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Check Your Car for a GPS Tracker(howto.wired.com)
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by kevinrpope 15y ago
One of Amazon's corporate tenets is to take initiative. If you haven't heard anything after trying to get in touch with the recruiter, contact someone else you know on the inside.
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Virgin Atlantic to use waste gases to fuel planes(online.wsj.com)
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5 Things Dodgeball Has Taught Me About Workplace Success(vaynermedia.com)
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New hardware powers through DNA tests in under 3 minutes(arstechnica.com)
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No Cards, No Cash, Just a Phone(nytimes.com)
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4th grade school textbook tries to explain electricity, gives up(dangerousminds.net)
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Things We Say Today And Owe To Shakespeare(npr.org)
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Box.net turns down $500m(nytimes.com)
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Delta One Desks Are Big Moneymakers - Unless You're UBS or SocGen(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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Never Ask "Does That Make Sense?"(blogs.hbr.org)
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Winklevoss Twins Pistachio Ad(copyranter.blogspot.com)
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Activist Fund Calls for Breakup of BlackBerry Maker(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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Nearly 40 percent of Europeans suffer mental illness(reuters.com)
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How to turn in your tax-cheating neighbor(professional.wsj.com)
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Ruins of Roman gladiator school found in Austria(bbc.co.uk)
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Website Attacks - XSS and Directory Traversal more popular than SQL Injection(darkreading.com)
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by kevinrpope 15y ago
Offer to buy them coffee or lunch. Be honest, telling them you're working on a system to get THEM more work, but you'd like to leverage their expertise in order to make it the best system possible. If you have a recommendation from a frie
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by kevinrpope 15y ago
Having rollover-debt - paying off an existing debt holder with a new issue - is deficit-negative (ie. it makes the deficit worse) because of the interest involved. The problem is a combination of the new issue capital needs to be in the doo
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by kevinrpope 15y ago
Yeah. I was concerned with even making my initial comment because I didn't want to sound like an ass. But I have a lot of experience with derivatives, so hoped I'd be looked at as a benevolent expert rather than a blowhard windbag. :-)
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by kevinrpope 15y ago
Yeah, I like using 'writing' better as well. But my nitpick is that in a position where he owns the stock, writing puts would increase his downside, whereas buying puts would protect him.
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by kevinrpope 15y ago
Nit-Pick: 'Writing' == selling an option, and he would've wanted to buy puts (if it were legal).
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by kevinrpope 15y ago
Best of luck with whatever you decide.
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by kevinrpope 15y ago
My dad grew up there, plus both my parents got their undergrad degrees at UIUC. If you're worried about having access to cool research, you can also apply to be an intern at NCSA while an undergrad. I interned there while I was in high sch
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by kevinrpope 15y ago
As I grew up in the same town as UIUC, I'm admittedly biased on this, but if you're just looking to get a top-rate CS education, there aren't many better options. However, if you do end up putting in for transfers to other schools, you shou