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by frobozz 16y ago
I strongly disagree - Success is "The accomplishment of an aim or purpose" (OED), not "becoming a high-powered executive with a tastefully thick, subtly off-white, watermarked business card" or whatever mystery definition of success this ar
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by frobozz 16y ago
Much of the advice already here is good to help you step up from a sub-1000 LOC program to working on bigger applications; but if you've not been doing any coding since university, then you may find some of it a bit daunting. This is also
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by frobozz 16y ago
Where the norm is a five day week, using homicide to reduce the available workforce is counterproductive to getting it down to four days.
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by frobozz 16y ago
Although I agree that there is a privacy problem with some of these things. The fact that geotagged photographs is lumped in with this is nonsense. This is not "acting behind your back to betray privacy", this is good archival practice.
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by frobozz 16y ago
I don't grasp the benefit of this approach. You have a gauge that (albeit not particularly accurately) tells you how much fuel you have left, and in doing so, gives you a clue as to when to fill up. It would be like working out how much to
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by frobozz 16y ago
I'm surprised at the lack of variety-awareness in these answers. For me, there is a clear distinction between higher and hire. Isolated, fire is a tripthong. In connected speech, I'd hazard that it is a monopthong.
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by frobozz 16y ago
When faced with a prompt: "Input a number from 1 to 5", a tester asks "What if I put in 6?". One possible answer might be: "The program crashes." In this situation, there is no problem with the program right now , only at some hypothetic
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by frobozz 16y ago
I use passwordcard. http://www.passwordcard.org/
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by frobozz 16y ago
Agreed. "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", "Sturdy Young Nazis" and all that.
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by frobozz 16y ago
yes.
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by frobozz 16y ago
FTA: "Some may argue that denying Internet users the ability to post anonymously is a breach of their privacy and freedom of expression. But until the age of the Internet, anonymity was a rare thing. When someone spoke in public, his audien
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by frobozz 16y ago
What was that? I couldn't hear you over the coughing. Once I've sloughed off this layer of mucus, it should quieten down.
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by frobozz 16y ago
From the article: "As a group, employees who are asked to work long hours are the above-average workers;" Nonsense. Employees who work longer hours are, (IMHO) the below-average workers who can't get the work done in the time allotted. Whe
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by frobozz 16y ago
When using such sites, from a candidate's point of view, the two things that get on my nerves are: a) Ads posted by Recruitment Agents giving me no idea who the actual employer might be. b) Ads with no sensible salary hint. On (b), I don't
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by frobozz 16y ago
By "worked in government" do you mean "worked in a department of the civil service eventually reporting to a cabinet minister"?
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by frobozz 16y ago
> Reread the complaint - driving less doesn't solve it. By "live closer", I mean "within 4 miles", so that you can walk. That does solve it (unless I've completely misunderstood) > I work in Sunnyvale, my wife works in SF, and we p
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by frobozz 16y ago
I have no idea how the terminology is applied in the US, but in the UK, it does not include every Tom, Dick or Harry that manages to get themselves a seat in Parliament.
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by frobozz 16y ago
The obvious alternative is not to have several different cars, but to live closer to where you work, shop and play. Another alternative more obvious than keeping a garage full of differently-sized vehicles is to improve the fuel-per-passeng
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by frobozz 16y ago
"you may have a perfectly good grasp of the issues and who best represents your point of view" Yes, and this is all you need to prove - an example of such a test would be the ability to match up policy statements to candidates. No need for
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by frobozz 16y ago
How would it discriminate against people who might make informed decisions? The only qualification is that you have the understanding required to do so.
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by frobozz 16y ago
True - I didn't vote in one election because I was unavoidably away from home, and the postal voting form didn't arrive until after I'd left. It didn't stop me complaining.
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by frobozz 16y ago
If you vote for a losing candidate, then you can complain that your voice has not been heard. If you vote for a winning candidate, then you can complain when they break their promises. If you don't vote, you have nothing to complain about b
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by frobozz 16y ago
Brown noise with oscillating volume, mostly. http://www.simplynoise.com/
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by frobozz 16y ago
I would't necessarily call this a failing of CS education specifically - some, or even most of these questions may have come from self-taught individuals. What does worry me is how many times this question is asked on The Web. This is a sad
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by frobozz 16y ago
Lots of sites declare + to be an invalid character in email addresses. It's rather frustrating.
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by frobozz 16y ago
My Main tip: Keep your incomplete crosswords, get the answers, and fill them out with a different pen. Try to understand the answers you didn't get. Other bits: Always try to think of different ways to read words. "flower" to mean "river"
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by frobozz 16y ago
I see, thanks. I shall steer clear of this sort of thing from now on.
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by frobozz 16y ago
Could the drive-by downvoters give me a clue about what's wrong with these comments?
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by frobozz 16y ago
Well I think you're probably to young to comment about this. Ask your parents. If you were alive 30 years ago, then I suppose you might be from somewhere other than Europe, Australia or New Zealand.
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by frobozz 16y ago
This means nothing to me.

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