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Why can employers fire me for having a naked picture taken? Perhaps we need to roll back no-fault firing as well.

Why can people choose not to purchase from Chick-a-Fil because they dislike the anti-gay opinions of the owner? Perhaps we need to roll back no-fault failure to purchase chicken as well.

Meanwhile, back in a free society, people are allowed to freely associate with whoever they choose even if we disagree with their opinions.
Yes. The word "vitim blaming" gets thrown around a lot and used in places where it isn't appropriate, but the (female, no less!) police officer's reaction was a textbook example.
1) You can have the kernel notify you upon a file system change via a watch descriptor. It's not rocket science, and you don't have to do any polling.

2) It might not buy you much (I disagree), but is hardly a disadvantage over any other approach where you'd want to send compressed http responses.

3) Let me get this straight; you're talking about the CPU data cache? It's not going to be the bottleneck in a scenario where you are basically pumping data into a socket. If it was, how would allocating a lot small buffers have an advantage over a single large allocation, if the data was the same in the end?

As for elephants...

1) It depends on the expected result. A page built on static files doesn't need to be static in any other sense.

2) I'm not sure why you think that dynamically generated "server pages" are different from static ones in this case. The GWT pagespeed optimizations you are talking about are not relevant to the discussion, since they are not inherent to either static/dynamic backends.

3) As far as I'm concerned, this is the only valid point you have brought to the discussion.
And what moved the legislation? Culture.
Thanks! As far as I'm concerned, Thermite is a wide-open-spaces/designated area, no-children-or-small-animals kind of substance. Definitely not for home use (well, unless your objective is to burn the house down..).
> Meanwhile, back in a free society, people are allowed to freely associate with whoever they choose even if we disagree with their opinions.

Except employers are not free to hire and fire, even in weird societies where that's seen as a good idea. They're not allowed to discriminate against people with protected characteristics.

In this situation it's possible the employers are vulnerable to sexual discrimination lawsuit, because revenge porn websites target mostly women.
This is largely a useless point though. All societies have a relative perspective around shame and nudity. Given that relativity claiming one to be too conservative or too liberal is a useless exercise. What matters here is that this is done by people to people within the same culture and is thus very distasteful.
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He's certainly putting the issue on the agenda by highlighting the ridiculousness of these cultural hangups. It's more like a very big, malicious security exploit than an act of heroism, I think.
“One interesting quirk of MFC is the use of "Afx" as the prefix for many functions, macros and the standard precompiled header name "stdafx.h". During early development what became MFC was called "Application Framework Extensions" and abbreviated "Afx". The name Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) was adopted too late in the release cycle to change these references”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Foundation_Class_Libr...
I get the enamel off by running the wire through molten solder until it's melted off, then adding a bit more solder to tin the wire.

As for the e-waste, here's the most relevant video response I can find:

http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/f2jcqw/futurama-e-w...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/391791/whats-with-the-afx...

TL;DR: it stands for Application Framework X (a group at MS responsible for the MFC, Microsoft Foundation Classes, library at some point)
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I can confirm. I was raised in a Unitarian Universalist church, and there were a sizable minority (best guess is 10-20%) of adults who were mostly atheistic but wanted a deeper moral, spiritual, and ecological rooting than mainstream atheism provides.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the ego of the language creators seems to shine through in at least this[0] reference page, though. The most important bit I'd like to get some clarification on:

> Long viewed as an important theoretical idea, functional programming finally became truly convenient and practical

> with the introduction of the Wolfram Language. Treating expressions like as both symbolic data and the
application

> of a function provides a uniquely powerful way to integrate structure and function—and an efficient, elegant

> representation of many common computations.

I see nothing on the reference page that could be said to make Wolfram's FP constructs more convenient or practical. They make it sound like FP was a long lost dream but then Wolfram came along and actually made it happen. They're seemingly using the exact same constructs as everyone else.

What you do actually get from the reference page, though, is that they went the Haskell route and decided the FP stuff shouldn't be readable by anyone who hasn't used the language before. This is all fine and dandy, really; it's a model as good as any other, since it at least gives writability where it loses readability... They aren't doing anything new, from the looks of it, though. They seem to be doing precisely the opposite... In exactly the same way.

[0] - https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/FunctionalProgr...
Posts like this make me wish Hacker News had a downvote button.
Too bad it is physically impossible to create a working device that works like in the video.
Psychology is certainly a science that has produced tons of repeatable results and discovered lots of things that were not previously known. Like any science it has provided insights that make sense of the world and it has useful applications in treating mentally ill people, for example.

I'm not entirely certain what you are claiming or disputing here.

