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What's old is new again. Bootcamps remind me an awful lot of the certification mills of 15 years ago. It's the same 2 months or so and $10K or so with the suggestion that a well-paying job is waiting on the other side, just swap o
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Timely, I signed up for Meetup ages ago and only recently started getting any use out of it. A few things: #25 - Please don't even suggest that a site shouldn't validate email addresses immediately. Validation isn't just abou
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Like so many things, I have mixed feelings about this. I don’t have a problem with the word “passionate” and I could understand an employer who genuinely desires that. Problem is, I don’t think most people actually want anything of the sort
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Interesting. I came up with precisely this during a "social app for the masses" thought experiment. Inspirations were the positives I've observed with anonymous commenting systems and the "secrets" pages I think I f
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Sadly, relative to what I've seen, the examples here really aren't that bad. There are plenty of outfits based right here in the US who will happily sell you the output of a default scan from an outdated version of Nessus. Also, y
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by incision 13y ago
>"Every time it lays waste to a Blockbuster or a Best Buy, it puts tens (perhaps hundreds) of thousands of people out of work." Two companies well-known for bad service and misleading/fraudulent business practices. >
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by incision 13y ago
Heard about this the other day, gave it a try, didn't see any value in it. Most importantly, as far as I can tell, there's no way to share an arbitrary link. If you create a new trove it's a requirement to specify an existing
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Great teacher, great course, I've been dabbling with it while teaching myself the fundamentals of Objective-C. Once I get comfortable, I plan to run through this one in full.
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>"Does "crunch mode" exist in other complex engineering professions? Civil engineering, aircraft design, nuclear plant design, and so on?" In my experience, not really, not nearly to the same crazy degree that every
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>"It bothers me when ideas are presented without even a nod towards their history. I guess all writers are not obliged to do scholarship like journalists and academics, but I wish the publication would point out that we are not rea
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by incision 13y ago
I think this article is conflating a couple of very different things. * How much email is sent worldwide. * How email is used in the workplace and the negative impacts of it. * Ways to manage email in general and alternatives to email for p
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">Pretty much the definition of a toxic workplace?" Yes, definitely. To try and start answering my own question above, I think there were two main factors that created that situation. * Lack of Accountability - Our deadline d
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by incision 13y ago
I agree with and can vouch for every one of these points - particularly when working is isolation. Thing is, every death march I've been on has been a group effort where appearing to suffer for whichever executive dropped the ball at
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This article seems a bit overwrought for what, in my opinion, is not a terribly dangerous idea. I'd be more concerned with what I feel is perhaps a cousin to this - popular notions about work, success and risk-taking. Basically, the id
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by incision 13y ago
By the way, Pulse News has done this for a long time. Share something from the Pulse app and it generates a pulse.me link which functions as an URL shortener through a browser, but redirects to their app install page on mobile.
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My anecdotal sample size of one makes me wonder how Dropbox means to sustain itself. I'd been on a $20/month plan with Dropbox for a few years now. I recently cancelled down to the free tier because... * I didn't want to pay
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by incision 13y ago
1.) Kill LendingTree by creating a service that actually lives up to their slogan "When banks compete, you win". In reality, signing up with LendingTree will just get you aggressively harassed by "Boiler Room" salesmen o
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by incision 13y ago
EFF and Wikipedia both have prominent options to donate via Paypal. Wikipedia offers an Amazon option as well. Either of those are two clicks (choice and confirmation) plus authentication which is identical to my in-app experience. The bigg
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Curious stuff. Looking at the sheets [0] for Maryland, where I live... 2007 Black - Pass Rate: 11.40%, Enrollment: 114, Percentage of Enrollment: 14.10% 2008 Black - Pass Rate: 36.48%, Enrollment: 74, Percentage of Enrollment: 8.26% 2009 Bl
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>"It's not death that is a hard problem. It's life. Economic scarcity is the real enemy. That is what we should be fighting with all our force. We should fight first to make life better, and second to prolong it." T
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As someone who dropped out of high school and took a gradual, but relatively direct route to pretty well-paid work my opinion on College has changed quite a bit over the years. So much so that at the moment, I'm working full-time and a
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by incision 13y ago
This is all over the local news here. Coincidentally, I was just listening to some talk about alternative energy [0] with some interesting arguments for solar and hydro power over coal. Makes me wonder if we've become inured to the env
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The author is conflating an awful lot of things which are not necessarily similar or even necessarily technical challenges to draw a deflecting conclusion about "gobbledegok". It's a warning / apology for the logical, co
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I was an early backer on Kickstarter and had certainly been working under the idea that I "own" the device - with the understanding that it would be useless without an ongoing subscription. I never actually read into any of the up
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Given the criteria, this would come closest: * A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195374614/ Honorable Mention: * Anything You Want - http://www.amazon.co
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Yes and it's conveniently available on Safari [0] if the sticker shock of the print edition is too much. Also, the editor Tim Gowers wrote Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction [1]. 0: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/b
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>"I really like web development but I can't get anyone to take a chance on me even at half of my current salary. I don't really have time to do side projects and build up a decent portfolio so I understand why people are
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On a related note, I remember when Buffet started investing in rail. As with virtually everything he does there was a chorus of analysts calling him senile and subsequently laughing at the lack of instant returns. Although his incredible ba
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>"The US seems to have an aversion to the concept of servant, not to the reality." I hope this is deadpan sarcasm. You're drawing an analogy between sub-living wage housemaids to the for-television version of an exceptio
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>"Tron: Legacy to me is some interesting ideas coupled with a movie length absolutely fantastic Daft Punk music video, while the original excited me for the computer graphics and the ideas it presented." Spot on. The key with

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