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The bigger question is, what do you do with the time you save? Are you just piling on more work?

The reasons you invent things to get rid of the crap work is so that you can do the work you really want to do. In my experience, people replace one pile of work with another and call it progress.

Only the rare few will automate the things they should, and truly live the freedom they have.
Oh, I'm "able." I just don't find them particularly interesting, or worth responding to in detail.
Configuration over code is nice until there is so much configuration you need code to understand it. Also, if the configuration ever is wrong debugging is likely painful.
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I'm not sure Apple is "the most admirable company", or even in the running.
People should negotiate. I'm not particularly impressed by the underhand tactics; obviously it'd have been better if you'd countered with "I think I'm worth $260k" and been contracted on that rather than lying about it, and obviously you've given your new employer a free pass to fire you if anyone ever finds out. But the result is definitely a win.

One caveat to that win though - your employer's expectations of the value you'll bring also went up from $170k to $260k. You've gone from 'very good developer' to 'in-demand amazing developer'. You get all the stress that comes with that.
I've worked at three different startups so far, and I think it all boils down to two things: how much you believe in the product, and what the culture is like.

At my first startup the culture was really great (in the beginning, at least) and the product was really cool. I had more fun working in that office than I would if I had been going out every night after work instead, so the 12 hour days didn't seem intrusive.

At my second startup, it was the complete opposite. The culture sucked, and the product sucked. Which is why I put in what you're calling "bank hours" for a year and then left. Lots of the people there worked much, much longer days than I, and it's because they either believed in the product or they had responsibilities outside of work keeping them there (wife, kids, etc).

Just a few anecdotal observations that (so far) held true for all the places I've worked.
Amazon's Field of Dreams
www.glassdoor.com may help.
I disagree. Naming the bad actor would hopefully shame them into changing their policy.... which in turn would put other unnamed bad actors on notice and encourage further naming and shaming by individuals working for them.

If you want to move the earth, starting a landslide is a lot easier than strip-mining.
Read a lot. Read fiction and non-fiction books. Read poetry. Read Wikipedia. Read the newspaper. Read news websites. You'll start to build a mental database of words, phrases, and writing tricks that you can draw from. (Notice the anaphora and Rule of Three right there?)

Listen to public radio and pay attention to how people speak. Good writing should flow naturally, like a conversation with a close friend. Learn how to type quickly, so the words can flow from your mind without the encumbrance of having to remember where the keys are on your keyboard.

Oh yeah, and write a lot. Most importantly, when you write, make a conscious effort to write well. Think about what you're writing, don't just put words on the page. Think about things like, "should I have used a semicolon in that last sentence, instead of a comma?" "Should the 'S' in 'should' have been capitalized? Look it up if you're not sure. Ask yourself if the word you've chosen conveys your intended meaning, and ask yourself if that sentence is a run-on sentence.
I am self employed and buy my own insurance in CA and it is about $1000/month for two adults and one child for a silver plan through covered CA. This is for medical only, so not too far off the estimate.
I'm not sure how you would go about getting pregnant just to "abuse the system". "I know, I'll get pregnant, go through nine months of hormonal and physical changes that'll mess with my body in crazy ways I didn't know existed, go through a major medical procedure, and then keep another living being alive while going through even more hormonal and physical changes just so I can get some paid time off work."

Your boss is crazy.
Spot on, you couldn't have put it better. Especially X and Y for H4 dependant spouses.
I've been using https://www.zoho.com/ and its been working out quite well. Although I only need one account at the moment.
>> Agenda? People only use that term when they're trying to imply something is somehow pushing homosexuality on the weak minded.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Most individuals have agendas, and all organizations have (or should have) agendas.

We should all be able to talk honestly about various agendas without having to toe some manipulative lines concerning presumed hidden meanings.

Just because many homophobes, rightwingers, etc constantly harp on the 'homosexual agenda' as if its some scary monster, doesn't mean that LGBT rights organizations don't have agendas.
Considering it's from Randal, I guess we can trust this but to the eye, but it seems like the variation is really similar. The only real difference is that the US government doesn't help their cause where for interracial, they did way before majority. I don't know which is better but I don't believe rights should be dictated by popular opinions but by facts.
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1. Your writing per this example seems perfectly fine.

2. English skill is separate from being intelligent/informed.

As a native speaker who has had very extensive English training my entire life, I still find myself in a situation similar to yours. My issue is lack of experience. There are so many people on HN that have been through it all and know about countless technical topics inside and out. I find myself just observing most of the time, besides those rare occasions where the topic happens to overlap with my experiences.

