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Let me suggest with all respect and much jealousy that your situation may not be common across employeers or jurisdictions

I have no college degree, work in the suburbs of a second-tier Northeastern US city but I have 20 years experience in IT.

And that many people may not have the finances or flexibility to decline two weeks pay

I respectfully submit that saving for an emergency fund might be their top priority while they are gainfully employed then. My goal since I was 18 years old was to have 6 months pay in the bank and it wasn't long before I had that. Since my parents didn't have two nickels to rub together though, I didn't have much of a choice and absolutely no fall back if I got into trouble so this was kind of a necessity for me.

Also, I'm surprised that anyone in IT is afraid of losing their job. Currently I work 40 hours per week at the investment bank I work at full time and 20+ hours per week doing side programming. Honestly I could work 24 hours per day and get paid for every hour if I wanted to. There is nearly infinite work for programmers right now. Losing your job is scary, no doubt, but in reality if you are a decent programmer you don't have much to be scared of.
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I don't have the facts to contradict your statement about finding the show after it had already been made, but wasn't it a "Netflix original production"? As in, Netflix pitched it to the studios?

I know the script originated from the British series, but don't they usually only select actors after they have funding? I'm not that familiar with the process, so I may be wrong.
This is simple misinformation. Most places will only say that much so as to limit unnecessary liability but, in most locales, an entity is not explicitly prohibited from providing additional information with respect to performance, etc.
This year, Apple's "12 Days of Gifts" app only runs on iOS7. I don't know if that was intentional, but it seems likely.
I blame Google for this. Yes, there were others who pushed "real name policies" before, but it wasn't until Google when they really forced people to do it, and now that they got away with it, others are taking the example from them, and doing the same.
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Probably contrary to common belief here but the headline is correct IMHO.

However this is because web programming as a whole is a crock from top to bottom. PHP doesn't really add or subtract from that other than lowering the barrier to entry with respect to compromising your server through stupid architectural or coding decisions.

If we wrote our web pages in C, it's be just as bad. Rails has a terrible history of vulnerabilities. Many times I've seen injection attacks in audited Java and C# applications.

Everything can be a turd in the wrong hands.
I quit at two jobs until today.. The only thing I ever signed was my resignation.
It's also "professional courtesy" to not trash people... but there you have it, so what would you be giving up if everyone is being "professional".

You can forego the two weeks severance if it isn't worth it and you really want to trash them.

Having been both on the employee and the employer side of things, as an employer it really sucks to do something nice that you don't have to like give someone a severance package and then have them be a jerk by trying to hurt you in some way.
It's in a secret section of the constitution on employment law, that overrides the first amendment.
It is tough to comment on MIT, since there may be parts of their side of the story that we don't know. On the surface, it is hard to view 35 years as anything but excessive. It is certainly well above anything that fits the crime, and anything needed as a deterrent.
Good call. It's amazing how many things you have to be careful of when writing decorators.
What a great opportunity for these students. I wish my university had done something like this.
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The book "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition" mentioned about the group not able to eat carbohydrate for months. They had only animal products available to survive. They complained about lack of stamina and each physical tasks taking a lot longer to complete.
Indeed. I'd expect increasing uptake in 2014. I think the current "Python 3 sucks" outburst is indeed a sign it's at a tipping point .. the usual ignore, denial, accept cycle.
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Companies could save themselves a lot of pretense with exit interviews and just assume the following:

If a good person leaves your company, it is because of one or more of the following:

1. You can't (or won't) pay them as much as someone else.

2. They aren't happy in the culture of your company.

3. They aren't happy with the type of work they are doing.

4. They don't see a bright future with your company - either for themselves, or for the company, or both.

5. They don't trust the company (or, possibly, the people they work with).

6. It isn't one item, or one incident, but over their time with the company, many little things that eroded their desire to work there. A person leaving today might have become fed up with the company two years ago when some botched project burned them or a manager handled something completely inappropriately. People don't usually just quit on the spot.

7. They want to work for themselves. Which means, they don't want to work for you. It really isn't you, it's them. (Wish them good luck and be sincere)

8. They can get a better deal (non-monetary) somewhere else and it outweighs the job. For young people, often the job is part of their identity. Once people get married and have kids (or just get a little older), they realize that working for someone else is not much of a reward. They may want a more flexible schedule, may want to just physically be closer to their home, any number of things that you may not be able to control.

9. You see them as a replaceable part and they know it. (Surprise!)
Is there a reliable backup utility for your BIOS? I've come across this, but don't know how to judge it's viability.
IMHO the provisions in your list plus a few more would make the whole thing unobjectionable. My additions:

- It's opt-in. The ISPs are required to notify subscribers that it's available, with clear explanations.

