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by objclxt 13y ago
> If you really need mac software then why not built a far more powerful and cheaper hackintosh I don't think it should make you mad. Different strokes for different folks. If I go to a car forum I bet I can find a lot of people wh
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by objclxt 13y ago
> much like the original iphone, to get the battery life up, they had to use a tiny(by the standard o the time) CPU, which meant no flash I think you might be misinformed. The first-generation iPhone shipped with a 620 MHz ARM CPU that
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by objclxt 13y ago
On the other side of the fence: a lot of the time clients will actually send stuff they've seen online to their ad agencies and ask for it to be 'repurposed'. It happens both ways.
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by objclxt 13y ago
If you're being pedantic, it's 1,048,576 rows from Excel 2007, 65,536 rows before that.
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Similarly, no brainteasers, but something worse: they made me write syntactically correct code on a whiteboard Interestingly, I believe Google are slowly moving over all their coding interviews from whiteboards to Chromebooks - this
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by objclxt 13y ago
Google still ask puzzles: they just don't ask brainteasers . For example, write a program to find every possible word in a given Boggle board is a puzzle, but one you're going to solve by coding...rather than "how many pia
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by objclxt 13y ago
You've skipped over the original NYT article, which the qz.com article being linked to here quotes from. He does say they're worthless. Here's the complete quote: One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is t
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by objclxt 13y ago
From what I hear, the brainteasers were retired quite a while ago for engineering and technology roles, but persisted in other fields (like account management, sales, etc) for some time longer.
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by objclxt 13y ago
Yes, I currently live in the UK. I have simplified somewhat, because as the above post suggests provision does vary from health authority to health authority.
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by objclxt 13y ago
Perhaps I am a pessimist, but I don't see the future turning out well for those who have chosen to cryogenically preserve their bodies. That's not to say that the people practising it don't believe in what they're preach
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by objclxt 13y ago
This seems less an indictment of medical science than of the healthcare system you have to live with. Because where I come from, if I was bitten by a tick I could book my primary doctor's appointment online, get the blood test done the
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by objclxt 13y ago
You do realise that the reason the EC currently mandates roaming charges caps is because before they did so roaming was stupidly expensive ??? You seem to have got the situation completely back to front.
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by objclxt 13y ago
There's really no diplomatic issue here. There's some egg on face for it becoming public, but spying pre-dates terrorism. Governments spy on other governments. It's what's done. I disagree with the article here. PRISM ab
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by objclxt 13y ago
It's embarrassing that it's public, but I highly doubt the countries involved trusted their hosts. Do you really think Russia trusts the UK and the US?
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by objclxt 13y ago
Almost certainly none at all. The UK intelligence services have a remit for espionage against foreign governments. Domestic targeting...that's another, altogether thornier issue. I suppose you could say it was an ethical issue, but I c
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by objclxt 13y ago
Yeah, I'd agree with you that The Telegraph isn't the most balanced of sources when it comes to immigration. It's an overtly right-wing paper.
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by objclxt 13y ago
Yeah, I'd agree with that. I've lived in both. This is not to say that parts of London aren't dodgy, but SF is I think both subjectively and quantifiably worse. For example, London has around 500 people sleeping rough each ni
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by objclxt 13y ago
Sorry, $80 for a four year subscription? Because that's what the Office 365 for Students deal is. That's $1.66 per month. Seems pretty in-budget for a student.
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by objclxt 13y ago
The main difference between, say, Disney and Facebook is that the former is engrained in culture from a very young age, whereas the latter officially is targeting those aged 13 and upwards. Four year old children aren't signing up for
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by objclxt 13y ago
The BBC is, today, very good at archiving programming material. All output is kept for at least five years, and the overwhelming majority is kept permanently (exceptions are things like long-running quiz shows, where samples of material are
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by objclxt 13y ago
I have a white iPhone, so I can't answer that side of your question, but the icon labels change color according to the background (i.e, a dark background gets white labels, a light background gets black ones).
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by objclxt 13y ago
> "Would you consider paying more if he would personally help you fix it by modifying your code?" He or she, really. Personally, I find the "please fix my code [paste large amount of code here]" questions on StackOverflow to be of lit
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by objclxt 13y ago
Sorry, I mangled the grammar on that sentence. I've fixed it now.
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by objclxt 13y ago
Zynga had (and I assume still have) a 'platinum purchase program' that let players deposit money for in-app purchases via direct bank transfer. It was kept rather hush-hush, but it was definitely targeted at those spending thousands of doll
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by objclxt 13y ago
I'm more worried about the very real and considerably more developed plans to drastically change how the legal aid system works in the UK. In brief, the UK government is planning to stop the current legal aid system - where solicitors (lawy
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by objclxt 13y ago
From the About section of the site: > Our “popularity” guesstimates are derived from annualized monthly Google queries (from AdWords traffic estimator), and some fuzzy math. It’s not scientific, but it’s better than nothing. ...to be ho
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by objclxt 13y ago
I wouldn't say 'very top end' - I've hired graduates for more than that. Not much more (£36k, I think, was the highest), but there's always flexibility.
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by objclxt 13y ago
> It would be great to talk to someone who has first hand experience with this I'll give it a go! A few things you should be aware of to put what you're saying in context. Firstly, the cost of living in SF is incredibly high. Slight
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by objclxt 13y ago
Facebook? We're talking about PayPal here. Facebook's vulnerability program requires you just not be in a country subject to US sanctions (and presumably be over 13, the age you need to be to have a Facebook account in the first place).
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by objclxt 13y ago
One of the reasons Apple doesn't want to get involved in the whole physical product payments area is there are a number of additional regulatory and liability issues. But I don't think you have to be lumbered with PayPal - there are lots of

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