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As an employer and owner, I don't have a problem with people moving around in their career. I expect it. I stay on great terms with them, give them flowers when they move on, wish them good luck, and invite them to stop by socially later.

Most people stay for several years or sometimes much more. Staying less than two years, and certainly less than a year, can be so short as to be counterproductive, so that's less welcome, though we always do self-introspection to see if we did something to drive them away (it's rare that someone stays that short a time). But if someone's been there three years or more, they've contributed a lot to the company, and I really do want them to do well, and they have no obligation to be "loyal" to the company.

Sometimes they work for a while elsewhere and then come back. That's great too.
I feel it's important to remember that in the employee-employer relationship, you're peers. You both need to provide the other with value, and you both need to be frank about your relationship when these values are lop-sided. And you need to be clear about what the value of the things being offered are. Your employer is not your family, your mom, or your significant other. It's a peer with which you trade value. Every person who works is a single-person business selling their particular expertise and time.

I feel like maintaining this attitude can help with all sorts of stuff, including dealing with job offers, negotiating pay, etc. And key to this is having a fairly good knowledge of the value that you provide so you know what value you deserve in return. (Being acutely aware of the value you provide can also help steer you towards higher-value skill sets.)

Intangibles are great. But don't live in fantasy land. And be aware that no one's obligated to give you anything unless it's written in a contract.
If they manage to remain at or near profitability through the continued scaling of Model S production and the introduction of the Model X next year, then things could get very interesting when they release their infamous 'third-generation', mass-market vehicle.
Shortly after being hired full time at my first ever full time salaried job, my manager when I was an intern was laid off with some others. It really sucked and it was a good initial lesson for me. I will never be loyal to a company if I don't own a significant piece of it.

I don't wear clothing with the company logo, I rarely attend company events, I don't mix anything in my personal life (insurance plans/cell phone contracts ect...) with company provided deals or discounts. I keep over 12 months of living expenses liquid. That being said, I try to remain professional and take the job for what it is. They pay me a salary, I do work. In the distant future I look forward to bootstrapping my own business.
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Tax evasion isn't a good way to protest. If it were, you'd see a lot of people jumping on that bandwagon, just so they could have more money at the end of the year! Imagine that being pitched on a shareholder's meeting. "This fiscal year... we are going to protest our taxes. We project a 30% increase in profits."
Looks a lot like promises. Cancellation is missing from Q.js anyway.

One thing that always surprises me though is how people rightly are disgusted by callbacks but think promises/deferreds/futures/etc are nice. They are nicer but doing a lot of async stuff stills sucks big time even using these tools. You will write way more code and it will be way tricker than an otherwise comparable synchronous app.

Obviously sometimes you have no choice but I think one should always strive to minimize the async parts of your app as much as possible.
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It would be better to share the knowledge on the forum for everyone to see.
I think there are three legitimate objects of loyalty in the proper order:

1. Loyalty to your work. Do a good job, take pride in it, try to always do better.

2. Loyalty to the customer. This goes without saying, but don't let this make you do less of a good job.

3. Loyalty to the company. I disagree with the author in saying this is sick. However, it becomes sick when it is placed above a need to do a good job and take care of the customer's needs.

Loyalty to the company is what glues together the other two into something productive, but it cannot stand on its own without degrading into petty politics.

However also for this to work, the company has to be loyal to the employees and this is harder and harder to find these days.
It's not like you need to go there... want to study abroad ? go to Europe, or China.

India is a sh*t hole , sorry ,there is no other word. ( and i've been there with my gf, she felt safer in Bangladesh...)
The worst part is that if we fix the title, the HN mods will "fix" it again.
To add to your comment: Even Indians who grow up in cities get the same kind of stares when they visit villages. As an young child every year when my siblings and I visit a tiny village where my parents grew up, there are always people who live around the neighborhood peeping through our doors to see who has arrived and what we were up to. Even when we walk in the muddy roads or ride in an ox-cart to visit the farms,we noticed everyone lines up on the road to watch us.

And of course, this is more pronounced for woman. This is also part of Indian culture(good or bad).

But, this part of mannerism does not discount the extreme harassment the OP has experienced.
The difference between the RED cameras and your DSLR is that the RED camera is doing it at 24fps or higher with its ability to shoot 120fps. Your DSLR might be able to do 8-10fps in burst mode.
I have so many things to say about this.
I'm glad someone came out and wrote about how violating and disturbing living -- actually living -- in another country can be.

I'm happy this article is getting the attention it is.

I'm impressed and filled with respect for the author that she had the guts to write this out.

I'm depressed that people are shocked to the point of disbelief by the contents.

