mikecane

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by mikecane 13y ago
Did you know that temp agencies for office staff -- receptionists, AAs, clerks, WP -- have a four-hour minimum too? WP can get as high at $25/hr for third-shift legal.
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by mikecane 13y ago
Worst part of that: "content design." I guess so we don't mistake it for, say, fashion design? Anyway, it'd be interesting to find out just how far back illustrations for text goes. Who was the first guy to propose adding "illumination" to
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Chen Zhengxiang and Mind+ (Google Translate)(translate.googleusercontent.com)
1 points by mikecane 13y ago|0 comments
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Mind+ is a Graphical Programming Language for Arduino(mindplus.cc)
2 points by mikecane 13y ago|0 comments
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Massive Cheating Bahavior of Chinese Tablets Manufacturers(antutu.com)
2 points by mikecane 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>The only thing left between me and winning the bet was the questions. I dropped them both subtly in a conversation, noted down the answers and to my surprise: they were both accepted. Hoo boy. They should let us create our o
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>Even though Tumblr was never a one-person company, it usually felt like a one-person product. That. I didn't stay with Tumblr long -- the limitations eventually got to me -- but I always had the sense this was a product with
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by mikecane 13y ago
Hm, that's from 2011. Should be marked as such. I wonder if it's true today?
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A Conspiracy To Commit Journalism: The DoJ's Dangerous New Argument(pressfreedomfoundation.org)
13 points by mikecane 13y ago|1 comments
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by mikecane 13y ago
It was discovered with the original Tamagotchi that never disciplining it led to the pseudo-human incarnation. And a Tamagotchi's death was often a bit traumatic to small kids. I wonder how many nihilists it created?
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>That question is kind of meaningless. Typing it, I knew I ran the risk of the answer being circular, but I still had to ask.
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by mikecane 13y ago
There are pre-pay debit cards from AmEx, VISA, and MasterCard in most supermarkets, pharmacies, and other places. You put money on those. The downside are the monthly, per-transaction, and reload fees. EDIT to add: There are also Gift Car
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by mikecane 13y ago
I wonder, would this get rejected at the iOS App Store on grounds of taste or something? (That's aside from the fact it'd probably be DMCAed away if someone did it.)
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by mikecane 13y ago
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW IN BUSINESS I LEARNED AT MICROSOFT http://www.amazon.com/REALLY-NEED-BUSINESS-LEARNED-MICROSOFT... You'll find in that they refer to themselves as Microsofties.
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>so for any external observer (client, manager, user, etc) there was no value added. Wouldn't it be reflected in a drop-off of calls to Support/CS?
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>It's a total waste of time to play that game. I disagree and the experience of many others in prominent positions have experience that runs counter to that. From the outside, it's easy to dismiss it as a "game" (which is a b
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>Most bugs are not that challenging though. What you subsequently described is a copyeditor's function on a book. Maybe such jobs need to be described as such to attract the people who really want to do them?
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>It would be long story, but when observing him one thing came to mind: he knew how to talk to women. That is what matters. Not height or appearance or income. FFS, the guys I've seen have women flock to them! It's like the
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>With their resources, they could do so many amazing things, but they seem to completely lack creativity. They brought Multi-View to Android. I wish Android had that baked in.
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by mikecane 13y ago
I tend to agree with you. Corporations will often test you out in what you consider to be a "crap" job. Why? It's not a test of skill, it's a test of initiative . Without slamming him -- it's his personal choice, after all, and good lu
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by mikecane 13y ago
I have a question as a user to devs: Do you consider fixing code a bad job, as he did? The Net is filled with complaints about things that require fixing in lots of software that's been around a while. Yet it never seems to get done. Is
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by mikecane 13y ago
OK, so the problem D-Wave has itself defined can be run faster on classical machinery. Does this also hold true for other problems run on the D-Wave?
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Shakey the Robot(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mikecane 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikecane 13y ago
Whoa. I just peeked at that and was astonished to see: ├───68.22 MB (28.62%) -- window-objects │ ├──41.12 MB (17.25%) -- top( https://twitter.com/ , id=55)/active │ │ ├──39.86 MB (16.72%) -- window( https://twitter.com/ ) │ │ │ ├──
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>I know as a musician if I purchased a "handmade" synth and later found out that it was basically just a kit that had been assembled for me, I'd be a little irked. Ah. That makes it clearer for me. Thanks.
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by mikecane 13y ago
Just looking at all the wires inside the box in one photo, how could they ever think that was mass-manufactured?
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Korean book publishers caught inflating sales by stockpiling books(koreatimes.co.kr)
1 points by mikecane 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how n
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Amazon Hints At Color E-Reader With Samsung Unit Buy(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by mikecane 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>Does all of this interaction being analysed have to in person and in depth? I'd say depth matters more. It's not sufficient to just be seen. People want to be understood , or seen fundamentally. Related, the Principle of P

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