The mere existence of such a strict dress code should have been already a warning sign against petitions, but yeah a greenhorn could not know this - millennial or not. It's very true that businesses should not be equated with democracies.
Now, what would I have done instead? Quit, heck, I wouldn't even have interviewed there (although I'm older so cannot compare). First of all I value input from everybody INCLUDING interns and secondly if I don't want the customer to see butt cracks there's no need to require the whole company to wear matching suits (aka, there are much milder ways).
That's the real tragedy in all this: not having any spark of hope. Unfortunately I'm not sure all the SYRIZA voters realize how bad they've been cheated. But that's history already. What from now? What can the humble Greek citizen hope, when all s/he gets from the leaders is finger-pointing but no real measures? I really hope the actual accord (for lack of anything else) will bring you some stability and you can find a party or something really representing the _working_ people and recognizing their needs, including the need to stick with the other Europeans. Yes, we'd very much like to keep you around, hopefully not with crooks as leaders (and only you alone can manage that).
I am one of these citizens.
There are two possibilities:
1. You believe in Europe. You understand there are faults in the Euro design that bring to this situation. You try to fix the problem with the minimum of suffering of European citizens.
2. You don't care about "Europe" you only want your money back: If this is the case, you should implement some kind of agreement that leave the debtors to recover enough to pay something.
Nothing of that is happening.
What is going on is that I, a European citizen, give public money from my taxes to the Greek government so he can repair private debts to French and German banks and now that they are free of the mess, we are going to destroy the Greek economy because..
well because they are lazy and they really deserve it. Who cares if we don't get the money back. At least they will learn a lesson.
Oh yes, and they should privatize everything, stop collective bargaining and put their assets under German control.
Um, actually what was going on so far was that I, a European citizen, gave public money from my taxes to the Greek government to do nothing of use - neither for the Greek citizen, nor for me. So there's also a possibility number 3 which means don't trust those guys, which is unfortunately exactly what's going on right now. Both the former and the actual Greek rulers lied big time - to the EU AND to their people, whatever is worse it's everyone's to decide.
The situation would have been worse if we hadn't, by the end of last year Greece was only paying 3% of GDP to service its debts, private banks would have wanted much more.
I find it interest that in the last few days many of the negative comments about Greece come from accounts with very low karma. Are you guys on a crusade of ridicule or something?
I'm sure most HN users can empathize with how strongly you naturally feel about this, but please follow the site rules. Everyone needs to remain civil when commenting on HN, especially when emotions run high. It's the only way to preserve the community.
It's one thing getting your side of the story, and another one blatantly overflooding the forums with your side of the story. In electoral campaigns there are rules against such practices, but bought reviews or fake followers are issues way more difficult to address.
And as somebody else put it, financial institutions seldom try to justify with it an invasion of other countries.
The Romanian independent press publishes from time to time inquiries (sometimes undercover) about similar paid structures used by local parties (PDL, PSD...) during electoral campaigns and not only. First time I've read how they are organized and how much they get paid was like in 2009 (here the Google Translate version https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...), but I'm sure the technique is in place since long.
Very good remark! Storm by default implements at-least-once semantics. If a bolt process executed an event and failed right away without acknowledging, an execution would get replayed (so you would buy/sell twice). However, there's a remedy! By sacrifacing latency you can have exactly-once-semantics, see Trident, Summingbird.
So one builds a model in Reflex based on the requirements, then tests that model. Even when the requirements are complete (which often they are not), the real life implementation afterwards may still bring zillions of problems (my own bugs, using a bad framework, whatever) which this model testing cannot catch... eh.
1) The code that users write in Reflex is the code that actually runs. This means that any guarantee about a Reflex program is a guarantee about the real life implementation of that program.
2) Reflex does not use testing to verify a user's code. Instead, Reflex automatically produces fully machine checkable proofs that user-provided code satisfies user-provided specifications. Machine checkable proofs (in a proof assistant) provide the strongest possible guarantee about one's code.
