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I'm not the OP you initially posed your question to. But if you ask me, they just gave you the runaround. With what I would currently consider an insulting excuse. There is always a way, no matter how silly the "rule" if you could even find it written anywhere. Any manager, or moderately-motivated HR person would immediately find a way around it. If not, you don't really want to work there.

I was in a slightly similar situation at some point a long time ago. Did a 3-month "internship" as part of my degree at a real business. It was a token salary at that point, and I was fine even when the 3-month internship was extended for another three months. After that three months, I got a 10% raise, and when I questioned it I was given a cheesy response by a just-below-ceo-level person of "10% is a huge raise" as if ignoring the base salary that the 10% was adding onto.

Being a fairly shy, non-confrontational person I agreed. 6 months later when the year was over, and it came time to further renew the "contract", I told them I'm not signing diddly. That's when the story changed and they tripled the salary to a very good entry-level point. Two things: One, I made my point clear that they knew they would be losing a very productive and useful member of their team. And two, I spoke to someone a little lower down the hierarchy that ended up vouching and making my case to the "higher ups".
Exactly! But the "bring offers from outside to get real raises " policy tries to keep exactly those kind of not-invested employees and forces invested employees to quit because they won't get good raises without looking outside.
I looked on http://www.freelists.org/archive/luajit/ and http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/ and couldn't find a smoking gun.

The closest thing is this http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1r2s82/lua_fun_...

Where someone else http://rtsisyk.github.io/luafun/intro.html attempts to generate LuaJIT bytecode directly and tracing JIT doesn't speedup their code because LuaJIT isn't designed to speedup arbitrary bytecode but bytecode generated by the LuaJIT compiler.

There was still a more specific post that I am unable to locate where Mike specifically warned against targeting LuaJIT bytecode. I'd probably just post a message on the luajit list if you want clarification.
Your manager was wrong to not fight to correct this for you.

Even if his/her hands were tied higher up, I would have considered leaving on this basis alone: it shows nobody at the company is willing to look after your interests.

However, you must have agreed your salary at some point?

As illustrated in the article, the start of the job is the most opportune time to negotiate. Once you have started on a low salary, employer can safely assume you don't need a high salary and has little reason to pay you more. (You confirmed that this was the correct decision for them by deciding to wait it out)

My conclusion is that you'll now likely always be behind on your salary for as long as you stay with this company.
If you are making and saving a lot of money, I'd recommend to stay put (unless you can do immediately better somewhere else).

You have a lifetime in front of you. The opportunity to make an unusually high salary might not always be there. But a stack of cash might help in a lot of ways later on.

Disregard this advice if you have groundbreaking idea and the capabilities to carry it out. (Not to be nasty, but rather realistic), you probably don't. Sit down and have a good honest heart to heart with yourself about this.

Don't go away from something. Go towards something.
You can get a 5" 640x480 E-Ink panel for about $15-20 shipped from china.
Electric Vehicles often much worse for the environment than Petrol Vehicles
If you leave the job, you should also leave the Bay Area and go somewhere you can afford to live while trying out your own ideas, as you'll give yourself 2x - 3x the runway.
It's not as clear-cut as that. The risk of losing muscle leading to bone failure leading to inability to exercise leading to general decline in health leading to premature (if your goal is 120 years) death is very high, bordering on certainty. So increasing your risk of cancer by a few percentage points for a significantly improved shot at an extra few decades may not be quite as crazy as it seems at first blush.

[UPDATE:] Note that I'm not saying that Thiel is right, only that his position is not a self-evident "several-orders-of-magnitude confusion of relative risks".
No, students should remember 90-95%. Of course it is impossible to retain 100%, this is not what I expect. Assessment would happen at a granular level and retaken as many times as required. If a student fails the assessment, they can relearn what they don't understand and retake the test when they are ready. If they forget the content then so be it, but they will reassessed many times in the future on the same content. I should also mention that the questions they receive each time they take the test would be slightly different with different answers.
Two counters, one that counts by 3 and one that counts by 5.
How academia's liberal bias is killing social science
IMO, you guys are putting too much stock into worrying what people might think of you. It is just that, a game, and only those who are willing to play can come out the winners. _Wages are your livelihood_ and if the only way to get a fair increase is to go outside and come back then so be it. I don't think people would look down on you for doing so if you were legitimately not being paid fairly.
I have found that, when they have kids or kids on the way, people greatly overestimate risk. If you're s good as you say you are, there is no reason you should ever be long out of a job.
Not all sugars are created equal. In a dry red wine, most of the fructose is gone, replaced with alcohol. Fructose is what causes most of the problems.
Why would it need to be everybody in the region? Why not redact everyone by default, except for folks who have been whitelisted (cops, mostly... though I would have no problem with other emergency services workers being whitelisted as well).

