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by ecspike 12y ago
He lost me when he said "They will add Apps to directly compete with Google, like maps, email, and productivity (think: Evernote). As well as cloud storage." Did we already forget the fail that was FB email?
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by ecspike 12y ago
I don't see a problem with including an affiliate link if you are talking about a relevant book. I usually link once and do a text link rather than the Amazon graphic ad box. If it is something that interests me, I don't have a pr
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by ecspike 12y ago
So true about math/science books. I think they work for a lot of fiction reading too, you just have to set adaptive brightness or change to a darker background to avoid strain.
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by ecspike 12y ago
"In the United States, e-books are less expensive. Students will say, “I’d like to have the print version, but the electronic version is so much less expensive.” But if you buy a book used, the publisher and the author are not getting
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by ecspike 12y ago
At my office, I have a real desk and a "satellite" desk in the video editor pod. It's an easy place to go and work on something heads down or when I want a reduction in activity but not down to zero. My have nicknamed that em
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by ecspike 12y ago
Agreed. Many cities on the East Coast have a Caltrain like system in the Amtrak Acela trains. DC, ATL, NYC, Baltimore all crush the system here. Muni is terrible. Full stop.
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by ecspike 12y ago
I think part of Baltimore's problem is that the great areas are very close to some not so great areas. You can have houses that have gained 100% in value and walk a couple blocks in the wrong direction and be in a bad area. Baltimore i
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by ecspike 12y ago
I read it as more so that Chinese and Indians are overrepresented by population in tech sector jobs. So while they are culturally minorities, in the workforce that might not be the case.
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by ecspike 12y ago
Agreed. When I did my semester abroad in France, the French kids regarded the ones who took Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese and coping out and taking "easy" languages. I'm at the advanced intermediate level in French and have
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by ecspike 12y ago
Could it be that they do some sort of pre-auth when you try to make a trade? If so, those take a couple days or so to get credited back to your account.
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by ecspike 12y ago
A little windy in MTV but no too much outside the norm.
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by ecspike 12y ago
Internal hackathons can work. We recently had one where we basically shut down most of the company for two days (it was a Thursday-Friday). People could opt-in or do their regular work. They could stay late if they wanted but it wasn't
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by ecspike 12y ago
VimOrganizer also REQUIRES a Emacs install for most interesting things. https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer/blob/master/INSTALL.tx...
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by ecspike 12y ago
I've written articles and scripts with it. In grad school, its support for LaTeX was clutch in Algorithms class where all the assignments were laden with mathematical symbols.
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by ecspike 12y ago
I don't it was tone-deaf at all. There were many action shots that I got while playing sports that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. The main problem was people thinking that the presence of a camera meant that you were using it a
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by ecspike 12y ago
I love Android but I'm also a developer. It's not productive to try and write code on Android. I have in the past skinned my Gnome Shell to look like Android Holo (I just applied styles someone else created). Much like bumper stic
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by ecspike 12y ago
Sounds a bit like Mozilla Persona.
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by ecspike 12y ago
I have an Ultra but I would always forget to dock it and recharge. So I got the Zip. Couldn't be happier especially since their Android app syncs without my having to ask it to.
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by ecspike 12y ago
A Maglev train would be more logical between San Jose and LA.
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by ecspike 12y ago
You've been able to BYOD on GSM networks (ATT / T-Mo) for quite some time, at least since 2009-2010 that I know of.
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by ecspike 12y ago
For me, the key takeaway was in this quote: "If you go to the same prestigious universities every single time and every single year to recruit people ... then you are going to get the same people over and over again." That is some
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by ecspike 12y ago
It probably correlates to when it made Slashdot.
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by ecspike 12y ago
The train system in Europe is a dream. It's reliable enough that I've done insane train-plane-bus transfers through several countries that wouldn't be possible in the US(even if you did s/country/state. I grew up in
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by ecspike 12y ago
Pride and income. If the USOC boycotts the Olympics, NBC loses because they fund about 25% of the IOC's budget and account for between 40-60% of the broadcast licensing fees the IOC collects. NBC partially funds the USOC as well. So as
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by ecspike 12y ago
If the last Olympics in the Americas are precedent, they are willing. Some events in Atlanta and Vancouver were an hour away. Baltimore and DC tried to do a joint bid. Between the two of them they have very fast and efficient public transpo
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by ecspike 12y ago
I recently joined a place that has unlimited vacation and I think there was reticence in the beginning but I got over it. Most of my work is fairly project based with somewhat decent timelines so it's not so bad to plan time off. Somet
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by ecspike 12y ago
I mentally blocked it when started becoming a sea of "Why did this H-list programming celebrity join X company?"
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by ecspike 12y ago
From the article: "And here's the kicker: Windows can actually run Chrome OS web apps even better than a Chromebook because you can pin anything, not just apps in the Chrome OS web store. At this moment in time, we stand on the cu
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by ecspike 12y ago
Depends. Generally PDF or Word format is how I get them. Recruiters will want it in Word format, but be careful. They want to be able to remove your identifying data (not so bad) and but also sometimes decide to "improve" your res
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by ecspike 12y ago
I'd posit that they are blissfully ignorant that it existed somewhere else first and did no further research.

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