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by cityhall 10y ago
No, you're right. Nothing about this blog post/resume inspires confidence.
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by cityhall 10y ago
It should be easier to automate a web developer's job than a handyman's. A lot of less skilled jobs call on people to understand instruction, look at what's in front of them, and use common sense. Skilled work often just invo
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by cityhall 10y ago
A lot of Europeans have this reaction on coming to the US, that all the food is way too sweet.
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by cityhall 12y ago
Cython, numba, and other projects do this for a subset of the language, but you lose the metaprogramming that makes things like SQLAlchemy possible. You also have to treat most user objects as hashmaps and constantly look up their fields si
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by cityhall 12y ago
Mechanical watches don't require sacrificing many features vs. quartz. Other than not having to wind or set it as often, the only real advantage of quartz is price. That's what may change if these new smart watches find their kill
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by cityhall 12y ago
On the other hand, Leica and Hasselblad switched to digital along with everyone else. There's still a high end but it has to compete on technology, not just exclusivity. Watch purists may go the way of vinyl purists, slowly dying out a
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by cityhall 12y ago
You moved from high-end automatic watches to a smartwatch. In the long term, it's worth considering whether people will move from smartwatches to mechanical ones. If people get used to the features of an iWatch in their 20's, will
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by cityhall 12y ago
Business travel is booked at particular price points, $150, $300, etc. based on the employee's rank in the company. On top of that there's a daily allowance for incidentals like room service, parking, and wifi, so the hotels overc
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by cityhall 12y ago
They don't share anything. Different buffers, registers, and I think even different extensions loaded.
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by cityhall 13y ago
This is almost certain to cause an increase in piracy as owners of now-obsolete Nooks turn to torrent sites for books they otherwise would have purchased.
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by cityhall 13y ago
If you accepted money to kill yourself, the onus would be on the prosecutor to prove a crime was committed. A reasonable defense would be that you feared that if you didn't pretend to carry out the murder, the buyer (who knew your iden
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by cityhall 13y ago
These numbers seem pretty misleading. What we're interested in are businesses that are started from scratch and derive their income through their own brand identity. What we're reading about are people who pass their consulting pa
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by cityhall 14y ago
-1 for the rest.
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by cityhall 14y ago
The first big chunk of time is getting data into a usable format. Customers (internal or external) all have different data formats, and nothing is consistent. So you write parsers, deal with the corner cases, and get data into a form you ca
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by cityhall 14y ago
> 13. Learn the difference between a detail (doesn't really make that much difference) and an issue (can end the world). Focus only on issues. Good advice. So why do you give the same amount of attention to variable naming and early exi
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by cityhall 14y ago
What a terrible article. There's no reference to the actual allegations, not even a link to the original post. Nothing but repetitions of the company's press release.
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by cityhall 14y ago
Even if the eNotate software is magically unhackable, it sounds like there's no verification during the tournament that players are actually running eNotate instead of something else with the same appearance. The best way to cheat would be
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by cityhall 14y ago
I think he meant that his printer was still connected but he unplugged his Mac.
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by cityhall 15y ago
His rebate is cumulative with the casino according to the article, except that they allowed him to reset it when he started this streak. He effectively only has one session per casino for rebate purposes. Taxes are always computed on net wi
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by cityhall 15y ago
It depends on how he expects to be taxed. If this is his only session during the year, he actually wins 60-70% of the money vs losing 80%. So he needs to either be way ahead or way behind from other gambling activity for this to work out th