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There is a legal doctrine under which courts will refuse to enforce clauses that are against public policy. Some examples include: racially restrictive deed covenants, inheritance bequests contingent on remaining unmarried, and contracts where one party agrees to perform an illegal act.

In this specific case, the non-disparagement clause would probably be construed not to cover things like testifying before a legislative body or communicating with regulators, even if those communications were voluntary rather than subpoenaed.
Last you heard wrong then. Occasionally we begrudgingly install some GNU bloatware because some poorly written software requires it. That's about it. Every other OS already comes with its own versions of all the unix tools.
Some are stuck on the 3.x series, like Blender.
WSDL is not a method in itself for actually generating the client code, though. It's simply a (barely) machine readable description of the API from which clients decide how to deal with it.

EDIT: Since I was down-voted for whatever reason, I'd like to rephrase. WSDL is a standardized language for defining web services. It's not a tool in itself for generating client code, and what I said was meant to point out that that's the obvious difference between this and WSDL. A description written in WSDL can both be used to generate client APIs and skeleton code for the server itself, but isn't the generator itself, just like C isn't gcc.
I also have a couple of years of leangains under my belt. Doing the fasted early morning training (modified stronglifts) with a feeding windows 10am-6pm. It gives me energy, I don't ever really feel hungry and my muscle gains have been good. Only thing is you really have to watch your macros. You can still gain fat on IF. I made it down to 9% BF by watching caloric intake and when I decided to just try eating as much of whatever I wanted to get some bulk I gained weight and BF (now 16%). Recomp (losing fat and gaining muscle at the same time) is hard and slow

Best part is that it has been a cinch to stick to. I simply don't get hungry during that 16h window
Yes, you can set an EFI password on Macbooks: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352
SecOps failure: GPG+Gmail on OSX Mavericks may store unencrypted drafts
How My First Article Ever Topped the HN Front Page
It just feels to me like you are over elevating the prestige of "our job". What life goals do you have if all you do is work? I do like taking solace in my job and just shutting out the world sometimes. Otherwise I enjoy concerts, travel, family, cooking/cuisine, woodworking, mechanics, gardening, reading novels, learning about art, botany, physics, rocket science, camping, fishing, hunting, and so many more things.

Accomplishment can be achieved in so many ways. A life spent only working seems like such a waste. Dying people generally don't regret the things they did do but instead the things they didn't do.

Go live. Life is such an amazing thing to experience. There are so many sights, sounds, smells, and experiences to be had. I can't justify not attempting to discover as many as I possibly can in the short, insignificant span of time that I will be here. Putting yourself in new, uncomfortable situations will increase your creativity way beyond what working and reading technical books could even come close to.
Let me know if you have any questions about the article - I'm here :-)
There's absolutely no reason to be stunned, surprised, or disappointed that not finalizing a transaction within two weeks will result in discontinuation of the service.

These verifications don't show up out of the blue. They're only for when you create or modify a domain registration. If you change your domain records less than an hour before going off-grid for an extended vacation, you deserve the consequences.
Both the button and text should, if possible, be recreated in CSS without any images at all. But if you have to use an image, you are right that the text shouldn't be a part of it.
What's the user feedback on the prototype?
There is a big difference between "some people optionally could install GNU stuff in addition to their existing tools" and "those OSes use GNU tools".
It's a simple matter of physics and biology that it comes down to energy balance.

The hard part is accurately measuring inputs and outputs and whether some diets will make it easier for a given individual to maintain their inputs below their outputs.
I prefer using my interface to design my interface, using a continuous feedback loop.

Paper, pencil, and Scheme are high level tools I use to plan and lay out the interface.

Objective-C/C, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Illustrator/Photoshop/After Effects are low level tools I use just to get the details that support the interface in place.

At least that is how I like to imagine my workflow to ideally be laid out - it is not always so clearly defined in practice sadly.
Could Namecoin be used for the database?
I should have said more clearly, that my aim was to give a raw dump of my opinions of reading the article, answering the question "Why did this post lose me 10% of subscribers", including just stopping after 2 paragraphs.

I'm sure that Daniel Flopes (who I don't know) is a nice guy, and my quick reading of one blog post do not do him justice. However, the beginning of this article really does (to me) almost read like a parody.

Looking back at the original article, we do (eventually) get to the point where we get to "take a break" and have hobbies and holidays, but the start doesn't say that, and I would have stopped before I got to that point. We then however get into an article about how one person (Sam Walton) we are told (with no reference) worked every day, and became very successful. There are (of course) plenty of people who became successful without never talking to their families, and plenty of people who worked themselves into an early grave.

