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Yes I am being deadly serious In the UK if its at all related to your work - your employer owns your work if its at all "related" even if you do it outside work on your own equipment.

This is direct from a very senior hr/ir Guy (our GC at the time) when we where discussing the implications of this for a colleague who had come up with some advanced algos for improving big iron systems - IBM used to get him in to consult for them as he was a Mainframe rockstar

And you don't know much about UK and US employment laws as most of it descends from the original M&S act as both countrys share the same roots for their legal systems.
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I agree you do have a point. Though that's the nature of running a business: people do take days/vacations off, so prepare for that.
I hope so, but I'm doubtful.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, certainly not your lawyer.

Are there any contracts between any of the parties:
you, your employer, the software company -
that might require you to provide or disclose any information?

Does HIPAA apply?
Did you view any protected patient info?

If I were you, I would not post further publicly
until after you consult with a local attorney who
understands both the potential HIPAA issues and
your personal exposure regarding your employer.

Best case - the software company fixes the issue, thanks you publicly,
deals appropriately with whoever signed off on the metamorphosi code, encourages your employer to give you a
raise, a promotion, a 4 week vacation somewhere pleasant, a personal
zeppelin to commute in, and a pet unicorn.

Worst case - the software company portrays you as a hacker (in the worst
connotation), accuses you and your employer of industrial espionage and
violation of patient privacy, sues you and them for significant damages, encourages the Feds to
look into the situation, and your career in programming takes a very messy turn
into legal limbo for a few years. No unicorn, either.

tl;dr: Stop posting details. Get legal advice. Great catch. Good luck.
No, it's the "redistribute the wealth" argument. Whether you do it by funding welfare or schools or giving tax refunds, it's up to you.

>It's like every other human relationship, the more you have to offer the higher your standards can be.

It's more complicated than that. Since the prestige of your alma mater is largely divorced from the quality of the teaching therein, it's also an expression of class discrimination.

I have this burning suspicion - borne out by my own anecdotal experience - that the most important thing distinguishing the median Harvard undergraduate from the median Good State School undergraduate is a capacity to absorb the tuition fees.

Setting up a system that rewards having been born to rich parents is ultimately detrimental, in my opinion. It's just a lot easier to check whether you came from Stanford than to determine if you're smart.
Ironically I can't view this "because it has been categorized "Weapons;Shopping"" by the corporate firewall...
That's pretty much what epitech (Nicolas Sadirac's previous school) is about. The only difference seems to be that epitech is far from free (it's actually quite expensive for a "peer to peer" school, since the students do most of the teaching).

I've been convinced for quite a long that epitech is a scam that just works because of the enormous demand for IT graduates in the industry. Insert money, get a diploma. Making a free version now, that could change things. Color me skeptic but curious.

Disclaimer: I'm a former epitech student, although I dropped out in 3rd year.
I thought gravity assists were more complicated than the tennis ball/truck analogy?

Don't the spacecraft end up going faster than the planet they get the boost from? I never understood...
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I'd say DMV's customer service is better than Comcasts's or Verizon's.
In the future it'll mean "I got the job because I have a piece of paper from certain universities, not because I showed my talent in other ways".
I didn't mean to get all ad-hominem. Some people literally can't differentiate between juvenile and non-juvenile humor. Apologies .

I haven't answered the question because the whole premise is flawed. You're asking why it's never appropriate to discuss some body parts, but that's not true.

Extremely personal real world example: I had a urethral stricture biopsy done years and years ago (I'm OK now). Discussions in that context get clinical and professional very quickly. Nobody is making any snickering jokes in the operating room.
Please don't generalize from the memory use of those programs

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/189552
Why do Git and Debian only use a mailing list and not an issue tracker?
>But what about a scenario in which for 30-50 million Americans file for their taxes by sending a SMS (as it's apparently done in Scandinavian countries)? And all the other taxpayers, they're wondering: "Why the f-ck can't my taxes be that easy??"

That's why Grover Norquist and others are lobbying against this. If taxes weren't a hassle, their movements would lose an important emotional touchstone that fuels many people's aggravation against the government. Being able to tap into that frustration, in order to enrich themselves and their political donor class is very effective.
Sadly, the definition of "distribution" is so vague that many lawyers won't allow you to "distribute" your code to a box you don't own outright, in an effort to reduce their liability.

I've been in a few companies where this was a problem, since we were working in part for the government, which required us to run our code in nodes which were owned by a separate contractor. The lawyers interpreted that as distribution, and we had to replace the GPL'd portions of code we were using.
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I don't think that's what he's addressing, though.

