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You have to follow your instincts, depending on the type of people you work for there are several different ways this can go.

Some will spit in the face of your two weeks' notice and ask you to leave immediately, which is kind of a childish reaction to having you upset their plans.

Some will try to get you to commit to just one more week at a time until they've extracted what they need, and work you harder during that time.

Some will accept that you're not happy, can't do the best work because you aren't happy, and will work with you to tie up loose ends with your 2 weeks notice, and maybe even let you off a little sooner if, as another commenter suggested, you ask for that contingency.

Unfortunately, it's not clear cut. If you have reason to be confident that one of the first two is going to happen, then you shouldn't give notice. In the latter case, burning a bridge would be a shame since you aren't giving them a chance to be considerate.

The last time I worked a contract gig, the manager essentially dragged a guy out back and shot him on my third day. That undermined anything they did to make me feel like there might be a future, or that a place on their team might be worthwhile. I received full-time offers every week that I worked for them, including the first one, and when I finally chose one, set a start date two weeks out, and notified my manager, he walked me out the door, and I had to shuffle my plans a bit.

If you don't have something new lined up yet, it's probably best to find a way to give notice, though as many others have said, you shouldn't feel bad about leaving their project understaffed - it sounds like it already is.
Are SIDS and co-sleeping linked? It appears that SIDS is actually reduced by properly co-sleeping (non-smoking, non-drug-impaired parent) [1]

[1] http://www.askdrsears.com/topics/health-concerns/sleep-probl...
He needs to apply for trademark and let them come to his lawyer with precisely that kind of offer
Hi, I'm the author, happy to answer questions.
We would be better off if nobody smoked, but let's not expand the war on drugs. I'm actually OK with a bit of this kind of totalitarianism, but not when it doesn't actually work.
Arrogance, which I'd call exasperance in this case, in the face of repeated ignorance of reality, is justified. You can only deal with willingly ignorant people for so long before giving up on the human race.

And the doctor in the tale did try and educate the mother before she was cut off. She just didn't want to listen.
Java 8 lambdas are not real lambdas, they capture only effectively final local variables.
In Gosu you can modify the value of a captured variable.
They just dont have a sustainable business model.
That's all.
Microsoft has changed as a company and is becoming more open
We won't disclose that info because it just invites a bunch of unwanted discussion about valuations. It's probably not too difficult to make an educated guess.
The worst I have seen was a systems biologist flipping between Excel cells with the arrow keys and staring at the Excel input line to find out if sequences are different. My jaw dropped.
fair use (parody relevance) only comes into play if it starts getting treated as a legal thing

additionally it was more than enough for someone to mistake that account as the conference account at a glance

http://futurestack.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Scree... from this you can see at the time he was using the FutureStack image itself (the line just below the logo is from the original, not his edit), so presumably at the time he got suspended, he was using the original FS logo
Readers are readers. They now have zero chance of converting me into a paying subscriber, since I can't read their articles. With a more flexible paywall, I can be encouraged to subscribe every time I'm linked to an article.
> data extraction after formatting

That's not what DBAN is.

In order to recover data from an overwritten drive, you'd need to remove the platters and run them through specialized laboratory equipment - often running upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars or more - in the hopes of finding residual evidence of the previous data. This isn't even close to surefire with modern hard drives.

You're correct about SSDs, and are correct that physical destruction is the only absolute guarantee. However, it's disingenuous to imply that formatting and overwriting are equivalent (that's far from accurate), and for most consumers and even small businesses, they're dealing with a level of security that - per NIST standards - is sufficiently handled with overwriting alone.
Euhm ... I just went to that site, pressed CTRL-F, and typed in this sentence. It's not there.

Can you point out what I missed ?
> So, please forgive us our gallows humor about this.

Apologies for my pedantry, but dreaming about harming people is actually pretty much the opposite of gallows humour. A more appropriate phrase might be "power fantasy."
Yes, I wasn't trying to imply anything was "bad" about it or there was a security issues. Just noting the (hopefully brief) outage.

as you say currently running apps appear to be fine and dandy.
ISPs are spending less on their networks as they make more money off them
My E&M is rusty but if I recall correctly, the electric field from the steam of charged particles will induce a voltage change in the transformer's wiring as the stream flows past/through the transformer, and as the transformer works by using a magnetic core to induce voltage changes from one coil to another coil, the voltage output is higher than the components on the output side can handle and the components get fried. I think.
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Cloud connected 3D printer with automatic part removal system. Cool stuff...
We're experiencing network connectivity issues in eu-west-1 at the moment, confirmed on the AWS status page
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It is a totally separate industry.