The other problem with this blog post is that it is written in a strange style, saying (for example) "Forget the idea about how much fun others are getting in the Caribbean Islands. You choosed work. Your life is work.". I'm not clear why the author of this blog thinks I chose work, why my life is work? I think this is an issue of the wrong tense being used, or an unusual writing style, but I get unhappy when I am being told false statements about my life.
As much as I don't want to hear drones buzzing around (would be horrible IMO) what if Walmart starts to shut stores because the cost of doing business is too high and they can't compete with Amazon? What if say the minimum wage rises to $15, cost of gas rises astronomically, too many lawsuits, unions, whatever. Robots don't sue. Remember all the businesses that were destroyed because of Walmart's lower prices. If Amazon can deliver lower prices by drone, grandmas everywhere might demand drone delivery for cheaper hearing aid batteries. If Amazon can take out Walmart, maybe drone delivery is not that far off. I hope it doesn't happen but like I heard one analyst say (regarding drones) on Bloomberg radio: "It's not if, but when."
Planet Money did an excellent piece on just this - Cars Direct attempted something similar (and failed) in the late 90's.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/19/172402376/why-buyi...
Unified Logging With Node.JS and Syslog (2012)
Great post.

Your Home Depot reference made me think of the 24x7 propane dispensers that are in front of many Home Depots. Enter your credit card, put your old tank in the cage, take a fresh tank and you've got propane. It costs more, but adds convenience.

Amazon could easily partner with smaller-box retailers like CVS, Walgreen's, supermarkets or convenience stores to make store branches drone delivery points. If I need a Macbook Air or a circular saw now, I pay $25 and a 5 minute drive/walk to the drugstore for pickup vs. driving to the mall or waiting two days.
You're never going to have a useful legal system where the laws are simple enough for everyone to understand. Free speech is a complex idea.

To put it in HN terms, suppose I were to say "It's pretty sad that we can no longer look at assembly code to understand what our computer programs will do. Instead we need to pay software engineers to tell us how they work even when it's doing something simple, like running a search engine."
That is where good intentions for wise use of time go....
Safe SQL Literal
ITT: people who believe there is a difference between Republicans and Democrats.
Why are so many of you upset by this?
im with everyone who has commented so far. Get out of the building and get your customers using the prototype! Find and see if you will find any customers (Its not easy). It is always recommended you start with selling the idea to customers then get them to buy the idea/validate the idea. Other wise you might have to throw the prototype away since it doesnt solve any painful problem .
Starting off by citing the thoroughly debunked Google bus incident is not going to help your credibility but no one probably even read the article anyway.
> cultural gap between San Francisco and Los Angeles

I'm curious as to what you think this gap is.
Now you're talkin! When you first posted the $5k/mo blog, I was like "ok, that's better than nothing, but let me know when you've got something that can support employees". At $25k/mo you're definitely well on your way there! At $100k you've got a $1m+ business, which is great.

Kudos, keep it coming!
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Hi,

I am looking for feedback on a project I am working on called Unifolio. The url is http://unifolio.co.uk/

In a nut shell it is a free student focussed portfolio website. The ultimate goal is to allow students from creative fields to showcase both themselves and their work in the best possible light to potential employers, which will hopefully increase their chances of gaining employment. You can learn a bit more about the project here: http://blog.unifolio.co.uk/about-us/

The main areas I would like feedback are on the registration process and control areas of the site. Any and all feedback is welcome.

Thanks

Miles
I think its time for me to start posting more!!!
Exactly, nothing will happen. At some point you see the big picture; the company is struggling for money. They already know your financial situation (unemployed) so the will not waste resources going after your assets. Like someone else said too, the burden is on them to show something is disparaging. Why not take it to court and drain what little resources they have left. You can drag it out as long as you want, not like you have a job! What a silly clause, I don't ever see it affecting you just from a blog posting. Disclaimer; not a lawyer (thank god because lawyers come up with this bs)
> What are those facts exactly? If it's just something implemented by ISPs, how is Cameron's government implied?

Cameron has pushed the ISPs to make some form of parental filtering either default on, or what's called "active choice" (which is where it doesn't default to anything, you have to explicitly choose filtering or no filtering). This basically amounts to you getting two options when ordering for the first time, filter (and then options on what to filter) or no filter. There's an example of the signup screen for BT here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25400009

This is not a legal requirement, nor is it compulsory. There are no new laws, that's very important to remember. Not all ISPs are implementing it, though the major ones are. A&A's stance is that your active choice is "if you want filtering by your ISP, don't buy our stuff".

