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(I don't live in San Francisco, and I don't know Borderlands from Borders.)

> Borderlands surprises me - I thought any business made unprofitable by San Francisco's minimum wage hikes would close up shop quietly, or just blame the evil landlord. After all, they've still got inventory to sell before they close, and there's no percentage in pissing people off.

Who in their right mind would be "pissed off" by Borderlands' conduct here? Are you suggesting that their customers are going to be offended that they are placing the blame on the minimum wage law? Are people in San Francisco so politically insular?
We are working with an SVG-based ZUI framework for noflo-ui/flowhub and have plans take the metaphor further: http://i.imgur.com/wQqvhlD.gifv

ZUI dataflow has been done in the past with Nuke. VFX people make some massively complex graphs with that tool.
I'm pretty sure that's the case. This seems like an equilibrium point for the system.
I actually get cat food and water fountain filters as a subscription through Amazon and they always offer me kitty litter on the home page. They just don't have the kind I use.
> It's a pretty specific definition

Please elaborate. I have not heard this specific definition.
Well, here's what we know:

Cringely claims 100k people

IBM claims low thousands (at a cost of $0.6B, which seems quite high) [1]

ieee says Alliance@IBM, an ibm union, claims they know of 5k jobs eliminated; they further say they're seeing a flood of backdoor layoffs, ie sudden bad reviews

My guess is in 6 months, Cringely was more right than wrong. Or at least we see an employment reduction of tens of thousands.

[1] http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0KZ1WF20150126?irpc...
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They are, in most cases, legally required to place shareholder value over all else.
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The typical phrase is "on bare metal".
> They moved Office to an open file format.

Or rather: When OpenDocument was standardized by ISO and threatened to create demand for open, common, standardized interchange formats, they created a similarly and confusingly named XML version of their existing format, with insufficient documentation to allow complete third-party implementations, and pushed it as a competing ISO standard, using tricks such as (accidentally, I believe they said) encouraging partner companies to join standards bodies just for the vote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Standards_Institute#The...
Maybe that's not the best example.

What I mean is something like...for example, the guy who has five companies and starts a sixth one isn't nearly as story-worthy as the gal who quits their full-time job and moves cross country to start their first company.

Of course it isn't an absolute rule by any means but it might be helpful. At some level it is probably in the same family as sayings like "Get out of your comfort zone" and such.
From what I understand; They are getting rid of employees in low performing areas and hiring in growth areas like CAMMS (cloud, analytics, mobile, social, and security) and Watson.
if a marginal business is likely to rebound, they should be able to secure a loan or investment

This is not necessarily true. A more accurate statement would be: If a business is likely to repay an investor at a reasonable market rate (discounted for risk), it should be able to secure a loan or investment. These are not necessarily the same thing, especially in a business where "success" may be defined by the owners as merely holding a steady state. Borderlands is a labor of love for the owner, but we cannot expect investors to feel likewise.

You seem to have a very "industrial" view of business. It's my anecdotal observation that many sole-proprietorship lifestyle businesses are run with less-than-perfectly-rational economic motives. Borderlands is clearly like this. While this does not optimize for macro statistics like GDP, it does seem to optimize for the happiness of the people involved, which is why I think it's a shame that it's being arbitrarily forced under. An 18% increase in total expenses is not just a wave, but a tsunami.
legally required?
So far he hasn't been way off the mark from what I can see, although that isn't stopping people from aiming their pitchforks at him. I guess they don't want him to be right or something?
>Was Malcom X a "terrorist"?

Almost assuredly yes, though the Black Panther Party would be a better example.

>Are the looters in the Ferguson riots "terrorists"?

Yes.

>Are the countless people who are in prison all "terrorists"?

Many, yes. Prison can be very radicalizing, especially since gangs form along ethnic lines, which suggest political outlooks.

> Just because something is criminal and political doesn't make it "terrorism," as much as law enforcement and prosecutors would like you to believe otherwise.

I don't see how you can make this assertion. Breaking the law means you are rejecting the fundamental foundation upon which society is based. If you reject that, you are open to all possible outcomes. Any act of breaking the law is a rejection of all law and with it all order, stability, and moral uprightness.

Are you not afraid of that outcome? Does it not strike fear into your heart? Or did you watch The Purge and think it was some sort of comedy?

Martin Luther King Jr.'s tactics were appropriate for his time, but today we live in a different time, and they would be considered terrorism. Anti-war protesters are frequently terroristic. The Occupy movement was overtly terrorist, as it intended to cause economic harm for political ends.

It's important to always remember that while people might advocate for causes we agree to in principle, we live in a society of laws and rules, and we all must stay within those rules. There is a beautifully documented, perfectly effective mechanism in our society for effecting change: liberal democracy. If the change you wish to make is true, right, and just, it will inevitably take place without any requirement for lawbreaking. All you need to do is call your representative, and vote. Problem solved.

