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Each to his own but I'd never fire someone that way. I think I should be able to look my employees in the eye when making life-altering decisions for them.

That said, I've only had two firings go 'bad' over the years, in one case the person had stolen from the company and it was an 'on the spot' affair, in the other it was someone with a history of instability. But other than that layoffs and firings were dealt with in as calm and constructive a manner as possible, including helping those laid off to find new employment and references specifically tailored to the person.

Being an employer is not always fun, hiring people in a time of growth is great, letting them go when things are bad is terrible, but I always remind myself it is a lot more terrible for the employees than for the employer and shielding myself from their emotions would feel like a terrible cop-out.
You suggest to drill every gold bar, thus ruining the certification?
Total cowardice.
I will definitely give that a try, the reason that I've left them out however is my previous bad experience with keeping them in sync across systems.
That issue might be lessened considerably here though due to both the size of the projects and the fact that It's just a single person working on them, from a single location.
1) So what? Does that mean that Medium is the best choice out there? I fail to see the connection.

2) Some car owners only drive once every few weeks yet still own a car instead of renting one. Don't make simplistic assumptions. There are benefits in ownership even for casual users.

3) Ever heard of Social Media ? Word of Mouth ? If you have good content, you will get linked, re-linked, and bookmarked.

4) See 1.

5) "Many" ? Who ? Where ? If anyone is serious about sharing their ideas, they can do it in multiple forms. You can write a book, you can do a presentation in front of folks, you can join a club - a blog is only one way of sharing stuff, not the ultimately most efficient one, depending on what you are passionate about.
I have some experience working in the gambling industry where this happens now and then (mostly due to new US regulations and crackdowns). Basically you come into work and instead of a normal morning kickoff everyone gets fired, completely unexpected.

Another thing is that all the poker and casino companies often share office buildings in small non-regulated countries like Malta and Gibraltar. So the same happens to all the other companies which means the streets outside are filled with people from a dozen of companies who have just been fired.

I think two thirds of the whole building or something like that was relieved on the same day the last time it happened.
If you didn't read the manual before putting something in production, you still didn't do your job properly.
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There must be more to it than that. For one thing, it would be necessary to determine which of the submitted numbers is larger, which according to my interpretation requires more than "uniquely identifying the semantic meaning of an expression."
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PHP is a lose / lose only to people that are not using it / won't bother learning it. It's the same with Perl. It's not hot nor trendy and that's why many people get so frustrated when they hear about people still using it because there's something "newer and better". Haters gonna hate.

It's simply not viable from a time-investment point of view to throw away tools you know extremely well, are well entrenched, well supported and stable every few years because something new comes along.
I suppose don't use a speaker/microphone then. Use a laser reflected at an angle off the bar to an optical transducer and strike the bar. Watch for the initial strike and the reflection. The time domain is nothing for a dedicated CPU such as the 64MHz one I use in my projects. If the only issue is sensing the phenomenon, I'm sure something could be devised.
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Great work Salim. Please email me and we can certainly discuss mutual opportunities.
good point, on the other hand those snowden leaked slides were from 2008, plenty of time to enhance compatibility
The benefit of Spark and related systems is you get a flexible infrastructure that can handle a wide range of tasks reasonably well. You pay once for infrastructure, training, devops, and so on.

You can optimise any particular use case to perform better than Spark, but then you are going to incur the above costs for every project you create.
I've been involved in letting people go. Sometimes it's surprisingly pleasant, sometimes it's predictably unpleasant.

- Somewhat predictable. One of my devs just didn't want to do the work. You could tell he just wanted to be something other than a dev (which he admitted to afterwards). I mean he knew how to do it, it wasn't a complex task (read a file, compare it to a DB, show the differences). But after many weeks of zero progress, I decided enough was enough. I think he was relieved.

- Pleasant: I call my remaining dev into the office.

Me: "So, you know what's going on in the company, right?"

Dev: Smiling, almost laughing his head off: "Yeah haha, I can't believe the boss blew that much money in a few weeks. It would take me ten thousand years to make that amount. Of course I know what's up."

Me: "Glad you understand. You're right, I just worked out the loss comes to far over the total of everything everyone in my family (parents, grandparents, ...) has ever made in all of history. Times ten. Well at least you have the experience in finance now. More than happy to provide a reference. Anyway, gotta can everyone else now..."

We even did the old Alan Sugar "You're Fired!" routine from the Apprentice on one guy, causing much laughter.

