apotheon

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by apotheon 17y ago
> An intern, especially in the technical field, is probably more up to date than a salaried employee. That's a dubious claim, but let's roll with it, just for argument's sake. If it's true, that doesn't change the fact that someone lik
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by apotheon 17y ago
1. I'm not sure you're clear on the meaning of the term "strawman". 2. An internship actually can be valuable work experience, and that job may not exist at all if it can't be unpaid.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Do you think that refutes anything I said?
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by apotheon 17y ago
Government wants free labor, but doesn't want people to get internships in the private sector. This is hypocrisy -- not a defense of government.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Did you read the article? Apparently even internships used to satisfy school requirements are often illegal.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Actually, he's complaining that he can't employ people for a project that probably won't happen at all unless he can employ interns. You're saying "screw him" because he wants to create something that is of greater advantage to people en
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by apotheon 17y ago
I don't know if you've noticed, but sex creates people .
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Working for no pay on your own company is still totally legal and, whaddaya know, also known for giving a person experience. . . . but useless for getting your foot in the job field's door, because you have to already be there to "tak
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by apotheon 17y ago
> He's not running a charity. I think that's the problem -- people don't want him to help people if it's not a purely charitable effort, for some reason. If he actually derives material benefit from it, that makes him evil. I don't get
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by apotheon 17y ago
So . . . the fact you don't want him to be able to benefit from an internship is good enough reason to make sure the would-be interns don't get to benefit from it either. Is that it?
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Having people "volunteer" as a way around paying them to do work for you should be. I think the idea is that it would be nice to allow people to volunteer/intern when you have no other way to give them that introductory experience .
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by apotheon 17y ago
One need not be licensed to be honest.
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by apotheon 17y ago
In traditional cell animation, they'd call the guys who painted the "differential" frames "in-betweeners", and I think (my memory is hazy) the reference cells painted by the master animators are called "index frames".
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by apotheon 17y ago
Editor integrated version control is what this is talking about, though.
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by apotheon 17y ago
More seriously, "Deliberate is the new fast."
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by apotheon 17y ago
Going faster in the right direction is a sign you've made the right choices -- not a way to get more options for the choices you make.
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by apotheon 17y ago
I just looked at the layout in the patent document and the Google homepage, and the two are not the same.
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Is Linux For Losers?(forbes.com)
14 points by apotheon 17y ago|45 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
You beat me to it. I agree 100%. Learn to use version control as early as is reasonable. Hell, learn to use it for your personal document directory on your computer at home -- it's great for that, too. It's useful for more than just sou
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by apotheon 17y ago
Thanks for the information. I think I'll give that a look on a test system, if only to see whether I care enough to bother.
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by apotheon 17y ago
What does that have to do with liking Ayn Rand's writing?
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Static Typing and Functional Languages(etherplex.org)
14 points by apotheon 17y ago|10 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
You managed to pick out my two favorite list items.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Now we just need a BSD Babes.
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by apotheon 17y ago
I suppose it's possible that it implies Clojure idioms encourage better algorithm design. I'm afraid I don't know enough about Clojure to evaluate the value of my hypothesis, though.
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by apotheon 17y ago
I wish I could downvote this for egregious use of an asinine, confusing slang term. I expected something about discussion of a disturbing trend in the way the Craigslist business model worked, or something like that -- but instead I got po
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by apotheon 17y ago
Wikipedia's information about it confuses me. It says xcompmgr is a window manager, but it says it "does not replace any existing window manager". Does this mean it would replace AHWM, or that it would just add compositing to AHWM -- or s
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by apotheon 17y ago
- SICP by Abelman, Sussman, and Sussman - The Black Company I: Glittering Stone by Glen Cook I try to stick to two books at a time -- one fiction, one nonfiction.
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by apotheon 17y ago
The real payoff in that book for computer science oriented people is the end, where Dawkins basically invents memetics as a field of study. The Art of War is good, too, though.
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by apotheon 17y ago
It was an amusing anecdote that started with a harsh indictment of anyone who likes Ayn Rand's writing. Are you sure you didn't expect people to be offended at what you said? Are you, perhaps, being a little disingenuous here?

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