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That's how a free market for employees works though. If an employee is truly that crucial to your business, you'd better come up with a package that encourages him/her to stick around. If an employer can fire an employee at will or give him a paycut, then an employee should be just as free to demand a raise or walk to a competitor.
Yeah, our road authority uses anonomised Bluetooth tracking to calculate performance measures for particular routes (Automated numberplate recognition cameras are also used sometimes).

With Bluetooth, not just phones, but a lot of car stereos advertise their MACs.
In California, yes. In other states, this crap has certainly held up in court. You're also dealing with employees who, like some mentioned in the article, are unlikely to have access to lawyers or money to spare for legal bills.
Better: 'even were it free'
My problem with Twitter lists is that they're so hidden that I never browse them. They're not as prominent as your normal feed, which is front and centre.
Many awkward sentences are grammatical.
Can you share how many and how far away?
Are you near an ADS-B ground station (which will rebroadcast all traffic if a single ADS-B squitter/output is near) or only receiving active output from airplanes?
I generally think that people should be free to make whatever agreements they want.

But noncompetes should be banned for the same reason we have anti-trust laws. They are in effect an agreement between companies to not compete for employees. It's anti-competitive.
Uhh... I disagree. Firstly, I don't see the circle in the following

Having made this realization, then coming back to see this hunk of text written absent it sort of seals the deal as far as you being one of these particular kinds of circular thinkers. Namely, I 'll note that you're seemingly going on with the assumption that the Bosch process is the only way we could possibly get carbon out of the atmosphere on industrial scales. Left as an exercise.
Thanks. I hardly feel this film is in the common vernacular. If he had said book, maybe the Dick authorship would have made it more clear.
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>I bet you they searched far and wide to find someone from that part of the world so they can link it with 9/11 somehow. Everything is about "terrorism". No link to terrorism = no contracts = no business coming their way.

Where did they say anything about 9/11? Where did they say anything about terrorism? There's not one mention or implication of terrorism anywhere.
MAC collisions?
Very true if 5 years even makes it popular. Most regional carriers and even legacy carriers do not have ADS-B out in them.
The adoption rate in general aviation is dismal. I believe under 5% is what AOPA is saying, my personal experience is 1 guy out of 30 owners I know has installed it. The benefits just aren't there yet.
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I am guessing that Cormac McCarthy would give you fits.

There are times when you should absolutely throw out the rules.

The purpose of language is to communicate. More often than not, sticking to the rules enables more effective communication. But sometimes, not so much.
Or, it's to force you to read and accept terms and conditions, to force you to type in your email, to force you to type in a one time use code to connect, to force you to pay money to connect, ...
This is not only the obvious solution, but a necessary part of the basic idea. I want to keep you from telling $STUFF to a competitor? That $STUFF is valuable? Then there's a very good chance the opponent will simply try an buy it. Employment is only one of the many ways they make such a purchase, and so this ends up being a simple supply/demand problem.

If I'm serious about keeping $STUFF out of the competitor's hands, I better be paying the people that know $STUFF better than any likely buy price (legal or not). This isn't even for post-employment when the typical non-compete is relevant; it's the same reason you pay your employees enough so they don't take your ideas to a competitor (or regulatory agency).

This same problem of having to pay at least some minimum if you want to maintain any loyalty is perhaps best seen with soldiers. Having an important engineer take the ideas for your next project is bad enough, but shorting the pay for soldiers tends to cause things like a "coup" or other "high chance of getting shot" scenario. During the last big budget mess, congress played fast and loose with a lot of stuff, but were able to agree very early into that mess to continue paying the "retainer" for the military's loyalty. ( http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/government-shutdown-se... )

Of course, maybe managers could start to realize that their money is often better spent in R&D or production or sales...
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> Also, you can't make small scale fusion power plants. If the reactor was the size of a light bulb and produced 40w of power you would still need several feet of shielding to avoid killing anyone in the area and that shielding would vary quickly become extremely radioactive. Fission is low energy in comparison. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal_power_stations over 5+ GW of thermal power.

Google "aneutronic fusion". Granted, ITER will never support it, but that's just another reason to try other things. ITER makes everything radioactive, but aside from that being the easiest reaction there is no good reason for doing that.

As for the size of fusion reactors, go to your nearest (big) hospital. They have a football-sized one in the radiology department. The box it's in is fridge-sized. A Farnsworth-Hirsh fusor to be exact. It will be shielded, because it's using DT fusion. If you really knew what you were doing you could get it to fuse p+B11 and it would produce electrons, but it would defeat the point for the hospital, as it's neutron radiation is exactly why they have it.

