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by fokov 11y ago
In my opinion, the problem with high school is due to the large amount of wasted time. So many classes had dozens of days if not the large majority of the time spent on nothing or busy work. Busy work is a large part of bureaucratic organ
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by fokov 11y ago
It means all of the previous sacrifices the good employees made were for nothing in the eyes of management. Therefore, there is no reason to work hard at all. It is better to go leave for a competitor that knows how to treat their hard wo
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by fokov 12y ago
17 * $53,891 = $916,147 There is no way the average or even median university education costs nearly 1 million dollars. I have no doubt it costs way too much, but this argument isn't valid.
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by fokov 12y ago
I always figured the future will be a light weight device that you carry which automatically backs itself up to the cloud (like current phones) but with the extra ability to "hook" into simple docking stations for multiple monitor
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by fokov 12y ago
People keep saying this, but does anyone actually have numbers to back up the claim that things are going to get really bad? The reason I ask is due to an NPR segment that aired last week about a Texas power company. They described the dif
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by fokov 12y ago
Yes many of them do discriminate against those that are unemployed whether it be forced or on purpose. I took a 11 month sabbatical a few years ago and there were many interviewers that just wouldn't believe that I purposefully stoppe
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by fokov 12y ago
If you did it like that, then it would be trivial to take away all Patents. Just create a shell company that infringes, sell the product to another shell company, and then the patent would be gone since the holder company didn't take
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by fokov 12y ago
It probably has to do with traveling distances which vary greatly depending on the area. I don't want my frozen stuff to thaw while sitting around waiting for the next driver or during transit. I don't want my stuff squashed so
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by fokov 13y ago
Fixed widths and heights....it is amazing that [as it seems] no one in the entire w3c or building the browsers know people that write applications for multiple languages, different directional settings (right-to-left vs left-to-right), and
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by fokov 13y ago
> dozens of terrorist acts Which ones were real or could have actually pulled anything off? The underwear bomber? The guy that locked his keys in the car? Or the ones the FBI convinces others to attempt? The NSA has been doing this f
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by fokov 14y ago
Requiring users to hover to determine the context is a horrible UX. Tooltips/popup descriptions should only be used to provide additional information that isn't required.
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by fokov 14y ago
Another way to put it is every four weeks you are 'working' a full week of overtime.
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by fokov 14y ago
Did you expect anything less from Rupert Murdoch? As soon as I saw the news of him buying the WSJ, I knew it was just a matter of time until it was filled with propaganda.
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by fokov 14y ago
The problem is the business isn't paying for a single programmer's value, it is paying for two. The only time I have known pair programming actually worked pretty good was when a senior would take a junior under their wing when the junior
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by fokov 14y ago
Divide by zero should just cause an exception. My guess is it causes an infinite loop.
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by fokov 14y ago
In many large corporations including the one where I work, the wages, salaries, and benefits brackets are all determined by your title. The only way to get out of those brackets is to get promoted to a 'better' title. I'm don't care for t