I am Indian, but grew up in the Middle East. I split my time perhaps 4:1 between the Middle East and India as I grew up -- enough that I knew what life was like there, but not enough that I could feel like I was part of it, or it was part of me.

When I came to college in the US, I had a culture shock of my own, but most of it was in the positive direction. A friend in college told me she was going to study away in India. I was genuinely worried for her safety and mental well-being to the point of trying to almost dissuade her from going. I was torn between trying to tell her she must go because of how amazing and enriching the culture and heritage of India will be - despite being an engineering student she cared deeply for the arts and culture - and that she's better off changing plans because of how terribly violated, discriminated against (in good ways and bad, but discrimination is bad in general), restricted and confused she will be. Especially because she was going to be a (very very, even among familiar culture) attractive, fair-skinned foreigner there.

In my malformed attempt to "prepare" her, I wound up telling her a lot from both sides, and she was a little flabbergasted at my deviations from the tourism industry pitch, but took me seriously. She ended up going, she ended up "having a great time" as she told me and her other friends, and she also told me at some point while she was there "I understand what you meant when you were telling me about this place." That was surprisingly it. She probably wasn't nearly as traumatized by her time there as the author of the essay, and I'm glad for her. But I'm doubly glad that people step outside of their national bubbles, experience culture and society around the world, and realize there's so much to fix that we never hear about, drowned in tourist attractions, exotic food pictures, and stories about politicians.

Globalization, rapid as it is, is miles from bringing about understanding of life in another part of the world from where you live - not tour.
I don't buy the 'public service' argument. Even if my security is lackluster, you're not doing me a favor by breaking it. You know who does this right? Insurance companies. They'll assess risk prior to writing insurance for it, and lay out what they consider to be reasonable standards for securing a home/grocery store/bank/nuclear power station (typically in the form of discounts from a high initial premium). Insurance companies are not especially nice or generous people, but they are usually economically efficient (though I don't feel this way about health insurance - I think that's a classic case of market failure because consumers are not able to properly assess or control their risk factors, leading to a drastic information asymmetry that disproportionately benefits insurers).
Did you try with Digital Ocean ?
I wonder what sort of a drop 4g's translates too. It seems to me that the height you can drop it before the roof caves in is the more important figure, but I guess it is probably more difficult to accurately run the test that way.
At the UI level, perceived time is usually more important than real time. Half a second with nothing happening feels long. A whole second with feedback in some form (a loading bar, a spinner, etc.) feels fast.

For longer wait times, this becomes critical. 5 seconds with no feedback feels incredibly, ridiculously long. 5 seconds with feedback feels like completely reasonable. I sometimes use almost entirely fake progress bars which asymptotically approach full when I have no way to measure how long something will take. It's bizarre, but even knowing that the progress bar is fake, watching it fill up makes the time seem shorter than staring at a spinner.

Actually improving loading time is important, of course, but the ROI is tiny compared to basic user feedback.
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I do not think that acronym means what you think it means.
It's pretty much as you describe it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism

The idea of IT is that there's no "Big Boss Man" at the top of the pyramid pulling the strings. It's the distributed system and choices made by individuals that leads to a similar outcome as more typical centralized totalitarian government.

Yes, there are wealthy people, privileged people, and powerful people, but they are all kept in check by the system and by pursuing their own interests, just like everyone else.
I also dealt with RED very early on, the post was a nightmare and still isn't as smooth as it could be. But the dark footage was mainly the fault of film trained DPs who were used to underexposing and pushing during transfer (hence the noise). I was amazed when we'd get footage from Academy award winning DPs that looked awful, then get footage from DPs who had never shot much film, but tons of HD. They understood you didn't underexpose but expose to the right, bringing it right up to the edge before it blows out, that's when the footage looks great. The guys used to film were shooting with a tool they didn't know how to use, hardly the fault RED when the video guys were killing it (don't use a light meter, use a waveform and histogram). And the footage coming out LOG shouldn't have saturated colors, it's supposed to look muddy (have film transferred flat and you'll have the same result). That gives all the power to the colorist as far as the final grade as opposed to DPs locking in a look (another major reason that Hollywood DPs hated digital, it was taking away much of their power). RED was ground breaking and had a huge affect on the market, although, for my 2¢, the Canon 5D has had a bigger impact overall (with an image that's much worse than RED).

And RED fans are fanatical. Take the biggest mac fanboy and cross him with a Patriots fan, that might get you close. There is also a very vocal group of RED haters who spew bs for no apparent reason. The cameras should be the tools, not the owners.

