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by brg 16y ago
A question missed is the following; The dropping of H.264 seems more motivated by their acquisition of On2 and their VP8 codec than it does about the licensing terms of H.264. Who within Google pushed for this, and to what extent was the n
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by brg 16y ago
I am bound by paperwork to not comment on any actual first hand knowledge, and can not find external sources to point you at. But before it was deprecated, getting Google desktop on every desktop was a priority. Some of those goals are st
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by brg 16y ago
To start: For the rule of 90: http://www.mnpera.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={079559... For salary increased this year and over last ten: http://teacherportal.com/salary/Minnesota-teacher-salary
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Your estimate got me wondering what the true number is. I would guess it is a little low for non-teacher's union employees. But considering that government unions generally cooperate to form an oligarchy; from a few searches I find there a
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by brg 16y ago
There is little possibility of an entire class jeopardizing their entire future and graduation prospects in order to make one of their educators look bad. Also, you are suggesting that such malicious act would not be detected, and there wo
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If union voters have the same distribution of that of public voters, then the most active and vocal will be those with retirement in mind. I think it would be hard sell to get these voters to agree to a change that will immediately affect
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Who has an incentive to work against public unions? Public unions operate in a monopoly for which one business can not be undercut. And after all, public unions vote.
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The current pay for teaching is already astronomical, although admittedly entry level pay is poor and benefits only come with some seniority. To enumerate what needs to be considered in pay, 1. 100% health care coverage for individuals an
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What would you think if you were told an offer was extended and rejected?
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When I left, it had been in development for 5 years. Definitely looked for an over-engineered solution that is pushed out in some desperation to ship something.
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I do not agree that smart phones will replace watches. Phones have displayed the time for the last 10+ years, but have not yet succeeded in that task. Further, fishing a phone from a purse or pocket is much more time consuming the turning
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After being hired, HR does not advertise that they are there to protect the company from its employees, and not the other way around. The message is often that HR is an advocate for your concerns, willing to help mediate in interpersonal p
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It varies by location, glassdoor's values are accurate.
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SWEII (Software Engineer 2). Management considers this a transitional level. People are expected to move out of it quickly.
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This is in line with SWEIII offers. However, your experience should be enough to be slotted into Senior, which will increase your salary and GSU's. If this is a senior/slotting offer it is low. If you come in at SWEIII you will be in the
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by brg 16y ago
Is it true that a supplement of eggs would be enough to cover all nutritional requirements?
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by brg 16y ago
Bonuses for an ME employee have run about 15-20% in the last two years. Stock refreshes are negligible, as the initial stock grant is the primary source of such an amount. T4 average 100k. Senior average 125k, but have a much higher initi
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by brg 16y ago
I am no lawyer, but along the lines of your question: by asserting editorial control of the pages they host, is Rackspace abandoning the safe-harbor protections of the DMCA?
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The article may be including the estimated value of options and GSUs, which for T4 is about 25k/y (2006+).
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by brg 16y ago
The report of Google salaries at Glassdoor.com is accurate. Engineers start at T3 out of college, and move to T4 after a year. T4 is mid level. Senior is a T4 with a good win and some presentation skills. Staff are some of the best engin
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by brg 16y ago
I support your idea of supporting raw_input through a pop up. You may run into problems with the browser supporting them. For one thing it will not be the result of a user action. If it isn't an acceptable experience, perhaps a dynamic i
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by brg 16y ago
I'm thinking about how this would change my niece's learning path. Obviously it would omit things like argv, files, the os module. I've seen working with IO to be extremely valuable. She was able to quickly write fill in the blank form le
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by brg 16y ago
Debuggers aren't necessary to get someone excited about programming. This tool definitely has its place. My niece recently asked me how to learn to program. Since she not extremely tech literate, I gave her a pointer to Zed Shaw's book. W
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by brg 16y ago
You begin the post with "He's right though," and then provide anecdotal evidence. I am not arguing against your experience. Your experience is not wrong; I am arguing against that the grandfather post is "right" that homelessness is a sym
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To be fair, the need for slave labor on collective farms did reduce the problem somewhat. But that practice was stopped precisely because it was inefficient to force mentally and physically handicapped people into a physically demanding pr
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Could you please name those communist countries? I still have family in mainland China, and we know there is a homelessness problem in China. The government effectively insures that they are out of sight, so they beg where they can out of
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This discussion is an 'intellectual discovery' for its participants. Its unfortunate you wish to hinder that through dismissive remarks instead of constructively participating.
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Perhaps we're splitting hairs. But this doesn't sit right with me. Consider what is meant by a thought experiment in popular literature. Take Einstein's elevator. Would you call that "Einstein's elevator theory?" Or is that a prediction
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I would say a theory is a hypothesis which has been tested. A thought experiment can be part of hypothesis creation.
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I am having a hard time seeing the different. A thought experiment can tell you that if A then B. A model is a means of producing a prediction B from A by means of long, complicated calculations instead of simple logical inferences. In bo

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