Obviously this is far from a simple task (how would you know if someone was on duty, etc), but it's certainly not impossible.
This post shows the best of hacker news: comments are often way more better than the original post!

I'd agree with one of the comment got downvoted: the post itself is really 'manipulating' and like an ad of nonsense: the only good thing is its title.

But the comments here, which are people's real experiences and lessons, are so valuable!
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8658283
Oopsy... I mispelled Massachusetts in my URL. I've copied the page to a URL with the correct spelling, and will shortly put in a redirect from the wrong spelling to the correct one.

That is, when I can remember my root password. :-D
Maybe the creator of this software isn't aware, but in some regions the word "mond" is slang for the mons pubis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mons_pubis
California puzzles over safety of driverless cars
Artificial sugar. Even some natural fruits are bad due to the high levels of natural sugar (e.g. kiwis)
Which is why it said doesn't "eat" sugar and not doesn't "drink" sugar.
If you have a great boss and he leaves for greener pastures, and gives you the opportunity to follow him, I think it's usually a good idea to accept. Having a boss who you like and who likes and trusts you enough to take you with him to the next company, is priceless. Staying can be risky, as the replacement boss is an unknown factor. In your case, it sounds like a no-brainer.
Doesn't this make it illegal to distribute GPL software in France under clause 12?

If conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot convey a
covered work so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may
not convey it at all.

Since allowing the licensor to revoke the licence would be an extra condition.
Moreover, people who say they don't eat sugar don't mean they'll never ever eat sugar in any amount. I don't eat sugar - but I'm okay with a desert once per month or something. I'm also willing to eat things which have minute amount of sugar on a regular basis.
We're also left with many extraordinary hard working and intelligent adults.
"If I pay money in return for a license to use Photoshop, there is a reasonable expectation that I can use that indefinitely. I give then money, they give me permission."

Money has nothing to do with it, all reproduction of bits is automatically covered by copyright law, and has a legal presumption of "all rights reserved" unless explicitly delineated in a license.

Even when paying money, it isn't a reasonable expectation to expect to be able to use it forever for all software. With shrink-wrap or click-through agreements, perhaps, by convention, but plenty of software is sold on subscription for example, or may have revocation clause without refund which is common with MMO games for example.

Some software also may naturally break some day due to incompatibility or disinterest by the author. Other than limited warranty protections by law, there's not much a buyer can do about it. This is of course subject to local laws which may allow moral revocation (France) or stricter warranties.

With regards to downloading a piece of open source, the downloader is consenting to the copyright license it is offered under: it's the same as a click through.

If there is no license, you technically have no right to use or redistribute the software (all rights are reserved).

If there is a license, usually that will explain the author's intentions for fees, redistribution rights, and rights of revocability.

The OSI exists to approve licenses as "open source" when they (among other clauses) explicitly denounce revocability. The only recourse is that an author can refuse to OSI license future modifications or releases of the software (basically making a private fork).
The project ought to rip that code out ASAP (or talk with a lawyer), as the guy does appear to have some kind of patent, doesn't appear to have a good grasp of intellectual property and is acting like a loose cannon. Maybe tomorrow he won't approve of Canadians using his algorithms or banks, or YC startups, or who knows what. Or he could sell the patent to someone who could then go after the users of the open source package.
You mean in 2002 when he was advocating a welfare payment equivalent to the minimum wage to all parents and heavy tariffs?
I feel like the cure to cancer is simply early detection.

Imagine some sort of device you could put in your toilet that could analyze your urine or some sort of painless blood test in your tooth brush that can let you know years before symptoms that you have cancer.

I think cheap, early and often screenings will be what revolutionize health.
Oh great, another article about someone who read a few studies, then basing their entire life on it.
Enough of this crap already.
Weird title change by mods. Used to match the page and gave proper context: "page load fail makes it difficult to cook cornbread in the woodstove"
This was a project I built over the last weekend for fun. Appreciate your feedback, thank you :)
The first "code" would probably be microcode in the CPU itself, but if you mean x86 instructions, recent CPUs boot in the same way as the orginal 8086: the first instruction after a reset is fetched from FFFF:FFF0, or 16 bytes less than the end of memory, in realmode. The BIOS ROM is mapped into this area.

There are some good articles here:

https://sites.google.com/site/pinczakko/
>a good union promises quality workers

citation?
What's important is the amount of money relative to the size of the institution. Discover and Capital One were a faction of the size of WF + Citi. In 2008, WF had $1.2 Trillion in assets[1], Discover has $78bn today (had trouble hunting down the '08 #).

