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by alaithea 17y ago
How much of that $99 is the Windows CE or XP license? At those prices, including a non-free OS, it seems too good to be true. Why do they preach open source, yet not got all the way and use an open source OS?
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by alaithea 17y ago
During my last job search (this past summer), I was contacted by several recruiters. I had phone interviews with several, and an in-person interview with one. I found them to be unhelpful and a waste of time at best, and demeaning and conde
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by alaithea 17y ago
This makes me happy to have just moved here. There seem to be a lot of civic-minded people taking initiative with technology. I spent some time in Portland, which is supposed to be uber-progressive, but we didn't have as much of this sort
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by alaithea 17y ago
Hmm. Thanks for the tips. I had no idea there were scammers who preyed upon coffee shop patrons. Maybe they're taking advantage of the relative southern friendliness of D.C.? I don't think that sort of thing exists in Portland (my last digs
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by alaithea 17y ago
Ooh, that looks awesome. Anybody have any similar suggestions for D.C./Arlington? I'm moving there soon, and while I'm still unemployed, I may as well find a gorgeous place to hang out and work on job apps and programming projects.
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by alaithea 18y ago
This is the main reason I've switched to Python in all my side-projects. I drank the Rails kool-aid for a long time, until I finally realized I couldn't get much done with it, as the libraries I wanted to use were unstable, and I couldn't u
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by alaithea 18y ago
> Seriously, there the pizza is terrible, doesn't matter if you are in Havana, Santiago, or Gerona. But do the Cubans know that?
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by alaithea 18y ago
It seems like the study is as of yet unpublished. Google Scholar didn't turn up anything, and the researcher's web page doesn't list it. http://www.managementmarketing.unimelb.edu.au/who/staff.cfm?...
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by alaithea 18y ago
They didn't mention whether they controlled for individual city/country preferences amongst the study subjects. As evidenced by the comments here, people tend to have very different conscious feelings about cities. What if they had conducte
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by alaithea 18y ago
I suppose that despite the relative lack of women studying computer science at universities (I didn't), universities do tend to be ideal places to find kick-ass women doing both the job thing and the family thing. That sounds great to me, a
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by alaithea 18y ago
Your point about starting a business is a good one. I initially learned programming while self-employed as a web designer back in the wee days of the web. On my own, I always wore more hats than just "code monkey," and that made a differenc
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by alaithea 18y ago
I also work on a quasi-agile team. We do pair programming, but we often get assigned to the same pair for weeks or months at a time. It's sort of like being in an arranged marriage. I've told management time and again that this doesn't turn
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by alaithea 18y ago
I am a woman who has been programming professionally, on and off, for about 9 years, and full-time at a corporate job for two and a half of those. I was the first woman to be hired as a software developer at my workplace in almost 25 years.