cpburns2009

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by cpburns2009 10y ago
I meant anyone already in the country and legally permitted to work, not the country you were born in. One objective reason to favor hiring a candidate living locally over one abroad is effective communication. The less local a candidate is
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
Disclaimer: I am a programmer, not a computer scientist. Computer science is a misnomer because it is a field within mathematics. It's about the abstract, theory of computability rather than actually computing with programs. I think th
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
Preferring to hire people from already in your own country would be patriotic rather than isolationist. That's not xenophobia though because there's no irrational or intense fear of foreigners. That is unless "xenophobia&quot
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
Most of the Human Identity section and the Society section.
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
Is that the minimum or maximum penalty? If that's the minimum, it is excessive. If that's merely the maximum, then for reference if you steal mail (also a federal offense), the maximum penalty is 5 years in prison and $250,000 whi
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
It's one thing to protest peacefully. But it's completely different to protest by infringing on the rights of other people to travel.
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
I would like to know how many people in the tech community are actually impacted by this. A temporary ban on immigration from a few unstable counties is not an embargo.
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
Ansible is nice, but it has some annoying quirks: - YAML quoting. - Quasi Python expressions from Jinja 2. - Which fields are expressions and which ones are strings is not always clear.
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
It can be an option if you have good enough coverage in your area and you don't use much data (i.e., no streaming or system updates). Typically unless you have some grandfathered in plan, you'll either pay per additional chunk of
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
Pretending there isn't a difference is ignorance.
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
Since when was the grave accent character a modifier or dead key on a computer keyboard? Using a compose key is one thing, but colons, carets, and tildes aren't magically combining with letters to form letters with diaereses, circumfle
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
I experience same problem with Firefox 47.0 on Ubuntu 15.10.
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
Resizing a browser window is hardly as involved as tweaking CSS or browser settings.
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
No, single roundabouts are annoying enough. Give me a stop light or a 4-way stop.
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
Wouldn't that imply using tabs but with the added feature that tabs also allow for alignment?
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
It really depends on the game. I've had consistent success playing StarCraft and Warcraft III multiplayer with Wine. Morrowind and Oblivion also work well in my experience.
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
I think you meant "b / a" in "a / b (instead of a^-1 * b)".
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by cpburns2009 10y ago
Qt 5 is LGPL 2.1+ (not a problem unless you need to statically link). GTK+ is LGPL 2.1 (not a problem unless you need to statically link).
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by cpburns2009 11y ago
Projection?
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by cpburns2009 11y ago
I've been running Firefox on Linux for 7 years, and I've hardly had any problems.
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by cpburns2009 11y ago
Single inheritance is awfully limiting which is what Javascript's prototypes provide. And structurally copying multiple prototypes into a single object to achieve multiple inheritance is an awful hack.
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by cpburns2009 11y ago
Sager NP7155: 15.6" matte, 2.6 GHz i7, GTX 960M, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, 1 TB HDD, full-width lit keyboard, dual booting with Arch Linux and Windows. Pros: It's a great machine compatible with Linux. The price isn't too bad. C