It's this:

var foo = function() { redeclaration(); }

that I believe he's referring to, unless I'm mistaken.
er no I put "approved person" in quotes as it has a specific meaning in the UK context.
Of course she is going to get internal flak: she's basically saying the current management is incompetent and needs to raise the bar because she can't continue to blindly trust the hiring decisions that are being made on a day to day basis.

Brutal but how else will you separate the wheat from the chaff?
I have no negative emotions regarding wealth. In absolute terms, I am quite wealthy; I enjoy the serendipity of my birth tremendously and every day give thanks for it.

It's just plain to me that we're getting fucked by those much further up the chain and being admonished for having the gall to find it unpleasant.
I am fascinated by the frequent attacks on online education. Having taken many classes on both the big MOOCs and smaller platforms I have found it to be an incredibly positive experience.

To understand the cause of these attacks you only have to look at who is doing the attacking: professors and teachers along with their professional organizations and unions. They are truly frightened by the prospect of competition.

And they should be because most of the classes I have taken for free are much better than the classes I spent thousands of dollars on in college. There are also many other benefits such as time and convenience - MOOCs are asynchronous.
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It's more accurate to say it takes 4000 candidates, and it enrolls the 1000 selected. Not wanting to nitpick, just to clarify a bit.

I know some of the people involved, wish them all the best. Niel, of course, has a maverick reputation, it's a pleasure to follow what he does.

I think this move is very smart: both a great way to give back to society and to find more talent.
That doesn't seem all that unreasonable to me, you have really distributed to someone else at that point if they own the box, so at the least the GPL kicks in for them.
I've used Alton Brown's brine recipe for the past two Thanksgivings and gotten rave reviews. In fact I may have been relegated to the "Turkey Cooker" :(

The salting method looks interesting, but I'm liking Sous Vide right now and will probably do that next time around. One bath for white meat, another for dark. Should be super moist and not lose flavor.
Let me backseat CEO this for a second. To me, the problem with Yahoo is they're no longer relevant, they no longer have a thing people want. In the past they made their money by being the "default" they WERE the front page of the internet. You open up a browser, there's a search bar, the weather, and a bunch of fluffy reprinted news articles.

But this isn't 1996. People don't need ANY of this. If I want the weather, I have a gadget on my phone, which by the way is the first thing I look at in the morning. If I want to search I type the query into the URL bar (I use chrome) If I want news I go to reddit or hacker news. Nothing is drawing me into yahoo. Reprinted badly written blog articles do not attract me. My mom would probably read them, but doesn't know how to search for them.

Basically, having an army of the top engineers in the world isn't worth anything if they're not working on something people want to use. Yahoo needs to rethink who they are if they want to survive, they lost news, they lost search, and they lost "hosting gadgets".
Grover Norquist is like Nancy Grace. I cringe every time I see or hear about either of them.
WRT brining turkey vs aging beef it is an interesting hack that you can either dry up and intensify flavor or moisten and water down flavor using a little food science.

It is interesting that in the culinary arts there's a fixation on watering down your turkey flavor yet drying and strengthening up your beef flavor by drying/aging. An obvious next experiment would be brining up a beef steak and seeing if you like steak when its all watered down. Or a comparison run, watery beef vs dry turkey, which is "better".

Something that I think is missing is many of the traditional turkey dinner side dishes are often pretty watery, compared to traditional steak side dishes. So a dry bird is actually pretty good dining contrast with some wet homemade cranberry sauce or inherently watery green bean and almond casserole or moist mashed yams. A dinner made entirely of mush is a boring texture.

On the other hand, if you want watery poultry, experience it the easy way with ground turkey chili or diced chicken taco meat, or chicken/turkey soup. I like those too, perhaps partially because of the contrast between them and roasted meat.

Not to reopen old wounds but I probably eat more turkey dinner / steak dinner type food due to my sons medically diagnosed food allergies and my general affection for a paleo diet and coincidentally the example I usually provide in person of "what in the world is left for you to eat once you exclude everything" is usually something along the lines of think of a stereotypical thanksgiving dinner (or steak dinner) and take away the bread and you're pretty much on the right track. In that line of thinking if you don't want a dry bird you're much better off simply using a modern electronic thermometer to make sure its not over (or under) cooked than spending endless hours home processing your food. If a factory brined birds, there would be an outcry about processed foods, but its somehow better if you do it, supposedly. Actually its probably better from a contamination and food poisoning standpoint to fool with the bird as little as possible while its raw, regardless of any culinary science experiments or dietary beliefs.
I'm excited for EasyPost to get UPS integration with the option to use negotiated rates. Looks like a very solid service.
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I genuinely wonder if they ask the question
"What have you built, and may we look and go through the source together".