There is no particular filtering tech they're required to use, each ISP may use their own settings/lists of sites/etc.
If you are a political activist, it seems the odds of getting your laptop searched is many orders of magnitude greater than the general population.
20 percent of Steam users now use Windows 8 and 8.1
Even if it is nonsense you can't buy this kind of press. It is a success either way.
Tell a transperson that. Or an abuse survivor. Or someone with HIV trying to get information. There are many, many, many situations where requiring real names is harmful to a community. As a further counterexample, look at news sites which use facebook comments as their backend. People are quite willingly assholes even if their "real" name is behind what they write.
Yep, Layer Comps are awesome. I'll cover them in more detail in the course. That tutorial was starting to get longer than I originally planned.
Finnish Operator Elisa is Interested in Jolla
-” It is the consumer’s advantage that they have a lot of choice. We will be happy to sell Jolla, but it is not yet present, and it’s not mass produced. Jolla still has lot to do with its performance, Korpi said”
I'm not seeing anything worth watching in this list. There's not much unique or different about any of these companies.

I'm sure some of them will do well, but personally I'm interested in companies at the least tackling the "frighteningly ambitious" ideas pg has written about, even if those alone seem far to insular.

Home automation, robotics, Medicine, 3D printing, renewable energy, etc, etc. That's what I want to "watch". I couldn't care less about the next t-shirt maker.
Do you think it impossible for such a change to result in the same regional California but more functional government?

I've been places where township governments were basically just an extra layer underneath the county (providing little more than redundant obstruction). I can imagine voices in these townships reaching for similar arguments about how beautiful the township is and how change is bad.
Buy their app and you can stream any episode whenever you want.

My podcast client fetches new episodes as they become available in the feed and then stores them for me to play whenever I like.

Your response is overly harsh. Consider there are political and financial challenges they might be dealing with as a non-profit that don't allow them to be as accommodating as you demand.
Human augmentation rather than replacement is key (at least in the early stages). Imagine a delivery truck with a set of drones on top. As the human drives (for now) and delivers, the human also racks up packages that the drones can deliver. In between deliveries the drones charge from the truck and when the truck heads back to base the drones who don't need maintenance tasks fly to the next incoming truck.

UPS in my neighborhood has done something similar in Christmases past--they have trucks bringing in bulk and bicycle delivery doing house by house. I didn't notice it this year; I don't know if it was a failed experiment or if I just missed seeing them.

War is Boring has an interesting post about using unmanned aircraft as a weapon-truck wing-man instead of an independent operator: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/64b87d155545
Hehe. And it comes full circle. It is a few years old... I don't think the social norms of Ruby have changed all that much.

To be clear, there are good and bad parts of the standard library, just like there is all code. But much of it is basically a time capsule.
When choosing a language, the community is (almost) everything. If the community is divided and unwilling to support v3, that is more than enough reason to "penalize" them and not use the language.
+1 I've had to work with them a few times, Akamai has built up crazy infrastructure and I'm sure they have awesome tech behind it but getting them to actually help you as a customer if you're not a Fortune 500 company is useless. This is even when I was working at a company that was paying them in the 7 figure range per year.
You are right, what I have written comes across as a personal attack and I'm sorry for that. I should have said "I would hate to be the loved one described in the first two paragraphs of this article". However, I do stand by this adjusted point -- I would not stay in a relationship which operated as described in the first two paragraphs of this article (which, to clarify, I'm not saying is how Daniel's relationship really is -- just how his blog post comes across).
The only real benefit I see with the plan is forcing some of the water issues. It would be nice to see some desalination plants pop up to handle the costal city water so the agriculture can be preserved.
The problem here is that UNIX tools and shell are not a solution for a generic consumer device. So unless you are arguing that everybody should be able to use them (in which case, I leave the discussion for not being interested in debating the topic), you need to accept the fact that there has to be a user-level feature for backup. At which point, unless it is badly implemented, it is probably far easier and safe than trying to mirror with rsync your phone and then figure out how to handle software upgrades, restores, different partitions, separate software from data, and whatnot.

Moreover, I would add that file-based manipulation in my opinion is useful when the single files do expose some value. If I need to backup a sqlite DB with my contacts with rsync, I might as well use a high-level tool that offers me much more without me having to write DB-manipulation code, for instance, syncing/converting with the address book on my OS that might be in a different format. On the other hand, if I edit a .odt file on a tablet, I can see a value in directly manipulating with the shell, as that file is something that I create and I want to access and move around.

But only a subset of the things that I want to backup are document files that I created. If I backup the settings of my phone, I wouldn't even want to know HOW they are stored. And assuming I found out, I don't want to be bothered to thinking if direct file copying is the correct way to restore it on a newer/older version of the operating system. This is a level of detail that is beyond what I (personally) want to know about a smartphone.

