You have no control over how your employer will react to your giving notice. That will depend on a lot of factors, but probably not on the manner in which you give notice. (Unless you're a real dick about it, which will increase the odds of getting your access cut off.)
Always assume that your access will be cut off immediately, and prepare acccordingly, e.g. get all of the personal data off of your PC that you want to take with you or don't want left behind for the perusal of your soon-to-be former coworkers.
"In a broader sense, Arnold believes Google is building a "patent fence around search" technology as the firm moves to codify its unique competitive advantage."
It's obviously bad, but do you notice how Google gets a pass from the overwhelming majority of the Slashdot community?
Neither Stallman nor the FSF are the benevolent dictators of the open-source software movement. They can add whatever stupid stuff they want to the GPL, and it will have zero impact on code that's already been released under the existing GPL. And those starting new OSS projects will still be free to choose their license, even the current version (2) of the GPL.
My guess is that relatively few projects will choose a license that is sure to scare away the majority of enterprise users.
I think this article overlooks the fact that many 'free as in speech' third party security libraries and frameworks are available for java.
1) ACEGI - Aspect-orientaded-programming using a dependency injection model to replace or complement JAAS for authentication and authorization in an Application server independant way. A subproject of the Spring framework:
How can AOP be part of a "free-as-in-speech" solution when it's patented?
Congratulation, Mr. AC. If I had mod points you would get "Informative" - this is the ONLY time I have seen someone actually type "hear hear" instead of "here here" (on Slashdot). I hope that others will read your post and have one of those "ohhhhh..." moments.
So, rather than bemoan the fact that there aren't as many Lisp jobs as C#/.NET jobs, why not try to integrate Lisp into your current job whenever possible?
What for? What would Lisp give me that I can't get from Java, Perl, C, C++ or bash, that would be worth the effort it would take to learn a language there's virtually no market for?
Assuming of course you're actually interested in expanding your skills.
Only to the extent that there's some practical use for the skills I'd be acquiring. And I don't count among practical uses the ability to pretentiously extol the virtues of near-dead niche languages, the way tools like Paul Graham do.
As mentioned by Paul Graham, in his essay "Revenge of the Nerds", Peter Norvig found that 16 of the 23 patterns in Design Patterns were "invisible or simpler" in Lisp.
If I could make a decent living coding in Lisp, I might actually give a shit.
A few decades ago, some restaurants and bars used to have prominent signs out front announcing that their premises were air-conditioned. Back then, not all places were, so on, say, a scorching July evening in a small town in the Kansas prairie, an air-conditioned bar or restaurant could reasonably expect to have an edge over the non-AC competition. I'm sure many proprietors noticed some of their "customers" lingering for hours over a half-eaten piece of pie or a single beer while they gabbed to their friends, obviously looking for a cheap or free way to escape the unbearable heat outside or in their homes.
Nowdays, when virtually every place of public accomodation has AC, there are no doubt still people who might nurse a single latte for hours in the local coffee shop to escape an unbearably hot apartment, but they're not going to be numerous enough to be a burden on the system. After all, there are plenty of places with AC they can go to.
The problem with Wi-Fi moochers is no doubt a real one now, but it will solve itself in time. Although it's not happening fast enough to suit me, the trends are toward free and ubiquitious Wi-Fi. When that day comes, and they're distributed among all of the bars, restaurants, coffee shops and libraries in a a given area, no one will worry about the one or two Wi-Fi moochers in their establishment at a given moment.
they were the slashdot of their time (mid 80's-early 90's.)
the information was never accurate, a lot of the users were 10 years old, the porn was disgusting, no one knew how to spell...,but damnit, they were all we had.
If you were a whistleblower or someone who was to do and did a illegal act, and then you told a journalist.. Would you tell a journalist who wears their ethics as a badge of their profession or somone who'd rat you out on the first subpoena?
In order to get the "interesting" people, you have to put your neck on the line. Sometimes that means taking jail to protect someone who you think is NOT dangerous.
You're exactly right. It's simply a journalistic code of honor, not a legal privilege. If you're going to reveal stuff to a journalist on the promise that he protect your identity, you'd better trust him to go to jail on your behalf.
Then again, not everything told to a journalist in confidence must be revealed at the whim of judges, and the same goes for any other citizen. IANAL, but I believe there must be some compelling state interest, such as when criminal activity is involved.
First, it is not up to any judge to rule on who is or is not a journalist, because there is no legally defined standard for what makes someone a journalist. Journalists are not some specially annointed group apart from society, although many think they are.
