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This.

In Sweden 90% of the cars are diesel because they need the high-torque and low-speed in the snow, plus Sweden is big and there's only 9 million of them so most journeys are pretty long.
I have to plead ignorance about other countries. But in the US, I haven't really encountered too many developers who I sensed projecting superiority for the sake of job security. What I mean is that my impression is that they truly do believe they are a top developer. I have run into a few of those "job security" guys who are difficult to work with, but not that often.

I think part of it is that it's easy to look at another developer's code which you inherit and judge it to be inferior to your own work. I have found this to be very common - the developer who is constantly griping about the terrible code they inherited. (I myself have been guilty of this). But, it can be more difficult to actually create the code - especially under time or budget constraints or requirements that change over the years. So, in that case it can be tempting to judge yourself as a better developer - when in reality you may have created the same crappy code or worse.
But (and correct this ignorant european), but doesn't at will employment in the USA mean that they could be fired st any point for any or no reason anyway? And that's if they were never convicted of anything, right?
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Is it still theft if you tell them in advance what you want it for and they choose to give it to you? Our judicial system says no, but your opinion is considered valid too!
I haven't yet been able to decide whether meditation is legit or not.

I keep reading about how awesome it is, how much "scientifically proven benefits" it has. But as soon as you try to learn a little more, everything is mingled with bullshit religious mumbo jumpo. It's difficult to find nice rational sources about the subject.
Dude, it is a single firetruck, not a fleet of firetrucks being driven around to pick up groceries. If he were starting a trend, then yes perhaps this would be a-bad-thing. Instead, it's one guy fulfilling a lifelong dream. The gas mileage is going to be terrible and the emissions bad, but it's one firetruck.
We need a name for game glitches that can be used to your advantage.

I propose "vanellopes".
That sounds pretty plausible. Make a great example of crowd funding for Moms, then turn around and pump your crowd funding business.
Of course, her mom wrote every quote.
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In what way did I overestimate the diversity of America? Our foreign-born population is triple that (by ratio) of Finland, and Finland's foreign-born consist primarily of other scandanavian people who are closely related (Russians and Swedes). Only 80% of Americans are native English speakers while over 90% of Finns are native Finnish.

Note that I'm not just picking on Finland here, I'm pointing out that homogeneous peoples are easier to educate than diverse peoples. Locally nondiverse areas of the USA demonstrate the same phenomenon. Portland, the place that Linus is complaining about, is even more diverse than the USA average with 14% foreign born and 20% of households speaking non-English languages. Almost any major city in the USA is going to have a far more diverse population than Finland, and you'll find that the more diverse the city, the larger its educational problems are.
If you had a problem with the Kickstarter, why didn't you take it up with the person who started it? Since we're all supposedly against public shaming, I only think it's right that we DDoS your employer's network until they fire you.
I think most people think they are donating to somebody who needs it or to a camp itself. Not to a single person. I presume that is how they got $22,000 in commitments for a $900 fee. That is the fraud. And the "it isn't fraud because it was written the kickstarter was pointless." That just makes it a particular type of fraud.
Yes they were all right, unfortunately.

Thanks for an insightful comment.
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There are so many girls whose parents aren't millionaires who need our help that I am a little shocked that so many people were misled in backing this. I think Susan Wilson's comments on the kickstarter are a fine example of shooting yourself in the foot. It's actually a little funny to see the comments go from very positive at first to negative as more and more concerns are raised. It's She's clearly exploiting her children and the goodwill of the community. I'll be very surprised if Kickstarter doesn't put a stop to this very quickly.
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I don't think this is fraud.

Looks to me like a mom & daughter made something together and put it on the internet.

I live in an affluent part of San Francisco (Noe Valley) and last week saw lots of rich moms selling girl scout cookies with their daughters, mom doing all the "work." Is that fraud?

Also, nowhere do I see anything in the article (or the CNN article it links to) about the mom's finances. Just because you have a business does not mean you're rich -- it often means the contrary.
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If there's no severance, then I'd expect a solid-gold reference, yes. With appropriate severance, the neutral name-and-dates is fine.

