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by _pi 16y ago
You say: >I think we need to get real. Programming isn't something most people are interested in, it's not glamorous, it's factory work. Lets not delude ourselves that we're at the cutting edge of new discovery. And: >Building compa
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by _pi 16y ago
Movies/Music/TV are more portable than games, steam doesn't have to deal with portability (multiple different devices, not explicit PC's that run the games) (yet) which is why it's a good system for what it is. Essentially a Steam for every
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by _pi 16y ago
I understand your predicament, I myself don't have kids but I understand what it would feel like to take your children away. But I also understand that you have time and a lawyer who already knew about the case. I'd ask him if there's a sta
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by _pi 16y ago
First off, I am so sorry for your experience that sounds completely terrible. Second, was there nothing your lawyer could do, such as file an injunction against the DCF? Is there any way you can be compensated (in any way) for your experien
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by _pi 16y ago
Not enough people are flagging these links to reddit submissions....
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by _pi 16y ago
I think the rise of humanistic interest sub-reddits with a low knowledge entry barrier killed it.
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by _pi 16y ago
To be honest Reddit isn't that techie anymore, reddit's demographics have shifted to teenage and young adult males and girls who are "geeks". Not only that but the default reddits are becoming a cesspool like Digg. Essentially the community
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by _pi 16y ago
Actually this a problem with most mail clients. They are terribly slow, even web based ones, for people who have multiple accounts, have a high email volume, and have to archive all their mail and have it easily accessible. Essentially the
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by _pi 16y ago
Anecdotal evidence: I swap between the two, it just takes a creative sleep pattern, I had a strange schedule last year due to the layout of my courses, so some days I'd stay up till 4 sleep till 2, and other's I'd sleep at 11 and wake at 7:
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by _pi 16y ago
I think this is a very interesting move on Microsoft's part. It comes from Russia's dismissal of blackbox vendor software citing security and privacy fears. As well as Russia's push for it's own open Linux distro, ALT Linux. It seems that M
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Microsoft reveals source to Russian Secret Service(zdnet.co.uk)
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by _pi 16y ago
Market forces. This just proves people are more willing to pay of an iPhone for whatever reason, compared to a Droid phone. Arguing the reason is X (quality or it being the better phone) is pretty useless based on this data.
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by _pi 16y ago
Here you go [1]. It doesn't matter if the work is voluntary, I voluntarily buy a product but if the company knows it's faulty and sells it to me anyway that's wrong. If the company knows that the job is unfair, and is using it as free labor
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by _pi 16y ago
"Wow! You're telling me that if I send out a job posting for interns, not only am I supporting a "systematic evil in the job market" but they have "no choice"? Really? First, what systematic evil are you referring to? Second, nobody is hold
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by _pi 16y ago
Labor laws in the US clearly state that if the person is working unpaid the company cannot receive any immediate benefits for his or her position. This means that you can't have the person "hands on learning" while working on your product o
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by _pi 16y ago
Hopefully you're just trying to emphasize that you know about your bandwidth, but honestly any time I see someone claim to get a certain speed in Mbps but write it as "mbps" red flags go off.... 1 Mb = 1000 b = 1000,000 mb. So you just said
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by _pi 16y ago
Meet the new CISCO MITM 5505, trust CISCO for all your net appliance needs.
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by _pi 16y ago
It still disgusts me how people think it's perfectly okay to flaunt labor laws with internships. This attitude of it being "free labor" is absolutely absurd. Do your other entry level positions that may need some training also not get paid?
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by _pi 16y ago
They most definitely are, or it's just a media circus. My parents and I emigrated from Ukraine and we have similar qualities in terms of lifestyle and connections as these people, we've certainly never known that we were actually spies for
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by _pi 16y ago
Heavens no, a federal law enforcement agency at risk of perjury!
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by _pi 16y ago
I see lots of geeks rooting their Droids and installing ntop or similar utilities when this sad day comes.
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by _pi 17y ago
I'd argue that Git greatly changed (maybe more so enhanced then changed) the model of the kernel and it seems that Linus did consider ESR's advice ultimately, and maybe that's what drove him to create git.
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by _pi 17y ago
I'd err to caution you about this kind of thinking, namely because people who spend careful time memorizing the names of fallacies rather than spending that time, explaining to other people with whom they're debating where they were mislead
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by _pi 17y ago
Because some of us, actually want a computer with more power than the iPad, or because the App store is a bad idea for end users and developers, or because some of us use netbooks and smaller laptops as our mobile coding machines when this
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by _pi 17y ago
Also if a "glastnost" comes to China it probably won't do anything, same as in the USSR.
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by _pi 17y ago
It's fairly easy to find barebones bodies with mobo, cpu, etc. However finding graphics chips, sound chips, etc. is quite a pain.
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by _pi 17y ago
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-livecdent/... Lies that's not a man in a mariachi costume! I demand to see the real picture!
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by _pi 17y ago
I've been to several highschool/college level competitions they generally fall into two types, writing scenario code the fastest with no concern for real-world problems, or a test in reading obfuscated code (GE/Fairfield University you're
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by _pi 17y ago
Except not a trade school. Olin is bit heavy on entrepreneurial ventures though.
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by _pi 17y ago
If the police cannot just grab records and look at them why can they be notified without warrant if records are updated, it seems that that behavior is counter-intuitive to what the law says about privacy, ie the government doesn't have a r

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