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A couple thoughts, some more depressing than others.

You could probably get three to six months off pretty easily. If just asking wouldn't work, you could hint a relative is on their last legs and make a firmer request? A few months would probably clarify the issue in a way we can't for you.

Consider looking for a new job. Partly to judge the market, and the market's take on you, and partly to actually look for something much better. You could negotiate a six-month late start and have a vacation while you decided if the job really was for you.

Maybe you could already afford to retire - in Costa-Rica or Thailand for random example - and could buy and rent property there as a fallback nest egg in case this really was your retirement, but otherwise not costing so much as to hurt your savings assuming you'll want to try to retire here.

And lastly, what's the chance that retirement savings is going to be here when you want to retire? Are you paying attention to where it is enough to avoid the next bubble? Land would still be valuable to live on, rent, while currency-denominated assets could easily hyper-inflate. Some assets can be seized, or lost in war, others - or remotely stored ones - perhaps less.

All that said, do it! Don't make any commitments, just start by taking vacation, ask for leave when that's out, and quit when that's done if you still want to stay away.
I agree, it is! I did a light comparison[0] between a logic programming solution to sudoku (Prolog) and one using constraint programming (Scala + JaCoP). I thought Prolog was a little nicer because it was shorter and more declarative, but the JaCoP solution was still great compared to any non CP-solution.

[0] - http://nickknowlson.com/blog/2012/08/06/seven-languages-week...
Democrats want a police state? That's an outrageous assertion that has no basis in reality what so ever. Keep your non-constructive partisan political comments to yourself.
Very positive attitude and good advice.
Elli from HireArt here. I think your comment is really interesting and important to take note of. It's a bit funny in my particular case because I actually worked for University of Phoenix for a few years which is how I got the idea for HireArt.

I met a ton of students at UOP who hadn't been as lucky as I had in going to a school like Yale (FYI, I was an athletic recruit so felt really grateful to be there). Employers literally ignored their resumes and would never get back to them. I was shocked because I would talk to some of these students and thought they were talented, ambitious, hard-working, etc. The thing that makes me passionate about HireArt is trying to overcome the obsession with credentials (which are very highly correlated with socio-economics) and moving toward a more meritocratic way of hiring.

Can I say that I am totally rid of the drive towards prestige? No. I fall into that trap. It's a hard trap not to fall into given how much society values brand names. Anyway, you pointed out a tension that I actually struggle with a lot. A recent article about the "college bubble" recently called for all Ivy-League graduates to 'renounce' their degrees to stop the bubble from continuing. It's hard in practice but the point of the article is that unless the people with Ivy-League degrees stop caring so much about them, the status quo cannot change.
Much appreciated.

Yes, I've ready many horror stories. The combination of "at-will" and "you lose everything if you're fired" just reeks of danger, to be honest...

I've been dangling on the edge of leaving for some time now, the options were literally the only thing keeping me there -- the hope that if I stayed for 2-3 months longer, perhaps we'll get a surprise early exit. But it seems that given how much the valuation has changed now there's some more experienced people involved, even in the case of that early exit (which is very unlikely, I know), it isn't really going to do anything for me...

> Included from deleted post above, for the history books:

> Thanks for that. I've always been skeptical, and me (or any other employees) actually believed the company should be valued at $30m when it was. Another thing I found that was; my options aren't vested. They're exercisable immediately, but are restricted in the sense that the moment I leave the company (for any reason), I lose them. From what I've heard, it's much more common for a ~4 year vesting period, at which point they're essentially 'yours', whether you stay or not.
Is that unusual? From every angle, it kind of feels like we're being given a bum deal here (I won't go into salaries, demotivating work environment, 2 years of 60+ hour weeks ... )
Ah great point. This will be really interesting to observe the changes in the water level over the next few years, since Las Vegas is now very efficient with its water usage and has some pretty hard limits on water usage, if I remember correctly.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but you may be vastly overreacting.

Talking about what's happening in both the Atlantic ice sheets and the Antarctic ice shelves can become complicated, and as far as I can tell (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) not definitive by any means.

However, rainforests are by no means the "Earth's inhaler of carbon dioxide (and by extension I took that to mean 'oxygen producer' as well)". According to many sources (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest#Tropical, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-2.1/broecker.htm, http://www.iub.edu/~act/files/publications/1992-93/93-03_Def...), rainforests do not contribute much to global oxygenation.

In fact, organisms like the prochlorococcus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prochlorococcus have been theorized to be responsible for at least 50% to 60% of the world's atmospheric oxygen (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v424/n6952/full/nature0... there's a paper in the references there which has that statistic, but I don't remember which). Today, these microbes are still hard at work, churning out oxygen and while some mistakes have been made (iron seeding, etc) they're still the most populous microbe on the planet.