>It's not a question of it being real, it's a matter of science and objectivity. If we can't reliably measure it, it doesn't matter that it exists, because anyone can claim to have, or not have, the condition.

That's really misleading. Psychological symptoms are not that subjective. Behavior is directly observable. And even subjective measurements are still data points. Not to mention things like brain scans.
That the poster is expert at trolling, that is, very accomplished as a troll OR that the poster is an expert in understanding trolls and can thus speak with authority about them.
The most fascinating part about this timeline, for me, is that it's so short. Feels like forever ago I was using Netscape on Windows 95, but it really wasn't. It's come so far in such a short amount of time.
If anyone else was wondering, it was supposed to read ‘thermite’. (I had to DDG it, and then still, I had never heard of the stuff.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
For utilitarian purposes, sure. But I'm not sure how I feel about someone who would have no problem killing me or torturing me if it was ever a benefit to them. And I'm not sure how I feel about having empathy for someone who can't give it in return.
Nice one! I'm still working on a better web dev framework for it, basically a really nice, functional wrapper for Slim + ORM's -- taking a leaf out of Haskell's book, keeping it all pure except for where IO operations have to happen (and making sure that that is demarcated in the code itself!). It's so much fun to hack on (although I do crash the REPL constantly. I might have to hack around on that actually, see if I can't get a super REPL going that you can use for actual development).

Now I remember you had a build system that came with Pharen, any plans for that in the future? Mainly because I think using it as a build system with a nice functional syntax would be _amazing_ to use even with normal PHP!
I actually had Colt, not Cole ;) Cheers! I knew I was going to misspell it for some reason...
Thanks for taking the time to review pdfcv. The "empty screenshot" is supposed to be an abstracted text on a resume. I had samples of actual, filled resumes in an older version of the homepage and it looked visually heavy. I'll ask around to see what other people think it is. Also, the current bounce rate is 35-40% which is not too bad.

I have some ideas of how to make the workflow very simple, I hope that then the value proposition will be obvious.
> Spending on sex toys is not special, unless the national security apparatus (or more likely your competitor in the private sector) already has a reason to try to discredit you. Which is a valid concern for activists, but not most people.

Amazing.

Translation: "Rights are essential for small group of people, because everyone else is not exercising them anyway. So lets just take the rights away".
I've used Sugru on a few things, and yes it would fix the problem you have.

There are bits of Sugru on some Lenovo chargers where the cable pulls from the charging unit. This is precisely what you're describing and I've moulded it to still have some give (tapers away from the plastic charging unit).

And some bits on Brompton (cycle) pedals to add weight so that the pedals swing to a better starting position.

A walk around my house will reveal little bits all over, each doing a small thing and sparing me from the cost and waste of replacing larger things.

It works really well and the only complaint I would have is that it can be ugly. But more than anything that is your choice about which colour to pick and how you shape it before it sets. I now use a tool to shape it (back of a teaspoon, etc) so that my finger impressions don't live forever and make it look kinda amateur.

Works well, would definitely work on the kind of small fix you need.
Hi Modoc, GitLab.com co-founder here. I'm sorry to hear you GitLab.com support did not solve your problem to your satisfaction. Supporting our customers is our main priority. Feel free to email me at sytse@gitlab.com if you want to give us feedback about what happend.
I think parent was reading sucker punch (as I did) as not "risky", but unfair -- as you can't see it coming (by definition).

In SC2, 6pooling is certainly quite powerful (Zerg makes Tassadar cry...) but if it is scouted, the Zerg is now fucked.

The thing is, in the current meta, you never bother drone/probe/scv scouting that early, so you'd have to be able to read your opponent and know that he's a kind of player that loves those "Cheesy" build orders!
You hit too many sore spots for me to not suspect that you are trolling, but I'll give it a shot anyway. You obviously missed my point.

Yes, the USA is sex-negative. Some examples: People are afraid to talk about sex, even with their children. It is not uncommon for young adults to be afraid of having sex because of the reactions of their parents. Many grownups have trouble expressing their sexual preferences, and hence go decades without being sexually fulfilled, even when married. Sex education in schools meets strong opposition in many places due to the fear of sexuality, with the consequence of teen pregnancies and rampant STIs. Then there's this post, where people lose their jobs because a naked photo of them showed up the internet. Women who publicly express their sexuality in any form are shamed, outside of a few limited contexts such as seedy nightclubs and advertising. I think these exampes are sufficient to define and demonstrate the extent of the problem.

And yes, men are in fact also affected by this sex-negativity. Male sexuality is considered dangerous, of which your instinctive derailment into the crime of rape is a perfect example. This is an area where there is a surprising level of symmetry between the genders. Men are allowed more leeway in their choices and numbers of sex partners, but that's about it.

