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> Yes, normal combustion engines catch on fire, but they don't explode in a fireball when they hit debris on the highway

To be fair, none of the debris I've ever seen or hit on the highway would have made holes in a quarter inch steel plate, and I have driven the better part of 25k miles/year commute over some very busy highways for approximately the past decade, so I've seen such random debris as chairs & couches in the middle of the road in addition to the usual assorted vehicle parts.

There is also a car fire roughly every 3 minutes, just to keep things in perspective.

I say that as we are guaranteed to see more fires given enough time. With them averaging out to one every 3.x minutes, it's only a matter of time before we go through this again.
For a migrant worker, it won't be surprising if the passport is deposited with the Employer at the time of joining work. I don't speak from personal experience, but from anecdotes I heard from friends and extended family. So even if there isn't an exit visa required, they don't have the passport, which means they can only travel with permission of their employer. A modern form of slavery.
I wouldn't be hugely shocked if some kind of Social-Media-Snooping-As-A-Service thing already existed for corporate HR to use to screen applicants.
These are all really good questions. I think it's a great idea to have some questions in mind when you interview. It shows that you are interested in making an investment in a company and not just looking for a paycheck.

I would probably spread these questions out over a few people and not hit the same person with 20 questions. I would also be cautious of making the interviewer feel embarrassed if they are not following SCRUM to the letter with 100% automated testing and code coverage. Because in real world situations we are often striving for that but we don't always get to do it perfectly by the book. So it won't help if you make them feel even worse about it!
I disagree, the most annoying thing is when the unsubscribe link leads you to a 404 page (or an "Untrusted SSL certificate" warning).
isn't it interesting that msg "syndrome" is associated with chinese food, rather than japanese, even though japanese food is also loaded down with it?

hmm.
I don't understand how this is supposed to bolster Tesla's image.

The fact that the car alerted him to the fact that it was going to combust does not mean that it is OK that the car combusted.
It's not about losing money. It's about protecting their brand.

Precedent is a slippery slope. Once you allow the "first" to copy your product, its so much harder to fight the 2nd or 3rd attempt.
£800 for a two bed on the Royal Mile?
Most jobs fundamentally use a changing set of technologies, and workers are expected to be up to speed on the latest information in the field.
What could the cyclist be doing that is more important than getting off of the road and letting traffic go around them instead of holding it up?
The term "road debris" can mean anything from dust to entire engine blocks[1]. The debris in question here is a metal tow hitch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_debris#Examples

See my other comment upthread for an example of a gasoline car catching fire because of cardboard boxes.
Yes, they have the "artist/self-employment visa"
More info:http://4dayvisa.tumblr.com/
I would recommend Munich nice village with a good climate in the southern part of Germany.
It's not just that. There's very little metal besides aluminum, and it's quite a bit thicker than the steel floorpan. I would expect the battery cases to be much less vulnerable to corrosion than sheet steel.
> Is it ethical for your employer to expect you to obtain the knowledge to solve a work-specific problem on your own time and without pay?

Worse, I paid a lot of money on my own time for my degree my employer expected
If anything, I'd suspect the people who want to smoke but respect current pot laws would also respect DUI laws were pot legal.
They haven't but they might license someone else to do it.
> If a driver kills a pedestrian

The situation isn't a whole hell of a lot better for walkers vs. bike riders. "I just didn't see him" still works.
Yes, given the story of a football slave, how ironic that they are holding the football World Cup in Qatar.

I hope every true football fan boycotts Qatar 2022 and puts pressure on top players and FIFA to move the World Cup to more deserving countries.
> Then slow down and wait until it's safe to pass.

I agree with your point, but to be fair, you could make a similar point about cyclists pulling over to let traffic pass. There are cases where overtaking is difficult for long distances, and in practice it's not realistic for a car to go at 10-15 mph behind a bike for miles at a time. For one thing, you risk drivers behind trying to overtake multiple vehicles at once.

There has to be some sort of accommodation, at least in that limited case where passing is difficult, and cyclists moving slower than the flow of traffic. Although clearly that doesn't legitimize risking someone's life.

Edit: Added second paragraph.
Its for urban cycling. I've never seen someone being hit as if he was one the highway in a city. Only car breaks, distance is too short, boom, backflip for the cyclist.
The thing that confuses me is that the current revision of ISO 1 was published in 2002, as an update of the original 1975 revision.

What on earth needed revising? What part of "20 degrees celsius" didn't they explain properly?
fiery total write-off and no-one was injured as a victory.

Works for me!
Oh, easy, I just mark all emails as spam.
How old is the Justy though ... compared to a newer model Subaru? I love my Subaru Impreza ... and it is built solid...
I am assuming that you are doing computers science, and in the current environment focusing on the conceptual contribution and do the minimal amount of engineering is solid advice.