- Allow parents to opt in or out of each of various categories

Such a scheme would accomplish the purported/advertised purposes, without harm to civil liberties and without interference in home life.

Unfortunately, these "how to fix it" ideas are misplaced. The fact that non-pornographic sites, obviously selected by political criteria, are deliberately packaged together with pornography, is not merely a bad implementation. In fact it is clear evidence that the real motive is not to protect children at all, but instead to protect state power, and disempower the public and keep them ignorant.

Given this evident intent and purpose, attempts at partial reform are pointless, and the right thing is say no to the would-be gradualist-censors and call out their plan for the creeping fascism that it is.
I like their counterpoint to the idea that you have to dump all the managers. It really is about managerial effectiveness.

I also like their idea of a free market for transfers within the company. This is a big departure from many large companies where your boss has to sign off on your move. Ultimately that creates an environment where you need a job offer in hand to switch.
In C / C++ (in POD structs) you can use the pack attribute. Here's more documentation: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Type-Attributes.html I would still recommend you try to lay out the struct by hand to try to the right alignment for the variable.

Having said all that, before you do this. Why don't you first measure where you're seeing high cache misses and only optimize those. On Linux the perf tool is a god send, you can annotate down to the source code line.
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Right. A typical stealth question that is perfectly allowed is the "would you hire this person again?" question. It says a lot with one yes/no answer.
Right now I plan on testing rails, sinatra, cuba, plain rack, probably the frameworks previously benchmarked here: https://github.com/luislavena/bench-micro

I plan on benchmarking on thin, unicorn, puma, WEBrick, torquebox 3, torqbox (torquebox 4), trinidad, passenger, and I guess now Jubilee.

I was also thinking of doing some EventMachine based stuff like goliath and whatever else I can find in that space.

From my early benchmarks last weekend torqbox is the fastest and pure rack is a lot faster than sinatra or rails. Sinatra is not nearly as fast as I thought it was compared to pure rack. A simple thin server running ruby 1.9 got about 1500 req/sec for hello world using Sinatra. Torqbox and jruby brought that to about 5000 req/sec. Plain rack was about 6500 req/sec on ruby 1.9 and thin and on torqbox it was 10,250 req/sec. For reference, my golang hello world was getting 10,500 req/sec.

I'm very curious where Jubilee will land in that mix.
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Awesome! FWIW, Autobahn also supports PubSub and RPC over WebSocket in a unified protocol: WAMP (http://wamp.ws/)
No it doesn't, two weeks pay at that salary doesn't get you anything unemployment won't cover.
OP here, feel free to ask me any questions.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Bullshit. That phrase is down there with "what have you got to hide?". Its a disgusting attempt to hide reality, with diversionary language.

And how the hell is "stupidity" a defense? This man is the PM of a G whatever number it is now country. He had the best education could offer and has slimed his way to the top with all his family connections. Stupid? I dont think so.

Camoron does not give a toss about children. He's happy to see them suffer with all manner of cuts. So, these kids can't eat properly, cant get much of an education, have no future worth a jot, but thats all fine 'cos they will now find it a bit harder to find porn? Oh please.

As for your solution, what a nightmare. All that will do is begin a highly creeping policy with will end up censoring in a way not seen in any way before. Who the hell is anyone to tell me what information I am allowed beyond an official secret?

As a father of 6, I despise this "for the children" excuse for conservative, right wing control freaks who seek to control my thoughts. What happened to the old UK conservative notion of personal freedom and responsibility?
We're working on a similar concept. It's called DefenseMob (http://defensemob.com).
You'd think David Cameron of all people would support a free-market solution.
Let me guess, you want a programmer to do all the work for free and in return they get equity in the company?
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My view on the "Learn to Code" movement is similar to music or other arts. Not everyone has to get good at it, but it is worth exposing everyone in school. If you're not exposed, you may not know that you have a talent for it. And even if you never have a talent, you'll learn to appreciate it later.
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These are the results from the survey that was on HN a few days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6990481
Why even bother? Just approximate with "it's slow" and call it a day.
just say NO.
You eat way more calories than 500 on IF. IF is only about the fasting period, I still eat more than 3k kcal doing IF.

I workout around 6-8 am and eat at 1pm and I actually find I have more energy fasted than if i go in the afternoon.
And I was soon informed that the president wished to assure me that there is nothing unusual about such clauses

Whoop whoop whoop! This sets off giant alarm bells in my head.

It might be totally normal. That doesn't mean you should sign it.