Now granted this reactor has a q value of 0.02 or so. But if there were a smart way to get it to a q of 100 or so that would almost be your lightbulb example. Get it to work on p-B11 and ...
My impression was that "proper" use of the noncompete was to pay the employee the same salary for the time period with the purpose of preventing IP and other valuable proprietary information from being transferred to a competitor. I think this is reasonable.
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Whether or not that's true, a lot of smaller companies in particular simply won't touch someone who has a non-compete because they don't want to get involved in any potential expense and effort of legal action. Rightly or wrongly I can tell you that a company I used to work for categorically refused to consider hiring anyone who had a remotely relevant non-compete.
> In Lisp, cond works as follows:

> ...

> Much like a switch statement,

No. cond is nothing like a switch statement. cond is Lisp's version of if..else if...else if..else.

The distinction being, of course, that if you have a contiguous range of cases in your switch statement, a proper C compiler will compile it to an O(1) jump table, rather than an O(n) set of tests like an extended if-statement. This is so crucial and basic a distinction that I am astounded every time I find another person claiming that cond==switch.

The closest thing that Lisp has to a switch statement (and this is a significant failing in the language) is CASE. And that's only if you are careful and have a very smart compiler -- not sure if SBCL will jump-table it for you, for example.
Absolutely, but if a company is going to hire you, then you have some leverage.
And hiding assets from trivial privatized checks is hard ?
There's plenty of desert out there.
The legal principle you're groping for is unconscionability (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability), and it can indeed provide protection from onerous contract clauses.

However, it's my understanding from various lawyer friends that the very act of knowing that a clause could be discarded as unconscionable may actually remove that as a defense. I would want to discuss the matter with a lawyer with lots of contract experience in my state before taking the route you suggest.
There is no such thing as neurotic fusion. Best case neutrons carry 1% of the total released energy, but if a 100w light bulb produced 1w of unshielded 2.5MeV neutrons it would quickly give everyone in a fairly large room a lethal radiation dose.

Edit: For the morbidly curious 1w / (3 x 10 -13)j/electron = 3.3e+12 electrons. 10M from the device you have a sphere with a surface area of 1256m^2.

http://miscpartsmanuals3.tpub.com/TM-55-315/TM-55-3150021.ht... 1 rem (neutrons/cm2) from 2.5 MeV neutrons = 3* 10^6 neutrons / cm^2. 100 rem received over a short time period are likely to cause acute radiation syndrome (ARS), possibly leading to death within weeks if left untreated. So, 3 * 10^6 * 100 * 100^2 * 1256 = ~4 * 10^ 15 electrons would kill ~1/2 the people standing within 30 feet in ~10 minutes. And far less time than that to start handing out cancers left and right. And at 10 feet that's ~60 seconds. (Assuming I did not mess up...)

PS: It's far safer to spread the same dose over longer periods of time. But, if your working near a useful fusion device it needs to be heavily shielded.
Princeton's guest network allows users to join for up to 3 days a month. I guess this change will nullify that restriction. :)
The point I took from that quote was that many punctuation rules come about to address difficult to parse situations. My point is that, if it's a difficult to parse situation, you should probably rewrite it in some way so that punctuation isn't so critical to understanding.
This book was written by one of my favorite programmer bloggers. His blog javascriptissexy.com is sincerly a consistant reference for me. Don't knock it until you've read it.
As a Swiss I like your idea - I do think that an EU handled the right way[TM] could be a successor to national governments of federalistic countries such as Switzerland. However, there is one big thing missing right now in the EU (and you do hint at it yourself): Strong civil rights for the population resulting in keeping the political apparatus in check. The right to stop (and even introduce) any and every law through national votes keeps politicians nicely at bay. Large government projects need to be explained really well if people are to vote for it - yet they're still possible as the gotthard base tunnel proves[1]. Even the banking secrecy has the effect of keeping governments humble when it comes to taxation - people will simply just pay what they think is fair. It comes down to the government being more like an employee rather than an employer - and the Swiss people would loose dearly if they had to give this up. The EU at this point would require a complete reboot to get such strong mechanisms of checks and balances - and I'm not convinced that the Swiss system couldn't work for larger entities.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel.
First time I've ever heard of HealthVault (second video). Very interesting portion of the whole video. Unique service.
Did not know the Navy also had such slang - here's some from the Marine Corps: http://4mermarine.com/USMC/dictionary.html
Julia also has a useful Any type.
The ads are all in the edge caches and the videos you want to watch might not be.
And backed by solid research by MIT academics:
http://mitsloanexperts.mit.edu/matthew-marx-non-compete-agre...
It's pretty bad, IMO.