One Rackspace would be in the industry of technology; the other in the industry of hosting conferences. The likelihood for confusion arising from the conference having technology-related subject matter is merely a factor in determining whether the conference would violate Rackspace's trademark. It's very likely that a trademark violation would be found, but it's still possible that a violation wouldn't be found.

Note also that Rackspace only trademarked "Rackspace," so "RackSpace," "Rack Space," and "Rack-Space" are separate marks a tech conference could use those without infringing upon Rackspace's trademark.
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I'd like to bring in a good friend of mine who I believe can contribute

This is the key sentence. Work together for a month, with no equity. See how much this potential co-founder actually accomplishes. You'd be amazed by the gap between what you dream may happen and what actually happens. Success is hard.

If after a month, you are still super-excited about this co-founder, start discussing an equity split. Always with vesting. No cliff (or very short, that was what the 1-month trial period was for).

If a co-founder doesn't receive a salary, then the minimum equity split would be 90/10, all the way to 50/50. FYI, at 90/10 I would behave like a super-adviser, but not a fully committed co-founder. 75/25 is the first "true co-founder" deal I can think of.
Did this guy actually register FutureStack as a trademark? His post doesn't even mention the word "trademark", so I'm guessing no.
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My main issue with "science," which I put in quotes because there is the ideal of science and the reality of science which are unfortunately not the same. It is purported that science is objective, and that is the admirable goal, but it hasn't been successful.

For every study purporting one thing, one can find an equal an opposite study purporting the opposite (or nearly opposite). Now, that is hyperbole, as usually one of they studies is inferior in some way that is not obvious to the lay person, but it won't stop them from taking an overly strong stance based on an inferior study.

I believe a lot of the "vaccines are bad crowd" fall into a few categories:

1) the group that is very susceptible to confirmation bias

2) the group that has seen some studies that weren't conducted very well and were possibly informed by the first group.

3) those that fall victim to circular references in their proof (e.g. wikipedia article citing a magazine citing the wikipedia article, with possibly a few steps in between)

4) those who choose to believe something because the alternative is terrible for them. I see this one a lot. If you are discussing with someone of some modicum of intellect, you'll detect the situation when "slippery slope" starts being mentioned.

I'm sort of friends with a "vaccines are bad" person. I've cited numerous studies, which, while I'm no expert at interpreting studies, seemed to have rigor. Didn't phase her in the slightest, and we just don't talk about that subject anymore. Or at least I don't, and I don't take the bait. I believe she has an autistic grandson, and if she didn't have vaccines to blame, she'd have to believe that God caused the autism and that's too terrible for her.
Do that, and I'll be much more comfortable with the idea of recommending your service, since it helps to alleviate the issues of things being lost/stolen during transit.
Don't support what? Mandatory vaccination?
Exactly if you want to return just an expression you can avoid them, otherwise if you use statements in the body of the lambda you need curly braces.
I agree, but consider that it's on Nature.com and the expected audience. This was an entertaining read for those who have felt such frustration, but it's ultimately unhelpful as a published article.

I did appreciate the point about being proud to be bad at math. I think that attitude is damaging and probably deserves a (more reasoned) article of its own.
I wish him luck but I suspect he will move on in < 1 year. He probably got a massive paycheck, but Bloomberg is anything but a startup environment. Many people go there and can't get passed the old technology and old/financial world culture.
It was the initial use case, and it was the use case that App.net crowd funded $500k for.

First impressions mean a lot.
If your child is vaccinated, they aren't really at significant risk of catching a preventable infection from an unvaccinated child, since that's the sort of thing vaccines are designed to prevent. This isn't to say that anti-vax is a rational position, but I don't think (disclaimer, I'm not a medical professional) it puts vaccinated children at additional risk.
Last time I read about Docker and root it was not a good combination. Afaik Docker is not secure (yet).

I hope you take extra precautions to secure Docker containers from each other.
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If only there was a way to outsource all decision making to an over-arching centralized authority to make all decisions for us. That entity would have all our best interests at heart and make the tough decisions for us. It would be auch a weight off my shoulders of I didn't have to think anymore. I would even be willing to pay 20-30 percent of my paycheck to it, just so it could help me stay safe. What would we call such authority?
If this article from HighScalability is any indication, it looks like the 30+ on the product side of Stack Exchange are running a very tight ship:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-upda...
Thanks. That's interesting. Is there a global setting to always use ArrayList instead of List? Actually maybe global is too much... per file setting.
Is Heroku running on AWS?
True I rarely have a problem editing in web text boxes, I never really committed to using emacs as a word processor. But I'd be lying if I said I've never accidentally closed a browser tab when absent-mindedly trying to do a backward-kill-word ('ctrl-w').

I was thinking more about programming and system administration. After years of using emacs, I find it harder to adapt to the popular mainstream tools like Visual Studio, TextMate, etc.
For an "interesting project", the home-page communicates zero information: https://app.net/

So many words and yet I really have a hard time grasping why I'd ever want to use this thing.
Both sides feared their opponent might obtain first strike, but did not want it themselves.

