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by aplusbi 16y ago
Ah, I see what you mean but I disagree with your premise - I think that IP is an ethical gray area and that copyright infringement can be unethical absent the law/economics. I think it would be unethical for a programmer in a country that
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Just because US law defines IP as an incentive not an inherent right doesn't mean that culturally it's only a incentive. You have poorly defined what "ethical" means. So far the only clarification you have made is that legal and ethical ar
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by aplusbi 16y ago
If I'm not mistaken, Netflix uses multiple types of DRM (for iOS, PCs, Wii, PS3, etc). The Windows DRM is for PCs and the XBOX, possible some others (Roku might use it, I think the NXP-chip uses Microsoft DRM). This is actually the problem
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by aplusbi 16y ago
This depends on how much you believe in moral-relativity. There is a concept of ownership and rights (sometimes legally defined) associated with IP. Disregarding those rights can be seen as unethical. There is no precedence in our cultur
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Those questions can show you if someone is willing to call out an interviewer for asking a stupid question. I doubt the people asking these kinds of questions are looking for that sort of answer however.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I read "We think for a while before typing" to be a snide remark as in, "Think about your feature request for awhile before typing it up."
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by aplusbi 16y ago
The problem with toy-based analogies is that people then think the math is a toy. "Who cares if you can solve a Rubik's cube faster?"
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by aplusbi 16y ago
How often has Batman fought someone with a gun? Heck, I'm pretty sure he's fought people with frickin' lasers! In any case you're focusing too much on gear. For both of them their greatest asset is their mind. Spock is definitely ahead
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I get the feeling that the "avoiding a lawsuit" justification for not supplying feedback is a result of cargo cult thinking, not actual evidence.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
No one said you can't use it as your "coolness test". If you expressed the opinion that free soloing is cooler than what this guy did, you wouldn't be getting down-voted. It's the fact that [seemingly] couldn't understand why anyone would
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Saying that I have some sort of insecurity is an ad hominem attack. Just kidding! No one is saying you can't admire a guy who free solos. What you did say was "Why not just tie yourself to a rope and have your Mommy pull you up?" Followe
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by aplusbi 16y ago
The problem is that the type of protection you would typically use for this situation are spring loaded camming devices. These consist of logarithmic spirals that expand when they are pulled. If you fall on one of those in a flake, you ar
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Well from what I know this "anti-cam" device is the only rock protection that would not have a horizontal force component This guy is the first person to ever try it. All the other pro I can think of catches a fall by wedging into the crac
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by aplusbi 16y ago
It's very different from a C-clamp. You'll notice that it has four pivoting logarithmic spirals on the ends (two on each side). That way the clamp tightens when you pull on it. That design is similar to a cam, except that a cam goes insi
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by aplusbi 16y ago
>What is wrong with building an escalator. It's not rock climbing and it's (arguably) not as fun. You need to keep in mind that the clamp this guy built wasn't be used to pull him up. In fact, if the article is accurate then he didn't
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by aplusbi 16y ago
You've really only covered two points - why corporate customers won't RTFW and why they ask for discounts. If you are dealing with a corporation you might get contacted multiple times through multiple channels, but probably not from the sa
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by aplusbi 16y ago
He was free climbing the flake, which means that his only means of progress was his hands and feet on the rock. The clamp he built (more of a reverse cam, really) was used solely to catch him in the event of a fall. He mentioned that he pr
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I agree completely, and agree with your original statement that the major problem with Everest is that it's full of amateurs. I'm just saying that the technical difficulty of a rescue isn't the only criteria. In the case of Minamiura, his
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by aplusbi 16y ago
At least choose a better example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Hall_(climber) . Beck Weathers wasn't suffering from altitude sickness and made it back to camp IV on his own. I didn't say it was futile to attempt a rescue, I said
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I don't think it's that rescue attempts are more difficult on Everest but rather that they are more futile. If a climber collapses from HAPE/HACE in the death zone it is often too late to help them. Of course I agree completely that rescue
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Let me clarify: learning JavaScript is not that important for non-web development.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
My company is currently in the middle of a lot of college recruiting. Most college students/recent grads have very little to show. If you're lucky they had the forethought to save some of their school projects and post them online. Even a
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by aplusbi 16y ago
How do you know you were dinged for these silly reasons? Did they actually tell you that? I wouldn't be surprised if there are programmers out there who ding candidates for silly reasons like that, but in my experience they are the minorit
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I agree that it is a glaring assumption, and perhaps is "culturally" biased. Someone programming in Perl or Python, would probably be very familiar with the built in data structures (hashmaps, dictionaries) but may not be familiar with oth
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Also a good point. I'd be surprised if a programmer didn't know what a binary tree was and would certainly consider it a warning sign. I would assume that, given a description, they probably wouldn't be able to code one (or code much of a
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Yeah, we actually did use Lua on some of our games. I'm not saying JavaScript is too slow for games, or can't be used for games, just that it wasn't very useful for console development at the time I was doing that. Plenty of games have be
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by aplusbi 16y ago
It's often hard to ask relevant questions that will fit into the time allotted for an interview. Your DB schema example is a good one - it shows that the candidate can design (and to a lesser extent, implement) an application. Your exampl
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by aplusbi 16y ago
What makes you think it was held against you? Most programmers can be kind of OCD about code and would want to point out that kind of error, whether they thought it was relevant to your abilities or not.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I've interviewed a lot of programmers and I think there are many misconceptions about what an interviewer is looking for or expecting. I don't expect you to be able to code quicksort from memory. I do expect you to be able to code quicksort
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Then consider my snarkiness rescinded. Part of the problem with aggregate news sites is that they often remove context.

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