Full disclosure: I've never owned a RED, but spent quite a bit of time in post with the footage (worked post on some of the first major commercials shot with the RED) and used it to shoot some of my own work. I've owned a 5D since it's release and have Blackmagic Pocket and 4K on order to finally replace it. I learned on film, spent a decade as a news photog shooting betacam before moving to post for features and commercials (nuke/flame and fcp/avid). I prefer working with the Alexa when at all possible, but that can increase the budget considerably (at least for me as i know plenty of great DPs that own REDs).

And imho, the most beautiful film release this year was Upstream Color, which was shot on a Panasonic GH-2, current retail for that camera is about $1000. And the most daring was a tie between Computer Chess which was shot on 80's era tube cameras and the experimental narrative Escape from Tomorrow shot on Canon 5D/7D at Disney World without Disney's permission.
I don't really see a problem with either of your "devil's advocate" positions. Especially the patent one. Given where you're posting, I have no idea why you'd think that would be a "devil's advocate" idea.

A wealth tax is an interesting idea. I have to wonder why it's so uncommon. I'd guess it's some combination of being hard to enforce and easy to move money around. Such a tax would trigger a flight of capital, something that can't happen with a tax on houses. And you can't audit people's mattresses very easily, so it would just encourage hoarding cash.

In a world where such a tax could be enforced and applied worldwide, it doesn't seem like a terrible idea. It shouldn't be very large, but it could have similar effects to property taxes.

On the other hand, we already effectively have such a tax, we just call it "inflation" and the tax rate isn't directly controlled by the government. Inflation has the same good effects I described for property taxes, in that it discourages hoarding and encourages putting money to work. (It has bad effects to, no doubt, so this isn't a total endorsement of inflation or anything.)
This doesn't seem to be unusual behavior for the BSA: http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Boy%20Scouts%20of%20...
Boing Boing has an article. http://boingboing.net/2013/08/19/bsa-to-hacker-scouts-change...
No doubt, but this is the first time I've heard of it. Before it was just a random fact about Greenwald, now it's splashed all over the media, in people's faces.
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It's not a good way to protest and people don't jump on that bandwagon simply because government is gonna make their lives very very unpleasant. That's why I say that I wouldn't advocate it - it is immoral to demand from people that they complicate their lives by engaging into a fight with IRS or whatever your tax agency is in your country. But essentially, taxes are forced payments. If it wasn't so, I guarantee you, 90% (if not more) would stop paying.
It seems safe to say that most of the tens of thousands of NSA employees, even technical ones, don't know the true scope of their agency's actions. (Our Congressmen apparently didn't know, so why would the worker bees be any better informed?)

This would be a huge problem for me if I were one of those employees. The Edward Snowdens that the NSA should be truly afraid of are the ones that still work for them.
No it's more like:

[Secret impersonal machine-learning algorithm follows links on social networks, private phone calls, and financial transactions and decides you should be put on the "threat" list and you (and potentially your friends) are continually surveilled and treated with extreme negative prejudice in every interaction with public servants. You attempt to complain and learn of the evidence against you, but you are stonewalled by official denials and national security.]
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Keep in mind that I run a couple of small but growing businesses and have worked for major corporations.

One thing I would point out is that in my experience the people who are laid off in a company advance their careers and those who remain stagnate. I am not sure I would put this in a layoff email though.

If times are tough, I still think that layoffs are a real last resort. Your best assets are the entrepreneurs in your business and these can be floor-level employees. The rule breakers, the ones who will fight the system or break the rules in order to do a better job are the ones that need to be paid well, not in terms of money but in terms of owning their job (and ideally a share of profits).
I think it's more important to try and emulate the native browser loading behavior first. I threw together an example with an iframe and a resource that never completes:

http://loadlet.herokuapp.com/

Extra loading indicators may be nice, but I think that a native feel should come first.
BizSpark has to be one of the most under promoted feature by Microsoft. I think its absolutely fantastic and it boggles me why they don't make more noise around it...
Totally. There are a lot of reasons to boycott a few of those companies. The tail end of your comment reminds me an animal related reason to boycott BP.
I wasn't sure exactly what was meant there. At first, I thought it meant that it was statistically unlikely for there to be no battery fires in the long term, but I think it's just referring to occupant fatalities.
Yeah definitely more difficult, but it depends on the storage mechanism. But I suppose even if you simply had a private key hidden in some random folder or written down somewhere (there are more secure ways - one is breaking a key into multiple parts and spreading to separate people), it would be hard to locate or identify.
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I find it frightening that people's livelihood is subjected to the whims of their boss to such extent.

If anything, a justifiable reason as to why you are fired should be mandatory. You don't have to be a 'protected' minority to deserve a fair justification for being fired.

