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by Tangurena 15y ago
Because Sony decided to add a mandatory arbitration clause to get around the lawsuits resulting from the disclosure of 100,000,000+ names, addresses and credit cards. http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/09/15/sony-adds-mandatory-a...
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by Tangurena 15y ago
Not I. And I only spotted it because I brought the course up in a meeting at the office this morning.
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by Tangurena 15y ago
> those ratings have an effect on the teacher's annual review? Yes. And with adjuncts (folks brought in to teach one or two courses per semester), getting low scores on the ratings means you don't get your contract renewed for the fol
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by Tangurena 15y ago
Microsoft has said that the VB6 run-times will not be distributed with any newer version of Windows. So this means that companies which still distribute VB6 based apps have a little more time to get them ported to .NET or some other newer f
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by Tangurena 15y ago
Part of why it is so hard is that the hiring process involves so many people who don't know anything about programming. An older friend of mine is great at blowing smoke up your butt, and if HR or managers are doing the interviewing, he alw
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by Tangurena 15y ago
> you'd have a hard time getting me to commit to a 3-week job Here in Denver, there are a number of companies hiring through recruiters that try to say "this is a 3 month contract" but the job ends up lasting 2-3 weeks. So you are rig
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Apple Employees Tell the Secrets Behind Steve Jobs' 'Magic'(wired.com)
4 points by Tangurena 15y ago|0 comments
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by Tangurena 16y ago
Any changes have to survive the public. The sort of anti-counterfeiting measures that many countries use are not common in the US because the public has very strong resistance to changing the look (must be green!) and feel of our currency.
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I noticed that they left out $2 bills. Many people save them for some reason (they're lucky! they're rare!) and some of the charts showing lifespans that include $2 bills show their lifespan about 10x the life of other bills.
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by Tangurena 16y ago
There is a mint here in Denver, and I've chatted with some of the mint employees on the bus and light rail a few times. I'm going by memory here, so things might be a little messed up (some things they mentioned were fascinating to me at th
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by Tangurena 16y ago
Well, I've never commented at techcrunch, but since I refuse to get a facebook account, it looks like I never will. MMmmmmMMMmmmMMM Those grapes sure are sour!
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I'm 50 years old, and I get confused by "its" vs "it's" from time to time. So one of my bookmarked pages is: http://garyes.stormloader.com/its.html
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I recommend reading Richard Hamming's talk "You and Your Research" > Now for the matter of drive. You observe that most great scientists have tremendous drive. I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous driv
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I work at one of the national labs. Almost everyone on my floor is an ME (I'm an EE, but I'm writing code). The majority party in this Congress hates what we do (renewable energy) and thus it is extremely likely that a large part of our bud
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I've always tried for at least 15% raise each move [1]. If you are desperate, they'll figure it out and lowball you. The last 3 jobs have been 50%, 50% and 33% raises. Confidence does sell, but you also have to produce your value [2]. I'm n
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I'm an older developer. I was eating lunch at a restaurant near my new workplace. Sitting at the table next to mine, a college senior (at Colorado School of Mines - which is a pretty decent engineering school) was talking with her father ab
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by Tangurena 16y ago
Our corporate parent has some sort of deal with Microsoft that lets you purchase a legit copy for $10 (total with shipping and sales tax is about $27 if you want the DVD delivered). The folks at the office (who have taken advantage of it) m
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I suspect a couple of issues: 1 - There are karma/score based systems in both sites that highly reward "first to post" interesting articles. 2 - There is no penalty here for bad initial posts, so there is no real penalty for not "posting ne
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by Tangurena 16y ago
This would kill their business as TV news programs would show counting the money before it went into the machine and how much the machine claimed was counted. The fees that Coinstar rakes in are enough to ensure a great profit margin withou
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I think you are looking for the "greater internet fuckwad theory" from Penny Arcade. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
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by Tangurena 16y ago
PG pointed in that direction with his essay "The Submarine" and how PR firms have a total stranglehold on news media. With the huge consolidation in the media, and the main news sources all controlled by the same few companies, it makes sen
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by Tangurena 16y ago
It is worth watching a documentary titled "The Power of Nightmares" which will give some insight into "why Iraq" and "why Israel." And the answers to "why Israel" will explain why the choice of Lieberman (who is frequently titled "the Senat
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by Tangurena 16y ago
To be (slightly) fair, the assassination policy was created by the Bush administration and merely carried forwards (like so many Bush administration policies). Although I agree he's done zero to stop torture, and backpedaled on his "promise
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by Tangurena 16y ago
My understanding of the situation is that most of the documentation on manufacturing fogbank was destroyed to evade litigation by workers poisoned by acetonitrile (which your body metabolizes into hydrogen cyanide) which was used in the man
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by Tangurena 16y ago
> Consequently, cheap early intervention to preserve health is often shunned in favour of expensive, late intervention to prevent death. To my mind the most egregious example of this is drug abuse and alcoholism - huge amounts are spen
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by Tangurena 16y ago
While the "sold at a loss" might be true, I've also read some articles that claimed that some of the processing in the kinect hardware was being offloaded into the xbox itself. If true, this means that the drivers will need to replicate som
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by Tangurena 16y ago
Folks do try this, but since government hiring goes through the Office of Personnel Management (that is the "central office" you were referring to), they find that there are far more folks who meet these specs than they think. Especially on
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I work (part time) with the Dept of Interior. The reason for the Microsoft-centric requirements is due to all of the lawsuits against DoI. As far as I know, electronic "discovery" tools used by lawyers and law firms aren't compatible with G
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by Tangurena 16y ago
She was the one who started the policy of bugging employees and board members to find leaks. I'm sure the WireTapHawks would love to have her in DC.
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I worked for HP when she was the CEO. I hated her then, and will hate her to my dieing breath. It doesn't matter if she calls herself the "free beer and pot for everyone" party candidate, I would stil hate her. I could post a Great Wall of

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