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by aplusbi 16y ago
It's not denial, it's ignorance combined with stubbornness. The editor said she's been doing it for years, so obviously she's correct and Monica is mistaken.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I remember reading an article during the Dot-Com era about hiring kids, and one company would pay in video games (and similar) because giving him cash was illegal.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
A/B testing probably wouldn't have caught this.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I considered included that paragraph but decided against it since your question was simply "Anybody know of any studies correlating GPA with job performance." This article quotes five studies that show a positive relationship. My point was
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by aplusbi 16y ago
http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/13412205.h... "On the other hand, Dye and Reck's meta-analysis (1988) revealed that limited variations of undergraduate GPA (e.g., GPA for the last two years, or for courses in the major f
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I used to work for a video game company, and we produced a puzzle game that involved heavy use of colors. I pushed very hard to include a "color blind mode" which added shapes to the tiles. An interesting side effect is that you could play
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Hey, if anybody here is using tmux or dvtm (or similar) and wants reflowing text, I've been working a program to do that: http://github.com/aplusbi/reflow (you'll probably want the 0.1 branch). It's written in OCaml and requires OCamlbui
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by aplusbi 16y ago
While I agree with you and believe that the 5th amendment does protect you in theory, this hasn't really been tested in US courts. The law may decide that encryption is a safe rather than a language. In that case the 5th amendment won't p
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by aplusbi 16y ago
This is sort of why I think it may come down to your choice of algorithms. For example, let's say I buy a hypothetical external hard drive. This external drive has built in encryption, and I have to enter a password using a keypad on the
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that there is a limit to the amount of time you can spend in jail for that (only a few months), at least for criminal cases. I remember reading about a guy who was basically given an indefinite jail sentence in a civil case
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by aplusbi 16y ago
The medium verses transformation is a really interesting argument. I wonder how the law will see it when that day comes. I have a feeling that the transformation argument may fall pray to the "color of bits" problem but perhaps not. I thi
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I'm not so sure that's true. I'm pretty sure that not allowing the police to search your house (given that they have a search warrant) is at the very least considered obstruction of justice (in the US). The difference is in the consequence
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Not necessarily. For example, let's say I have a safe, and I've hidden the key. The police get a warrant to search my safe. I am then legally obligated to allow them to search my safe, which means that I am legally obligated to reveal th
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by aplusbi 16y ago
You could have someone else set up a bunch of unit tests that you can plug the candidates solution into.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I spent the first 4 years of my career programming video games for the GBA and NDS. I knew basic HTML at that point, but I had barely ever worked with databases. I knew how to select something from a database but that's it (didn't know ab
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I just recently got dental insurance again and now I'm kind of wondering how I should choose my dentist. I was going to a dental school for treatment which meant that I was being treated by students under the supervision of dentists. They
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I have the keyboard in the picture (the Freestyle) but I do not have the "tenting" accessory that is holding the keyboard in a vertical position. He was suggesting I get/build that. I have the VIP accessory which lifts each half 15 degrees
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I've been meaning to build one, especially since I recently bought the 20" version (I have the 8" version at work). No way I can justify spending twice as my keyboard on a keyboard holder though.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I found that using a Kinesis freestyle keyboard improved my sitting posture a lot. The keyboard is split in half and connected by a wire and I have them set up about shoulder width apart. With a normal keyboard I pull my shoulders inward
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I always wonder what the super-minimalists (< 100 personal items) do about food. I easily have 100 (less if you consider redundancies: should I count each fork individually?) things in my kitchen and most of them get used regularly. Ei
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by aplusbi 16y ago
You cannot be compelled to incriminate yourself in the US. However, that doesn't mean you can't be compelled to give up your password, since it's not the act of giving up the password that is incriminating.* As an analogy, if you had a saf
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Well, not necessarily. "I collaborated with programmers all over the world using version control and bug tracking" versus "I built this thing." It all depends on context and what you are trying to say about yourself.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Recording the album is the easy part, promoting it is a full time job.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
>How many open source projects did you contribute to where you DIDN'T have to assign your rights? The Linux kernel doesn't require copyright transfers. Most open source projects don't either (though many require a contributor license a
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by aplusbi 16y ago
And if you are serious about relicensing your code under a commercial license in the future, there are legal reasons to do this. The gnu project is pretty trustworthy, but how much do you trust diaspora?
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Are you sure about that? Do you know the tax laws of every single country in the world? Or even your own? Assuming the site is owned by a resident of the US, is it legal for a Cuban to use the site to do business with a US company? It's
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by aplusbi 16y ago
IANAL but I imagine having the site open to all countries is a legal nightmare.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I've been meaning to set up some gyroscopically neutral rollers and see if it's possible to ride them...but I've been lazy (and my neighbors hate my rollers).
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by aplusbi 16y ago
As I said I used to use gnu screen. However I didn't like the limited layout options so I started using dvtm and would nest it inside screen so that I could detach from a session. However I felt it was kind of silly to be using such a heav
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by aplusbi 16y ago
At work I have a Windows laptop connected to a dock with two monitors. I have a Kinesis freestyle keyboard. Most of my development is done on a remote Linux box, so pretty much everything I do is through SSH. I use a variety of software

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