I started in physics and there someone could make a great career corroborating for or disproving conceptual contributions. This is not a track in CS and is practically career suicide.

From experience most CS research can not be trusted to be correct, and enabling people to build a career on replicating or corroborating studies would in my opinion be of great value. Even the research that is correct is often not fully implemented so you not only have to implement their approach, you also have to discover how to realize it. That work is not publishable in CS, and it is a non-trivial amount of extremely risky work.
I'll back GP up. I'm in GA but not in ATL. At my current employer, it's acceptable/funny to post the 95 thesis on other employee's doors/desks if they are a known catholic. At my previous employee, printing/posting jack trick's cartoons was considered acceptable.
I think literate coffeescript might be a better example of popularizing literate programming:

http://ashkenas.com/literate-coffeescript/

There also seems to be some traction for literate Haskell:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Literate_programming

I experimented a bit with literate programming on an introductory course in programming using java. It's an interesting experience -- it's very easy to produce a very readable language that is still pretty poor java code, as it becomes so easy to split out fragments and "procedures", rather than follow the more common java class-oriented object orientated way of doing things.
I love Teslas. If I had the disposable money (and the need of a fulltime car) I'd buy a Model S without hesitation. I think Elon Musk is a brilliant entrepreneur.

But this is tripe. I can smell PR and sanitized wordsmithing when I see it--and this post reeks. If that wasn't obvious by the medium of this post--The Official Tesla Blog.

Gee, how did it get up there? Do you think that maybe, just maybe, at some point in time the author was in contact with Tesla's PR department? And do you think Tesla PR decided to let someone post something with no oversight whatsoever? And this post just happened to be perfectly on message with the talking points Tesla PR had drafted up?

For all we know, every word of this is true, but in this format (a very defensive post on the Tesla Blog giving a 100% pro-Tesla version of the events), Tesla has no credibility. Why not have this person write about this in the user forums and then link to it from the official blog with a foreword from Elon?
Simple calculations show that the Teslas are roughly 25x more likely to catch fire in a collision, but I suspect they are much less likely to catch fire for other reasons. So just don't hit anything.
>> If you have applied to do the job shouldn't you already have the knowledge? If you can't do a job you have got it dishonestly or their was a failing in the hiring process.

Great point. Unfortunately, I could never ethically apply for any job thought if this was true. The employers hide far too much knowledge for me to say truthfully if I KNOW something.

For instance, I KNOW javascript. But do I really?

Sure, I can make websites more enhanced with form validation, do some html scraping, enhance the design, or even collect analytics. But that's not what they asked. They asked if I knew javascript.

I definitely don't know how to create a really great search tool for a pure front-end app. I've never created a video game in the language. I'm horrible at implementing graphics in it with canvas. So do I really know the knowledge for what they are asking me for?
Google's 'home of the future' is an on-message eye-opener
Another important effect is that some cars have known defects putting them at increased risk of fire, and some of those cars are still on the road, which inflates the statistics for the average automobile.
If a sender does not let me unsubscribe without logging in, I usually end up (after 3 or 4 times clicking the unsubscribe link, getting frustrated, and deleting the email) adding a filter to automatically mark their emails as spam.
Well, theres a problem here, no? Even if we assume these are legitimate accidents, then there still has to be a reaction, or they will just happen again. The buck has to stop with someone, the person who planned the street in the first place, the project manager at Toyota responsible for the software that caused the unstoppable acceleration, and so on.

Can't just ignore the problem. If you pour your wine all over your shirt, thats an accident, if someone is critically injured or killed, that warrants an investigation.
>At worst, debris may cause a flat if it punctures one of the tires.

That's just not true. I had about $2k in damage on a Mini Cooper (2006, stock) that hit the remnants of a blown out semi truck tire in the road. Similar situation to the blog post -- a pickup truck cleared it but I did not. I was not in a safe position to swerve.

The tire chewed up the lower front bumper and punctured the radiator. I had to immediately pull over and have the car towed. It happened to hit below the foam & all the fancy crash reinforcement on the bumper. Good times.

That was just 70lbs of steel-wrapped rubber. I can easily imagine a trailer hitch as described taking out a radiator or oil pan on a modern car. Unlikely to cause a fire for sure, but it'll certainly disable a vehicle.
Good point. It definitely depends on where policy is being thought up. I would say your point is a solid thing to be worried about, considering the pull the executive public-business class has on the world.

