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Unfortunatey, formal PIP is an absolute necessity in countries with strong labor protection laws (i.e., most of Western Europ). You cannot easily fire someone without a big fat dossier that shows you tried, or else the judge or labor authority will simply tell you to try harder.

That also makes them even more horrible and useless. Once you start going down this route, everyone knows what the score is, and it's extremely demoralizing. Nobody takes them seriously, and employers often stack the deck so there is no other possible outcome but failure.

Which is why many companies choose to offer a shitload of severance pay in exchange for the employee voluntarily "resigning".
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Well, I expect the IRS would want to make sure you were properly declaring that and paying the relevant taxes on it. No idea how it happens in practice, but given the interests of the parties involved, I'm pretty sure it does.
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Thanks, I used 49J7KRXTA4WY and I am currently testing.
Maxwell Health raises another $6M to be operating system for employee benefits
The RFCs mentioned by the article (RFC1950 / RFC1951 / RFC1952) are already quite readable.
May be worth it to look into having a sleep-study done.

Turn up the heat if you're cold. I keep my house around 75 and most people complain it's too hot, but I like it, and I also quit getting sick--ever. Sure the electricity bill went up but I consider it worth it to be comfortable.

Other options include, a better bed / pillow, flannel sheets in the winter, a nice warm blanket. Sleep is like a car, sure you can drive any car, but when you get QUALITY, it's so much better. ..I say as I drive a 99 Olds Cutlass...
As far as I understand, the semantics of asm.js make that not very interesting.
his conclusion sounds more like justice /is/ being applied evenly

He is one of their own who had gone out of his way to make them look foolish. Once that was clear he was treated more harshly than an equivalent first offender, not less. edit - and not equally.
As a user, I can't tell what service is started when by which config file and where it should go. multi-user.target.wants? default.target.wants? Why are there windows-style .ini files and why are they all symlinks to /usr? Is it forbidden to make changes now? Really, RedHat?

It just baffles me whenever I look at it.
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Go is a language, but its standard library is very comprehensive for most things Internet related and you can build web applications quite easily using just that. You also have similar examples in the benchmark using nodejs and php, which aren't exactly frameworks.

I know there should be some overhead when using a framework, but sometimes the cost is too high and it's useful to know it (compare php and symfony2, for example).

You can look at the Revel benchmark, a web framework written in Go which did quite well in the benchmark.
I know this has been discussed many times since the iOS 7 beta builds first release, but recently there has been a nice interface Google has released to see this data from your google account. Uses anything logged in with your google account (phone, computer, tablet, etc) and puts it in one central area.

https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/
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What percentage of employees improve to acceptability (from the employer's perspective) after being put on a PIP or a pre-PIP? 10%? 50% 90%?

If it's on the low end of the range, then a generous severance would seem to be the better choice for all concerned.
Hmm, I don't see that at all. Every company has a culture, a way of making decisions, and a way things get done. We're talking about how those happen.

That can include things like "most people do GTD", "most communication is asynchronous" and "we're all accountable." Or it can include PRDs, a specific agile method, or constant off-sites about improving efficiency. In many places, it isn't thought about, so they think they have no process or management, when they do, and it's just a secret culture or a back-door process.

The reason to talk about "culture" is to have these discussions to hear what people take for granted, and which things they groan about. I've worked at places where "obviously" we need an annual plan and at places where "obviously" we can have no idea when things are shipping and shouldn't even try to. That's why you have to talk about it in depth: one person's "we have no process" is another person's convoluted, opaque process.
From US v Miller as cited in Smith v Maryland:

"The depositor takes the risk, in revealing his affairs to another, that the information will be conveyed by that person to the Government. . . . This Court has held repeatedly that the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the obtaining of information revealed to a third party and conveyed by him to Government authorities, even if the information is revealed on the assumption that it will be used only for a limited purpose and the confidence placed in the third party will not be betrayed."

US v Miller: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1505272929564347...

Smith v Maryland: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3033726127475530...
As someone who's addicted to both, I can't really tell if this revelation is good, bad, or otherwise.
Debugging of generated code has gotten leaps and bounds better in the past few years though.
Great point. I missed the tabs at the very top, there's a lot more information density here than I first realized. The errors in the multiple query case are worrisome.
There are plenty of tech companies that are very 9 to 5. People have lives and families outside of work. I've worked at three startups now and have yet to work at one where I routinely worked long hours. Good, competent managers who have lives outside of work definitely helps.
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A new client will supersede JS and the browser.
I would love to see an animation of Fig. 9-20
Finish the article. No, he did not "just" spend a small amount of time in a police cell. He was sentenced to 3 years of probation, where he [mostly] lost the ability to travel outside of New York.
dont you talk about nokogiri like that
I appreciate the vote of confidence and of course we all choose our own definitions of success and failure. As a "venture backed company", the expectation is that we would build a business that will ultimately return 10x the investment. That seems like a lot but the investors also know that many of these ventures will ultimately be worth nothing.

