Cyranix

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I've got a Visa debit card through CIBC, but it confuses every merchant I hand it to, so I'm not sure it's even worth it.
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Related question: How would one write this without the elinks dependency, using curl or wget?
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Missed opportunity: promo video should have been 1 second long.
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In two places that I've worked, the pendulum swung quite far in the other direction -- 20% time was instituted because the people whose roles involved creating a product vision (business development, management, etc.) were unable to introdu
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Looking forward to digging through the source code on this one. Pleasantly surprised that text selection with both mouse and keyboard worked intuitively and smoothly (Ubuntu/Chrome) -- usually I'd expect this kind of trickery to break down
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The room-cleaning metaphor isn't as apt as you think. The metaphor I have found most helpful, heard from several other voices, is the garden-tending one. There's a reductio ad absurdum open in the room-cleaning premise. I could write a mi
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As amusing as the parody is, it's tough to beat the original. Honestly, who cares about an update to Chess?
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Can you list them? The one I'm familiar with is Goodreads, but if there are others, I'm interested.
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American expat in Canada here. Agreed that the compensation is not as competitive as in the US, and the prospect of living in bustling NY or sunny Cali is probably quite alluring for Canadian programmers to boot. (Having moved from Texas, I
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Not a scientific test by any means, but for a quick and dirty take on the matter, here's the Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment courtesy of Coding Horror: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/concluding-the-grea...
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Perhaps "complete" is not the right adjective -- something along the lines of "appropriate" might be more fitting. I was driving at "complete" with respect to the purpose of a given assignment. I think that the article makes a strong case,
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As mentioned in the other reply, it's not about humiliation; succeeding in the overt task of writing badly doesn't directly imply failure in the task of writing well. In fact, I would expect some of the brightest students -- especially the
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If I ever go back to language teaching, I think I've just come up with an engaging and rewarding lesson: * assign students the task of writing an N-word or -page paper and explicitly instruct them to use as much fluff as possible (creat
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Left this as a comment on the blog posting, but felt it might be worth reiterating here: An important addendum to "I will use existing libraries where possible" -- you should also pledge to share those implementations freely. Thi
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... Rice University?
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I'm on Vancouver Island, and I hear quite a bit about the housing prices in Vancouver. Random semi-recent article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/03...
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Out west in the Vancouver area, I hear talk of many companies trying to band together to promote the tech sector, in an effort to turn things around. But as for right now, I agree that it's pretty bleak. I do see quite a number of nice job
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Some of my favorite data presentations recently have come from NYTimes online. Why? Simple: they're interactive, allowing me to explore the data and the relationships embedded therein. They're often very elegant designs, too, partly as a
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Do you pay US taxes?
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Cached version has finally come through: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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Although many of us would like to get that feedback, there are reasons not to give specific feedback to job candidates: it prevents you from making any statements that could be held against you (esp. legally); it doesn't take time away fr
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"Singularity is near"? "Holy grail"? You may be getting a little carried away here. The outcome shows a very nice improvement on an unsupervised classification and feature detection task, but it also highlights that unsupervised machine lea
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Exactly. An expectation to perform during personal time is not what the introverts on your team need.
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I believe that TLDs with A records should resolve correctly if you add a period to the end, as in " http://ac. . As I recall, this came up when the " http://to. link shortener [no longer available] was discussed a while ago.
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I'm usually not among the grammar police, but leading right off the bat with "Us developers" instead of "We developers" stuck out quite a bit. Also, the fuzzy timestamp has a duplicated "about". Nothing against the actual content of the pag
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I didn't pick up on her business being "shady" -- what exactly indicates that?
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I also write a short acknowledgment form that the employee will sign and that confirms what happened. It makes clear that the employee was responsible and that the reason for the firing has been explained. When I was fired from my first p
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So... the fact that Google also has some Stanford background doesn't seem pertinent to you? What an unusual knee-jerk reaction.
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The only possible explanation I can think of is that such a statement would be targeting the non-Anglo Canadian residents, who may be able to live in relative isolation from what we'd consider mainstream North American culture. Even that ex
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Yep, that's the juicy excerpt. Other bits that I found salient from the ruling, on patent vs. copyright: Much of Oracle’s evidence at trial went to show that the design of methods in an API was a creative endeavor. Of course

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