I have certainly encountered examples of horrible English that were still highly informative posts. Sure it can inhibit their communication ability, but that doesn't prevent the content from shining through. In fact, I tend to be more interested in content from non-native speakers, because it implies they are probably not from America and have points of view that are more valuable/unique for me to learn about.
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It seems crazy to me to have children in this country, you're always a broken limb or car accident away from absolute catastrophe. And by comparison I'm doing a lot better than most of my fellow countrymen, so if anyone should want to reproduce it should be people like me. But we have made the prospect rather unappealing.
Galvanic skin response is listed as one of the sensors, but there's no mention of it in the marketing material.

Anyone know if it'll be able to measure exertion via sweat?
As a father, I spent an astounding amount of time in the first month of my kids' lives caring for them, and then also caring for my wife.

If the father is going to spend 12 weeks with the newborn and the new mother, you can bet your ass that they're likely not sitting around playing CoD or watching TV. I basically did everything except for breastfeeding, and it was freaking exhausting.

Non-parents have no idea how lucky they are to be able to have a spouse that has slept more than an hour a night for the past month.
I don't want to speak for patio11 or anyone else, but "meeting over a cup of coffee" shouldn't be thought of as "a way to get a good job", at least directly. It's not a replacement for the interview process, anyway, at least at any place of employment that won't fit into a single meeting room. Instead, it's (a) a social occasion where you can (at least pretend) to (b) learn about the employer or industry. (b) is as in, "what would I need to learn or do to be an interesting employment prospect".

For (a), an introduction from someone you mutually know would be best, but theoretically, a cold-call to the tune of, "I would like to know more about X and Y, would you have a few minutes to talk to me," would be appropriate.
Virtualmin: http://virtualmin.com

Setup a supported Linux distribution on any cloud provider (eg. Linode, DigitalOcean) and run the Virtualmin 1-liner on it. 10 minutes later you'll have a control panel where you can create domains. Each domain can have Web sites, email accounts, git repositories, databases, DNS management, and more. Don't want to use half of those things? Turn them off. You can add as many as you want and it's open source. It works great.
Is it time to rebrand open source software?
Understanding the Ruby Garbage Collector
Nice argument from italics.
I use NSSM to run it as a service. It is an extra step, but it's easy and I never have to touch the service again since pulse/syncthing can update itself (restarts automatically) :)

http://nssm.cc/
YCP[1] is doing a lot to help reduce barriers in the sports world, and has had a lot of big-name athletes come out in support of them (although not, to my knowledge, actually coming out--yet)

[1] http://youcanplayproject.org/
But the burden is unequal based on the percentage of women at one company compared to another company. When hiring a woman, the company would have to understand that it would cost more to hire her (at equal pay) than it would to hire a man.
Focus on your core competency, as someone who has run production mail servers in the past I know it's not something you really want to do (My advice: don't) there is always some fire to put out or blacklist you were put on that needs to be cleaned up.

Mailgun offers 10,000 emails per month free and is dead simple to use.
A Brief History of FORTRAN
"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."

-- Mark Twain
I am going to go out on a limb and say that fake anything is a bullshit way of doing business. In a small way, you probably have made our corner of the world a worse place to be in.

Why not just ask for 260K? To lie in order to get it may seem like the only way to guarantee a realization of what you are worth, but this fosters a business climate that you ultimately may not want to live in. Companies may feel the need to be more defensive at the negotiating table, put the squeeze on developers in terms of hours or reduced open source contributions, or even to illegally collude in order to force people to stay at their... oh wait that one already happened.

A business climate in which parties are faking information can be a dangerous place. It is in our collective best interest to be honest and to foster an environment in which honesty is expected. Think on that the next time you buy a food product.

Another example that is more general: company leadership feels the need to produce a certain kind of quarterly financial result in order to appear favorable to investors or customers. The company that has the most accolades fakes it the most, leading to a lot of pressure on everyone else to do the same. Someone has to pay for this though, often it is paid in increased risk.