I would also contest the point about human beings. (This is my opinion talking now). I will not disagree that the earth's climate is changing rather rapidly (relative to the measurable past). I will argue though that it is arrogant to presume that humans are the root cause. On a micro scale, humans have been rather destructive to specific ecosystems. However, I have yet to see convincing proof that humans can effect climate change to this magnitude on a macro scale.
Good one. And, of course, let's not forget the venerable Project Gutenberg[1].

[1]: http://www.gutenberg.org/
True, but very few of the companies in that list are in industries that entrepreneurs feel confident about entering.
I find it really interesting that 11.1% of men identify as gay coming out of college, yet only 1.7% of women do. Those numbers are respectively higher and lower than I would expect. It really speaks to the differences between male and female sexuality, even outside of "normal" heterosexual identity. Any thoughts as to why these numbers are so different? Is our conception of sexual orientation fundamental or just a social construction? I'm endlessly fascinated by these questions. There's so much we don't understand, complicated by politics of heteronormativity and equality. Wikipedia has an interesting article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientat...
Google Earth lets you view old aerial and satellite images... they have portions of the peninsula back to the 1940's.
The point is that right now people don't look at anything other than the fact that you went to Yale. If you didn't go to a good school, it's very hard to get noticed in today's job market. There's something fundamentally wrong with that given that with a few exceptions, where you went to school is directly correlated with your family's household income.
What _I_ meant by that (and keep in mind my answer might not be based on the same circumstances/juristiction/type-of-encrypted-data as you) - is that I'm reasonably sure my employers, family members, office-mates, cleaning staff - and even state and local police, will not have access to my data unless I choose to give it to them. At the same time I'm under no impression that federal level law enforcement can manipulate things so I don't really have any choice about whether to hand over my keys (I'm _reasonably_ sure that at least local and state law enforcement where I live are unlikely to use "rubber hose cryptography" to extract my passphrase). And I don't know for sure, but I strongly suspect that various three letter agencies or "nation states" probably do have the resources needed to brute force any password/phrase I'm using (including 25+ character random upper/lower/digit/symbol ones I let 1Password generate, or perhaps they'd just brute force the 6 word mis-spelled 1Password master passphrase).
You are the reason that reason has such a hard time in politics. You've made up your mind about something that evidence and facts overwhelmingly disagree with you on.
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This and all the responses to it seem hopelessly naive to me. Obviously, if there is a delay in benefits, the delay has been introduced as a cost cutting measure. The more you delay, the less you pay. This is a pretty typical measure for large organizations trying to surreptitiously reduce costs (see welfare or HMOs) and the problem has nothing to do with logistics.
>So what does she advise? Sharef pointed to one applicant, a Detroit woman who had worked as a cashier at Borders. She realized that that had no future, so she taught herself Excel. “We gave her a very rigorous test, and she outscored people who had gone to Stanford and Harvard. She ended up as a top applicant for a job that, on paper, she was completely unqualified for.”

I don't know if I'm too cynical but the first thing that came to my mind after reading that was if her pay is gonna be the same of someone who went to Stanford or Harvard.
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@CGamesPlay how did you get a job at Facebook being a college dropout and why did you drop out of University of Central Florida?
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How many times does it need to be stated that science does not advance by consensus. Science is not an exercise in democracy. Evidence, yes, but please don't talk about consensus.

I suggest you don't get your science from Discovery magazine or from the Washington Post. This link (from a sceptical website) cites innumerable original peer-reviewed papers showing that even the IPCC now retract on their earlier claims about an increase in extreme weather. You can find many more links to <evidence supported> data on the site.

That said, we should all bemoan the cutting down of forest and the pollution of the oceans to mention only two aspects of man's disastrous activities on our planet.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/13/ipcc-ar5-draft-leaked-...
What a whiner! Maybe it's different for laptops, but for desktops, you can still go almost anywhere and have a custom-built system made without any Windows install at all! Huge hard drive, flaming fast GPU, RAM up tha wazoo, studio-grade sound card and as many cores as Intel or AMD can cram onto a chip these days. Hell, if you want a Linux laptop, buy a Sputnik from Dell!
Sure, if we're talking about employers, the rules are different. But most of the discussion in this thread has been about non-employer email providers. The line is actually drawn pretty reasonably in that case, if you spend some time thinking about it.