So, to rephrase, does the shell on a smartphone empower you to do things that you couldn't reasonably expect to be implemented as consumer-level features?
I'd sign a non-compete clause for enough money in return. Same with a non-disparagement clause, especially if I had nothing bad to say. "Give me 6 weeks severance, instead of 2. Then I'll gladly sign it."
What offends me personally is the offering of money in exchange for signing the agreement.

If I had a choice to sign the agreement or not, of my own free will and with no incentive, I may actually do so. Like you, I have no particular desire to speak ill of anyone, deservedly or not. Time spent disparaging a former employer is time which could have been better spent moving forward.

But when you offer me an incentive for signing the contract? It makes me wonder why these rights I'm giving up are worth so much to the company. And feeling like I'm being bribed or pressured to do something is one of the best ways to manipulate me into not doing it, just because I'm so stubborn :)
Theoretically true, but practically misleading.

Each block of flash can be written only a limited number of times, so flash drives (SSDs, cards, USB sticks) all have more blocks than are visible as part of the disk. Drives internally rotate active blocks in and out of the spare pool to try to keep the number of writes to each similar ('wear levelling'). When you write to a flash drive — including trying to overwrite data to destroy it as someone might on a magnetic disk — it will generally pull a block from the spare pool for the new data, and put the old block in the spare pool.

The spare pool is invisible to the OS, but it is reasonable to assume that there are ‘secret’ commands to access it — not because some TLA demands it, but because the hardware/firmware engineers need it for development and debugging.

BUT there is a great big BUT. Writing flash is a two-step process. Programming flash can only change a 1 bit to a 0. Before this, there has to be a slower erase step, that sets the block to all 1s. In order to avoid this performance-killing overhead on every write, flash drives erase as much as possible (whether spare pool blocks or TRIMmed visible blocks) in the background as soon as possible.
Or cesspit of trolls who don't care you know their real "Name"
You don't see the problem because you don't understand the wisdom of rule 5 in http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html.

When programs volunteer to parse things in possibly unexpected ways, you tend to open up security holes where most people wouldn't expect to find them. In that situation, no matter how much you jump up and down and point the finger, the convenience of parsing is itself a real problem.

You've been pointed to a case where real programmers had real security problems stemming from PHP's willingness to parse when programmers using PHP did not expect PHP to do that because other environments don't. You fail to see that this is a problem with PHP, and only think of it as a problem with programmers.

Your willingness to accept that programmers should need to know more than they should, combined with an unwillingness to rethink your beliefs when presented with evidence that this has lead to real problems, is a perfect example of my point that PHP, "has attracted a community that fails to recognize these things as problems."
No I think YOU don't get it.

Anything sent to a web app via HTTP is user generated content. You can't assume it is ANYTHING.
No, I agree that in the current mobile app world UI flourishes really do make a difference in how users perceive an application. I'm hopeful for the day when such flourishes are so common that they are no longer perceived as valuable and we can get back to working on things that matter.
> register with IANA to get an ipv4 and ipv6 block

Actually one has to register as a Local Internet Registry with the local monopoly RIR, such as ARIN or RIPE. Only they can request blocks from IANA, which they then allocate to LIRs in exchange for non-trivial membership fees.

Fees in the order of 3,000EUR to join and not much less on a recurring annual basis:

http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/member-support/become-a-mem...

Unfortunately since the ITU proposal for a non-geographic RIR faded some years ago there is no competition in this space, as the existing RIRs refuse to service cross-geography requests.
I too only have 1 meal a day. Some days (few a month?) I cheat, mostly for social reasons. It's hard to refuse every lunch request.

Usually, though, I have an apple and cup of tea about 2PM. Dinner about 8. So I'm doing all my eating in a 6 hour window, fasting the other 18 hours, every day.
Having recently experienced such rudeness from an employer, I feel fully justified in recommending tit-for-tat retaliation from employees. Holding to human standards of decency is no longer warranted when your employer no longer views you as a human being.

Given the behavior of my current company towards all of its employees, I am looking to go elsewhere, and when I do, I won't worry overly much about burning those bridges behind me. The at-will sword is two-edged, so let the other guy feel the backswing occasionally.
I'd love for them to try this in a EU country. (EDIT: Except the UK, which, in its attempt to become the 51st state, have an exemption from substantial parts of the relevant regulation)

"So you intend to violate the Working Time Directive? Because if you don't, I will have lots of spare time outside of my contracted hours".

Of course if they'd given me that line, I'd told them that if so they'd need to at least triple whatever offer I might have previously considered.