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CRTC says: ISPs can't pick which apps and services count against your data cap(cbc.ca)
7 points by otoburb 10y ago|0 comments
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by otoburb 10y ago
And because other organizations are sold on the idea that SREs can realize cost savings benefits without compromising reliability of their technology assets, boards and c-suite teams definitively define this as a better way to run technical
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by otoburb 10y ago
"The real question, she said: “Can you attract the future stars into this line of work?”" Yes, but perhaps only the next , and not this, generation of future stars, after supply and demand forces have worked themselves out.
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by otoburb 10y ago
While I was like this, some engineering classes scheduled quizzes in the morning. Skipping these were detrimental to my grades. With the benefit of hindsight, my behaviour of skipping morning classes was incredibly stupid, but at the time m
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by otoburb 10y ago
She wants a certification for her résumé? If she's about to graduate from law school she should be officially obtaining her JD or LLB equivalent. That's a pretty good "certification" by itself. Also, if she graduated fro
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by otoburb 10y ago
>Astonishingly still many client CEOs ask me how they can make their developers work more, marketing also works 60h they claim. Some larger software firms try to capitalize their R&D costs by developers to enter timecards. If the CEO
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by otoburb 10y ago
How will Wire make money and stay viable while maintaining this level of service?
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>> I think the price-to-value ratio of their service is quite good. One almost wishes a similar service for scientific papers exists along the lines of a "paid dry-run peer review". Unfortunately this probably wouldn't
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Professor Deibert is highly sensitive to labeling and deliberately chose and insists on denying the use of the bare term "hacker" to categorize Citizen Lab activities, instead preferring terms such as "hacktivism", self-
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by otoburb 10y ago
This type of "field survey" article is great because it helps connect a bunch of different dots. The stories about India accelerating their digitization efforts is truly eye-opening and worth the read. Considering this is a macro-
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by otoburb 10y ago
Three off-the-cuff options based on your vague description: 1) Designer 2) Marketer 3) Management Consultant Taking a step back, it feels like this question is being asked without a clear understanding of the underlying "why". Cou
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by otoburb 10y ago
"Maximimizing publication count" seems to be the accepted ground truth, but I'm still somewhat surprised researchers don't write for a larger audience because one would think that expanding your audience beyond your sub-
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by otoburb 10y ago
High-profile departures are hard to read because leadership teams are usually (and should be) paranoid about the effect on morale. Also, as a general rule, clean breaks with little to no warning are easier to digest for the rest of the comp
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by otoburb 10y ago
The SLA is 100% relevant. If Braintree had an SLA that stated (hopefully clearly) that they would only be offering support during US hours then there'd be little standing to complain from a contractual standpoint. No doubt this would b
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by otoburb 10y ago
Your username is very apt here. Whether we agree or disagree with the sentiments expressed by the parents represented in the article, the Overton Window will inevitably be shifting or at the very least expanding. Speaking with various stay-
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by otoburb 10y ago
Raising children is difficult, not only due to the immense amount of direct contact required to see your children thrive but also while juggling shared responsibilities and managing the economics of a household. There was a separate HN thre
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>>It gets way more complicated than that. After reading this kind of code for a few months, you get really good at parsing it. This must be how APL language users feel parsing their ultra-terse syntaxes (includes J/K/Q varia
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by otoburb 10y ago
>>(The few I know who remained in Manhattan or wherever were very well off and used private schools.) ... or managed to survive the seemingly insane NYC Department of Education admissions process to enter your child[ren] into public P
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>>The problem demographic is couples with kids. Our urban schools are bad, so they leave the city to find good schools. Good urban schools exist, but there aren't enough of them, hence there is intense competition to get into goo
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by otoburb 10y ago
Something similar happened to me with an old location-enabled iPad. The iPad was showing up in a different country, and I was flummoxed on how to proceed as I didn't feel my local police department was going to follow-up with separate
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by otoburb 10y ago
From your article: "IBM has spent the past couple of years undertaking a massive turnaround effort to transition from its servers and services business model to one focused more on cloud, security, analytics, and mobile. That turnarou
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The visualization is known as a chord diagram[1][2], and these particular ones generated by Echo Nest show repetitions in the analyzed songs (e.g. chorus lines). A circle is a good starting visualization because there is a linear progressio
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by otoburb 10y ago
I'm not a lawyer. However, the amicus brief[1] is pretty good reading and addresses your scenario above with a locked box, vault or safe. In those instances, the "content" doesn't change (hence the decryption argument do
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"The Fifth Amendment privilege against compelled self-incrimination protects “testimonial” communications. Testimonial communications are those that require a person to use “the contents of his own mind” to communicate some fact. Test
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Similar, but not quite the same if you learned Korean more than 20 years ago. Evidently younger Koreans do not distinguish much between the two sounds.[1] [1] http://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/2619/how
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>> somehow the timers marked me an hour faster then I really was for example, I might not correct them. People are more likely to draw the moral line in the sand when the error in your favour goes so far as to bump a legitimate winne
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Preschool can provide a boost, but the gains can fade surprisingly fast(washingtonpost.com)
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>> Before I became an engineer I practiced IP/copyright law. I'm sure there's a story there since I would have thought the usual direction, even for a small aggregate number of eventual engineer-patent attorney pairing
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Thank you for this. I'm curious if IMDB considers their (soon to be former) forum posts under copyright, or if you already have a plan in place. One actually hopes that IMDB doesn't in fact have any claim on posts written by users
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>> I will anyways be charged in my home country for foreign income, I think. For most countries in the world if you are not considered a resident then you usually are not taxed on foreign income. A counterexample is the USA, as Ame

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