However, if you go outside of this, you are a terrorist and you deserve to be targeted, hunted, and eliminated by the state, in order that our society be protected, and that we all be able to continue to live in prosperity and peace.
Thanks for the kind words! This was exactly what I was aiming for: the code (or insights) to be reusable without too much hassle. More so because part of it was developed in the scope of my PhD; I wouldn't want to know how many failed or unpublishable research results are stowed away on some grad student's computer.
The problem is that, North of the 49th, "eco terrorism" simply means "anyone who dislikes the oil industry"
Mistake? or Advertisement?

Assuming nothing happens to him, he's just broadcasted what happens to those who come after him.
Hi! Here's a few explaining words:

The first one is missing a whole bunch of context. But here's a start: The first thing inside parentheses is the operator/function, the rest are arguments/operands. This one is best viewed from the inside out, so... a method ending in a question mark is most likely a predicate, i.e. a true/false test returning a boolean. So we're testing for a weak player. Outside from there is an 'and', so we're looking to combine that test with another one (further to the right, that you didn't show). Maybe checking if the player is both weak and hungry, as that may mean he'll croak soon.

Every paren pair ('S-expression') in Lisp (err, Clojure) returns a value, so the "if" is not so much a control-flow construct as it's like C's ternary op: [ cond ? iftrue : iffalse ]. Its first argument will be a test, like that weak-hunger thing. Then you will have one or maybe two other arguments. The first is returned if the condition is true, the second one if false. There may not be a second argument, in which case the return value will be 'nil' or maybe 'false' - they're sorta equivalent anyway.

Finally, the "or" will evaluate and return its first subexpression if it's true, or also evaluate the second one if not and return that. You can actually have as many arguments to an "or" as you like - they will be short-circuit-evaluated until one of the arguments is true, or if you hit the right paren without finding a true, you'll get a 'false' ('nil' ?).

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The second example is a function definition. By convention, 'want-protection?' will be the name of a predicate, i.e. something that tests and returns true/false.

'game' is the single argument to that function. From usage later on, it looks to be a map, or you might think of it as an associative array, or a key-value mapping.

The first half tests whether the 'protection' value of the player, which itself is the 'player' value of the game (in C: game.player.protection, except those components are keys rather than fields) is less than (see the '<' operator on the left?) 3. The second half tests whether (I'm guessing) his experience level is greater than 15. The 'and' combines those, i.e. if he's at least a lvl 16 player and his prot value sucks at less than 3, he'll want protection (so return 'true').
Just to hijack my own thread. The servers should be back up and snappy.
Our supporter plan for neocities.org is $5. We talked about saying $4.99, but I felt that this is deceptive marketing so we didn't do it.

To me, it's a tradeoff between the possible increases in signups you get from using a .99 price, and the level of trust you potentially lose from engaging in psychological manipulation of your users.

I'm comfortable with $5, even if it does cost a few customers. Being straightforward with our pricing builds a story of trust and honesty that I like.
How is flow-based programming different to FRP?
Focusing on the first two elements I mentioned is the best way to accomplish that. Shareholders should be saying 'please ignore us and focus on the other stuff'.
Corporations (and generally capitalism by its very nature) run on a greedy[0] algorithm - they pick locally optimal solutions. Which, in some cases, can lead to great results, but in others the algorithm will get stupidly stuck on a suboptimal choice. Focusing on shareholders instead of customers is a local optimum here.

[0] - I mean "greedy" in CS terms, without attaching moral baggage to the word.
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Edit: Production costs are generally a small fraction of sales prices and the salary of workers at farms and factory's well below that.

The US produces more durable goods now than at any point in history mostly though automation. Little of that is in SF, but there really are places in the US where you can rent a decent apartment for 400$/month. Or, where the median sale price for a home is less than 90k vs 770k in San Francisco county.

When it comes to coffee shops rent is often there #1 cost, in some cases it's more than 1/2 there total costs. When your rent is 50,000+$/month and your limited to people within walking distance who can just as easily go across the street, you’re stuck with the salary squeeze. Bump minimum wage and some of those competitors might fail which lowers your completion and reduces the retail demand in the end the books still balance.

From an overall economic perspective there is a lot of infrastructure in people and stuff supporting the wants of people making 100+k/year. Bumping minimum wage changes the equation so the economy focuses more on the wants of lower income workers and more on the highest brackets. Consider a store that might see 1 sale per day vs 1 per minute. There are lots of knock on effects with higher advertising budget of car companies that sell 20k vs 100k cars etc. But, also lower housing costs in major city's and higher costs in the out suburbs etc.

