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>I could also ssh to a virtual server, but I'm not comfortable having all my agenda files on such a machine, because of security and privacy concerns.

You could encrypt it or SSH into your own machine.
The ISC license is only 8 lines, including the no warranty clause. Without the no-warranty clause it's a single sentence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license
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It sounds like they're going to have to manually put it in orbit. Probably something happened to the software that auto initiates the thrusters to put it in the right trajectory. I'm just guessing as I'm no Rocket Scientist.
Are you sure? As far as i understand it until you click on the plugin the plugin is not loaded at all.
As a programmer doing more and more managerial work (but thankfully not 100% of the time yet), I try to keep my knowledge up-to-date by working on side projects. May not be the perfect solution but it sure helps.
People who aren't doing great work at home, are less likely to do so at the office. Plus, there is overhead because you'll need to have someone to take of those people (lack of self reliance, proactivity, dedication).
Yea, I definitely know that within my college experiences with hackathons, it was something that everyone looked forward to. You would be able to create something cool, hangout with your friends, get free food, and just have a great time.

It's a bonding experience.
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pretty much air gapped networks, build yourself a computer with a MIPS CPU, or just buy a laptop every monday and throw it away on friday.

Chrome OS is probably the only commercial platform that is designed with this era of threats in mind. It's at least a generation ahead of everybody else. They're actually building their own embedded controller (controls the fans, battery etc.) to go along with their open source firmware so they can worry less about bad guys in the supply chain.
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Oh hey, we have this technology that lets large groups of people collaborate on almost any kind of work, from anywhere in the world! It saves money on gas, office space, and is good for the environment to boot!

Let's not use it though. It comes with a few problems that can't possibly ever be solved. It's just a fad. It will never catch on.
Why are people still posting and upvoting these articles? DHH has made it clear that he doesn't want his articles on Hackernews, which he described as a "cesspool".
The reason I'm upset, is that it sets a precedent for other companies: "Oh, look at Yahoo not allowing remote employees, maybe we shouldn't either" which sets our industry back 10 years.
I think that's a distinction without a difference.

Whether the government taxes you less, pays you directly, or puts tariffs on your foreign competitors, it all amounts to a subsidy in the end.

(And I don't disagree that it's a foolish idea.)
1. Is it just me or why am I the only Freelancer who seems not to have a inbox full of recruiters. Its a problem I am told, sure, but a high class one.

2. I am all for Lederhosen at work actually :-). Wearing a rather nice pair right now !

3. As a remote worker who has not actually met his co-workers, I can happily say that I am effective, but it takes more effort to stay in touch

My suggestion is : rapidly cycled development teams:

If we have remote workers, it is a lot easier for them to move jobs. If we have heavily decomposed applications (see micro-services) then we can bring people into a development, have them productive quickly (who cannot write an HTTP service of a few hundred lines) and bingo - what we find out is the important thing potatolicious refers to - how well do they work remotely? ANd with the team.

FOr me the fit is probably the biggest determinator of productivity once past basic competance. And if we can swap people artound quickly we can quickly find really well gelled teams

I envisage a world where a freelancer can "try out" in many teams till they find a really good fit, and then they can stay there and be sold as a complete development team.
> the every day detail gets mired in coworkers stopping by my office to say hello or ask about the latest episode of Breaking Bad. Nobody has ever asked me if this was a good time...

At my workplace, we're allowed to wear headphones. Nobody interrupts somebody wearing headphones unless it's really worth it, otherwise an IM or email suffices. I have ADHD, so I know all too well just how important not being interrupted is - those headphones are a great way for me to signal to my coworkers "I am having trouble focusing. Please let me get in the zone before quitting time!"

Given that example, have you considered that telecommuting was not the only way you could have reached a comfortable level of productivity?
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As others have posted, scientific evidence shows no diuretic effect. You are peeing a lot because you are drinking a lot. You would have to pee just as much if you were drinking water.
Most of the stuff you mention are successful only because the massive scale they are operating on. Without copyrights I'm afraid that smaller entities would have even harder time succeeding when they can not use exclusivity as a leverage against the larger corporations.
> Do surgeons spend 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, cutting open bodies?

Actually depending on the state, hospital, and part of their career it can be more like 80 hours per week.
By now, you don't know that DHH does PR for himself and company as part of his daily job, no amount of disclosure will help you.
See also Brendan Dawes' Cinema Redux project, I have one of these hanging on my wall:

http://brendandawes.com/projects/cinemaredux/
The card number never hits the merchant's web server, so currently they do not have to be compliant.

