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by ahi 16y ago
Furthermore, he's applying for a position at Microsoft.
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by ahi 16y ago
There's no such thing as "scientific racism" since race is a social construct.
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by ahi 16y ago
The first word that popped into my head was "lawyers"
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by ahi 16y ago
That's kind of my point. During that era, if you knew what you were doing you were really impressive, not just another coder at BigCorp.
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by ahi 16y ago
Scoble isn't saying much more than "WP7 is great!" which has no bearing on ESR's arguments that this puts an organization in disarray into further disarray.
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by ahi 16y ago
From anecdotal evidence I will put forward another theory. Because CS and programming are relatively new and rapidly growing fields a large number of programmers in the early years were random office workers who could type, press ganged int
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by ahi 16y ago
I am alum/tech support/TA at Univ. of Michigan which is one of the major contributors to Sakai so I have seen all sides of it. The actual services are pretty good, but the user interface is horrible. In defense of Sakai, the developers know
638.
by ahi 16y ago
gross
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by ahi 16y ago
Your favicon is far more complicated than theirs is: http://www.ico.gov.uk/favicon.ico That's a 10 minute job.
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by ahi 16y ago
If it was a macro it would get something right. A macro would fail in response to a road block of some sort. This guy just failed at everything.
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by ahi 16y ago
I hope he's alright. OT: A Google spokesman said: "We care deeply about the safety of our employees." It might be the WSJ's fault in taking it out of context, but whenever a PR flack says something like this my gut always yells, "lie!" like
642.
by ahi 16y ago
you mean the dubble bubble.
643.
by ahi 16y ago
I teach a course that uses perl. I really wish we used something else. Perl on Windows is a clusterfuck; including core modules that ship broken. I don't really use Windows, except helping my students get stuff running, so maybe programming
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by ahi 16y ago
Their 990, a form nonprofits have to file with the IRS. You can find them at guidestar.org. You can also walk into any nonprofit and request a copy of their most recent 990 no questions asked (well, no questions answered anyway).
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by ahi 16y ago
idle curiosity; anyone know if Adam Pritzker is one of the Pritzkers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritzker_family
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by ahi 16y ago
For what it's worth, the executive director made 480k plus ~27k in benefits for FY ending 6/30/2009. Revenue breakdown: Conferences & Seminars: 23.25m Publications: 14.8m Membership Dues: 9.2m Advertising: 1m
647.
by ahi 16y ago
Let your client know that you're swamped with other work. Then write, don't call, the Attorney General. Put it in writing that once you figured out what was going on you did what you could to put a stop to it.
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by ahi 16y ago
There are plenty of private intelligence agencies. It's an industry pretty much like any other. Few are dumb enough to compete with the CIA. Why hire a private agency in Afghanistan when the American taxpayer is already paying for those ser
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by ahi 16y ago
Auburn is a bit of an outlier. It is sometimes referred to as a football program with a university attached. Auburn has faced NCAA sanctions half a dozen times in the past 20 years. My friends teach at U of Michigan and report their footbal
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by ahi 16y ago
"While probably not the best strategy" was probably not the best caveat. I agree that this is dumb, but I also think it's the underlying reason some founders spend so much of their time hiring. >You are not likely to profit from the "re
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by ahi 16y ago
Employees are assets. A business organization might be a saleable asset even with a failed product. A solo founder with a failed product is just broke. While probably not the best strategy, building an attractive organization may reduce ris
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by ahi 16y ago
Everyone thinks they have "the right idea and it'll pay multiples over the crappy returns the S&P has over the past 10 years."
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by ahi 16y ago
I teach ICT courses at the University level and provide tech support for a non-ICT department as well so I see both sides of this. Simply put, no one has frakking clue what they're doing. Many profs are completely clueless in content and in
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by ahi 16y ago
Coppola directed a film about Tucker sedan starring Jeff Bridges, Tucker: The Man and His Dreams. I remember it being pretty good, but I think I was probably 10 when I last saw it.
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by ahi 16y ago
She's not exactly dumb: "Ms. Cureton earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Howard University in 1980 graduating magna cum laude with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Latin. She also received a Master of Science Degree in Applied Mat
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by ahi 16y ago
Which it won't be, because Google has the resources to write it off as just another experiment that didn't stick to the wall.
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by ahi 16y ago
I locked myself out of my apartment so I called a locksmith company and got a quote for $100. The locksmith showed up and tried to pick it by doing nothing more than ramming a pick in and out for a couple minutes. Complete amateur. He event
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by ahi 16y ago
Years ago I ordered a box set 20 Years of Dischord direct from Dischord Records. In the package was a hand written thank you note from the Dischord staff member who boxed it, who not coincidentally was one of the people included in the box
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Google or Microsoft at the University of Michigan(nextgen.umich.edu)
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by ahi 16y ago
A big rail gun is nothing new. The hard part, the part they still haven't figured out, is firing the thing without blowing it up at the same time.

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