Problem is that some actions that help prevent your opponent from obtaining first strike move you closer to first strike.

For example, having nuclear missiles in submarines makes it very hard for your opponent to take out most of your nuclear weapons in a first strike, but it also gives you the capability to fire from closer range, giving the opponent less time to launch their missiles before your missiles take them out.

This would be similar, as there would be less time between launch and impact.
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Any idea how soon? Otherwise, how about your best guess on the probable order of magnitude that the estimate will be? (days, weeks, months?)
For me it's less about productivity and more about comfort. When I first started using Emacs I felt like it was a lot easier to move the cursor around and manipulate text with shortcuts consisting of keys that were already near where my hands were on the keyboard.

I use vim now though, and I find that the keybindings feel much more natural, being based on the positions of the keys rather than mnemonic-based ones in Emacs (e.g. ctrl-n for "next line").
I thought it was interesting. I imagine that the people who voted it to the front page thought so too.
This app looks like it's alive - Real-time shadows and reflections.
I think it's pretty sad that so many people balk at paying very modest amounts of money for high-quality material. It's as though everything that's available on the web should be free, just because it's on the web.

It's the same with people moaning about paying a couple of dollars for an app or even installing pirated versions rather than paying. There's something seriously wrong here.

The New Yorker costs $50/year - about the same as a single evening in a bar with a friend. Or a dozen coffees.
Ahhh crap. I was returning a rental car at DUS a few days ago and saw this very setup. My son wanted to hang around and watch a car get lifted and I decided to move on.
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"Lew Cirne" anagrams to "New Relic".

"Future Stack" anagrams to "Astute Fucker".

I think the folks at New Relic just have a thing for anagrams.
Assuming the 10 helicopters fly a 3-2-3-2 formation at the same height.

Consider a line of three helicopters. According to Wikipedia the rotor diameter of the Mi-26 is 32 metres. Assuming that each helicopter is separated so that the tips of the rotors are also separated by 32 meters from its neighbours [1]. This gives us a distance of 128 metres between the rotational centre of the two outermost helicopters.

The corresponding distance between the front and rear rows of helicopters would be 160 metres.

So you'd need a 128x160 metre frame to carry the 24 metre long spectrometer. Due to its size and the need to support the 200 ton weight of the instrument, the frame itself (including the necessary cross-braces) will be extremely heavy. So you'd need to add more helicopters to lift the frame, which means it would have to be bigger to allow for their necessary separation... And making it bigger makes it heavier...

[1] A guess. I suspect they'd need more than that.

[2] I am not a mechanical engineer
The "network connectivity" issues are pretty funky, our ELB sometimes just gets a timeout on connecting, sometimes works fine and sometimes gives the SSL cert of another site (though always the same CN).

Edit: we are on standard AWS/ELB, not Heroku.

Edit2: seems to be working and AWS updated their status as well. However pretty scary that some of our traffic got sent to someone else's LB/servers.
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I disagree with the very premise; why go out of your way to encourage bad behaviour? I stand for freedom of information and will avoid New Yorker from this point forward.
I just tried to goggle something. Didn't work. So, makes sense.
The next step is to lift the vehicles high enough to go on shelves.
The slate article calls it a "metered paywall" which means that unsubscribed users will be able to read a limited number or articles per week. You'll probably be below your limit every time "the occaisional article" pops up.
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your child has more chance of dying by going to the morning bus stop than their child does of dying from not being vaccinated. in fact, i'd bet your child has a better chance of dying by catching the flu from a vaccinated child than some other child not vaccinated by MMR.

i understand if someone doesn't want their child vaccinated and they can't go to public school, but forcing people is another thing, even if it is 'for their own good'.
Are you claiming that people never die because of bad law or bad science?
I'd put Yegge at the top of that list.
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"Someone who is homosexual isn't any more inclined to molest or rape someone of their own sex than a pedophile is to molest or rape a child."

I'm sure you meant something about the proclivity to commit rape or molestation, but all this statement does is say there is a positive correlation between the two groups (and no citation or explanation of reasoning either).

Your statement would still be true if both groups had a large increase in probability of rape or molestation, vs the non-homosexual and/or non-pedophile.
Our Elastic Beanstalk app behind an ELB gone haywire too. It has been scaling itself up and down, throwing out errors from time to time..
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Similar here, direct to an instance, it runs at about full speed for 15 seconds, then stops. We can SSH in no problem, and the web logs show some people are connecting in fine.