My question to you is that if feel like economical arguments trump moral/ethical arguments in terms of legitimate public policy?
I guarantee you if you killed a cyclist in the SF bay area there would be a police investigation.
Same here. If I remember well, LinkedIn is one of the worst offenders. I hate how much unnecessary mail they send!
Take the sauce in a chinese stir fry. Its ingredients: water, corn starch, and msg. Maybe some other things (flavorings). That's not too much different than putting msg in fruit juice. In the sense that the msg is in a sugar solution with no natural chemistry mitigants or fiber. Because its ~suspended in solution, its not clear its uptake would be regulated by adjacet fiber.

In research, the rats used as controls were fed nutritious
food. Given a choice of water and alcohol to drink, these rats chose water. Rats fed [msg laced] junk food chose alcohol to drink over water.

Unrelated, but interesting.
Holy crap, that is the first time I have ever heard of a bicyclist being pulled over and ticketed.

Good on the cop that issued that citation!
On one hand, I do agree that it is very annoying. However, I can kind of understand.

There may be a way around this, but if no session was required, then couldn't someone just make a bunch of GET requests to the unsubscribe url for each user id and unsubscribe the entire user base?
ummh... you really think Tesla's PR team didn't write that and ask the guy to sign it? implying how nicely they were going to treat him if he did? Sure, it's quite possible as a fanboy he did it totally on his own. But I wouldn't bet that way, and I have to think most people who know how the tech industry works would feel the same.
This seems to me to be a preemptive announcement.

Two fires are a PR problem, not an actual problem. But Tesla has a failure mode with their car that they need to address. It would appear that their "quarter inch armor plate" isn't thick enough to withstand a trailer hitch.
I also like New Mexico a lot and my wife and I almost moved there 15 years ago when we were looking for an inexpensive place to live that was also fun to live in. We ended up in the mountains of Central Arizona, similar to New Mexico.

We are now living in Silicon Valley for six months because I wanted to do a contracting job here. This is a fun area also but we are blown away by the high cost of living. Sometimes it is very important to have coworkers co-situated, but otherwise let workers live where they want. I am now working with people who spend two hours a day commuting. That is a huge hit in wasted time.
Clash of Clans Developer Supercell Soft-launches Boom Beach in Canada
The chance of either of those URLs being present on a site would have to be miniscule. Most likely they followed some outdated link somewhere.
That's like saying the fire alarm waking you up at the middle of the night allowing you to safely escape does not mean it is OK that there is a fire burning your house down.

It is a true statement, but the situation is definitely preferable to having no notification.
...but he had to patent it before he could license it to him. Between patent and licensing could be infringement. Then he'd be going backward to extort money, right?

Put another way: if the laws are changed to prevent backward "extortion", what incentive is there for Hasbro to license in the first place? Why not just let him come in with the patent, and then willfully infringe? And how do you tell the difference?
1 month is visiting, not living.
Well, I think most professional developers would use a GUID for each user anyway. Good luck bruteforcing that.
In Washington state, where we recently decriminalized marijuana use, the DUI standards for pot are actually much stronger than for alcohol. This is despite the fact that pot use doesn't impair driving ability in the same way as alcohol.

Moreover, people are already smoking pot, a lot, millions of people. Stoned driving is probably already about as common as it ever will be.
Creative Commons update
There is exactly something like that in the UK. Freedom of speech has long been a Common Law, with centuries of precedence.

Not only that, Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights guarentees freedom of expression, which was incorporated in the UK as part of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Learning more on the subject will help you greatly.
I have given up trying to unsub from many places, sometimes unsubing doesn't do anything, I generally just mark it as spam now days.
I'm not sure I'd agree with all of these. For example, the ones about automated testing or building internal tools sound a lot like "Do you like to work the same way I do?" and if the answer is no then the dubious assumption is that you know more about what this potential employer does than all of their existing staff. The list seems reasonable for the most part, though.

Aside from obvious questions about the kinds of projects you'd be working on and the skills and technologies involved, I used to rely on a few simple tests:

1. What is the employee turnover like, and if people have left recently, why? [This is a reasonably objective proxy for what the rank and file staff really think, and they collectively know this potential employer much better than me.]

2. Did they ask brain teaser type questions or do a pop-psych personality test in the interview? [Do their hiring practices suck, in which case even if they hired me, would I want to work with anyone else they hired? Also tends to indicate an unhealthy assumption of superiority and desire to conduct one-sided interviews, which is a red flag in its own right.]

3. Will they show me a sample of their production code and of the related documentation, and if so, what is it like? [If they won't and don't have a very good reason, my assumption is that they aren't confident their code will impress, which is not a good sign. If they will, what I see is about as good a marker for whether they're any good technically as any benchmark you can fit into an interview.]

4. What does the car park look like on the way in? [Far from scientific, but a handful of executive cars in reserved spaces and then nothing but old models in the few remaining spaces is rarely a good sign.]

