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Apple has taken measures to technologically limit your ability to do so. When I bought my most recent MacBook Pro it came with Lion. Because of network issues at work I could't use Lion (still can't), so I tried to put Snow Leopard in a VM (using the copy I had previously put on my now defunct MacBook Pro) but Apple and VMWare had put in technological blockers to prevent putting SL on a Lion VM or Lion on a SL VM. So, I repartitioned and copied my old MacBook over and am still living happily with SL.

From my current boss, and sadly repeated by a significant number of coworkers, "Because our competition is working more than we are. If we don't work these crazy hours they win."

To add insult to injury, this particular employer is the least efficient place I've ever worked. I'd estimate the average employee works 70-80 hours a week, but 1/2 to 2/3 of that is simply working around poor management or fixing mistakes that could have been avoided.

So, when I seek to get my fellow employees to consider the possibility of working toward a 30 hour workweek, I get the "our competition" argument. When I try to introduce efficiencies, I get the "we don't have time to learn/employment/etc." arguments.

Sadly, because of the economy and commitments I have, I haven't been able to find another job that I think is enough of a good bet. As soon as I do, I'm outa here!

I'd add bitch and recursive_pimp_slap to the clearly over the top list.

The authors say that the colors correlated to similar implementations that result in similar behavior, with red specifically indicative of passing all tests. (I totally agree with you that green would have been a much more logical choice). Which only leaves green and blue. I'm curious what the distinction is between those implementations (e.g, blue passed some of the tests, green didn't pass any tests).

But the workers that don't move will still have a basic income. Without the 'need' to immediately get new employment, those workers can take the time to train for, or create from scratch, a more fulfilling job at a company that won't pack up and relocate when social welfare is given priority over greed.

It also means that there are employers who see a full-time employee as more expensive than two part-time employees and therefore have exclusive or nearly exclusive part-time employment. For employees in this situation that need full-time income, they end up taking a second or even third part-time job, thus working full-time or more hours but without the expected benefits of full-time employment.

I'm definitely not one of those people, but I already posted my first thoughts on the sign-up process - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6475539

From the tone of those comments you'd think that NASA threw a party with tax-payer money and didn't invite the tax-payers. Sad.

- http://www.stars4space.org/Benefits.html

- http://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/benefits.html

obligatory xkcd - http://xkcd.com/927/

Regardless of your interest in or position on the Affordable Care Act, I'm irritated with the web development team's implementation for creating a user account that:

-doesn't allow special characters, like accents, tildes, etc. (good thing Luis Vicente Gutiérrez, Nydia Velázquez, and Linda Sánchez already have employer provided insurance; what about Erwin Schrödinger's American descendents) [1][2]

-requires that a username have a capital letter, a number, or one of these characters _.@/-

[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

[2] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

edit: decedents --> descendents (psychologically interesting typo)

Available is indeed a key word. If someone is able to work from a connected location anywhere in the world, and they're at a connected location, are they available?

There are certainly some occupations, and some aspects of other occupations, that require a person to be at a very specific place at a very specific time (e.g. emergency room personnel). But there are also many, many jobs that do not inherently have a location and/or temporal requirement for the work to be successfully completed.

So my question to employers is whether it is more important for (a) work to be effectively completed within given time constraints or (b) employees to have a physical presence, particularly when the two are at odds (e.g., storm prevents someone from getting to work location, but the person can effectively work from their current location)?

edited: typo and clarification

How do I get an office in an open-plane? Although, wouldn't TSA be more of a problem than phones?

I do love my latte in the ... squirrel!

Under average circumstances I have to drive about 50 minutes from my house to my office. This past winter we were expecting a bad storm one evening. Being a hardworker, I took home stuff to work on if I got stuck and couldn't make it into the office.

