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by columbo 14y ago
> "think of the prestige!" I don't see how Asylum couldn't get 100% of the prestige out of this. Imagine the next meeting Asylum could have had with a potential customer. Potential Customer: What was your last project? Asylum: We built
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by columbo 14y ago
As I read it LB contracted a company to build him a device. Then LB took the device home, liked it and had another company copy that device. LB owns the device, the copyright, the IP, the idea, the script, the everything. LB can do _whateve
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by columbo 14y ago
> Basically humans are the greatest long distance runners the planet has ever known. I believe the Ostrich and the Antelope would disagree.
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by columbo 14y ago
This might help: http://www2.nissan.co.jp/SP/NOTE/SPECIAL/SHARED/IMG/FRAMES/0...
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by columbo 14y ago
I hate to see 1-on-1's get abused because they really are a valuable tool. A 1-on-1 is a designated time for an employee to direct an entire conversation with their manager. They can choose to talk about interests, grievances, concerns, ide
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by columbo 14y ago
> What I don’t like about the bill is that it requires an operator to be able to take manual control of the vehicle at any time. I'd feel very strange being in a car without a manual override of some sort. Maybe in 10 years and only if
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by columbo 14y ago
Sources: http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_2328330.asp http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=232830... http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2012/08/29/most-am... > For example, it is reported, when a
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by columbo 14y ago
I agree with #18 wholeheartedly but I disagree with the examples because those are more of math questions than programming questions. I have never needed to write a program that dealt with circles/radius/area/pi so I'd probably fail that te
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by columbo 14y ago
Shouldn't US users then be using google.us, and uk users use google.co.uk and should google.com just redirect to the language of the location of the user?
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by columbo 14y ago
Related Stores about Gen X: >They don't want to spend a lot of time talking about things or having meetings. They want to get in, do the work, and move on to the next thing. If you're looking for someone to deliver a report every week,
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by columbo 14y ago
FYI this is all I get running chromium in linux: http://i.imgur.com/7FUlr.png
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by columbo 14y ago
I'm curious, Why? I have no problem with grok as long as anyone that uses the term has actually read 'Stranger in a Strange Land'. Honestly if there ever was a word that needed to be tossed out with the bathwater I believe it would be hacke
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by columbo 14y ago
Interesting. But it looks like it is solving a problem with another problem. The receiving class would then look like this: public void doSomething(Name name, Link link, UltimateAnswer ultimateAnswer, TempFile tempFile, Zip zip) {
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by columbo 14y ago
> I don't understand what the money is for actually. I was thinking about remote storage and devices. For example, a backpack is stolen with your phone/tablet/laptop and you need to issue a wipe to it NOW before they are compromised.
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by columbo 14y ago
The most surprising thing I see out of this isn't the need for more robust authentication but for services that aren't so damn quick to do whatever you want. Website: "Hey Bill, glad to see you today, what do you want to do" Bill: "Delete _
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by columbo 14y ago
>Why? Obviously the only way to answer this is with personal opinion. For me, whenever I see a blog post with "why this fucking sucks" or other language I'm not necessarily offended. However I do feel like I'm suddenly talking to a chil
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by columbo 14y ago
I disagree. I don't see any difference between email 1 and email 2 except for email 2 has a bunch more filler words. If I was to rewrite this it'd look something like this: To: Allhands@CompanyX.com From: JoeTheHRManager@CompanyX.
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by columbo 14y ago
I agree. Subreddits are nice but I want to see the equivalent of Netflix "other movies you may enjoy" on a social network. I want to be encouraged to upvote/downvote things because I know it will impact my experience, not because it will mo
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by columbo 14y ago
Technically they could encrypt the password and then just put the 1st and 4th password in a separate column in the db. Not sure if that happens in practice...
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by columbo 14y ago
I worked right next to one of the pilot stores when Subway started order online about 12 years ago. It worked pretty well. About 10% of the people used it and since everything was made & paid it took a few seconds to walk up and get you
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by columbo 14y ago
... interesting author ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Landsburg#Popular_writin... ) > Landsburg also addressed legal issues: in a Slate column from 2003, he proposed punishing jurors when a jury's decision is later "proven" to
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by columbo 14y ago
> I know many companies that are hiring, and all of them are saying they can’t find the people they want. Here's why (real job posting, name and location withheld): Responsibilities: Analyze, design, and develop scalable, reli
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by columbo 14y ago
"There are no tricks, gotchas or other devious ruses. Don’t rat-hole with issues related to terminal velocity, potential energy or wind resistance. This is a math puzzle plain and simple." Not out of the rules either (according to what you
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by columbo 14y ago
Wouldn't the absolute best way (assuming you have never seen an egg before and do not know anything about eggs) would be to try and crush one egg in a vice grip to determine the strength of the outer structure and then infer a fuzzy-ish hei
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by columbo 14y ago
To extend on this, a later article talks about how the system is written on an "in-house language" ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html ) called wasabi. > FogBugz is written in Wasabi, a very advanced, functional-prog
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by columbo 14y ago
Poor grammar (i wuld leik to apply 4 jorb) is an acceptable thing to use when rejecting a candidate. With that said, I have no interest in a writing career and I'm getting tired of reading about all these new and creative ways to take inter
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by columbo 14y ago
I think they need to work on their numbers a little, I would consider the last option "Percentage of housing units without a vehicle with low access" the most important metric. For example, two counties next to each other one has a 13.9 for
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by columbo 14y ago
I'm going to show my lack of linux history here... why not Debian? Are they really building something that is native to ubuntu that you wouldn't work in <insert-debian-fork crunchbang or mint>?
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by columbo 14y ago
Guesses (and probably not good ones) Dropbox: P.O. Box? You can send almost anything to it but only X people have access (whoever has a key) GitHub: Science Publication? Where everything is typically based off prior research and people can
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by columbo 14y ago
I use this: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70209869/ works great, and it's at the right height for bar stools so I can choose to sit or stand

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