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Yes I'm with you. First thing that happens is i) BOD tells management to do layoff's to preserve cash then ii) Legal talks to outside or inside counsel and gets the generic playbook for layoffs (including termination template language) then iii) CEO, CFO and VP of HR discuss actual terms of severance. Maybe even one gets simply two weeks. Maybe more senior (time or responsibility) get 3 or 4 weeks etc. Either way decision is determined and married to boilerplate RIF template. iv) String of events leads to a writer ($50,000 a year? $75,000 a year?) looking at a paltry two weeks of revenue in exchange for disparagement clause. Seems completely out of whack with his beliefs and the amount being offered.
Certainly. One simple example would be a teacher who wanted to share an excerpt with her classroom. Listening to the standard bleeped version on the radio and then accidentally sharing a version with profanity to the students could cause a lot of trouble.
FWIW, I mostly agree with your post. I would subscribe, but I couldn't find the RSS feed link.
One person's cynical pessimism is another person's realism borne from 20+ years of professional experience.

I prefer "yes, if" but reality says that the "ifs" will never be made part of the planning and then blame will come back to you because you said "yes"

I find it similar to the "estimates" of when we'll finish something, that get turned into hard delivery deadlines once the project scribe commits them to the first draft of the project plan.
Thanks for your helpful info.

Right now I have two apps in the App Store and I'm working on a third. Eventually I'd like to get 5 - 10 based variations of the same app...

How many Apps do you have in the iOS App Store?
Couldn't agree more. Well said.
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From what I understand so far, the model they encourage is:

- register a legal entity (coop, non-proft, corp, whatever)

- register with IANA to get an ipv4 and ipv6 block

- find an ISP who can do the BGP announcements for you (DSL resellers usually support it, even if for a residential connection)

- use something like Quagga for routing, no need for big expensive routers

- connect with whatever premises you want your DYI-ISP to cover: ex: specific building, such as a student dorm, specific residential district with a mesh wifi, cat5 flying all over the place, install your own fiber (it's not that complicated!), etc.

Browsing the FFDN database, a lot of their members are small orgs with 50-100 users. With time, if you encourage a community legal model (coop or non-profit), people will develop more expertise and step up to manage and expand your network.

PS: I'm part of a Montreal mesh community called "Réseau libre" (http://www.reseaulibre.ca). We don't provide Internet, but we build the underlying infrastructure. It's a lot of fun and a great way to learn crazy networking stuff on a shoe-string budget.
I agree entirely. I like the fact that as a nation and even in most localities there are people with diverse views, backgrounds, etc. and we all have to figure out how to make this whole living together thing work (or move).

I don't think there's an example of a place that attempted to align in such a way and magically it worked. Even within places where people agree broadly about the role of government, etc. Such as NYC. There are always the same disagreements about how we run the way we live, such as the NYC mayoral primary that happened in 2013.
Real name policies greatly benefit the community as a whole. Of course we all see that there is a rare need for anonymity, but it should be far from the default. I wish the net could be divided into two halves -- "Willing to put my name behind what I write", and "Anonymous Cesspool".
Agreed, this is caught by photoshop. I tested with http://mrnussbaum.com/prescurr1/1.jpg . Apparently wasn't accurate enough for photoshop to complain.
Yeah but you're not going to have a leg to stand on so any lawyer is going to tell you to settle immediately if they even threaten to go after you.
Probably not many, but it's worth noting as many people listen to TAL with younger children (e.g. in the car).
Thanks for your feedback!

It's definitively valid, now you say that I can feel how it looks weird/scammy.

Anyway to answer your question, we've come up with an small piece of algo that use a mix of probability, landing pages and internal search engines to make the best guesses.

We'll work on better marketing texts maybe a video, we've just launched yesterday! :)
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I would love a glass screen.
When you go to your sales team and the new goal is 7 rather than 9, morale gets a boost and you try a bit harder to sell those cars. The goal is closer and within reach.
To clarify, under that proposal, the "new" state (Lincoln) would be the eastern one and the western one would be still called Washington. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_%28proposed_Northweste...
BLAS doesn’t layout data for you; it needs to work with the alignment of buffers that you pass as arguments. High-performance BLAS implementations do often allocate their own temporary workspace, and some account for issues like this (because BLAS access on large buffers is dense, the exact issue described here is rarely a problem, but 4k false aliasing frequently is for huge power-of-two sized matrices, for example).
We have these things called "highways" that let us do this.

Seriously though, every retailer has figured out this problem. Drive around in Brooklyn, Queens and the Newark area and you'll see hundreds (if not thousands) of working warehouses. Hell, the New Jersey turnpike feels like a corridor in the middle of a giant warehouse.