5. Does the contract impose on my life outside of work? For example, would I need permission from the employer to take on an unrelated side job that had no bearing on my ability to work properly for them? Would they be claiming IP rights to any work I did unrelated to that employment, so that for example I couldn't release a hobby project as Open Source if I wanted to? [Any attempt to control life completely outside work is a fairly reliable red flag for a generally over-controlling attitude and/or a show run by HR/legal rather than sensible management or the people I'd actually be working with.]
Easy for me , no direct "unsubscribing" => spam box. If you provide a newsletter the last thing you want is to be flagged as spam, so think about it.
I also really hope footballs fan wont go there.
Maybe they'll fill the stadiums with the surviving workers.
Didn't realize this comment would get so much attention. I'll just add in passing, at this same time, Anthony Shadid was over at the 3rd paper (The Daily Cardinal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Shadid
Seriously? On European cruises (at least the ones I've been with) the food cost money (and lots of it).
Just use CSRF tokens.
I would guess it's something on your end. I'm not seeing any speed increases; it was already incredibly fast for me.
Yes, this is a solved problem.
Take a look at this post for specifically web developer positions:

"Questions to ask your future web dev employer"
https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/f7a161b5bc70
Munich is extremely expensive, the natives there are right wing and known to be unfriendly to foreigners, who do not speak Bavarian. Recommending Munich to foreigners is like recommending southern US states to black people.
JsPlistor - Javascript Property List Editor
LinkedIn does it, why shouldn't they? LI is a successful, IPO'ed company, surely they wouldn't be doing anything detrimental.
LINKEDIN
Here's a colorization based on compositeness:

http://blog.morphism.com/2010/05/building-numbers.html
Be prepared for more of the same in Romania. Just like most of Eastern Europe, lovely place to visit, horrible place to live long-term.

That being said, hit me up if you're in Bucharest :)
In 2001/02, my family spent two years travelling around North America. All four of us lived in a bus-style Monaco RV. Instead of middle school, I was home-schooled by my mom. We drove as far north as Alaska and as far south as Belize and had adventures---it was a great time.

I just wanted to say: Walmart deserves credit for being very cool toward travellers. We spent many nights parked for free in their truck spots.

Walmart gets a lot of hate here in the bay area, but I really like them. If I may wax philosophical for a minute... I see Walmart as basic infrastructure. They are everywhere; they're always open; they sell everything, nearly at cost; they employ 2.2 million people, many of which would otherwise be on welfare or disability; and when you need a place to spend the night, even if you find yourself in Winnemucca at 1am with a 40-foot long vehicle and no RV park reservation--they're always there for you.
I would be surprised if a truck had so little ground clearance that it would get caught up on a trailer hitch. The lowest part of a truck should generally be the rear differential, which gives a worst-case-scenario ground clearance of just under half the tire size. If the hitch wasn't centered in the middle of the truck, the ground clearance would be almost exactly half the size of the tires. Depending on the truck this could reasonably be a ground clearance of between 18" to 24", more than enough to clear a hitch without needing to swerve. Compare that to what, 5" clearance in the Tesla?

Swerving in a truck would also generally be much more dangerous than just hitting something.
Edit: I missed the transactional part here. Transactional emails are excluded from CAN-SPAM. There's a test to figure out which is which: http://www.the-dma.org/press/PrimaryPurposeFactSheet.pdf

It's shitty UX regardless of whether it's a violation of law, IMO.

Original: It's a violation of CAN-SPAM law to put unsubscribe behind a login process. Asking for a password violates the requirement that no additional PII except for the email be required to process the opt-out.

From the FTC:

Honor opt-out requests promptly. Any opt-out mechanism you offer must be able to process opt-out requests for at least 30 days after you send your message. You must honor a recipient’s opt-out request within 10 business days. You can’t charge a fee, require the recipient to give you any personally identifying information beyond an email address, or make the recipient take any step other than sending a reply email or visiting a single page on an Internet website as a condition for honoring an opt-out request.

http://www.business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-com...
I know how to run a lathe and vertical mill, but would love to learn more about any of the topics you mentioned. It sounds more involved than what you'd find in a normal maintenance shop. Any suggestions to learn more about this? I didn't know that people even rebuilt lathes and mills.
Oh man! If I could vote you up more, I would.

A while back a forum spammer decided to use my Gmail address to spam forum sign-ups. I got Gmail to filter most of them into the trash (the spammer used a variation of my email address I don't use. Gmail allows variations in email addresses). Afterwards I wanted to clean things up and a lot of the senders require that I log in first to unsubscribe. That they would sign me up without verification is bad enough but requiring that I login to unsubscribe made it just too difficult. So now I just filter everything that was sent to that variation of my email and mark them all as spam.

Lose-lose for everyone.