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by rdouble 13y ago
I interviewed for a hedge fund once where my job interview was to write a program that exploited a security flaw like this to make a real time model of what people were paying for diamonds.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Know anyone who needs an iOS developer in Tahoe?
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by rdouble 13y ago
How much would it have cost them to save the old hard drives on 600 servers? Not much. over $100,000 based on a very conservative and unrealistic estimate only factoring in the cost of removing and installing 600 hard drives.
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by rdouble 13y ago
It must be for the brand, because Stratasys already has the technology to make 3D printers. It's also defensive, because it's an all stock deal, so the acquired team has to stay at Stratasys for a while (and not be/work for t
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by rdouble 13y ago
One can definitely learn how to draw well enough to be a web designer in 30 days. Although for most people, I'm not sure only 1/2 hour per day is enough practice, as claimed in the article. Then again, that might be plenty of prac
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by rdouble 13y ago
Super king burgers, reality TV, NFL, wrestling, facebook, MTV, in essence all pop culture is SOMA of nowadays soylent, youtube, hacker news, reddit, 4chan and other internet pop culture, some of which are actually made in SOMA nowadays.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Food stamps were meant to be demeaning. Being poor is considered a moral failing in the USA.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The slogan was probably more about not being like Microsoft, which was the top example of a successful software firm at the time, and was considered pretty evil.
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by rdouble 13y ago
In small towns any car dealer will do that.
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by rdouble 13y ago
surely one should be able to expect a member of congress to possess sufficient intelligence Knowing the history of and present state of congress, I don't know why anyone would expect that.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The only gun bills Obama has signed into law are the ones making it legal to carry guns in national parks and in checked Amtrak baggage.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The House is stuffed with politicians who appeal to their constituency. Unfortunately, the area Bachmann is from is filled with people who are similar to her.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Is that true though? What prevents NSA employees from participating in the market? It's still basically legal for members of Congress to participate in insider trading. It seems like a public corporation would be more likely to be requ
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by rdouble 13y ago
Sure, it's theoretically possible but you'd have to try pretty hard to hit your head falling off a dutch bike. Anyone who manages that should probably not be riding a bike in the first place.
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by rdouble 13y ago
In the USA people tend to ride bikes with frame designs inspired by either road or mountain racing bikes. This type of bike geometry makes it easy to get thrown over the handlebars and land on your head should you have an accident. However,
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by rdouble 13y ago
IMO, Retina is mostly useful if your job is creating Retina enabled assets for iOS devices. Personally I would recommend a maxed out air over a MBP. I do iOS development, web development and music production on a 3 year old MBA. That said,
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by rdouble 13y ago
I guess I don't use mail or music or phone. Maybe I'm a weird user. iMessage is brighter, and the animations are janky at the moment. The clock redesign is annoying. It looks terrible. The new APIs available are great but I'm
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by rdouble 13y ago
I've been using it on my phone for the past week and in practice there is no difference.
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by rdouble 13y ago
In practice it's no brighter than iOS 6.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Where does one have a bonfire in Mountain View?
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by rdouble 13y ago
Nobody is going to answer "no" to this question besides an A player who has a lot of other options.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Also, three of the companies he mentioned have CS majors as co-founders.
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by rdouble 13y ago
You could do that, but I wasn't specifically talking about Taleo or similar systems. When I was on the hiring end, we just got resumes via email and didn't read the cover letter.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Wall Street money made NYC a lot nicer and safer. The tech industry hasn't done the same to SF.
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by rdouble 13y ago
but added very little regarding NSA spying. Well, he did clarify that Google, Facebook et al don't provide "direct access."
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by rdouble 13y ago
No.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Cosmetologist / Apprenticeship PH 4.5 August 2011 – Present (1 year 11 months) Old Towne Alexandria, VA The all seeing eye of the world's most powerful government is staffed by beauty school drop outs? Is this for realsies?
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by rdouble 13y ago
New York does build hideous 75 story apartment buildings and they don't bring down the rent.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I've found the same thing is true about NYC. There are loads of free and cheap things to do. Especially during the summer. Much more so than most other US cities, where everything is pay-to-play and you have to pay for driving and park
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by rdouble 13y ago
Most of those places are gone except for the ones that are actually in the back of a shop or a restaurant. Due to the peculiarities of Chinatown real estate, there are now quite a few buildings redone into condos, sold only to other Chinese

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