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by fatjokes 14y ago
Exactly. I never said banks.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
I believe part of the reason that governments prefer big, "overpriced" software packages from mega-corporations is support and warranty. The White House does not want to create and manage a new in-house tech support team.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
I personally beg to differ. I'm not willing to give much more identifiable info, so if you want to call me a liar, feel free to.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
"Quantitative Researcher" As for salary, it varies a lot. For a large hedge fund, you might look at $200K base, for smaller shops maybe $150K. Of course, most people are more interested in the bonus. Also, it varies a lot based on experienc
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by fatjokes 14y ago
I'm willing to believe that this is what US universities are aiming for (i.e., "well-roundedness", passion vs. nurture, etc.) However, believing than an Asian kid did well on his scores / science competitions simply because a lot of Asian k
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Yes. Now what is anybody going to do about it? Asian-Americans lack the numbers and the political clout as African- and Hispanic-Americans. Asians do not have a Sharpton. It's also tough to sympathize with a bunch of kids protesting how the
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by fatjokes 14y ago
> Imagine the same about newspapers: This is really perverse, some of our best writing talent got pulled into writing news articles in order to get people to read the ads. This isn't an apt analogy. Ads may bring in the revenue but peop
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Probably a good call. I had never heard of any of those six.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Has the day come for Google+? I'm willing to put up with a lot from Facebook, but the one thing I absolutely detest are these full-page video ads. I've given up a lot of websites (e.g., Yahoo!) because of them. In fact, the only place where
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by fatjokes 14y ago
It's satire.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
they meant from a production perspective, i.e., filming POV-porn.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
What's embarrassing about it? It's a 15-year-old's website and it looks cleaner than most of the web from that era. Plus, at least he didn't mention his Asian fetish on this one (unlike his old Synapse website: [0] Off topic, but isn't refe
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Cute, but I'm still not using Yahoo! Mail for anything except spam.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
She brings up an interesting point. I'd be curious to see some data on women who date "beneath" them (particularly career wise) in terms of relationship stability. Personally, I know of many women who date men who are not as intelligent or
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by fatjokes 14y ago
It's interesting to me that none of the "mainstream" (Mashable, TechCrunch, Wired) articles have discussed her public shaming of the two programmers, or how she dealt with the issue in general (i.e., not confronting them directly). In fact,
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by fatjokes 14y ago
> “I’m doing a CEO search. It’s a Fortune 500 company. It’s in the consumer Internet space. It’s in Silicon Valley—you wouldn’t even have to move. It’s the perfect job for you. The board is asking for you by name. Are you interested? It
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by fatjokes 14y ago
You've never been angry on the Internet?
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by fatjokes 14y ago
> But, not all young entrepreneurs are like Nick D’Aloisio and Andrew Hsu. Some of these whipper snappers are the REAL deal. This sounds very insulting to Nick and Andrew. I don't see any evidence that they're anything but earnest entr
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by fatjokes 14y ago
In general, I agree with your comment. For the specific case of Go however, there is an easy solution: open source. Just as there are vibrant communities and multiple compilers for other languages, there could be for Go (if there is enough
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Is it just me, or are half the resources (i.e., slides for most lectures) missing?
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by fatjokes 14y ago
I disagree. Of all companies, Google actively engages academia and works hard to maintain ties (e.g., faculty summits, research grants, etc.) They have a lot of collaborations and want to foster good relations so that good students will be
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by fatjokes 14y ago
It's as enforceable as the texting-while-driving ban in effect in some states and Canada.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
I think they're referring to potential backdoors installed by the US to spy on China in Microsoft software. (Shocker: the US engages in cyber espionage too).
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Unlikely. Most people in China use pirated versions of Windows, so they'll keep doing that. Maybe the governments will require the use of this brand of Ubuntu, but that's it.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Bravo. This is the only rational reason to fire her.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
> I'm frankly saddened that the discussion about the employment circles her and not the employer. This definitely shows that PlayHaven does not have their employees backs, but for me at least: 1. PlayHaven is in a tough spot. If they de
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by fatjokes 14y ago
> I feel that all the threats and horrible comments she received are disgusting. No arguments here, but this sounds like typical Internet comments. The tech community is pretty big, a percentage of them are going to be assholes (and giv
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by fatjokes 14y ago
On the upside, this means that employees don't owe their companies any loyalty either. Fair play, and all.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
No. Nobody outside the tight-knit developer / tech community cares. This hasn't exactly hit the front page of the NYTimes.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
"I'm sorry to hear" is the standard non-apology apology. It's like "I'm sorry you got offended."

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