jerrya

I did an online coding interview a few months back, and after working with some dude for 20 minutes on some program he asked me if it was ready to ship. And I was "uh, no, of course not" since we had done no testing of any sort apart from mentally running through the code. "Well, make it ready to ship!" I don't think he understood. The two of us certainly didn't agree on what software engineering means.

And it was a reasonable question that may or may not have knocked me out of the job, as long as by reasonable you think it's "fair" to serve some people the bottom half of a cake and other people the top half of a cake.

But I of course don't know if that's what knocked me out.

Sometimes bad guys kill people and use the shovels from Home Depot to bury the bodies.

There was this really great Zombie movie from 1985, Return of the Living Dead, that took place in a funeral home. I'm not going to give any spoilers, but you really need to see it.

Shovels mean something else in light of this discovery. Sorry Home Depot, I think your shovels have been co-opted.

If you are only supporting certain zip codes then I'm going to be real annoyed when I enter half a dozen questions and THEN you tell me you're not available in my zip code.

I just noticed that to leave a comment at a medium site, a person needs to login through twitter. And the only social media support they seem to offer in my 15 second random survey of their front page is via twitter.

Ah, a bit of googling shows medium and twitter share co-founder Ev Williams. http://mashable.com/2013/04/17/medium-acquires-matter/

So is there any formal ownership between twitter and medium?

http://geolib.com/smith.adam/won1-11.html

or quoting from mises.org(!)

Smith was even less kindly to the role of landlords, where he recognized no economic function whatever that they might perform. In pungent passages, he writes that 'As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords like to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce'. And again: 'as soon as the land becomes private property, the landlord demands a share of almost all the produce which the labourer can either raise or collect from it'.

The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era is a non-fiction book by American economist Jeremy Rifkin, published in 1995 by Putnam Publishing Group.[1]

In 1995, Rifkin contended that worldwide unemployment would increase as information technology eliminated tens of millions of jobs in the manufacturing, agricultural and service sectors. He predicted devastating impact of automation on blue-collar, retail and wholesale employees. While a small elite of corporate managers and knowledge workers would reap the benefits of the high-tech world economy, the American middle class would continue to shrink and the workplace become ever more stressful.

As the market economy and public sector decline, Rifkin predicted the growth of a third sector—voluntary and community-based service organizations—that would create new jobs with government support to rebuild decaying neighborhoods and provide social services. To finance this enterprise, he advocated scaling down the military budget, enacting a value added tax on nonessential goods and services and redirecting federal and state funds to provide a "social wage" in lieu of welfare payments to third-sector workers

Plus Emergency Rooms are known for very long wait times, especially if you are otherwise looking in good health. (triage favors the folks bleeding out).

If you are presented a bill, it's not just an ER charge but a charge from the ER, from the doctor, the anesthetist, and seemingly everyone staffing the ER seems to have their own bill and billing agency.

That's above and beyond the high cost of ER care.

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Candy.

Pretending to not understand the importance of blogthis! in a world where Yahoo just bought Tumblr, or where the subscribe to rss buttons mostly work to allow the user to choose an rss feed reader of their own choice, or where Microsoft was told to make sure users could pick their favorite email apps, firewall apps, etc.?

This danilo is how you squander your capital.

This was a huge mistake, and it seemed as though they should've known.

They have moved from never catch fire, in a period of a few months, to batteries they hope will not catch fire, with features to enable survivability should a battery catch fire.

If this new design is appropriate, that earlier design was engineering malpractice.

I doubt this design would be the outcome of the same Boeing design engineering effort without the get it to market time constraint. Just like when a web service goes down mysteriously and the engineers desire is to take it down and debug it and the required response is to patch it, and get her flying again. But I wouldn't term that "design" or "engineered".

    1) __ An inspired engineering fix

    2) __ A kluge

    3) __ A feature, once the proper FAA documentation has been filed

Are Creepy Dudes Now Using Drone Technology For Their Nefarious Ends?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/14/are-creepy-dudes-now-u...

Which takes what one human on the planet has done, and projects his behavior, his terrible attitude onto all men.

Broadcasting your radio signals unencrypted means there is no privacy. Making a law saying that it is private is like making a law the sun should come up at 5am. The sun will do what it wants and the communication will be overheard.

If you broadcast signals that are encrypted, but that I can intercept without any kind of physical tampering or alteration or destruction of the signal, again laws are of no help to anyone. The communication will be decrypted and overheard.

It's better to make laws that conform to reality than to make laws that tilt at windmills and are used arbitrarily against citizens.

I was born. I didn't sign any data protection & privacy law agreement. Things that I can witness and observe in the privacy of my own home should be none of yours or anyone else's business.

If that makes it hard for certain business models, I'm okay with that because the country is intended for the use of its citizens, not its corporations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost,_mislaid,_and_abandoned_pr...

"The rights of a finder of such property are determined in part by the status in which it is found. Because these classifications have developed under the ancient and often archaic common law of England, they turn on nuanced distinctions. The general rule attaching to the three types of property may be summarized as: A finder of property acquires no rights in mislaid property, is entitled to possession of lost property against everyone except the true owner, and is entitled to keep abandoned property.[1] This rule varies by jurisdiction"

At any rate, it basically seems to boil down to what I've said, which is that unless there is a specific law in your area stating otherwise, if you lose property, you lost it, and while it may be unethical to not report it, it's generally not illegal.

Should it be? In general I'd say no, because off the top of my head, it seems the costs outweigh the benefits. And then we come to how that impacts Monsanto.

I'd say if Monsanto can't keep it's seeds out of a silo, that's Monsanto's problem and not one that needs government intervention, which is likely to be massive and onerous to other interests. It's the nature of seeds.

I know this because I know this is what happened to Gawker.

It is illegal to take things that other people use and appropriate them for yourself. If someone finds your phone on the street, they need to try to return it.

I don't know this. That's what I've been saying. Can you point to laws that succinctly state that? Can you point to stories of law enforcement actually investigating such losses?

You might be right, but I've never encountered anyone saying that they lost something and the law helped them get it back. With the exception of money I've never encountered anything in any class growing up detailing what the citizen's duty was when finding a lost article. And even with money, it's pretty clear the responsibilities of the authorities differ from location to location and much of it is on the order of "turn it in, if no one comes for it within 30 days, it's yours".

Is there law that states that?

I didn't say "steal" anyone's phones.

And I didn't say it was ethical behavior.

But yes, I think if you lose your trade secrets, your product, whether it's a phone or whether it's the formula for Coca Cola, or KFC, then yes it's lost, and it's your fault.

"If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone"

I don't really see too many laws enacted to ensure the stuff I lose gets back to me, and so because of that I don't understand why there are laws to protect an enormous corporation's property in ways that my property is not protected.

If you can convince me my own personal property is protected in the same manner, I will be happy to change my mind.

You should test it, instead of intentionally mischaracterizing her argument, and then labeling that argument as tripe.

I think that if cable companies broadcast encrypted signals in through my house, I should legally be able to decrypt them. (But I am pretty sure it is currently illegal to do that.)

I think that if I find a scanner for cell phone conversations and find cell phone conversations that are unencrypted, I should legally be able to listen to them. (But I am pretty sure it is currently illegal to do that.)

I think that if an Apple employee leaves an iPhone 6 in a bar, I should legally be able to break it apart. (But I am pretty sure it is currently illegal to do that.)

It might be ethically wrong for me to do so, but it should be legal for me to do so.

If Monsanto can't keep its products out of a community silo, and Farmer John wants to go fishing for their seeds by spraying them all with a commonly obtained chemical and seeing what survives, I think that should be legal too.