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by Ovid 13y ago
Is this really the America that America wants? The article mentions one case where a judge refused to issue a search warrant for a narcotics investigation and instead the police brought representatives from the Virginia Department of Alcoho
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by Ovid 13y ago
Have you considered adding a "recommend days" field to your product? Given the number of people per experiment and the number of conversions, you could potentially calculate a minimum time to run the experiment and simply explain
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by Ovid 13y ago
This scares the hell out of me. The idea of "overclocking" our brains by electrical stimulation is very new and we have no idea of the long-term effects of this. People who are desperate for an edge are the likely market and I sus
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by Ovid 13y ago
As soon as significance is achieved, we show a "winner" If you've described that accurately, you're hurting some of your customers. It's not well-known (though it should be obvious, in retrospect), but a test can
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by Ovid 13y ago
Hmm, very interesting quote (emphasis mine): > If we see consistently that people, for instance, don't like playing with you, that you're consistently blocked, that you're the subject of enforcement actions because you&#x
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by Ovid 13y ago
Slashdot is focused on a particular audience, unlike Reddit, thus suggesting that comments may be more targeted and useful than the typical "OP is a fag" idiocy. On the other hand, checkout http://www.reddit.com/r&
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by Ovid 13y ago
A bunch of "single post" accounts all designed to attack one company? Add in someone impersonating brian d foy, a well known Perl dev (and you use almost exactly the same wording) and it really looks like you're a disgruntled
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by Ovid 13y ago
Allow me to rewrite that first paragraph: > If I could, I would repeal the assembly line. It is the technological marvel of the age, but it is not — as most people imagine — a symbol of progress. Just the opposite. We would be better off
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by Ovid 13y ago
If it helps, I'm a real hacker :) Here's some of my open-source code: https://github.com/Ovid Here's some more of my open-source code: http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/ Here's my tech b
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by Ovid 13y ago
> edit: now I did downvote it for posting a duplicate where a simple list of countries would have sufficed. Um, uh, er. Yeah, you're right, darn it. I didn't think about that (duh), but in retrospect, it should have been obviou
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by Ovid 13y ago
That's a fair point and a very enlightening post. Thanks for sharing it :) So far we've not really gotten much direct hate from folks, but it happens from time to time. I suspect the fact that we're trying to help people mo
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by Ovid 13y ago
Yup, we're a recruitment company (amongst other things). However, we're very specialized. We focus on international IT recruiting where companies are willing to sponsor you for a work permit (or the local equivalent). This is bec
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by Ovid 13y ago
Sorry, many dynamic languages prevent against this. For example: $ perl -Mstrict -E 'say $foo' Global symbol "$foo" requires explicit package name at -e line 1. Also, his comment about properties on objects
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by Ovid 13y ago
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Work permit and relocation assistance provided. We want developers who like to have fun and socialize outside of work, but care about their jobs, too. We're looking for UX designers, front-end and back-end devel
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by Ovid 13y ago
Hanover, Germany. Work Permit/Blue Card and Relocation Assistance Provided. Several positions available: - Two strong Perl developers with testing, refactoring, and "Modern Perl" experience. - A DevOps person. As DevOps, not
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by Ovid 13y ago
Given that the second paragraph makes factually incorrect claims about what you can detect at compile time in dynamic languages, I think "debatable" is rather kind :) Of course, sweeping generalizations about static versus dynamic
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by Ovid 13y ago
You're welcome. Most Americans back home (we expats often call them "homelanders") have never heard of FATCA. It was a law recently passed which stated that every foreign financial institution (FFI) had to turn over informati
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by Ovid 13y ago
Right now, non-US based cloud services are using the PATRIOT Act as a way of selling themselves ( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/12/patriot-act-and-p... ). As an example from that article: BAE Systems
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by Ovid 13y ago
papaver, I can understand your being upset and I want to apologize. In going back through our mail queue I can find your email in a backup mailbox I use, but we can't find it in the main mailbox. In fact, you say you received a response, bu
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by Ovid 13y ago
I have contacted the real brian d foy and he confirms that this is an imposter.
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by Ovid 13y ago
I have received an email from brian d foy and he confirms that this poster is an imposter.
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by Ovid 13y ago
It's not for freelancers, no. You can go to Germany and stay up there for up to six months while looking for work, but to get a Blue Card, you have to have a contract with an annual salary attached to it. Your Blue Card is good for the leng
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by Ovid 13y ago
brian (if this is indeed the same brian d foy, I don't know since he always uses 'd' with his name, per his style guide: http://www252.pair.com/comdog/style.html ), I'm rather surprised to see you writing this. First, it should be clear th
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by Ovid 13y ago
Thanks for the kind words :) For the Blue Card, you can change employers as much as you want because it's attached to the employee rather than the employer. Further, depending on the country, after two or three years, you can then legally
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by Ovid 13y ago
Hanover, Germany. Work Permit/Blue Card and Relocation Assistance Provided. Looking for strong Perl developers for a company in Hanover, Germany. They're stable, profitable and they've been in business for years. Hanover is a beautiful, bik
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by Ovid 13y ago
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Work permit and relocation assistance provided. We want developers who like to have fun and socialize outside of work, but care about their jobs, too. We're looking for UX designers, front-end and back-end developers
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by Ovid 13y ago
Much to my surprise, it's https://github.com/Ovid/DB--Color Screenshot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/publius_ovidius/5208642982/ That's my work to bring syntax highlighting to the Perl debugger. It involves some deep magic with the debu
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by Ovid 13y ago
I've been writing a Web-based, multi-player text adventure which is sort of a cross between Firefly and Mad Max, spanning all star systems in a 20 light-year radius around the remains of Sol. I have a lot of the core work done, with a Perl/
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by Ovid 13y ago
This is, at best, a first-pass alpha, but a highly promising one. Further, the student apparently understood the reason for the errors and offered an inexpensive way to fix them. What would you have wanted int the title? "Student takes Goo
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by Ovid 13y ago
Apple's calling a single digit tax rate a "reasonable rate"? You've got to be kidding me. Apple's profits have astounding for years and it's not like the taxes have hurt it (to be fair, they've been legally sheltering money offshore in low-

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