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901.
by gleenn 11y ago
One of the quoted Chinese said he was dissatisfied with Chinese air quality as a reason to buy in CA, wouldn't it be great if they fixed that themselves over there instead of just leaving...
902.
by gleenn 11y ago
I'm in tech and still had a difficult time finding a job that would provide a visa. And the visa process is a minimum of 2 to 3 months, meaning even if you got the job, you can't legally work for a long time, and hopefully they ge
903.
by gleenn 11y ago
They also don't record sound which is a huge difference. You can try and read people's lips but that's a whole different ball game. Recording voice without explicit consent in California is illegal.
904.
by gleenn 11y ago
Whether or not that is true, that is some of the worst sentiment to be spreading. If you feel strongly, call you congressman, organize a group, do something. Posting that no one can do anything doesn't help anyone.
905.
by gleenn 11y ago
Manufacturers got to lengths to squeeze pennies out of the Bill of Materials (BOM) in products like these. I remember listening to some conversations and being blown away at the tiny savings here and there, and our product was over $100.
906.
by gleenn 11y ago
Having worked at a company shipping a USB cable with our product, I know we explicitly couldn't use the USB logo on the cable without additional (expensive) testing. So our cable just didn't have the logo.
907.
by gleenn 11y ago
What is a "Symantec-internal testing process" that leads to Google certs being leaked outside of Symantec? Is some engineer poking around and just used "google.com" as an example? Seems like a pretty serious wtf moment.
908.
by gleenn 11y ago
It's kind of a shame that there are serious politics in Hollywood or wherever that are dictating the storylines of comic books and movies. Kind of a downer for a guy who's like X-men et al since I was a kid.
909.
by gleenn 11y ago
If they do end up using something like Ethereum, the network would be the same network that everyone uses, so the number of users would hopefully be much larger than, i.e. the 5 banks listed or whatever.
910.
by gleenn 11y ago
The irony about the hate is that having a decentralized way to do things like this is actually going to help unseat some of the banks' powers.
911.
by gleenn 11y ago
Private cloud app hosting which people like the government need
912.
by gleenn 11y ago
It may be somewhat foolish to be so heavily invested in a single stock because of risk, but as a newgrad you are about as far away from retirement as you can get, you should be taking on riskier stocks if you have the energy to pay attentio
913.
by gleenn 11y ago
This is the first time I've heard of a pen register, apparently somewhat broad, modern parlance for things that capture phone data. It seems pretty damning that they spent the time to fax MetroPCS but couldn't, ya know, even get t
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The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence(theatlantic.com)
3 points by gleenn 11y ago|0 comments
915.
by gleenn 11y ago
Snowden wasn't "unprivileged", I think he had relatively high clearance. Also, I'd say they did a pretty good job if the government protected their spies' identities for a couple years after the documents were relea
916.
by gleenn 11y ago
Given enough cpu time, and knowing you'll find the identity of spies, I think China and Russia would be more than capable to crack quite a bit of encryption even with brute force.
917.
by gleenn 11y ago
Interesting but vector clocks are still kind of unwieldy. The example from the article is people trying to figure out when the group should all go to dinner; no one actually cares the end result, the only that is needed is agreement. This i
918.
by gleenn 11y ago
I know a surgeon who spent some time working in the ER. She would help all sorts of patients, including many homeless people. She said it was not uncommon to be punched or hit by people they were trying to help, especially those under some
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Application Engineer Salary in Tokyo
10 points by gleenn 12y ago|6 comments
920.
by gleenn 12y ago
Unfortunately Google hasn't hired a million programmers yet so perhaps their ML algorithms aren't good yet at knowing what actually makes people good. In fact, I think it is actually rather fool-hardy when I hear people talking ab
921.
by gleenn 12y ago
Perhaps CNN is actually being pedantic, be will be paying for his nephew's college education first, and then the rest to charity.
922.
by gleenn 12y ago
The equality and truthiness oddities are the worst. One of my biggest pet peeves about languages is weird equality rules. PHP is one of the worst, there is a huge table of crazy rules that I suppose expert PHP people can remember, but it ju
923.
by gleenn 12y ago
My coworker at an old job did exactly that: found a matching Vanguard fund with nearly identical funds to our 401K. It had 1/6th the fees and that company lost a significant amount of my money. The tax benefits of the higher tax free c
924.
by gleenn 12y ago
Screen readers fixed, but how are you going to select to copy?
925.
by gleenn 12y ago
I had a professor who told the class that if they ever wrote a sorting algorithm professionally, they should be fired. Depending on where you go, college is some cross between academia and training to get a job, and usually biased towards a
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by gleenn 12y ago
You can do it in Ruby with 4 parens, or even 0 if inc is really just +1. I wouldn't ever write it with so few but if we're really going down this rabbit hole then we ahould get it right.
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Doing consultant taxes in Japan
2 points by gleenn 12y ago|1 comments
928.
by gleenn 12y ago
They aren't useless, for instance you can use them in addition to condoms to increase the effectiveness.
929.
by gleenn 12y ago
Scala did but I think they abandoned it.
930.
by gleenn 12y ago
I don't know much about Hoffman or the author, but the piece was pretty interesting. I really liked the advice about having a single main reason to do things, if you're listing a bunch as a reason, then its not enough to do someth

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