- Absolutely shocking. So, the boss has hired a new trader, and he's coming towards the end of his probation period (3 months typically in the UK). Boss goes on holiday, and runs into a guy who says he knows this person, and comes up with some hearsay that is totally not checkable. Calls his junior managers (I was away), makes us can him right before the deadline. Lawyer tells us not to say anything at all about why he's being canned. Obviously, the guy wants to know why, but it's not like the reason makes any sense, and the lawyer of course doesn't want us sued. Dude goes red, appeals to common decency, starts shouting, but no. Just silence. I'm still annoyed about this thing. I never even got to say goodbye or any chance to tell him after the firm went down the toilet. Come to think of it, the boss had everyone fired through his juniors (me and a couple of others.)
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I worked for awhile on a team that, when new owners came in, was under some scrutiny. It was pretty clear that if the team wasn't completely dissolved, it was about to be downsized. During that time I always hoped if we were fired or laid off it would be via email or phone, simply because I didn't want to waste the time commuting in to go to some grim meeting.

Luckily I moved on to healthier areas before the hammer started falling. That said, I still think about how much of a drag it would be to come in to work only to be fired. Spare me the time and awkward situation, I say.
Well, banks are not stupid, and it is cheap for them to certify gold bars in quantity.

There are certification authorities that do exactly that. Here in Spain you can hire them, and they will melt the gold in front of you and use expensive instrumental to know how much gold a gold bar has.

We also have the concept of "notary" that is a person whose job is to certify something by law. They are trustworthy.

It is individuals who should be afraid of being tricked. But you have at your disposal cheap microbalances, micro ohm meters(I made myself one for like USD30), 3d scanners(to calculate the volume as using water is tricky because surface tension of water), quartz transducers to measure speed of sound.
I agree with you. My comment was on the lines of 'whichever way you do this (the act of firing i.e.) it's going to leave bad impact on all involved'.
Wasn't there once some sort of experiment of admitting a random sample from a college application pool? Couldn't find it on the spot, but I think it had some similar results to the PhD admission experience. It also does make sense from a armchair psychologist standpoint: The one being admitted on weak grounds will probably put in a lot more effort to keep up with the class/competitors than the one having always some other, similar options to fall back on.
There are driverless/non firmware upgradeable RAID controllers, for example Sil3726 - SATA port multiplier with RAID functionality buildin. Connect couple of drivers and host sees only one.
It doesn't really matter what anyone thinks a name means based on their prior experience. If they didn't RTFM I've no sympathy, particularly if that user is depending upon security features within the OS. Users, particularly corporates, have to take responsibility for your own situation and if they got caught out by this because they didn't understand or bother to take the time to read what -CURRENT is then I've no respect for them in any technical capacity.
I'm moving over as soon as this steaming turd mozilla are dropping on us hits ESR.
I thought that was just called, er, detrimental reliance?
I remember that some time ago many people were wondering what's the point of Medium, how they're gonna monetize on it, etc. and I think the answer is perfectly clear nowadays - they want to be a youtube of written content.

Just as many people treat youtube as a get-go place for their video/music content needs (many people start to treat it as their TV, especially kids), Medium hopes people will, in time, treat Medium as the only magazine/newspaper/blog-place they need - and that should also push traditional media to utilize it (same as happens for TV channels and youtube). This is a long-term plan, but given how Internet tends to favour natural monopolies (see Google, Facebook, YouTube) it might actually work. Even if they will fail at this someone else will probably succeed.
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Three key words there - "In my experience". Well now you've experienced a project who doesn't fit your current model of the world. Should those of us who have RTFM and experienced different vocabularies adjust to your model or should you recalibrate?
I'd rather not have my purchases/interests being broadcast to my "friends", thank you.
What are these "friends" anyway? Everyone in your contact list?

The last thing when buying an app I want to do is to worry about "What if X sees that I got this app?"

My purchases are my business. Not theirs. If I want to recommend an app I can do so through a variety of way in this communication age. I do not need some automated snitch for that.
SO is one of the best things that has happened on Internet, but lately it became really annoying due to all these closed questions by over-zealous moderators. More often than not, my questions are closed just because they are not mainstream (for example, embedded related) or slightly reassembles existing questions, that ask totally different things. One solution, that comes to my mind could be not to allow all moderators close all questions, but only these, that are in moderator's area of expertise. For example, if you want to close a question tagged "Java", you must have >5000 or so reputation in Java field.
This approach has some massive downsides - the session ID is sent via Referer to outbound links, URLs are logged all over the place (including browser histories), it's easy for people to publicly share it without thinking which then ends up in Google as well...
You jest, but our previous "cloud" provider (which we used in 2012/13) took more than that to provision a bog standard Linux VPS - and they often got the distro wrong!
While this is but that only looking at one part of the coin, its very hard to say what outcomes would have happend if these resources were allocated diffrently, either by markets or some other governemnt programm.