The felony statute I was referring to far above was the Wiretap Act. The "not more than 1 year" in prison is from the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. Also if you're talking about cable providers you need to look at the Communications Act of 1934 and the Cable TV Privacy Act of 1984. Enjoy. :)
Thanks, this clarified the point of the post :)
That's not true at all. If I enter information manually, then the site has exactly the information I've chosen to give it, no more and no less, until I decide to provide more. That is most likely not the same information I've shared through Facebook. But if the site gathers information from my Facebook account, then it gets whatever Facebook chooses to give it; the choice is not under my control.

If Facebook had a history of strong privacy protection and strict opt-in policy to information sharing, this wouldn't be so bad. But since Facebook has the completely opposite history, including Zuck coming right out and saying that he would prefer all Facebook user info to be shared, I'm not going to trust Facebook to keep whatever I want private private.
You don't follow state politics much, do you?

Quoting a US Senator on a bill that was supported by both national parties isn't very relevant here.
Fair. This is a legitimate concern. I guess I'm a fairly uninformed consumer, as I've never actually sought a refund for a Windows license (nor known this was a possibility).
Zoom out as far as possible. Drag the slider. Watch the snow-line retreat in the north of Canada and Russia.
I don't know for sure, but I would kind of doubt they are rendering all 130,000 frames in parallel. I would think it is more likely that when a scene is done and ready then that scene would be rendered and completed.

There are a lot of other things going into each scene other than just the rendering (storyboarding, animating, lighting, etc) so it would be silly to wait for the entire film to be done and then render all at once.

Also the 11.5 hours is the average time. Single frames could take up to 80 or 90 hours to render according to that article.

So as for how many they do in parallel that would be very interesting to find out, but I would guess possibly all the frames devoted to a single scene so that would be around 5,000-10,000 frames at once which seems somewhat reasonable considering they have 12,500 cores.
Sorry but you haven't kept up with the publications. This is a report on IPCC ar5!

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/13/ipcc-ar5-draft-leaked-...

"IPCC AR5 draft leaked, contains game-changing admission of enhanced solar forcing – as well as a lack of warming to match model projections, and reversal on ‘extreme weather’"
Ice sheets don't concern me one bit. Ice and cold is definitely one thing humanity can do with less of.

Felling of rainforest is more of a concern for me. Especially when it is for palm oil, soybean and sugar cane plantations to produce bio fuel. That one makes me quite concerned.
Note that I commented above that I am in disagreement the way MSFT arranged this. However, to be fair to the one posing the question, the actual outcome of clicking through the EULA to install the OS of your choice is probably nothing (well, you won't be getting your money back for that Windows license). EULA or not, nothing will happen. It's "the principal of the thing". In this case, it's a pretty big matter of principal, though.
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Nor at the guardian it would appear: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/28/google-afri...
Actually, it's methane from cow burps that gets people worried, not farts.

You're right about geological and astronomical events having much more importance on the Earth than an insignificant mammal.

Earth will always be fine. The Earth doesn't care whether it is Mars or Venus. Only people care. If your species isn't winning, it's losing. Change is inevitable.
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I'm not really able to look at performance versus TopCoder rank (partly because I don't know my peers' TC rank because I'm not that into TC), but if I had to guess, I would think that there is no correlation. It's simply a matter of where one puts one's developmental efforts.
You're right, that was actually a really good explanation. I'm sorry, I misinterpreted your comment! Retroactively upvoted, for what it is worth.
So basically, Marx was right.
While I'm sure Super Mario Galaxy is an excellent game, Wii Sports was more than "Oh my god I have to play this!", it was actually "Oh my god, I have to play this and I'm going to buy that system to do it".

Wii Sports is probably one of the most important bundled games in console history. It was a killer app with system-selling universal appeal reaching well beyond just gamers.
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After doing an internship at Facebook in college, I received a full-time offer for after I graduated. I never really felt like college was for me and so I asked if they could extend me an offer immediately rather than waiting until graduation.
That may have been true ten years ago, but is completely untrue today. Every Ivy League school, at least, is completely need blind. Financial aid packages are extremely generous and you pay only what you can afford. If your family's income is less than $70k (or more if you have siblings), you pay nothing.

I'm sure there is a correlation, but I disagree that it is a causation. Much of the correlation is probably the result of early-life educational advantages for stronger socioeconomic families. That's an unfortunate correlation indicative of a larger social problem, but not indicative of admission to Yale depending on income, as you seem to be implying. The two just unfortunately correlate.
Even a solution as fundamental as search on the internet is not really helping me lead a better life.

I disagree. Maybe you are talking about yourself. Google almost changed my life. The productivity boost that it gave me helped in creating the products and shaping the learning curve.
That was a very sad incident, but I fail to see the relevance at all.
HLS (http adaptive streaming) is non-existant in Chrome, except for on the Google TV. So I end up having to develop in Safari, which is painful. Especially when I'm making apps for the Google TV (and other SmartTV Platforms).

