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I remember the Zenefits founder rescinded a job offer to someone that asked on Quora whether they should accept the offer from Zenefits or some other company.
The ADP front-end isn't the product. front-end is basically an admin screen, the product is the payroll actually hitting your employees bank, and its all the customer service involved if things go wrong before hitting your employees bank account.

This is why people pay them, there user interfaces are bad. However it is bad interfaces over reliable services... there competition in this case offers great interfaces over other peoples services.
It's undeniable that maven can do much more things that other dependency managers, like setting IDE configurations for instance, but that does not make it better.

Do you think it's better than the likes of npm, bower, or composer? where you just say: give me all these things, with at least these versions, and could you please run these scripts also --all at once, in about 30 lines

Every time I want to use mvn I need to start for google .. which was the archetype parameter that I needed?

or so let's run this not-so-common target, no problem I have 5 minutes for a coffee while it downloads all the requirements .. then 5 minutes later says "missing parameter"
Yes, it's terrible for Zenefits, but even worse for ADP.

A defamation lawsuit tells a lot about how vulnerable a company is. Take down Zenefits and hundreds of others emerge.
Maybe above the foods you don't eat -- add a similar bar with:

Why do you want to eat better?
[Lose weight] | [Gain muscle] | [Lower cholesterol]

And use that in the response.

That way you'd be letting them provide the benefit. Another thing you could do is talk about delivering the meal plan to their inbox, so that signing up is the obvious thing to ask.

I'd be somewhat concerned that the lack of text will harm SEO -- you have fewer terms to find. But perhaps you are driving traffic a different way.

I did not understand the information below the picture (the body with a number 3?)
I largely agree with you on this. I focused on my mortgage and as a result I have less than a year of payments left. I didn't ignore investments either - roughly 10% of my income into the market - but I did not pay the minimum mortgage payment in favor of investments.

There was a point a few years ago where liquidating the investments could pay off the mortgage. To me it seems that you can get some of the benefits of the emotional release of being debt free if you have the capability to liquidate and clear debt.

While many people will make the argument that instead I should have paid the minimums and had more money invested with the net effect of reaching the liquidate/pay off point, I agree with the reasoning behind your argument: market volatility will not wipe out debt that has been cleared.
Deploy Java enterprise thing in 15 seconds only! What are you running locally, HAL 9000?
Hi there. This is not related to your question, but I thought I'd mention this anyway.

I'm vegan and I pressed the 'pork', 'fish/seafood', 'beef', 'poultry' and 'dairy' buttons but there's still lots of seafood and chicken in the suggestions. I would also suggest you have 'vegetarian' (maybe also 'prescetarian') and 'vegan' options that press the appropriate buttons (unless you explicitly want to exclude/disuade these diets?)
That's why I like open source projects. People writing open source might not write perfect code, but often they at least have opinions and beliefs about how things can or should be. Even if you disagree with decisions, you'll learn something.

Corporate code just mirrors corporate structure after a while. More and more lines, where other people are or were responsible, where any reason has been driven out (your learning experience by asking "why is this written or designed like this" gets short circuited with a quick "well, who knows") - which slowly but surely spirals down quality, engagement and fun.
I would have used the form, "What sped things up for me." when describing something that happened in the past. "What speeds things up for me" is a different sense - it's talking about the present.
Not to be trite, but they can (not saying they do) make good coin selling all sorts of personal data about their users to the highest bidder.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7698130

So it's not free in the free beer sense.
As cute as that story sounds... my mother taught me that doing these types of things is unethical.

I'm not really judging, just want to hear how other people feel about "cheating" in these types of promotions.
Witsenhausen's Counterexample
Well, you must first commit yourself to Micro-Services before you can consider Micro-Frameworks. The Micro-Services hype currently seems disappear as fast as it appeared.
In order to pull in $50m revenue per year, Duolingo are going to need to sell 2,500,000 certifications. Is that doable?
It sounds like the ambiguity of it all is a feature, which makes me think of this wonderful RSA Animate of Steve Pinker's discussion of how we use language:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-son3EJTrU

I have a feeling a lot of the insights of this talk also hint at why something ta'arof can be useful to a human society.
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"I do not want to be defined by a talking point on my wrist"

Meh, this won't be an issue in a few months, depending where you're located. In San Francisco, for example, Apple Watches are not a rare sight, so it's unlikely to prompt conversation. It happens to me maybe once or twice a week.
Yeah after reading all these comments, My attitude does need a change. I actually felt a lot better after hearing all these comments.

But on another note.. My boss likes to say we aren't paid for time, we are paid based on deliverables and making project deadlines.