Our goal was to build a large, thriving and sustainable business that profitably served lots of people, and eventually have some kind of exit event for our investors. Similarly we wanted to offer our employees an opportunity to build this business together.

We weren't able to do that and it's not Silicon Valley, but the expectations of the people who made a bet on us either with their money or their hard work that we feel we've let down, even as we know that most startups do not achieve this goal.
Oh come on, you think the taxpayer dollars are the biggest issue on the judge's mind? So he throws 10x the taxpayer dollars at the problem by putting him on probation for 3 years?

Have you ever met real people? Ever seen someone make decisions because they're pissed off? The guy basically took a shit all over the (immoral) way the justice system works, that's why he was singled out and made an example of.
India removes barriers to U.S. embassy as anger grows over diplomat's arrest
Personally for me, most of my frustration comes from iOS's UIKit and especially their entire UIViewController container class set. It's very fragile and picky. Simple Objective-C is far less of a headache to deal with.

Also as a side effect of practically being an apple hardware only environment and it being a compiled language, you don't have the option to create a 2 or 4 socket CPU beast to compile programs with.
I thought you could only be sentenced for crimes you've been proven guilty of. Three years of not being able to leave NYC doesn't sound so bad, but if it were a city without job prospects it would be worse.
I thought the same thing as you.
The police he encountered possibly weren't 'used' to the sort of behavior he was exhibiting, and the way he was going about the crime.
It's difficult to conclude that it was necessarily tied to his class / color, and I wonder if the author didn't go in with an idea in mind, and simply saw what he wanted.
Can a top ex-Microsoft exec finish the job of fixing HealthCare.gov?
The sites we have built have pretty high demand, I just mentioned like that because of NDA.
In France this sector is working very well (covoiturage.fr), has been for several years, to the point that friends consider checking out rideshare site like that and price-checking with trains and planes.

I have a suspicion that the fact that a lot of rides are either Paris-X or X-Paris probably helps (a lot of parisian students end up getting schools outside and go home during vacation/weekends). And students here don't always have cars.
That's what the Intelligence Unit is.
Might be, the servers are actually quite beefy.
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Jonny Long gave some amazing talks at security conferences. He also wrote Google Hacking, and No Tech Hacking, which are equally amazing.

When he was at the top of his game, he rediscovered his religion and moved to Africa to start Hackers for Charity. One of their most noteworthy projects is a school that teaches computer/ it skills in order to help these people find jobs.

Its a great charity and Jonny Long is a great guy.
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I like this idea.

As it is though, I feel like there is too much black on the page -- and it's really black. All that black also makes it hard to read the gray content, which is stuff that I really do want to read. It also makes it harder for me to see the icons.

Sorry for the feedback on the aesthetics, just that the site is really hard on my eyes.
It's definitely a 13 74/9ths
How do we know this? Why would we assume that the prosecutor would have gone to the trouble of digging that deep over a misdemeanor graffiti charge?
Drop us a line at contact@codedose.com - we released an online trading platform for physical gold, so security is our daily thing!
I've redeemed the first one, will report back :)

EDIT: Very cool! It's pretty polished and I didn't know I would have Siri in there too. I'm not totally sure about a use-case, because I'm someone who turns off Bluetooth to save battery (does it even save battery anymore?) but it's definitely a cool concept, well executed. There should be an exit button somewhere.
I work at a big company, where on paper everything needs to be done in triplicate. That said, you _have_ to hustle, because 'getting stuff done' involves lots of interpersonal relationships and leveraging those relationships to actually get anything done - if you just leave it to process, you'd wait forever. Beyond that, you often need to know who to ask to find the entry point to the process, as with most companies there is very little up to date documentation about anything useful.
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It's also freely available on https://archive.org/search.php?query=Five%20Hundred%20and%20... ;-)
Top Coder challenges may work for you, reading some books will help in solving problems(like Cormen Introduction to Algorithms). That may help only about "theory".

In case of learning the more technical terms, open source projects are the way to go, no need to be active committer, try to understand the workflow and language they use.
Isn't it just as likely that they were unhappy in the previous environment and would thrive in a more self-motivated position? I guess we will never know because you have already determined with one question exactly how the situation will play out.