A bad reference is an existential battle. You do everything you can to fight that. However, pushing neutral to good is generally a waste of time. Dust yourself off, get clean, and move on.
If you were buying a car, and were offered those two choices, which would you pick? I'd definitely go for the Civic despite the 4x higher price, because it's far more practical.
i used to use them extensively. unless something has radically changed, they cost nothing in the svn repository but when you pull them down, you have multiple copies on disk which takes double the space because of the way a branch appears like a separate folder in your working copy. am i missing something?
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Fraud? No.
Distasteful, dishonest, stupid and incredibly callous? Yes.
The first tip was to hire someone to create your resume. Who still cares about resumes?

When I am screening resumes, the only things I care about, in order of importance, are: github repos, well-answered stackoverflow questions, a technical blog. I barely even read over the education and experience sections. If a candidate doesn't have documented, public proof of quality, I have no way of assessing their quality and always say no hire in this case.
Well you cant compare a large sparsely populated agricultural state to a small densely populated and richer nation state such as Finland.

And no offense ment here the problem is the Linus doesn't seem to understand some of the political and social history of the USA which would act against his ideas.
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A non-fraud would have promised excess collected to other children and causes.
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There's no complicated fascination. It is simple. People like big cars because they are spacious, feel safer, provide a higher vantage point, and a host of other reasons.

Your hatchback is perfectly fine around town, but it can't tow a boat, and most people don't like to have multiple cars.

So, what winds up happening is people buy the most car they think they will need. It's totally overkill driving to work, and plenty of people never actually tow that boat, but this is why it happens.

Europeans would do the exact same thing, I figure, if they lived in an economic climate with similar gas prices and car taxes and such. With the possible exception of people living in old cities whose roads are just too small.
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Have a dream to buy a firetrack and go to the grocery store? Meanwhile in Siberia tough guys use trucks, APCs and even tanks to swim through the mud to their work!

It is a real video from a place there Russia gets its oil.
That sounded amazing but it's just a bad title. "Facebook knows you’re gay before your parents" would be true.
> Essentially, the public were not properly compensated for turning in their gold.

I known pretty much nothing about economics or the history here, but I don't see how this follows. The value of the dollar (in terms of what it would buy aside from gold) didn't suddenly shift. Are you saying that the shift in the worth of gold would have happened even if the government hadn't moved off the gold standard? If so, how is it that the government "set" it? And if not, then how did folk lose anything?
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Though it is impossible to quantify, I think as a society we're probably starting to lose a lot of potentially great second acts from people who made early mistakes due to the way everything is tracked, monitored, and easily searchable these days.

I wish I had some good practical advice on this subject, but my only advice would be things already said here: freelance, or stick to companies small enough that there isn't much HR bureaucracy in place yet.

FWIW, in my teenage years (I'll be 40 this year) I did quite a lot of "freelance, unofficial security work" and I know a lot of other people who did, some of whom are relatively famous (within certain communities anyway) who did the same and pretty much the only difference between them/me and you is not getting caught, or being located in a jurisdiction that didn't care enough to press charges at the time. So good luck, man.
Work, after all, is mostly about getting shit done. If there is a shortage of female engineers they are probably overvalued which also means I could hire equally good or better men for less money.

Does the little gain of prestige make up for the huge potential loss of opportunity?
I have to respectfully disagree. At least the OP has a foot in the door in this field. Moving on to something else would mean starting at the bottom, yet having the same obstacles to overcome.

Some jobs are simply closed off. No way around it. Why hire a felon when you can hire any other equally (based off paper and salary requirements) qualified candidate? Government restrictions may preclude him as well.

If you are basing your options only on your history, then you have to find a career where your history doesn't hurt you. This means applying for jobs that felons apply for. You've done a year in jail, you know the embarassing(to society) level of education of most inmates. I don't think this is really a route you would want to consider.

Don't give up. You will have to work hard, sure. Harder than most. Which is a good quality to have when you find the right position.
Perhaps the proper appropriation of the raised money is a better thing to petition for than the campaign's banning?
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I wish I had downvote ability right about now... so I could negative karma you even more. There is this constant argument about these kinds of stories on hacker news. It's not about being 'hacking' related, it's about being interesting and informative. I'd say the story qualifies for both.
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A thief is a thief, it doesn't matter if she pimps out her kids to Johns on the internet willing to pay the cash for a fuck. As long as she takes the money she is guilty, and human trash too.
Older siblings tend to give little siblings a hard time in general, regardless of their gender.

