droithomme

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   by droithomme 15y ago

   Wow, having someone implement a square root algorithm on the spot, that's quite a question to ask. I agree that is a terrible question because not many top developers would be able to answer it on the spot unless they had recently happened
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   by droithomme 15y ago

   Vi Hart is an absolutely awesome artist with incredibly enthusiastic and inspiring pedagogical math videos. This would seem a match made in heaven. Also be sure to check out her hobby of building musical instruments out of paper and then pl
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   by droithomme 15y ago

   I don't see at all that they reasonably believed it was counterfeit. Unreasonably speculated, perhaps. Reasonably believed? Nope.
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   by droithomme 15y ago

   Since it was not a counterfeit, what legal recourse might the seller have?
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   by droithomme 15y ago

   Disappointing to see the last sentence in the article is an ad hominem attack against all those who may be skeptical. Perhaps the article would have better ended with a link to the study or at least its title. (It's available here to read f
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   by droithomme 15y ago

   That's a more reasonable comparison, sure. I'm not finding exact numbers on aggregate european population but seems to be between 731 and 857 million, about 2.5-3 times that of the US.
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   by droithomme 15y ago

   A really interesting finding in studies of homeschooled kids is that blacks and whites do pretty much the same, whereas in school blacks do much worse. This is also completely decorrelated from whether the parent teachers have any backgroun
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   by droithomme 15y ago

   Finland's entire population is 5.36 million, close to the population of Minnesota and a bit more than half of Los Angeles county's population of 9.86 million. Finland does have a lot of inventions and technology they export. For example, th
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   by droithomme 15y ago

   "Free customers are higher maintenance than paying customers. I think it’s because they aren’t paying, they show little or no attention to directions." This is true in my experience. We've experimented with limited support for people contac
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    I do all my banking from home by physically mailing stamped envelopes with checks, deposit slips, and signed letters ordering transfers. These envelopes are then opened by a teller who processes the transaction and mails a receipt of the tr
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    Target is the third largest brick and mortar retailer in the US. Running a computer network nationally for Target is not a solved problem. Sure, it's a solved problem for #1 WalMart, using entirely custom software that WalMart developed in
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    $200k isn't a rock star salary. You are correct that paying market salaries for competent engineers does not ensure competent engineers. However it must be noted that not paying market salaries for competent engineers definitely ensures t
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    I agree with you. 3D movies are dark. Darker still are regular movies where the 3D lens was left on because the theatre owners all like to save a few bucks by not hiring a projectionist who knows how to swap out and calibrate the normal len
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    Hey I'm not complaining at all. I'm perfectly happy watching at home on disks I borrowed for free from the library, or traded with my neighbors with large collections. They can raise the price all they want for their empty theatres, I'll ne
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    My own personal reaction is that $50 to see a movie is not "not bad" unless it's spread out across quite a few people as you mention, then of course collect each person's share, say have 30 people over, charge $5 each, that's $150, $100 pro
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    This is basically a rehash of the usual article on the topic that says the same things and is published every couple months. One twist was notable. Rather than try to compete on basic hygenic issues and market realities, the advice is to ju
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    I keep on top of tech news and I haven't even ever heard of a couple of those. I'm sure they exist and are important in some very small niche, but if they were the "top" skills currently sought, I would have heard of them, seen them posted
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    Thanks very much for the details, that give a much clearer idea about commutes.
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    Thanks very much, so around $60,000 a year gets one a three bedroom. Salaries around $100,000-$120,000 before taxes, after all taxes taken into account (federal, FICA, state, county, local, sales) about $50k-$60k take home, so it sounds lik
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    Thank you for the specific details. It sounds like those with children just all live in other cities and states. In places I have lived most of my life states are usually a bit farther apart, so the idea of commuting daily from another stat
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    Thanks very much for all the replies. So 3 bedrooms basically doesn't even exist, but 1 and 2 is available. No answers on the school issues. Is it uncommon then for developers living in New York City to have children? If you have kids, they
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    For those of you who live in New York City, what sort of standard of living do these salaries represent? Would one be comfortably be able to lease a 3 bedroom apartment within walking distance of work, in a neighborhood with good schools?
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    Yes, it's true the things listed are bullshit. Yes, I guess we can take it or leave it. Sometimes the "take it or leave it" position ends up being presented in a way that it is framed that those of us who choose not to partake in the rape o
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    "alleges Seagate knew that the position for which he was hired did not actually exist, but falsely represented that it did so in order to use Vaidyanathan’s credentials to better market one of its divisions to be sold to another company" Wo
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    You are of course referring to the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which governs claims on celestial bodies by the ratified signatory nations. It affects states that are party to the treaty. The US and 99 other nations have agreed not to claim
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    I'm think that's a rhetorical question right? If not, the latter one, since that's how this stuff has always worked. Just smart business for them.
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    I liked the first post! The bit you removed: "Now you have two problems" I had just pasted it into my quote file, so it's not gone. I'm going to bring it back because it is a stylish way to say a lot. Ok I'll fiddle with it a bit too, play
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    Personally, I like those. I assume you are talking of the interface on some sites with let's say a user profile and there is a visible [EDIT] button in the upper right. Click on it, and all the nice formatted readable content is replaced wi
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    Affordance is a used extensively in the usability field and is a fundamental part of the vocabulary. Don Norman, Jakob Nielsen and Alan Cooper all use it quite a bit in their writings, so anyone who has background studying the literature of
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    by droithomme 15y ago

    Ahhhhhhh. Thanks. OK, so actually I now see that single (one-finger) clicking makes it go away AND makes it come back. It wasn't actually fading on its own because of a fade out hideaway timer, it's just that I was touching the pages. And I