. It almost seemed like the producers didn't film certain scenes at 48fps natively, and sped up their 24 fps film to double speed instead. Did anyone notice similar artifacts?
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I have trouble understanding the logic of making education so expensive. Isn't it obvious that making education free, or at least cheap, allows the country to grow, both economically and intellectually.
Sure, have your private universities for the elite. But the government should be subsidising education for the rest of the population in the interest of improving the life of everyone.
In Australia it only costs about $10,000 per year and that is even outlaid by the government and only paid back when the student is earning over about $50,000 per year (as a small percentage added to their tax). If you never earn over $50K, you never have to pay it back.
How about he sell the company and move on?
Wha? There's a difference between SWE, EE/CE, and IT. The community around the pi is more for the IT crowd. I see very few using the gpio pins for anything, though that does seem to be getting marginally better.

Most of the value in the pi is the video decoder. So, that's the types of projects it gets used for.
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I'd like to get to the point where frame rate is a creative choice and not a technical limitation. Perhaps some kinds of films/scenes/shots are better suited to different frame rates, for the impression and feeling they impart on the viewer. It was great to see Ang Lee start doing this a bit (but with aspect ratio) in Life of Pi, using it as another tool in the tool box, not an absolute right or wrong way to do things.
I gotta ask. After you wipe you still have your smartphone in your hands don't you.
> The actual cost is much less

... often.

OTOH, If you don't fit the mold, you may be screwed...

I've known any number of students who actually were paying full price for tuition at top-tier private universities [to the tune of $50,000/year] despite being quite poor. Some took out massive loans, others did full-time work and attended as best they could.
While 60 makes sense in the US, Europe wants 50 (because they use PAL, with 25 fps). In this case, since film has always been done in 24 fps, 48 was chosen for compatibility with that (and cinema projectors).

Frame rate conversion has always been strange though, to make 24fps content 30fps they perform something called 'telecining'. This mixes up different rows of frames to get the new frames. For PAL, they actually just speed up the video (and audio) to 25fps; so shows actually go for less time.

For modern TVs, the screen usually has a rather high refresh rate (60+ Hz). So it can show older framerates (24, 25, 30) quite well by timing frames across multiple refreshes of the screen. These newer framerates can cause trouble, but to compensate you even have some 120 Hz TVs showing up. A lot of modern TVs even have some form of motion compensation, to add new frames into the video. The techniques used for this try to make an approximation of between frames, and usually look 'too smooth', due to the motion blur not being correct.
I'll lead the specific advice to SE, but one general observation:

If he's actually that valuable, this is a great reason to spread responsibility, coach newer employees, and invest in other people besides your indispensable "rockstar/ninja/guru" before you might have to let them go for a non-performance-based liability, like suspicions of fraud, etc.
> As opposed to jetti, I'm not sure the wife would just have found somebody else.

Irrelevant.

Here's the problem:

"At the same time, every time I see his face, I feel like that just kills me inside."

It is silly to think that this doesn't affect productivity and won't affect the business in the future, especially with communication between these two individuals. A person's well being does is in fact a work matter, the acknowledgment of which makes the employees position absolutely untenable. You cannot possibly sleep with a fellow employee's spouse (regardless of whether it is a superior or not) and not expect that to be a work matter.

> It's as if they expect the boss to be able to tell employees who they can fuck.

This isn't about telling the employee who they can fuck. It's about fostering a productive and positive work environment. Knowingly choosing to create animosity between yourself and a superior (or any fellow employee for that matter) in such a hurtful manner is simply stupid.

This employee should be fired immediately.
Those rental services are definitely not the place to go to for relatively recent hits:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tristanlouis/2013/01/07/no-hits-...

I guess Netflix is switching to being more of a catchup TV system right now.
I shelled out for Adobe's new month-to-month licensing for exactly this reason (CMYK PSDs). When paying month-to-month, the $700+ license becomes much more palatable.
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According to that link you can be fired for "Gross Misconduct", which seems about right in this case.
Yes, but most college students aren't doing independent long-distance travel. The 40-year-old businessman can probably afford a car and almost certainly needs it frequently; the 19-year-old college student has very infrequent and short-term (but inescapable) requirements, for which Zipcar is perfectly suited.
It's relevant as many here are entrepreneurs. There is a very good lesson here about proper social media etiquette for companies. There are an incredible multitude of ways this situation could have been handled better, especially on a forum as public as Twitter.
>Secondly, a private school education typically runs around $200-240k, a number that is calculated to include room, board, books, and living expenses.

That's not entirely correct. The tuitions at many private schools these days lists at ~$200k for a 4-year undergrad and does not include expenses.

For example

https://undergraduate.admissions.gwu.edu/costs-attendance

Lists just tution at $45,735 while R&B is $10,530. So, assuming the rates don't change, tuition for an undergrad is $182,940 and other expenses run another $58,600 for a grand total of $241,540. So yeah, it's at around your upper bound, but just the difference between your lower and upper boundary was literally the entirety of my undergrad + grad degrees.
The point is giving an employee nothing useful to do so that they resign may be the same as terminating them, so they might still be entitled to severance or unemployment benefits.