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Github can make some changes as administrative actions even though there's no UI to do it. For example, I have a project that was originally a fork but became the upstream when the fork went offline. Github was able to "break" the link from my fork to the dead upstream so mine became the upstream.

It's not as easy as DIY but it's just a support request.

> Your performance meets or exceeds requirements. You get to keep your job.

The second sentence seems arrogant and unnecessary, especially in the context of a meets-or-exceeds review. It seems to say the same thing as "I've decided not to fire you at this moment." What's the benefit to either the manager or employee of bringing up the possibility of the employee being fired in such a circumstance?

Glad to see their longevity is improved. I had a '74 RX-4 and the conventional wisdom at the time was that you'd get 70-80k miles before you'd lose compression on one of your tip seals. My dad got 80k on the first motor so we weren't too bummed. We changed the motor for a new one and it was still going strong when the body rusted away so badly it wasn't worth fixing. Fun car, though.

The correct course of action, therefore, is to decline to give your current salary. The article is correct, at least in my recent experience: indicate that your current salary isn't relevant, and say what you want to make. They'll come back with a counter-offer which you can then choose to take or leave. It helps to be willing to leave it.

I worked for a company that was constantly hiring and laying off, often at the same time. The "tell" was if you showed up to work on Friday and there were Pinkertons at the front door then you knew it was going to be a rough day.

AAA estimates that it costs roughly 40 to 97 cents per mile to own a car (depending on the type of car and how much you drive)[1] so I'm having a hard time seeing that a lot of people will let random strangers abuse their cars for 5-20 cents per mile. Because let's face it, nobody treats rental cars as well as their own cars.

[1] http://exchange.aaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/your-driv...

From RMS himself: http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999062200505NWLF

From the linked article: "Because copying hardware is so hard, the question of whether we're allowed to do it is not vitally important. I see no social imperative for free hardware designs like the imperative for free software. Freedom to copy software is an important right because it is easy now--any computer user can do it. Freedom to copy hardware is not as important, because copying hardware is hard to do. Present-day chip and board fabrication technology resembles the printing press. Copying hardware is as difficult as copying books was in the age of the printing press, or more so. So the ethical issue of copying hardware is more like the ethical issue of copying books 50 years ago, than like the issue of copying software today."

The article gives an example:

> For instance, three years ago, Franklin submitted an application for a startup that needed to secure crucial patents before it filed for public offering. It was being sued by a large company in the same space, and so it paid the Patent Office an extra fee to fast-track the application.

Reading between the lines a little, it looks like a small company with tech that challenged a big company was being hassled by the big company and needed the patents to put them on a favorable-enough legal footing to not interfere with their IPO.

Yes, the IRS should. The fraudsters (and rich people with expensive accountants) already have this info, for example by hiring former IRS examiners and executives. Making the algorithms public at least puts everyone on equal footing.

Just one more shining example that the easiest way to be successful in business is to be a sociopath.

Neat project, I think I'll take a look at running it on the new CubieTruck in my basement.

I've heard Harvard described as a hedge fund that has figured out a great way to avoid taxes.

Ride my motorcycle on the track. For 20 minutes every hour I get to think about nothing but what I'm doing at that moment. A day at the track resets my mind better than a week on vacation.

Be wary of any methodology whose name begins with an upper-case letter.

Trade one bureaucracy for another that has even less accountability? No, thanks.

Why not cut out the middleman? https://archive.org/donate/

> If you are contemplating looking around for something else, you should let someone know at the thinking stage.

On behalf of your employees: If you are contemplating letting people go, you should let them know at the thinking stage. Wouldn't anything less be hypocritical?

According to the Open Source Definition[0] "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code." Clause 6 requires that to be Open Source "The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research."

[0] http://opensource.org/docs/osd

It certainly would have been more useful if it had a disclaimer at the beginning indicating that it was written by a Passenger developer. It's OK to have biases as long as you're up-front about them.

So I think you're actually agreeing with the OP. "where it makes the most sense from a business point of view" is a subset of "global".

Your point about the amount of effort to curate map data is well taken, too. But doesn't that mean that a crowdsourced approach makes sense? It might be possible to build a data set that no one company could afford to pay to build.

While I think this is a good idea, having InfluAds take 10% off the top seems excessive. Offhand I'd say 5% would be fair.

The problem with this approach is that it leads to everyone reading every email just in case they might have some relevant insight. I see this at my current job - there's a strong "just cc the whole team" attitude which leads to a frustrating quantity of irrelevant email.

I remember watching the first episode of "Connections" when I was a kid and being pretty badly frightened by the power-loss scenario that James Burke described: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOp-nz3lHg