When it comes to sexual expression outside of the norm, which is the preference for broad shoulders, big tits and missionary or doggy-style pounding, the pervert/slut label is thrown around all the time in contexts where it shouldn't be used. Oral sex was considered a perversion only two decades ago. Anal sex still is, to an extent. Get beyond that into the realm of nonmonogamy, fetishism or bondage, which are defining elements of many couples' sex lives, and all bets are off.
The NSA are also targeting non-American Tor users with their shenanigans. This is very insulting. With all respect eventually based on the fear for reprisals, I think it it is about time that the Chinese and Russian governments announce that they are now retargeting their thermonuclear warheads on New York and Washington DC and that with the next insult they will not hesitate to press the button. God knows that they will have asked for it.
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Tell that to Taeja, the "I'll go 3 command centre before rax if I wanna" Terran player ;)

I love Taeja so much.
I maintain a set of Chef cookbooks (more Ruby, I'm afraid ;)) that includes a cookbook for GitLab[1]. The cookbook may not be the best, but it has been serving us well. There are numerous other Chef cookbooks for GitLab.

IMHO GitLab is easy to set up compared to something like Postfix. Making a GitLab server do what it's supposed to do is straightforward. You just follow all the steps. Making Postfix work as a proper mail server is kinda a mess.

[1]: https://github.com/phunehehe/chef-cookbooks/tree/master/gitl...
Stop right there - "...and if you're fired because someone sees your naked photo" by itself is a separate unexcusable problem that needs to be solved.

Someone seeing your naked photo should never, ever be an acceptable reason for firing someone, no matter where you work. The original article discusses on how to prevent the naked photos from being spread; but we also need to fix this issue as well.
I know for a similar project I did, I ruled out Java as I (and my team at the time) were not very productive in it. It mattered, in that instance, but might not in some others. Depends on your teams skill set I guess!
Cult membership isn't just for "morons". There have been very intelligent people who, because of perfectly human errors in judgement have found themselves inside cult organisations.

Look at Scientology and lots of other cults like it. The people in it aren't stupid. Brainwashed, perhaps. There are many tricks both seemingly logical/cognitive and emotional that people can be taken in by. The emotional side is important: these people show affection to people who join them, and they often target people who are at uncertain points in their lives. Cult-style groups have often gone after college students precisely because they are at a point in their life where they are unsure about their future and potentially emotionally volatile.

There's a lot of people out there who are living unhappy lives, who find themselves alienated from society, who have a strong but unfulfilled desire to join together in a community with others, who lack self-confidence or enough self-belief to push back.

Cults aren't just stupid people making stupid decisions: sometimes joining a cult is a decision made by an intelligent, educated person in a moment of weakness. And the way the thing is set up makes it not seem cultish when they are joining. Scientology don't tell you about Lord Xenu on day one. They lure you in with promises of making you a better person: reducing your stress and anxiety, helping you with addictions to drugs, tobacco, alcohol etc., helping you succeed in business or education or whatever, helping you have a better relationship with your partner or family. Out of that menu, there's something everyone will want. Those are all the same things advertisers lure people in with. Falling for that kind of pitch doesn't make you stupid, it makes you human.
GitLab.com co-founder here. GitLab has merge requests to do code review for feature branches. These include assignments and line comments. You can't assign a review to multiple people but it is easy to mention people to get them to chime in. Also, it has +1 & -1 voting aggregation :-)
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That might be the case. I don't see why it's not possible some people just don't have whatever it is that causes empathy, rather than it being a complete spectrum.

Everyone acts sociopathic to strangers. Empathy can't be felt towards an abstract concept. A normal person is capable of feeling empathy. They could get to know the person or even just learn a little about them and imagine them being in their place. A true sociopath wouldn't be able to do that.
stdafx.h is a Microsoft invention used to help speed up C++ compilation. Instead of parsing your 100000 lines of headers for every source file, you would do it once, and the compiler would dump its state to disk. Then, whenever you started another source file with `#include <stdafx.h>`, instead of repeating that work, it would load that state into memory and pick up compiling from there.
Well, no, if the "kid" is 24-years old then assistance and support is required, but 'taking over' seems reasonable only if they're in a coma after an accident.

After all, it's their life, and any decisions on how/wether to proceed and what to avoid are completely theirs to make - they may take advice from parents, or they also may not want their parents to have any say whatsover in how to handle it.
Sorry about your unfortunate situation. Hope things turn out well for you.

Strongly questioning business strategies of your employer is usually a red flag for most employers. Cowboying projects despite disapproval of your proposed strategy pivot or direction is a deal breaker for a lot. Specially if it's a consistent behaviour.