People are complex. Groups of people, magnitudes more so. I have seen an interview end with unanimous positive assessment and after being hired the subject fail spectacularly. I have also seen candidates barely squeak through the hiring process become star players. Anyone who believes that they can predict the outcome of personalities from a job interview is a great and pompous fool.
I may be wrong, but I see Math.imul as part of the asm.js spec and I believe it's an extension on ECMA-252.5 (and related libraries, IIRC typed arrays are part of the webgl stuff, not ECMA-262)
I think what the parent comment meant was that the "official" PHP would catapult past the "official" python & ruby.
I can give you two more advantages. Lots of know-how available and lots of developers to pool from.
Guys, you're completely missing the point of his anecdote. Due to the weather, he was unable to get a taxi, he completely lost that option. If fares had been way higher then he most likely could have (either because more drivers would want to work, or because less people would be willing to pay those fares, or for a mixture of these two reasons). Thus, an Uber-pricing system would have been beneficial to him - even if he decided not to use it, it would have at least given him an option to use it (what if he didn't have a car and really needed to make that journey).

He's not trying to complain about his local companies, or anything like that, he's merely pointing out that this sort of pricing can be beneficial to some people, not just to Uber.

That doesn't mean it's the best system overall, it doesn't even mean this anecdote owner thinks it is, it's merely a discussion point.
> Tagging hardly qualifies you as a gang member.

In a suburb, probably not. In a city, I'd bet it's statistically likely that a tagger has a gang affiliation.

> Living in a city isn't a crime and shouldn't make result in you being treated differently than anywhere else.

Policing strategies must take into account the realities of living in cities versus living in suburbs. At the end of the day, nobody wants to go back to the 1970's where New York or Chicago were dangerous places (which was a major cause of the suburban exodus to begin with). Just because you live in a city doesn't mean you should live in fear of getting mugged, raped, etc.

When I lived in Chicago, there were flashmob attacks in my neighborhood: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/06/chicago-flash-mobs-.... Shit like that just doesn't happen in the suburbs, and requires commensurate police response.
You should really read the link that I posted there (note as well that this is documentation from the official Dart site). Scroll down to the heading, "Why is the static typing unsound?" to determine why Dart is really and truly not statically typed by any stretch of the imagination. The TL;DR is that, by definition, static type systems are pessimistic and dynamic type systems are optimistic, and Dart's type system is profoundly optimistic.

If you truly want a Javascript alternative with optional typing, try TypeScript instead.
There is a very fine line between "Trying very hard" and "Trying too hard." I've seen people try very hard for getting a job, and then stop right before the finish line. In this case, it's all about the outcome you want. It seems like she wound up with the right outcome (first choice school, eventually landing in the right job) so it worked out.

I can't begin to describe how many people I've interviewed who had no idea what my (small) firm did.
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These benchmark tests for C# are run against MySQL or PostgreSQL on Linux. In the Fortune 500 setup you're probably connecting to SQL Server or Oracle in the back end for which Microsoft and DB vendors have optimized OLE-DB drivers.

That, and JSON serialization on .Net using default MS serializer is super slow. Everyone uses JSON.NET or another faster serializer in the real world.
This comment chain is about spending time in prison - I wasn't saying he didn't get any punishment, just that his punishment didn't include prison.
8 years ago is _very_ occasionally
Your server crashing can also be a mild inconvenience if your ops person sets things up properly. An occasional crash should lead to an automatic restart + an email to investigate later. A single process crashing is not a good reason to wake anyone up in the middle of the night.
>However, I think he ignores a really salient distinction: a lot of these "crimes" like the laws against graffiti, exist not because the acts themselves are particularly heinous, but because they're proxies for things that are dangerous, namely gang activity.

Millions of people do graffiti -- and very few of them have anything to do with "gang activity".

This "proxy" notion doesn't hold. Neither would such retribution to such "offences" be fair even if it was so.

In fact, sending people to jail for such trivial stuff is a more effective introduction to serious crime than their initial offences.
Yep. You never know what kind of secret communist/terrorist intelligence you will find in street graffiti.
I interpreted the story differently. I read it as 100 hours for THE job. It isn't unreasonable to spend 100 hours nailing down the right place to spend 1000s of hours. (Same with college)
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Another problem with your question is that it focuses just on the United States where most jobs aren't even unionised. BMW, Mercedes Benz, and Volvo are all unionised in their country of origin. 95% of all schools in Finland are unionised and they churn out the best students in the world.

Furthermore, nobody here knows what qualifies as a world leading company to you. That's your opinion. General Electric, UPS, all of America's major professional sports teams, Safeway, Budweiser, Coors Brewing Company, Carhartt, are unionised. You don't consider Boeing a shining example of success because they take government subsidies. But that's really besides the point because they make great planes for countries all across the world where they do have to compete. They're a world leader. Non-unionised companies have to compete with companies that are unionised when it comes to a worker's pay and benefits to get the best workers.

