nknight

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by nknight 14y ago
Many things end up in court that are not ambiguous, which is why summary judgement[1] exists. Although it is usually impossible to predict the outcome of a vaguely-defined case (I hit and killed you with my car, am I liable?), a case where
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by nknight 14y ago
The "after you gave notice" part in particular is quite stupid. It will simply encourage people to wait longer to give notice, or not give notice at all. Were I leaving a company amicably and had no other constraint on my time (say I'm plan
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by nknight 14y ago
It's not ambiguous, it's fact-specific, and a court in such a situation would look to questions of fairness and reasonableness under the circumstances. Absent an extended delay that caused meaningful harm to the company, the employee would
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by nknight 14y ago
That's exactly what he's trying to do. This isn't an apology or an admission of any wrongdoing, it's an obvious attempt to reshape perception of their original actions by pretending their motives were different than they really were. Motive
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by nknight 14y ago
You have announced to the world, entirely of your own accord, that you will flout the law and steal money from your employees. This is your doing, not mine. Is it also your habit to blame others for your own shortcomings?
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by nknight 14y ago
Touch a piece of sandpaper, it "feels" rough. But there's no emotion. If you must, substitute "believes" for "feels" in this scenario and you'll probably understand better.
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by nknight 14y ago
Your loyalty to your employees should include respect for contracts and the law. This man satisfied the conditions for payment of the bonus before he left the company, he is entitled to the money. That you would not give it to him makes you
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by nknight 14y ago
Insulting him and telling him he shouldn't ask for money he is clearly owed because of a mistake we've all made. Actually, that second part is an insult, too. So, really, just being incredibly insulting. That you wouldn't ask for the money
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by nknight 14y ago
> It's a rookie mistake. It's a mistake I've seen people with 20 years of experience make. If you haven't done it already, you will eventually. When that day comes, I hope, but don't expect, you'll remember to apologize to this guy. &
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by nknight 14y ago
The mindset you speak of, using words like "client" and "contact the decision maker", is associated with people who are used to having a great deal more power and influence than somebody hired to be a data entry grunt. The mindset may be us
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by nknight 14y ago
Accounting principles, tax law, and theft laws are far easier for the layman to understand than programming. They deal with accounting and taxes in their everyday lives, and they understand it's wrong to steal. The principles are taught to
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by nknight 14y ago
They're meant to maintain control by the people over the judiciary, it has nothing to do with "common sense". In this case particularly, the problem is lack of un common sense. You cannot expect non-engineers to understand that rangeCheck
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by nknight 14y ago
You're mostly right, kind of. I'm going to try and explain this, but it's not particularly easy. The confusion comes from both the nature of the "fair use" defense and the collision of legal vocabulary and common language. Fair use is an
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by nknight 14y ago
I am aware of all the information behind your assertions, so no, I am not "badly misinformed", thanks, I simply reach very different conclusions than you do.
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by nknight 14y ago
Look very closely at what I actually said . The meme I speak of is not "insolvency" generally, but insolvency due to a specific cause. > disclosure: non-American Which may explain why you're not familiar with the particulars of the m
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by nknight 14y ago
> Not being able to pay your outgoings is the definition of insolvency, friend. Didn't say it wasn't. Try not randomly reshuffling the words. You'll get a much clearer picture of what I actually said.
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by nknight 14y ago
The Republican-invented meme of social security insolvency because it didn't account for life expectancy increases is tired and worn out. The reality is that the architects of it were nowhere near that stupid, and they accounted for evolvin
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by nknight 14y ago
Mailman, the original BitTorrent client, Gentoo's Portage/emerge tools, yum, Eve Online, and a large swathe of 90s-era Red Hat Linux system configuration tools have all been written in Python, all predating Django and your "Ruby backlash" t
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by nknight 14y ago
Uh, yeah, no, that's not my idea of a good user interface. If anything, you've just convinced me never to touch pf.
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by nknight 14y ago
Even were it adequately explained, it would still be underused, being a pretty crappy interface. I find it virtually the antithesis of iptables, whose syntax and meaning is fairly intuitive and easy both to remember, and derive from a few e
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by nknight 14y ago
You're not understanding what tnash said at all. Each of the utilities you list is a "dumb pipe". The utility company doesn't dictate what you do with the utility, and they don't charge you a different price for running a lightbulb vs. a wa
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by nknight 14y ago
I'm still able to reliably bypass the autocompletion just hitting enter, any reasonably fast typist would. It's not even just the 25ms, it's the actual time to execute the autocompletion code. Hitting the search button with the mouse also b
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by nknight 14y ago
Just hit enter fast enough: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14571816/pricenomics%20car.mov
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by nknight 14y ago
... What is that "car" in the picture?
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by nknight 14y ago
C++ is a lot stricter about a lot of things, and C++11 added some explicit GC-related language, but I have little desire to parse that particular 10MB document. Bjarne covers it in his FAQ, at least: http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/C++0xF
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by nknight 14y ago
Actually, the behavior is a combination of undefined and implementation defined. To the extent that it's implementation defined, it may still result in nasal demons, but they have to be documented nasal demons. Point is, it's strictly non-p
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by nknight 14y ago
I really don't understand the objections. It's quite easy and obvious to me, has been since I was a little kid and was first confronted with sealed bags and packets like that, and I have exceedingly poor coordination.
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by nknight 14y ago
It's technically undefined behavior, but in practice it will work perfectly well on almost all C implementations, and in the infinitesimal number of cases where this structure is actually useful, portability isn't a major concern.
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by nknight 14y ago
Well, you're doing it wrong. From the perspective of a right-hander: Hold the bag upright with the notch on the left, use your left hand to grasp the upper-left corner, while using your right thumb and index finger to begin tearing downward
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by nknight 14y ago
No, Thomas, it isn't, because I'm not arguing you are wrong because it's you making the statements. On the contrary, as I said, you are largely correct. I'm arguing you're being an ass. Separate issue.

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