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That makes sense, and I like your level of focus.

How are banks responding to your services? In insurance, we’re having a very soft market due to all the capital sloshing around the system. I imagine it can be challenging for lenders to impose significant risk controls when there’s alternative financing so cheaply available.

My wife works on climate change advocacy on the nonprofit side. Are you working with any advocacy organizations? Presumably they’re an important part of your approach.

I work in insurance, which I imagine faces similar challenges to banks. I’d like to know more about what you’re working on and your approach.

Indeed--people with rigorous analytical skills, weak math backgrounds, and limited job prospects seem the ideal market for code camps.

At the very least, it's a lot more money than they made renting wi-fi access during the event in question. Therefore, this behavior is unprofitable and will stop.

It's also enough to get the people who decided to do this fired.

FWIW, to the extent you spoke out in protest of unfair working conditions, it possibly could have been a violation of federal labor laws.

http://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/protected-concerted-ac...

Yes, most employees have labor rights, even if they're not in a union. Check out:

http://www.nlrb.gov/resources/faq/nlrb

Who knows if it could help, but you might want to contact the NLRB.

http://www.nlrb.gov/what-we-do/investigate-charges

Mostly, though, I wish you luck finding a decent job. That company sounds awful.

I'm a current Tonx subscriber, and I bought Blue Bottle when you could only get it from that hole in the wall on Linden Lane.

But for some reason this announcement still feels like a loss to me. It's probably my aversion to all those SF people who rave about Blue Bottle, but get drinks that drown out the coffee flavor with milk and sugar.

But it'll probably work out for the best.

I went to Wesleyan, and I graduated with only five semesters on campus in part to keep costs down. So, I appreciate the purpose behind this policy.

However, it doesn't change the fact that tuition is almost $47k/year, which is just a staggering amount of money for most families. And that's before room and board, etc. Forcing someone to cram four years of college into three to save 20% on $240k+ isn't especially helpful.

Alpha House was really, really good. Even so, I wouldn't sign up for Prime just for Alpha House. If Amazon is serious about it's own content, bundling it with a free 2-day shipping subscription probably doesn't make sense.

If you're interested, you can read the complaint on the SF Superior Court's website. [1]

[1] http://webaccess.sftc.org/Scripts/Magic94/mgrqispi94.dll?APP...

You could run System 7 on a 128K Mac? That's crazy.

Yes, the law applies to any "operator of a commercial Web site or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California who use or visit its commercial Web site or online service."

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...

(That website hasn't been updated yet to reflect the changes made by this new law.)

He was very smart, and his lectures were a lot of fun. What made him a great poetry teacher was that he didn't care about what poems "mean"; what mattered was the effect they had on the reader.

I can't tell you how liberating this was. For years I had felt that I just didn't understand poetry, but Prof. Booth told us that poems are just candy for the mind. All the rest is just pretense. And he meant it too.

The final paper was a eight-page analysis of the last four lines of Paradise Lost. So you'd take the phrase, "The world was all before them," and you'd see that this line suggests several meaning to the reader. E.g., the world (God's creation) was complete before Adam and Eve; or that the world (the entirety of human history) was in front of Adam and Eve; etc.

More than anything, he taught poetry as a kind of game. It was so much fun.

The last class was truly great--he did a close reading of the children's book Go, Dog. Go!. So entertaining. Sadly I don't have my notes anymore, but you should search for other people's write-ups of the Go, Dog. Go! lecture online. It's honestly one of the top five lectures I've ever seen.

+1 for Stephen Booth. I was fortunate enough to take his 17th century English poetry class at Cal. He's the only lecturer who could make poetry resonate with my geek brain.

It's funny how some classes stay with you over the years.

I'm not too keen on trademark law, but as I understand it the point to including an (R) symbol is to provide notice that a mark is registered with the USPTO.

Why does notice matter? It doesn't excuse infringement if the (R) is missing. However, if you infringe on a trademark, damages are due from the date that you know or should know that the mark is registered. So if you register a mark for your obscure brand of shoe trees or whatever, it makes sense to include the (R) wherever you can.

Now who doesn't have this problem? Apple, for one. Unless you've been living under a tree for 35 years, you know that if you sell computers with an Apple logo on the front, you're infringing on a famous registered trademark.

Yahoo also doesn't have this problem, so who knows why they felt they needed to include the (R). During the original dotcom bubble, some companies were notably overzealous about IP, so they may have gone all in at the time only to revisit it now.