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by astrec 14y ago
It's relatively new (2005) so I doubt that has come up yet. I believe it's even more relaxed than the TN class visa. I do know of an E-3 holder who had their residency fast tracked, but there have been so few of them issued that it's probab
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by astrec 14y ago
The E-3 is a pretty good deal; indefinitely renewable, spouse can work etc. It's the visa I'd have if I wasn't married to a US citizen.
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by astrec 14y ago
That really depends on the level of significance and the size of the effect you wish to detect.
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by astrec 14y ago
That's quite sad: Formal methods should be one of the more exciting topics in your CS programme. Hope they didn't scar you too badly.
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by astrec 14y ago
Bronwen Clune attempted something like that a few years ago with a company called Norg Media http://www.crunchbase.com/company/norg-media - there have been others too, of course, but no one has managed to get particularly far.
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by astrec 14y ago
I find myself inclined to pay for news because just about all of the freely available opinion dressed up as news and/or analysis is complete tosh, and aggregators only get you so far. To wit, I fork over my hard earned for a copy of the FT
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by astrec 14y ago
Or the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Congressional Silver Medal... etc.
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Facebook is People: Why I Quit Mark Zuckerberg’s Online Collective Data Farm(observer.com)
62 points by astrec 14y ago|53 comments
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by astrec 14y ago
You're making a number of assumptions, most of which I believe are wrong. a) No, it's not the first thing that springs to everybody's mind. Experience says it's the first thing that springs to a relatively small percentage of minds, actuall
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by astrec 14y ago
Despite the questionable wisdom of it, right there in your answer is exactly why these questions get asked: you've just given the interviewer a mountain of information about you. I've probably sat through 500 or more interviews over the las
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by astrec 14y ago
I was using PeepOpen which is quite nice, but (of course) it doesn't work in the terminal. This looks quite spiffy.
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by astrec 14y ago
Me too. But I hit it a second time and got the article. I very nearly flagged it. Not cool.
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by astrec 14y ago
Complete failure of neoclassical economics, perhaps. There were plenty of people who predicted the GFC with varying degrees of accuracy; Steve Keen being but one.
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by astrec 14y ago
if (!isActive) { $parent.toggleClass('open'); } // best Damian Conway of Perl fame wrote an excellent style guide for C in the early/mid 90s which I'm pretty sure explained why (I can't find my copy): Programmer A: if (!
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by astrec 15y ago
60 minutes doesn't seem quite long enough. I'd look at perhaps 0.5 * mean ttl on the front page.
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by astrec 15y ago
Every time I launch into the endless blue, unpowered, under a wing comprised entirely of what was just a crumpled mess of fabric just moments before, it's real for me. Besides, why bother with flapping when you can soar and thermal? ;)
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Textbook Cases(theamericanconservative.com)
4 points by astrec 15y ago|0 comments
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by astrec 15y ago
No, it doesn't entice me to apply. Intentional or otherwise, I think that's a good thing for both parties. The ad is a window into the soul of their company, unfortunate perhaps, but hardly arrogant.
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by astrec 15y ago
I've found anecdotally that acceptance of that word in a professional environment is limited to the two tails of the income distribution.
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by astrec 15y ago
Interesting. I had a friend come back from a flying trip to China a few weeks ago and he said much the same thing - not common and too hard logistically. It's not the sport for everyone, that's for sure. I love it, and am never quite so hap
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by astrec 15y ago
This story also appears in Gavin Pretor-Pinney's The Cloudspotter's Guide, which is one of the more amusing and inspiring books about clouds I've come across. There's a slightly more modern instance of someone surviving a CuNim under canopy
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by astrec 15y ago
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead - Twain, Pascal, Cicero et al.
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by astrec 15y ago
Yes. Typically there are 3 tiers of graduate program by coursework (certificate, diploma, masters) and 2 tiers of graduate program by research (masters, Ph.D). Universities may offer none or all of these programs under different names. Ther
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by astrec 15y ago
Tragically it's an excellent predictor, but his rationale for believing it so and subsequent gross generalisation is extraordinarily ignorant.
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by astrec 15y ago
I went one step further and killed my account last week.
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by astrec 15y ago
No, and COBOL and Fortran experts are being handed blank cheques if they truly are expert (and sometimes even if they're not... how fast can you read? ;))
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Innovate or die(macrobusiness.com.au)
1 points by astrec 15y ago|0 comments
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by astrec 15y ago
I think your point is generally true of computer science graduates, but there are a great many wishy-washy vocational IT degrees for which employer and employee would both be better served with an apprenticeship.
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The Cringely Internet Civility Plan(cringely.com)
2 points by astrec 15y ago|0 comments
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by astrec 15y ago
What you describe applies to investors. He's "marvelling" over the parallel tax system for traders where capital income is treated as revenue.

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