There is talk in the industry that this will be changing actually; as the card number is still vulnerable to javascript that run's in the merchant's web page. So if the merchant is hacked and their website is compromised then CC numbers are vulnerable. So it is likely at least some of the applicable PCI DSS requirements (and auditing of them) will eventually be required.
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If you visit a malicious site and click anywhere on the page (not on a plugin) then you could enable a click 2 play plugin. i raised this as a chrome bug and they said click 2 play is not a security feature. there may be even worse bypasses :(

the only way to have proper security is to disable the plugin. there is a button on the address bar that allows you to enable plugins on a page when they have been disabled. this gives you a similar experience to click2play but it is quite annoying especially if you are used to click2play.
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You can disable the java plugin in Firefox by going into tools->add-ons and disabling all the java add-ons.
Everyone not in the Yahoo bay area offices is "remote" to them. Talking to engineers in New York is talking to "remote" engineers from the perspective of someone in the bay area. Does it matter that much if they're in an office in new york vs a home in nebraska? Maybe sometimes in some situations, but should companies all locate into one single building?

If you take this to its logical conclusion, every company should build a massive campus and locate everyone there, in the same time zone, even the same building.

I don't buy that Meyer is "giving up everything". She just had a nursery built next to her office (at her expense) so her infant can come to work with her. Is Yahoo going to give space for all the previously telecommuting young moms with infants to have a little nursery too?

Some companies may "move more effectively" if everyone is at the office, but I'm aware of several that have fully distributed teams, or significant numbers of employees who don't come into the office who are moving pretty fast- Basho and Automattic are two. (I think Couchbase does this too.)

I'd rather have someone living in one of the "flyover states" working for me from their home than the overhead of an office... offices are a cost and the assumed benefit may not exceed the increased cost. Certainly it can't be said that it always does.

The assumption that telecommuters are "less dedicated" is a prejudice. I've seen some evidence that they are more dedicated and put in more time. But further, it's assuming that you don't want to hire people who put in less time (for less pay, say a part time telecommuter.) Which seems silly. There are some people who you'd like to hire, but which you're going to be forced to pass on if you've got this "butts in the seats" policy, some of whome are quite good but due to family situations or simply optimizing their own lives, aren't interested in relocating to whatever big city you located your offices in.

Imagine DHH decided to go freelance. As the creator of rails it's safe to say he's the foremost expert, but this example works for anyone with significant expertise that would be valuable to lots of companies. Would DHH's value be maximized by working for one company 40 hours a week, and having all the work that doesn't require his particular expertise along with the really key stuff...or would it be better for him to work 10 hours a week for four different companies, maximizing his efforts on the areas where his expertise is completely unique? I know this is an even more radical idea, but I think it's the future of work.
Wikipedia describes the thrusters:

Eighteen Draco thrusters are used on the Dragon spacecraft for attitude control and maneuvering. Dual-redun­dant in all axes: any two can fail and still have complete vehicle control in pitch, yaw, roll and translation.

Four Draco thrusters are used on the Falcon 9 second-stage as a reaction control system.
It's in orbit already. The question is whether they'll be able to get Dragon to the station. Most likely it's either a software bug or a faulty sensor -- the vast majority of aerospace problems are generally attributable to one or the other.
If all parents could afford daycares and nannies to pick our children up when school calls and says, "little Johnny is sick ," I could agree with the decision to remove workplace flexibility. However, we aren't all as wealthy as Mayer. This is bound to have an adverse effect on Yahoos.
I wonder if it would be possible to walk back the date using an ntp mitm attack.
> Visa and MasterCard cards

You really need Dankort support in Denmark. A lot of people have a MasterCard and a large number of Dankorts are combination Dankort and VISA, but most prefer the Dankort. The fees are also a lot low (free I think) on the Dankort, for the customers at least.
This is not a case of blaming the "minority". To understand, let me digress a little – the case where we can easily get away by blaming a minority is when a school blames a small subset of students for spoiling a school's average test scores. That is called blaming a "minority" and it works.

However, what has been done here is purely for work optimisation. Mayer is clearly trying to change the culture of Yahoo, and in the attempts of doing so she has found that remote workers don't fit in the type of culture of strong collaboration and unity she wants Yahoo to become. And therefore, she has decided to change that. Simply stated.

There can't be any way for us to understand whether these remote workers under performed at Yahoo or not! However, when you try to make a defining culture, even the smallest of things matter. And perhaps, remote workers are not in line with the culture Yahoo is building. Regardless of how small the workforce is.

What will be interesting to me is how many of these remote workers are truly remote? As in, how many of them work in a completely different location than Yahoo HQ? To be honest, going down to work when you're living 5 blocks away from the office isn't particularly characterised as remote, knowing that the boss can call you in any second.
I know what probably fair means, just that I don't understand why it would be so big deal. Why would the casinos cheat if the probabilities are on their side in every case?
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I guess the only way to know for sure is to try it and see.
You're completely right. From the comments/feedback, sounds like I generalized here a bit.