In my city, a fruit and vegetable distribution place setup a small warehouse for restaurant deliveries about 5 blocks from the central business district. It added a little cost, but now he can deliver a case of fruit to a restaurant in like 20 minutes vs. 90.
I'd be curious as to where Reel (both on and off Rack) lands in there as well.
And why is this a good thing?
@OP,
Read this- Top 5 regrets of the dying:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/03/top-5-regrets-of-th...

:)
Thanks for replying.

So why are you still of the opinion that losing weight is just a matter of energy balance? Are you familiar with other studies which have shown this claim to be correct?

As you can probably tell, I'm a low carber myself, but I'm genuinely curious to understand how did the "energy balance" consensus opinion form. It seems that currently, both opinions aren't rooted in scientific studies. BTW, there's an initiative called nusi.org that attempts to solve this once and for all (by proving low carb diets are right and everyone else is wrong, of course :-)
That's true in general, but conditional severance isn't the same thing as unconditional severance. Conditional severance, depending on the conditions, may well be a quid pro quo. If the money is compensation for e.g. a non-disparagement clause than it isn't also customary two weeks severance.

If such practices are widespread in a particular industry than that industry in practice doesn't provide severance. In those circumstances, it makes sense to withdraw the corresponding practice of giving notice. Or perhaps instead substituting a practice of conditional notice.
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There could be an unintended side effect of this mess. People will get so fucked off with Cameron and Co., it could lead to a dramatic increase in (black) hacking activity in Britain. I've already bought a black hat in preparation (similar to the one that is sported by Odd Job from Golfinger).
I'll add a few questions:

- Can you ensure safe failure modes for your in-flight drones?

- Who assumes liability when your drones crash?

- What is the blade tip speed during operation? What precautions do you take when flying in populated areas?
> This is unnecessarily pessimistic

Remember, he's looking at using Python for the first time. I work in Perl-heavy environments, and I can assure you that the 2/3 split in Python is a reason that many will give for not using Python at all. It's very different among those who are already comfortable with Python.

> Most of the major packages support Py3k and if they don't it's usually very simple to port over

For you, maybe. He's just starting with Python.

With regards to scientific Python, I took a peek at the install link on the Ipython site. It says that Ipython works with Python 2.6, 2.7, and >= 3.2. That was only mention I saw (in an admittedly casual look) for Python3. All the examples were in Python2.
This is just like the Segway rollout hype all over again. Segways turned out to be real (self balancing and all, except they turned out to have two wheels instead of one wheel) but are very niche. I'd bet drone delivery will also exist eventually, but it will also be very niche.
I've little doubt that the folks using Python are making the decisions that are right for them. The underlying problem that I saw in my survey was that Python 3 broke compatibility while not offering developers a compelling reason to update their code beyond it being the right thing to do. Hence, folks are taking their time doing so.

Developing in Python also seems an either/or proposition: either you target v2 or v3. This puts library authors in the unenviable position of supporting two code bases.
I'm kind of surprised this isn't "a thing". I mean, I'm surprised its 'a thing'. Because, isn't this standard practice - I mean, isn't just a part of the coder Creed that you read the code, anywhere and everywhere you can?
I said that in the other comment above you. I knew about the yellow dots, but this is straight up creepytown.
The sweet point for me has been iOS 6-7 support. There's little that iOS 7 has that I need to use, so a few conditionals here or there haven't been a huge deal (tintColor has been the only significant one). This contrasts immensely with trying to support back to iOS 5 where so many new things were added after (e.g., autolayout) that you end up with huge chunks of redundant code that differ only in the approach taken to get the end result.

My apps' interfaces are entirely customized, so everything looks roughly the same across the major versions. I've shifted to a flatter appearance since iOS 7, but I've held onto certain things from older ones that I like better such as borders on buttons where the button status is not clear from the context, filled toolbar icons (I hate the stenciled ones), and a shadowing level somewhere between iOS 6 and 7.
It's pretty sad but you what you say is correct: We can no longer just read our laws in order to understand what they say. Instead we need to pay lawyers to tell us what they mean even when they appear to be very clear like the first amendment.

And of course like your scholar they are free to make up there own interpretation at any time. If they can get enough of their colleagues to go along then that interpretation becomes the meaning. Maybe start with something reasonable like shouting fire in a theatre.

But after two hundred years that meaning can drift pretty far. What was originally purely a constraint on the power of government can be transformed into a constraint on the rights of private citizens - the very people the bill of rights was meant to protect!

