ScottWhigham

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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
It could be both misinterpreting the data and not misinterpreting the data though. Let me explain... The argument for misinterpreting the data is easy to use when you account for time zones. If (a) I'm in the US and (b) I notice that m
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
"... so far as I can tell." Look - anyone of us can just spout our opinion. What separates HN is that people take the time to explain their reasons and often credentials. If you said, "Here's why and BTW I've worked
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
IANAL so maybe I'm reading this wrong - please correct me if so - but is the penalty really just "The circuit court also may award to the Commonwealth a civil penalty of not more than $2,500 for each violation, reasonable expenses
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
The problem I have with this question - other than I don't think it's a very good question to "immediately disqualify" someone on based on their answer - is that "the right answer" is formulaic. There is one an
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Without more info about what your work or life are about, it's hard to suggest something too specific. Since we're being generic, I'd say that it's hard to beat the value of learning how relational databases work. Focus
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Maybe this is good generic advice to some, but this is not how to "pass" a technical interview. In a technical interview, the interviewer needs to determine where your skills lie - would your skills fit within the team? Does what&
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
The easy response is, "What? California wants to tax something? And at a high percentage? How is this news?" I don't get the vitriol against the flippers in this scenario. Don't they provide a valuable service? I've
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Terms that I understand would be helpful. For example, what is a "platform marketer"?
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Ask HN: 15 months after Google Reader shut down, what's the state of RSS?
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
I've been paleo for about a year now and, while I like the results, we're talking about a 35 woman study (70 total women divided into two groups). That's the basis for an alpha study, not a conclusive result. I'd love to
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Are you answering the same question OP asks though? By definition, "notes" are your personal summary/questions/ideas about what's being presented. Your notes might refer to the words in the presentation, or the vide
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Is that anything new though? I don't know the historical pay rates for FBI jobs but I wouldn't assume that they've undergone significant budget cuts.
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Is it okay to resubmit the article a few times throughout the day to see if it gets traction? \ It's not as polarized as your question implies. Yes, it is spamming if you resubmit "a few times throughout the day". No, it&#x2
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
I would assume it's because of this line: You could replace "CrossFit" with "college" (or a lot of other things in life) That's just an absurd statement. It implies that the problem is you - your over-trainin
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Checked it out - left after a click and a few scrolls because I could find no actual examples of what I would get if I signed up. I spent probably 10-15 seconds on the page which is probably what most folks would do. If I can't find wh
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Well, to play devil's advocate, 'planning for the unexpected' should also cover 'a client calls at the last minute with a rush job', shouldn't it? In that case, how is an Adobe outage the consultant's faul
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
When I visit the new page and upvote, it doesn't increment either even after upvoting then refreshing the page. But did it always do that? I don't think so - I think that, in the past, it would have incremented even without a refr
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
I found it difficult to find the specs + price. It's here: http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/shop-all-other/Moto-E/m... $129.99 US w/ no contract Processor: Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 200 with 1.
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
but I think it would be hard to argue that 50% of costs in running a online training course are administrative... Udemy needs to either offer more value to earn their cut, or optimize so they can afford to take less. Your comment might
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
MSFT is a public company and you can look at the annual/quarterly reports to glean the revenue from Win7/Win8/etc (which, IMO, offers insight). http://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar13/dow
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
FYI for those searching for this on Android: (1) it isn't on Amazon yet (or at least I couldn't find it), and (2) to find it on Google Play, you have to search for Gabriele Cirulli if you want to find the actual game he's tal
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Did anyone make the conscious choice to be a bad employee but a good parent? That is such a great question that it made me stop and re-think your entire post. I absolutely love that. I never have but I can envision someone who could do th
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Two MIT students have raised half a million dollars for a project to distribute $100 in bitcoin to every undergraduate student at MIT this fall.... The bulk of funding for the project is being provided by MIT alumni with significant additi
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
I'm trying to understand what precisely there is that could be considered "offensive". Can you give us an idea of what inspired your post? I'm trying to grasp just what it is that would offend someone - is it the charact
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
It took me a while to "get it" mostly b/c I've been conditioned to think this was going to actually be yet another Wikipedia redesign haha. In typically web scanning mode, I skipped over (what I thought was the image cap
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
As the parent of 6 and 10 year old boys, I do not let them watch the show. "Why?!" you ask? Because I can't trust the commercials shown by Cartoon Network. I've recorded shows for myself on CN and the commercials are...
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
The second argument does not hold: maryjane and mаryjаne are similar but are different sequences of bytes. You're nit-picking with that attempt at an argument. If I'm a moderator of a large forum and my user name is "MaryJa
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Why, oh why, is this on HN with 12 points? Is it tied to someone here? It just seems like your every day, run of the mill announcement.
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Please educate me - what is an "encrypted email port"? This is a term I don't know. I feel a bit silly asking TBH but it happens to us all from time to time, I suppose...
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Is there such a thing as an "ideal blog platform for a startup"? I don't think so. Is there even such a thing as an "ideal blog platform"? No, because "ideal" is subjective. Are you a CEO type who wants to

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