Why do you have a problem with that pricing structure? You pay for what you use. S3 charges for exactly the things that cost them money to do on your behalf.
In fact, that's not even true. Inbound data is free, which greatly reduces the cost of backing up infrequently used data into S3.
With S3 there is no "unlimited storage for a fixed price..until we tell you that you have too much". You can have as much as you pay for.
Data centers don't really provide many jobs at all - local or otherwise. After the location is built out it's basically a skeleton staff to keep the servers physically repaired.
so you get equity based on the risk you're taking. The fact that you got paid contractor rates until they were successful means THEY took all the risk, not you. This means you're not entitled to significant equity.
It's the opposite - when you work for little pay that would entitle you (at least morally) to a higher equity stake.
Right now in washington, the income tax is political suicide. In order to take more money, they're trying to get the voters to pass it. Sure, they can't adjust it for 2 years, but after that.. well, we'll just lower the threshold by 10%. It'll only affect a small number of people. The rich people will already be taxed (so why do they care), and people below $180,000 still won't be taxed, so why do they care?
Next year.. wash, rinse, repeat.
That's why I voted against it even though I wouldn't have been taxed.
The reason often given for forcing people to give up secrets like this is that what is given up cannot incriminate you - only what that is then used for.
Basically they grant you 100% immunity from the password being used to incriminate you. However, the stuff they find on your computer afterwards they can use all they want, but what you were forced to give up didn't incriminate you.
hypothetically this is covered by what I originally said about displaying the images in specific directions - just that doing any type of facial recognition would be a long ways away. Also, can you imagine having to tell people they can't watch TV at your place because your tv only supports 2 simultaneous viewers?
I don't understand how people expect to see 3d without glasses in any useful way. In order to see 3d, a different picture needs to get to each eye. There are a limited number of ways of making that happen. You either emit the pictures in different directions resulting in a very small area in which they can be seen properly, or you emit them in all directions and wear glasses to only pick up on the correct one for the corresponding eye.
That's why they were talking about the dynamic range of the eye - if you expose for the highs, you lose the lows that a human can see and vice versa.
Software Engineering skills don't depreciate much
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Software development is more about problem solving and communication skills than actually writing code. These abilities don't atrophy nearly so fast. A solid developer can pick up whatever technologies are needed for jumping into an existing problem space with little effort and apply their problem solving skills.
No, I'd say that it didn't need fixing and you didn't fix it. There are too many of them and they're too loud. It doesn't matter how many there are, there are too many.
I'd also like to note that I work for a large company that knowingly pays me to do exactly this all day. I write proprietary software using GPL libraries and such all day. We just don't distribute it.
All the work you did for them belongs to them. However, they may not be legally entitled to use it how they'd like. If it's based on GPL code and they don't want to release the whole thing under the GPL, they'll need to rewrite the sections under the GPL before they can have their way with it.
Let's be clear. You have no rights to do whatever you want with the code you wrote for them.
for those ruby railers
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I recommend sass and haml for doing css and html respectively.
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seriously.. just turn it off
In an email, an Amazon spokesperson said "users can completely turn off the split-browsing mode and use Amazon Silk like a conventional Web browser."
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394732,00.asp#fbid=GbO7By1YITI
Why do you have a problem with that pricing structure? You pay for what you use. S3 charges for exactly the things that cost them money to do on your behalf.
In fact, that's not even true. Inbound data is free, which greatly reduces the cost of backing up infrequently used data into S3.
With S3 there is no "unlimited storage for a fixed price..until we tell you that you have too much". You can have as much as you pay for.
and 50% more expensive. $200 vs $300
I'm not a big PHP fan, but I had to dive into mediawiki and found it to be very well organized. It made me realize that PHP didn't have to be bad :)
48 points.
Surprised it doesn't have some smart-ass message when you type that in at the bottom to get how much it's worth.
The AWS services out of dublin aren't through an Irish subsidiary. It's just regular AWS.
If you know differently, please document it.
Data centers don't really provide many jobs at all - local or otherwise. After the location is built out it's basically a skeleton staff to keep the servers physically repaired.
so you get equity based on the risk you're taking. The fact that you got paid contractor rates until they were successful means THEY took all the risk, not you. This means you're not entitled to significant equity.
It's the opposite - when you work for little pay that would entitle you (at least morally) to a higher equity stake.
I would consider a data center trifecta to be Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
There's a limit to how many computers you can reasonably have if you're not selling off the capacity.
3 :(
I'm not a good hashing function!
This one didn't have to be on the ballot. It was on the ballot to try to pass it without any lawmakers having to say that they voted for it.
Laws in Washington can be made by either the assembly or as a ballot initiative. There is no difference between the two once they are passed.
The lawmakers can just vote the income tax in whenever if they really want to.
Right now in washington, the income tax is political suicide. In order to take more money, they're trying to get the voters to pass it. Sure, they can't adjust it for 2 years, but after that.. well, we'll just lower the threshold by 10%. It'll only affect a small number of people. The rich people will already be taxed (so why do they care), and people below $180,000 still won't be taxed, so why do they care?
Next year.. wash, rinse, repeat.
That's why I voted against it even though I wouldn't have been taxed.
That's how I read it, too.
This isn't a criminal investigation, though.
Suing is civil.
The reason often given for forcing people to give up secrets like this is that what is given up cannot incriminate you - only what that is then used for.
Basically they grant you 100% immunity from the password being used to incriminate you. However, the stuff they find on your computer afterwards they can use all they want, but what you were forced to give up didn't incriminate you.
hypothetically this is covered by what I originally said about displaying the images in specific directions - just that doing any type of facial recognition would be a long ways away. Also, can you imagine having to tell people they can't watch TV at your place because your tv only supports 2 simultaneous viewers?
I don't understand how people expect to see 3d without glasses in any useful way. In order to see 3d, a different picture needs to get to each eye. There are a limited number of ways of making that happen. You either emit the pictures in different directions resulting in a very small area in which they can be seen properly, or you emit them in all directions and wear glasses to only pick up on the correct one for the corresponding eye.
There's no magic way to make 3d happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
There is no such thing as a "right exposure".
That's why they were talking about the dynamic range of the eye - if you expose for the highs, you lose the lows that a human can see and vice versa.
Software development is more about problem solving and communication skills than actually writing code. These abilities don't atrophy nearly so fast. A solid developer can pick up whatever technologies are needed for jumping into an existing problem space with little effort and apply their problem solving skills.
The govt already has the data to put you on any list they want. This is to make it a public record.
No, I'd say that it didn't need fixing and you didn't fix it. There are too many of them and they're too loud. It doesn't matter how many there are, there are too many.
I'd also like to note that I work for a large company that knowingly pays me to do exactly this all day. I write proprietary software using GPL libraries and such all day. We just don't distribute it.
All the work you did for them belongs to them. However, they may not be legally entitled to use it how they'd like. If it's based on GPL code and they don't want to release the whole thing under the GPL, they'll need to rewrite the sections under the GPL before they can have their way with it.
Let's be clear. You have no rights to do whatever you want with the code you wrote for them.
I recommend sass and haml for doing css and html respectively.
http://haml-lang.com/
http://sass-lang.com/