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I'm several versions behind on updating my Facebook app, because every update brings a litany of new unnecessary permissions.

For a brief period Android offered the ability to selectively disable permissions on apps after the fact, but that feature was removed. I'll probably soon be switching to an alternative ROM that still supports it.
Just come round to London, tons of programming jobs with great pay.
I think it's more fun that they model SFers standing in line for brunch.
> Previously, success on the SAT seemed to depend solely on how much money was spent on SAT prep.

Most likely, a correlation is not causation thing -- people for whom success on the SAT is most important are likely to spend more money on test prep, but also be best generally prepared. As ueqirat points out, the research that has been done on SAT test prep utility hasn't actually born out a real effect.
We've had FlappyCoin for weeks now: http://reddit.com/r/flappycoin
Consider a competitive game where someone who normally sucks buys a game which is awesome. He is able to have fun with all of the free players who are just good, and doesn't always win because he sucks. He's suddenly like a mini-boss to the players who don't pay, and they feel awesome when they manage to defeat them, because even though that other player had paid power they still won. And players who are both good and pay are set to fight against other players who are good and pay.

Everyone is happy. It's not evil.
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In Canada, this would be grounds for "Malicious Prosecution", which is pretty much the only way to oust a prosecutor.

I've seen it done only once with my own eyes; Lawyer was disbarred, and the now-former lawyer "settled" the criminal charges as a pro-se litigant (which I didn't know was possible) by paying a fine (literally, writing a cheque in court), and walking out the door a free man.

I'd say giving people the ability to settle criminal charges as a civil matter is a much larger recipe for abuse, leading to Prosecutors not caring about the damage they do, even if their feet are held to the fire.
Even if you go over his head, you've probably still got to work with the bastard - with the added problem that he'll be looking for every little fuckup you make to construct a case against you. Generally, I find it easier to find a new job and then leave politely rather than work around difficult superiors.
Honestly, it sounds to me like there is a rather complex political environment there that you are clueless about. You might be a pawn in a war between your CEO and your boss. You might actually be working for terrible or incompetent people. The point is, it's probably NOT about you, although it could be.

Is this in the USA? Europe? Lowering your salary is actually legally troublesome in a lot of places, and you may be able to seek legal help. I know in the US your state's Department of Labor (or equivalent) usually LOVES to hear these stories and crack down on these sorts of employers. Ironically for this site, I don't know how California works with this stuff.
Now if only they'd do a mozpng.

(For context: libpng is a "purposefully-minimal reference implementation" that avoids features such as, e.g., Animated PNG decoding. And yet libpng is the library used by Firefox, Chrome, etc., because it's the one implementation with a big standards body behind it. Yet, if Mozilla just forked libpng, their version would instantly have way more developer-eyes on it than the source...)
No, they're not. Learning them outside of a useful or pleasurable context is almost a complete waste of time, akin to collecting porcelain figurines that you dislike and have no place to store.

If you run into a word you don't know, look it up.
I think Google should improve the way apps can ask access to these things. just telling us whats going to be used is not enough IMO, in fact i see this kind of dialog so many times and just tap through. I should be given option to restrict access after the fact if i see it fit.
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Here's a striking image from NBC:

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/441295567168081920
Your boss is a jerk who doesn't respect you and this is constructive dismissal.

Understand the law where you live, take advice if you can, but absolutely 100% look for another job and get out.
Thanks - that's eye opening.

So, what this really comes down to (after a good nights sleep) - is what type of traffic/transactions are you running on your back end infrastructure.

If the data is static, then you can probably (these days) cut your costs for 25 Terabytes/month from $8K to $800 (or, in your extraordinary case, $80), simply by being a bit intelligent as to how you make use of VPS/CDN/CloudFlare Transfer allocations.

On the flip side, if much of the data you are transferring out is the result of dynamic back end transactions, queries, and generation, then it's unclear to me that you can (easily) recognize the savings that you might see when generating static content.

I'm interested in knowing if CloudFlare will start throttling/shutting down people who pay $20 and use 25 TBytes in the long term though - that alone, for some organizations, will cost them more than the extra $8K they would pay to AWS (who, have zero problem with you using 25TB, 250TB, 2.5PB, etc...)
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Reasonable people like you often seek to appeal to reason when confronting problems created by unreasonable people like your boss, but unreasonable people can't be reasoned with. Your boss has motives other than getting reasonable work in exchange for reasonable pay, so the most reasonable solution would be to seek employment at a more reasonable company.
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So? I see what you are saying, but when it comes to employment, you make your decisions based on what you want and need, not what anyone else thinks.

