skurry

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by skurry 15y ago
In my personal experience, the hard part for a beginner is not the actual programming, but the environment. Fussing with the command line to compile and link a program, or setting up system environment variables, class paths etc. pp. can be
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by skurry 15y ago
What’s happen if the market went down and I sold it after 5-10 years for a 25% loss? In that case I’d be more or less breaking even, since the money I spent was spent on an investment (an unfortunate one), but not entirely lost as if I had
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by skurry 15y ago
Eh, do you have an agreement with Craigslist? It looks like your app is in direct violation of 12b of their Terms of Service, plus the name of your app is a pretty obvious trademark infringement. The screenshots looks nice though. Good luck
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by skurry 15y ago
So this is why Big Media is freaking out. Anyone with a MacBook and a Shure SM58 mic can record a studio quality album, and anyone with a Canon 5D on a shoulder rig can produce professional quality video. The Internet replaces the studios'
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by skurry 15y ago
Sounds like it was written by someone in a hurry. Or maybe by someone who had made the observation that the time invested in crafting a thorough job posting does not correlate significantly with the quality of applicants to said ad? In an
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by skurry 15y ago
I just saw today that Oakland is in the top 5 of the most dangerous cities in the US. I know those Top Anything lists have to be taken with a grain of salt, but Oakland seems to be in the (local) news constantly, and it's mostly not good ne
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by skurry 15y ago
Very inspiring story. Best part is when they discovered that all their four demo units had been damaged during transport to the debug trade show: "They got three of them working, but the forth one proved damaged beyond repair. Thinking quic
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by skurry 15y ago
I wonder if it's possible that it was a MongoDB glitch and not a user error. From what I've read, it's notorious for randomly losing records. Maybe the loop save triggered it?
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by skurry 15y ago
Maybe this says more about me than about the author of that blog post, but if I got an email like this from my "friend and boss", I'd be thinking hard about my future with this "company".
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by skurry 15y ago
Given Groupon's published payment terms, this article is a little odd: http://www.groupon.com/pages/merchant-terms-of-service-1 (see 4.3). It seems they're paying merchants only after coupons have been redeemed. So in reality, merchants g
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by skurry 15y ago
Right, stop using those "complicated" built-in date processing functions and instead roll your own. What could possibly go wrong? Storing a number that's only meaningful when defining it somewhere outside of the database is much more fun! F
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by skurry 15y ago
"Trimming a bloated ship" made me immediately think of layoffs. Then I read the article, and the tone was quite different, it looks like he's just re-focusing efforts and killing unpopular projects. IMO, "Me Too" products only make sense if
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by skurry 15y ago
The odds that I exist, per my definition ("cogito ergo sum"), are 100%. It's a cute idea, but it doesn't really make sense. It's like asking, what are the odds that this pile of sand is structured exactly the way it is now?
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by skurry 15y ago
By market forces I mean supply and demand. And you have correctly noted that these have a secondary role in CEO pay negotiations. Instead, it's a question of power and indifference. Where does this power come from? It stems from the fact th
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by skurry 15y ago
Regarding human talent, we both can't prove either standpoint, so we'll just leave it at that. Welfare is not the only solution to this problem. If minimum wage is not enough to allow a single mother to pay for child care, then we should ju
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by skurry 15y ago
The board of directors decides if a CEO gets hired, and for how much money. Often this board consists of presidents and CEOs of other companies. Is it very far-fetched to suspect that there may be non-market forces at work when this compens
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by skurry 15y ago
Believe it or not, there are still working blacksmiths and horse carriage drivers. But that's beside my point. My point was that the author of the article assumes that with enough work and educational opportunity, anyone can join the merito
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by skurry 15y ago
Not everyone is cut out for a high-paying white collar job. Some people are passionate about doing construction work, driving a truck across the country, or even waiting tables. Or maybe one of these profession is most in line with their ph
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by skurry 15y ago
Learning how to write code is actually fairly easy. Kids can do it. The hard part is to write code that doesn't make your co-workers hate your guts because they have to maintain it. I'd recommend getting a copy of McConnell's "Code Complete
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by skurry 15y ago
Why do you think so? I have omitted one case: The two year requirement might also apply if the visitor is from a developing country and his skill is needed in that country, but there are very few European countries on that list. Source: ht
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by skurry 15y ago
The absence rule only applies if you're in the medical field, or if the J-1 included got a government sponsorship.
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by skurry 15y ago
Not sure if that's good advice. Committing immigration fraud and lying to border officials can get you in serious trouble (18 U.S.C. § 1001). Not only you, but also the company that's paying for your services. It's only a matter of time unt