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by hdctambien 15y ago
According to my employment contract: Employee acknowledges that all Confidential Information, whether or not in writing and whether or not identified as confidential or proprietary, is and shall remain the exclusive property of the Company
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by hdctambien 16y ago
Very nice. It could use a button to keep track of the "percentage of time spent on topic." Click the button when you go off topic, click it again when you get back on topic and the site calculates the exact percentage, instead of leaving me
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by hdctambien 16y ago
Is this getting downvoted because people didn't catch the Monty Python joke? Or because they didn't like this specific reference (but accept the parent's reference)?
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by hdctambien 16y ago
Both of the CS majors I knew that switched majors switched to Philosophy. I never asked why. They both were having trouble in the Intro Algorithms class when they bounced. Maybe people that think they are CS/Math people and then find out th
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by hdctambien 16y ago
Actually according to the book "Death Star" by Michael Reaves, the project manager actually caught the exhaust port vulnerability during construction and made a verbal agreement with the foreman to fix the problem. Unfortunately the project
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by hdctambien 16y ago
Something to keep in mind about cloning games: Zynga started with "Just another Texas Hold'em" game and followed that with an exact clone of Farm Town[1] which it iterated on quickly and marketed well. Angry Birds is thought to be inspired
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by hdctambien 16y ago
It might be better to have an average programmer than no programmer at all.
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Real-Time Princess Leia Holography Kinect Hack(techland.time.com)
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by hdctambien 16y ago
Doesn't Eric pay himself $1? He probably has to sell some amount of stocks every once and a while to pay the bills or invest in an asset that creates the cash flow to pay the bills.
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by hdctambien 16y ago
That fact that they fixed the problem seems to be counter to the CEO's statement that it wasn't actually a problem. They clearly weren't validating all of the form inputs on the server side. Hopefully this was a learning experience for the
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by hdctambien 16y ago
I think some people are missing a few critical points of this exercise: 1) the homework was supposed to work out your thinking muscles. Getting the "right" answer wasn't the point of the assignment as much as trying to discover how to obtai
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by hdctambien 16y ago
A woman I work with's daughter just started school this year. She decided to send her to a private school because if she went to the public school she would be one of only a handful of white children. She didn't want her daughter to "grow u
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by hdctambien 16y ago
I remember reading an article (linked from HN I believe) that was a response to the "Waiting for Superman" movie which cited numbers showing that private schools didn't perform any better than public schools. That would suggest that either
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by hdctambien 16y ago
You don't really have to worry about firing the worst 10% ... how about keeping the good teachers? http://www.ncsu.edu/mentorjunction/text_files/teacher_retent... "In 1999, for example, our schools hired 232,000 teachers who had not been
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by hdctambien 16y ago
37 Hour weeks plus time spend prepping for classes, and time spend correcting homework, and time spend helping students after school, plus time spent giving makeup exams ... I was a teacher. I worked way more than the 7-4 that class was in
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by hdctambien 16y ago
I think stackoverflow.com pretty much solves all of these problems for you.
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by hdctambien 16y ago
Isn't the problem right now that people aren't spending money, though? Banks have plenty of money to lend (see the TARP and the Fed throwing money at them). Companies have money to spend. Neither are doing anything because the economy isn't
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by hdctambien 16y ago
When a specific pro athlete loses his place on a team, he is replaced by another pro athlete that will absorb the money. While not being able to easily remove (or identify) bad teachers is a problem, the solution to that issue will not incr
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by hdctambien 16y ago
Professional athletes making too much money is not the cause of professional teachers making too little money. Hundreds of thousands of people are willing to pay $25 - $1000 for a ticket to a basketball game to see those professional basket
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by hdctambien 16y ago
"The Winkelvoss twins are mostly comic relief, and boy did those actors nail that." The Winkelvii were both played by the same actor, Armie Hammer. Also, the "Zuckerberg actor" is Jesse Eisenberg, from Adventureland/Zombieland.
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by hdctambien 16y ago
see: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3379012&page=1 I'm all for you doing whatever you want in private, but when you're controlling something that could kill you, your passengers, and anyone else that just happens to be around you
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by hdctambien 16y ago
Where I was a teacher, $60k was the highest you could earn without a PhD. And it took 10 years to work your way up to that level. EDIT: This was 5 years ago. I doubt teachers are making thousands of dollars more these days. My point is, the
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by hdctambien 16y ago
I agree with the author, but he definitely could have gone about his argument a bit more civilly. As an example of the type of people that would/will abuse AirBnB and similar services I submit this article describing my last landlord: http
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by hdctambien 16y ago
I think this is the design of all the sites while they are in beta. Once the site survives the public beta it will switch to a design customized for the site.