It's also an older-than-dirt salesman tactic to say that something you just made up is "totally common."

Of course, the company can attach whatever clauses it wants to a separation agreement. You aren't entitled to a severance payment. I'll tell other engineers that two weeks' salary is a piddly amount for the company for you to surrender such rights. You can just walk away. They are the ones who want you to sign that.

(It's kind of ironic, but after you have been given notice you are fired, you have power. They want you to do certain things, and what are they going to do? Fire you? Already did that. Withhold pay? Illegal.)
Just tried this out and Alpaca is an awesome tool. However, I'd never want to release this in production without tests. Alpaca doesn't generate tests, so you're back to maintaining the tests for your N different platforms/languages. But you'd have the same problem with its competitors, too; Thrift [0], for instance, doesn't generate tests either.

Overall, I'm not sure that the time savings is as big as it first appears, but I think it's great for quick projects.

[0] http://thrift.apache.org/
Yes, comments like this actually are what I'm looking for. We need to develop real tests.
Results from this survey can now be found at

https://wiki.python.org/moin/2.x-vs-3.x-survey
That's an utterly ridiculous characterization. Its an attempt to convey that someone is no longer welcome to use your property. Not only is it such that a reasonable person would take it to have that meaning, which is all that's required, but Aaron actually understood that he was no longer welcome to use the property because his subsequent accesses to the network were under disguise.
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Tests is one of the main priority and I am planning to do them soon.

This current program just a small step in the right direction. :)

EDIT: Currently, I have a test suite at https://github.com/pksunkara/alpaca/tree/testing which tests the generated client libraries of an example API with the respective server.
if the study didn't control total calories between groups, the improved health markers on his tests were likely a result of lower total calories over time. i.e. the studies probably did not match calories between groups.
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Thanks! Sorry about your phone :(
You're being offered two weeks of pay for behavior that will last effectively forever.
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If you can survive the gap between getting paid and getting the unemployment, which is why most people will take it. I would do the same if I were back in the states considering the job market. Who knows when I'd find another similar paying job.
There is vague sentence "Afterwards you get your laptop back ", but not much else. Perhaps it would be worth to create serious article on subject.

Who pays for damages?

If harddrive is separated from laptop, does it get seized as well?

What if I have 100GB of random data on hdd?

Is there obligation to provide technical support to officers? Not everyone knows howto boot FreeBSD without bootloader.

Do I get written certificate of what was seized? There could be some bitcoins on hdd...
There's already established case law concerning libel and slander, do these not apply to corporations? This clause just seems like a way to give a company the option to sue you for anything at all, regardless of whether it caused them any damages.
"The movement also has a rather pronounced social justice slant."

Annnnnd then the conspiratorially-shaded bit about "Chicago" starts. FFS, dog-whistle much?

Also: "Like all great crafts, if you try to force it upon people, you only end up diluting it and its culture along with that."

Given what we saw of "its culture" in 2013, I'd say "diluting" the toxic waste would be a damn good start.
I upvoted you to offset the downvote(s) you've received. There should be nothing wrong with a newbie (to HN at least) asking a question like this. Would anyone who downvoted OP care to explain the downvote? The only logical reason I can think of that someone here would've downvoted is something along the lines of - "He should've known that crypto and ML are the obvious answers."
MySpace 2 is exactly where the money is. Tons of it.

I like the idea of users monetizing it.
How will this affect registrars that offer to hide your email address behind a randomly generated and periodically rotated address that forwards to your own?

For example, NameCheap' WhoisGuard service has an option to rotate the email address every 30 days. If I subscribe to a service like that, will I have to verify the randomly generated address every time it is rotated?
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One of the things to keep in mind here is that this trick won't work or work as well for every architecture or every processor family in that architecture.

Some architectures do not support unaligned memory access and will raise an exception. If you're using things like packed attribute with your structs your compiler will generate the correct code but that code will be slower. In almost all cases it will generate many more instructions and because of that your cache will be less effective (due to larger code size) your decoder cache will be less effective, etc...

The author has a more modern Intel processor. The x86 family always supported unaligned access, albeit it was always slower in terms of cycles. More recent Intel processor have made this penalty much shorter. I believe this was driven network applications many of which focus on efficiency of packing as many bytes down the channel and less on the alignment requirements. http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=142&v=t
Are there any numbers of criminals (un)caught by wiretapping the internet?
All over the news you see of the NSA or other countries wiretapping the internet. And all numbers available are about how and how much data the national agencies are collecting. But if it comes to the point to 'is it really necessary?' then everybody is uses the argument of the feeling of security.
So are there any hard numbers available of how many criminals are caught by wiretaps? Did this number increase because of the wiretaps? and how many criminals are (probably) uncaught by not having a wiretap?
Why is it a thin veneer? ISPs don't have to provide it and users don't have to use it. For many people it's opt out by default.

