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by angstrom 17y ago
I've occasionally obtained a coworker's password (If I see the keyboard and their fingers, I can see the password). However, in my case I've always taken the "Fly on the Wall" approach. It's like people watching at the mall, but you discove
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by angstrom 17y ago
They're like a real world parody of South Park with fewer taboos.
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by angstrom 17y ago
I've oft thought that was the failing of most college programs. You're asked to show all your work, but rarely is the explanation for your decisions given nearly as much weighting as the actual outcome and how you got there. In reality is w
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by angstrom 17y ago
I wouldn't say that. It's helping him expound upon the entitled morass that is his life. He'll have reached true zen when he realizes he could've saved $40K and said "Fuck You." to the world without college.
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by angstrom 17y ago
Apple is the new Apple. This is the way Apple has always been. Apple is the original closed box consumer platform. It's part of the company's DNA, if there is such a thing. The only difference is that now they also control the distribution
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by angstrom 17y ago
Most people, when posed with this question, look in a mirror and write 1000 subjective words to describe themselves.
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by angstrom 17y ago
C\C++\Java backends mostly.
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by angstrom 17y ago
I could tell the tipping point when I did a recent search for jobs. Even NYC which is still heavily Java is shifting to C#/WPF for client front ends.
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by angstrom 17y ago
Possibly, but don't forget that the person who controls your mobile number controls your mobile commmunication. The devices and towers are just the medium.
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by angstrom 17y ago
Apple has turned computer sales into a question of quality, much like the Japanese manufacturers gained control of the domestic car market by making it a question of quality. Meanwhile, there are businesses that still want to run full scree
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by angstrom 17y ago
Some would even say before 40 hrs. It's a ridiculous farce that productivity gains have not led to a shorter work day or work week.
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by angstrom 17y ago
Agree, I would only go so far as reminding them 10 days before the trial ends, At any time during the free trial they should be able to upgrade to subscription, but still get the rest of their free trial. Anything beyond that is nagware at
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by angstrom 17y ago
It's already active as of April if you had a previous account with GrandCentral. They've polished the interface some and added some features like transcription which I don't believe was available (at least not in the free version of GC). Th
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Sean Gourley examines the Mathematics of War(ted.com)
2 points by angstrom 17y ago|0 comments
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by angstrom 17y ago
Even though you are screaming at your prospective employer, saying “yes I’ve done all the crazy stuff during the PhD, but now just want a job to code to feed my family”, they may not hire you not so much of over-qualification, but rather o
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by angstrom 18y ago
New experiences are always more vivid. The more unusual it is to your previous experience the move vivid it becomes in your mind. Take for instance travel. Driving someplace new you're more alert about the course since you don't know what t
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by angstrom 18y ago
Maybe, but you're also forgetting that the one child policy means children are even more prized. Immigration makes more immediate sense.
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by angstrom 18y ago
Spouting speculative bullshit seems to be the cheapest way to create news. Same website, but other end of the spectrum speculating YouTube will make $500 Million: http://www.businessinsider.com/analyst-youtube-revenues-will...
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by angstrom 18y ago
Better still, refer them to an HR drone instead of actually telling them face to face. That way you can hope their ire is directed at an amorphous initiative to cut costs.
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Max Levchin's favorite new startups(businessinsider.com)
35 points by angstrom 18y ago|57 comments
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by angstrom 18y ago
Valid point, but I think it's worth looking at the potential benefits. The thing I always hate about writing is that I'm constantly saving copies off to the side. At the very least I would think snapshots would be invaluable, but once you h
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by angstrom 18y ago
As one married coworker of mine recently put it "I don't care if I get a raise or a bonus because my wife will just spend it and I can't divorce her because that's just as expensive. The only joy she can't take away from me is writing clean
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by angstrom 18y ago
What should really scare Quicken is that I could actually see paying $5-$10/mo to use Mint. With 17 accounts and over a year's worth of data I've found it more convenient to use than any Quicken solution. I could never get all my accounts t
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by angstrom 18y ago
It's not that test scores are somehow the least bad option. It's that they're the cheapest least bad option. Actually assessing a students comprehension would require a verbal examination.
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by angstrom 18y ago
I think the examined time frame needs to be wider. I've always noticed an upswing in hiring after the November/December holidays.
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by angstrom 18y ago
If by interesting you mean the twitter 'Fail Whale' + FEMA, then yes, that would be...interesting.
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by angstrom 18y ago
Either way, are we really supposed to believe these bankers don't know their way around taxes? It's not like they're squeezing paycheck to paycheck.
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by angstrom 18y ago
He's trying to avoid a redditer/digger reincarnation.
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by angstrom 18y ago
"respectable pornography" There's a misnomer if ever I saw one. The only way those 2 words go side by side is the day a porno wins "Best Picture" at the Academy Awards. I don't disrespect people who work in the porn industry. However, naive
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by angstrom 18y ago
The best part is, I thought it was Chrome at first since there is a malware option in the configuration settings. That sucks. It's going to take twice as long to fix since the engineers fixing it have to edit the URL on all the googled resu

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