This is most definitely a publicity stunt at Kickstarter's expense. Millionaire's begging others to fund their child's camp is not something you see every day, and it most certainly doesn't belong on Kickstarter.
Out of curiosity, are you in any way affiliated with this Kickstarter? Your comment history shows 10 comments on the topic so far, mostly siding with the mother.
Thereby demonstrating, conclusively, the uselessness of relying on the federal government to decide how much power the federal government has.
How does that relate to Google Glass? All you've done is restate "it could happen". I don't know how to convey to you the extent to which that's not the point.
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I've pushed hard for people to use PlantUML where I work, and some awesome people got it plugged into our mediawiki instance. It's been great for complex functional/design specifications. When someone adds a comment saying "you forgot about case X", you can just press edit, and update your diagram.

It's wonderful and I really do recommend people try it out.
I think there's a fair bit of double standards here. Here's a short, by-no-means-exhaustive list of well received, wildly successful Kickstarter campaigns started by multi-millionaires who could've easily offered the funding themselves:

* Double Fine Adventure (Tim Schaefer): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fine-a...

* Yogventures (the Yogscast): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/winterkewlgames/yogventu...

* Veronica Mars Project (Rob Thomas or Kristen Bell): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-m...

* Wasteland 2 (inXile Entertainment, run by Brian Fargo): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2

* Torment (2nd Kickstarter run by inXile Entertainment, before even fulfilling Wasteland 2): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-...

* Project Eternity (Obsidian Entertainment, a AAA games company, run by Chris Jones): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternit...

* Project Godus (22 Cans, run by Peter Molyneux): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/22cans/project-godus?ref...

Why a nine-year-old girl and her ostensibly well-to-do mother get called out as "fraud" but not everyone else is something I don't really understand.
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> hypotheses are tested against reality

How?
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What made you arrive to that conclusion? The kickstarter text makes it clear it's going towards this girl's camp fees and a laptop.
> "Hate crimes" for instance clearly do not involve any recognizable institutions yet clearly involve an -ism of some kind.

Only in the sense that they 'reproduce' the broader -ism. The individual act is one of discrimination, the sum of all acts collectively is an *-ism.

> For instance it would be possible for a female owned company to not hire men (female hiring bias/sexism) which would run counter to larger societal biases.

Studies and discussion on this topic are scoped specifically at the societal level for a reason.
Only when present and working, which is not guaranteed.

This is a fundamental problem with emergency services. When a major emergency happens, it happens all at once, and you need a lot of manpower and equipment to handle it. All the rest of the time, when more routine emergencies happen, all that manpower and equipment looks like total overkill, and it is, except for being prepared for something huge.

So, yeah, you don't need a truck that can carry thousands of gallons of water to respond to a house fire when there's a hydrant down the street. But you want that truck to be available in case the shit really hits the fan hard, and since you have it, you might as well use it.
1) They developed a negative reputation as being stinky, noisy, and complete dogs when it comes to performance.

2) Something to do with the sulfur in US diesel. Up until somewhere around 2005, US diesel had more sulfur than, for example, Europe. I think the issue was that diesel passenger cars would have trouble passing emissions requirements due to the fuel. (Trucks generally have more relaxed requirements)

Edit: Ah, here we go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-low-sulfur_diesel#United_...

Start at the paragraph beginning with "The allowable sulfur content..."
I don't think this is fraud, but I'm not sure it's currently allowed on Kickstarter. The problem is, this is "$829 so I can go to camp", not funding the game itself. So normally the excess money is explicitly for continuing to develop whatever is being funded, but in this instance that may be LIKELY but it's not explicit.

However, having a bunch of money and being able to afford something without Kickstarter is meaningless in this equation. The fact that the mom is a wealthy person has 0 pertinence.
If nothing else, the fact that it would attract children, whereas I've seen few kids who are interested in playing on (versus in) the Ford Explorer.

It also would have far worse visibility than a Ford Explorer.

That said, I don't think it is an argument for whether he should be "allowed" to have the truck or not. If there was evidence that people with large truck always hurt kids, perhaps; but I don't think that evidence exists.
Yep and even if we do account for this, say by asserting a table lock or escalating isolation level, we can still run into problems in the case that there are triggers defined.

There is no direct substitute in PostgreSQL, but there are case by case alternatives AND as far as any use cases I can dream up right now, they have better (As in they are easier to debug, easier to observe and easier to tune - MySQL necessarily hides the update operation from you) semantics.
"last week saw lots of rich moms selling girl scout cookies with their daughters, mom doing all the "work." Is that fraud?"

Good strawman.