Just before I got home that evening one of my tires blew. I called the manager I was working for and explained the situation. I was planning on getting the tire replaced first thing. The tire shop didn't have internet, but I had plenty of paper work that didn't require internet, so I could work at the shop. And of course, I would call him as soon as the tire was fixed.

Next morning the storm had settled over our area. I limped to the tire store. It took about 1.5 hours for them to replace the tire (they had to wait on delivery of the tire from their supply house). When they had replaced it I called the manager and let him know I was en route. Unfortunately, a couple of exits down the road a tire related emergency light came on.

So, I turned around and headed back to the shop. En route I saw a large accident happen on the road I had just traversed. As soon as I got to the shop, I called the manager. I explained the current situation, and suggested that I just continue to work from the tire shop and when they were done I could work from home.

Long story short, this "productivity focused" manager insisted (i.e., I would be fired if I did otherwise) that I drive down to the office. I ended up spending 2.5 hours stuck in winter storm traffic, so that I could sit for an hour at a desk in an office to do paperwork that I could have done at home. Of course, I then had to turn around and drive back (thankfully that only took 2 hours).

So instead of 3.5 hours of productivity I got 4.5 of completely wasted drive time for 1 hour of actual work. (Then there's the fact that if I'm on a work roll at home, I tend not to stop, so he would have likely gotten more than just the 3.5 hours of work out of me.) All because his idea of 'work' is that someone in a seat in an office is productive while someone at home can't possible be productive.

I'm now much more punctual about working as close to 40 hours/weekly on the dot as I possibly can (I used to average many more hours). I won't do more than cursory email checks from home. And, I don't care how productive I am when I'm actually at the office. Because clearly all that actually matters is that I'm physically there.

While it isn't specific to dogs and cats, nor open source or publicly available, doesn't Google already have this ability? - https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=dogs&tbs=imgo... - https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=cats&tbs=imgo...

edit: I'm sure some of theirs is from metadata, but I thought I read a while back that they were doing some graphical identification also.

This type of requirement is a solid reason for me to avoid DO rather than the non-specific issue that the OP ran into. I don't use twitter or facebook, and the reason that I've considered DO was to host a blog and company website. So if they were to bring me down for unknown reasons, I wouldn't be able to pass their extraneous id requirements. As a result, they are off of my consideration list. From some other comments in this thread, it sounds like Linode is the better way to go.

123d.circuits.io currently quite as intuitive as some of its alternatives, but it supports breadboard, schematic, and PCB views, it also has a novice level simulation (e.g., the breadboard LED 'lights up'), and circuits can easily be forked. I seen most of these features in other circuit simulators, but I haven't seen any other circuit simulators that have all of these features.

I'm definitely not a fan of their maker level pricing ($12/month for 5 private circuits seems far too pricy for 5 circuits and too few circuits for $12/month). Hopefully they can develop partnerships with other hardware suppliers and moderate their fees!

I'm genuinely curious and it wasn't addressed at all in the post - how did he make his first trip? Wasn't ALL of it novel the first time? Yet subsequent trips ALL of it has to be same or his stress level goes up?

I have a friend whose son is mildly autistic, and each new thing in his life has to be introduced in a specific way. For example, a new shirt will be brought into his room for several days for him to look at and touch. Once he's used to that he'll try it on, but he'll almost immediately take it off for the 'right' shirt that day. This can go on for several weeks, before he'll wear it in the house, but he still won't leave the house without putting on the 'right' shirt. He actually has a job, but it took almost six months from when he was hired until he would wear the full uniform for the job, because each piece of the uniform (and of course the job itself) had to be introduced in this fashion.

My friend's son is only considered 'mildly' autistic. I simply can't image going through a major airport the first time with someone like this. Once the pattern is established, yes, it's a challenge to keep it going ... but what about the first time?

They do drag in Firefox 24.0.

There was a course in my undergraduate college that required each student be 'handicap' for a week (e.g., blind, wheelchair-bound) for much the same reason. I didn't take the course but everyone on campus experienced it to some degree though peers.

