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I'm writing a career management guide, and one of my chapters ("How to leave a job") is exactly about how to leave a job on the best possible terms.

My advice: Don't "rage quit". Make a plan and quit on good terms. You don't have to stick around much longer if you can't stand it, but at least be sure to give two weeks' notice and try your best to leave on good terms. You never know when you might run into some of these co-workers again and you want them to think highly of you.

Here's the summary section from that chapter—maybe there are some things here that could help you make sure you don't burn any bridges :)

Leave on the best possible terms, even if you feel slighted — It’s always difficult to put on a happy face when things aren’t going well, but this is a time when you can really boost your reputation.

Ask your manager and co-workers what you can help with before you go — Do this and you will make a lasting impression on your co-workers.

Document the projects you’re working on so your successor is prepared — Your successor will have a much easier time absorbing your work, and they’ll thank you for it.

Bundle up relevant documentation, emails, etc., and make sure they’re saved somewhere that others can get to them — Most companies are moving to cloud-based storage, so it may all be out there anyway. Even so, put together a master document that points to everything they’ll need.

Make sure to return all your equipment in good shape, and do it quickly — Most of the time, you are just borrowing company property. You should return it in good shape, just like you would want your own property returned if you lent it out.

Reach out to your closest co-workers to make sure they’re part of your network before you go — Your network is one your most valuable assets for finding future career opportunities.

Reach out to your colleagues to say goodbye and share your contact information — If you’ve done all these things, you’ve left a great impression. Make sure your old co-workers know how to find you if they need someone like you in the future. And be sure to reach out to your closest co-workers to personally say goodbye whenever possible.

Be vague and use positive language in your exit interview — It feels strange to advocate for being vague, but the exit interview is one of the times when it’s necessary. You won’t benefit by baring your soul on your way out, and the company isn’t going to change because of your feedback. Keep it short, sweet, and surface-level.

That's a one-page summary of the chapter, but the chapter itself goes into quite a bit more detail.

You can get the full chapter for free here: http://JoshDoody.com/leave?ref=hn5
It is both. But still the OS in the title plays with the idea of Operating System or Open Society among other interpretations. Read it how you want it.
Warning: strong language and opinion

I'm glad each time climate change consequences hit the US instead of other countries that contributed way less, like Tuvalu.

You consider this rude? Fair enough, I consider it rude to destroy the planet we are living on, at least in a way that makes it habitable for humans. Of course other countries are not innocent either, but the (institutions of the) US stand out in many ways.

We need as much pressure as possible for the three big climate-relevant conferences in 2015 (Paris et cetera), this will be the best chance we get for the next couple of years.
If drinking water or water to grow plants runs out maybe some people start to care finally. We all can be fucking glad if any of the upcoming changes turns out to be reversible. I'm afraid that few will be (keyword tipping points).
Eh? Desalination plants don't work on evaporation. They use reverse osmosis membranes.

And even the old ones that do use evaporation, recapture the energy, so you really only need to evaporate the water once, other than losses.
It's completely possible, but it's just not worth it. The information density of ternary is higher than binary, sure, but you now need 3 states to represent it. This applies to ternary vs base 4, and so on. As it turns out, it's been proven that binary has the optimal ratio of info density to symbols, and any higher of a base gives you no net benefit. Unfortunately I don't have a link to the proof on hand, but if someone else does I'd appreciate it.

We would also lose decades of knowledge on binary operations and how best to do it. Two's complement is out the window, for instance.

Additionally, the entire CS mindset is built around boolean logic. Exclusive-or, for instance, makes no sense when you remove binary operation. There's not much to gain from it either, since any sort of ternary operation can be implemented as a binary operation without that much overhead.
supposedly much more cost effective to clean waste water
There are some obvious fixes here, like subsidizing the first N gallons/person/month (where N is some amount sufficient for basic human needs) and then charging market rate for water use above that level. You could even use a soft cliff, with a partial subsidy remaining up to 2N g/p/m, and let the generosity of the subsidy gradually decrease over time to "phase in" the adoption of market-rate prices and give people time to adjust their water usage.
we are launching the hub now where everyone, even the pirate party in argentina can have their own democracyos and raise their own issues. Stay tuned
Majority of my family uses either Safari or IE. I would hazard this is not atypical. Any developer that is ignoring those is actually fairly anti-customer. Pretty much period.

Couching this in difficulties on the developers part is not a long term viable complaint.
The samurai Miyamoto Musashi was quoted as saying, "the way of the samurai is resolute acceptance of death." When it comes to dangerous activities, you have to accept that failure is a possibility, and you have to get into a headspace of being at terms with that. No, you don't want to die, but you also can't let the issue enter your mind and distract you from the task at hand.

