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You need the taxation power of a state to force rich people to pay for it. That's how basic income works -- everyone gets 1000€, but some people pay more than 1000€ in extra tax. The net is 0. How to use technology to do this: 1. Make
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ReactNative does not render to web views. It uses web development constructs like CSS, Flexbox, and JavaScript, but the output is the native view hierarchy. Facebook is using it (in Paper, at least) FaceBook thinks you should use ReactNat
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The word lawyer does not appear on that site, and I am pretty sure she's not a lawyer. It looks like she's an awesome AR clerk -- but her value prop is collecting while keeping a very good relationship -- it's not as effectiv
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Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister
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It's extremely serious. The deployment is the very well understood JVM and standard web servers. There's a common HTTP middleware framework (Ring), lots of choices for HTML generation and ClojureScript allows some code-sharing wit
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I have retrieved single files from the web interface. I have not needed a full restore, but if you do, the best way is probably to have them send it to you on a USB or HDD (and that costs extra). The first upload took over a week, but subs
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BackBlaze. $5/month/machine.
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We were an image-processing SDK with OCR add-ons which were us reselling 3rd party SDKs with integration to our codecs and the processing code. It needed to be completely general purpose use in any .NET program (web, service, desktop, cons
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At my previous job we used them (on Windows). I seriously doubt that it's just $100 -- but, I guess if you are making an application that you are just going to run yourself on a single machine, it would not cost much. The costs tended
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I believe you need to call them.
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And The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
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Abbyy, and most good commercial OCR, charge a runtime royalty based on the number of cores you are deploying to. Depends on volume.
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I am working with a 14 y/o who took some simple python class beforehand (so knew basic stuff functions, conditionals, loops, but no OOP). But -- he really wanted to make "real games" with a "real programming language&quo
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For your resume, the list of languages should be roughly in the order you would want to work in and can answer questions in. Then, for each job, list the languages used in the order of how much you use them (or know them). For example: If I
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IANAL -- If you talk to a lawyer, which I think you should -- stick to the racism and sexism. Start documenting exact quotes. The lawyer will probably advise you to talk to HR, and their job is a lot easier if you have a journal (date&#x2
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Maybe above the foods you don't eat -- add a similar bar with: Why do you want to eat better? [Lose weight] | [Gain muscle] | [Lower cholesterol] And use that in the response. That way you'd be letting them provide the benefit. A
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Collective Intelligence examples are all Python. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/mobile/9780596529321.do
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A sponsorship is very doable and tax deductible. So is a support contract. Or buying a the docs in a the form of a PDF -- or anything I buy, really. Donations are legal (I think), but might not be tax-deductible. All business expenses ar
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My first two jobs out of college were in FinTech -- lots of math there (partial derivatives, linear algebra, numerical analysis methods, stats and more) Then later, I was in image processing -- a lot of linear algebra. Anything with recogn
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And get your work done.
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There are probably a fintite number of points that are your best guess and near a station. Use station locations inside a radius. Then run them all through mapumental to get distances. Weighting can be done in code or a spreadsheet. Or impl
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Which makes it really weird that your video shows you doing this to master, a branch very likely to be shared.
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What I tell people is not to worry about their specific tech knowledge -- that should be something that you have more naturally. The biggest issue I see is not being able to be coherent in explaining a tech project or concept. I would pract
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Spam training set: http://untroubled.org/spam/ More good ones here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4743996/publicly-availabl...
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I'm at Trello. We have this: http://flatironschool.com/fogcreek/ Outside of that -- I personally do some pro-bono tech work for a non-profit that I am on the board of.
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Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
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Here's a soft-skills interview question to think about: "If you wanted something that required a skill you don't have, how would you go about obtaining that skill?" -- "Can you give an example of a time in your life
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Hampshire College is in MA, but not near Boston. Take the bus to Amherst, MA (Peter Pan goes there -- there's even a MegaBus (cheap!) stop that is close enough to local bus the rest of the way). They would probably pick you up from ei
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Amtrak from Boston to Northampton is not very direct (I bet NYC is faster). A bus would be better from Boston. If you are changing planes, the closest airport is BDL (Hartford, CT) -- Bus, Train, Taxi all possible from there (Valley Trans
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I live in Northampton, MA (< 10 miles from Hampshire College). Not sure of your exact dates, but if in town, I can pick you at Hartford (BDL) or Boston and take you to Hampshire. I'm sure they will have some kind of accommodations

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