In much the same way, I lost the use of my dominant arm for several months during graduate school. I always had respect for those with lifelong physical disabilities, but the insight I gained during that period resulted in even more respect. During that period I had one really supportive professor. But, I also had a second professor that I wanted to do much violence to - simply so that he might gain much needed insight. Since I graduated, the second professor has tried to get me to collaborate with him and I refuse to primarily because of his lack of basic respect for others' abilities (both disabilities and capabilities that exceed his own understanding).

My mother talked me out of a computer science path many years ago. My biggest regrets are letting her talk me out of it and then getting myself locked into another career path, mortgage, etc. One (but not the only) reason why is the current differences in job markets between my field and comp science. The other big reason is that I feel like I'm nearly illiterate. (I'm not illiterate. I can hack on code, but I'm very much a coding 'immigrant'. I'm certainly too much of an immigrant to pursue a job in the field at this time. And I'm too bogged down in other responsibilities to truly pursue the experience that I need to gain enough literacy to get a programming job.)

layperson cite for finicky placebos: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/are-placebos-really-s...

Off of the main topic: I explicitly worked with my dogs when they were puppies to avoid this 'mentality'.

The first big thing is that they are expected to be well behaved while I slowly put their food bowl down. If there is a hint of growl or lunging, the food bowl comes back up again and only when they have restrained themselves does the bowl start to go down again - and slower than before. My dogs are seniors now, but they 'understand' that he who giveth the food can - and will - taketh the food if they give me any grief.

The second big thing is that they are expected to give up whatever is in their mouth on command. This requires ongoing training, and also started when they were wee-little pups. They understand that if I put my hand out palm-up, or grip what is in their mouth, and tell them to "release" they are going to loose whatever is in their mouth. If they give it up without a scene, then they get it back in a few moments. If they make a scene, or I have to pry it from their jaws, then they may not get it back. This has helped in situations when they managed to get something they shouldn't have (e.g., a dropped grape).

Correction: You can't control other drivers.

I've been rear-ended multiple times. None of the drivers that hit me were drunk or intoxicated. I still had no control over their actions. Short of not driving at all there was no action I could have taken that would have prevented me from being hit. I was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time (e.g., I had been fully stopped for about 60 seconds at a stoplight, not in rush hour traffic, when the light turned green and I was almost instantly hit from the rear. I was about 16 cars back from green light, and there was no way I could have been rolling. But, the driver behind me saw the light turn green and decided that traffic would be moving before he reached my location.)

I think this question is worthy of an "Ask HN" with one game per answer and people upvoting from there. Hope you post it as an "Ask HN" soon. :-)

Seems like this is a case study for "Android is for startups" http://blog.audobox.com/android-is-for-startups/

Thank you.

Although I'm now confused. The list in the animation at the top is: Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, CodeIgniter, Symfony, CakePHP, Laravel, Yii, Angular, Magento

While the subsequent list is: Wordpress, Drupal, Magento, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, OpenCart, Joomla, Concrete5, Kohana, phpBB, Symfony

So are Laravel, Yii, Angular, OpenCart, Concrete5, Kohana, and phpBB up and running, coming soon, or just possibilities?

And with the, "(Also vanilla HTML and PHP/MySQL)." bit, does that mean someone could also run something like MediaWiki, just without Jumpstarter flow?

Agreed. A simple list was wanted, but not found. Something as simple as the following on any of the pages:

Wordpress

Drupal

Joomla

CodeIgniter

Symfony

CakePHP

Laravel

Yii

Angular

Magento

Who exactly are "mormal" people?

Hygiene is much more about 'health' than it is about body odor. Several examples:

- brushing one's teeth (minimizing decay and tooth loss)

- properly washing one's hands (minimizing the spread of disease)

- having toilet facilities (http://www.satoilet.co.za/projects/)

http://www.wordnik.com/words/hygiene