But I get your point completely.
Yeah, you probably are.

I live in Malmö; the "problem area" you're talking about is a couple of blocks by Seved, where one company (Postnord) won't deliver _large_ packages due to the possibility of theft. That's not "the police can't go there". That's not "DHL can't guarantee worker safety". I've walked these streets hundreds of times; they're no different than thousands of other streets in thousands of other cities. They're not especially dangerous. They are in fact probably safer than large parts of other cities.
The problem is, it's not a full sandbox, because all of the containers are running on the same kernel, and are capable of influencing the others, at least indirectly.

I have trouble with the idea of calling them 'the future'. So far, I haven't seen a REAL reason to use docker in a production environment.
Are you sure you're ready to launch?
What would be very interesting is for ESR to publish his own predictions, as he feigns expertise.

Or, hell, any global warming denialist to publish predictions at all, or build any model at all beyond their day jobs of quote mining and writing clever PR releases that prey on the public's scientific illiteracy and fossil fuel barons' desire to violate other people's lives and properties with untrammeled carbon pollution.
Business idea for anyone with some time on their hands. Set up a site, and sell harddives with this data already on it.
Do you think we should move the signup ask further downstream? perhaps we could let people use the meal plan without even asking for an email. The problem then becomes that we use daily emails to keep users engaged, and we see a fairly high number of users become active users only after we keep them engaged for a week or more.
This was about 1 year ago, Sublime Text 2.0.2, same version I run now. I'm waiting on Sublime Text 3 to be released before I upgrade.
I live in Utrecht and I think it's a waste of taxpayer's money. Too complicated solution for a simple problem.
As a parent that played with legos as a kid and now has enjoyed the past 4 years buying my son legos, my answer to the question "What happened with Lego?" is: they became awesome. They managed to find a great balance between having more complex, interesting legos and still being legos. I think the modern legos are just brilliant. If you want simple, you can still get simple. If you want complex, you can get complex, but the complex pieces still feel like lego pieces and not toys with a few lego nubs on them.
Put another way: the people filling out time cards and getting paid aren't the customer.
People in the UK not infrequently face criminal sanction for things as petty as rude or obnoxious tweets, so I'd argue that the situation is actually quite a bit worse than in America.
People sometimes mistake Iranian hospitality with taarof. I guess that happens when they learn about taarof but don't understand it well enough to tell it apart from genuine hospitality.

Fake taarof is usually given with words well known to mean as taarof. There aren't many of those. If an offer is not given with those words, it's safe to say that it's genuine.

A typical Iranian would be disappointed, even heartbroken, if his/her offering gets construed as fake taarof.

As an Iranian, when you have guest, whether you've been expecting them or you've just met them on the street, your job now is to make sure that they have a good time. That means tasty food, entertainment, a place to stay, safety, and good company. If you can't provide these, you simply don't offer. And many people don't. Most don't have the financial means nowadays. Some don't think that you would enjoy their company. Oddly, some people aren't confident about their cooking skills.

But, as a tourist in Iran, if you do get an offer to stay at someone's house or have dinner with them, it's generally safe to say that you can accept the offer. And know that you wouldn't be a burden to them.

I can't speak for everyone, but most people that I know absolutely enjoy taking care of a guest. And they'll have a good time if their guest is having a good time.
The Windows 0-day is CVE-2015-2360 from MS15-061, it appears to be the only one Microsoft admits to have been exploited or used to attack it's customers.

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms15-061
> Click through to a project’s official website and you’ll find actual download links. For example, Audacity’s homepage redirects you to FOSSHUB to download Audacity, not SourceForge. But searching for “Audacity” on Google still brings up the SourceForge page as the top result.

This is an error on Google's part. For everyone's sake, they need to apply some serious ranking penalties to malware distributing sites like SourceForge, as well as click-through warnings that you are going to a site other than the original authors'.
Microsoft buys application-management vendor BlueStripe
I'd actually argue that 80% to 90%* of people are suited to traditional jobs, simply because the majority of people don't have the motivation, ambition, or discipline to do what it takes otherwise.

I don't mean that as a negative criticism to those people in any way, either. Most of my friends openly admit that this is the case for them -- they can't even work from home (when given the option) because they don't have the discipline to actually get their work done unless they have a boss telling them when to work and what to work on. It's just the way some people are wired, and it doesn't help that it's the way society and schools try to raise us to be.

I, personally, hate it, though. I don't know why anyone would feel guilty about that. I mean, maybe if all you wanted to do was sit around and do nothing all day -- but that's not me. I enjoy working, as long as it's meaningful and under my control (at least to an extent). There's nothing wrong with building up side streams of income (through things like real estate investments or online businesses) with the intention of ultimately going full time on them.

