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by ahi 15y ago
Could you explain what you mean by this? edit: ahh, found it. Knew what it was, but not what it was called: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword_argument Would definitely be a solution to PHP's ridiculous argument ordering inconsistencies
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by ahi 15y ago
I spent much of last weekend pricing out a custom build workstation and was having trouble finding a source other than newegg. Amazon is a disorganized mess when it comes to fulfilling very specific hardware needs. TigerDirect is just skeez
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by ahi 15y ago
I actually managed to do my taxes early this year, but I think I remember Michigan giving the option of stating how much you owe, or if you're not sure paying $50. I'm sure a lot of people just put in $0 for how much they owe. I figured it
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by ahi 15y ago
The 3rd edition looks familiar.
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by ahi 15y ago
Lafayette at 21st and I. I don't think I would have survived Thurston.
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by ahi 15y ago
I wasn't going to name names, but I remember many people not being pleased that we were required to buy his textbook even though he had clearly checked out. In fairness, he had a great reputation because he was a very good teacher. He just
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by ahi 15y ago
Location, location, location. Columbia said no thanks. CMU said "okay, but no CS major". Case Western offered better money and athletics but it's in Cleveland. Johns Hopkins seemed like 80% premed jackasses. I didn't consider Georgetown bec
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by ahi 15y ago
Maybe I'm recent enough. I enrolled and took intro courses in Fall of 2001, graduated in 2005. My intro courses, IIRC "intro to CS" and "algos & data structures" were Ada. 2nd year Software Engineering was Java. I think students startin
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by ahi 15y ago
They are legally required to have some number of independent directors. This is to prevent executive backscratching, self-dealing, etc. The CEO of Avon is probably on the board precisely because it's kind of random. Their job is to read the
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by ahi 15y ago
Always have other opportunities lined up. I could get canned tomorrow and be working a new job within a week. I try to maintain two or three positions ready and waiting for me at all times. We are programmers of fortune. My employer's crapp
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by ahi 15y ago
Same here. I remember liking it, but I was 12... Gibson's writing is good because he develops incredibly complex social systems and structures for the reader to navigate. He does this mainly by leaving gaps in the world that the reader has
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by ahi 15y ago
I know Tyler, Texas only as the home of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, where all the patent trolls take their cases. I always just assumed it was because the jury pool were morons. Which isn't fair, kind
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by ahi 15y ago
I was going to write up a full article, but I'll just post this here instead. I was thinking shame might work a little bit. Most people, even lawyers and patent trolls, think of themselves as being good people. Calling them out directly can
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by ahi 15y ago
I have read (sorry, don't remember where) that there are often more signups at $12 than $10 since it's converted to a monthly cost of $1/month.
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by ahi 15y ago
"Such restrictions are in large part responsible for the chronically high rates of unemployment that have been prevalent in many European countries." Bullshit. Europe has higher rates of unemployment because they aren't as good at lying abo
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by ahi 15y ago
https://adcenter.microsoft.com/ Requires Windows. Total wtf.
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by ahi 15y ago
ctools.umich.edu wolverineaccess.umich.edu is a close second. Almost every embedded job listing service is awful. http://www.nacelink.com/ is similarly bad.
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by ahi 15y ago
I just assumed it noticed when I entered the login information 2 minutes prior, then waited until the most annoying moment to give me a completely useless fraking notification.
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by ahi 15y ago
I think they're opening the Morganza spillway around 2:30 CT today. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/morganza
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Stream of the opening of the Morganza Spillway (~2:30CT)(ustream.tv)
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by ahi 15y ago
The rent vs buy index is misleading. I used to live in Ann Arbor where rent is mediocre, but home prices are ridiculous. On paper the ratio still looks pretty good because the median rental property is downtown while the median home for sal
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by ahi 15y ago
The contact form on investy seems to be broken so I guess I'll leave this here instead. Just a headsup. www.investy.com works correctly. investy.com seems to be directed to the IIS7 splash page.
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by ahi 15y ago
In the classes I taught this past semester it was roughly 70:25:5 Mac:Windows:Linux. It was mostly international students still using windows. I was in CS undergrad 2001-2005. I remember first day of class Fall 2002 or 2003 suddenly a quart
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by ahi 15y ago
I am sure they could find one. When dealing with the government it's heads they win, tails you lose. edit: I still think it would be worth it. One of these cars for maximum effect: http://homeland.house.gov/about/membership
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by ahi 15y ago
I used to work IT for a College of Pharmacy and had to occasionally deal with the IT for the enormous health system: http://med.umich.edu . There are pockets of competence and the occasional really cool project, but "screwed up" is a good
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by ahi 15y ago
I thought someone was trying to use pickle batteries as an alternative energy source, "They'll fund anything these days."
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by ahi 15y ago
The power to cash dividend checks. No decision making authority.
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by ahi 16y ago
Wish I had found this a couple of days ago. I was trying to set up a quick test hadoop cluster on EC2 and it was a config nightmare. After many hours of dead ends I finally got Apache Whirr to set me up a cluster, but I never did manage to
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by ahi 16y ago
see: http://www.a2techevents.com/ A2 New Tech is relatively well attended by the hacker news crowd. Their monthly meeting is tonight: http://www.a2newtech.org/events/16678437/?eventId=16678437&#...
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by ahi 16y ago
I think the suggestion was that if you're going to be restrictive with the OOo community, you better be ready to pick up the slack when they fork. By waving the white flag, Oracle demonstrated that their demands of the open source community

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