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by incision 13y ago
That's where the robot defense system comes in. Lack of crew will greatly simplify the implementation as it can be trained to fire on all humans without concern for friendly fire.
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by incision 13y ago
Yes, Google Docs was still the whiteboard for screening less than a year ago. Thankfully, the person I dealt with was generally pleasant and made for one of the better interview experiences I've had.
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by incision 13y ago
Reminds me of the BMW/Thermaltake collaboration from 2009. [0] About 10 years ago I thought I wanted something like this. Over the years I realized that my meticulously researched, highly expandable PC builds were rarely being expanded
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by incision 13y ago
>"The downside: you can never reinvent yourself, because you've put too much information out there and people can find out that you actually were only a Director, not a VP, at that job in 2007, or that you spent 4 months at a
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by incision 13y ago
>"The mere fact that you have been considered for a position might raise your standing with potential employers [citation needed]." Personally, the weeks following my interviews with one of those big players saw me approached
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by incision 13y ago
>"I'm honestly starting to believe that it isn't hard to hire, but that there's some psychological effect at play that leads companies to make it harder on themselves out of misplaced pride or sense of elitism."
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by incision 13y ago
>"White America welcome to black America." Pretty much. I was honestly dumbstruck by the naiveté expressed as soon as the action starts. "She turned to me and abruptly said that I was not needed as a witness and should
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by incision 13y ago
I see this, along with the many meanings of "lol" [0] from people who are just a few years younger than I am (34), but very rarely from anyone my age or older. 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoF2vdLxsVQ
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by incision 13y ago
>"You are able to do this because only within the last month you purchased the rights to a game named Candy Crusher (which is nothing like CandySwipe or even Candy Crush Saga)." How does this work? Can one buy a trademark in
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by incision 13y ago
This looks great. You know what's really wacky about government inefficiency? It's damn near impossible to help, much less fix from the inside. I've long been convinced that the best/only way to help right along the line
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by incision 13y ago
So true. The benefit of recognizing this isn't just avoiding that crunch at the limits of your talents - it's learning to the use the tools, processes and people which will allow your talents to flow most efficiently every day. Th
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by incision 13y ago
>"I doubt he ever manually allocated memory in his life." I expect you're correct. [0] 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6530585
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by incision 13y ago
Funny. I was hand coding back in 1997 and loved Dreamweaver 1.0 because I could peel back the covers and fiddle with the underlying JS to produce code identical to what I had been typing out tag by tag.
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by incision 13y ago
It's a whole range of things. I don't have a comprehensive link at hand and these questions are so heavily politicized right now in the US that searching is all but pointless. >Aren't any insurance provider covering these
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by incision 13y ago
Coincidentally, I had the same experience at the same age. Plan for the worst, hope for the best. A great doctor bought us three good years - far longer than anyone expected. I always say, if I can give anyone one piece of advice it'
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by incision 13y ago
>"Doesn't the insurances cover with these expenses in USA?" Insurance companies are like ISPs. You're fine until your usage pattern significantly exceeds the average. At that point, the insurer will do any and every
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by incision 13y ago
Is it actually "neglected" if the existing service works reliably under a continually decreasing load [0]? Surely the actual time in transit makes up the overwhelming majority of time of DVD service and mail is generally a once pe
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by incision 13y ago
>"Maybe I'm one of the typical young people. I don't know. But when I come to a Company and see thing that can be improved why not improve them?" There's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to improve things,
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by incision 13y ago
Interesting. He drives his Jeep, falls to a 4.3 rating and is about to get released from the service. He starts driving his Tesla, finds that passengers start treating him as an equal and give him a perfect 5.0 every time. Somehow that&#x27
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by incision 13y ago
I've been working in that "real world" for a long time and I've seen plenty of what the author is describing and relate to the frustration. However, there are a couple of things that I'd ask someone new to that worl
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by incision 13y ago
One limitation with OpsWorks is that as far as I know, there's no option to use spot instances whereas it's not a problem with EC2 launch configurations for AutoScaling Groups. Also, ASGs and OpsWorks both have options for time an
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by incision 13y ago
>"I committed to my wife that I would find employment, rather than chasing another dream — at least for now." Sounds like the author hasn't entirely bought into that notion. Anecdotally, each person I've know who di
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by incision 13y ago
>"such an asshole", "had the nerve", "What an asshole" In my experience, only the most cocksure of people would react to the kind of simple brainstorming suggestion cited in that way. Perhaps those people
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by incision 13y ago
I've been debating about whether to close my LinkedIn account. In the nearly seven years I've had an account I've had two interesting contacts, both within the last year. Maybe this acquisition is part of a notion to change t
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by incision 13y ago
Just replace the gaming genres mentioned with musical ones and Flappy Bird with "Macarena" or "Who Let the Dogs Out?". It doesn't really need 1000 words.
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by incision 13y ago
Precisely. $250/yr. isn't even pocket change - it's lint relative to the price of a Tandberg set up.
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by incision 13y ago
Sad to realize the studio behind Messiah [0] and Earthworm Jim [1] has ended up specializing in shoveling out licensed trash [2][3]. 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(video_game) 1: http://en.wikipedi
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by incision 13y ago
Reminds me of the Comcast situation with Bitorrent in 2007 [0]. I have little doubt that ISPs will continue to escalate this game of service degradation and denial without strict regulation. 0: http://consumerist.com/2007&#x
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by incision 13y ago
I'm having a really hard time understanding the sense of entitlement and indignation carried in these name gripes. Personally, I tend to think of names as a fraction of what makes up an idea multiplier [0]. 0: http://sivers.
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by incision 13y ago
Neat. I was looking back at my last few years of utility bills recently and noticed that May (Avg: 60F) and October (Avg: 62F) are apparently the only months of the year where I don't feel a need to heat or cool the house. If this wer

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