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merrua··on Bank’s severance deal requires IT workers to be on call for two years
It is illegal - "However, if the company called them and did not pay them, that would be "a clear violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act," she said. That law establishes wage standards. There may be exceptions for participation in certain aspects of litigation, but Blackwell said, "this clause is too broad" and is likely unenforceable."
merrua··on Show HN: SoundRedux – a Soundcloud client built in React / Redux with source
Where on the page do you find your about/help etc page? I can't spot it at a glance.
merrua··on Would you get a money from a VC/angel who tweets bad things about your religion?
No. It's not really a good sign if the VC doesn't have respect for other peoples religions. Even if the region in question is a bit out there for whatever country, its nice to be nice. Jerks aren't good business partners.
merrua··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2015)
I really like your Portfolio website (but sadly am not hiring at the moment).
merrua··on The Toddler at Y Combinator
Huh they don't have digs for their batches. I would have thought they would.
merrua··on Study of Ad-Blocking Software Suggests Wide Use
I recently installed it at work due to offensive political advertising during our last elections (non-usa country)
merrua··on Ask HN: What business would you start, given $100K?
Are you making a joke about libraries?
merrua··on Work for a remote culture
I think translating that hourly salary to yearly salary makes it untrue. You can get some very reasonly english speaking devs for less than 1/4 bay area salaries in europe.
merrua··on Atom 1.0
I think Atom could still have better performance. It wouldn't hurt to have performance tips for package developers too (maybe it has, and I missed them).
merrua··on The Netflix Website Gets a Major Upgrade
I think their data science people don't really respect the users own ability from what I have heard. If someone is rating a film not seen through your platform, it should be obvious that a) they have seen it elsewhere and b) if its a 1 they dont want to see that again
merrua··on MonolithFirst
This also seems like the idea of throw away the first one, you will anyway. The experience of building it as a monolith shows you what micro-services you need. Or maybe avoiding optimization before you need it.
merrua··on Fantasy must shake off the tyranny of the mega-novel
I've found word of mouth and reviews to help out with that. But its not 100% proof alright.
merrua··on Fantasy must shake off the tyranny of the mega-novel
A lot of the shorter fantasy goes into the Young Adult category now. Especially since the younger age categories read more books a month. Fish around a bit for your own taste and you will find shorter novels and novellas there http://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-young-adult-fanta...
merrua··on Guide for Technical Development
Sorry yes, Mozilla Developer Network.
merrua··on Guide for Technical Development
w3schools is fine for students just starting out. Though I'd direct them to the MSN articles (but I'm guessing Google can't)
merrua··on The compiler flag that time forgot
Blast from the past. I remember being taught to include that in 2001
merrua··on Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP
Demand going up does not always mean that pricing goes down. Especially when supply is limited
merrua··on How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management
^managers_dont_matter, is not really the same as managers_cant_easily_do_harm, nor the same as managers > ^managers.
merrua··on To Reduce VR Sickness, Add a Virtual Nose
Apparently that indicates you are more than likely male. VR sickness affects women at a higher rate than men. It's interesting what we learn about how perception works from trying to trick it. http://qz.com/192874/is-the-oculus-rift-designed-to-be-sexis...
merrua··on The Roomba for Lawns Is Really Pissing Off Astronomers
iRobot really should use a different frequency. Radio Telescopes should have the prior claim and are more useful and valuable.
merrua··on Atom.io: Multi-Folder Projects
I still find it a bit slow and a bit of a memory hog. But its very nice and getting better.
merrua··on Ask HN: Is Rails really dying?
Yah plenty of people have COBOL though, the expertise is the problem. No new projects to go from begininer to expert. I know a bunch of people trained in it, only one person I know with expertise in COBOL and they are not junior.
merrua··on Ask HN: Does anyone else value the comments more than the link?
I understand the sentiment and a certain percentage of the time agree, but a percentage of the comments and articles are trash, leading to a wide variety of detractors. Like slashdot at its peek, there is useful content, but I could skip going here entirely if I just had a good enough trusted filter/digests. For example http://shithnsays.tumblr.com/ is a thing. The tweet, for example "Hacker News is a name that strikes awe in some of my guy friends, but invariably meets with groans from my lady friends. Do they know that?" Also there is a chance your only going to get a certain segment replying to this. Some people fear GG even here. And the busiest wont bother to reply
merrua··on My Y Combinator experience
Good Luck to all at Creo.
merrua··on Netflix Long Term View
Their subtitle and language selection is really rather poor.
merrua··on Netflix Long Term View
Netflix europe has terrible descriptions of the films/shows which you may as well ignore. Also their catalog really isn't that impressive. It would be rather easy to replace it if anyone tried.
merrua··on My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow
Yep. And the deletionists where more often the "majority" culture and male, which resulted in a feedback loop for the nonminority and female. New minority turn up, have a bad experience and leaves. I think it was studied let me see if I can find the paper. I know the results were replicated with comment bots.

Update, not the ones I was thinking of but a good read. HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pdf/item/5605.pdf

merrua··on The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
Does that suggest they have an exploit in PGP?
merrua··on Google and blogs: “Shit.”
Google made it really hard to search for blogs or blog articles too. Which is annoying when you just want to check for articles on something by people rather than organisations.
merrua··on Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard
To be honest people have pointed out problems with that as well.
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