> Write skilfully, and write powerful and eloquent blog posts, books, and more.

* The repetition of "write" is annoying.

* The use of multiple adjectives to describe a list of things is awkward and wordy.

* "Blog posts" shouldn't be the first item, because it's easy to read "blog" as modifying "books" too.

* "And" is a weird conjunction here. Is writing powerfully and eloquently separate from writing skillfully?

I'd have two separate bullets:

* Write skilfully.

* Create eloquent books, blog posts, and more.

I'd also make the other bullet points start with a verb ("Receive two books in one" etc). I don't think I'd ever be that picky about the writing if it weren't the marketing copy for a book full of writing advice.

As an aside, the "skilfully" spelling is pretty jarring for Americans (or at least for me), but it's apparently correct in the rest of the English-speaking world. TIL.
>Storage is still an issue, though.

A bigger issue that storage is the utilities' desire to make it difficult and uneconomic to hook up panels to the grid.

They make the greatest profits during the times when electricity usage peaks - coincidentally which is when solar panels are at their most productive (midday; especially during summertime).
This is interesting. If _I_ did this while trying to find an open network, I'd probably be described by the FBI man who tries to charge me with unauthorized network access as using countermeasures learned from al Qaeda's IT guys. If Apple does it on behalf of users though I'm sure it would be fine.

And yes, I've been involved in a criminal proceeding where the government tried to claim that changing a wifi MAC was evidence of malice.
I've pondered about the mismatch between the mind blowing progress we've made in the microscopic sciences (electronics, etc) compared with the decent progress in macro world (battery tech? transportation, building materials,...)

Why is that?
> But in our world, dealing this way might get nasty with some people. "Pay me $$$ or I am leaving for XYZ tomorrow".

I wouldn't call that greed, I'd call that "the employee demanding their true market value." Employers get the right to fire people and replace them with cheap labor overseas (for example), it's only fair that laborers retain the right to leverage competing employers off of one another.

> finding a technologist (or whatever) for such a company is a bit harder than finding a jQuery or Rails guy

Then the market demands that they be payed accordingly.

> [Anticipated words I'm putting into your mouth:] "You seem awfully focused on the market for someone arguing in favor of regulation."

I like markets, but they have many well-known pathologies, and I see nothing wrong with addressing those with regulation. In this case, the issue is that the market can remain irrational longer than someone at the bottom can remain solvent. Sure, in some sense you could say that people who don't read their contracts and demand better terms deserve to be punished. But the market doesn't just punish them, it punishes the people who try to negotiate for better terms. Who would hire a smart worker when a dumb worker can be tricked into doing the same job for less?

This is why we ban contracts involving slavery and indentured servitude. If they were allowed, 1/4 of the population would unwittingly walk into the trap-contracts. Even if they were perfectly rational, the next 1/4 would be forced to sign similar contracts by the fact that they had to compete with the irrational 1/4 on price (otherwise they starve). Regulations against this kind of thing don't just protect people from themselves (which is arguably something government shouldn't do), they protect rational workers from irrational workers. The market needs them to function (for any reasonable definition of "function"), and that makes them a good thing.
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Rephrasing what rnnr said: The infinite scrolling example breaks if you are not able to scroll. For example, if you just delete enough nodes in that list where the scroll disappears, then you wont be able to load in more content.
Yes.

Edit: I mean, unions are all about solving collective action problems. How outrageous is it to ask a camp counselor to sign a non compete? The only way out is if the camp counselors can band together and act as a group.
Couldn't they just have my device spoof the first smartphone MAC that I see inside the store? That would be a lot more fun.
Is it not easier to tune ads out if they're not targeted? If I want to buy something, I'll go look for it.
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Hi all, im quite new to programming so pardon me if my question sounds elementary.
I am trying to apply what Ive learnt to a simple dummy page with RoR and PGsql.

Im wondering if its possible to build something that looks similar to Google spreadsheet on a input page (i.e I can input from a web browser) which translates to a output page as compact lines or grids?

The input and output page formats are limited (I think from CSS Boostrap), ie. they appear as single line forms which cant be inputted on a side by side basis (i.e I have to input based on text boxes for all of one column, say all countries first, then the next.) Can't we do it both vertically and horizontally together? (Reason being its easier to input and check for the accuracy of the information).

Also good to have a auto calculation such as total population etc which refreshes.

So something like for example:

Country City Population(mm) Weather Remarks +add more categories
US NYC 8.4 stormy Nil
US CA 38.0 sunny

Any help is much appreciated!
Thanks!
"People who could seriously harm their employer with their knowledge (client list, etc) if transferred to a competitor."