[1]https://www08.wellsfargomedia.com/downloads/pdf/invest_relat...
Does that make those people the "wrong kind of employees"? Why? Business is business and employers have no business paying their employees unfairly. Sure, if you're paid fairly then that's a different story, but I'm not going to invest myself in a business that is potentially ripping me off.

I think assuming that someone isn't invested is a faulty assumption. If I had made up my mind, I wouldn't give you a chance at all. I would just take the offer and put in my notice. At the very least, someone who goes back and gives their employer a chance to meet an offer is doing things respectably and at most has some value in their current employer, enough so to give them a chance.
Very few people want to train developers. Essentially, that is the problem in the first place. Employers want educators to provide job training, when that's not what is supposed to happen in higher education.

In the 1990s (and probably earlier), a lot of for-profit educational institutions, in collaboration with a number of large tech companies, produced a lot of "certifications" which tried to fill this gap. It failed pretty miserably for everyone but the for-profit educational institutions.

What's left? Most of the employers want to hire at a lower pay level than most of the qualified applicants are willing to take, especially since regular pay increases have dried up in many markets.

I've been on both sides of this coin, though. I know it's difficult to hire people even if you have plenty of good applicants, because, even when you're willing to train people on the specifics of the position you're hiring them to fill, truly qualified applicants may not work out after 6 months.

In a perfect world (sometimes called "once upon a time"), companies take all of this into account and consider it a part of doing business. In the modern world, companies have found that they can get more work out of their existing employees and out of new-hires by behaving as if all training can be done on-the-job. You might give the new-hires a little less work to compensate for the extra load of learning the job, but the rest of the team has to make sure the job is still getting done AND train the new-hire.
This. Many people will think their iOS app will revolutionize some niche market. Chances are, no it won't.
You are right. I'm glad she finally tried to have a conversation about it. In a way, that conversation helps one come back to the right mind-set about the employer-employee relationship. Staying in a company for more than 3-5 years may be one of the best ways to get underpaid.
Unfortunately Thiel's views don't really map to a "hard" 2x2 matrix--the axes should be considered to represent spectra or gradients instead. (I'm not presuming to be smarter than Thiel here, just extrapolating rationally... nobody believes the future to be entirely determinate or entirely indeterminate.)

In light of that, I suspect PG and Thiel actually live in the same quadrant of determinate optimism. I haven't read PG suggest that we should just "wait" for the future to happen--he's merely suggesting that the most common path toward building the future is on a wave. (And Thiel built PayPal that way--he recognized a version of the future that was on the cusp of being realized and took it upon himself to make it happen.)
This sort of thing just screams of narcissism. When you're rich, famous, and smart, it's pretty hard to accept the fact that you're eventually going to die and you can't take any of it with you.
As far as I know HGH doesn't increase the risk or cancer, but it speeds it up if there is one, it's a growth hormone after all.
Can someone explain why systemd which seems so hated (by me too due to wrong philosophical decisions), yet managed to convince almost all big distros (including the one I use) to use systemd by default?

Thanks.
A new paradigm that they'll stick to with an ironclad faith. Which is only marginally better.
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Exactly. Even if your product was bought on US soil, sold on eBay to someone outside of the U.S., and then sold to the 4th party via the black market or 2nd hand market again, now it's legal that a NK spy picks it up. That's the same effect as saying "I picked up this US Dell computer from a recycle shipment from US to China last week." Yeah a lot of electronics are "re-used" that way oversea.

The U.S. government is aware of this but for as long as their US companies are never directly selling to NK the sanction is enforced from the US's perspective. This including banks cannot do transaction (via multiple middlemen? yes sure! Money laundering, but the FBI will be looking at it).
The Gluglug (http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/product/ibm-lenovo-thinkpad-x60-c... ), basically a Thinkpad X60 with Coreboot, beat them to "first laptop in the world" (PC-compatible, at least), but maybe not "first high-end laptop". I think there's optional non-free microcode updates that might be useful, but it can definitely run 100% blob-free.
I remember there used to be a DVI viewer for xterm's tektronix mode. It would render the fonts by drawing a sequence of horizontal lines for runs of pixels.
Turns out it takes more than being great at coding to build a startup. I'd to learn Marketing, Pitching, Emailing etc. skills in my journey which I never thought about before starting up whereas, I thought building a good product would cover that part.