Of course, girl scout money goes to the Girl Scouts, and not the parents or the kids. Whereas, the money collected from this kickstarter goes into Mom's pocket.

So they aren't really he same at all. Of course you knew that.
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Great point!

if you like puzzles, it might be better not to spoil the fun by reading the wikipedia article

Yes please. It's absolutely better that way — the most fun book I've ever read. Just pick it up and start reading.
I've got a Toyota 4Runner, perfectly capable of moving people and towing a trailer on rare occasions. It also comes in really handy when we do our Costco grocery shopping.

For the "everyday" commute, I'm proudly on the bus and noticing as of late that this is getting more and more common with younger age groups who want to live in urban areas, where mass transit is most convenient. I would bet this trend continues for the next few decades in the United States.
I am no kind of authority, so please don't take this comment any further than the actual words in the comment box. In particular, I have never worked with you, or anyone who has worked with you; I don't even know what you do (I'm sure it's something interesting and challenging). You're an abstraction to me. I cannot possibly have any opinion about the advisability of employing you and am only sharing my opinion about the ideas you are expressing.

What I have to say about your perspective on references is that I will never, under any circumstances, work with, for, or over someone who believes what I think you're saying you believe about references. "Bad reference => war", to me, is essentially an endorsement of professional dishonesty.

Negotiating over the quality of your reference is to me a bit squicky, but it's on the right side of the line, just a couple steps past coaching your references (which is also white-lie dishonest]). Using aggressive negotiation tactics to ensure good references from people who don't believe your work merits a good reference is on the wrong side of the line. You think it's a concession you're extracting from your former employer, but it is really a concession you are surreptitiously taking from your future employer.
Perhaps normalize by dividing each of your comment scores by the median score of other replies to the same parent? Then average these normalized scores.
Well, mr-hank said it had something to do with "a big dongle joke about a fictional piece hardware that identified as male", and Adria corroborates that less specifically with it being a joke about a "big" dongle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681

http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont...

However, if that description isn't enough (it is for me), I'd much rather accept Adria's oversensitivity and injustice-seeking behavior as applicable character flaws. As opposed to her hypocrisy, those things really do make her a bad judge of what is and isn't sexist, because they generate false positives.

Her hypocrisy is also galling because of her response to the events, but that still doesn't affect her claim that she took appropriate action, because it's a generic claim about any woman in that situation, and doesn't rely on any of her character flaws.

Okay, that is as refined as it gets for me, I think. I did come to see how I was implicitly accepting an ad hominem argument without realizing it (the one about oversensitivity), so thanks again.
Attracting children is a good one I hadn't thought of.

As for visibility, I think that probably cancels out with a responsible driver. The fact that it's harder to drive will engender additional caution, for probably no major net change in danger, assuming he can avoid getting so used to the thing that he gets sloppy.
I'd like a lawyer to explain the legal distinction between a felony and a misdemeanor. Over my lifetime it seems that the the number of felonies has grown enormously and many of them don't seem to be for offenses that have much harm relative to many misdemeanor offenses.
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A fire track? I always wanted to get a tank!
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Isn't much of Kickstarter rich people seeking donations for themselves? It's not like Peter Molyneux, a multi-millionaire, needed to get Kickstarter donations, but he did anyway. Presumably he just didn't want to spend his own money on building a game prototype.

I guess I'd leave it up to the funders of a particular project whether they think giving already-rich people more money is a good use of their own money. Some kind of mandatory disclosure of existing net worth could be an interesting twist, to make sure people aren't misled about the requester's existing financial situation. But I doubt KS would go for that.
The major consequence of "termination for cause" is that you don't get severance, and the company will probably fight unemployment claims.

I grant you that if he gets fired over this, he shouldn't expect a package. His life is already in a state of fucked-up-ness that is beyond worrying about that he might get fired without severance. He needs to get a job, first and foremost. Severance is almost a Maserati problem, where he is.

Right now, severance is nice to have but not a huge deal. Fifteen years from now when he's getting large (~1 year) contractual severances due to being in highly strategic roles-- he can be cut for reasons that aren't his fault, and job searches take years at his level-- he will want to start coming clean about the felony. By that time, he'll have a track record and can come clean because no one will care about a 15-20+ year old felony conviction.
Girl scout cookies don't cost $21,000+ and neither does RPG camp. You're right, it's probably not fraud, but it is a publicity stunt at Kickstarter's expense. I agree a good petition would be to redirect the funds to a real charity or cause.