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by khedoros 10y ago
"Engineered" and "artistic" seem apt descriptions of parts of the scam: the skillful, creative, and well though out parts. Just like "criminal" and "scammer" address the other side of the same activit
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All words are made up. "Vitamin" is generally accepted to mean "an organic compound that an organism requires in small amounts, and which it can't replicate itself". The accepted mapping of vitamin names to actual c
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50% similarity: likely not copying. 90% similarity would be much more arguable, and you'd have to rely on other evidence to make a decision. With 100% similarity (as in the scenario you originally outlined), it's extraordinarily u
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During the trial, they did bring in a pianist (defense) and guitarist (plaintiff) to compare and contrast the two songs. With a test like that, if you copied lyrics, melody, and chord progressions from another song, it'd become obvio
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> It's remarkably difficult to pay for large transactions with cash without using Paypal. When I've done that in the past, I called the bank to have my debit payment limit raised for a short time. It took about 10 minutes, but
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> But is [coding] the most intuitive and productive approach? Intuitive: no. Productive: Well, we haven't found anything better for building software. What would you like to compare it to? > I used to make electronic music with a
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> I wouldn't be particularly shaken up by it. Given the choice between having one copy disassembled or having both disassembled, I'd choose to have one copy survive, whether or not it was the "I" copy. Both copies wo
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> Killing people is morally wrong. What about it, though? For the sake of argument, I'm not taking a position on whether it is or isn't wrong, I'm just looking for the "why". Ending a consciousness without either
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The HN discussion from 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6186730
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The operative word that I'm questioning is "contract". I assumed they meant something about a contract specifying minimum employment times, or something. If you aren't bound by a signed contract, of course it makes sense
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>Just like how a company can't sue you if you recind after signing a contract How would that work? Wouldn't that be a breach of a binding contract, or is there usually some kind of exit clause to account for specific circumstan
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Which filters? I have ghostery, ublock origin, and a corporate firewall, all of which usually cause me some trouble, but I didn't have any issues with this site.
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They're also using information from OBD for car power state, backup state, and speed (to turn the camera off when you're going 10MPH or more). For the way they decided to implement it, I think they've got a slick device. How
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I had 2 classes of data structures + algorithms, a couple more of algorithms and complexity analysis, and algorithms were heavy components of the AI and robotics electives that I took. I had one networking class, also an elective. I had a s
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Unprovable people are a liability to Amazon. They're minimizing liability to their business. In their eyes, a broken appeals process might be a benefit. If a would-be customer is enough of an outlier to need a special process, it makes
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I certainly can't disagree about the SysV boilerplate, but I also haven't written more than 5 or 6 of those init scripts in the last decade, so it's never seemed bad enough to me to ditch it for something completely different
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There's "successful completion", and then there's what Google is looking for. They want optimal code, and they want you to explain your thought process as you're writing. They want you to hit all the subtle corner c
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Google gave me the answer "Unfortunately, we can't provide you any feedback from the interviewers." A couple weeks later, they sent me a questionnaire for me to provide them feedback. I suppose that if I'd made notes o
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My second interview out of college with EMC led to about a month and a half of waiting, but resulted in an offer at higher pay than I had expected. A more recent interview with Google got me a "no" in about 4 business days. Whatev
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At work, we support umpteen OSes in our build (a lot of C++ stuff, so it's picky about where it builds and runs). For the Linux side of things (where most of the dev work is actually done), I'm in the process of building Docker im
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I like SysV-style init systems. I also don't mind RPM .spec files. They've always let me get the job done.
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You could also output to different directories, depending on the values of variables, like for separate debug and release builds. Of course, this is a work-around for variable dependencies. You'd have to change the filename somehow for
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Some of the designs remind me of the Earthforce ships from Babylon 5, a few of the carriers in the Wing Commander games, or some of them in Sins of a Solar Empire.
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I know that it's common. I use it in cases where there are more than a few lines of code, where the reader would have to maintain context. Wider context equates to a more specific variable name. > multiplied by the amount of loops,
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For comparison: 1000NZD is 705USD. An iPhone 6s is 649USD, and the plus is 749USD. I've got a Nexus 5, which was 400USD a couple of years ago. BLU is a usually-cheap phone brand, with handsets starting around 60USD.
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This level of abuse is rare. The victim is black. It's possible that this was an example of racial profiling, or that he'd had previous contact with the police. I don't know the whole situation. The U.S. is a large country, a
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Single letters for iteration values are a common convention in a number of languages. In the case of user/users, I'm likely to miss the distinction when scanning the code. If I've got a bunch of little lambdas, short loops (u
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I own because I want to live where I am, but I might eventually want to move. If someone builds something that lowers my home's value by 25%, then that's a good chunk of change that I won't be able to repay on the loan if I w
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I share your frustration with the arms race (and occasional incapability of some of the modern web to work reasonably on modern computers). Still, in this case, uBlock Origin works for me (just installed it after being stymied by the corpor
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I want my fridge to keep my food cold and cost as little as possible. I want my blender to chop food to a chosen consistency. I want my appliances in general to perform their single function and nothing else. In Home Depot the other day, I

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