This reminds me of my days teaching test prep classes for Kaplan. At some point in every Kaplan teachers career, there came a point when you'd do the math and realize that Kaplan was charging students $100/hour but only paying you $20. Inevitably a few of the best teachers would try to go out on their own. They soon realized that getting students took a lot of work - putting flyers up on campus, working your network looking for referrals, building a word of mouth reputation. Most ended up failing and coming back or moving on to something else. There were a few that made it big (e.g. Robin from TestMasters) and it turns out that these were not necessarily the best teachers, but they were definitely excellent marketers.
He has based his decision off of a cure for cancer coming sooner than aging mitigation. It is just a choice between a possibly cancerous but healthier/stronger body later in life, or a lower chance of cancer but a higher chance of death from the risks associated with losing muscle mass. Although it is really just a preference, I find predicting one's cause of death and trying to choose the optimal health choices an interesting topic.
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I've been exposed to many big co. IT depts and there's a conflict inherent in the situation I believe.

You're there to fill a slot (do one specific job) - even more likely in big co than in small co. but the smarter someone is - the more difficult to keep them motivated. So the smarter/better employee is more likely to be unhappy.

I think this is where having non-technical people managing technical people is a mistake. The technical manager is going to empathize much better with their staff and help them stay interested during those periods when a smart person becomes bored with their job. There's ways to do it. Special projects for instance, but it depends on the person. That's where there's no cookie-cutter answer and the manager actually has to make some effort and do their job.
Which country? I'm guessing not UK or US.
Most of us will never use TempleOS, few will appreciate the skill shown here and fewer will understand Davis' religious goals.
But you could also look at TempleOS as a research prototype, roughly the kind of thing which once might have been produced at Xerox PARC, and see that TempleOS implements some startlingly interesting ideas.

For example, in this demo, the way that graphics are treated inline with source text and text in the terminal, and the way that definitions are updated everywhere they're used might seem arbitrary or crazy if you don't think about it. Is this thing just for games? Once you look past the religious stuff and realize the similarity to MATLAB and IPython notebook, but in the shell, you might start to realize it's a powerful idea with serious applications.

I'll stop there, but there are many more examples to be gleaned. Davis' ideas are like that. They don't advertise very well, this is the opposite end of the universe from the HN marketing ethos. But if you stop trying to tear down disadvantaged people for using improper words in an idiosyncratic way, and pay attention to what's actually going on, maybe you'll be rewarded by seeing something interesting. Assuming you aren't another money-grubbing, egoistic blowhard or hanger-on to the startup scene with no real interest in computers.

TempleOS is like a window onto an alternate history of personal computing, full of things which could have been done for years but which nobody got around to doing, or which didn't even occur to anyone. I'm really glad that someone is exploring these unique ideas.
Why hasn't this been done?
Does the LFENCE instruction make any sense in x86 processors?
A job at a fast growing startup is worth a lot. It's an amazing way to take on a lot of responsibility quickly. You should be learning a lot.

My recommendation would be to keep daydreaming about doing your own startup, but don't quit until:

- you have the killer idea

- you keep obsessing about your idea

- you have talked to 10 people about your idea face to face

- three of those 10 people told you to quit unequivocally
OK, so it's pretty clear that he's likely to have pressed ^C more than once. That sure is a strong foundation for saying that it sounds like he takes every opportunity to stop filesystems checks.

... Especially since he didn't go out of his way to explain the exceptional circumstances that prompted him to try to skip fsck in the reported case... or did he?
HHVM: The future of PHP?
Curious as to why the title is "EFI Firmware Security" and not "Apple EFI Firmware Security," which is the title of the piece linked?
you should also leave the Bay Area

Did he say he was in the Bay Area?
Kindle DX has a 9.7" at 1200x824. Still too small for me...
No, and neither is the 65% home ownership rate.
N reasons why the spooks love Tribler
It also becomes a legitimate problem that a rich innovators become interested in solving. Nothing wrong with that.
No, resetting PRAM is triggered by holding down command-option-P-R. This was a special step that was required specifically for firmware updates.
Presumably because we are yet to find a way to detect cancer, years earlier, in bodily fluids.
Ya well, best of luck. I hope he does it.

Unless (like so many people elderly people around today), his mind stops working decades before his body goes. Then I'm not sure what the point would be. It might be better to keep it all together and die a bit earlier as a complete person. Personal preference I guess.
This is a little fuzzy. It's likely that most organisms of a meaningful size have _some_ number of cancerous cells, so I'm not sure that distinction is as crisp as your phrasing. As for cancer risk, there is some reason to believe a connection, but as with most complex medical questions, there is only so much certainty, even in large studies, until we understand detailed mechanisms.

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/endocrj/52/5/52_5_571/_...