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by mtoddh 14y ago
Interesting, my guess is this is the demographic the Obama campaign was courting with the Life of Julia [1] slide-show a while back- http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/
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by mtoddh 14y ago
In a past blog entry ( http://blog.neekanee.com/2012/11/working-overseas-finding-jo... ), I wrote about two companies that hire internationally: Secunia and Booking.com. There's also a couple of companies in Berlin that state in their job p
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by mtoddh 14y ago
Enlightenment has been around for quite a while now, and back in the day I used to think it looked so stunning. For a sense of perspective, here's what it used to look like back when it started as a hack of FVWM: http://www.cactii.net/~bb/
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by mtoddh 14y ago
This. I think the author really highlighted this well at the end of the article: "Social media purports to connect us but it often does the exact opposite. The barrier, the anonymity, the lack of accountability; all encourage the worst in p
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Make Your Own Deficit-Reduction Plan(projects.wsj.com)
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Immediate Gratification: Employees say long-term benefits can wait(mthink.mercer.com)
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Taking On Employee Intimidation at T-Mobile USA(spiegel.de)
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The Rise and Fall of Stalin's Atlantis(spiegel.de)
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by mtoddh 14y ago
but taking 3 or 6 months off per year should be doable in this profession due to the nature of the work and very high earnings. It would be doable money-wise but I would think it would be hard to find a company willing to go along with th
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by mtoddh 14y ago
A lot of people don't believe that Americans of today should be liable for the actions of Americans then. It seems like there's two lines of discussion around this topic. One, as you've pointed out, is whether people should be liable for
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by mtoddh 14y ago
Just recognize that (I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume) that, because you are a middle class white man, probably 90% of the reason you oppose "affirmative action" is because it negatively impacts your own demographic group. Ar
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by mtoddh 14y ago
An interesting tidbit from the article: "Accel decided to pump $50 million into Tenable, a staggering amount even by venture capital standards and the biggest investment that Accel has ever made in a North American company...Its investment
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Columbia cybersecurity firm gets boost from Silicon Valley(baltimoresun.com)
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The Single Largest Advantage Parents Can Give Their Kids(newamerica.net)
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The Intransparent Methods of an Internet Giant(spiegel.de)
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The Whole Room Will Be the Computer(spiegel.de)
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by mtoddh 14y ago
There's the Game Institute ( http://www.gameinstitute.com ) but they're not free...
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by mtoddh 14y ago
+1 for this book - I rarely see it mentioned when it comes to C books. Reminds me of van der Linden's C book in that it uses non-traditional examples to illustrate concepts.
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The Right to Be Forgotten(spiegel.de)
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by mtoddh 14y ago
One of the first reasons I ever heard for learning either vi or emacs was that they were the only editors that were basically prevalent everywhere, regardless what flavor of unix you found yourself on. Not so much because of how powerful th
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by mtoddh 14y ago
For years, senior people did not type their own email, or even read it on a screen. Reading this I can't help but think of the old "hello world" computer program humor [1] predicated on the idea that the higher the you went up the corpora
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by mtoddh 14y ago
But how does working for Apple and writing Modenizr qualify him to speak about sexism? It doesn't - it sounds like an appeal to authority. My guess is that had the roles been reversed, with Faruk as a male arguing how he didn't see sexism
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by mtoddh 14y ago
It was always referred to as a hobby and one that wasn't looked upon very highly. I never see this point come up much but I can tell you that when I was growing up "geek" was a pejorative term and the guys who were into computers were lar
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by mtoddh 14y ago
We accessed [an operator's] systems through their x25 network which they never knew was running I remember a presentation on x25 security from not too long ago that articulated this very point: "Everybody “forgot” about their X.25 direct
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by mtoddh 14y ago
So in this scenario, does it also mean that the shares are now worth less too? As in they are now worth $3/share ($10M/3,000,000) whereas before they were worth $10?
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by mtoddh 14y ago
As to the first point, I remember this being described well in an older Phrack article [1] written by Solar Designer with regards to port scan detection: In scanlogd, I'm using a hash table to lookup source addresses. This works very well
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Amazing Photos 2012(imgur.com)
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by mtoddh 14y ago
Funny, I still remember buying my first CD as a kid, Motley Crue's Girls, Girls, Girls (ouch!). The packaging back then was different and they'd put the CDs in long boxes whereas now you just buy it in the jewel case. I remember how cool it
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Amazon Criticized for Selling Dachau Puzzle(spiegel.de)
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Eternal Life Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics(spiegel.de)
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