The hole idea that 'lets make war and we will probebly get some side benefits out of it' is not substainable, we could have any arbitrary goal and dumb money on the problem and we will get side benefits.
Let's use analogy, maybe not 100%, but good enough - do you want to plan and have future where you have friends, which help each other (ie real friends), or do you want a future when where you spy on everybody, including your mother, father, best friend ever, your kids etc?
Because you know, these attitudes will have lasting effects on our future and how will society look. If we don't even try to build fair world for our descendants, we'll never get there by accident.

Or in other words - as a foreigner (would never want US citizenship exactly because of things like these) - we (in europe for example), for long thought we are friends. YOu helped us out in WW2, and it created special bond. Now it seems, you don't care anymore. Okay, we will try to find our own way. Things go both ways...
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There is also Scrapebox for blogs and Senuke for other. They have been around since few years...
Nice job, I'm working on something similar, now focussing on the ranking, just a note: if I search 'picasso' I get a disambiguation page description, you should try my json-wikipedia [1], it adds also a field with the 'type' of the article, so it would be easy to remove the disambiguation/redirects ;)

[1] https://github.com/diegoceccarelli/json-wikipedia
Will I be labelled a troll if I say after reading this, the first thing come to my mind is to fix the US income tax system instead of Apple's?
Silly spammer: That makes absolutely no sense at all! Java has references, not pointers. Everybody knows that. Pfff!
Mistake #1 - leaving a secure job at a pre-IPO company before I vested in order to join a company where I had greater authority.

Mistake #2 - using my authority to hire several friends from school who hadn't previously held responsible full-time positions.

Mistake #3 - trusting them to manage themselves.

My friends were all smart but none of them really cared about the business or each other. They just preferred getting paid to not getting paid and slowly left after the novelty wore off. One of them even wrote a draft of a crappy novel when we thought he was coding, which we found when cleaning out his desk.

We've all since moved on. Some of them are now quite successful. But I was burned pretty badly by that experience and am no longer friends with any of them.
Yes, the halting problem in general is undecidable.
It's a style you also see quite frequently in legal documents where you first introduce the parties, give them a shorthand name and then use that name consistently throughout the document. I personally prefer that style over endless repetition of a description (with possible inconsistencies between the repetitions).
I would expect old iPad apps to work on your new one. What were you expecting? Apps that only run on an iPad air 2?
Im absolutly no Keynsian but you are misrepresting it. Keynesiansim is not 'lots of government spending' its about increasing spending in case of AD shortfall.

Now that might be millitary spending but that only works in a limited set of cases.

But the basic idea is of course often used as a excuse by lots of people. Turns out neither the voters nor the politicans have actually read much actual economic theory.
I think it only becomes public if you '+1' the app. Otherwise I would agree with you, of course.
I'm surprised how many people think this is about the person doing the firing. In my post, my example wasn't how horrible it was to see the guy break down, but how clearly he wished he hadn't been put in a situation where he had to do that in front of someone else. Such an interesting conjunction of masochism here from employers that feel they need to see the pain they're causing their employees.

In this specific instance, I chose to fire her via email because 90% of our communication was via email, it usually takes weeks to schedule and actually get to an in-person meeting time (since she would cancel meetings probably 70% of the time), and we always meet in public places like coffee shops (her choice, not mine), where any visible emotional shock would be apparent to bystanders. It had much more to do with practicalities and concern for her privacy than any concern about "saving myself" from an adverse reaction (which I still got in a nasty retaliatory email).
Thanks for the link. I got to copy their scans.

One would expected that they would bother to put up a better web site.
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A lot of these guys are all about A/B split testing. If they find something that hurts rather than helps, they'll use that tactic as an offensive on their competition.
Do you know of a non-broken way to build ports with many dependencies? This has always been my biggest annoyance and one of the things that constantly made me pick the cough other BSD. Whenever something that I need isn't in the package set, all hell breaks loose: most ports seem to have most options turned on by default (generating a lot of dependencies) and there seems to be no easy way to select configuration options prior to starting the whole build process -- so I end up having to sit for the next two hours, pampering the build process and tuning (actually, mostly disabling) options every time it moves on to the next port. Needless to say, this isn't fun, especially since there's no easy way to tell what dependencies an option is going to pull (I remember being able to retrieve that information through a script I cobbled up but...).