Almost all the times I've failed something, it's been because I was terrified of failure and it ruined my ability to perform.
Don't forget solar desal. For example, http://waterfx.co. That would eliminate any pollution.
Absolutely correct. Those are some fantastic units. However I'm generally limited to 2.5" SAS/SATA interfaces.

I hope to find some benchmarks like this on enterprise level stuff to fight the bullshit around SSDs not being capable of write intensive operations.
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They are not on the coast, they are more inland. They just needs some pipes to the coast.

The pipes have to go pretty far into the ocean anyway - they can't discharge right on the beach.
They do this - Was this comment helpful? Click no and you can report it along with a brief message. It's either ineffective or doesn't do anything at all, can't tell.
Delivering GOV.UK: Devops for the nation
Comcast isn't blocking anything there, they are failing to take positive steps that enable their TV customers to use a service that is dependent on verification that they are Comcast's TV customers with an HBO subscription

Even though it is a service provided over the internet, what Comcast is doing (or, more precisely, delaying or failing to do) is in their role as a Cable TV service provider, not as a broadband ISP.

Now, once HBOs streaming service that is independent of a TV contract is available, if Comcast were blocking that (whether generally or on a device-specific basis), these rules would apply to that blocking.
I'm not sure how you're imagining this would work. Are you suggesting the feds build giant canals across the Sierra Nevada and then across hundreds of miles of Nevada desert? To where?
The difference is that the PCMCIA card doesn't extrude from the laptop. That thing is awesome, never seen one.

I've only seen those that have either a large RJ45 connector extruding from the card, like:
http://www.automation-drive.com/EX/05-13-21/a88fa.jpg

Or where you'd needed an adapter dongle that connected to the PCMCIA card.

I know there was a laptop or at least a concept of it with something similar to the (parent) XJACK connector, but have never seen it in real life. Would love to see them in ultrabooks.
It's not that simple. Farm crops are what works well for the soil and climate of that region. You don't see fields of corn in California because it's not an attractive climate for corn. Likewise, you don't see fields of broccoli in Iowa, for the same reasons.

Midwest corn mostly goes to feed for cattle, hogs, and chickens. The corn may not be really great human food, but it gets made into great human food through an extra process step.
Rotifers are interesting in their own way. They are an example of an animal where their sex is determined by what environmental conditions their parents were in. We normally think of sex determination as something that happens at conception, but with rotifers it is much before that.
I'm a relative newbie in the field, but I really love using terminal (I do all my C work for grad school in ViM), it's really essential at work, there's no faster way to do batch file processing a lot of times (especially with ffmpeg, awesome).

I'm surprised people don't like terminal, I love using it. It makes me feel old school, sort of like one of those hackers in the movies. That's probably just a personal thing.

I was familiar with most of the concepts but the links section made things click in that regard. Enjoyed the post as well.
This looks very interesting, but I'm a little nervous about it since it would appear it operates directly on the repo internal files.

Anything you can say to make me feel better about using it?
Interesting - looks like you are correct. Could have sworn it was different when I first read it!
It scares me a bit that it has 4.15 times the codebase size of OpenVPN, but was only released 2 years ago.

I already think of OpenVPN as not being simple enough.
USB images are available on the mirrors (installXX.fs).
Ah, missed that. You're right.
You'd think that if there was widespread agreement that a card was "too powerful", then it could just be decreed as banned in all formats. Or, to put it another way: why would players want to play a match in which a Lotus or Mox could be played against them, if they themselves might not have the opportunity to also have one? By analogy, who would play a fighting game where your opponent can select a highest-tier character but you're unable to?
Genius (YC S11) is hiring for iOS, full stack, devops, and front end
He did not break any British law until he jumped bail into the embassy. Once he exits the embassy Assange will still have to clean that up. Based on the amount of money being spent to monitor him in embassy I wouldn't expect them to let Assange off lightly.
Just to add my 2 cents.

I'm based in Saudi Arabia, and considering the deserted climate and environment, there are literally no persistent water sources (aside from a few select wells that are over-exploited by bottled water manufacturers).

Desalination is currently (as of 2015) being used to supply 50% of Saudi Arabia's water needs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_...

So yes, it's feasible, and just FYI, it is provided free of cost.
"Contempt for the rules" is pretty congruent with "entrepreneurial spirit". :)
nah. your assumption is that i feel depressed about something. it's just an ambient feeling that is constantly present when i'm conscious, that has a negativity-reinforcing effect on my thoughts and perspective. it has nothing to do with what i'm experiencing, although getting bummed out can certainly make it worse. the closest thing i can compare it to is chronic back pain. i also didn't explain the "feelings come first" thing very well but i elaborated in my response to the guy above you.
How Do Some People Ship So Damn Much, I Want to Be Like Them
Its a solved problem (compare and swap etc)

Intel died after power cycle because of buggy Sandforce chip/firmware. Intel bullshit fairytale was post facto rationalization. There is NO UNIVERSE where bricking user product full of data is a good thing, especially if you promised read only failure mode in the documentation.
OP here. Can you please link to that health insurance provider?
The parent's comment is about developers and the platforms they work on (which is why the parent didn't refer to Android or iOS, but rather Win/Mac/Linux).

