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by rm445 14y ago
At a guess, transistors on a die.
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by rm445 14y ago
In practice the manager/director is billable at a higher rate and has some hours on every project, if only reviewing the work. But you're right in the general case, that a company whose income is from billed hours needs to bill enough to co
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by rm445 14y ago
I think you skipped a few. The logical next step is, "Think your CV is crap? And your interview skills are worse? No, they accurately represent your terrible job performance!"
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by rm445 14y ago
Mainly research and education. MINIX is meant to be (though I haven't read the code since the first edition printed in Tanenbaum's book) a clean, simple project for students and researchers to begin hacking on easily . In this day and age,
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by rm445 14y ago
I was just really confused. Is it or isn't it the same OXO who have been producing stock cubes since the 19th century (and built the highly-visible OXO tower in London)? On searching, it appears not to be, and the US OXO brand was 'invented
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by rm445 14y ago
It might help you to know that 'id' is a real word, part of the mind (in Freud's theory) along with the ego and super-ego. Many apologies if this is patronising, just the way you wrote rhymes with lid rather than just the word id made me un
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by rm445 14y ago
How did you miss the dripping sarcasm there?
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by rm445 14y ago
The qualitative difference with the 17 and 24-year relationships is that they're ongoing. The implication is that some people pair for life, with the wedding not being the critical factor, while someone with a string of few-year relationshi
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by rm445 14y ago
'A' startup? As the article notes, there have been several attempts already and no clear winner. Some observations about the online dating industry. There's a market opportunity - money has traditionally been made from dating/introduction s
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by rm445 14y ago
Even if you buy into it from a business perspective, putting 10(+)% of your time into interviewing is quite a change of role. It must really bite when you're busy, especially if, as in the article, your team-mates aren't doing interviews.
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by rm445 14y ago
I work for a mechanical engineering firm that has a 3D printer. It is used for the engineers to prototype mechanical designs (you'd be amazed just how much easier it is to design even simple mechanisms with a model in your hands), and also
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by rm445 14y ago
I think your assumption that good physics == not fake does not hold for certain classes of faking, i.e. simulating the collision first and modifying the ball positions (or creating one or both balls wholesale) to match. I mention this not t
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by rm445 14y ago
No, they are Z-expressions. No-one has a problem with the S programming language co-existing with S-expressions.
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by rm445 14y ago
I believe it is a one-time $37 investment, not monthly. If I understood the discussion elsewhere in this thread, he states that the investment is a form that gets converted to $37 worth of shares at the next fundraising valuation. So if you
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by rm445 14y ago
It's interesting that you can't tell the difference. You are not talking to parent poster, you are typing text into a box while alone in room. You can't see his(?) facial expressions, change the subject, comment on things taking place ar
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by rm445 14y ago
Bear in mind what he actually did was write notes after 2 days, hold them unpublished for over a year, and then post them with updates and commentary. Besides, it's ridiculous fish, his notes on two days of Haskell would probably be well wo
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by rm445 14y ago
Yowch. That's a pretty extreme interpretation of the guy's words. Especially as you refuse to let him deny it by stating in advance that a denial would be false.
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by rm445 14y ago
But My Documents is one level below your homedir. Your homedir equivalent on windows (since Windws XP) is /Documents and Settings/username, or the modern shortened equivalent. That has subdirectories for documents and application settings.
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by rm445 14y ago
Slightly offbeat question about this article: does it seem strange that the featured apprentice, good at maths, was planning to go to university to study International Relations? Of course, she's just one person so it could be pure chance,
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by rm445 14y ago
Last time this was discussed, people posted excerpts from Craigslist's terms, in which the user grants Craigslist the right to (i) Use their post, (ii) defend against others copying it. So, I haven't verified it, but the idea seems to be th
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by rm445 14y ago
You may not be aware that the truth is not an absolute defence against libel under English law. Not only do you have to prove what you wrote was true, you also have to prove it was in the public interest to publish it.
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by rm445 14y ago
Glasses Direct seems quite popular. Though from what I have read, it looks like the UK opticians market has already been disrupted more than the US one has - in the last decade or two, war between retailers made it possible to get cheap spe
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by rm445 14y ago
Why would they address him with a title he didn't possess? And why would that be demeaning? Academics tend to guard jealously their hard-won academic titles, and also to strive for accuracy in the things they do. An unsolicited 'Dr' might b
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by rm445 14y ago
C needn't be the only credible option in its domain forever. There is another axis of 'badness', other than suitability for the problem domain. C's main problem is features that look fine but might subtly invoke wrong behaviour - the infamo
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by rm445 14y ago
Perhaps it is falsifiable. Perhaps there is some object with a fractal property that would be enormously expensive to compute, but that nature can determine without computation. Perhaps such an object could be produced, and it could be show
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by rm445 14y ago
*THE Unix developer.
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by rm445 14y ago
You would hope in the long term it would mean that everyone could write code that is relevant to their job, and automate tasks where possible. I suspect this company is just trying to spread awareness throughout the company of what the code
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by rm445 15y ago
Also, you could declare variables at the start of any block in C, not just the start of a function, prior to C99.
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by rm445 15y ago
I have a 6-month old 1080p TV that apparently has no way to disable overscan. Poor purchasing decision I'll grant (though it is a decent TV), but my point is this area can still be a minefield.
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by rm445 15y ago
A surprisingly fragile company. There are plenty of thriving car hire companies (and yes, you can hire high-end vehicles).

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