I'm all for the right of employers to fire who they want, but we can't expect employees to be responsible for how their actions impact the company and not expect the same in return.

He's lucky to have been a self-reliant young entrepreneur with probably other ways to make a livelihood. It could have turned very ugly had he been a father caring for a sick child without other resource than his job, all that because some nitwit didn't like his hairdo.

Duties and rights, not just one or the other.
I am all for being loyal to a company. However, I also think that the fact is....

I have watched "layoffs" at two big tech giants (only one was called that) and watched what happened to the people who left and the people who stayed. In general I have found that despite the uncertainty it is actually a good thing, on average, to be laid off. Earning power seems to go up, and people move into more challenging jobs. THose who remain tend to be part of a more ossified corporation and with less mobility.
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"treasured", in the sense that everything that comes out of the discussion (not just this SPECIFIC critique) will benefit whoever is going to implement it. Some things will be trivial, like you suggest, but others won't.
I haven't been able to get the site to load, so I'm committing the venial Hacker News sin of commenting without reading the article, but I'm assuming this is somehow "trademark-related".

I don't know what the branding of Hacker Scouts is, movies have always seemed able to skirt the BSA trademark issue by calling themselves things like "Wilderness Scouts", etc. So I'd imagine it would be hard for the BSA to claim ownership of the entire "scouting" landscape.

I assume these people don't have access to the capital necessary to fight this in court, which is a shame.

As an Eagle Scout who has been pretty unhappy with the conduct of the BSA since my teenage years, I would be very happy to see them lose a case like this (although that's easy for me to say, as I'm not on the hook financially for it).
I've tried a few times to use Mercurial from the command line and just can't get my head around it. TortoiseHG takes all that pain away by visually displaying what has changed / the different builds & branches. Merging is so much easier...
Same here. Absolutely no VS on the build server. There isn't a whole lot that VS can do that MSBuild can't do on its own.
Yes, but as a result, extra attention was probably given to the entire front of the vehicle, which is also usually the case for mid-engine supercars.

The big reason why the small overlap test is being focused on (aside from cars doing so well in every other test) is because of the reliance of manufacturers relying on an engine block (though really, the front reinforcement bar) to provide some assistance in bearing and distributing crash forces in more serious front impacts. When a single A-pillar has most of the force to bear, it's not been pretty for nearly every other car on the market.
You can't be liable for a disability you don't know about, and I wouldn't assume he has one.

At some point, probably around the time he was graduating from high school or college, somebody helped him put together his first resumé, and since it was naturally thin, they probably encouraged him to put in everything that might catch an employer's eye. He's probably never read anyone else's resumé.

I've seen this several times, and I've seen the opposite extreme, too. Somebody gets told early on "fit it on one page", and thinks that's how all resumés should be, forever. None of these people have any disabilities I'm conscious of, though in tech, a mild ASD would hardly be shocking. They've just been given advice that's either wrong or incomplete.

Meanwhile, I know one guy very well who does have a disability, and whose resumés have frequently been complimented. You'd have no way of knowing from them that he's in possession of a document from a psychologist that says PDD-NOS on it, and unless you know exactly what you're looking for, you're not going to notice when you meet him, either.
Quite an interesting post -- it's a shame that the anti-link-bait title means it's doomed to stay off the HN front page.
I'm never loyal to a company, ever.

I may be loyal to employees of said company, if they, PERSONALLY, prove to be worth such loyalty.
It might be, but also consider that lithium-ion batteries do have a reputation, and catching fire or exploding would be high on the list of things that anyone wanting to sow doubt about the safety of an electric car might bring up, so pre-empting it might be worthwhile for that reason too.
Yes, although that's considered bad practice with async.

I previously used Twisted to implement a speculative model of new Internet architectures for a graduate class when I was in my distributed systems phase in college.

One thing that Guido mentions is that Twisted Deferred computations generally rely on adding callbacks, such that you say add_this, add_that, etc. and all of these callbacks are meant to be executed asynchronously, but sequentially.

My feeling about Twisted was that Deferred's are almost too easy -- to the point where I found myself returning a deferred to another function, adding more callbacks, passing it to someone else to add more callbacks, etc.

At the end of the computation I felt like I had inadvertently brought back a lot of the pain of callbacks -- it's often difficult to figure out what gets called when and you have to look at a lot of places in the code to figure it out.

In contrast, my recent experience with async is that it encourages having asynchronous code that looks synchronous. That alone feels like a benefit to me, because it encourages the same grouping that one would normally do in their code, which just seems harder to lose control of.

C# async is certainly capable of the same "spaghetti" nature of Deferred (or callbacks in general, actually), but my experience has been that the structure encourages the opposite.