Doesn't that seem better than papers? I mean as a software engineer, design and product side of things.

Open source, API's, client side apps and etc.
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If you are already a programmer, official tutorial will be the best and fastest http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/

The page list some other domain as official python tutorial:
http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/python.html That's not the official python tutorial(it's giving me an access error - no ideas what's hosted there).
"internal flak" = if you're hiring someone better than me that will cost me my job. i hate to say it but the more i hear about mayer the more i want to buy the stock...
"4) Think for a minute what this implies: that a government agency that is responsible for collecting money should also be the sole source for computing how much money is owed."

Did you even read the article? All they are saying is the IRS could "pre-fill" your forms. If you don't agree, you can change the values, or get a CPA and do the whole thing completely independently. Where did you get the 'govt would be the sole source' argument?

Baseless fear-mongering like this doesn't do any good for any one (except Intuit maybe)
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While this has little to do with the original post (which is about the logic behind Yahoo's decision, on which I have absolutely no opinion one way or another), I think it's extremely important to adress what you're saying. You write "I get down about how unfair that is from time to time, but there's nothing you can really do about it, other than focus on your work". This is not only patently false, it is dangerously so. It is the thinking of the downtrodden man who accepts the hegemony's perspective on things, namely, that this is the natural order of things, and all you can do is work.

True, the world is unfair and it will remain so. But much of its unfairness is not a result of cruel nature, but as a result of our political actions. And I won't even go into what actions we should take to adress the issues you've raised, only to say that we should, and must act to change society, and that there's quite a lot we can do. We are not sheep.
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True but id suggest an actual employment law specialist not J random guy who did your house conveyancing.

And given that a large % of uk adverts say x years experience some where in them its unlikely to be "breaking the law" in all but a tiny minority of cases.
It's curious that you mention the barrage of rape and murder threats in passing, but reserve the weight of your outrage for the manner in which a woman reported inappropriate behaviour at a conference. And it was inappropriate, a clear violation of the code of conduct, as the conference organizers confirmed.
>the more you have to offer the higher your standards can be.

This assumes that a more reputable school necessarily represents a higher quality of education, which isn't necessarily true.
I'm not quite convinced that is what I would call an "innovation" per se, that is not quite how I think of the word; accepting that though, it is clearly a good choice.
Really helpful Danielle - thanks!
Funny, from the title, I thought I'd read the article and end up wanting to defend all of Mayer's policy (the intent of which seems right), but then you see quotes like:

Job applicants often go through the interview process, then "wait and wait," said one executive who recently left Yahoo. "One person we wanted waited eight weeks, then they inevitably got another offer."

It seems like at this point, Yahoo would want to streamline their hiring process as much as possible to bring good engineers on as quickly (and painlessly) as possible. And have that be an asset in terms of recruiting. I've had friends complain about this "wait and no response" sort of thing when interviewing with Google, but they're more willing to put up with it, because hey, it's Google.
I'm a linode fan too and recently tried digital ocean. It's very similar. The digital ocean machine is: a bit faster for disk access, cheaper! The Linode machine is: much faster network, much better management tools.

I'll probably keep using both!
So if I accept pull requests without asking people to sign a CLA, what kind of ramifications could this have for my project in the future?

Also, if the license says "Copyright <author> et al." (as many license headers do), does the copyright actually belong to the contributors as well as the author? How is this determined?
The way Fusion Tables are set up can be pretty confusing. In order to embed your table somewhere, you have to make the Google Docs data behind it public & searchable.
http://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/171221?hl=en

My guess is a lot of people are creating data visualizations for their own site/business and making the sets public without thinking of them being indexed and searchable. As I said, the documentation on this within Fusion Tables is pretty awful.
Well, I couldn't really make a straightforward evaluation of Norquist's principles even if I were ready to extend that kind of trust to him. The guy is on the record as believing that the government's imposition of income taxes is equivalent to the Holocaust.

With him, it's always a question of whether he's crazy in the obvious way or in a more subtle way.
"no contract, followed by 20 months of $20 payments on top of monthly pre-paid data plans."

<= how is that not a contract?
I'm not a fan of unusual sizes and colours. That said, printing on a decent linen paper (on the correct side!) has helped me.
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The government doesn't pay low salaries to coders, (remember, all they really need are CRUD apps. This isn't rocket science), its just HORRIBLE at hiring.