Second, "journalists" are not afforded any special legal privilege to withhold information from a court, aside from those that any citizen would have, such as fifth amendment protection. Attorneys, clergymen, and I think medical professionals such as psychiatrists do have certain privileges in certain circumstances. A serial killer can confess his crimes in lurid detail to his attorney, and a court cannot compel the attorney to reveal it in court. It's called "attorney-client privilege".
OTOH, there is no such think as "journalist-source privilege". If there were, then journalists wouldn't be routinely jailed by judges for refusing to reveal sources.
Did you bother reading the fine article? You did, Oh, are you one of those individuals who does poorly in reading comprehension tests? You must be, because if you had read the article you would have found out that Gilmore has epilepsy and lost his driver's license because of it.
Yeah, but surely a bigshot like Gilmore has traveled internationally and has a passport.
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Actually there are two lessons here:
Unfortunately, post-Katrina images for only about half the city are available.
Neither Stallman nor the FSF are the benevolent dictators of the open-source software movement. They can add whatever stupid stuff they want to the GPL, and it will have zero impact on code that's already been released under the existing GPL. And those starting new OSS projects will still be free to choose their license, even the current version (2) of the GPL.
My guess is that relatively few projects will choose a license that is sure to scare away the majority of enterprise users.
An astute observation, but it has in fact happened before.
I wonder how this guy Tom Charlton would score on the test.
Hey, my first Freak! Thanks Carleton!
What for? What would Lisp give me that I can't get from Java, Perl, C, C++ or bash, that would be worth the effort it would take to learn a language there's virtually no market for?
Only to the extent that there's some practical use for the skills I'd be acquiring. And I don't count among practical uses the ability to pretentiously extol the virtues of near-dead niche languages, the way tools like Paul Graham do.
If I could make a decent living coding in Lisp, I might actually give a shit.
And why should I give a shit about what he writes?
I'm just sayin'....
... do you remember where you were when you first heard the news?
They'll nod solemnly, and in reverent tones, tell with precise detail where they were when they learned that Jamie Zawinski had switched to OS X.
A few decades ago, some restaurants and bars used to have prominent signs out front announcing that their premises were air-conditioned. Back then, not all places were, so on, say, a scorching July evening in a small town in the Kansas prairie, an air-conditioned bar or restaurant could reasonably expect to have an edge over the non-AC competition. I'm sure many proprietors noticed some of their "customers" lingering for hours over a half-eaten piece of pie or a single beer while they gabbed to their friends, obviously looking for a cheap or free way to escape the unbearable heat outside or in their homes.
Nowdays, when virtually every place of public accomodation has AC, there are no doubt still people who might nurse a single latte for hours in the local coffee shop to escape an unbearably hot apartment, but they're not going to be numerous enough to be a burden on the system. After all, there are plenty of places with AC they can go to.
The problem with Wi-Fi moochers is no doubt a real one now, but it will solve itself in time. Although it's not happening fast enough to suit me, the trends are toward free and ubiquitious Wi-Fi. When that day comes, and they're distributed among all of the bars, restaurants, coffee shops and libraries in a a given area, no one will worry about the one or two Wi-Fi moochers in their establishment at a given moment.
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Featuring Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
Why is it that every time this self-important, self-promoting blowhard decides to pontificate on something, it makes the front page of slashdot?
Can we please retire this lame-ass joke?
April Fools!
You're exactly right. It's simply a journalistic code of honor, not a legal privilege. If you're going to reveal stuff to a journalist on the promise that he protect your identity, you'd better trust him to go to jail on your behalf.
Then again, not everything told to a journalist in confidence must be revealed at the whim of judges, and the same goes for any other citizen. IANAL, but I believe there must be some compelling state interest, such as when criminal activity is involved.
First, it is not up to any judge to rule on who is or is not a journalist, because there is no legally defined standard for what makes someone a journalist. Journalists are not some specially annointed group apart from society, although many think they are.
Second, "journalists" are not afforded any special legal privilege to withhold information from a court, aside from those that any citizen would have, such as fifth amendment protection. Attorneys, clergymen, and I think medical professionals such as psychiatrists do have certain privileges in certain circumstances. A serial killer can confess his crimes in lurid detail to his attorney, and a court cannot compel the attorney to reveal it in court. It's called "attorney-client privilege".
OTOH, there is no such think as "journalist-source privilege". If there were, then journalists wouldn't be routinely jailed by judges for refusing to reveal sources.
"I want to choose my words carefully here, so I'm not misunderstood," he said. "They're a bunch of fucking idiots."
SOA is the latest hype being pitched by vendors who want to sell expensive tools to solve non-existent problems.
It will find its niche, like web services did, but it's not going to be the next big thing.
And dreck like this gets modded as 'funny'.