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by rdancer 11y ago
This is socialism. Paying wages that are 50k over the market creates enormous incentives for corruption. The CEO seems to be a devout Christian, and I want to hope that all the employees are strongly moral people, but to paraphrase the pa
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by rdancer 11y ago
If you use printf-like function without precise understanding semantics, you're asking for trouble. No amount of careful design is going to change that.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Right on!
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by rdancer 11y ago
I would hope The Martian would get a do-over by a professional editor. As it is, its translations will forever be better than the English original.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Have you ever tried Hemingway's own works with that? It is... instructive[1]. [1] http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10416
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by rdancer 11y ago
The more you write, the better you get. Your first ten thousand pages are going to be shit anyway, so better get them out of your system before you start publishing. For the sake of your editor, if not for the sake of your readers.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Tl;dr is an antipattern, and it's easy to see why. Lead with a strong point. Pique youre reader's interest. Then , and only then, will they lap up your wall of text. Tl;dr is a gag, a joke, mockery of bad writing style. If yo
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by rdancer 11y ago
You have to love how posts critical of these cunts get buried almost immediately. Kudos to the astroturfers, whoever you are, hope you get paid well!
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by rdancer 11y ago
Yep, that AS is Google: $ whois 2a00:1450:4009:80c::200d [snip] inet6num: 2a00:1450::/29 netname: IE-GOOGLE-20091005 descr: Google Ireland Limited country: IE org: O
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by rdancer 11y ago
No.
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by rdancer 11y ago
So, you have two vids, and none of them actually shows what their caption says? Daily Fail at its finest.
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by rdancer 11y ago
I'm not sure he'd begin every White House briefing with "Hi, in case you don't know who I work for...".
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by rdancer 11y ago
Is gunshot-induced heart failure, along with a dozen gunshot wounds in the chest area, really painless?
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by rdancer 11y ago
What valuable business skills are you gonna learn working at that fast-food establishment?
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by rdancer 11y ago
Dealing with people and organizations who don't take lessons of history seriously is very easy: take note, and outcompete them without breaking a sweat. Let them fail! This is one of the respects in which capitalism is unequivocally a
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by rdancer 11y ago
It is sad that the NYT editorial standards are so weak, and they have cried wolf so many times (e.g. Apple suppliers' working conditions). They used to be a broadsheet with an opinion; now I don't know what they are :-(
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by rdancer 11y ago
It's badly composed, not inexcusable.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Following your reasoning, if an employee's story is used to prop up a hit piece in the national paper of record (the irony!), providing important context serves the readers, the public, and current & prospective employees. But I ge
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by rdancer 11y ago
You pretty much have to give equity for that kind of risk, because the interest on bonds you could sell would not be commensurate with the projected cashflow. But "betting the company" doesn't mean in this case that the compa
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by rdancer 11y ago
VR headsets have been here since the 1990's, and nothing ever came of it, despite the tons of productions shots from the point of view of the male performer. Even 3D is extremely rare. Better fidelity and added depth perception do not
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by rdancer 11y ago
It's a bell curve.
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by rdancer 11y ago
What you need to do is hire extra 25 people, and then you can have 4 black women, which is exactly 3.2%. But perhaps we should stop kidding ourselves and admit that being a technologist is a calling, not a career, and this shapes the talent
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by rdancer 11y ago
Because in America, your opinions are only valid as far as your credentials. For example, if you have dark skin, your opinions on black Americans are valid, if you're autistic, your opinions on mentally ill Americans are valid, if you&
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by rdancer 11y ago
If you care about hackability, you can buy a completely open hardware development board for under $100 delivered. That's roughly $45 in 1985 US dollars. Android device makers from China maybe haven't been told about their own inab
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by rdancer 11y ago
Get acquainted with the magic of public key cryptography code signing.
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by rdancer 11y ago
If only weren't they lapping it up so eagerly, if only weren't they asking for seconds!
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by rdancer 11y ago
Far it be from any person to do things just because they can. They're all saints w/o blemish, protestants at that (i.e. they don't enjoy the work, rather they suffer with their victims). Whatever the job description, you will
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by rdancer 11y ago
facts > guesswork
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by rdancer 11y ago
Never mind creating & funding both Taliban and ISIS in the first place.
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by rdancer 11y ago
The only "mistake" about it was the failure to contain the blowback.

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