Rather than leaving any hiring decision to anyone who knows the issue at hand, hiring is done based on a process which is optimized to be legally unimpeachable. When government succeeds, nobody gets credit, but when they get sued, its cover your ass time. This is why ALL government processes, including hiring, are first and foremost about CYA.
If you had told me there were five inventions by the Brits (in the last 100 years) greater than the World Wide Web, I would've been stumped.
"After that the 4k selected will participate in a coding session (perhaps kind of like a mini hack-a-thon) sometime during the summer, from which 1k “geniuses” will be selected."

Based on what the website and press releases say, it seems like it will be closer to a 1-month long, 15 hours per day coding session. I wouldn't call that a "mini hack-a-thon".

They use the term "piscine" (pool), which is the term already used for a similar training step at Epitech (founded by the same Nicolas Sadirac mentioned in the article), another private tech-focused school based on similar ideas of "code, only code".
Sorry about that, I had some incorrect info from seed-db that I have removed.
We had Sous Vide turkey at our company Christmas dinner last year, and was the best turkey I've ever tasted. Wonderfully moist, with a texture more like a nicely cooked pork chop than turkey, and bursting with flavour.
I use emacs running in terminator, or WingIde as my preferred editors. I tried out PyCharm but it gathers dust. IntelliJ tried, but could not eliminate the Java smell completely.
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I misread your post when I re-skimmed it, and ignored the 2 shoes thing. Whoops. Thanks!
Can YC alumni screen applications to my disadvantage?
I recently met a YC alumni that I don't believe has the right angle on the market they are in. I am putting in an application that would compete with them but as I am still in the middle of building my MVP stage I am worried they will get too much information from my application and may pivot to my idea earlier than I would like a competitor to. Do all previous YC alumni get to screen applications?

I am mostly interested in the connections YC offers rather than the money (We intend on bootstrapping as much as we can). If this YC alum has access to this application should we perhaps submit for a later YC class or hold out till we have finished our MVP and apply for a different accelerator program?

What do you guys think?
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As far as I know, there is a very active mailing list of climate change related stuff, which includes sustainable energy also. People here are mainly from academia.

climate-l@lists.iisd.ca
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The kind of things "the market" takes care of is vanishingly small, and even when it does it rarely works in favor of most people. Why shouldn't we act in some way to make sure society as a whole benefits from our economy as much as it can? After all, our economy exists to serve us, not the other way around.
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At first I was thinking this would be an article where management was upset that they couldn't hire java jockeys anymore because of some rigorous hiring practice - but it turns out that the hiring practice in question is to require applicants to have degrees from prestigious universities.

I think this reflects well on Mayer's distrust of yahoo's HR department. Even though hiring employees from only prestigious universities is a terrible decision when it comes to getting as much good talent as possible, it's the only "solid" solution to force HR to at least be hiring candidates who might almost be good at what they're doing.

The reforms taking place in yahoo are quite interesting. Mayer's probably running under the knowledge that most of yahoo's employees aren't really good at what they do, so it's going to be very interesting to see what kind reforms she can pass so that the quality of the work produced by yahoo doesn't correlate with the quality of employees they're currently dealing with.
You can increase the number of rounds of hashing as well, without rewriting your code.

I can't argue with your last point, simply because I don't understand it. How exactly does this "turn something that has a low number of collisions into a high number of collisions?"

In my mind, what we're doing is hashing "mypasswordmysalt" n times, and storing the resulting hash, the salt and n in a user table. If the user table is leaked, and n is 3 (for simplicity's sake, it would normally be _much_ higher), can you explain how this could be worse than doing one round of hashing?
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you could but most of these architect renderings don't look like they have any of that. Some of them are communal terraces with deep infrastructure for trees to grow down into. But a few of these renderings are smaller terraces and judging from the rendering just 30-50cm of structure above the apartment below. Except grass not much can grow there. I've seen some pullt it off fairly well. Like the Sands Marina Bay Hotel in Singapore. In real life it looks like it does in the renderings before groundbreaking.
I really like this.
Why don't more companies do this? Is it better in theory than in practice? Maybe it creates too competitive of an atmosphere? Curious...
At least they're not retroactive, which is the writer's main problem with prop 30.
The title is slightly misleading – neither does Debian primarily use ‘mailing lists’ to report/manage bugs, nor does it not have an issue tracker. debbugs is operated by email, yes, but it also has a (read-only) web interface and is pretty much by definition an issue tracker, uploads to the Debian archive, e.g., can be ‘tagged’ as closing particular bugs.
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If that guy didn't get another offer until 8 weeks later, it was probably not a huge loss for Yahoo.