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by faet 10y ago
>Bernie’s goal is to ban private prisons. Hillary has a similar goal, but takes money from prison lobbyists. Does this make sense to you? Well, considering that private prisons are banned in the state of NY but not VT. Yes. Also, the &#x
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by faet 10y ago
~25$/day. I have 10 wordpress websites on various niche topics that get a range of traffic. I'm not worried about ad blocking. Most of my sites are on topics for non-technical people who generally don't run them.
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by faet 11y ago
Apparently you need 1 real monitor for each 'virtual' monitor. >The latest version (0.9.5) now supports multiple monitors as long as they are connected to the same GPU as the Rift. i'm working on adding support for multi-G
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by faet 11y ago
I was a software engineer at my previous job. I was mostly unhappy with the environment (lack of challenge). My friend was a recruiter at a company and was telling me about opportunities in said company. One of which was a SDET roll. At fir
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by faet 11y ago
There are a decent number of video game companies as well. Rockstar, Sony, Activation, DayBreak, Zygna. I think 25-30 in total.
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by faet 11y ago
I picked up Design for hackers[0] a few years ago. It goes over color/fonts and other design patterns. It's been pretty useful for projects I've done. It goes over when to use certain colors (ie, target uses red because you&
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by faet 11y ago
State and Federal government has done "No Negotiation" for a while. Based on your experience (and they usually have hard guidelines) you fit into a specific grade/step. Generally, the only 'negotiation' you can do i
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by faet 11y ago
Some drivers near me will mark the trip 'complete' before dropping off their current passenger. This way they're already in the queue for the next passenger. Then it may take them 5-15min to finish dropping someone off then g
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by faet 11y ago
They never had my cv before the technical interview. I had participated in one of their code jams and was contacted to gauge my interest and setup a technical interview.
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by faet 12y ago
>My takeaway from that was that if you were white, middle class and middle-American suburban, that there was almost nothing you could do distinguish yourself enough to get into the country's top schools. 90% of my graduating class f
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by faet 12y ago
> 1) They're expensive (merchants pay ~3% fees which makes items more expensive for us) As a consumer I don't care. I get 3-6% back on purchases so even if you raised rates or gave a cash discount generally it is still cheaper
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by faet 12y ago
Have you not updated in a while? For me it works fine. I see all the icons for all of my services all the time. Click the one I want and get the number. No Scrolling required. Current screenshot http://i.imgur.com/EzNc2g9.jp
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by faet 12y ago
I feel like connections are what are most important. Will you need funding? Will you need people? Working at a startup can usually put you in front of like minded people.
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by faet 12y ago
Depends on the company. I was applying for a jr/student linux admin job at a university. They asked me to code a linked/doubly/inverse linked list in C++. The school did everything in java... Beyond that no other job has ask
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by faet 12y ago
Say hey to matt for me. Why would I use this over something like ApplePay? Do I need a "final card" for each of my credit cards? Or can I tie it into 1 final card (Mostly for online purchases). Or complete new credit card? What do
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by faet 12y ago
Probably school or connections. I got my first internship via a personal connection. My wife and old roommate got theirs from school. Schools will sometimes have job fairs, or councilor/advisor have some.
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by faet 12y ago
Internships and portfolio. Setup a website that goes over projects you've done in school or personal projects. I got my last job because my portfolio website looked good and I had some past projects that 'showed' stuff on my
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by faet 12y ago
If you're hiring local look into what is popular in the area. Where I am it's C# or Java. Anything else and you'll have a hard time finding talent.
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by faet 12y ago
Where I am there has been one business that offered a 'cash discount' higher than what I got back from my credit card. It went out of business. All the gas stations give 10c/gal, my credit card gives 5%. at 3$+/gal I&#x2
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by faet 12y ago
My friend and I kinda do this. We started 8-10 years ago when we were in high school. We pooled ~10k together to buy legacy staples. Since then we've bought some cards, but very minimal compared to legacy cards. We aim for the cards
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by faet 12y ago
8 holidays. 4 weeks. leniency on appointments (hour or two late due to dentist/Dr i don't need to use leave on).
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by faet 12y ago
In addition to javascript cookies help as well. Many don't handle cookies.
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by faet 12y ago
That was one of our selling points in college when trying to raise money for the racing team. If you donated more than $1k you'd get to drive it in the parking lot. $5k got you to drive it on the track.
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by faet 12y ago
I like that the newer character sheet fit on 1 page +items/spells. It was always a pain trying to get someone on the edge to fill those out. "okay you have 14 dex, which is +2. You need to fill the +2 in here, here, here, here, he
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by faet 12y ago
Just went through this. Initial talks pegged a raise for going from department A to B at ~12-15%. Increased responsibility, etc. They (my manager, new manager, and CIO) signed off on it to move me to B. I was told there was no raise, it was
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by faet 12y ago
Generally you want to favor 1 corner. Try to only use down/left. Use right only once your bottom row has 4 so your "Main" block stays in the bottom left.
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by faet 12y ago
Columbia, SC, Remote or Local , Full Time Stack: C#, PHP, SQL. Resume/Contact: faetless.com I've been working on personal projects for the past few years as a way to learn new technology. I'm quick to pick up new t
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by faet 12y ago
I've been playing poker online over the past year. I did a transfer from my US bank. It is a bit slower to withdraw, takes about 2 weeks for a check. I get 5% cash back from my credit card when buying on amazon. And any points I earn c
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by faet 12y ago
Much of the work done at my local state college is done in groups. This means that you have 1-2 people who are writing the complex algorithms, compilers, etc. And 1-2 who can't. You do zero solo-programming. 10 years ago, there was m
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by faet 12y ago
The school I went to originally had a 60% fail rate with their computer science program. The first class was huge, 80 students to 1 teacher. This was the first time most of the students did any programming at all. To fix, this they changed

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