* Ok, 80% to 90% might be a bit high. I just threw out a big number. But I'm sure it's the overwhelming majority of people.
I should have down voted you. I lost my lunch time without eating!

Edit: Why the down votes? This link caused me to just surf instead of eating? This was something I didn't realize actually existed. I actually gave him a vote up.

Down votes without explanation is always frustrating
Maybe long term survival isn't the point. I once interviewed with a team and was concerned that everyone seemed very young. I asked, "What's the turnover like?" They said, "Working on this team looks great on your resume and is excellent preparation for your next career step." I read that as: ride 'em hard and burn 'em out.
If you are using Standard Java EE you have exactly one dependency in your pom file.
> Not all modern work, just all the work that has directly or indirectly to do with money

And then the point of doing this work would be...? There's a reason "money" is a universal concept: it's compensation for time spent working on things that aren't necessary for the survival of an individual person. Remove that and you've removed motivation for people to do things that they don't want or need to do. Your line of thinking does not scale to society at large.

> We do a lot of redundant, unnecessary work, just for the sake of working, without ever consciously asking ourselves what the use of this work is and who is actually helped with this.

I don't know about you, but I work so I can be paid and live a more comfortable life. I'm pretty sure that's most people's motivation. And perhaps working on nonsense is a Valley thing, but my coworkers and I certainly work on software that improves the lives of others. Perhaps you should try to find a company like that instead of declaring that everyone works on useless junk, money is pointless, and we can all be farmers on 4 hours per week of work.
Tell that to my wife :)
Duolingo is started by Luis von Ahn who invented reCAPTCHA. He pioneered the field of human computation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx082gDwGcM.

He can monetize this in a similar way. Crowd sourced translation service where the more advanced language learners translate books or something. It will be higher quality than google translate for sure.
seems like a lot of people are quitting their jobs in favour for asking for dontains through patreon. heh
so ~7ms RT. The satellites will be moving in the sky relative to the ground, so users will need to be able to switch satellites often?
The reviewer was full of shit, I've had mine for over a week and most people don't even notice and I'm more than happy to answer any questions they may have even though I'd just as well prefer that it was completely ignored. This headline is just one of many click-baity headlines by people that never gave the watch a chance or just want to get as many eyeballs as possible regardless of their actual experiences.
Hmm, that's really interesting. Does anyone know of any computer interfaces where the computer demonstrates taarof (for example, "Have a $15 account credit on us!" "No thanks" "No, I insist" "No thanks", etc.)? I don't mean in the naggy fashion (a program suggesting something multiple times as an attempt to hook the user) but out of an expectation that the user will follow taarof and decline the first three times.
Tesla doubles power output in Powerwall home units
> Considering the cost of living in Dublin vs the salary for tech grads versus... anywhere else in the world

London, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris... all way, way more expensive than Dublin.

But if you can find a job that will pay 80k euro equivalent to a graduate with a computing degree from a Dublin university and zero industry experience, you should definitely take it, 100%, and I wish you the best of luck.

Describing people who want to do this as 'idiots' was too harsh of me. It just makes me sad to see young people leaving the country.
I don't necessarily stand with ADP, but I do stand with the vendors.

Zenefits is just a thin wrapper around other companies real products and businesses.

I suspect Zenefits true business plan is a trojan horse. Get between a business and its clients, replicate the wrapped business and whamo you put the existing vendor out of business and grab all their revenues.

How else could Zenefits justify their sky high valuation other than for them to be a trojan horse?
You're capturing the octets individually. You already have to do bounds checking on RFC 1918 ranges and such. Why wouldn't you do the octet checking in your post-match logic? This is just pedantic.
> Do you think it's better than the likes of npm, bower, or composer? where you just say: give me all these things, with at least these versions, and could you please run these scripts also --all at once, in about 30 lines of plain text.

Yes. "Run these scripts" leads to snowflake builds: every project ends up slightly different from every other, no-one can resist putting a little "magic" in their build that then goes on to confuse future developers. Requiring every build step to be encapsulated as a plugin, so that there's one and only one way of putting the scm version in your build, one and only one way of bundling your app into an executable, and so on, makes everything much more maintainable.

> Every time I want to use mvn I need to start for google .. which was the archetype parameter that I needed?

You don't need archetypes if you find them problematic. Just start with a minimal pom: groupId, applicationId and version. That's not so hard is it?