EDIT: removed irrelevant examples.
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Most of the top 25 apps on Android are games, and most of the games use the NDK.
StackOverflow isn't running on Azure: if anything, that article should make it obvious how much they're saving by not using cloud, with OS being unrelated.
The focus is the policy, not the policy's enforcers.
Post the link to the question when you submit it :).
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When you say "Most" I assume you have worked 100% at places I haven't. HR and managers state in my cases, "If you don't have sick time you will not be paid and you may lose your position." Sick time starts after two or three months.
I am a graduate student, my wife is a post-doc, and we are expecting our first child in the next few weeks. I actually just found out that my school recently (this summer) made a policy allowing graduate students to take up to 60 days of paid leave, so I am fortunate here at BU. I didn't realize how bad the US policies are until we started talking with our (mostly foreign) coworkers who were all surprised that my wife is still at work even though she is expecting a baby in a few weeks. We both work in supportive labs that would probably give us the time off that we need regardless of the school policy, but it is scary to think what it would be like even working in another lab at the same school some times. We really need to do more to support the women working in the US especially when it comes to family friendly leave.
Why do your posts have trailing parentheses?
I really like this idea. Not only does it force you to increase the volume of your writing, giving you more practice, but it also forces you to try to immediately use what you've learned, fixing the knowledge in your mind. Also I would think that it forces you to test whether you truly understand the topic. You can't really be ambiguous or hand-wavy when describing a concept to someone else.
Where I work, BCC-ing on all mails is not scalable. Instead a random sample of the mails is sent to ourselves.
My experience in the real world is that people don't want to burn their valuable PTO, and continue to come to work when they have a minor illness. (I correct my employees if they do this)

But this being the case, having the possibility of extra protection for protracted illnesses isn't going to do a whit for protecting us from coworkers passing around a cold or minor flu.
Contrary to popular opinion, I think this is actually a terrible idea. By doing this, we are basically adding SIMD to the JS 'virtual machine'. IMO, we shouldn't standardize on API for things which are so low level and this is really like an implementation detail in the virtual machine.

I would suggest two alternate approaches:

1. First come with a standard SIMD specification across CPUs. In some ways like the GL specification (for GPU) or even the webrtc stuff (for p2p connections). Once you have done that, define a JS API.

2. Identify proper use cases. The example are quite bogus currently. They show a mandelbrot. Well, all this is done in the GPU. Image manipulation is done best with css level filters. Once we identify the use cases, we can them maybe add APIs to specifically address them if it's important for the web in general.

In it's current form, this is really a 'because we can' API. Where does this end? What if we just expose raw socket and networking API instead of a webrtc style API? What about pixel manipulation of images?

Also see: http://www.mail-archive.com/webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org/msg2.... The apple guys are saying they can do all this even without the API.
I don't really watch Disney movies, but I do know that the Frozen soundtrack is the only Disney music I've ever heard playing in a London gay bar.
I don't think Arista sells that device anymore. Having said that, the Arista device (7124FX?) only had the FPGA on 8 out of 24 ports and the latency through the transceivers was pretty terrible. Very few people took it up.

The Solarflare device had (has?) the FPGA in a strange place, behind the NIC controller. AFAIK, the Exablaze NIC is pure FPGA which again saves on latency.
Is a real gift to read all those wonderful responses, a language is also about feelings and communication. Maybe one day I will be able to write on the spur on the moment and those written words will modulate love, anger, passion or regret. Maybe in one of those moments I could feel that this language is no longer a wall, that I am not alone any more and that I communicate with someone else soul.
Just wondering: would it work if your app provider supported email submission via Job queue (e.g. Amazon SQS/Iron MQ) ?
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I agree that paternity leave should be more generous and universal, but there a physiological reasons (tenderness, hormonal changes, breastfeeding, etc.) why mothers may not be able to work.

I can recognize that while still thinking the entire family, and society as a whole, is shortchanged by undervaluing the contributions of fathers to families with newborns.

While some legal reforms are probably needed, I don't see why employers shouldn't be called to task for their policies in these areas. If corporate leaders can be called to task for off-the-cuff statements, why can't they be called to task for something with such an immediate and obvious impact?

EDIT: I'll also add a coda here to point out that most pregnancies are unplanned. Expecting new mothers and fathers to have prescience with respect to parental leave is unrealistic at best.
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> And I don't want to even get in to how fucked up it is to have to save up years of vacation days to take some time off when you have a baby

This is the trade off we pay for lower taxes. (Yes certain states like NY and CA have higher tax rates, but they make up for it with more state benefits.)
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There are certainly contexts where this is a valuable sentiment, but separating sexual orientation from sexual behavior at such a gross level (ie, all not engaging in same-sex behavior at all) is simply crude and unnecessary. To each their own, but your statement seems to imply that gays should struggle against what is ultimately a harmless and very human attraction.
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Yes, dangerous because of it's reach. I am not very excited to live in a walled garden. A massive one as that.
If you sign into the admin panel of the grandfathered domain you can add the new domain to that Google Apps Account.