::le sigh::
Is this a personal attack?
You will never get an authoritative unbiased scientific resource.

There is no agreed measure on what 'impact' means, and whether that is positive or negative. One persons fantastic city is anothers urban blight on pristine wilderness.

All published data are biased in some direction.

You can measure conversion of wilderness to farmland, farmland to cities, displacement of wildlife, and many other factors. Much of the data is modelled. All of it is produced to prove one point of the other. Even when people agree on the data, they will disagree on the positive or negative impacts.

The trusted third party is a mirage. All you can do is interpret the supplied data and arguments and make up your own mind.
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I agree Scott Murray's book is the best of the books.
> Sharef (who was my daughter’s college roommate)...
Query string wouldn't always work, because the site may already use the query argument for something else; some sites may break or freak out when given unexpected arguments.

URL fragments aren't transmitted to the server, so that means you lose referrer analysis for static sites.
You seem to be confused about whether you're a relativist or not. If the concept of "good" is different for each individual, surely the concept of "right" is as well.

Only you can really figure out how best to use the unique combination of human qualities that you have

Do you have anything to back up this claim? It seems very wishy-washy.

which is what "considering another in a position of power" means: you're putting them above you in the hierarchy

This is a rather one-dimensional way of looking at the world. There are all sorts of power, and all sorts of ways one can hold another in power. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the relationship between me and my local police officer. He is in a position of power, in that I've agreed to follow his directions in most cases, and it's a mutually beneficial relationship. There's also nothing wrong with the relationship between me and my Congressman. He's in a position of a power in that he creates (with others) the law of the land, and I am in a different position of power in that I vote him in or out. I can go on and on, as the world is full of complex relationships, but with respect to the subject at hand, you seem to be arguing that someone is wrong for considering a person worthy of giving advice, and putting that person in a "position of power" by allowing them to speak that advice. It seems really silly.
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> where you went to school is directly correlated with your family's household income.

Not sure where you got causation from that statement. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if Yale "means" to discriminate against poor people, but the fact is that if you are poor, you are far less likely to experience a childhood and academic life that will do well against the Yale admission requirements.
That is both unnecessary and uncalled for. Besides, as a Texan, I'm also equivalently shocked that the Legislature managed to pull this off, especially without a single "no" vote anywhere in the process.
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Probably. But we could also say you should have read the article before having a knee-jerk reaction to the title.
You're on a thread talking about employers searching mail, Declan.
This would be a delightfully devious opportunity to increase Android marketshare.

Do-be-evil mode pseudo code:

if $user_agent =~ /iPhone/
$ball_velocity = $swing_force - $number_of_swings
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Gradually increase the force required to attain equal velocity until iPhone reaches any given value of wall.
Not to mention, if your product has theoretical legal uses but is exclusively used for criminal purposes, that doesn't get a pass either.
The porn ban is simply just for show, there are tons of other sites that are not blocked.

Same goes for this, I don't believe any internet-savvy user actually visits yahoo news or the other state medias(>stomp, hah.)

As a programmer, this ban should hardly, if at all, affect you in any way.

If you actually care about freedom, then recognize the fact that Singapore has decided to give up some freedom for the sake of peace. Not much terrorism here, is there?
BI is such a content farm they basically wrote the same article 2x:

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http://www.businessinsider.com/cook-google-glass-is-unlikely...

It must be uplifting being one of their "journalists".
One of the driving forces behind the development of Gecode was that academics used to use the pre-cursor to IBM CP Optimizer, ILOG Solver, in research.

As for comparing Gecode with CP Optimizer, the largest difference IBM CP Optimizer is a closed-source commercial system, with paid support. CP Optimizer also has some (as far as I've seen) amazing automatic search heuristics, automatic symmetry breaking, and more advanced scheduling constraints. Gecode on the other hand is open for modifications, has nice parallel search built in, and can be embedded easily. Given a problem where both systems have the constraints, and the search heuristic is fixed, my guess is that they would be mostly equivalent in speed
>> The number of FPS' don't make a good indicator to distinguish between "hardcore" and casual.

You are so right. It's annoying that the standard for "gamer" has become FPS players.

In my day, hardcore gamer meant you could have been into any genre, whether it be Japanese style RPGs, Japanese style shooters (I'm talking Raiden or Gunstar Heroes, not FPS), or fighting games.

The only reason why I keep a PS3 around is for stuff like Street Fighter and King of Fighters -- stuff that a "modern gamer" (i.e., gamers from the 360 era and forward) would probably call niche.
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