I would never advise someone to keep working a job that takes advantage of them, just to spite someone else's wishes. If they are a bad company and make you work overtime for substandard pay, who cares if they're happy to see you go? Go, and shake their dust from your heels as you leave.
By participating in test prep isn't the College Board basically saying their test has no value? It's supposed to test if your education has prepared you for college. They're now basically saying the SAT is a test of how well you've prepared for the SAT.
Well, since this get downvoted, and I cannot edit my post - here is more meat.

The case I'm thinking about is the case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_De_Gucht

Not saying that it is not illegal, but insider trading and even the definition itself is a huge gray area ( like when you talk to a friend at the pub about the new cool project you are working on, you are giving privileged information )

So although insider trading legislation are good, in practice they have less teeth than they should.

When investing, it is a safer approach to assume others have privilege information. Even in the case you have insider information, that is also better to assume others have better one, hence the GP advice to stay away from the peny stock even when you know someone.

Here is the interesting bit about De Gucht. ( He could be saying the truth or not, that's not my point, but under strict insider trading regulation this coincidence would not have passed )

"On 3 October 2008, his wife, Mireille Schreurs, and brother-in-law sold their shares in Fortis Bank after a governmental crisis meeting to deal with the precarious financial situation of the bank, hours before the public announcement that the Dutch arm of the bank would be nationalised and the partly nationalised Belgian and Luxembourg branches sold to BNP Paribas.[7] An anonymous complaint was received by the Belgian Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission alleging De Gucht's wife sold €500,000 worth of Fortis shares.[8] De Gucht acknowledges that his wife and brother-in-law sold their mother's shares in Fortis Bank on the date in question for a smaller amount than alleged, but they deny that any insider trading was involved. He also points out that he personally lost €85,000 as a result of the nationalisation and sale, and that his son, Jean-Jacques De Gucht, and mother kept their shares in the failing bank."
What really drives me crazy is how people are still surprised by this kind of thing. I stopped using Facebook four years ago, and I think it was one of the smartest decisions I've made. I value my privacy. There is so much complaining online about how Facebook is taking over everything, yet there is no action. If you have a problem with it, then don't use the service!
Well if you write puts willy nilly then you deserve to have your money taken.

That's why you look at historical volatility and other criteria when selecting a watch list.
So, let's not try to build the perfect plan. Let's build a good enough plan, and move fast and change things as we go.

Please don't. Moving fast and breaking things is the #1 thing that's been turning me off Firefox ever since the move to six-weekly updates and dropping more than token support for older versions.

Notably absent from the list is the one thing I, and I suspect many others reading this, actually care about: making Firefox a better browser, i.e., fixing bugs, improving performance, and adding support for useful new features. Do that, and any concerns about how much/little it's being used will take care of themselves.

I really don't care about yet another UI rearrangement (I'd rather you didn't), I really don't care about integrating the kitchen sink into the browser (I'd rather you didn't), and I'm still waiting to discover anyone who does care about these things and doesn't work for Mozilla.
40 hours max should be in all caps.
With reversible motor I see no problems it would take a shitload of a motor but it could definitely work.

Unfortionaly the engines of the hobby quad copters we have today are not reversible without a relay. And even if they where they would not be able to change direction fast enough. One thing that could work is pitchble blades, the problem with that is that it introduces a much bigger risk for failures.
Did you forget Murphy's Law? If it is possible for the data to be used in a malicious manner, someone will eventually use them with ill intent.

The key to preventing abuse is to make it more difficult by several orders of magnitude than allowable uses. One way to do this is to only store plate scan records where there is a pre-existing reason to track the location of the vehicle, and purge those records once that reason is no longer valid.

You can't search what is not stored.
China to dole out money to a defense contractor for a wildly infeasible scheme under the guise of fighting smog. Money will never be seen again.
The power of attorney part is a little scary. I understand they really have to handle the whole process to ensure they get paid at the end, but I surely don't take giving someone power of attorney lightly.
To be clear, that does not imply that people are more depressed over the past two decades. On the positive side, it could mean that we're finally able to diagnose and treat something that has plagued us all along. On the negative side, it could be the direct result of the Big Pharma marketing and profit machine.
I have seen just about every negative Carl espouses in both public and private companies. I have also had relationships with government agencies at all levels--a variety of local, regional and national governments. Government entities are almost always more appropriately organized, better documented, more fiscally responsible (etc.) than commercial entities.

