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There is subtle difference in bragging rights between I climbed Everest and I visited Everest.
IBM, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, others pledge $3.6 million to fund OpenSSL
This CEO is actually an even worse person than her post implies. This was just a way of avoiding severance pay. They wanted to squeeze every hour they paid for out of a fired employee.
>It never crossed my mind that he had been FIRED.

What would you call terminating someone? You can be fired and still be on good terms and have a healthy relationship but you still let that person go or fired them. Please dont be so naive next time you let someone go. We dont get a job to make friends we do it to make a living.

If my company fired me and gave me x amount of time till I had to leave, I would probably not being going above and beyond any longer. My body may be at work but my mind is focus on the new job or job search.
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I don't see the relevance of (1). As for (2), I missed it on my first reading. Regarding (2), I see two ways to interpret it.

One is that the CEO was asking for a bunch of "above-and-beyond" work. The other is that there was an implicit agreement for such work, but Belgian law made it impossible to explicitly contract for. In the former case I have no problem with the employee, in the latter case he sounds like a pain to work with.

And make no mistake, there is an implicit contract at nearly all jobs. Typical clauses might be "CTO filters BS from above so developers can do real work" or "go ahead and take reasonable flex-time in spite of what the official policy is, but be available for crunch time". Even in a flexible place like the US, it's simply logistically impossible to encode everything in a contract. The closest anyone has come to it are union work rules, disaster that they are.

What "find an employee with passion" really means is "find an employee who's attitude fits better with the implicit contract".
I doubt it. At their scale (a million uploads daily, three billion monthly pageviews), crappy code is unlikely.
CloudFlare was hacked with the sole intention of taking over 4chan.org's domain. They're a huge target.
I don't believe the CLA was the main reason for starting systemd. Otherwise they'd just fork upstart and continue to work on it without signing anything. CLA has nothing to do with technical features either.

I'm not sure why the same maintainer matters for merging. Take openstack as a counter-example. It's mostly the same pool of contributors working on a number of related projects. Not only have they been split into components (nova, nova-volume, nova-network -> nova, cinder, quantum projects), common functionality has been split into separate library projects of their own (oslo-messaging, oslo-logging, etc.) with their own releases, versioning, leadership. This is what I really like and it's exactly the opposite of what systemd is doing (merging device, network, logging, etc. into one system).

If systemd is modular (doesn't require logind) and logind is standalone (requiring only systemd as a library) - what's the point of bundling them. (apart from making it harder for others to use) Systemd owns too much at the same time and I believe it's going to lead to problems in the future.
She did wrong by letting him go _and_ asking him for overtime. You just don't do that. I'd expect more class from someone.
my first thought: that's facebook!
Sure, employment is money in exchange for some time. But if you only pay for (say) 40 hours a week, the employee isn't required to give you any more. Sounds like the employer expected more than what they were paying for, and the employee didn't want to give the work away for free anymore.

A true capitalist would say that the employer was being stupid.
>it should also be my right to work more without the governement always taxing me extra //

I don't agree. Partly the government has to be concerned with the entire workforce. Some people doing more work means that other people may not be employed, or may be under-employed. Preventing overtime, or at least providing financial pressure against it, means that those who don't want to work all hours can avoid it more easily and also helps to make sure companies employ enough workers rather than simply squeezing dry fewer than they really need.
I know you didn't get the chance to read this, but it specifically says:

Disclaimer: We are not sysvinit purists by any means. We do recognize the need for a new init system in the 21st century, but systemd is not it.

And I don't think that's an invalid point. I totally agree that a better init system is desirable, but I've also personally really struggled to understand why systemd is a good approach – it does seem, from someone who's not that close to the issue, that it's an extremely complex and monolithic approach to the problem.
ETA: I think it's awesome they found and recovered this data.

As I recall, Warhol's Amiga usage was actually very limited. He used it for the Carnegie Hall A1000 demo (that was on software and hardware that was still prototype and the Amiga people were praying would work - it did), b/c Commodore paid him, but he didn't actually use the Amiga beyond that.

Looking at what they recovered, it makes sense that he would have tried to make a few pieces of his recognizable style, done the Deluxe Paint tut, etc. IIRC, the final demo was mostly just paint fills on a Debra Harry image imported into the Amiga.

There is also that anecdote about Warhol being mesmerized by the Macintosh at Sean Lennon's birthday (where Steve Jobs was setting it up), but as far as I know, be never used one.

For all of his tech saviness, Warhold didn't seem to be enamored with digital art, at least as it existed by the time he passed away.

