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by mcknz 16y ago
seriously? you don't see a difference in calling a white person a chimp? I want to live on your planet.
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Apple gets Ping'd with comment spam
1 points by mcknz 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcknz 16y ago
I don't see that applicants are the target audience for this service -- the companies using it would be responsible for making the tests a good experience for candidates.
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by mcknz 16y ago
It would depend on the company -- the "best" people would be more willing to write some code if [insert awesome company here] was using the tool, versus a company like Initech. Would be a plus if eventually the tool could behave more like a
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by mcknz 16y ago
Then there are the ratings agencies (Moody's, S&P) who did such a great job during the crisis, but that's another topic altogether... :)
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by mcknz 16y ago
There are more social activities these days for home-schooled kids, shared co-ops, and chances for them to get together to socialize with peers. I'd wager for every awkward home-schooled kid there's one in school who is bullied or made fun
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by mcknz 16y ago
I'll concede that's true for government agencies where the work could be done more efficiently in the for-profit world (say the USPS), but there are plenty of agencies whose jobs "wouldn't be done at all on the free market" because there is
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by mcknz 16y ago
It's not like the entire tax goes into a black hole -- it would be interesting to see what the return is on the average tax rate: how much benefit is derived from state, federal, and city services (roads, water, security, libraries, parks)
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by mcknz 16y ago
To be fair, a service the size of Rackspace Cloud is bound to screw up at least a few times. Then again, no one ever got fired for switching to Linode.
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by mcknz 16y ago
I'm very disinterested in this topic.
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by mcknz 16y ago
[1] http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/14636 Then I suppose the complaint against split infinitives is really just an attempt to prescribe against awkward phrasing. Those crazy Victorians.
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by mcknz 16y ago
A noble effort, but "begging the question" is destined to go the way of split infinitives....
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by mcknz 16y ago
I would argue that piling shit on top of shit would qualify as part of the job description for half of the corporate world, programmers and non.
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by mcknz 16y ago
practitioner's --> practitioners and I 404'd it off the byline link: http://alexblom.com/blog/author/Alexander%20Blom/
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by mcknz 16y ago
Well that clears everything up.
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by mcknz 16y ago
Another PSA for Stack Overflow.
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by mcknz 16y ago
Welcome to 1996...
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by mcknz 16y ago
sorry, forgot the sarcasm tags.
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by mcknz 16y ago
Then again you run the risk of someone else beating you to the patent. I love those stories about how the famous creator/inventor of [some idea or device] published the discovery an hour/day/week before someone else.
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by mcknz 16y ago
Odd. I always thought it was litigation.
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by mcknz 16y ago
The point is that writing one is valuable -- it tests your ability to articulate an understanding of your own work from a high level, which is not always obvious when our focus is frequently at the code level.
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by mcknz 16y ago
Not necessarily anything -- it's only when Agile practitioners take "your documentation is your code" a bit too literally.
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by mcknz 16y ago
As soon as Microsoft does.
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by mcknz 16y ago
I often prefer to take 0% advance if I'm busy, in exchange for more flexibility on the deadline.
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Facebook Places Will Crush Foursquare(pcmag.com)
32 points by mcknz 16y ago|25 comments
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by mcknz 16y ago
In April they issued an update that accidentally targeted legitimate Windows system files, causing the updated boxes to bluescreen. Astounding enterprise-level incompetence.
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by mcknz 16y ago
Pretty typical for an acquisition -- the stock price of the company to be acquired will rise quickly to the price per share the buyer offers.
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by mcknz 16y ago
Intel decided to do a public good, and plans to remove all McAfee antivirus software from the planet.
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by mcknz 16y ago
Stop limit orders are a good way to determine when to sell, which is the toughest decision to make. Even if you are dollar cost averaging into a position, you can set a limit order to protect profits, or prevent a large loss. I've seen so
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by mcknz 16y ago
You're not overreacting -- this could turn into something more serious. Some people you find aren't really your friends until it's too late. Though I agree you probably don't want to get the police involved, and I'm not sure there would b

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