It's surprising that, in my experience, corporations are administered with a greater degree of freedom, more inattention-to-detail and a greater degree of laxity in operations than government agencies. I have heard "Good enough for government work" and other government-related jabs during conversations and cocktail party exchanges countless times. But, my experience is that industry as a whole is not as well organized and has much less oversight than most government entities.
Mandela was a terrorist. What's next, 'Hitler was right'?
You are completely correct. Icahn is a a billionaire because he's a great investor, but doesn't know squat about running companies, because he's never done it. His positions are always about "maximum shareholder value" when he's a huge shareholder, never when he has nothing to gain. He was a huge corporate raider in the 80s, buying companies and selling off their organs for a profit. The difference between Icahn and Romney is Icahn is even less likeable.
A cut of 20% or more in your pay can allow you to quit and draw unemployment. I'd suggest a quick phone call with the unemployment office to check, and then write up a letter to the top management of the company stating what you are resigning and that you will be drawing unemployment. That'll be a nice ding in this guy's ass for doing what he did.

BTW, he's probably a narcissist. No matter the outcome of the unemployment situation, you should arrange to leave post haste. Things will look brighter on the outside.

Best of luck. Sorry you got caught up in someone else's suffering.
The key points of the article are "Engineer" and "side projects". The engineers are an important and fun part of startups. Side projects are applications and code you can show people outside your company.

One sugggestion is to look for public developer groups in your area in meetup.com. Type keywords "java" or "mobile" and you get a number of them. Go to those meetings and hear about interesting things people are developing either as part of a company or a hobby. Get involved in an open-source type project, generally on github. Just downloading, building and runnng such software is a significant hurdle. Probe it to see how it works. Maybe thre are a group of people in the project with lots of side projects they dont have time for. Many of these projects are weak on the testing and documentation side. So if you improve those aspectd, that shows understanding of such projects without interferring with core development.

Then when you interview for a small company, you can show people what you have done. Maybe get references from others in the projects.

More likely some of these projects may become a company. The company may support the open source with production strength versions, fill gaps, etc.
Twitter is not what he meant by "enterprise." You work at a tech company. Enterprise connotes big corporate IT department software development.
Some feel if they succeed without trying, then this success is more meaningful than those whose foundation for success was built on hard work.
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That's not "passive aggressive." It's just "aggressive."

It hasn't started off well, and likely there's little that the submitter can do to make it end well. The main questions are to decide between 1) quit, or 2) get fired.

I'm with kohanz. This sounds like constructive dismissal. A common response is work-to-rule or rule-book slowdown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule . Do what your job description demands and no more.
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Persona is moving into maintenance mode until/unless it can come up with a better strategy for driving adoption. Some related info:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_AAR

Both the team and some of the underlying technology are now at work on Firefox Accounts, which is a simpler (non-federated) system that will power the new Firefox Sync service, the Firefox Marketplace (for installable web apps on Firefox OS and other platforms), and other Mozilla services.
If I understand what you're suggesting correctly, we already do this. Any analytics we expose in the dashboard are also being leveraged internally as signals for search relevance. Effectively, any search interaction can be used to improve the relevance of subsequent searches.
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Maybe I misinterpreted "success on the SAT" and "solely". In context, I took it to mean people had test test prep did well, in the absolute sense, and those who did not have test prep did not do well. I was providing myself as an example of someone who did well in the absolute sense with no preparation. I was not saying I could not have done better with preparation.
Honestly: I would search for a different job.

You can try inside your company to find a different boss or go for another company.

Incompetent bosses are widely spread in the computer business. That kind of treatment is a clear sign of it. As one wrote, it could be a political thing, but I am not sure about that and also you need not to care, because on every side, the result for me would be, that I try to find a different job. Such bosses are the hell and nobody that is competent in is work deserves such bosses.

Edit: This "hard enough" thing, is something, that is inside the heads of bad bosses and is spread by business-magazines like viruses. The thing is: A good developer should be honored to work hard enough, when he works 40hrs period.