I'll let other Warhol nerds correct me where I'm wrong, I'm typing this purely on memory of Warhol, Commodore and Apple history books I've read over the years (and a Warhol class I took in college, though that was more focused on his films).
Surprised at all the hostility towards the CEO. She did the right thing by giving him notice and paying him to look for another gig.
Exploit against Acunetix network vulnerability scanner
More Details About Sabu’s Collaboration with the US Government Come to Light
Entirely depends on which country within Europe, France for example has employment laws which are incredibly favorable to employees rather than employers.
I never really got into minecraft, do people just mine and build things or do you actually have a story/things to complete?
Regardless of whether or not the patent is granted I would like to create a start-up to build a new transport medium. It would be nice to have an online software platform built for automation and data integration above all else that allows any data repository to become a possible publication point using just URI addressing. I can see many possibilities that could arise from such a thing, especially if the primary markup language is always immediately accessible.
Or that the employer really wanted a 24x7 contract. "You must be available to work at any time". Which is the other end of the scale.
Those are the external APIs that the various parts of systemd expose to non-systemd applications, the internal APIs are not documented and are subject to change. Basically, you can't just replace part of systemd, you need to write replacements for the whole thing that reimplement all the same APIs in ways that are compatible with it because stuff like Gnome now relies on them.

That's part of the reason why Ubuntu gave up and switched to systemd - a lot of the desktop stuff they shipped relies on logind etc upstream, and it just wouldn't be practical for them to implement their own versions of everything that got Borged by systemd. (Edit: in fact, that page lists logind as something that cannot be independently reimplemented or used separately from systemd.)
Something being (theoretically) possible doesn't mean it's practical.

The attitude of the systemd (And Freedesktop.org folks in general - and please don't give us the usual Lennart cry of "No really, we're NOT the freedesktop.org people!" - despite all of these projects sharing a tightly knit community of people steering them) devs and their treatment of their projects has meant for some you basically do things their way or the highway.[1]

It's already a pain in the ass to strip udev out to keep using it if you've decided to not use systemd. And that's just taking one portion of the system that was promised to be kept easily independent of the rest of the muck, not trying to make other services work within the framework of a systemd system.

As it becomes the standard across all of the major distros, I find it hard to believe that it will become easier to separate systemd parts from one another than it is now, because there becomes even less incentive to do so.

I don't have much of a horse in this race, because I've long since migrated the vast majority of my production systems to FreeBSD and OmniOS, and out of the few that I have that are running linux still, some of them are using systemd. I don't particularly like it, but instead of complaining about it and doing nothing, I've minimized the impact I feel from it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7534583
An answer of "No" would be very detrimental to the business owner as well.

This yes, of $2000 would surely be beneficial to everyone.

And empathy has little to do in business. Where was the empathy in firing someone? Answer: "It was business".
Come on now, I hate PHP more than anyone else, but seriously, wordpress is the best that PHP has to offer. It doesnt suck. It has a quite nice API - its the plugins around wordpress that have quality similar to this 4chan source code.

Ive also seen much worse in Java world, with JSPs and all kinds of taglibs and action-handlers mashed up to create a soup which would make you crave for PHP.
http://pl1.php.net/extract

OMG, it's horrible :D
>female 4chan moderator.

No, FWG wasn't a moderator.
Yep. IIRC the code hasn't really be updated or redone since then.
Uber, SnapCar And Others May Not Be Able To Use Geolocation In France
Typically, yes. Most states in the US are "at will" states, meaning both the employer and employee have the right to end employment at any time. It's customary to give your employer two weeks notice that you're leaving, but it's by no means a legal requirement. There's no such custom when the employer takes the action.
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Seems the authors forgot to give themselves the credit they deserve.

https://forums.darknedgy.net/profile.php?id=589
https://forums.darknedgy.net/profile.php?id=373
http://billyest.es/About_Me
If you are interested in Ireland there are some pretty useful government agencies that encourage business locating here.

http://www.idaireland.com/help/
Probably not from Russia, in Romania's case. But it is a point, maybe not worth betting on.
Hm, it'd be pointless to argue this point (if you think it's slow then it's slow) but I've created many a Python CLI and have never noticed them being slow to start. Perhaps it's a case of importing certain modules globally instead of on a per-function basis?
Click can be extended lazily which helps execution time a lot when working with many, many plugins. It also can be extended at runtime as per configuraton.

argparse requires the parser to have full knowledge of everything which makes it slow if you add many commands. Biggest problem though is that it's parsing system is a bit broken when it comes to escaping. Options with arguments cannot have values starting with dashes which is problematic for delegating subcommands to other things.

For what I wrote Click for I could not find any alternatives that worked that way besides optparse itself but that is hard to use.
This is not specific to Belgium. Most countries beside USA have a notice period of 2 to 3 months.

