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I'm not sure that I feel this guy has much of a point. He got to do something he loves for $11 an hour, when many people are taking any job they can for minimum wage. I know it's a false equivalency, but the real point is there wasn't some big conspiracy to keep him down, he just didn't really like the conditions (common, vague problems - a couple crappy coworkers, some bad management, phony atmosphere) and he didn't get the raise he wanted and didn't get hired full time, when neither of these were promised. I sympathize, but this also smacks of entitlement.

Organizing is probably a good idea, there are already freelancer unions out there. But is that going to fix temps not being treated like employees who have been there for years, or make them more likely to be hired on?

I'm not saying we shouldn't all work together to make a better workplace for workers of all stripes. But this guy just doesn't seem to have much to complain about.
QA testers are not in the same boat though. I think the post is about QA testers.
What I worry about is a few years down the road when all of this security state nonsense is used for political reasons.

The use of the public's fear of terrorism to push for new "security" powers and other unrelated goals -- what I would call "used for political reasons" -- started within hours of the 9/11 attacks. Worrying about "a few years down the road" is decades too late.

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500249_162-520830.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein_and_al-Qaeda_lin...
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Responsibility is a headache. Even better than covering your ass is not having to.

Judges should be issuing warrants for searches, and denying them when appropriate. But what if a judge appropriately denies a warrant for an overly broad search with no evidence of wrong doing on the part of those being searched, and then a building is blown up and it turns out the overly broad search would have caught the bastard? The judge acted appropriately, but he'll be crucified none-the-less.

Too many people don't want to take the responsibility for doing the right thing and having bad come of it, so they'd rather do nothing, or even the wrong thing.
I'll bet you could get a lot of this information from something like FitBit.
The Biggest Loser - play along at home! Be the "biggest loser" in [your region] to [acquire swag], etc.

Sorry, maybe I'm being a bit facetious. There's definitely a lot of cool stuff that could be done with a personal API though. But how do you get people on-board? You have to have equipment to track/update stats right? Are people willing to buy into this potential network?
I agree. Welcome to being a contractor. In this case, since the skill required was very low, the reward is low. If you were a high skilled contractor you would be paid handsomely, but the hours would still be awful in most cases.
I've learned something from your comments on this thread, and thanks for taking the time, but you've lost me with the barrels. Pressure depends on height of the water and is independent of the container shape.
As said below:

I attempted to post the raw Kotaku article but it did not appear at all. I know Gawker network links are auto-deaded, so I figured that was the case.

I did search through the archives to see if there were any recent kotaku.com submissions and couldn't find any.
perfect reply. If one cant clear put in words what he wants he cant expect people to peep into his mind and build things for him. (no matter if the proj is outsourced or built onsite it will go to dogs)
When you are hired from a temp agency there is no ladder to climb. There may be a step stool buried somewhere under all those feces but you're still only going to be knee deep in shit. I remember doing this and it was soul crushing. You're not an employee until you sign a contract or have a badget with your face printed on it.
> Syndicating here because Hacker News's submit system does not like Gawker Network links.

This isn't subby's protest, it's pg's. You can take that up with him, though I agree that Kotaku isn't that bad.
9-10 days without Internet a couple times. A week or so at a time with internet, routinely, most of the time for a few years. 6 months where the only person was seen about as much as a prison guard at pelican bay would be, and another year which was quite close to that, and where I effectively couldn't leave.

I agree it's intense, but not exclusively bad. And I'm pretty sure I'd prefer it by far to being in prison with contact with inmates and COs.

There are a lot of people who have spent weeks/months solo in pursuits like sailing. It clearly isn't just the isolation of solitary which is a problem; it's probably more to do with 1) the type of people sent there and 2) the lack of control over one's own destiny. People who require "social interaction", put in a new/stressful situation against their will, etc. are a lot more likely to suffer from it than people who aren't particularly social and are solitary voluntarily and in a non-stressful setting.
I think that might be true of launch loops? The cable has incredible kinetic energy, but it is magnetically suspended in a vacuum tube, so its power loss could be low.
The article wasn't deriding wealth in tune with the usual tone of that headline. But you're right, it shouldn't bother you.

Friends of mine react with disgust that someone can make $200k or much, much more as a programmer, consultant, startup entrepreneur (particularly in the last case).

"Who needs all that money? What are you going to do with it all?" These are typically people who wouldn't mind having that much money either. It doesn't matter what's done with it all. Successful people drive the economy. It's the opposite, being miserly with money, that's bad for the economy.
Winning what? If 500+ million NaCl enabled Chrome users couldn't set off a revolution in web gaming, why would asm.js? Reality is, gamers don't really care about what the implementation details are, and whether someone is distributed as web, or as installable download, or via Optical Disc.

They want the best game that maximizes the bang for their buck. None of the proposed web solutions do that, although NaCL promises access to more system resources than asm.js does.
Let's do the math.

250,000 farmers sold. 144 total suits.

144/250000 = 0.0576%

The absurdity here lies in your claim.
I'm not sure why contractors or freelancers need a real "union". It kind of runs counter to the whole point of being an independent worker. Part of being a freelancer or contractor is that you already have all the power and you get to set the terms. If you don't like it, you walk away and go somewhere else.

Things like the Freelancer's Union are really about getting group benefits.
>I felt that, if I could get my foot in the door, within a year, whatever studio that hired me would realize that I would be quite an asset for their audio team.

I know several people who've been pretty successful in the gaming industry, none of them started out in QA.

Generally, they just worked on small bad/games eventually moving up to bigger and better ones. They all had solid track records of being active in various communities writing FAQs/guides or modding before finding a way to do those things for a living.
Nitpicking, but just going with classical physics and Newton's Third Law, yes, you can do such things. If the thing you're studying emits something, and you can infer the thing's state from what it emits, you can study the emissions without disturbing the thing. Similarly, looking at something doesn't change its state, since the light was already reflected / emitted.

Obviously there are additional complications at such small scales, and it depends on what you're detecting (measuring / passing through magnetic fields does affect the source since it changes the field), and it depends on what you define as "change" and which quantum mechanics interpretation you subscribe to. I'm just pointing out that the thing being measured doesn't have to be the thing you're investigating, so that law in particular doesn't really imply anything.
Did you read the article? This isn't about Occupy Wall Street at all. It's not criticizing the 1% and doesn't seem in line with your comment here.
Why bother with prison at all, if that's your attitude? Just execute all lawbreakers and be done with it.

The answer is that not all crimes are created equal, and neither should all punishments. You can go to prison for very mundane stuff.
This is what I'd worry about:

If I attended a protest like Occupy Wall Street or something, and gmailed my friends about it. Then, a year later, was told that I can't board an airplane because I'm on a no-fly list.
Ah, my mistake, I didn't know that. I apologize for the attack then :)
1) Do you also think of e.g. Scala as the CoffeeScript of Java? Scala : Java :: Elixir : Erlang

2) Yes, interoperability is there and, just like you can use Scala libraries from Java, you just need the Elixir runtime in your path.

3) My favorite is from the String.Unicode module:

defmodule String.Unicode do
# ...

def upcase(""), do: ""

lc { codepoint, upper, _lower, _title } inlist codes, upper && upper != codepoint do
def upcase(unquote(codepoint) <> rest) do
unquote(upper) <> upcase(rest)
end
end

def upcase(<< char, rest :: binary >>) do
<< char >> <> upcase(rest)
end

# ...
end
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