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by rodrodrod 13y ago
Link to the talk, for convenience: http://youtu.be/Ss_RWctTARU Fun watch indeed!
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by rodrodrod 13y ago
Wait, what? There's no way that's a valid legal argument. That's insane.
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by rodrodrod 13y ago
This is crazy cool! I love these "science at home" kind of experiments.
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by rodrodrod 13y ago
I like Mint. Not a fan of having to connect to your bank accounts, as you've pointed out, but the convenience factor weighs more heavily in my case. I've heard good things about YNAB ( http://www.youneedabudget.com/
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by rodrodrod 13y ago
Have you considered contributing to LiteratePrograms[0] (or such) instead? This is great practice, and I encourage you to go for it, but for those interested in looking at algorithms implementations, or looking to cut their teeth and contri
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by rodrodrod 13y ago
"They" can be either singular or plural. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they Women are not underrepresented in technology because of male-gendered pronouns in code comments. I don't think
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by rodrodrod 13y ago
I wouldn't, for the most part. Not saying that it would or wouldn't work out, but I don't feel comfortable with doing that. Going through friends who might know someone there could help, as that way you wouldn't be a com
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by rodrodrod 13y ago
Yeap. Being on the employed side of things now, I've had acquaintances reach out to me with questions about the company/work/culture and ask me to pass their resume along. It's only a few minutes of my time and people ar
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by rodrodrod 13y ago
Glad this didn't go through. The White Knights of tech are getting a bit over their heads on this. One thing is to raise awareness of a problem that exists throughout society -- not just tech, a whole different one is to go
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by rodrodrod 13y ago
Explain xkcd has a good writeup on how to recover some of the user passwords given the the encrypted password db, for those curious: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1286:_Encryp...
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by rodrodrod 13y ago
He does mention in another post: "To be clear, I don’t mean to trivialize anyone else’s experience or claim mine as an authentic representation of what food insecurity looks like." I'm pretty sure he's well aware of all
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by rodrodrod 13y ago
I don't think the challenge is "what's it like to live as the average person who depends on food stamps" but rather "what's it like (even provided all of the other luxuries in my life) to feed myself for $30 a