In fact, it is actually much worse for an employee to have such long notice periods. The most obvious one is already mentioned - boredom and low morale. But it has an interesting side-effect: Most companies have immediate requirements and cannot wait for months before it is filled. So they hire from a pool that is limited to people who have already been laid off. And obviously the employees are in poor position to negotiate any salary increase.
If it was just business, she could have fired him outright rather than giving him the extra time of not officially firing him.
Another discussion that gained a bit more momentum:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7639136
The exact reason I ran away from games based companies in UK.
Chris Sievey also wrote a computer game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biz_%28video_game%29

(as well as being Frank Sidebottom which it says in the Youtube link.)
Sphinx was written by Georg Brandl, not by Armin Ronacher.
what if I told you PHP does not require you to write ugly code?
You can do the same in any other language.
>(highest costs in the world for employment)

I was curious about that, but apparently it's not, both Norway and Switzerland are more expensive than Belgium (at least in manufacturing):

http://www.bls.gov/fls/ichcc.htm
That is how firing works in the US. I guess it is rationalized that the fired person might do something vindictive.

I have responded by not giving notice when I quit. I see quitting as "firing my boss". Notice is for suckers. I do not give where I would not receive. I only gave notice at one job in the last ten years, and that was because the only reason I was quitting was because I was moving.
She lets an employee go because they don't need him, then needs him and complains that he's not readily available.

Humans aren't inanimate objects to be used and discarded and retrieved as your personal needs change, and this CEO is getting some faint glimmers of that if not fully realizing the entire scope of this implication.
JAVA 4-Ever – Official Trailer
Ask HN: Which charities do you support?
And what is the best charity for reducing human suffering?
What, like this? https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:26311

Somehow event at 10X/50X exaggerated height I don't find these particularly interesting. Planets, even Mars, are for the most part really smooth.

A somewhat exaggerated model of the Matterhorn was one of the first things I printed and it's pretty cool, though.
>No newbie sysadmin should touch init scripts because they can't handle it.

There's a lot of things newbie sysadmins are going to be bad at. I wouldn't expect them to come in and architect an infrastructure that will be handling millions of events per second, either. Nor would I expect them to be able to perform a deep dive and become performance engineers.

But sysvinit doesn't have to be the answer. I'm an Illumos guy. The SMF implementation is excellent, moves away from init scripts, and still doesn't throw the baby out with the bathwater like systemd does.

If I was interested in giving up control for the sake of reducing complexity, I'd go back to being a Windows sysadmin so I can click next on wizards and run dcpromo all day.
Quantum communications leap out of the lab
Upgrading the kernel to a newer one isn't generally a problem, but the changes to cgroups that the systemd and kernel devs are planning to make in the future are not going to be backwards compatible with old userland code.
"We need you to work this weekend"

vs

"We want you to work this weekend"

But if they said "need" they might actually need you, so you could bargain back with I will need 3 extra holiday days.
How's this for irony, he was on an episode of Secret Millionaire where he donated to a battered women's shelter. You can't make this stuff up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZMwXRvbysY#t=241
If you need to parse something as simple as `foo --option spam --option eggs` remembering both spam and eggs, docopt breaks down. You are also unable to compose an interface using docopt, if you want to allow plugins in a plugin system to add their own options for example.

docopt is much simpler because it's only capable of creating very trivial interfaces. That's perfectly fine if that's all what you want to do but it also makes docopt unusable, if that's not the case.
Police work /should/ be hard. We don't /want/ it to be trivial for police to poke around in the depths of your personal data, fishing for reasons to think you might have done something wrong in the past.

"my job is difficult" is not sufficient reason to justify what they are asking for.
For large companies in the U.S. Yes, you come into work and you manager tells you that he need to speak with you and hands you a packet of information explaining that you will get X weeks of pay if you sign it and asks you to leave the office. You have the option to not sign the packet and to sue the employer if you feel that you were unjustly fired.
> In the year-ago quarter, Apple accounted for 77.8% of the mobile phone industry's earnings before interest and taxes. In the fourth quarter of 2013, that figure grew to 87.4%

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/02/13/apples-shar...

Why bother chasing the chimera of "market share" when you already have "total revenue dominance"?
OPI a secure device taking your data home launched on IGG
A Weekend With Julia: An R User's Reflections
That is beside the point. The argument was "That's not the init systems job." to which I presented the counterargument that systemd is not just an init system.

Beside that, I recommend you'd take a look at http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfacePo... and possibly http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/.
Nice and funny example of Poe's law [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law]. Failing to realize when you ought to STFU is part of what being a sociopathic boss is about. That her companies seem to revolve around HR and hiring is just the icing on the cake.

But from what I understand, LinkedIn somehow featured this article; I'd love to have them explain why and how they picked it...
> The other is that there was an implicit agreement for such work, but Belgian law made it impossible to explicitly contract for.

Considering Google has a datacentre in Belgian that presumably has 24/7 availability, I find this hard to believe. I presume Belgian has security guards, nightfill and a fire brigade also.