PS: Arguably this is vary good in the long term. Consider, the one off economy of the rich leads to stagnation because they don't want mass produced goods.
I got a Thinkpad X230 for the exact same purpose. It doesn't have the nice screen but takes two SSDs and 16GB of RAM.

I installed FreeBSD on it last night and apparently everything was detected and seems to be working fine.

The FreeBSD wiki has a Laptops page: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops
What else did your config have?

Did you use RAID on your HD's? How much RAM did you have? What types of CPU's and how many? Were you updating documents often or writing new ones? Did you have compound indexes built properly? What was your latency requirements? Was MongoDB able to saturate your resources? Did you read off of secondaries at all? Did you shard your DB and if so what was your shard key? Was it random? Could you use it for reads too? How much of your data set did you need to possibly use at any given time?

If you had to "upgrade to SSD's" at 100GB you either had amazingly poor provisions, were doing most everything wrong or both. Messages like yours indicate to me a poor user - not a poor database.
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No they aren't. Time to put that misconception to bed:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-the-m...
Thank you again. This feedback is really helpful.
In an alien world a million billion miles away a general marshalling forces after defeat after defeat offers it's sword (or other death dealing device) to the star marshals and is told, "no, not now" but inconsolable the resignation is re-tendered, so now the star marshals give it a medal, and a pay rise and a nice pat on the heat, and it agrees to remain in charge.

If I could reduce and organisation to zarg-jelly by resigning I would extract similar geld I guess..
When coding I don't want autosave, because I don't want my computer to be trying to compile all the time

Can you explain this? Is it common to use an IDE that autocompiles every time it autosaves?
I'm pretty sure that's a myth. Which specific law requires that? What are the penalties for not following it?
According to Red Flag results, F22s are extremely effective (e.g. [1]). In fact, even if you take an article that "criticize" F22 (like [2]) and pay an attention to what article really says, it's like "okay-okay, it's the best, BUT YOU KNOW IT CAN SUCK SOMETIMES".

I understand the appeal of blaming govt on excessive spending. Being Russian, I can't agree more (our govt is way worse). However, I believe that blind and self-righteous critique like "it can't get off the ground" is destructive.

[1]: http://manglermuldoon.blogspot.ru/2012/09/red-flag-2012-did-...

[2]: http://www.businessinsider.com/f-22-wont-win-a-dogfight-thru...
True, but not as meaningful as it sounds. As long as you are taking actions with good intentions, you're on solid ground. And you can justify almost any actions under employee satisfaction (which reduces hiring expenses) or goodwill (which reduces advertising expenses.)
I hate to say it, but you might step back and wonder if the market is sending you a message here; could it be that the high cost of living and low quality of life in the Bay Area, combined with Silicon Valley investors redlining 98% of the land area of the US could lead to investment returns going to 0% or less for Silicon Valley investors?
Do the total nightmare comments apply to JIRA OnDemand/Cloud?
I'm sure lots of people will say no. The rate of loss in induction charging is too high when you need high-power application, you'd have to wire the entire road, which would be costly, and I'm sure a million other reasons.

Doesn't mean it won't be done though. However, rather than consider induction charging specifically, may I suggest you look at the potential another way?

What is the benefit of 'continuously charg[ing] when ... on the road'? What you want is a car that drives and the battery will never run down. So how else can you get to that state? Why does it matter if the battery runs down? With autonomous vehicles on our doorstep, how does that change the need to always have a full battery? Can a car be charged by another care while driving?

So, is it feasible? Maybe. Is it valuable? Maybe. Keep on your line of questioning and you may discover something more interesting.
This makes little sense for Amazon. They have a huge product line. What items would they put in a retail outlet? Unless it's a desperate attempt to push their phone/tablet line.
or $30,000,000 as it's other wise known in CEO world
That'd be great! If you search for "sophomore studying computer science at UW Madison", you should find my email.
Thanks, Randall!
Thanks for posting. I'm waiting for a x230t and was thinking about trying Centos 7 and FreeBSD too at some point.
Shareholders vote on the board, the board hires the CEO, and the CEO hires execs who make decisions for the different parts of the company. The shareholders rarely see or care about the day to day operations of a company, but do see the quarterly filings. It's very hard to quantize customer satisfaction on a financial report.

You may say this is a broken system, and for many B2C companies it can be. This is why I think that the benefit corporations are quite possibly one of the single best things to happen to corporate business in almost a century.

It allows a company to focus on a mission statement, and protects it from shareholders who only want to focus on profits.
First, great idea and design. I don't normally comment on sites layouts, but this one has some massive jpegs instead of text and smaller pictures. I am not sure what they are trying to gain. It actually looks like they don't have the text at all.
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I've done a couple of internships for IBM in the last and work for Microsoft today. IBM felt much more corporate during my brief stints there, even in the research labs.