I 100% believe in doing what you're passionate about / what you love. If that means contributing to a team of 1000, or a team of 1, so be it -- the "cog" is simply someone who isn't doing what they want to be doing, or isn't taking the steps to get there.
It was wry I suppose, but I think I didn't explain myself very well in the interview. I tried to convey that I'm trying to move towards a more Spartan arrangement. I don't think I mentioned USB sticks, but in any case I no longer use them because of Dropbox. Likewise, I no longer need a PDA because my iPhone/iPad cover the old tasks. Also, I no longer need a computer because Laptop, etc. The point is that I'm less reliant on multiple devices and changing my habits to need even less.
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At this point, I think the author is just trolling.

>Mayer doesn’t want to work with anyone who is working 60 hours a week. She is in Silicon Valley where an 80-hour week is full-time and 50-hours is part-time.

>I have written before that the reason women are not startup founders is that startups require 120-hour workweeks.

Really? People at Yahoo are working 80 hours a week?

According to this 2009 HN poll, 5% of respondents work 80+ hrs. 16% worked 60+.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843979
Yeah I am doing it with LaTeX, but it was a shock to the system how much actual LaTeX I had to mess with to make it work (and not look butt ugly) and I wondered if anyone had a more streamlined workflow (or better tools.)
The article's summary of Stephanie Coontz is distorted. The author claims:

Family historian Stephanie Coontz writes that today’s workforce is so demanding that families can only handle having one person in the workforce. She shows how the average work week does not allow for people to take care of children, which means that one partner needs to drop out of the workforce and take care of kids.

This is not Coontz's point at all. Coontz considers the status quo to be about "bad working conditions," and concludes (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/opinion/sunday/why-gender-...):

Our goal should be to develop work-life policies that enable people to put their gender values into practice. So let’s stop arguing about the hard choices women make and help more women and men avoid such hard choices. To do that, we must stop seeing work-family policy as a women’s issue and start seeing it as a human rights issue that affects parents, children, partners, singles and elders.

In other words, the the status quo is hard on people; the problem is in the nature of work. My bet is that Coontz would have a lot of issues with Mayer's order.
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Did Sun's CEO know better?
Maybe. I'm mostly of the opinion that the map-based user interface is often a bit clumsy and slow, i.e. Wikimapia and can be more of a burden than a blessing.
As noted elsewhere the issue is with the software inhibiting the activation of the thrusters. They delayed solar panel deployment because the capsule doesn't have attitude control yet.
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INTERNs ok, no REMOTE, H1B maybe but these are hard to get now.
A comment on the first comment of the article: "This last part reminds me of something recently. Because management needs to feel like they have control over what's going on, as a technical person, you should do the right thing, but only 90% when you show it to them and make the 10% that is miss quite obvious. The reason is so that when you present it to them, they can point out the missing piece of the project and feel like they have contributed."

I hate this. I hate having to play these games and tricks. I want to work with people that are aware of [psychology and] how much time is wasted having to do such things. However, I realize most people don't know nor care about psychology and so I am the one that should adjust knowing the things I do. It just sucks because I still struggle with it.
While you're there, check out line 1033. Where it describes the behavior of $viewChangeListeners

It triggers on the $setViewValue event. Not on detecting a model change event, like $watch. They are not the same.
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I think the biggest problem is definitions. Keep in mind that copyright means very different things internationally. Let's compare the CC0 text to this one. Note that I'm not a lawyer, and this is mostly conjecture, but pulled from a reasonable amount of reading I've done on the subject.

See: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Part 1: This talks about what copyright means. Given there is no universal definition, this clarifies exactly what is being given away.

Part 2: This is worth quoting.

. To the greatest extent permitted by, but not in contravention of, applicable law, Affirmer hereby overtly, fully, permanently, irrevocably and unconditionally waives, abandons, and surrenders all of Affirmer's Copyright and Related Rights and associated claims and causes of action, whether now known or unknown (including existing as well as future claims and causes of action), in the Work (i) in all territories worldwide, (ii) for the maximum duration provided by applicable law or treaty (including future time extensions), (iii) in any current or future medium and for any number of copies, and (iv) for any purpose whatsoever, including without limitation commercial, advertising or promotional purposes (the "Waiver").

Notice how this is unambiguous, and takes into account many different cases. Compare that the the blog post:

There is no need to email me for permission — use my content however you want! Email it, share it, reprint it with or without credit. Change it around, put in a bunch of swear words and attribute them to me. It’s OK.

First of all, what does use mean? Does that mean I can share it with others, and they have the same right to it? And is he allowed to take it back?

What happens if he decides he does not want to have people giving away his books anymore? He's not said that he can't change it in the future. CC0 explicitly says it last for as long as legally permissible.

Furthermore, what about in countries like Germany, where you can't actually give up your copyright? CC0 has a fallback (part 3) that essentially says "if I can't give up my rights to this, this is the license I am releasing it under", then provides a license with no restrictions.

I've been packaging software for Debian recently, and dealing with copyright stuff. When you start distributing data internationally for a large organization, you really want to make sure all of your ducks are in a row.