> What "find an employee with passion" really means is "find an employee who's attitude fits better with the implicit contract".

I read this as "find an employee who is too scared, too naieve or too stupid to enforce the explicit contract they signed".

If you want someone to do the work, you need to contract it. Anything else is abusive management.

The relevance of 1) is responding to this in your original post:

"Additionally, it sounds like the employee was treated well."

If Belgian law required say, two weeks notice and the CEO gave the guy 12 weeks I'd be more forgiving of her, but if the bare minimum of law is being implemented then she deserves nothing extra in return.
Just upvoted in an attempt to un-grey you. Both because your comment wasn't out of place here, and because it was correct.

This is my preferred version of "work" as well. I tend to negotiate all my engagements as 1099 contracts specifically so that neither me nor the employer need to feel bad when things end. Assuming you're capable of saving money and finding your own health insurance, it's really the best arrangement you can have.

Need me to work overtime for a couple weeks because it's "crunch time". No worries, and no hard feelings because you're paying me for those extra hours. 18" of fresh powder in the mountains overnight? Nice! You'll find my next invoice with six fewer hours on it.

It's really the most equitable arrangement you can have with an employer. We're both businessmen, trading services for payment. When it's time to part ways, we wish each other well, make non-binding references to maybe working together again some day, and head our separate directions with no hard feelings.
What I want to know is this, what hellish workflow led to the discovery of this bug?
It's amazing how little empathy this thread has for people that create companies and struggle through the employer's side of trying to be decent to people while trying to run a thriving business.

No. This is Hacker News. You'll find that the majority of posters here are apologists for entrepreneurs and employers. When you can't even hold this crowd, that's a pretty good sign the employer's thoughts are so tangled up in their skewed perspective on labor that they can't even be badly rationalized into something approaching reasonable.
Nice writing. Somewhat amazed the other comment-folk didn't get what you did here.
Hmmm. It's listed on his projects page...... https://lucumr.pocoo.org/projects/
This seems to be it: http://gst.dk/emner/frie-data/minecraft/download-data/

And in google translate http://goo.gl/07to7J
Ask HN: Would you rather have a beautiful source code with 1000 pageviews/month or an ugly source code with millions of pageviews/month?
this is a Ted Nelon tribute event. so the title should name him first!

some lectures of his here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk
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I think this is covered by the general mantra "FUCK YOU, PAY ME."
Truly a great book and happily it's available as an audiobook from LibraVox. There are three different readings, my favourite being this one. https://librivox.org/the-machine-stops-version-3-by-e-m-fors...
Airbnb Offers To Pay Hotel Taxes In NY, Hotel Lobby Says ‘No Thanks’
I honestly admire the thought and effort that went into it.

I fear that JavaScript's use of floating point as its single numeric type is likely to create surprising results for the unwary. I have come to the suspicion that the longevity of Excel's dominance is in part due to a sophisticated system for inferring numeric types.
The story happened in Belgium, and the specific duration in this case would be three months, unless there are some specific details that we are not aware of. I agree that it would have been different in another country.
You're right - I've conflated PPP and PFI in my brain there. Apologies.
The Rich Live Longer: So How Much Money 'Buys' 1 More Year of Life?
Space Facts, Venus
don't like that, clashes with Django
Apparently the article backfired and it has been deleted.
I think the employee's situation is more akin with you pitching for a job with a client you've worked with for a long time. The client decides to go with someone else, that goes badly and so they call you out of normal office hours asking you to drop everything and help fix the situation they've fallen in to by not hiring you (for the further work). Not only that but they're not going to pay you as you're already working on the old job for them.

Now you might still be motivated in thinking that they'll employ you for future contracts; but if you're not a contract worker that motivation doesn't really work out.
The crucial factor here is that the CEO wanted him to be available for support outside of working hours, beyond the scope of his contract. In fact, beyond the scope of any legal Belgian employment contract!

Your argument seems to be that since the employer is giving him time to find a new job, the employee should work beyond the scope of his contract.

I don't think this holds up. First of all, I doubt this is 100% altruism. Destroying morale in a start-up can destroy the company. But even if it is completely altruistic, altruism on the part of the employer doesn't need to be reciprocated. (edit: added the two paragraph above before parent's reply, I think?)

After all, "Employment is a transaction of money for work, not a marriage".

(fwiw, you shouldn't have been downvoted.)
FDA releases proposed e-cigarette regulations
4chan has grown to be quite obviously more sophisticated than Futaba, which really has stayed pretty much the same for over a decade. You can see for yourself:

http://may.2chan.net/27/futaba.htm

(that's their board for cat pictures, the most SFW one I could find, but the banner ads are probably still NSFW, so keep that in mind)
Not Minecraft per se, but close: http://www.voxelmars.com/
Examples are available at: http://www.stoic.com/formula