> or so let's run this not-so-common target, no problem I have 5 minutes for a coffee while it downloads all the requirements .. then 5 minutes later says "missing parameter"

Either you share your build steps, which means downloading them sometimes, or you copy/paste them everywhere. I know which I prefer. Maven caches quite aggressively (if anything too aggressively), I'm not sure what more it could do.
> People demand that "something must be done" while being vague about what that involves and who might suffer.

Yeah, excellent point. The British need for someone, anyone, to blame and be punished for everything ever is worthy of several dissertations.
To be fair, as an ex-Nottingham resident, putting a CCTV camera up made life better for us. There were crack whores jacking up on heroin on my doorstep because there was a light there. Eventually I took the bulb out.

Mapperley Road for reference. There were even crack whores on Google Street View on there for a couple of years...
"Why I no longer write informative article headlines..."
"But if you're not using a foreign language, after passing the test you will completely forget it in 2 years"

You usually take this test because you will have to speak this language, so the case where you take the test and then do nothing with it seems pretty unlikely.
Also, I disagree with your assumption that you will completely forget another language in 2 years (even when not used). I cannot confirm this from my own experience.
I guess they might operate at a loss for a few years. While its a difficult goal, but it is possible. They have the biggest market possible. Language is elementary for humans. I think if they can target schools and universities with a commercial model, it could really generate the kind of revenues your talking about.
I don't trust TEPCO at all. I'm interested in the discussion we're actually capable of having: if you have a large and growing number of tanks full of tritiated water, is it better to store them aboveground, or dump them in the ocean?
You're not a lead developer
Also Über and AirBNB are consumer companies. Zenefits has to appeal to enterprise customers. Beyond that we're talking payroll. This is the most conservative part of any business. Lawsuits do not make for good advertising.
I already addressed why this is not sufficient:

>And just saying "It's simpler" means nothing, because being simple isn't a benefit all on it's own. Does it being simpler mean X number of increased work hours because we aren't wasting time converting? Does it being simpler mean Y fewer accidents on the road or in the workplace? These are reasons, not just "it's simpler".

What are the tangible benefits to people's lives that "uniformity" would bring? And do you think they outweigh the benefits of continuing to use our existing system? Why or why not?
Especially when the product in question has been out for like 2 months. Not really a huge break up. Now if you were breaking up with indoor plumbing, that'd be a headline.
$50 million seems like an arbitrary amount of revenue to expect DuoLingo to pull in. How do you come up with that number?
This, to me, is very telling

I spent a lot of time barely using certain foreign languages (+ than 2 years). Of course you get 'rusty', but far from forgetting everything.

And it came up back quickly

This tell me Duolingo doesn't make you learn it, but rather memorize their game.
Yeah, we want to support vegetarians, but right now we don't have enough content to provide a good experience - as you noticed. It will come eventually.
I played with Lego massively as a kid and the generic blocks always sucked. It was way more fun to get something like a space set, build it, and then use all those cool pieces in new ways.

And that hasn't changed now. My son has tons of Star wars, police, etc, and other sets. And just like I did as a kid; the set gets built once and then broken down in a mass of pieces used to build completely new creations.
Very sparse on details, unfortunately. What makes those frameworks so micro?
It's infinity times better than the US rail system.

It's "crumbling" because the system has been split up into smaller companies with some parts having been contracted out to private companies all of which now fight over whose responsibility it is to fix certain parts of the infrastructure.
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Finding a balance is the best way to manage stress. And just like anything else, people have different levels in which they believe things are stressing them out. What may be stressful to one person may not be a big deal to another.

I feel this every day being in the tech industry and as a Navy Vet I almost giggle when I hear what stresses people out. I'm sure the Navy prepared me better for dealing with stressful situations but unless there's a gun pointed in my direction I rarely find anything about the tech industry, my work load, or stuff I'm working towards as stressful. Again, it's all about finding balance and being able to put things into perspective. If you have no context about what is really stressful, than everything becomes stressful.
Seen quite a few mentions of doctors using calming, relaxation stimulus before operations to reduce perceived stress and pain. That anticipation if I may say so is a strange thing.
This works wonderfully on Firefox OS. Hooray for open standards!
Yeah, I know many people who use and like vagrant but I've heard a too many people mention it as a major impediment when they were just getting starting. Sure, someone with a bit of sysadmin experience can usually get it working fairly quickly but I've seen entire meetups where 90% of the people used a Linux instance on EC2 rather than try to debug it.

Anything which makes that process easier for newcomers is welcome, particularly for non-specialists like front-end specialists, scientists, data-analysts and other technical professionals for whom figuring out a toolchain is a road-block to their job rather than the job itself.
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