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by Spoom 10y ago
I think Star Trek was very prescient here as well: Security is terrible in the Star Trek universe. Nearly every antagonist is able to break into the computer within about a minute.
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by Spoom 10y ago
I've always wondered why someone didn't build a vertical washer-dryer combo, about the size of a fridge, where the clothes in the washer portion at the top simply drop into the dryer portion at the bottom (possibly assisted by a m
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by Spoom 10y ago
Hi, I'm a developer working at a startup and I graduated from a Computer Programming course at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. I hear from recruiters constantly. So ultimately it depends where you're applying. When I starte
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by Spoom 10y ago
Using your credit card for everything is a great way to find yourself deeply in debt. It's (intentionally!) easy to overspend when using a credit card, and end up carrying a balance. This is why I have a second checking account that
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by Spoom 10y ago
How likely is it for Facebook to block you for attempting to use these APIs rather than the public Graph API?
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by Spoom 10y ago
This is exactly where I am. The Prius looks fine, but when you do the math on the mileage, it can't be beat by any other sedan in the price range. But then, I bought a used Gen 2 Prius, so I wouldn't show up in these stats anywa
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by Spoom 10y ago
This would work, but attrs should really be an object (i.e. var attrs = {};), not an array, since you're storing string keys, and stylistically you can just use e.g. attrs.name instead of attrs['name'].
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by Spoom 10y ago
This was covered in the article: Vanguard has invested heavily in technology. Algorithms help managers figure out where to buy and sell while minimizing market impact. Risk software makes sure the portfolio stays close to the index. Becaus
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by Spoom 10y ago
I had to go into the console and type "return true" for it to start working. I thought it was intentional.
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by Spoom 10y ago
One of the really nice things about PHP.net in particular is that you can go to any function name as a root directory on the website and it will look it up, e.g. http://php.net/explode will go right to the explode doc. Thi
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by Spoom 10y ago
> When I write in browser twitter.com/give-me-lots-of-pr0n does it first connect with twitter.com's port 80 and sends an unencrypted GET request with /give-me-lots-of-pr0n to receive redirect to https://twitter.
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by Spoom 10y ago
Agreed, and I would love to move to a more proportional voting system. Ontario had a vote a while back to move to mixed-member proportional but the folks behind it failed to explain it well enough for people to understand, in my opinion, s
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by Spoom 10y ago
I'm not trying to argue that you should never vote third party. If you are so ideologically opposed to the Democratic and Republican platforms that you truly see no difference between them in terms of the success of their governan
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by Spoom 10y ago
I would agree that it matters less in non-battleground states, and could have the effects mentioned. This, in general, causes one of the two parties to absorb some of the causes put forward by the third party, which is one of the reasons t
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by Spoom 10y ago
I just had a small debate about this with some friends of mine. Let's imagine you live in a battleground state, and for the sake of argument, let's also assume that you're in one of the 48 states that are "winner take a
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by Spoom 10y ago
Talk to the branch manager. If that fails, threaten to talk to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau[1] (which is a branch of the federal government). That will almost always cause the bank to become much more helpful. If they don&#x2
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by Spoom 10y ago
The problem that I see is that employers don't want to spend the time to train people, or even wait for them to train themselves. They figure, if they can get someone who can hit the ground running, why would they waste time waiting f
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by Spoom 10y ago
Bell is required to lease out its lines, so if you're in an area with a good DSL connection, check out TekSavvy[1] who have very good reviews[2]. You are still subject to Bell occasionally being dicks, but it's better than paying
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by Spoom 10y ago
There are some downsides but this is one of the reasons that phantom stock and phantom stock options[1] can be good for employees as there is essentially nothing taxable until the actual payout, which is treated as regular income and can ha
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by Spoom 10y ago
Google Play Services (a closed source, Google-copyrighted component) has been slowly eating more and more of the stuff that was previously handled by AOSP.
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by Spoom 10y ago
If the contract says they can do it, then they can do it (subject to laws restricting ability to contract, but these are generally pretty open).
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by Spoom 10y ago
I suspect that this is put forward so that they can claim that nobody is actually filling it out -- so they can subsequently require entrants to sign in to a DHS Facebook app that extracts all your information.
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by Spoom 10y ago
They are doing pre-employment drug screens because it gets them a break on their corporate insurance rates. I want to be clear here: There is no way that you will get the offer if you either tell them you've recently used, or fail the
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by Spoom 10y ago
I'm a fairly recently naturalized US citizen, having immigrated from Canada to the US. I obtained a K-1 visa, adjusted status, removed conditions on my residency, and finally naturalized earlier this year. This can all be done without
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by Spoom 10y ago
If you want to change your name, you have to go to a judicial ceremony, which occurs (almost always) at a local federal courthouse, as opposed to an administrative ceremony which may happen at a USCIS field office, school, auditorium, etc.
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by Spoom 10y ago
Devil's advocate: Asking highly academic questions allows employers to be ageist without explicitly stating it, since college grads are likely to be the most familiar with them. This lets them select for younger candidates with less e
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by Spoom 10y ago
It is if the bootloader is locked.
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by Spoom 10y ago
Historically, Canada has always been a release valve of sorts for abuses of the US. Just look at the Vietnam war or (in a much larger sense) the underground railroad.
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by Spoom 10y ago
I tried to use my Android phone as a compass for aiming my roof antenna... it was not very accurate.
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by Spoom 10y ago
I know if I was given $30,000 a year for free with the understanding that it would entirely stop after five years, I would try my damnedest to not let it affect my lifestyle, essentially treat it as an early retirement fund source, and inve

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