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by pacaro 9y ago
There are also stories of employees wearing pins that said FYIFV as a warning that their tolerance of BS was low (Fuck You I'm Fully Vested)
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by pacaro 9y ago
I was only there 1999 to 2013, so I didn't directly experience it, although there were still plenty of "Microsoft Volunteers" when I started. A friend who was there through much of the 90s used to remark that it was great whe
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by pacaro 9y ago
Microsoft is pretty close too. Founded in 1975, issued stock in 1981 (5% to an investor, the rest to founders and employees), IPO in 1986 Source: http://www.techntechie.com/early-investors-in-microsoft-you-...
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Dropbox transparency report(blogs.dropbox.com)
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by pacaro 9y ago
Fortunately not, I mostly finished the colour port. And then Brother cancelled the contract (or at least didn't choose us for the colour device). I still see Ran from time to time (we're both at Amazon)
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by pacaro 9y ago
Humans can drive perfectly well with monocular vision. Plenty of people either only have one eye, or don't integrate 3D for some reason. The variance on human driving ability is higher than we would accept from a machine, but I have tw
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by pacaro 9y ago
Hahaha, me too, but the old Word format really is as bad as everyone says, and we were trying to build a system with formal correspondence from spec to code (and sometimes from spec to proof to code), so having a "cobbled" togethe
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by pacaro 9y ago
For real. On Palladium/NGSCB there was a strong effort to maintain correspondence between documentation and code, to the point that there was an effort to have header files be generated directly from the specs, which were Word docs. Th
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by pacaro 9y ago
I joined STNC in October 97, so moved in the opposite direction, starting in Bury St Edmunds and moving to Cambridge after the acquisition!
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by pacaro 9y ago
I (briefly) had to write code to run on GeoWorks GEOS. The code was written in a dialect of C with object oriented features that was compiled from .goc and .goh files to .c files in a manner similar to cfront. It was not a pleasant experien
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by pacaro 9y ago
I also had to vouch it back, there appears to be a concerted effort to flag this.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Your linked article has the one thing that TFA is missing, one image with all the logos on it. Thank you
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by pacaro 9y ago
Most bars (in my experience) have a pretty good selection of sunglasses/hats/umbrellas that have been inadvertently left there in the past.
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by pacaro 9y ago
I don't believe that Soviet era military doctrine recognized mutually assured destruction.
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by pacaro 9y ago
The question is not whether a banana is vegan, but whether it constitutes a meal. In particular, think of this in the context of the customer experience.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Here's an anecdote. My wife, flying first class, specified when purchasing the ticket that she is vegan; the meal they provided: a banana.
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by pacaro 9y ago
It would appear that the author is trying to post as noopkat and has been declared dead (new account?)
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by pacaro 9y ago
I've encountered academic code that implements the state of art, most efficient, algorithm for solving some problem. The code that comes to mind had the following properties: over 20 years old; written in C and badly converted to C++ s
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by pacaro 9y ago
I'm trying to teach myself foot juggling (a.k.a. keepie uppie), fundamentally it's not hard, it just takes a lot of practice. Many of my friends growing up were really good at it. I could never understand how they were so good and
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by pacaro 9y ago
Downtown Seattle can be a real pain to drive through at certain times of the day. Only a handful of cars can turn right at any given intersection because of the solid wall of pedestrians crossing. In the U.K. it is normal to have specific p
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by pacaro 9y ago
I am suggesting that there is no "one size fits all" solution. This isn't a problem that is amenable to simplistic solutions. Be careful with your presumptions, we're all strangers here.
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by pacaro 9y ago
This is also a very narrow view of "disability", there are many reasons why someone may not be willing or able to ride a bike, not all of them are met by suggesting that those people should use a hand cycle or electric wheelchair.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Lots of people think that the answer is "badly", but we don't really know. My personal experience (I'm 44) is that I've been offered every job I've interviewed for, passed every phone screen etc. Many older dev
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by pacaro 9y ago
Thanks for the answer. For myself, it is easy to forget this reality. Once your career is bootstrapped the story changes so much. I've changed employers only 4 times in 23 years, one of those was an acquisition, and the other three tim
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by pacaro 9y ago
The article touches on the relationship between Phosphorus and Lucifer, it's also noteworthy that Phosphorus was the name given to Venus when appearing as the Morning Star (as the Evening Star it was Hesperus)
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by pacaro 9y ago
this is fun! It's noteworthy that the first image in TFA doesn't have obvious signs of tampering in that tool
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by pacaro 9y ago
he answered no to the question "Have you ever been arrested"
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by pacaro 9y ago
Whether there is DRM on a kindle book is the publishers decision. For example, none of Tor Books' titles have DRM which means you can extract the beautiful screen resolution illustrations from Brandon Sanderson's books. Disclaimer
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by pacaro 9y ago
Horrible though this is, it's (bizarrely) better than the pre-ESTA alternative. My brother was denied entry to the US in 2003 while traveling on a visa waiver. At this point he was detained (without access to counsel) until a suitable
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by pacaro 9y ago
Note: All my information re: Microsoft is from no later than 2013. This is indicative of a classic challenge in the industry. To ship code that uses crypto at Microsoft you have to go through an auditing process. To ship code that uses nove

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