Is there any wonder why the forth amendment has done so little to stop mass surveillance? Or individual health insurance mandates are constitutional because they could have been implemented as a tax? Or the commerce clause covers absolutely anything? Or words like "is" and "no" can simply be redefined as needed.

Perhaps I am naive but I would like laws that most people can understand by reading them. Too bad the people interpreting and writing our laws have every incentive to continue to do exactly the opposite.

Sorry for the rant!
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The hard part is not building a prototype but getting traction. What happens when customers use your prototype today?
To restate the first reply to your comment - iOS is the device with the missing features, usually replacing them with often impenetrable, closed-source, in-house, single-vendor solutions.

A shell is not a compensation for half a dozen apps that almost replace a single command. In fact, quite the opposite.

Does iOS have a user-accessible file system yet?
Everyone already has a lot of localized control. That's how America, and most individualized states, are set up. I assume by control you mean representation. Are you arguing that the representation within the state isn't good enough? If so there are other avenues to fix that problem, such as changing the state legislature where most of the laws that affect the day to day lives of Californians come from, to be more representative. I can't see how creating five new states solves any control or representation problem.
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I prefer using Inkscape to do this. It's more accessible (ie. Free) and the SVG generated easily translates to css.
If some of the split states will have money but others will have water, that sounds like a problem trade was invented to solve.
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Funnily enough, the first chapter recommends the standard library as idiomatic Ruby code.
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A lot of this just seems like it wasn't thought through correctly.
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I'm using MOAI. Implementing flashy UI's is so trivial, its not even funny. What I'm finding though, is that its very much better to keep things simple, and well .. for my clients at least, its working.
I did a diet like this years ago.

One of the possibly side effects is decreased kidney function from the rapid increase of proteins in the diet (which don't metabolize very cleanly compared to fasts or carbohydrates). People with kidney issues or possible problems should avoid these diets. Kidney stones are much more common IIR.

Another is lower bowel problems as these diets frequently don't have enough fiber in them to keep things moving.

I lost a ton of weight (about 60 pounds) but I also had some weird problems that made me give it up:

- I felt unbelievably hungry all the time. Even after eating a huge meal. This is supposed to go away after a few weeks, but months into the diet I still felt like this.

- I felt like grease was oozing out of me at all times. I just felt icky and couldn't ever feel completely clean.

- My hair and fingernails grew at astonishing rates. I was cutting my nails every 3 or 4 days at one point.

- I had wretched B.O.

- I was constipated all the time. Low-carb fiber supplements solved this.

Good things:

- My mental clarity was unbelievable. You don't get drowsy in the middle of the day, and you don't really need anything to help wake up.

- I was doing lots of sports then and injuries healed so fast I felt like Wolverine. I never bruised during this time and I was doing full contact kickboxing.

- I was easily the strongest I've ever been.

- Weight loss was pretty constant till I hit a nice comfortable plateau at a good weight for me (a little under 160).

I've also done vegetarian diets and for a brief spell vegan diets. It's hard to compare how much better I felt overall on the first diet than the vegetable based ones though.
It's not that you would want to. It's that certain data structures (particularly in kernel land) naturally form around powers-of-2 sizing. Since the hashing in an n-way associative cache is done by masking away bits, you can get into this nasty situation where multiple elements of your data structure end up hashing to the same location set (the N in an N-way associative cache). You don't want that if you are going to walk the elements in your structure.

Either avoid walking the elements, or do whatever it takes to ensure that you don't end up getting stuck behind the N.

Hardware is inescapable.

It's also worth noting that you can use this to your advantage, ensuring that accesses to certain elements does not push much else out of the associative cache.
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No, it implies that they are worried about what you might say or do. And possibly not specifically you, but the odds in general of some employee or other deciding to cause a nuisance, whether or not they deserve it.

Or they have an overzealous HR person or lawyer.

Or any number of other things.

Of course they might also be a bunch of criminals, but I don't think an agreement like that implies anything in either direction.
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This is extremely useful, not only for inspiration and learning, but also so you actually know what is happening under the hood. This is great for troubleshooting and for reasoning about your own code. This is one big pro for open source in development!

I learned a lot by reading the source code for Python dicts (which also comes with a lengthy motivation for why it was implemented that way) and any Haskell library (Hackage links from the manual page directly to the source code for the respective function, which makes it very easy to see what is happening).
Maybe, maybe not. Legal action is costly for both sides.
I don't remember the last time I looked at glibc source so I am not sure if I can relate to this comment or not. However, I just wanted to throw in that I find the various *BSD projects, including their libcs, very readable. It helps that everything is in a single tree with some consistency in naming patterns etc, and the style is usually decent.
I'm kind of conflicted. I've heard so many different reports regarding DS4 battery life, i'm generally getting 6-8 hours of life with constant use out of mine.