If the boss thinks, that he needs people working 50-60hrs, than in reality he needs morons that he can turn his whip on. The hours don't tell anything on the productivity of people. Some programmers make twice the work in half the time of others. And spending long hours means that you are exhausted and exhausted people are both, less productive and much less creative.
Is this really new? I thought I kind of saw these features in the last few months?
These tests are for admission to an American college / university. Basic knowledge of Western culture is immensely useful if you're going to be in such an environment, both for studies and for social purposes.
I'm not sure if lawyering up is so neccessary - the main issue is to be careful in signing anything; if in doubt, or if rushed, then don't sign. If they want to fire you, then you'll end up not working there anyways and the only thing that matters is the conditions and what payment you'll get for your work; and it's quite likely that any offers they make for 'leaving with mutual agreement' will be worse for you financially than them dircetly firing you.
Why 'data science' is dead as a job prospect.
Honestly, the relationship you have with the company is over. There is no recovering from this. You'd have to work even harder to prove your worth and it's already not being seen. I imagine this is simply a ploy to lower costs. I'm guessing not is all good at the company and they are looking at ways to lower expenses. This may sound bad but I would give them the amount of effort they are paying for. If to you that is 20hrs a week, give them that amount of effort while looking for a new job. Sorry this happened to you, but I've been in positions where this kind of stuff starts. There is simply no way to recover the relationship, even if you end up recovering your salary.
Another startup serving the needs of people who demand to be served.
But it's always been like this. The College Board has official test prep books and online courses one can buy. Plus, many schools also offer SAT test prep classes one can take. This test has always been worthless (my bias in this last statement).
Focus as much as possible on the underlying concepts from any math topic and how they connect to other concepts. Try to boil these concepts down to the most simple, clear form that makes sense to you. Test your boiled down conceptual understanding by applying it to related exercises/problems you haven't tried before and seeing what happens.

For each sub-topic, most math books give you the tools first and then teach you problems they should be used on. Read the problems first, and think how you might solve them (don't expect to figure it out, but if you do, great!). Then, go back and learn the tools, trying mostly discern the "how" and the "why" as opposed to the "what". Math is all about "how" and the "why". As some motivation, whenever a new thing clicks, it is very satisfying! :) But it definitely is a tough process.

Good luck!
https://www.facebook.com/help/facebookwifi maybe?
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Who's the tax on? If I'm understanding the dynamics here, it looks like it's a tax on shareholders who buy in at inflated prices because Icahn is being an activist, and that once he sells his shares, everything will return to normal. If that's the case, then over time people should realize that Icahn buying into a company is a signal that it's overvalued and that premium should decrease. (In the meantime, he gets to bank large profits off this trade, but his name recognition and track record is a depreciating asset unless he actively improves stock performance.)
For improving general-purpose gzip / zlib compression, there is the Zopfli project [1] [2]. It also has (alpha quality) code for PNG file format; since this functionality wasn't originally included, there are also third-party projects [3].

You might be able to shave a percent or so off the download size of compressed assets.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5316595

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5301688

[3] https://github.com/subzey/zopfli-png
Where is the irony? Even if I substitute Alanis Morissette's definition for the dictionary definition I can not identify any irony. Technical superiority was never the primary goal of the Free Software Movement.

I also don't understand the environmental anecdote. That seems less about dogma and more about imperfect scientific knowledge. Were the environmentalists opposing nuclear energy on principle or because at the time the evidence made nuclear power look unsafe and detrimental to the health of the environment?

Rev. Dr. King had this to say about pragmatism: http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.h...
So concatenate("Air",$SAASfeaturename) is the new hip naming convention? I'll update the lexicon.
I don't know how blockchain.info actually works. If you give them your decryption key at any point, even if they claim not to keep it, then you're heavily relying on trusting them and that's not much better than the other web wallet alternatives, I agree.
No, he clearly did not mean regulation. He said demand, as a customer may do, rather than coerce by force, as a government must do.
I'm not sure I buy this argument. Short-term shareholders and long-term shareholders both benefit from enhancing the long-term "permanent" value of a company, as you can always just sell some of the stock to realize those gains in a shorter time.

Similarly, if you have drastically less risk tolerance than other shareholders, you are already throwing money away by being overinvested in a single stock. Shareholders who don't want Icahn to take risks with eBay stock shouldn't respond by demanding eBay be run conservatively, they should respond by diversifying their portfolio.
99% of the time this ends up being a funding issue. It's better than been told the company is broke and you have no job. At least now OP can find something while getting paid.