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by booop 13y ago
I was very interested in trading stocks for a while, and would read up a lot about the markets. I then met a stock broker and he told me that it wouldn't be very different from gambling if I were to invest based on the news without muc
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by booop 13y ago
If you're having trouble staying focused, what helped me tremendously was to start maintaining what I call a 'distraction record' during the important tasks. Now, it's not based on any scientific paper/literature. I
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by booop 13y ago
Beautiful, and the CSS itself is beautifully organized.
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by booop 13y ago
Nice. This would be great as a mobile app as well. Also you need to fix your dns configuration, can't access via http://betactful.com
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by booop 13y ago
Is it really that bad? I had contributed to some articles a few years ago and didn't encounter a 'crushing bureaucracy', but a very welcoming community.
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by booop 13y ago
I can't imagine what it would have felt like for those guys. I'm wondering, was it an interview for the following two as well but they didn't get selected?
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by booop 13y ago
I would guess for both good and evil. The good reason being able to login to the router to reset the password if the customer forgot it (I remember some home/small office routers don't reset the admin password when you use the res
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by booop 13y ago
I do this too, but then my confidence takes a dive shortly after that point, and recovers only when I'm making the closing statements.
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by booop 13y ago
I just hope they make the courses fully functional on mobile/tablet devices. The 3 I've tried (coursera, udacity and edx) seem to be completely ignoring this area. Maybe it would help improve the completion rates too.
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by booop 13y ago
Looks like it's time to fire up Unity and make an eagle hunting sim.
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by booop 13y ago
This is exciting. But wouldn't this result in very large final binary sizes?
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by booop 13y ago
I think these job titles are more likely to show up in a HN job post.
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by booop 13y ago
Indeed. I can't find anything really interesting about this conference other than a ton of self published links to social media sites (an obvious SEO/media campaign?).
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by booop 13y ago
DTS comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS_(sound_system)
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by booop 13y ago
Going by that page, AndrewDucker's usage of the singular their is incorrect.
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by booop 13y ago
Just wondering, why do you use 'their' when it's quite obvious that it's a man?
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by booop 13y ago
If i may butt in: Yes. Many times with clients too. Just this week I was in a meeting with project managers and consultants from GE, Honeywell, Prysmian and Schneider electric and it was as if everyone was trying to one up each other on the
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by booop 13y ago
Why? Looks like a legitimate question to me.
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by booop 13y ago
She should capitalize on the media attention by turning it into one of the highest paid internships.
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by booop 13y ago
MSI GT60 for 15.4" ASUS G750, MSI GT70 for 17"
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by booop 13y ago
In a similar vein, here's a thread of a complete rookie starting from scratch who turned into a fantastic artist by drawing a sketch every day : http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870 I guess this w
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by booop 13y ago
What's the battery life like for these?
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by booop 13y ago
> When I went on my first interview at Sun, I thought it made office furniture. The ad had said it was a maker of "workstations", so I thought it was like Hay cubicles. I did not know a thing about high-tech or computers. I luc
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by booop 13y ago
I don't share his enthusiasm about this. Doesn't everyone interested in computers/computing start programming things that are actually useful at roughly that age? Also, is an early start a guarantee that someone will choose a
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Tesla share price falls by 13% after Goldman Sachs releases bearish report(blogs.barrons.com)
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by booop 13y ago
Give it some time. It took a long time for Java and the JVM to be considered 'fast'.
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by booop 13y ago
Upto the mid-19th century eating lobster was a mark of poverty : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster#History . So it definately is possible.
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by booop 13y ago
I read your comment before clicking on the link and now it's impossible to read.
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by booop 13y ago
Okay, I've been using it since yesterday and I think it's _amazing_.
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by booop 13y ago
While I'm quite excited about this, I'm surprised by all the hatred for eclipse in this thread. I develop in Java for both fun and profit using eclipse and it's been running solid ever since I followed the tips given in this SO thread (esp

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