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by autarch 10y ago
> selling people food you made in your home kitchen is illegal That depends. Minnesota passed a new law in 2015 called the Cottage Food law that allows certain types of food (primarily baked and canned goods) to be made in a home kitchen
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by autarch 10y ago
There is a protocol for sampling unknown foods that I suspect aboriginal humans might have developed ad hoc. http://www.wikihow.com/Test-if-a-Plant-Is-Edible
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by autarch 10y ago
These are really not great talks at all. The speaker doesn't seem to actually know much about Perl, and it seems like the flaws he's found have little to do with Perl, and more to do with just writing insecure code. See http:&#x2
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by autarch 10y ago
On Google Calendar, you can make events that are 0 minutes long. That'll give you an alert when it starts.
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by autarch 10y ago
Unless, of course, all home cabbage farmers receive the education, thus doubling the supply of cabbage on the market, which we would expect to more or less halve the price, leading to ... a zero sum game ;)
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by autarch 10y ago
Paul McCartney also appears on the Smiley Smile song Vege-Tables chewing celery.
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by autarch 10y ago
I cannot recommend Understanding and Using C Pointers by Richard Reese highly enough ( http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Using-Pointers-Richard-R... ) Learning C syntax is pretty easy. Learning to use the standard library i
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by autarch 11y ago
I often tell people that the only stupid question is the one you didn't ask. In other words, it's stupid to not ask questions when you don't understand something.
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by autarch 11y ago
As the second slide pointed out, you can use ASCII variants for everything. That said, I've found the Unicode operators nice to use in some cases, and I've been working on learning more about my compose key combinations.
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by autarch 11y ago
This would be a lot more useful if the header rows and name column were frozen. Once I scroll I lose all track of what each column means or what row I'm on.
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by autarch 11y ago
I think that most high-level Go players (including AlphaGo) play moves that serve multiple purposes simultaneously. The ideal move reinforces your own position while forcing your opponent to defend their own. White certainly played plenty o
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by autarch 11y ago
Google is hardly the only company to do in-person all day interviews. I've had several in my career, none of them with Google. IIRC, they were with Shopzilla and Grant Street Group, and Livetext (not exactly Google-famous companies). I
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by autarch 11y ago
I think the concern is that the homework task could be too large and because people have an incentive to appear competent, they might lie about that to make themselves look bad. That means that we're giving too hard a task but we'
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by autarch 11y ago
I would prefer that we pay people to do this, but unfortunately that's not my call. That said, no one seems to complain so bitterly about the all day interviews that places like Google do (and insist you fly out for in person). Isn&#x2
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by autarch 11y ago
Fair points. FWIW, we've asked people how long the problem took and they all said it took a few hours, so I think it's the right scope. It really is a fairly easy piece of work.
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by autarch 11y ago
> Which can be easily countered by having one of their own team members sit down and take the test first. But of course, none of these places ever do that. At my employer we send out homework exercises, and I personally did the backend d
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Tech Interviewer Theory(blog.urth.org)
2 points by autarch 11y ago|0 comments
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by autarch 11y ago
Hilariously, I'm pretty sure that this article is violating the license! This person's photos are licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ ). Among its terms are &
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Clicking for Love – The Curious, Odious, Hilarious World of Online Dating(alfiekohn.org)
92 points by autarch 11y ago|84 comments
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by autarch 11y ago
Re: his articles on Trump. I'm not sure if he's right, but I do appreciate that he's been willing to make very specific predictions about the future. So far it seems like he's been pretty good at predicting how things wi
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by autarch 11y ago
Only if your best relationships are with people you met in high school. My best relationships right now are with my wife and my close friends in the same city as I live in. I see them a lot more than I see people from high school (which is
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by autarch 11y ago
http://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances Individuals are the largest single source of funding, but they don't make up the majority of it, at least for NPR. Corporate sponsorship is the nex
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by autarch 11y ago
We've had a pretty good response rate when asking people to do this. Of course, I totally understand why someone would say no. I'd love to find a better way to evaluate someone's skills, but absent a good public FOSS portofol
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by autarch 11y ago
Where I work we do something similar but it's a "homework" question we give to people who pass our initial resume screen ( https://github.com/maxmind/dev-hire-homework ). We tell them not to spend more tha
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Understandably Cause for Alarm(medium.com)
1 points by autarch 11y ago|0 comments
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by autarch 11y ago
Perl 5 introduced Unicode support in 5.6.0 (2000) but it was kind of a mess. It was essentially redesigned in 5.8.0 (2002). At that point it was fairly buggy, but by 5.8.8 (2006) it was in pretty good shape. The most recent versions of Perl
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by autarch 11y ago
https://archive.is/UudBe
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by autarch 11y ago
See https://archive.is/UudBe for a cached version until my server stops blowing up.
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by autarch 11y ago
Author here. I appreciate the traffic but my server doesn't. I'm working on getting this viewable again.
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by autarch 11y ago
I was about to write the same thing. Perl 6 is a great community, and they really seem committed to keeping the community welcoming and engaging.

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