It's harder to get more optional.
Such contracts ("produced on own-time belongs to company") are common at large software companies. If you are in California, such a contract may not hold water. Any one have experience with a big co (outside Cali) where they were able to negotiate this clause away?
Completely shameless plug for a tiny probabilistic programming language that I wrote as an embedded DSL in Haskell:

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The code that solves this problem is:

solve = do
coin <- choose (999/1000) fair biased
tosses <- replicateM 10 coin
condition (tosses == replicate 10 Head)
nextToss <- coin
return nextToss
where
fair = choose (1/2) Head Tail
biased = certainly Head
> - (When all else fails) Hacker girls get hit on quite frequently.

Not sure about that but "Single" hacker girls get hit on quite
Sorry to hear about your dad.

I have already have one melanoma but luckily they found it very early on. I have more than a thousand moles though so I am constantly being checked.

Lets hope your dad will survive. It is possible even at stage 4.
I just have one thing to say about the censorship, fuck everyone that is pro this stuff.
It seems to me as if HN has been taken over by deceptive shills supporting the surveillance state.

"Creeping normality refers to the way a major change can be accepted as the normal situation if it happens slowly, in unnoticed increments, when it would be regarded as objectionable if it took place in a single step or short period. Examples would be a change in job responsibilities or a change in a medical condition.

Jared Diamond has invoked the concept (as well as that of landscape amnesia) in attempting to explain why in the course of long-term environmental degradation, Easter Island natives would, seemingly irrationally, chop down the last tree:
Gradually trees became fewer, smaller, and less important.
By the time the last fruit-bearing adult palm tree was cut, palms had long since ceased to be of economic significance. That left only smaller and smaller palm saplings to clear each year, along with other bushes and treelets. No one would have noticed the felling of the last small palm."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normalcy
The JVM does have powerful reflection capabilities, even though most programmers don't use it directly.

You do see it used for mocking, ORMs, dependency injection, etc.
So rather than ask the person like a grownup they should wildly speculate in order to make everyone less uncomfortable?

I mean you have a list of 9 reasons off the top of your head and it's just the tip of the iceberg.
15 days. I am literally stunned. so if you go to long holiday you might come back and your site is .. banned. way to go on free speech.
Because it is easier to bully someone to do what you want.
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Right.. but people tend to become depressed and suicidal when faced with prison time.

Being fired is also high on the depression list.

You're pointing out two dark moments in someones life. I've had far more than two and I don't by any means consider myself depressed.
That was in the US, the call center multiple family members worked at - student loan collections.
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True, in the classic 'cheetah chasing wildebeest' scenario the the wildebeest is not 'chemically defended' and the cat enjoys his dinner. However, we aren't pure carnivores are we? Our taste buds are different as is our gut flora, our saliva has enzymes in it plus we have a lengthy intestine. Sure we can eat wildebeest - raw - but we would have to sit around all day - cat style - to have it digest. Due to the intestine length our 'wildebeest on toast' would start to rot inside us whereas the cat would not have that problem. Hence we cook animals and use the word 'meat'.

98% of the corn grown in the USA is field corn, grown for its starch content. You cannot eat this stuff and enjoy doing so. You need something tantamount to an oil refinery to make it edible or a distillery to make it drinkable.

The corn you are thinking of - the nice sweetcorn in the supermarket - is from a different variety, it is grown for the sugar content, not the starch content.

Essentially field corn is a chemical feedstock, it can be used for many, many things - which is great. However, look at those ingredient labels in the U.S.A. and, after a while, question whether you are eating a great deal of stuff that is not corn-derived. HFCS is obvious, 'xanthan gum' is not so obvious.

You will enjoy this article on it:

http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2008/11/081111-fas...
I guess this is one of the reasons Our Lady in Medjugorje has been calling us to fast on bread and water every Wednesday and Friday.
The #pragma pack directive in C++ might be useful for stack allocations. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3318410/pragma-pack-effec... For heap allocation you have _aligned_malloc() and memalign().
I'll believe all this 'post PC' hype when I see it.

Sure, a phone works as a dumb Facebook/youtube/Gmail terminal, and yes, for many users, that's all they need, (or perhaps a chromebook for the form factor and real keyboard), but a phone will always cost more for the power and be more cumbersome to work on, even if the number of PCs in use diminishes, anyone doing serious work will still have one.