But like I said before, the premise of your question is ridiculous.
Some years ago I took Amtrak from Chicago to Seattle, and then down the coast to SF and LA. It was a slow trip, but very enjoyable. In particular the spectacular scenery in the Rockies viewable from the observation cars (I traveled during fall). I would thoroughly recommend it!
> Basically it's like flying the night before with a free (albeit basic) hotel stay thrown in.

But that's not a good thing for many use cases, like tight business travel or vacations where I'd rather not spend a vacation day traveling if unnecessary.
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"But once he got into the system, he was treated terribly"

Compared to what? And where else has he personally has experienced?

While I'm sure it wasn't a walk in the park (or a stay at the Four Seasons) even reading hotel reviews different people can say wildly different things about the same hotel on different days.

He had the basis of a good article here though no matter what. A good experience or a bad experience gives him the basis for something that people would find interesting that have never been arrested before.
Fair point, seems it's called "NYPD Intelligence Division & Counter-Terrorism Bureau" - I'm clearly no expert on NYC police!
> This 7-work week is actually based on calculation: 5 days * 10 hours per day + 5 hours on weekends (to check email). All companies I worked required 10 hours per day. 9 to 5 is not looked nice unless you don't login in the evening and "do some emails".

I cannot believe you think this is the norm for tech companies.
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Could you disambiguate something for me? I was under the impression that more people ran things the Amazon way than the Google way. That is, I see various places which have OpenStack and Amazon EC2/S3 portability, and I assumed they looked more towards Amazon for how to run this sort of thing than Google. (Eg, to my limited understanding, the Amazon details is more well published.)

While there's some mix and match, and Google and Amazon no doubt learn a bit from each other, how do you conclude that Google is the main reference?

For example, if I search for "how to run a data center" I find http://www.forrester.com/Five+Data+Center+And+IT+Infrastruct... , which talks about "Amazon. Salesforce.com. Microsoft. Rackspace" in the abstract, and does not mention Google.
Yeah, you're right. Both are part of the ES6 draft though:

https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html
The prosecutor recommended the standard dismissal before noticing the sticky attached to his/her file that presumably said something like "troublemaking asshole - smash this guy".
Unlike the NSA, I actually see some personal benefit to this.
Now if I could only find the switch to stop the NSA from tracking me.
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By Richard Stallman

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No, it was not applied evenly. Most people in his situation would not have had their plea deal revoked at the last second. The state's attorney and the judge singled him out and piled on extra charges because he publicly embarrassed the justice system. His real "crime" was bringing a reporter along to witness him handing over his signed confession.

The instant he did that, he lost all hope of seeing how justice works for normal folks. How is anyone to know whether his ill treatment was due to his actual crime or due to the pseudocrime of creating bad publicity for the powers that be?
> Teenage boys are idiots

Especially those without guidance and mentoring. If we took a fraction of the funds used to deal with their crimes and spent it on proactive engagement we'd all be better off.

For example, programs like Midnight Basketball[1] should flourish throughout the land

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_basketball
> The district attorney’s office, responsible for prosecuting offenders, asked the judge to dismiss my case with three days of community service. This is standard practice for first-time, nonviolent misdemeanor offenders. The judge read through the paperwork and agreed, though he raised the number of community service days to five.

> I accepted the sentence and the clerk began reading it into the record.

> “Your honor, wait!” the assistant state attorney interrupted. Startled by the outburst, the judge looked up and scowled as the attorney read something written on her file. She blushed and continued, “I’m sorry, I have to withdraw my offer.” As the judge shook his head and set a date to return, I felt an odd pang of empathy for her. Once, as a rookie prosecutor, a judge had humiliated me in open court for being evasive about a file that had an ominous yellow “do not dismiss” sticky note on it.
>Honestly, his conclusion sounds more like justice /is/ being applied evenly, it's just that it was harder for him to get the police's attention while he was wandering around in a suit and tie.

Not really. The idea is the system is flawed both ways:

At first, he was ignored because he was white, well groomed and such. (Racism).

In the second part, he was punished harshly not because suddenly the system made a u-turn and decided to "apply justice evenly", but because they didn't appreciate him making waves and questioning their practices.
Works bombs, mixing Works Toilet Cleanser and Aluminum foil in a 2L plastic bottle were popular in my high school. I can't imagine the charges the children would get today if they were brown. Lucky for them they lived in rural NC.
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a) Stop less.
b) Take a more direct route.

The distance between SF and LA is such that it /should/ take under 4 hours.
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