What are you clocking in at?
As someone who grew up in California, and lived there for a total of 31 years, I couldn't agree more.
I'm not sure you actually made a cogent argument I can respond to. The future is whatever we make it to be, and I don't like your vision of the future, and you aren't very good at convincing me to see the merits of what you want. What you want seems to be standard troglodyte big government is bad. This state has its many issues, but it also has many pluses and ruining its identity so you can build your libertarian dream state has already been tried in New Hampshire. It didn't work out.
He didn't seem very angry to me.
I'd suggest books and classes in graphic design, if you can. There are a lot of suggested books here:
https://news.layervault.com/stories/11494-i-compiled-a-list-...

You'll really start to appreciate the difference between knowing design principles and knowing how to use design tools. Tutorials that teach skills or techniques in software will get you about as far as applying a specific technique. Without knowing basic design principles your work is going to look cluttered, samey, not-quite-where-you-want-it-but-you-don't-know-why. I'd also say that jumping straight into UI design is premature for someone beginning a design education. Learning the fundamentals of graphic design is essential, even if at first it seems irrelevant and too print-oriented.

A good design background will help you solve design problems. Right now there's a lot of 'designy' stuff--especially on the web--that's nothing more than the mindless application of a solution to someone else's design problem. There are a lot of missed opportunities to actually communicate, or to make a better tool; all because of groupthink and notions of good taste. Learning about design will help you get out of that rut.
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Yes, this Edmund's article is a classic! Required reading for anyone about to buy a car.
Daniel, you seem as though you have good intentions, but allow me to give a word of advice - feel free to take it or leave it.

You say you just got in a relationship. If you want it to work - choose the relationship more than you choose work. I know from experience, because I used to have a similar mentality. It goes something like this:

If I want to have the most fulfilling life possible, I should make "progress" every day. I feel as though I have the capability and drive to be the best, so I have the responsibility to be the best. If I'm not working, there is someone else out there who is working, and that means I'm "wasting time". Relaxing = being lazy.

Those people who just socialize and play video games? How can they not see how much time they are wasting on a meaningless life! Everyone should spend their time doing things that are "productive" to better their skillset. Otherwise, they are lazy and unmotivated.

Simply put- this is being a workaholic. Through college, I was the same way, and it cost me a lot of missed opportunities. The most dangerous workaholic is one who thinks that it's healthy and good for them.

Don't get me wrong - be motivated, enjoy what you do, etc. But have balance. I was fortunate enough to meet my (now wife) who showed me that it's ok to take a break. It's not "being unproductive" or "wasting time" - it's building a relationship. It's ok (and often necessary) to drop everything and spend time focused on making the relationship better.

In your post, you mentioned Mr. Walton. Let's briefly talk about him. While I don't know if the source is true (ref. needed), Consider this post [1] that talks about his last words: "I blew it". While it's my opinion, I strongly believe you can make a bigger impact in this world through the relationships you build as opposed to the work you do.

So, it's great that you're motivated and driven - it means you'll be good at whatever you do. But don't think poorly of those who do things differently, and put their efforts into different outlets. It doesn't mean they're somehow less productive of a person than you. In fact, I would recommend working to break away from the workaholic mentality. Just like forcing yourself to get a good night's sleep, it will be tough at first, and you will feel like your "being unproductive", but it will make your relationship - and your life - much better.

[1] http://upstart.bizjournals.com/resources/executive-forum/201...
This is such a bad idea! Water rights anyone?
Wow, what a fantastic post. So glad he feels comfortable sharing about his problems and a little insight into real goals for the year, and not just another "This year I'm gonna commit to github more" post.
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This article she wrote for The Atlantic gives some idea of the sort of legal representation she was getting:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/life-i...
He did not criticize his former employer at all, merely talked about the clause in the severance contract and his need as a journalist not to feel constrained.
> “You agree,” it reads, “that you will never make any negative or disparaging statements (orally or in writing) about the Company or its stockholders, directors, officers, employees, products, services or business practices, except as required by law.”

No consequences in case of violation? Sign it. It's meaningless, merely there to intimidate the judicial illiterate (i.e. most of the ordinary people).
I've done a fair amount of research here. There are few links that just "have everything" as not a ton of people are doing this from the ground up. The biggest bottleneck is infrastructure, which to some extent boils down to government and corporation politics, a lot of which are difficult to reference online.
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