IMO, references are one of the most important aspects of your career. From the looks of it, it appears if your future employer does a thorough reference check, they'll likely get skeptical about hiring you.

Being a team player is not playing B-league office politics. Most of us at some point of our careers, didn't agree with our employer's business strategies and anyone who loved their work would have very likely voiced that loudly at some point. Depending on the work environment's culture, sometimes their voices would be heard and other times they'd be shun.

To each their place in the organization hierarchy and you should be humble enough to respect that. If you are not comfortable with the company's direction, or business practices then you could always look for another job.

So I don't know about the economy state there, whether jobs are plentiful or scarce, in Egypt our job market is dry. So if it's hard to get a decent job in SF, I suggest that you suck up whatever problems you have at your future job as long it serves your needs of putting food on the table and saving up for some future endeavour.

With regards to starting a company at 29 or later, I don't see a reason to worry about that. Majority of us truly reach our prime success at around mid 30s, disregard the young and fortunate you keep hearing about everywhere in the valley.

But if starting your own business is your passion and the eventual route you want to take, then maybe you should give it a try now.

TL;DR.

- Voice your opinion, be respectful, remember your place (that's one of the cons to working for someone) and don't be a fork in someone's back

- It's not too late to build a startup at 29

- You got pretty much nothing to lose now, so why don't you try building a startup now.

Edit: Fixed formatting
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Please read what you copied and pasted and tell me what rule or law I have violated.
> Psychologists try to tell us there's only one "normal"

No they do not. Psychologists tell us that "normal" covers a very wide range of behaviours and experiences. They tell us that we only need to treat people who are not "normal" if those people have trouble functioning in their day to day lives.

Thus, a person hearing voices can go on hearing those voices if they are okay with it. But when the person reports distress at the voices psychology and psychiatry step in to help that person. (I use hearing voices as an example, it could be OCD or anxiety or depression or any other mental health problem).
Yeah this is pretty absurd. I've been "quoted" a few times in newspapers and they got my statements completely wrong. Just flat out changed the wording (and therefore meaning) of what I said.

The Globe and Mail is as authoritative and reputable as they get, but this isn't saying much. The media is just a shit show in general.

Having said that, even more pathetic is people who get their information from internet forums asking journalists to cite sources.

The authority hierarchy goes like this: Academic writing > Books by credentialed people > YouTube videos by credentialed people > Websites by credentialed people > Newspapers > Yahoo! Answers > Hacker News comments > Wikipedia.
No, plenty of times the legislation is pushed through in spite of culture. Look at the banning of smoking in pubs and restaurants. When that was passed in Britain, it was considered hugely out of step with people's attitudes. Now it seems perfectly normal, but that kind of change came long before the cultural change.

I'd say the same about the first legal change to allow gay sexual relationships. If you'd conducted a poll back in 1967 and asked people whether they think homosexuality should be legal, they would have told you absolutely not. The fact that the law changed and it didn't start raining frogs from the sky convinced people afterwards that it was okay.

Much as it pains me to praise politicians, they are sometimes ahead of the public on issues and take seriously some kind of moral commitment to make society fairer even when it is unpopular.
That was the norm back then. Just be glad the closing tags are present and in the correct order.

Those were dark times.
Which definition of hacker are you using?
> it's a matter of science and objectivity. If we can't reliably measure it, it doesn't matter that it exists, because anyone can claim to have, or not have, the condition.

Does this apply to people experiencing pain?
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I didn't know about gitbucket and just tried it. It is a war file that brings everything. It is easy to setup and can run standalone for tests: java -jar gitbucket.war. The UI is mostly github. First impression is really good.
These slides appear to be the same talk done at a different venue. http://qconsf.com/system/files/presentation-slides/Clojure.p...
It's at least partially because apple doesn't prompt for a password on in app purchases for 20(ish) minutes
I think that's a misleading litmus test.

Only yen could be worked around through a prepaid card, stolen card number, gratis account, and probably other methods I'm not aware of.

Lack of English support doesn't necessarily make the person Japanese. Westerners can learn Japanese or use translation tools.
What a fantastic story. That's a startup I can get excited about.
Nice! heres the link to the dockerfiles source from the article: https://github.com/komljen/docker

as a side ( unrelated :), could someone tell me why docker chose ubuntu as the main supported platform? I was under the impression it wasnt being put to as much use in the server market as say - RHEL, CentOS or Debian.
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There's the example of Dick Cheney. If he pushed for the Iraq war for the profit of businesses he was associated with, a case could be made that he did more damage than Ted Bundy. Those who contribute to resourced killing efforts can see their results scale to a degree not possible for hobbyists like Bundy.