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Parts of the Bradley Manning Wikileaks trial to be closed to the public(washingtonpost.com)
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by Ovid 13y ago
The giveaway is this line: > The research paper, which hasn’t yet undergone peer review , seems to confirm ...
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by Ovid 13y ago
Particularly for the non-programming roles, I recommend the One Minute Manager ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Minute-Manager-Kenneth-Blanchard/d... ). This was written long before agile became a "thing", but it was a way of managing effectivel
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by Ovid 13y ago
One interesting thing I noticed here: my wife obtained her Masters in French law for just over €2,000 . Many universities here in Europe are free or very low cost (often £150 per semester). It's the poorly-subsidized, "for profit" nature o
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by Ovid 13y ago
The labor shortages are on both sides. However, the visa system in the US is horribly broken ( http://www.overseas-exile.com/2013/04/whos-hiring-h1b-visa-w... ). Further, with the introduction of the European Blue Card ( http://www.overseas
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by Ovid 13y ago
The article was good, but there are a few issues. My background: I went to uni to be an economist, but I'm now a freelance software consultant/trainer. Also, for years I've written a blog about how to be an expat and on top of that, my wife
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by Ovid 13y ago
Recently, my wife and I started a company and she's handling the international IT recruiting side (I do consulting/training) and for years I've written a blog about how to be an expat. I'm actually a freelance software engineer with a backg
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by Ovid 13y ago
From the announcement: http://www.wumpus-cave.net/?p=12 > The current library supports basic commands, such as takeoff, pitch, roll, yaw, vert speed, and land. All the preprogrammed flight animations are also in place. Navigation dat
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Video: UAV drone flight controlled buy software written in Perl(youtube.com)
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Germany Army gears up for cyber war(news.techeye.net)
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Surround Video: BBC beats Microsoft with its own immersive TV project(theverge.com)
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by Ovid 13y ago
I live in France. Firing fast is generally very illegal :)
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May I ask what sort of position this was for?
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Ask HN: Do you call the references or past employers of candidates?
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Do-it-yourself invisibility with 3D printing?(phys.org)
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by Ovid 13y ago
I've always thought of him as "Steve 'why do I still have my job?' Balmer".
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by Ovid 13y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification!
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The German entity who tried to trademark "hackathon" is now trying to undo that(twitter.com)
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by Ovid 13y ago
As an ex-COBOL programmer, I did some research in this area and I uncovered the following (from a 2009 blog post of mine). -- Do a little research into COBOL and a few interesting things jump out at you. Some of this information is from Gar
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by Ovid 13y ago
I just kept recompiling it until it tasted right.
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by Ovid 13y ago
Yes, that's a good point. At least it's a start (though I'm dubious about some assumptions the code makes regarding time zones).
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by Ovid 13y ago
As someone who had some fun (er, not) during the Y2K debacle, I can promise you it's a lot more than just altering databases or patching a few bits of code. Sometimes the code is impossible to understand. For example, one program named all
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by Ovid 13y ago
You're right, but there's a catch-22: my wife and I are starting a company focusing on helping people move to other countries. For recruiting, we currently only work with companies who sponsor work permits and help with relocation. Thus, I
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by Ovid 13y ago
Actually, a friend of mine has written a fix for it ( https://github.com/schwern/y2038 ) in C. Just use the new functions and you're probably good. It's under an MIT license, so have fun with it. Me? I'm waiting for the idiots who claim it'
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by Ovid 13y ago
Well, I do remember years ago when I helped a colleague debug a problem with a web app. Seems that IE was the only browser we could find that crashed with %00 in the URL. I'm pretty certain there was a NUL byte exploit we could have dug i
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by Ovid 13y ago
And reducing bandwidth via a brilliant anti-SEO strategy. * Useless URLS? Check. * Eye-gougingly ugly design? Check. * Densely packed content with tiny font? Check. And have lots of fun reading the source.
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by Ovid 13y ago
Note to self: don't post replies when you first wake up. Those typos are humiliating :(
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I'm an American who's lived in five countries and currently lives in Paris, France with my French wife and our French-American daughter (and if you're curious, I have a blog about how you can move abroad, too: http://www.overseas-exile.com
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by Ovid 13y ago
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Work permit and relocation assistance provided. Hiring for two different companies, both of whom will pay your relocation. Company 1: Looking for UX designers, front-end and back-end developers. UX designer: use Phot
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by Ovid 13y ago
And the best Web sites to go with them?

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