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by rprasad 14y ago
"Masters pending dissertation". Leave out from the resume that you do not currently plan on completing the dissertation...
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My firm's filter is claiming that there is a virus or other damaging content on your page.
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This story is actually starting to seem too suspiciously like someone pissed off the real Evan Livingston of Indiana and is now trying to drag his name through the mud online. (I'm guessing an ex or a former classmate or former coworker.) 1
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What's really unfortuante is that this guy may not be the guy with the linked name, facebook account, etc. It may be some schmuck trying to ruin some other guy's online reputation.
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Apple's only consistent quality is that it is inconsistent about its censorship. Thus, it is not only possible but likely for both the linked story and an iBookStore full of Amazon-related books to co-exist.
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This will last about a month, maybe two, before In-N-Out serves them with a cease-and-desist. It's been tried before. There were several startups that did this at Cal in 2003/2004. In-N-Out shut them down as soon as it found out what they
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Burgerto.me and TaskRabbit would be jointly and severably liable.
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Pay for it . Broadcasting the Olympics costs NBC lots of money. These deals are how they pay those costs. (And if it wasn't NBC, it would be CBS, ABC, or Fox.) One of the hazards of giving up living television is that...you give up liv
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The only one I can name off the top of my head is Apex Digital (b/c it was HQ'd close to where I grew up). Apex was competing with a Chinese state-owned agency and rejected a buyout offer. Chinese officials arrested its CEO on fraud charge
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For 80 years, America still had slavery. For 120 years, women could not vote. For almost 150 years, minorities could not exercise their constitutional rights. Assassinating American citizens who have publicly declared war on America is a
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China has done this to U.S. companies in China, repeatedly, over and over and over again. The U.S. was able to do this to a Hong Kong company only because it had an agreement with Chinese authorities (specifically, in Hong Kong as it is e
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Guys, I clearly said the article does not claim ownership of GPS. It can't, because the federal government was using GPS for that for a decade or two before the system was opened up to the private. What is covered by the patent is other a
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No, individual events in the game are largely determined by skill. In some situations, i.e., kickoffs, the location where the ball lands is subject to "luck" (because humans do not have the motor skills for the sort of precision for it to
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Generally, (based on conversations about this with HR people) the point is to filter out applicants who don't have any experience at all. They expect people with experience sufficient for the entry-level nature of the position to contact th
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I think the federal government would disagree with assertions of private ownership of the GPS system.... Which is why the patent at issue does not claim ownership of GPS. It claims ownership of a different method of location detection, som
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No, because the outcome of fantasy sports depends on the skill of the players (but is not dependent on the actual outcome of the "sport event" itself). It only becomes a matter of chance if you are betting on the result in specific statis
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Only until the Wikipedia Mafia reverts all of those changes and then bans your account for "vandalism." One of the best ways to get contacts in a field is to volunteer for an organization that does exactly, or something in the neighborhood
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Fantasy sports pools are not bets on the outcome of a contest, sports event, or game subject to chance. The point of fantasy sports is what happens during the game, specifically, the performance of individual players. The actual outcome
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The U.S. merely banned foreign corporations from offering gambling to U.S. citizens. This is perfectly legal under WTO rules and treaties . The problem was that the U.S. exempteddomestic companies from the same restriction (basically, the
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> Craigslist ToS doesn't grant them exclusive rights, thus by that judge's definition they don't have standing to sue. That is not what the judge is saying. By "exclusive" rights he does not mean wholly exclusive in the colloquial sen
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W40k was the primary inspiration for Starcraft (W40k has been around since the 80s), and the company that owned it was in talks with Blizzard for an RTS game based on the IP. However, when that deal fell through, Blizzard expanded their so
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by rprasad 14y ago
When did spam like this become acceptable on HN? It's great that its motivating people to be healthy, but there are literally dozens of superior, multi-platform options already out there, like Endomondo, MiCoach, RunKeeper, and Nike Fuel.
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Not a lie, but definitely a misrepresentation of their true offerings. Claiming support for a language on your front page does not mean "in private beta". It means you actually support that language.
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Exec also takes administrative costs out of that $100. Either way, the charity will have to train the person. But the person the charities hires is likely to come back, so that time is not wasted. The Exec worker may never come back, ren
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I know plenty of charities who would prefer the money. Manpower is freely available for most charities at least down here in SoCal (maybe people have less time to do good works up in the Bay Area?). Money, however, is the primary factor l
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There is a huge downside for this to the charity: they have to waste time training "volunteers" who will probably never come back unless they're paid to be there. Volunteers (as in, real volunteers) are much more likely to come back, minimi
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Most athletes have day jobs outside of the Olympics training season. For most Olympic athletes, especially those outside of marquee sports like swimming or gymnastics, the only sponsorhip money they will ever see if the money they get duri
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Outlook has had that since 2003, though it was not very functional until 2010. It is not enabled by default.
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Getting someone else to do your "charity" work for you is not charity...They're not volunteers b/c they're getting paid (by you) to do the work. You're not volunteering b/c you're not doing anything (and you're not even treated as making a
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Craiglist provides links to Google and MQ, which is the basis of how the Internet and WWW works. Craiglist supplies the actual address data. It would be different if Craiglist embedded the maps from GM or MQ, but in such case CL would prob

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