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by fatman 13y ago
I think it's an important point that the GoldieBlox video is directly attacking the message of the original song. To way oversimplify: Modifying someone else's copyrighted work to make a generic point = Satire, not fair use, not
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by fatman 13y ago
Agree 100% - but now that mine are a bit older, I'd like to replace them all with levers so I can open them with my hands full of laundry, kids, bags, toys, etc...
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by fatman 13y ago
$35 for an extract kit, especially something decently hoppy, isn't too bad - especially if your local store isn't MoreBeer or Northern Brewer. (Though I'd feel better about that price if it included Liquid Yeast, and the &qu
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by fatman 13y ago
A few months back, while sitting in another company-wide, mandatory sexual harassment seminar, I figured that, for 90% of the audience, the entire presentation could be replaced with a single side: "Don't be an asshole." How
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by fatman 13y ago
If I'm being generous, I'm a slightly above average engineer. Spot me 10X and I'll outperform any engineer on the planet. Do I believe in the 2X engineer? Definitely. 3X? Sure. 5X? Possibly, if their name is Ritchie or
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by fatman 13y ago
What kind of job was this for? After stumbling through questions involving trees, arrays and other data structures, I have come to the conclusion that I'm a mathematician dressed up as a mediocre programmer.
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by fatman 13y ago
Yeah really. Chevron is getting names and IP's for accused fraudsters/racketeers. Doesn't exact stir the same level of outrage as "the data of activists".
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by fatman 13y ago
Whatever the merits of socialism vs. capitalism in the past, doesn't this sort of progress portend an eventual move toward the former? And is this necessarily a bad thing - when machines do more of the work, shouldn't humans be a
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by fatman 13y ago
The accounting for college athletics is weird. Do you only count tickets/TV/bowl $$ in? Or do you try and include alumni donations directly or indirectly linked/influenced by sports? How do you know whether or not the alum
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by fatman 13y ago
I started using Dia ( http://projects.gnome.org/dia/ ) when my employer wouldn't spring for Visio. A bit quirky at times, but overall not too bad for simple stuff.
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by fatman 13y ago
I just had my ego smacked in another algorithmic interview with a large, fancy software company a few days ago (took too long to get too rough an answer). I like to think I'm not stupid - my current day to day developing gig is heavy
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by fatman 13y ago
I don't know whether to smile at this decision, or frown because it took the Supreme Court to strike this down. I think I'll smile at the continuation of recent trend of the Supreme Court benchslapping the Federal Circuit, and sl
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by fatman 13y ago
Maybe I've missunderstood BufferBox. Is there some sort of short-term PO box you can pay for with cash? Can you pay for a normal PO Box with cash and w/o ID?
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by fatman 13y ago
Well, there's always the federal sentencing guidlines - they would provide a little insight into what he's really facing. Also, the rape charges were state (juvenile) charges, not federal. The federales don't mess around.
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by fatman 13y ago
Regarding delivery - Maybe something like a BufferBox paid for with cash/bitcoin? Does this exist?
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by fatman 13y ago
Is it really that simple? If your main concern is net "good" to the world, don't you have to balance that against any "bad" generated by your job? Wall Street certainly is capable of damaging people's lives, and HFT does get some of the b
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by fatman 13y ago
As a non-engineering graduate student at a top-25 CS university, I took 2 classes in the CS dept for fun (my undergraduate degree is CS). The first was a subject on the phD qualification exams and populated by phD students. It was the har
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by fatman 13y ago
Maybe endurance is a separate ability. Some folks can operate at a high level for extended periods of time, though their highest level may be below the peak output of others. I will say I have no quibble with your numbers as averages. To
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by fatman 14y ago
What little similarity I found between the disciplines in law school evaporated in practice. I was at a middle of the pack Biglaw firm (not exactly chasing ambulances) and very few partners could form a logical argument. Not that they nee
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by fatman 14y ago
Latex for briefs? Ah, the idealism of youth. (I was going to revolutionize legal research through artificial intelligence) Most lawyers don't have the time, and almost every court I practiced in had rules specifying a utilitarian uniform
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by fatman 14y ago
Most interviewers don't seem to care either way. They don't hold your laywerdom against you, but you don't get any bonus points for the "attention to detail" or "grace under pressure" type soft skills. Also, most states let you go inactiv
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by fatman 14y ago
It's been just over 3 years since I last practiced law, and I just let my last state license go inactive. I couldn't be happier with how things have turned out. The job hunt can be frustrating, but after a few months, someone took a chanc
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by fatman 14y ago
Motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim? Including reading the complaint, researching and drafting an answer, and associated communications, figure 30 hours of attorney time. Wilmer Hale? Figure $400/hr. $12K to respond to a clai
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by fatman 14y ago
How do you leverage JD/Eng into a job - in my experience, it's been an either/or kind of thing. Also, what is Open Source lawyering?
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by fatman 14y ago
Carreon is in on it, and is just intentionally creating some buzz to drum up donations to some worthy causes. Well played.
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by fatman 15y ago
I agree, this smells a lot like late '00s legal recruiting - throw money, parties, and interesting work at summer associates, giving them and the firm almost no information about the actual long-term fit.