Tangaroa

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by Tangaroa 14y ago
If the startup succeeds: great! Of course, success or failure depends on whether you have a good idea and can execute it. If the startup fails: you're broke and probably deeply in debt. Hope you can find a church to take you in. If you don'
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Here is the heart of the problem: <blockquote> Peter Cappelli: Well, the employers, if you look at what the hiring managers are saying and what they’re looking for, they’re not, for the most part, hiring people out of college anyway
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Silverstein often quotes a senior Israeli official to say it's Israel's fault whenever something goes wrong in the Middle East, but he never produces evidence and his assertions are rarely backed up by independent reporting. I suspect he's
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
From the intern side, when I have been paid (I had a three-year unpaid internship because it was the best job opportunity around), it's been between $8 and $25 an hour. The $8/hr was for other jobs in which I was also asked to do work that
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
The "NYT view" was a crude stereotype of the tech industry and the stereotypical male nerd tech worker, introduced to justify the article's position that the tech industry is male-dominated and sexist. There's plenty wrong with it. And as a
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
NYT: The tech industry is male-dominated and sexist. BB: The NYT is male-dominated and sexist for pointing it out. Flagged as bullshit.
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
To expand on that, the new (now 10 years long) party in control of Turkey's government has been fining and jailing media companies, journalists, and prominent businessmen who don't toe the party line. A common technique is to charge "unpaid
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Yes, but they do that every Friday. Iran has been openly at war with the United States for over thirty years and loudly reminding the world of that fact at every opportunity. The only surprise in the US now committing an act of war against
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
To be the devil's advocate, were the stolen lunches marked with the owner's name? Someone could be under the impression that anything in the community fridge is up for grabs.
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
A follow-up from the company's autoresponder: <blockquote>We are in the midst of reviewing all submissions and will contact chosen candidates during the week of June 8th to schedule an interview. Due to the number of applications, o
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Yeah, it's low even for around here. They were asking for students, though, so low wages can be expected.
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Drupal developers wanted. Pay rate: $10-$12/hr
5 points by Tangaroa 14y ago|8 comments
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Plenty of skydivers have landed without a parachute, just not well. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-fall#Surviving_falls
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
The unsubscribe link is how spammers know that the autogenerated email address they are sending to is read by a human being. It makes the address more valuable when sold to another spammer. That one spammer may stop sending you messages fro
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Javascript debuggers did not exist for most of the 2000s. It was a godsend when Mozilla provided the Error Console to let developers know when an error had occurred in Javascript (in a nicer way than getting an alert for each error), but de
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Under US copyright law (Title 17 Section 107), "fair use" is defined as "purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research", and then only upon consideratio
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Berne Convention, Article 9 (1) Authors of literary and artistic works protected by this Convention shall have the exclusive right of authorizing the reproduction of these works, in any manner or form. The law in the US (Title 17) is genera
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
The incentive is more legal than economic. Everything terrorists do is within the law until they take the specific act of trying to kill people. Joining a terrorist organization is not illegal. Recruiting people into a terrorist organizatio
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
I share the same sentiment, but submitting additional stories just adds to the noise.
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Zero (unemployed). CS graduate with experience in Linux and Windows Server, LAN and WAN administration, database design, web development, GIS. When I've found work it has usually been in the $12-$16/hr range; the most I've ever been paid wa
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Rethinking try/catch
23 points by Tangaroa 14y ago|35 comments
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
This worked for me. When I needed to get work done on a school project, I would get off my home computer and head to the school labs or go in to work after hours. I was far more productive than staying at home.
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
The upvotes could also mean that people appreciate a good presentation of introductory material, and they may see a use for it as something to send to the newbies on their team. For this subject, I usually send people to Bill Kent's Guide t
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
You might want to start with the general concept of how algorithms work, what a computer program does, code being a set of instructions that is read by another computer program, flowcharts, and the like. It depends on how much time you have
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
For a similar take on the school system, here's John Taylor Gatto's essay The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher: http://www.altruists.org/static/files/The%20Six-Lesson%20Sch...
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Looking at the Apr17 version of HR 3523 on thomas.loc.gov (the amended version is not out yet), it seems that it says: * The government is allowed to share "classified cyber threat intelligence" with private parties. * Private parties are a
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
It looks like altavista.digital.com and babelfish have "been excluded from the Wayback Machine" so we can't see what they looked like back then unless anyone has kept a screenshot for 15 years or has a book or newspaper with a screenshot in
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Some possibilities: * They had good UI designers to start with, so no major changes were needed. * By now the site appearance is part of their brand, so they don't want to change it. * Amazon may now be such a complex site that a change wou
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
For these reasons. I am generalizing from specific cases in my past: having used Drupal but not Joomla, knowing Java and C++ and object-orientation in general but not having used C# outside a brief school project, knowing early Perl 5 but n
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Seconding this. In senior year of university, the math requirements of the CS track went from second-grade arithmetic to being expected to have finished your math minor. It was quite the jarring shift. If you want to program, you don't need

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