Keep in mind IBM is an east coast company, not a more laid back west coast company. That might have something to do with it (or I'm just very biased).
But nobody will admit that there is a massive ageism problem in technology..? It is nice that some countries have moved to protect against ageism, it is an extremely common problem that few wish to address or take seriously.
Criminals should be dealt with through our criminal justice system, including the presumption of innocence. If someone wiped out my life savings, I would be upset and want them to be prosecuted, but we don't need to call them a terrorist to do that.
It's in most corporation's charters, and I believe that it's contract law that requires them to follow the charter -- and the alternative is to face shareholder lawsuits, especially if it's a sudden and controversial deviation that they don't have a really solid explanation for.
I don't know myself (not used FRP) but based on a quick look it seems to be based on asynchronous dataflow programming so I imagine there are a lot of similarities (seeing as FBP is based on dataflow too). I'd love to hear more from someone who has experience with both.
> I'm not sure you can call it being "freed" when freedom in this context is the freedom to starve or live on disability/food stamps/whatever you can find.

Let's try the previous scenario, then. Is it "freedom" to do easily automated mindless manual drudgery?
Because if they lay off all those people, they might make even more profit. A public company with outside shareholders can't generally say "oh, we're making enough money, we'll leave it there" - it's got to constantly grow and constantly make more and more profit to please the shareholders which expect it to do so.

If you care about your employees, you don't let random people have a say in how your company is run for their own profit.
Unfortunately yes. They've been doing it for a while now, maybe even over a year.
There always is. It might just not be what we'd want it to be.
Looks very nice. I've always hated the select text marker on mobile devices (I don't think anybody has done a very good job of it).
I don't have any statistics to back this comment up but I think it's quite common these days for people to bookmark stuff to read later except few do and the list grows insanely larger by the day. This is base on what I've heard roughly from Marco Arment off handed once and I believe I've read the same or similar comment from one of the competitors to instapaper.

The issue then would be how much actually ever gets consumed and even if they do, how much "actual" learning takes place simply by following up on reading stuff. I'd argue most people bookmark stuff of interest, less so for real educational value which in of itself is subjective at this point
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Ouch. I lived in Columbia, Missouri for a couple years starting in 2012. The IBM office had just opened in 2010 and was a big deal. The city and state gave them large tax incentives to open it there. If IBM really laid of 150 people in it, that's a huge cut.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/local/ibm-layoffs-hit-co...

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/local/department-of-econ...
You put the negation in the wrong place.

"Some women don't make false rape accusations" -- true. My mother is a woman who has never made a false rape accusation. So is my wife. That's some women who don't make false rape accusations.

"No women make false rape accusations" is what you probably meant to say. That's demonstrably false -- some women do.
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>IBM claims low thousands (at a cost of $0.6B, which seems quite high)

If you pay 6 months severance, it adds up quickly. A million dollars covers only 20 $100k employees.
> As a linguist, it is absolutely not an issue of grammar. The grammar is 100% correct. Nit-picking over the so-called "correct" definition has nothing to do with grammar.

This is true. Sentences without correct grammar are unparseable(like "he jumped didn't far"). A lot of people seem to confuse semantic or logic issues with grammar issues.
> ... which means that 4.7 billion people in China have only less than 2 dollars per day to subsist.

Um. Did somebody misplace a decimal point?
> If you believe economists and budget experts then you're absolutely right, there is no problem. But economists as a whole do no (or a tiny margin) better than chance at predicting a lot of things.

You do realize that the whole thing you are trying to get us scared about is, itself, a prediction of future levels of debt service costs relative to other government expenditures by CBO and OMB economists and budget experts.

So, if you believe economists and budget experts, then (a) you have a basis for believing the situation you are trying to raise concerns about will occur, but (b) you likewise have the same basis for believing that the situation won't be a problem.

Conversely, if you don't believe economists and budget experts, (a) you don't necessarily have a reason to believe that the situation you are concerned about would not be a problem, but (b) for the same reason, you also don't have a reason to believe that the situation you are concerned about will actually occur.

If you want to make the claim that the situation predicted by CBO and budget experts will occur and that if it occurs, it wwill be a problem, you need more of an argument than "economists and budget experts are sometimes not better than chance at predicting some things".
That's a myth. There's no legal requirement to "place shareholder value over all else". There are situations where one has to prefer value over other considerations, but that applies to acquisitions and such, not daily business conduct. E.g. see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-the-m...
and many other places.
It's a metaphor. The "fridge" is a wireless AP and "making coffee" is firewalling and routing functionality.

Most wireless APs can and do have those features.
That's the way standards work. OpenDocument did not meet MicroSoft's needs. They were the one with a massive investment in an existing code base and customers who would be best served by feature compatibility. So they used the same process to create something with equal legitimacy.

As Grace Hopper said, the great thing about standards is there a are so many to choose from.