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by setrofim_ 13y ago
This distinction only matters if the government can't subpoena private entities to hand over the footage whenever they want. (Note: I have no idea how easy it is for the government to obtain private CCTV footage in practice -- just pointing
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
> is there some sort of financial instrument a company could buy (or sell) which would incentivize them to take a longer-term view of their own performance? I think restricted stock is basically that.
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
None of which suggests that the stated rules (or "guidelines", if you prefer) are "more opinion than fact". Yes, they are not as strict as rules of, say, mathematics; and you won't be thrown in jail by the grammar police for braking them. H
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
I'm pretty sure he has the ability (and even makes a game out it[1]). What Schneier is saying is that U.S. citizens should not let the country's policy be dictated by panic blown-out-proportion reactions to imaginary threats. [1] http://ww
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
You're right but that's precisely the point -- what matters to your safety is the probability, not how much control you feel you have. Yes, you can do more to mitigate the risk of being in a car accident than to mitigate the risk of being a
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
Don't you think that by showing that you have negotiation skills, even by employing more or less obvious ploys, you actually show the other part you can play the game just as well as they can? ...so they can stop trying to out-game you and
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
Isn't that what explainxkcd.com is for?
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
It seems to me that some of these (e.g. "always flinch at the first offer") will be immediately seen as obvious negotiating ploys and will make the other party question (or even dismiss) anything else you might have to say.
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
It's a form of intimidation. Like when someone is blackmailing you and says "...or if you're uncomfortable with this then, you know, we can always talk to police about it".
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
From educational perspective, C# is kinda messy. It had a lot of the things bolted on over the versions. Don't get me wrong, most of those things are useful, and it is nice to have them in the language, but it does make the language more co
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Damaging The Internet Is Not Acceptable Collateral Damage In The Copyright Wars(techdirt.com)
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
4) Speak to your GP and see if you can get help. Speech therapy isn't perfect, but it can help +1. I used to have a colleague with a pretty bad stammer. He attended speech therapy sessions during the time that we worked together and there
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
so how will new things be added justified by use, once all the existing pre-digital glyphs have been added? I see two possible scenarios: 1. They won't be. Instead, existing glyphs will become increasingly overloaded with new meanings. 2.
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Ask HN: RSS Feed Sync (Google Reader alternatives)?
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White House Asks China to Stop Hacking, "What Hacking?" Says China(thebrief.io)
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
> and you can't really save any articles for later reading without upvoting check out http://www.readability.com/addons
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
> Harry? Oh yeah, good lad. Surely, that should be "good old chap", if P.G. Wodehouse taught us anything ;-)
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
This is the first resource the article mentions.
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
Also, Project Euler for "Practice Exercises and Projects", and vim+python-mode and geany for IDE's. python-forum.org and #python on irc.freenode.org for getting specific help.
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
I don't think double-think is necessary here. You need to be passionate about what you do; but you then find a way of using that passion to take care of your well-being. It's not about pursuing one at the expense of the other (well, maybe s
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
Agreed. He also fails to control for variation in project types that languages are commonly used for. e.g. perl/bash are often used to write short scripts, where as Java is typically used for enterprise applications; so of course the commit
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
> if you're a woman planning to walk into a men's restroom, don't complain about what you hear and see Are you trying to imply that PyCon is a "boys club" and that women have no right to expect to feel comfortable being there?
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
Sad to see CNN give further validity to this non-story. Especially since it has already been established that there was no actual sexism involved.
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
Agreed. This has gotten out of hand fast. Two people now have lost their jobs over what is basically a harmless, if somewhat inappropriate, joke. And while I believe that Adria was wrong in how she reacted to that joke, and in refusing to a
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
> For the first 1-2 years of your Vim usage you will be much less efficient than your current editor because of the odd yet lovable key bindings. After about 2 years you will be proficient. Really? For me it was closer to 2 months rathe
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
> You know what kills companies? Cashflow. That, in turn, gets (eventually) impacted by innovation debt. > And do you believe this is seriously something that is killing companies left and right? No, not at all; and I don't believe
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
This is a very short-sighted view. While losing great devs will not put your company out of business over night, it may start a death spiral that it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to recover from. Hiring may be easy for you now,
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
I think what's sad here is not the desire for the respect of one's peers, but the means chosen to attain it; or rather, the arbitrarily-established mechanisms for doing so.
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/488/
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by setrofim_ 14y ago
>which they did to gain positive PR or attempt to stifle competition in those markets -- or buy those companies and shut down their existing products or, less cynically, to try them out and see what interest they would generate; shuttin

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