In many states non-competes are DOA from a legal perspective and serve only as a scare tactic. However, you need to know the applicable law and your rights before signing any kind of contract. For example, would you sign a loan agreement without knowing the interest rate and your legal obligations?
Even if it's enforceable, unless you're taking a couple million worth of accounts or technology with you to a competitor the legal costs of enforcing a non-compete doesn't make it worth the trouble.
If you're ignorant to the way it works they'll happily take the $7k. Not a single entity in the chain will stop you and tell you to negotiate or by how much.
I've been impressed with the amount of information you get during a Tornado, especially the big ones. Of course, you have spotters on the ground and air along with a very clear radar signature ( when there is a debris ball involved ). They can forecast down to the city/block level at almost sub-minute resolution. Go and watch youtube videos of the Moore OK tornado and the coordination between everyone involved ( spotters, meteorologists, TV/Radio ) was pretty impressive given the circumstances.
Just buy SpaceX's suits, or pay them to develop one if the existing ones don't meet the requirements. I bet it would cost 1/1000 of NASA's existing budget projections.
If millions are on the line and you don't wake the CFO, he/she/it is going to be very angry. Chances are, if millions are on the line, the CFO will be waking you up even if the problem is technical.
the best part of the interactive portion is when it starts to turn into the music festival. For about 1.5 days you get the music people crossed with the nerds. It's a pretty funny juxtaposition. I went a few years ago, it's very big so unless you go with a specific agenda it's overwhelming. THe highlight when i went was stumbling into a small room of about 20 where some pinterest engineers were talking about how the scaled as Pinterest started taking off. I loved all their stories like "well, see, the main server was my chair for a while.. then we tried X but that didn't work so we switched to Y and that worked for about a week then we heard about Z so we tried that but.." It was very informative and entertaining.
Obviously SpaceX has calculated this but Id like to see a graph of the probability of flight failure of a rocket with 5 big engines and a rocket of 31 small engines. The more engines the higher the chance one will not work but also the higher the redundancy. The fewer engines the less chance one will not work but also the greater the chance one going out dooms the flight.
BFR is progressing nicely according to reports. I think the Heavy will have a short lifetime with the BFR taking over its role over the next 5 - 7 years. So amazing watching it lift off, i literally hung up after a fight with a sr. dev. right as it was taking off and so wasn't in the best of moods but it was pretty incredible nonetheless.
"And while these people will have many accomplishments under their belt, I'll bet some of them are going to wake up, look around and realize they've been giving 90 or 100 hours a week to an employer who just threw them out on the street."
that perspective or actual event happens at about 40 (I'm 41)
i can say "alexa, order me a pizza" and the delivery person shows up in a few minutes. That's pretty useful when my kid's friends come over. Another thing, it's amazing how useful "Alexa, set a timer for x minutes" is when you have kids. I personally like the news and "Alexa, wikipedia {whatever you want}". Overall I'm pretty happy with it, my dot cost $50 and I've paid a lot more for a lot less many times.
"One day, the janitor was out for a week. I was called out to fill the position in his absence. In fact, just to show how hard of a worker I was, I took extra effort to clean the restrooms and mops the floors more thoroughly. Never did see that guy come back to work. However, I was rewarded via holding the janitor position for the remainder of my employment (which I quit after six months). Why would I stick around?? I worked harder, and made LESS money as it was still minimum wage WITHOUT tips. Yeah, I said to myself "fuck this shit, I'm out of here!"."
you know, it's your own fucking fault you weren't rewarded and you know it. You have to negotiate these things, you volunteer to take on this other role and demonstrate your mastery and then you negotiate compensation for it. Is that what you did? No, you just went through the motions and then got pissed because no one held your hand and walked you to a bigger paycheck. Instead of doing the mature thing you just up and quit leaving everyone else wondering what happened.
If, after making your case, your employer stays fast and says no pay increase then you agree to disagree and part ways as professionals. Everyone knows where they stand and there's no mystery or hard feelings.
This kind of "oh poor me, look how bad i was treated for just being nice" is such utter bullshit it drives me crazy. If you don't ask, negotiate, and just be honest with yourself and your employer over these things then how could it possibly ever turn out any different?
I did a skill to get a t-shirt back when they were running that promotion. I would like to write more but how do you monetize skills? Last I checked there's not like a "skill store" or anything.
I have an echo dot and I love it but just use it for news and timers more or less. It's useful when you have kids because you use it for timeouts hah "Alexa! set a timer for 10 minutes!". I also use it for music but not very much since the dot speaker isn't all that great.
Whenever new MBPs come out I get the base 13" version, I'm on my 3rd or 4th. It fits my needs perfectly and I always know exactly what I'm getting and exactly how it works. I don't have to worry about hardware configuration, software configuration or anything. I just buy one, migrate my old one to my new one, then give my old one to my wife for personal use. Done and done.
