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by johndubchak 10y ago
It also sounds like they are moving from an international destination which will be considerably more expensive than just relocating domestically.
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by johndubchak 10y ago
I have dual citizenship, both Canadian and US (naturalized Canadian and born in the US), and frequently cross at one of the "sleepy" border crossings as well. When I get to the Canadian border, once they realize I'm Canadian,
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by johndubchak 10y ago
I believe Lightning was added to the iPhone (and the headphone jack removed) only for the purpose of waterproofing the device. But that's just off the top of my head.
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by johndubchak 10y ago
I purchased and received my new 15" MBP over the holidays as well (already have the new iPhone 7) and it blew my mind that the MBP had the old headphone jack.
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I have the book and am currently reading it. I like it, seems very thorough. The first part is fairly theoretical and the 2nd part gets into the more practical implementation of distributed systems based on the previous theory covered. I&#x
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by johndubchak 10y ago
@rms_returns, my only question is why are you asking us to use DDG rather than Google? You seem to be drawing some sort of direct comparison to Google, but you're not stating why we shouldn't use Google or what DDG does better.
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by johndubchak 10y ago
Well, I guess we can cite statistics all day to prove each other wrong, but clearly in [1] from 1990 to 1992 it rose before a Clinton Presidency where it fell considerably (not crediting President Clinton directly but he did produce a large
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by johndubchak 10y ago
The article never mentioned they are complaining, IIRC. They are economically displaced. Where would they go? This is a large-scale socio-economic uprooting. Many of them lack marketable job skills and the necessary finances to allow locati
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by johndubchak 10y ago
Many are from the area and have lived in the area most of their lives. The current situation has evolved over the last 20 or so years to the point where it has become economically impossible to live because of the "outsiders", fro
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by johndubchak 10y ago
Thanks for posting this. I just finished watching it and thought it was a great talk with some really forward thinking on organizing functional designs.
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by johndubchak 10y ago
Working on large, compound muscles, like that I wouldn't recommend every day. I would spread it out to no more than 3 times per week where you can exercise without any muscle stiffness and pain. If you have the stiffness and pain in yo
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by johndubchak 10y ago
According to history, an executable is the perfect thing for a Word document. ;-)
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by johndubchak 10y ago
What/who devils? The Dalai Lama?
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by johndubchak 10y ago
My main point, buried in hyperbole I'll admit, is the quality of our infrastructure or perhaps more accurately the inconsistency of it. We've been promised high quality bandwidth for years, which would help expand the business opp
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by johndubchak 10y ago
Well, at least now they have the perfect marketing spin, "We no longer have the subscriber base to support cost effective investment in this market segment. We'll need to increase our subscriber rates significantly in order to off
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by johndubchak 10y ago
+1
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Perhaps that suggests you're giving them the wrong interview.
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by johndubchak 10y ago
The fundamental issue comes down to one of trust and the real question is, do we trust Google to do the right ethical and moral things with our data that they are collecting en masse?
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by johndubchak 10y ago
I love the quote (I think it was from Edward Snowden): "Saying you don't care about mass surveillance because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about the First Amendment because you have nothing to say.&q
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by johndubchak 10y ago
Yes, of course. You are under no obligation to share that information in such an encounter.
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by johndubchak 10y ago
Was the launch rocket supposed to be one of their recovered/recycled rockets?
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by johndubchak 10y ago
Agreed, but I would take this further. To call this C++ and be using character arrays for strings rather than std::string and performing manual memory management suggests this is "C with Classes" at best, notwithstanding the fact
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by johndubchak 10y ago
>> You can't replace an American job with H-1B? The goal of the system is to use the guest worker program to augment your current workers with talent that you are unable to find and staff here in the US. The requirement is not
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by johndubchak 10y ago
Perhaps it is naive however, I did not suggest stopping it altogether, the idea is to merely restore some balance back into a system that seems to have gotten out of balance. The auction is a good idea, but I fear it will somehow be twisted
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by johndubchak 10y ago
At this point, with both Corporate abuses from American corporations and the H1-B holding companies along with the frequency with which we've seen the more expensive American work replaced with a much cheaper "guest" worker,
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by johndubchak 11y ago
I believe another major issue arises in the form of the design of these new API's are not designed using the historical knowledge that got us here. It seems to me at least that every 10 years or so a new group of fresh grads enter the