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by objclxt 13y ago
Amazon, BN, and Apple don't pay advances (...to the vast majority of authors. Maybe a few exceptions for big name exclusives). Many authors write books, send them to their agent to sell, and then get paid up-front by a publisher, followed b
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by objclxt 13y ago
I feel compelled to add to this: degrees are used as a filter for graduate level jobs. I do have a degree, but it's a studio art degree (i.e, painting, drawing, etc). I've had interviews with Google in the past, and like the parent it was j
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by objclxt 13y ago
> I want a "1-hour guarantee" that I'll receive your considered offer after one hour of interviewing ...I wouldn't have hired many of my fellow engineers after an hour. I would at least want two interviews, one with me (the line manag
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by objclxt 13y ago
> But looking at the way people deal with risk makes me wary. One of the problems is insurance. Right now, everyone needs to have insurance to drive. If I accidentally hit a pedestrian or rear-end another driver they can claim on my i
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by objclxt 13y ago
Sudden cardiac arrest is quite common amongst the population as a whole ( http://www.sca-aware.org/about-sca ). What's rather uncommon is it to happen at a young age, but it's not unknown. In the four years I was at college two students suf
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by objclxt 13y ago
I don't think that's strictly true. It's generally thought that one of the biggest bank robberies in the UK (the Northern Bank Robbery) was pulled off by the Provisional IRA. Terrorist organisations do need to launder money - it may just no
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by objclxt 13y ago
Revenue wise, there is still a lot of money to be made on SMS, even in countries like the US where smartphones are king. SMS aggregators and gateways still make significant amounts of money, and it's not decreasing.
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by objclxt 13y ago
From a purely technical perspective, the biggest difference is that the Berkeley team (Snap) re-implemented in JavaScript, and MIT (Scratch 2.0) in Flash. The former also uses XML as a format, the latter JSON (in 2.0). Like you say, Snap's
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by objclxt 13y ago
One important thing that's new in Scratch 2.0 under the hood is the transition from the .SB file format (a rather complex SmallTalk object store) to a ZIP based bundle containing all required media along with JSON encoded scripts. The upsho
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by objclxt 13y ago
If we're talking about H-1Bs, the main reason the US is 'strict' is that nobody has the political will to do anything about the cap. Ten years ago, there was a 195,000 cap for H-1B visas - this year, thanks to legislation expiring, it was 6
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by objclxt 13y ago
Having worked in both countries, and being British myself, I'd probably disagree with you. Of course, in terms of sheer numbers there are more jobs in the US, but I don't see the US having any sort of USP in terms of the jobs themselves. Fo
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by objclxt 13y ago
> The real story here is B not A I would assume if you're a journalist in the tech industry worth you salt you probably have a Google contact you could call.
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Being backed by a large company that isn't going away anytime soon makes Parse a viable option for larger businesses ...except that's not the case at all. Look at face.com - once they were acquired by Facebook they all but shut down
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Why don't ATMs in Europe use chip and pin yet? Many of them do - one security feature is to have the ATM pull the card very, very slowly into the slot whilst oscillating them to prevent skimmers reading the mag strip, as it's no lon
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by objclxt 13y ago
Somebody already posted this link, but didn't actually expand or summarise it, so here goes: Radiolab did a podcast a few months ago[1] which looked at a John Hopkins survey of doctors that has been going on for decades now. 90% of all doct
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by objclxt 13y ago
...because domestic terrorists are always conspiratorial, old, and bitter? Many members of the IRA were active in their twenties. Some members were even younger - the same was true for ETA in Spain. In the US, Timothy McVeigh was 26 at the
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by objclxt 13y ago
> How would you know if a production app was using Storyboards? Because just like NIBs, Storyboards exist as part of an app's resource bundle, which is easily viewable. It is usually fairly straightforward to examine an IPA from the s
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by objclxt 13y ago
I agree with pretty much everything you say (especially now Apple will be pushing auto-layout for newcomers to the platform), but the one thing that's really bothered me with the "Your First iOS App" tutorial is that as some point it switch
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by objclxt 13y ago
This is true - entering the US can be a very painful experience (despite SFO being quite a nice airport I've still had a two hour plus wait on occasion), but Heathrow was just as bad last year at certain points, with two hour plus waits to
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by objclxt 13y ago
I believe the Go library is automatically generated off the API, effectively just extending the existing Go/Google API client library. Which is not to necessarily down play it in any way (I love Go!), but just that it's not vastly exciting.
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by objclxt 13y ago
As per the update to that issue, the API is currently only available to developers with physical access to Glass. It is a shame they didn't make this clearer on the developer documentation page itself...
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by objclxt 13y ago
> It is a means of lowering wage rates among engineers and software developers You might think Mark Zuckerberg is in this to bring in international developers and pay them peanuts, but the reality is that most people Google, Facebook,
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by objclxt 13y ago
It has been pointed out here before that this would significantly disadvantage both start-ups and small companies who may be working in extremely niche environments and require talent from abroad.
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by objclxt 14y ago
> In the US, you have no monopoly on the healthcare side, but the drug companies have a monopoly on the drugs they produce. In a way there is a monopoly on the healthcare side in the US, but it only impacts a certain segment of the po
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by objclxt 14y ago
...but the other rule Apple told them they'd broken, regarding push notifications, has been around pretty much forever. Well, since push went into the platform. And yes, push notification advertising is the most broken rule on the store, bu
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by objclxt 14y ago
> This is totally wrong. Movies are a subset of video games. That seems a little...subjective? There is certainly far more critical literature suggesting the opposite thing. Seems to me what you're saying is just as much an opinion as
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by objclxt 14y ago
Absolutely - in fact, I saw them last Friday. Depending on your airline / how late it is the captain may put an announcement out about it. If you're on an east bound transatlantic red-eye you want to be on the left hand side of the plane, b
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by objclxt 14y ago
It's not uncommon - I see them occasionally on the SFO to LHR night flights. The photos here are very good, better than I've ever seen with the naked eye, but that might be because you can adjust the exposure with a camera.
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by objclxt 14y ago
It's not totally clear from the project page, but I'm pretty sure this particular project is for RubyMotion, and you'll need to be writing your apps with that to benefit. You wouldn't be able to integrate Kiln straight into an existing Obje
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by objclxt 14y ago
I suspect most software developers worth their salt have heard of Joel Spolsky, and by extension Fog Creek. Aside from them actually having their own pages on Wikipedia (which someone else has linked to), Kiln is a trademark of Fog Creek, s

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