Funny how the AWS status page still has a green tick (and a small discrete (i)) even though there's a confirmed problem.
status.heroku.com is showing an incident for 30+ minutes. I think this is still human managed, so there might be a lag on when things are locked and when a message actually appears.
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It's a metered paywall [1]. You'll still be able to read a few articles a month. IMHO, that's fairly flexible.

[1]: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/note-readers
I keep having to look it up, and it's a devil to find.
We've had this thing to deliver content for 20 years (the web) but in the same 20 years no one has invented a simple way to pay for the content.

I'll balk at 50 dollars a year the same way I'll balk at 3500 dollars worth of gourmet coffees paid on January 1st. Just let me spend small amounts so I don't become aware of my own habits.
I'm not sure if it's a culture encouraged at med school, but I certainly have met many a doctor with a mighty god complex. Not that that's exactly rare in the computer science / software engineering world either.

Also, I'm sure we could find people who'd gleefully re-imagine this fantasy story as one where a parent refuses to read the religious tracts being offered to them by a school principal, resulting in the kids being sent to mandatory bible study.
But see Australia was already starting with variable length numbers. NANPA started in the late forties. It is obviously possible to change things, but would require extraordinary effort. For example every computer program knew that NANPA numbers were exactly 10 digits since every program was written after NANPA came about. Having to change all of them would make y2k look trivial!

Something being missed is that callers are still charged to reach your phone company at the base rates - that is not free to them. You then pay your phone company extra for how you connect to them. Abuse is a red herring. When I go to other countries and get a local SIM I get inundated with SMS, which doesn't cost money but sure does cost a huge annoyance. SMS spam is very rare in the US, with the carriers cooperating to stamp it out and always refunding people for any.
This is beyond stupid. You can't explain something, so you ban the person from having a say so. I'm terrible afraid of people thinking that this is the way to go.

As a doctor, which I am not, I would've said: the danger of your children dying or being crippled by a preventable disease is about 1000 times the risk of having an adverse reaction to the vaccine. Furthermore, I can guarantee that the vaccine will not cause autism.

This is what I tell my "anti vac" acquittance, because I can't say I'm friends with morons. But being a moron doesn't preclude the right to understand what's actually happening and what the risks are when making a decision, even if you refrained in the past to educate yourself.

But it's hard to educate, so the author would just ban the discussion altogether. You, the author, are no better than the ones to which you would ban explanations and discussion.
The commentary is a subset of what's in the wonderful M-W "Concise Dictionary of English Usage." The entry for "data, datum" starts "The word data is a queer fish."

The most complete online version of it that Google knows about is at http://www-old.accademiadellacrusca.it/forum/htdocs/phpBB2/v... .

Some key points and quotes:

- data isn't an ordinary plural. "Ordinary plurals ... can be modified by cardinal numbers; ... no one, it seems, can tell you how many data."

- "To summarize, data has never been the plural of a count noun in English. It is used in two constructions - plural, with plural apparatus, and singular, as a mass noun, with singular apparatus. Both constructions are fully standard at any level of formality. The plural construction is more common. If you are an editor for a publisher whose house style insists on the plural construction only, take care to be consistent ..."

- "There have been more occurrences of datum in popular sources since [about the middle 1960s]. Perhaps the insistence of many editors that data is a plural has accelerated the tendency for datum to be used as a singular of data"
So by default the type inferred is ArrayList, if you want a different type you just specify it.

ex.
var strings = { "red", "green", "blue" } //ArrayList

var strings2 : LinkedList<String> = { "red", "green", "blue" }
I think we should be making a financial/societal incentive to do the right thing if the science is settled enough.

The trouble with the view presented here is that sure the children get the vaccine due to this hypothetical rule. what happens when later the children get a severe cold (say) and the mom who remembers the previous visit thinks - bloody doctors I will just keep my kid home and pray for him to get better?

Much better approach:
"Ok Sacha since you declined the vaccination now I have to report it to all medical insurers. Your family insurance just doubled."

At school:
"Sacha your kids are not vaccinated and we do not admit any students not vaccinated."

Apartment:
"Ok Sacha your kids are not vaccinated (per this website where we can query); we will need to charge you a fee that is contributed to our residents' medical fund to cover the risk of housing you."

If you really truly start to hurt in the pocketbook, I bet there will be much more incentive to really read up on the Science.
As I sit sipping my coffee in south soma (SF), I'm imagining what the climate must be like over at 640 7th St.

I was the ops director at my company for about a year. Even though I've moved to a different role, posts like this trigger a visceral, physical, almost Pavlovian feeling. Still.
A nuclear power plant cannot run at say 10% to just power its own systems after it was separated from the grid. That's why diesel generators and batteries are so important to keep the reactor from melting.

It's hard to find a source on this, I apologize. The reason is that it only has large turbines to generate power, and these cannot be operated for arbitrary power output.
When's the android version coming out?
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