This is the point issue: "but that it doesn't run on Mac OS or GNU/Linux"

The parent is arguing that IE needs to be cross platform for Mac OS and GNU/Linux. I'm curious if there is data to support that as IE's biggest issue.
If the rest of the country could grow the same crops as "America's Salad Bowl" we would. California is ideal for those crops and without the large population would be fine.

It is probably past time to actually push desalination plants or convince a lot of people to move somewhere else.
> OK - 7 today, 700 tomorrow.

Bad rules tomorrow could be adopted whether or not the rules adopted now were adopted.
and the practise of subsidies to over produce then forcibly dump the product on other countries, decimating their local farming economies as they are not allowed to add import tariffs and subsidize their industries as that is anti-competitive
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The State of LTE (March 2015) – US Is 26th
Having had teams that were half-remote before, and all remote now, doing lots of hangouts seems to fill the remote-feels-weird niche pretty well.

Just having long conversations in chat tends to not be productive, but you need chat. Something like Slack is a good choice if you can't get everyone on IRC.

Somewhat still wanting for better "whiteboard simulator" type options.

Ultimately not having an office not only saves the commute, but it saves a lot of thought-cancelling interruptions. People say this is "collaboration", but usually it's just someone being noisy in another department talking about a football game, or someone repeating the required meme / pop-culture reference to hearing a word.

The advantage of having a great home office and being able to play your own music (or not to HAVE to play your own music into headphones) is pretty much priceless.

It does require hiring the right kind of folks and being able to communicate very clearly what you want.

It's especially valuable as I really believe being able to work on what you work on shouldn't be constrained based on where you live, because that's unfair to a lot of smart folks with reasons to not want to live in the half-dozen or so major tech centers. (Or someone gets bored working for the only major software company in town).
As a long-time supporter of your efforts, I have a few suggestions.

1) The name 'The Net Party' isn't going to cut it in the US. Think beyond the fact that you must be connected to participate (e.g. The Popular Party).

2) Don't stay in SV for too long. You can't risk losing touch with the people who are using the software.

3) Your fate will be decided by how easy it is to use your interface. It needs more simplification. The call to action on every page needs to be more clear (e.g. the voting buttons on the /law page ought to be fixed).

4) Look to history for examples. German Pirate Party's LiquidFeedback and Switzerland/Estonia are obvious examples, but there's more. What can you learn from Mondragon in Spain or SEMCO in Brazil? Labor movements that operated on direct democracy? Quaker decision-making?
i didn't explain what i was trying to get at with "feelings come first" well enough. i believe people are constantly associating their current emotional state with their current area of perceptive focus. for instance let's say you go through a bad breakup and drink chocolate milk every day for a week while crying into your chocolate milk. when you drink chocolate milk again months later, you're going to remember that association and have a twinge of sadness. i think this process goes on constantly (with much less intensity usually) with everything you do.

feelings come first. your associated emotions are the reasons you have the beliefs you have! they're the reason you have the goals you have, the fears you have, etc etc etc. the myriad tiny emotional associations you feel constantly are the low-level stuff on which the higher-level construct of thoughts is built. that is what i'm saying.
The effectiveness of reviews is predicated on the population of 'helpful' reviewers being greater than the population of spam reviewers after some level of filtering.

It's unclear if a crowdsourced flag would tip the balance of helpful vs spam in any useful way for categories where there's already a unhelpful level of spam.
For a long time I thought PCI DSS/NVD was the culprit for all RC4 on payment sites, but luckily this was solved, I see they updated the score on 03/12/2015:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=375342#c...
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=375342#c...

I usually complain when some site uses RC4 and I can't access it, but unlike the OP I don't do that via twitter
(one reason is that I don't even have an account there).

I've sent 2 emails regarding the use of ONLY RC4 on payment sites in my country, and although such emails aren't always acknowledged they did get fixed after I CC-ed their PCI auditors [1] :)

[1] which you can find publicly on Visa's site at 'PCI DSS validated Member Agent Weblisting' http://www.visaeurope.com/receiving-payments/security/downlo...
I live in rural New York and I have mixed feelings about fracking for similar reasons. Why should we push environmental problems onto other people? We should be the ones to deal with them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_the_Nig...