A container is a package containing your application and designating how much of which version of the OS, libraries, file system, utilities, etc. it gets to see. It looks to the app like it's running on its own little machine, just like in a VM. But it's actually running (along with everything else) under the native Linux kernel, which is using several compartmentalization mechanisms to give the app its own, limited and tuned, view of task numbers, file system, tables, etc.
This is where I get lost with containers vs. virtualization. How does a container choose what version of the OS it gets to use if it runs under a given OS? The library aspects I think I get, assuming you're able to install multiple copies of the libraries or apps in question in the OS.
Or is that the part I don't get -- it's more like an app build process, where you essentially compile the app and install its binaries and linked libraries, including system libraries into the container? I guess this makes sense, but then I don't get how you're able to obtain OS portability for containers without essentially throwing every bit of the OS into the container it might need. Or do they not have OS portability, and the container is more or less locked to the OS it was built under?
At some point I'm curious how containers aren't just basically a method of obtaining what amounts to a statically linked binary with FS jails and networking baked into the container host.
The best advice I can give is save a year's salary first, then start with consulting/contracting work while building your product. Maybe you'll be able to stay alive long enough and transition from consulting/contracting to your product. Also, identify what you're not good at and find people who are and will give up their successful career to roll the dice on a shot in the dark ( not easy ). Finally, if you have a spouse make sure they're on board 100% and make sure they understand the odds and what failure means like no house, car, health insurance, savings etc.
"Being successful at these things is about as likely as getting struck by lightning at the bottom of a swimming pool. Well that's a bit much, the odds aren't that good actually." - paraphrased quote i read in some random startup book
A Cessna 172 is 27 feet long, and carries 4 people, including one or two pilots. This thing claims to be 10 to 15 feet long, and carry 10 passengers + a pilot or two? How's that gonna work?
maybe they mean 10 dead people shrink wrapped together
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In many states non-competes are DOA from a legal perspective and serve only as a scare tactic. However, you need to know the applicable law and your rights before signing any kind of contract. For example, would you sign a loan agreement without knowing the interest rate and your legal obligations?
Even if it's enforceable, unless you're taking a couple million worth of accounts or technology with you to a competitor the legal costs of enforcing a non-compete doesn't make it worth the trouble.
If you're ignorant to the way it works they'll happily take the $7k. Not a single entity in the chain will stop you and tell you to negotiate or by how much.
They should just award it to SpaceX now, no one else is going to come close in term of value/$
I've been impressed with the amount of information you get during a Tornado, especially the big ones. Of course, you have spotters on the ground and air along with a very clear radar signature ( when there is a debris ball involved ). They can forecast down to the city/block level at almost sub-minute resolution. Go and watch youtube videos of the Moore OK tornado and the coordination between everyone involved ( spotters, meteorologists, TV/Radio ) was pretty impressive given the circumstances.
Just buy SpaceX's suits, or pay them to develop one if the existing ones don't meet the requirements. I bet it would cost 1/1000 of NASA's existing budget projections.
I would love to have an old block4 standing on its landing legs outside a local museum. I hope they save some of them.
If millions are on the line and you don't wake the CFO, he/she/it is going to be very angry. Chances are, if millions are on the line, the CFO will be waking you up even if the problem is technical.
hope it was worth your job Brian. She's probably laughing her ass off right now
Since when are companies responsible for policing an individual's self control? This is even more ridiculous than the "nanny state".
the best part of the interactive portion is when it starts to turn into the music festival. For about 1.5 days you get the music people crossed with the nerds. It's a pretty funny juxtaposition. I went a few years ago, it's very big so unless you go with a specific agenda it's overwhelming. THe highlight when i went was stumbling into a small room of about 20 where some pinterest engineers were talking about how the scaled as Pinterest started taking off. I loved all their stories like "well, see, the main server was my chair for a while.. then we tried X but that didn't work so we switched to Y and that worked for about a week then we heard about Z so we tried that but.." It was very informative and entertaining.
No doubt we will see the paid trolls come here today and defend Chinese gov on this . Mao, part 2, here we come.
indeed, they were all over hackernews the other day. The Chinese economy is slowing, now this. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Obviously SpaceX has calculated this but Id like to see a graph of the probability of flight failure of a rocket with 5 big engines and a rocket of 31 small engines. The more engines the higher the chance one will not work but also the higher the redundancy. The fewer engines the less chance one will not work but also the greater the chance one going out dooms the flight.
