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by donal 19y ago
"either it is lawful or it is not" not really. things aren't really ever that clear cut. if they were, then being a lawyer wouldn't be quite a lucrative a business. considering the complexity of immigration law, "probably" and "maybe" are g
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by donal 19y ago
I took a class with the same title and it was fascinating. Unfortunately it didn't reach to far into the digital age, but it was just good to get a broad sense of the arguments before delving into any new writings on the subject. I also thi
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by donal 19y ago
I take this as people not understanding what the heck they are putting out for bid. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the last website they had was whipped together by some exec's kid. If they thought that his prices were high for PS
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by donal 19y ago
Yeah, it is a good thing that we aren't in an Asimov book or that robot would probably become the leader of a revolution.
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by donal 19y ago
I don't understand the "not practical" sentiment. During the pursuit of my BA, I learned how to research, perform analysis, communicate, and most importantly how to rapidly switch contexts. I use those skills every day. I'm not saying that
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by donal 19y ago
I think it depends on whether some "bubble" has popped or not.
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by donal 19y ago
So good, it has been posted before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=103725 I do this because I found the comments in the other one useful, not to be a dick. It is a dick-move, though, but at least I'm honest.
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by donal 19y ago
Yeah, my work life can be described as a dark room, a huge monitor, and a fullscreen terminal running vim. Statistically it does miss a lot, but I was looking for a way to try and throttling my online mucking about. I haven't run out of "co
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by donal 19y ago
I'm willing to try out 8aweek for the simple reason is if I'm doing work, I'm running Linux. I liked RescueTime, for the little that I experimented with it, but when I'm running Windows I'm usually just messing about.
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by donal 19y ago
He was posting to his network of friends/subscribers and the columnist grabbed the thread and decided to show it to the world. Twitter is an odd medium, most people's audience is their friends, but then it is also a public forum. Like havin
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by donal 19y ago
eeppp, I think I'll stick with gvim.
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by donal 19y ago
gvim is the only thing that keeps me sane in windows. I have not tried this cream you speak of however. Just downloaded it though.
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by donal 19y ago
Hmm, I like the idea of the IRC bot logging to a intranet-type site.
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by donal 19y ago
WOOHOO! +1 Philosophy BA Philosophy from Ripon College MS Information Systems University of Maryland Baltimore County (in progress). been a avid "hobbyist" programmer for 7-8 years now... just recently started getting paid for my programmin
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by donal 19y ago
I wonder how Digital Mars feels about this...
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by donal 19y ago
Even if it wasn't all within the software (which I would strongly doubt), the problem with safety and of complex systems is that the safer you try to make it, the more complex the system becomes and that in itself reduces the reliability an
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by donal 19y ago
I just bought "The Little Schemer." It is rocking my world.
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by donal 19y ago
There is one thing that PHP has going for it as a first language: You can do "cool" things with it almost immediately. It is like making an animated drawing back in the day in [whatever version of] Basic. Most into tutorials start "this is
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by donal 19y ago
My friend had the opportunity to go to a meeting at a tech company in Israel and he was very impressed by what he saw there.
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by donal 19y ago
ha, I just used it to remember my username... :)
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by donal 19y ago
So true about Madison. Great city when the temperatures are above, I don't know 25 degrees. I miss the angelic brewing co. and the farmers market. Oh, the crazy stuff you could find during moveout and the broom street theater is ridiculous.
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by donal 19y ago
Rock :-) Let me know at donal.h at that gmail place.
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by donal 19y ago
I was really starting to get into during the last hour of work, but then I came home and I really don't want to reboot over to Windows from Ubuntu. And starting next year even my work machine will be Ubuntu... VMWare Player is free and imag
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by donal 19y ago
Yeah, I've got to admit to being quite addicted. I like twitter and tumblr because they feel liberating in comparison to "blogging." I always felt like I had to craft and labor over what I want to say rather than just saying it. I'd rather
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by donal 19y ago
My current job (until 12/21): 3 out of 100 And, my new job (on 1/7): 91 out of 100 That about sums up my oppinion of both places too...
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by donal 19y ago
I don't think this necessarily applies just to machines. I know that when I am handed a resume the first thing I do is skim over it and preform the analog version of "searching for key words." If I see the words I am looking for, then I may
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by donal 19y ago
I actually just had to write a paper on the employer spyware type software. I found an interesting article that is very applicable to this discussion: Urbaczewski, A., & Jessup, L. M. (2002). Does electronic monitoring of employee inter
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by donal 19y ago
I just clicked it... :) I've resorted to using the rss feed to screen what seems like it would be worth wasting time on. It has helped, but today I'm in a terrible meeting and so I don't feel like I'm wasting too much time.
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by donal 19y ago
As someone that reads resumes and works with both degree and non-degree individuals, I couldn't disagree with a statement more. The difference in quality of work between those with degrees and those without is significant. It is even possib
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by donal 19y ago
If only this had existed when I was doing my senior thesis... and if only I had known Python then... I can't wait to play with this.

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