> A UNDP report states that there have been a total of 6,817 oil spills between 1976 and 2001, which account for a loss of three million barrels of oil, of which more than 70% was not recovered.
That's a false dichotomy at its finest. I've read a wide range of agreeing and dissenting opinions with a range of reasons to back them up. Though I will say that there is a decent amount of nationalism present in this comment section, you are right about that.
The sad truth is that the US will be fine. Few countries are as well positioned for rapid change as the US. Sorry.
Good thought; Marcona almonds from Spain are much better anyway.
You are getting fed a lie.

Sweden can formally indict Assange anytime. The problem is that doing this would require the prosecutor to move her case beyond the "preliminary investigation" stage, at which point she would have to file actual evidence of the crime with the court and release it to Assange (who could publish it and show the prosecution for the farce that it quite obviously is). Indicting Assange would also make it impossible for the Swedish authorities to detain him indefinitely without trial (something otherwise possible in Sweden in the case of "preliminary investigations"). And the indictment would also make it possible for Assange to challenge his extradition on the basis of actual charges instead of vague and unsubstantiated allegations.

The Swedish prosecution was obviously interested in having their warrant evaluated on the much narrower question of whether it was technically valid.

The terminology dance you are referring to played out because while Sweden wanted to extradite Assange without coughing up any evidence supporting their case, it is not legal to extradite a subject for mere questioning. So for the arrest warrant to be technically valid, the Swedish prosecutor had to insist that while Assange was technically wanted only for questioning and no decision had been made to indict him, the prosecution was in an "advanced" state and he was virtually guaranteed to be charged. Anyone can see sections 142 and 144 (ii) from the High Court Ruling to watch the dance in action:

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2011/2849.html
The US has lots of young forests that grew after people abandoned the area that used to be farmed.

If you ever go for a walk in the woods and wonder why the trees are all so (relatively) small, that's why.

There is plenty of room for more farmland. You will have to cut some trees, but that's always been the case.
Because humans don't eat, right?
I see what you mean; you were addressing the major target demographic.

I think the part about "not good at acknowledging their own problems, or understanding other people" could have possibly been phrased better (your "least likely to seek help" makes far more sense). However, given this broader background, I see that the intentions of this counseling are good.

Thanks a lot for making it happen!
Golf courses account for probably not more than 0.5% of all human water usage in California annually.

Human water usage in CA is about 80% agricultural, 20% "urban". "Urban" covers all residential, (non-agricultural) commericial, landscaping, etc. Of the "Urban" usage, about 60% is residential, with indoor usage as the majority. Residential landscaping (lawns, pools, etc) uses at least 3 times as much as all commercial landscaping (golf courses, parks, etc).
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Certainly not in 100% of the cases. You might have just gotten over an edge, it might be an easy move where even a hold breaking can result in a recovery, or you might fall 30 feet and still be alive. As an analogy try taking an indoor V1 and making every hold spin, etc. There are plenty of folks who can climb that unreliable route.

Also, an analogy for a hold breaking mid-move is a heavy truck in rain slamming into you and the concrete wall behind you as you're cycling.
No, he writes that there were SSL related problems with two banks.
The first one was the National Bank of Greece. They contacted him directly and were nice about it.

The second bank was the one that showed this appalling behaviour and isn't mentioned in his blog post, probably out of fear.
But the agriculturally impacted area is, essentially, the central valley, which is entirely in California.

There are areas of Oregon and Arizona impacted by the same general drought, but they are a drop in the bucket (pun partially intended).
You can move a tree. Moving a tree successfully is completely different. If you are in a race to grow a 20', you are generally better off starting with a seedling than a 10' tree because they handle the move so poorly.
U.S. millenial last among peers in technical user skills
KDD Tutorial – the recommender problem revisited
The people consume only a fraction of the water and it's dishonest in the extreme to say that things would be "fine" without them. Each ton of alfalfa in California consumes more water than a family uses in a year and yet sells for $200. There were 13 million tons sold last year. If we got rid of the low-value forage crops, the people (who would pay a hell of a lot more than $200 a year) would have more than enough water.
There are other places in the world where these crops can be grown. People in those countries will be more than happy to trade us almonds, rice, bananas and the like in exchange for things we are great at producing like software and music.

It's a win-win.
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Edit: invite count update
I'm unsure if we can safely assume that California's recent drought troubles are the cause of climate change, and not the fact that California really is a giant desert.

If anything human intervention made California livable.
Every single other previous write had a way of retrying by way of spare flash cells. That last write is fundamentally different, because there are none left.
Necessary conditions to ensure an innocent person need not feel threatened by the prospect of litigation include a time, money and irritation-free trial process and omniscient judges.

Your "minimum guarantee of a democratic legal system" is an impossibility, unless tort law is altogether abolished, and good luck seeking democratic approval for that...