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A Texas Jury’s Guilty Verdict Should Worry IT Admins(wired.com)
2 points by moon_of_moon 10y ago|1 comments
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by moon_of_moon 10y ago
After 4 years at a company you have influence. Use it to start a small project in stats or whatever. Talk to people in the business if you need to, and build something on the side that is useful for them. Use your influence to get the proje
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by moon_of_moon 10y ago
Annualized over 10 years. One of the ways you value a company is by discounting the future cashflows.
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by moon_of_moon 10y ago
$26 Billion is actually fair : The question is, would it provide earnings of $2.6 Billion per year discounted over the next ten years? I think so. Keep in mind, MS sells $90 billion of product and services a year, so we're talking less
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by moon_of_moon 10y ago
Human rights in immigrant detention centres is something everyone should get behind. Unfortunately this exact kind of treatment is common at the US border. Search for: denied port of entry nightmare. e.g. https://news.ycombinator
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by moon_of_moon 10y ago
If the economy tanks, you might find yourself surrounded by people who didn't really deserve to be in their jobs, but floated up with the high tide of a buoyant economy. These are the people who will resort to nasty office politics to
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by moon_of_moon 10y ago
Um.. you do realize that the only difference between the Indian engineers at Google or VMWare in California, and some of the the guys working out of India is that the latter didnt do an MS or get a visa sponsored? Take the sharpest Indian
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by moon_of_moon 10y ago
I think what OP means is this: the tech ecosystem in places like Bangalore is booming more than anywhere else and the good programmers in India have amazing opportunities to make good money or are in career paths that heads to a position ea
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by moon_of_moon 10y ago
I suppose the main rebuttal is that, if the program enforced an earning requirement of > $100k (or so depending on state) regardless of position, it would not affect a net increase in the available labor pool for a large section of worke
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by moon_of_moon 10y ago
If they made the H1-B system fairer for the immigrant workers, so that they their employability wasn't tied to a sponsorship, it would actually be better for American workers. How? Because H1-B employees cannot transfer out easily and
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by moon_of_moon 10y ago
No. Interview failed you. Apply better job. Using Debugger easy. Using brains not easy.
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by moon_of_moon 10y ago
Avid ZH reader since before it had its own domain -- this list is incomplete. There are several bloggers who have posted links to their work under the name durden.
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by moon_of_moon 10y ago
q: "do you support capitalism" a: "not in the way it treats engineers as 'resources', and cronies, friends and relatives as 'management' as but in principal yes" q: "i need a yes/no answer&q
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by moon_of_moon 11y ago
Why is this limited to software? Why not also publish publicly financed: * legal agreements * HR contracts * management presentations, best practices, and training material * marketing presentations and training material * creative output
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by moon_of_moon 11y ago
First release since Ians passing? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_f... BTW does anyone have any color on what the heck happened that night?
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by moon_of_moon 12y ago
More, in fact. http://ark.intel.com/#@ServerProducts But your original point is a valid one: AMD introduced desktop 8 core processors a couple of years ago, while this is intels first 8 core desktop processor.
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by moon_of_moon 13y ago
So really the only way to identify high quality information is by what some would call "peer reviewed, authenticated content". That means you know something about the person who generated the content and a bunch of people (who you
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by moon_of_moon 16y ago
Where does all that revenue come from? (I'm not in the US so I don't use the site). Forbes is reporting $500mm annual sales. Boston, for example, has a deal today for 150 * $15 meals at a restaurant.That's $2250 revenue for a day or about $
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by moon_of_moon 16y ago
Interesting that November 2008 is missing.
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by moon_of_moon 16y ago
Also, most people put these together with a 8085 or a PIC in high school.
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by moon_of_moon 16y ago
Pretty sure a real entrepreneur will not view that as embarrassment. This is the only way to start. Build something, put it out, review lessons learnt, improve it, build the next thing... Bill Gates' first idea for a company was one that ma
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by moon_of_moon 16y ago
1. I've used Ubuntu on my desktop for the last 1.5 years. We switched most of our Windows servers to Linux over the last year as well. It would be great to have a free base Windows OS release, with zero bells and whistles, but a fully func
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by moon_of_moon 16y ago
If you lose your password, the hoops you have to go through to recover it are amazing. Pro tip: don't ever lose your password. Or better, as others have suggested, sweep money out as soon as it arrives.
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by moon_of_moon 16y ago
IIRC Amazon Web Services has a web service for generating thumbnails of websites.
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
Anyone have any openVMS/cluster uptime war stories to share? I also found this: http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=03/11/28/7758863
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Current Uptime:14 Years 69 Days 7 Hours 38 Minutes(uptimes-project.org)
2 points by moon_of_moon 17y ago|2 comments
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Speedup 12 machine learning algorithms with mapreduce on multicore machines(scribd.com)
2 points by moon_of_moon 17y ago|1 comments
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
Dr.Holzmann (who currently heads reliability group at JPL) notes: "from the 30-some people shown on this map, just a few remained to witness the final disappearance of center 1127 from the bell labs org charts in august 2005: rae mclellan,
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Bell Labs, building 2, 5th floor: main occupants for each office over the years.(spinroot.com)
27 points by moon_of_moon 17y ago|17 comments
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by moon_of_moon 17y ago
I'm guessing security issues. Of the funding of guns and bombs kind.

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