Granted any settings will effect all the domains associated with that account.
Namecheap also does something similar: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...
Performing a sexual act is a conscious behavior, wilfully chosen by the participants (except in cases of rape, which is not relevant to this discussion). Law is meant to regulate behaviors. It's valid to make sexual acts illegal. It doesn't violate non-discrimination rights because wilful participation by any person is just as illegal as participation by any other person. Laws that say "this is legal for people with this involuntary attribute but illegal for people with a different involuntary attribute" are discriminatory. If they say "sexual activity with a person of the same sex is illegal", it's equally illegal for everyone, regardless of that person's unchangeable, involuntarily physical attributes. Saying some people can do something (like "only white people can engage in sexual activity with a person of the same sex") while others can't is discriminatory. Making something illegal for everyone is not. It's just normal lawmaking.

We may disagree with Singapore and think that most sexual acts shouldn't be illegal. But how can we go around saying law can't regulate behavior? This is one of my big problems with the gay "rights" lobby of today -- they're trying to make it illegal to legislate basically anything. If you disagree with the law, change the law, don't codify sweeping generalizations that set a precedent of "I was born this way and I can't control it" as an excuse for any illegal behavior.

Only the most basic principles are protected by things like the American Bill of Rights, and the specific behavior must be tested by the courts to see if it conforms to the principles enshrined as fundamental rights.
> Just because Tim Cook is gay doesn't make him Mother Teresa. He seems quite happy in promoting brutal Victorian style work-houses because it's "over there". Out of sight, out of mind.

Yes, yes, and yes.

Many of my more naive, young gay friends and acquaintances actually DO seem to think that 'being a powerful gay person', onto itself, makes him worthy of worship.

> He's quite the hypocrite.

Did he actually say that its wrong to promote brutal Victorian style work-houses?
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Possibly interesting: [1]

[1] http://torfone.org/
Very advanced forms of gullibility. Plus if you work all the time you don't have to worry about what to do with yourself. Should you go to a park, or hang out with a friend, or...? Nah, just get some more coffee and work some more.
1) "by pointing out some consideration that hadn't previously been mentioned"

The only thing we're led to consider is that you have a dissenting opinion. That doesn't contribute much to the discussion. If you talk a bit about your reasons for having your opinion, it might fit this guideline more clearly.

2) "by giving more information about the topic, perhaps from personal experience"

Again, you haven't given us any more information about the topic. The only new information we have is that you are part of a group that knows "that homosexuality is a destructive force in society." That assertion alone isn't going to convince anyone that you're onto something.

Something else to consider, which should be obvious, is that this issue is an extremely charged subject. Because of that, it's especially important to talk about your reasons for having your opinion. Otherwise, people are going to immediately dismiss it.
Read Henry James. I repeat, read Henry James.
In case you think this is no big deal, here's the updated list of Fortune 500 CEOs who are openly gay:

Tim Cook
Well, they are! http://fortune.com/worlds-most-admired-companies/
I learned English by debating online and I recommend this method to anyone. Go on Reddit and start disagreeing with people. When they prove you wrong do some research and refute their arguments. Rinse and repeat. You will learn English and be informed and have fun at the same time.
So the exalink-50 number is as a Layer1 switch.

So the comment "can setup multiple broadcast groups" sounds like the Cisco Nexus 3548 Warp Mode. The market did not take to that so not sure how this is going to change that. Like I said, I have not reviewed all the data yet.

An important step for verification for all this is to put it in the hands of David Newman for a test, either paid via his private company Network Test, or publicly via Network World. A testing house like EANTC would also be great.

As you can might have guessed from my post I know a bit about this world (I am not involved anymore). At this point it is more of a historical curiosity on my part more then anything (I still have a number of friends that run HFT networks at the banks). Given what I saw in testing and claims during the early HFT rush I always want to see 3rd party testing from a reputable testing house showing a real market data feature set being used.

Here is a starting list:

1. BGP running
2. Mulitcast w/PIM
3. IGMP snooping
4. ACL configured
5. 1 port to max port of switch fanout.
6. 1% to 100% line rate on the feed.
7. Packet size ranges, both fixed and mixed.
8. Join/leave time.
9. Max groups joined.