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by excuse-me 14y ago
well perhaps, and even chemists ;-)
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by excuse-me 14y ago
https://www.coursera.org or my own personal favorite http://www.udacity.com/ But you have to do the work, all the problem sets, and the exam - just having the youtube video open in a window isn't enough
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by excuse-me 14y ago
There are no absolute statements. I was just highlighting that while many bad jobs insist on a CS degree, many good ones treat a CS degree with some suspicion. See also http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Lawyers almost never want to go to court. They bill you for the hours preparing the case beforehand - but it's in court that they can lose.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
The new laws introduced for the OxxxxxxxICS are ridiculous - it's now a criminal offence to use: ..any two of the following: Games, 2012, Two Thousand and Twelve Twenty Twelve Or use of any one of them alongside any mention of: gold, silver
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by excuse-me 14y ago
The speyside was a nod to anyone out there that can pronounce Edinburgh and doesn't think that Scotland is in londonshire ;-) And yes Islay malts are wonderful. I could never understand the "knocking back a drink with a grimace" type drink
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by excuse-me 14y ago
In the strict first amendment sense - no he isn't (with the possible exception of the Nirvana one) The parody protection is very narrowly defined, mainly to stop the target using it to squash opposition. You can't automatically use artist
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by excuse-me 14y ago
I can't offer any specific advice about the place but I can say - go for it. Apart from the personal satisfaction of being a mathematician you go straight to the top of my interview list. Anyone with the dedication and commitment to do a ma
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Anywhere that would hire CS degrees over a maths advanced degree is not somewhere that you want to work. Mostly because next year they are going to outsource it all to a cheaper 3rd would country as soon as some "management-science" consult
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Learning how to learn is far more important than knowing something. That's why maths/physics PhDs are more valuable in industry than BSc's in the exact detailed topic.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
To be a parody you have to be paroding the thing you are copying, not using it to parody a third party. The defense is intended to stop ACME company preventing you saying "Boycott ACME" by claiming ownership of the name. It doesn't allow
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Well they are obvisouly going to be worth a few $$$ just because they sell so much of it. But the cynical engineer in me assumed that all the "Billy-Bob still pisses in every barrel just like his grand-pappy did in 1869" type advertising, m
43.
by excuse-me 14y ago
>because BAs don't go as deeply into the subject matter as a BS Some places, like Oxford and Cambridge, only give BAs not BSs - so it's not always a good guide unless you know the institute.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
It's from facsilimile - but the first commercial product and the first to include the 'fax' was Xerox's MAGNAFAX, although they seem to have used the term LDX rather than FAX for the process. Coca cola famously won a case preventing others
45.
by excuse-me 14y ago
Yes sorry, finger-brain-interface issues !
46.
by excuse-me 14y ago
I had assumed that were now owned by Anheuser-Busch or Diageo or some other mega-corp just because they are so good at brand image management !
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Trademark law is a bit bad in this respect. You have to (or be seen to) defend your brand or lose it So if you don't want to become a fax or xerox or kleenex you have to stamp down on anyone using the name generically. But you also have to
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Because their lawyers aren't this smart. Assuming it ever came to court, it comes down to who the jury likes. Compare this letter being read out as evidence to a standard Disney-style "we will wipe you and your family from the face of the E
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by excuse-me 14y ago
If they were olympic sponsors they would be demanding that he removed the letters "J" and "D" from anywhere they appear in the text of the book
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by excuse-me 14y ago
And it's worth how much in free advertising and brand image? Assuming that JD is actually owned by some mega-corp fizzy beer maker (they are not "brewers"!) it's a clever way of giving the impression that they are still good ol' boys. Compa
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by excuse-me 14y ago
There is no requirement to offer French outside Quebec unless you are federal govt. Occasionally the govt gets a committee up to consider Canadian cultural content but it's mostly to keep the media happy - it never gets as far as affecting
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by excuse-me 14y ago
If the startup has the same sort of money to throw around as an Enron or a BP. And if all the programmers live in a small town so that a significant proportion of the electorate there relies on the startup.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
In the US the government doesn't care about the tech sector, except perhaps military. You can't help feeling that the Canadian govt is actively trying to kill it. Startups don't fund politicians and young people in tech don't vote. So given
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by excuse-me 14y ago
The wings WERE a military requirement but nothing quite that silly. It was to enable a launch from Edwards AFB in California, insert or extract a polar orbit payload and land on US soil. Importantly it allowed them to choose the orbital ins
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by excuse-me 14y ago
It should be "your mother's thong is Spanish" However in the USA it's unusual to take the provenance of parental lingerie into account in the hiring process.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
No he says specifically that this doesn't apply to ESL or dyslexics. As a writer he is objecting to hiring people who don't care enough about writing to use grammar correctly and he believes that this also strongly correlates with being a g
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by excuse-me 14y ago
ESR was an evil prophet of the dark god Cthullu. Reading sendmail configs out-loud are believed to summon the evil one and bring about his reign of terror. So fetchmail is the equivalent of an evil prayer wheel
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by excuse-me 14y ago
The reasons for those are interesting - all to do with losing cases when middle English simplified and having to fit a few borrowed Norse words into Old English's German grammar.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President. The grammar rule is that you can remove a clause within the commas -
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Which is why you should avoid commas in legal documents and especially patents

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