Why should the government protect companies from their competitors?
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It would be nice if we not redefine the meaning of computer terms that have be understood for decades. I know it's semantics, but I take the definitions I learned 20 years ago in my college comp-sci textbooks as the agreed upon definition.
I considered it, but it requires Apache ZooKeeper, which is yet another thing that needs to be configured and maintained. Not a fan of Java-based software either, to be honest.
It's a 48-bit space, so you'd need around 16M people connected with random IDs to have a high chance of collision.

Even by sticking to a certain subsets of OUIs, it's still probably fine. On top of that, listening to traffic (even after picking an in-use MAC) would allow you to determine if someone else is using that address.
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PythonJS has support for 64bit integers using the Long.js library. You just need to type your variable as "long". Numbers larger than 64bits could also be supported with another library and simple modifications to the translator.

http://pythonjs.blogspot.com/2014/06/64bit-integer-long-type...
Ah yes, blame the media or culture. My favorite false flag approach.
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You don't want to sign a non-compete in Georgia. They went the direction of Massachusetts a few years ago. http://www.noncompetetradesecretslaw.com/?cat=37
hmmm... I think we might have talked past each other with these past two comments.

I think you're thinking that I'm saying something like "well, if we've never made it to the moon, it sounds preposterous to think we ever will." It sounds like you think developing a politics-less way of funding scientific research is a matter of working on something to produce a new system. Please let me know if that is in fact your perspective.

It is not mine. To me, the idea of not having politics be involved in science sounds as absurd as... well lets assume we're friends and imagine that you, I, and a mutual friend of ours planned to play lazor tag together. We go to pick her up and she says that she can't join us because she has food poisoning and can't come. As we are driving from her house to the lazor tag place, you say that biology shouldn't interfere with plans with your friends. Now, you just mean that it sucks that she has food poisoning and you wish that this sort of thing didn't happen occasionally. But your statement is slightly more absolute than that: biology, being fundamental to the human condition, is always involved in plans made among humans. Complex metabolic, biomechanical, and neurological processes are an inherent part of a lazor tag outing. I claim that politics is fundamental to the human condition.

I claim that much like food poisoning happens occasionally, so does pettiness and favoritism. That does not mean that it is pointless to keep one's meats either freezing or cooked. That does not make it pointless to use separate cutting boards for meat and vegetables. Healthier biology is possible to achieve and so is healthier politics. But it is still politics.

My saying "politics is always involved" may now seem pedantic, so here is why it is meaningful and important: If you adopt an attitude that attempts to simply avoid politics, you will likely avoid studying and paying attention to politics and group dynamics. On a pragmatic level, this will serve you poorly. But on a more idealistic level, this will serve your cause poorly because you will abandon the opportunity to create healthy politics. What does healthy politics look like? That is a subject for whole essays and whole lifetimes of study, but I suspect you can recognize a social system with healthy politics by its high degree of trust.
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It'd be interesting to see a comparison with CPython with the 'numpy' backend using a vectorised code.
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I have two programming tattoos: a Perl camel and a Ruby ruby. That basically tells the story of why Perl didn't win for me: As soon as I started learning Ruby, I thought, "Oh, a cleaned-up Perl" and never really wrote any Perl code again.

I love Perl's personality, its quirkiness, and its massive amount of libraries. Perl was _massively_ influential on me as a young programmer. But I'm pretty sure that I won't be writing any Perl ever again.
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> does that mean if one is to use a locally administered address a device is free to take whatever they please?

I think those have traditionally been set by network admins, not randomly chosen by devices, but pretty much: nobody apart from local admin coordinates addresses with the local bit set.

> What would be advantage of paying to the IEEE for a universally administered block?

The promise that no device built by other legit companies will have an address from that assigned block, so customers won't have to worry about MAC address conflicts, provided they use only widgets from those who honor the assignment scheme.
"If a computer is mistaken for a human more than 30% of the time during a series of five minute keyboard conversations it passes the test. No computer has ever achieved this, until now. Eugene managed to convince 33% of the human judges that it was human."

SO the result can very depending on different conditions. :) Highly non deterministic
The best example of this that we're all likely to know is "Think Different" vs "Think Differently".

> The best way to become good at writing is to do it a lot and receive lots of critique.

Don't forget to read a lot! (and from a diverse set of writers too!)
>First of all, "no garbage collection" Technically, referencing counting is garbage collection, it's automatic memory management by definition.

Thanks for making this post, I have been meaning to say something similar for a while now. And, re: one of your other posts in this thread, the GC handbook is excellent. One of my favorite textbooks.

What most people on this site call "garbage collection" would be more accurately called "tracing garbage collection."