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by m0nastic 14y ago
I've never actually encountered an employer who set job offer salaries to reflect where remote candidates live. People point that out as a benefit to companies hiring remote employees (it'll save them money!), but does that actually happen?
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I find math in some cases to be really hard to Google. Particularly with expressions that I don't know the names of; I never know what to use as search terms.
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Good numbers industry-wide are difficult to come by (but getting better), but according to the latest DBIR‡ (which, full disclosure, is put out by my former employer) breaks it down as 98% external, and 4% internal (why that adds up to grea
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While this definitely used to be the case (we used to find ~80% of incidents were internal employee issues), for the past four or five years we've seen that ratio change (not so much because the internal issues went down, but more because o
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It was an offer letter, not an application; and was sent to me on a Friday, and needed to be returned the same day (and I didn't have access to a printer).
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It might have just been filled out on a tablet. When I had to fill out all my job paperwork for my new job, I used pdfpen on my iPad for everything, and it looks like it was written by a toddler in crayon.
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Software-defined Networking Use Case: Multipath TCP at Caltech and CERN(openflowhub.org)
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Don't be ridiculous, the post-apocalyptic, hellscape Bartertown will still provide health benefits for it's employees; they're not monsters.
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If forced to decide between Dustin's reality and Moxie's, I think I'd chose Dustin's. A world made up of overly-reviewed, pretentious gadgets slightly edges out a utilitarian, post-apocalyptic, hellscape Bartertown where people scavenge thr
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I'm presently prototyping RavenDB for a big development project at work. For what it's worth, I'm really impressed with it so far.
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I'm just a single data point in the opposite direction, but any site that I go to frequently that has an app, I'm almost certain to prefer interacting with it via the app. If the app is just a crappy webview to their site, then no, but I te
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A diverse population absolutely means different skin colors. And different genders; and different income brackets; and different religions (including lack thereof). The world is an incredibly diverse place. Full of people, all with differen
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Your comment implies that you think that content/experience is orthogonal to a diverse speaker group. I strongly disagree. I think a diverse speaker group leads to overwhelmingly better content and experience. I think this extends much furt
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I mentioned this in the other thread about Build and Analyze, but I listen to ~ 40 hours of podcasts a week. I listen to them mostly when I get home from work (maybe 3 or 4 hours a night), and then usually a bunch of marathon sessions on th
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by m0nastic 14y ago
I can't fathom any definition of trolling that would include any of the comments that John Susser made about this issue (there's a grand total of 6 of them). I have no doubts that once the ball got rolling, people were quick to throw around
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by m0nastic 14y ago
I listen to ~ 40 hours of podcasts per week, so I'm probably on the opposite end of the spectrum from you. If you don't understand the appeal of listening to audio podcasts, I don't think there's anything I could say to convince you otherwi
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Draft Executive Order on Cybersecurity Circulating [pdf](lawfareblog.com)
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Yesterday, I found an email from Jon Callas where he was giving advice on where SAML falls in the Chomsky hierarchy of languages: "If it has backwards gotos in any form, it's Turing-complete. Loops, recursion, etc. are backwards gotos. If-
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I have a hard time supporting any position that argues that the dissemination of information should be illegal. The U.S. government tried a variation of that through export restrictions of cryptography. I'm not a particularly big fan of fir
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Men of Mathematics is both a biography, and an interesting primer on math that I enjoyed tremendously: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Touchstone-Books-E-T-Bell/...
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If it's not a BYOD environment, you can pick one specific recent Android handset, or replace the OS with a custom image, and you have about 80% of what iOS allows for management (which is in turn about 80% of what BES provided). In a BYOD e
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I would be shocked if this isn't actually just a post-rationalization for previously completed hacking activity (which has been the majority of their previous M.O.)
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It's possible (although they're already procuring hardware at GSA-approved rates, so I'm not sure if there's the same economies of scale that you see in the commercial realm).
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I wouldn't expect the NSA to be involved with sourcing of hardware for the rest of the federal government (unless the continued fear around supply chain management completely takes over, which I suppose is possible, as it's probably the num
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The thing I find myself hating about all of these anti-Facebook rants is that they all seem to operate under the assumption that Facebook has "subsumed" all of this functionality from the internet at large, which seems spectacularly false.
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I guess I don't see how lying about this can inherently not also cause you to have to lie about other things. By which I mean, changing your resume from VP-at-48 to VP-at-43 either means that you're lying about how long you've been a VP (wh
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It would seem like this doesn't actually buy you very much, because presumably the same places that would exclude your resume because of an ageist bias, would also pass on you after interviewing you (in which case lying about your graduatio
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by m0nastic 14y ago
You might be interested in this other product that does what you're talking about: http://riftlabs.com/kick-overview-betterpics/ (it was also on Kickstarter). I'm not affiliated with them, but I was super impressed and eagerly await buyi
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A month or so back I mentioned that I'd recently switched to doing most of my computing while sitting in one of these: http://www.dwr.com/product/lc4-chaise-lounge-cowhide.do?sort... and I can now offer as an update that it's really worki
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I'm inclined to believe the FBI on this occasion, although the reasoning is getting confusing ("But you've also bested my Spaniard...Surely I cannot chose the wine in front of me") If the Antisec account is accurate (that they popped this a

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