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by airza 11y ago
IIRC all US government contractors have to be tested on hire. Most of the large temp firms also do drug testing in the US (in my experience at least.) Never tested for booze, though everywhere I've worked on site has made it clear tha
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by airza 11y ago
Here is the data that I used, the author's is something rather similar: http://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we13.htm You can add the following values (from http://ggweather.com/ca2013rain.htm and sim
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by airza 11y ago
He very much is, you can also see later in the article: Yes, to solve the "drought" in a few short years, there are two basic tasks that California needs to undertake. The argument made in the earlier part is clearly intended to b
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by airza 11y ago
2004 was the rainest year in over a century in LA. Without it, the average deficiency from 2005-2015 is about 3 inches of water (20% of the total) per year for ten years . That is not an "there's no drought in this region"
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by airza 11y ago
The entire idea of valuation is to indeed capture the value of current and future profits- it's just that the value of future profits is reduced in proportion to how far away they are. Investors lose the value of the money invested for
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by airza 11y ago
I'm not really sure what the point you're trying to make is; What other purpose would a software blog have than to share information gained through experience? Is it that the information is not helpful to others, because it is no
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by airza 11y ago
Maybe you might feel differently if you were being fired at the end of those two weeks?
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by airza 11y ago
This is pretty much it. My boss was definitely a level 99 duct tape programmer, and this was one of the many examples of his ingenuity.
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by airza 11y ago
My experience with testing avionics controllers was: Everyone seemed to have the correct idea (that bugs were basically Not Allowed.) The company set up enough testing so that those bugs were eventually eliminated. However, the differenc
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by airza 12y ago
By which you mean, Americans will realize it.. :)
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by airza 12y ago
it's really weird to see a euclidian-looking line that has no strictly increasing sequences or functions..
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by airza 12y ago
The netherlands at least has a "highly skilled migrant" system wherein you are refunded a chunk of your dutch taxes. This results in paying a similar amount to the US.
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by airza 12y ago
Having one-off internet facing applications written in C as the norm sounds great to me, but I test the security of one-off internet facing applications for a living :)
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by airza 12y ago
What OS are you running? It's pretty straightforward to get going on OSX in my experience.
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by airza 12y ago
pretty sure asking for "young" developers is against the EEOC, bud...
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by airza 12y ago
I think the argument towards evolution being a fact is that we have watched bacteria evolve in real time. ( http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/02/evolution-in-r... ) So not only is it a good model,
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by airza 12y ago
for some reason the URL is messed up; remove the slash at the very end.
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by airza 12y ago
Having cables for the elevators means that they can have counterweights, which I assume greatly decreases the amount of energy needed to raise and safely lower them.
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by airza 12y ago
how do you not understand that "statistical discrimination" is a subtype of "intrinsic bias"?
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by airza 12y ago
using two finger back on the OSX trackpad is broken on this site, what a pain...
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by airza 12y ago
I would love to disclose my extremely disturbing and potentially violent intrusive thoughts to an application with a completely murky privacy policy...
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by airza 12y ago
Adblock is pretty ubiquitous in developer circles?
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by airza 12y ago
That is the exact reason, as far as I have been told by anthro/bio people- it makes the mother not use resources on other mates' children.
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by airza 12y ago
how the hell does a 10% incline drastically increase the calorie burn?
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by airza 12y ago
why is this not called game of pwns?
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by airza 13y ago
you (and to a lesser extent the article) are ignoring the enormous burden of payroll taxes.
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by airza 13y ago
A Mind Forever Voyaging
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by airza 13y ago
I wear my stripe CTF shirt a lot because it's super comfortable, doesn't look absurdly terrible, and was a reward for doing something cool. So i'd recommend that.
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by airza 13y ago
because it's REALLY hard to find people with a top secret or secret clearance because the process is so demanding.
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by airza 14y ago
Who voted up this complete nonsense?

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