lurker14

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by lurker14 14y ago
Piecewise marketing would be a disaster, but charging the standard price and letting people disable the pieces they don't want, that would be nice--- and to a large extent, Windows XP and 7 did exactly that -- you had Classic mode, which di
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by lurker14 14y ago
How so?
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by lurker14 14y ago
The title was made up by the submitter, not the author (and has since been fixed by the mods)
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by lurker14 14y ago
#1 question to ask a recruiter offering you an interview: Have they placed someone else at the same company. If the recruiter is worth working with, they have a contract with target employers, and aren't just as disconnected as you are as a
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by lurker14 14y ago
Sounds like you are talking about contractor management, not a recruiter.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Fascinating. There is also research showing (in gossip/news and politics) that by refuting a false statement, the act of repeating the statement actually reinforces it. People ignore the "... IS FALSE" part. I think that plays in here ---
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by lurker14 14y ago
Basically, it's the equivalent of putting a monitor face down on a flatbed scanner, and scanning while the movie plays. Or taking a photo of the screen with a very slow CMOS (camera phone) sensor.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Great quote in the Merc: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_20684481/silicon-vall... DA: "I think he also obviously had way more than any one human could possibly enjoy on their own in a legally acceptable way."
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by lurker14 14y ago
Did you read the page? It's a program for hourly workers in the warehouses, not for salaried employees who already have an education and a desirable career .
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by lurker14 14y ago
Google's IPO was in 2004 at age 6-years and returned 100x on investment, and has had "regular" (on the high-end) big-cap growth since.
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by lurker14 14y ago
The Times is On It! https://twitter.com/NYTOnIt
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by lurker14 14y ago
I can't imagine that the person responsible for the database can look his colleagues in the eye. He must have called in sick the day after the leak and is not coming back to the office. You can only imagine how many times someone noticed th
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by lurker14 14y ago
Who told you it was your data? It's a networking site, not EC2.
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by lurker14 14y ago
..amortized over several weeks. People don't log in every day.
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by lurker14 14y ago
It is in the non-rebellious parts of the British Empire :-) https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=I+try+to+learn+the+ans...
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by lurker14 14y ago
" In Math You Have to Remember, In Other Subjects You Can Think About It" Most math geniuses I know (including however much of a genius I am) know the exact opposite! Other subjects are memorizing facts; you can noodle through math problems
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by lurker14 14y ago
This is a similar idea to the temporal arterty thermometer, which uses an infrared camera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_thermometer#Temporal_a... The mathematical model for the sensor is probably different, though.
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by lurker14 14y ago
What do you think of the many apps already on the market, possibly derived from your earlier work? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.macropinch...
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by lurker14 14y ago
I just downloaded an app[1] that measures heartbeat rate by taking video of a fingertip. I was stunned by the brilliance of the application, how ubiquitous video sensors can replace other senses. There's something else to discuss here: We h
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by lurker14 14y ago
Anyone who uses the same password for their linkedin and company account earned their punishment for intentionally violating their company's information security.
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by lurker14 14y ago
I receive spam (not marketing crap, but pump-and-dump penny stock fraud spam) at an email address I created only for use at TD. Either they sold their email database to spammers, or they got hacked and failed to disclose it.
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by lurker14 14y ago
https://www.tineye.com/faq#how
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by lurker14 14y ago
More like "lower immediate wages for someone else's problem in the future -- maybe we'll have plenty of money to pay, maybe we'll just file bankruptcy, maybe we'll get a bailout"
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by lurker14 14y ago
> I think life expectancy was around age 62 You are thinking of life expectancy at birth, which averages in childhood death. SS only pays people who worked for at least a few years, so life expectancy for people who reach age ~20 is muc
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by lurker14 14y ago
That's not "because", that's an irrelevant factoid.
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by lurker14 14y ago
That's not true. Conspiracies and cohorts and partnerships are aggregations of people. Corporations are legal entities owned and managed by people. (LLPs are a weird in-between thing.)
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by lurker14 14y ago
Analogies to infinity don't.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Why do you assume that consciousness is unlikely to be created accidentally? It already happened once, with humans.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Adoption is a loaded word that needs to be unpacked. Adoption is not buying or selling a pet, just like adoption of a human is not buying or selling. Rescuing a pet from a shelter, while paying for medical expenses or even rescue expenses,
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by lurker14 14y ago
Here's one: Walk through security with a child under the age of 2, and you are legally exempted from the body scanners.

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