BFR is progressing nicely according to reports. I think the Heavy will have a short lifetime with the BFR taking over its role over the next 5 - 7 years. So amazing watching it lift off, i literally hung up after a fight with a sr. dev. right as it was taking off and so wasn't in the best of moods but it was pretty incredible nonetheless.
some of my sys admin friends posted this on a slack channel i'm in, apparently it's a big deal
http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table
"My problem as I'm getting older (42 now...) "
"And while these people will have many accomplishments under their belt, I'll bet some of them are going to wake up, look around and realize they've been giving 90 or 100 hours a week to an employer who just threw them out on the street."
that perspective or actual event happens at about 40 (I'm 41)
i can say "alexa, order me a pizza" and the delivery person shows up in a few minutes. That's pretty useful when my kid's friends come over. Another thing, it's amazing how useful "Alexa, set a timer for x minutes" is when you have kids. I personally like the news and "Alexa, wikipedia {whatever you want}". Overall I'm pretty happy with it, my dot cost $50 and I've paid a lot more for a lot less many times.
"One day, the janitor was out for a week. I was called out to fill the position in his absence. In fact, just to show how hard of a worker I was, I took extra effort to clean the restrooms and mops the floors more thoroughly. Never did see that guy come back to work. However, I was rewarded via holding the janitor position for the remainder of my employment (which I quit after six months). Why would I stick around?? I worked harder, and made LESS money as it was still minimum wage WITHOUT tips. Yeah, I said to myself "fuck this shit, I'm out of here!"."
you know, it's your own fucking fault you weren't rewarded and you know it. You have to negotiate these things, you volunteer to take on this other role and demonstrate your mastery and then you negotiate compensation for it. Is that what you did? No, you just went through the motions and then got pissed because no one held your hand and walked you to a bigger paycheck. Instead of doing the mature thing you just up and quit leaving everyone else wondering what happened.
If, after making your case, your employer stays fast and says no pay increase then you agree to disagree and part ways as professionals. Everyone knows where they stand and there's no mystery or hard feelings.
This kind of "oh poor me, look how bad i was treated for just being nice" is such utter bullshit it drives me crazy. If you don't ask, negotiate, and just be honest with yourself and your employer over these things then how could it possibly ever turn out any different?
I did a skill to get a t-shirt back when they were running that promotion. I would like to write more but how do you monetize skills? Last I checked there's not like a "skill store" or anything.
I have an echo dot and I love it but just use it for news and timers more or less. It's useful when you have kids because you use it for timeouts hah "Alexa! set a timer for 10 minutes!". I also use it for music but not very much since the dot speaker isn't all that great.
The world's missing mosquitos are in my backyard. Everyone is welcome to them, just let me know when you want to come pick them up.
I'd like to be able to type "i didn't explain that well but you know what i mean" and have that compile to the correct logic.
The 911 is pretty much the best sports car on the planet that can still be used as a daily driver
You misspelled Nissan GT-R.
This is the equivalent of arguing over page 4 vs page 5 of a Victoria Secret lingerie catalog. You both are right, both cars are works of art.
Whenever new MBPs come out I get the base 13" version, I'm on my 3rd or 4th. It fits my needs perfectly and I always know exactly what I'm getting and exactly how it works. I don't have to worry about hardware configuration, software configuration or anything. I just buy one, migrate my old one to my new one, then give my old one to my wife for personal use. Done and done.
A container is a package containing your application and designating how much of which version of the OS, libraries, file system, utilities, etc. it gets to see. It looks to the app like it's running on its own little machine, just like in a VM. But it's actually running (along with everything else) under the native Linux kernel, which is using several compartmentalization mechanisms to give the app its own, limited and tuned, view of task numbers, file system, tables, etc.
This is where I get lost with containers vs. virtualization. How does a container choose what version of the OS it gets to use if it runs under a given OS? The library aspects I think I get, assuming you're able to install multiple copies of the libraries or apps in question in the OS.
Or is that the part I don't get -- it's more like an app build process, where you essentially compile the app and install its binaries and linked libraries, including system libraries into the container? I guess this makes sense, but then I don't get how you're able to obtain OS portability for containers without essentially throwing every bit of the OS into the container it might need. Or do they not have OS portability, and the container is more or less locked to the OS it was built under?
At some point I'm curious how containers aren't just basically a method of obtaining what amounts to a statically linked binary with FS jails and networking baked into the container host.
It all pretty much started here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The best advice I can give is save a year's salary first, then start with consulting/contracting work while building your product. Maybe you'll be able to stay alive long enough and transition from consulting/contracting to your product. Also, identify what you're not good at and find people who are and will give up their successful career to roll the dice on a shot in the dark ( not easy ). Finally, if you have a spouse make sure they're on board 100% and make sure they understand the odds and what failure means like no house, car, health insurance, savings etc.
"Being successful at these things is about as likely as getting struck by lightning at the bottom of a swimming pool. Well that's a bit much, the odds aren't that good actually." - paraphrased quote i read in some random startup book
A Cessna 172 is 27 feet long, and carries 4 people, including one or two pilots. This thing claims to be 10 to 15 feet long, and carry 10 passengers + a pilot or two? How's that gonna work?
maybe they mean 10 dead people shrink wrapped together