I could probably script it to just go ahead with the default dependencies, but that gives terrible results (I try to install this little console tool and now it's pulling gnome-something-something because the console tool can be integrated with ImageMagick and that's compiled with support for this-weird-format which is provided by this-weird-lib which is part of the Gnome project and now I'm slowly compiling half the packages in Gnome even though I don't use a single program from the Gnome project).
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There is nothing masochistic about it, it's simply trying to be human in a bad situation for both.

Making time for her and selecting an appropriate venue would have been better - in my opinion, not being in your shoes that's an easy one to hold. But I've been in your shoes in other situations and we seem to have a totally different take on this.

As for the nasty retaliatory email: you fired her by email, what did you expect in return, a personal visit?
This is exactly what I'm talking about. No one knows what each other is talking about when saying "UW". Looking at chris_va's profile, it appears he was talking about the University of Washington. Most of the US probably thinks of UW that way, though in Silicon Valley I've met a lot more people from the University of Waterloo than from the University of Washington.
It was truncated because monksy and I used placeholders. If you use real values for lang and service you get good results, here's an example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java+oauth

Do you notice that all the questions in the result are tagged both java and oauth?

monksy didn't say which particular languages and services he's interested in (the male pronoun seems safe in his case) but I venture to guess that if suitable libraries do exist, then there'll be SO questions about them already and they're easy to find.
Some evolutionary algorithm use gradient descent, like cma-es algorithm. Population based EA can resolve Multi Objective problem, i'm not sure simple gradient descent can.
Simple to use doesn't mean simple to create. Even a simple and small code base doesn't mean the think-process preceding the actual programming was simple.
A good example of 'seeing the good in people' is the difference between The Office and its US version. The former is bleak and even the supposedly 'nice' characters are quite unpleasant in their own ways. In the US version, everyone's good at heart. Except Ryan.
So, then we should label the unstable may crash at any time release 'USETHISONE' and the stable one 'POSTALPHA'.

Really, I don't get this attitude of 'if they can't be bothered to read the manual they get what they deserve'. It's everybody's loss to have more compromised machines on the net because compromised machines allow bad elements to gain a foothold and from there it can get much worse in a hurry.

So you treat this as a communications problem and reduce the potential of error by properly labelling your releases (this costs $0) instead of telling those that got bitten by it that they 'got what they deserve'.

Whether you have respect for them or not doesn't enter into it, it's a security issue, not a respect issue.
I've set quite a few up as airprint servers for people. It's great to get a few more years out of an old laserjet.
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If there is one group that categorically does not read the manual then it is computer people. And if they do read the manual it is because something didn't work as expected.
Where sites serve the base page through a CDN, then the CDN has the potential to start making intelligent decisions on what should be pushed.

As the simplest level this might be just the CSS, and JS in the <head> but obviously as different UA's behave differently there's scope for much granular optimisations.
At times my work has brought me into contact with Americans and in general they just do not get sarcasm and satire. Obviously not true of everyone but in general in my experience, Americans (not sure about Canadians) take things that you say very literally. Take my advice, when dealing with people from the USA, as a default, avoid irony/sarcasm/satire and even humour until or unless you know they will appreciate it. Not just in a business environment, (where it is a bad idea to attempt this with anyone) but all initial interaction.

Not a crticism, just a reality.
>> A silver lining on a group-firing/layoff is that you're already with a bunch of people going through the same thing as you are

I'd see it as you're with a bunch of people, some even friends now all applying for the same remaining jobs
I disagree. It only matters what you're willing to be happy with, and what is "enough". The fact that literally millions of families live on way less than that amount is, at least, a proof-of-concept of the sufficiency of the money.

As for the actual number: San Francisco and New York may be expensive, but median household income is still only in the 60-80K range [0][1], and with fully half the population living on less than the median, I'm going to stand by my claim that $70K is possible to support a family on, even before considering the earning potential of the spouse who wants more money coming in.

[0] http://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/california/san-francisco...
[1] http://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/new-york/new-york/
> They were literally a fortnight away from having to surrender during WW II.

Could you give me a source on this?