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by matrix 17y ago
No doubt that list is different for everyone, but here's mine: 1) Replace employer-sponsored and lottery green cards with a points-based self-petitioning system that can be tuned annually according to the nation's needs. Such a system would
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by matrix 17y ago
Should there be options for smart guys like this to come to America? Absolutely, but let's be realistic; these guys have a few options. They could immigrate to Canada - unlike America, Canada welcomes people with open arms. Forget that rubb
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by matrix 17y ago
I wish I could upvote this 10 times. I stopped reading the dailyWTF a long, long time ago because: a) the stories are embellished to the point of being pure fiction, and b) the writer's work is so long-winded that it's just painful to read.
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by matrix 17y ago
I've built a couple of reasonably complex Djamgo apps, and as much as I like Django, all the points author makes are very true. That said, by the time you have swapped out the template language and the ORM you are basically no longer using
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by matrix 17y ago
You know a product is bad when people prefer to PDF... (apologies for going off-topic - I just couldn't resist this one)
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by matrix 17y ago
One approach that works for me: search for play lists on grooveshark.com that have songs that you like. Sometimes people put together play lists with other interesting songs on them (and sometimes they're rubbish, but such is the nature of
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by matrix 17y ago
That's a little misleading. His main claim to fame is his involvement in drafting XML standards. That said, I'm not exactly sure why we're meant to care about him resigning from Oracle/Sun. Seriously - what exactly did he do there?
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by matrix 17y ago
"The current line is 7-9 years long." Only if you are on a low-priority employment-based visa and are Indian or Chinese born (i.e. waiting for priority date to become current). The process is still much too long though, even in other cases.
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by matrix 17y ago
Hive and Pig are not SQL though. Yes, they're SQL-like, and do go some way towards solving that problem, but you won't be using things like standard DB libraries with them anytime soon.
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by matrix 17y ago
These are clickstream logs for sure. The guys at Facebook always talk about this Hadoop-based system in the context of analyzing users, rather than systems. I have been tempted to use Hadoop/Hive myself, but what I'm REALLY interested in is
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by matrix 17y ago
If this is advertising, I want more of it. As an SVN curmudgeon, the first part of this tutorial finally persuaded me that I really, really need to give distributed version control a fair trial. Joel pretty much nailed all my objections/com
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by matrix 17y ago
I don't think recipes themselves can really be rated; we probably have to rate the person who created the recipe or the person evaluating the recipe. Let me explain: The number of people that come back and rate a recipe is probably small. A
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by matrix 17y ago
If you'd like to skip all the pundits (Gladwell included) and go straight to source of all this discussion about developing expertise, look no further than this book: http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Expertise-Performance-Handbo... It's a
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by matrix 17y ago
Look no further than William Taft for an example of a larger man who is, to this day, widely admired for his sartorial elegance. Sure, you're not going to be wearing the ultra-slim fit clothes that are trendy with a certain crowd right now,
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by matrix 17y ago
I would rate this article as very basic at best. I became very interested in fashion after I needed to learn about it (long story). One thing you'll see a lot of -- and this article is guilty of this too -- is that clothes should fit well.
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by matrix 17y ago
A wild off-balance swing and a stumbling miss, I agree. Of course, real-life business casual isn't going to work ("Hey, its J.Crew Barbie!") but they could have gone for: - An edgy all-black mod look ala The Matrix. - Slim-fitting jeans, an
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by matrix 17y ago
The most amusing thing about this rant is that it completely overlooked the most egregious error in that sentence fragment - an error, I had sincerely hope is not representative of Stanford students in general.
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by matrix 17y ago
The worst part of all? Google's own properties handle these different types of accounts poorly. Google App Engine in particular will lock you out if you inadvertently have an administrator with a Google Account and Goodle Domain Account wit
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by matrix 17y ago
I think it's fair to say we could shorten that last regex to: ^\d+\s.
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by matrix 17y ago
Sounds like someone is a Steve Pavlina fan... I find Pavlina to be interesting, but sadly he went w-a-y off into cuckoo land a while back.
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by matrix 17y ago
I missed the memo. Can anyone point me to an article explaining exactly why XHTML has suddenly become the whipping boy du jour? I'm well aware that HTML5 is the next hot thing and all, but I don't understand why anyone would favor HTML4?
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by matrix 17y ago
Anyone know of any Python shops in Salt Lake City area? I'm about to start looking for a new gig myself...
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by matrix 17y ago
Like Steve jobs, I'd love to ditch Flash too, because frankly I can't really ever bring myself to like using products from the company that brings us delights such as Adobe Reader, Adobe's updaters, etc. However. Unlike Steve, I don't have
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by matrix 17y ago
This is what happens when someone who just doesn't get it looks at the well-publicized Pixar workspaces and says "yeah, lets do that!". I mean look at this thing - it's constructed with the design aesthetics of a garden shed and then they s
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by matrix 17y ago
What, no e-ink? I was really hoping Apple would take on the Kindle, etc so we could get some critical mass in that market. Instead we get a glorified laptop. Bummer.
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by matrix 17y ago
I have tried Splunk. It's a great concept and I commend the Splunk team for building such an easy to use, polished product. However we found the query performance to be... ahem... not well geared towards large data sets. This combined with
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by matrix 17y ago
The reason I canceled my WSJ subscription had nothing to do with ideology. I used to read the WSJ for the in-depth stories about topics that aren't necessarily in the headlines right now or that are otherwise not especially mainstream. Afte
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by matrix 17y ago
For those interested in more information derived from data mining online dating data sets, you'll find Andrew Fiore's work at Berkeley and MIT interesting - see the Papers section on this site: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~atf/datin
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by matrix 17y ago
HelpHive (the directory) is absolutely in the wrong here. Their business model is unethical at best; it's on par with spamming and link-farming. It doesn't surprise me in the least that the founder of HelpHive is a former RealNetworks emplo
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by matrix 17y ago
Physician supply is a long, long way down the list of fundamental issues with US healthcare. Right now, we as a nation have bigger fish to fry - such as making the moral decision on whether we as a society feel healthcare should be a right

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