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by slavak 14y ago
As someone who has had some contact - both second- and first-hand - with the court system (albeit not the American one), this is extremely heartening. Most people can't imagine how ass-backwards some judges' decisions can be. It's refreshin
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by slavak 14y ago
I think the key difference here is differentiating between a "software engineer" and a "programmer." It's a very blurry line, but the idea should shed some new light on arguments of the form "I've never used college calculus to develop web-
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by slavak 14y ago
To be fair, the big issue with current two-wheeled vehicles is hardly their bad safety against side collisions. There's a (different) reason medical personnel refer to them as "donorcycles"...
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by slavak 14y ago
This was what I thought they were talking about when I saw the headline. I assumed this was an amused look back on the good ol' days. I never did understand why anyone ever thought the Segway would revolutionize anything. I don't see the bi
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by slavak 14y ago
Because you've in essence bypassed the entire checked-exception system anyway?
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by slavak 14y ago
Wow! That is in fact creepy as fuck.
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by slavak 14y ago
I've been to & heard of plenty of startups doing cutting edge things and using .NET. Maybe a geographical thing?
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by slavak 14y ago
I think some of those are pushing it quite a bit... Printed books aren't going anywhere in the foreseeable future (and I'm pretty sure all young people know what they are, even if they're not really into reading); the (Exchange-connected Vo
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by slavak 14y ago
What year is this? I was sure the world had long since moved on to entirely digital projection. I for one can't remember the last time I saw the "end-of-reel" spots on a movie in the cinema. Are reel projectors actually widely used still?
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by slavak 14y ago
Appeal to authority can be a perfectly valid inductive method when used as a statistical syllogism. It is only a fallacy in the realm of formal logic, where the truth or falsehood of a statement is independent of its source. This is a commo
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by slavak 14y ago
All due respect, I've been unable to take Atwood very seriously after I read this[1], and, shortly afterwards, this[2]. [1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/software-engineerin... [2] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/11/your
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by slavak 14y ago
Cookies don't cross site boundaries - e.g., cnn.com can't read a cookie set by foxnews.com. Just to emphasize that this is meant to demonstrate privacy risks, not to be taken as a feature suggestion...
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by slavak 15y ago
Yes. The government agency is worse. Ask yourself this: Whom is this agency over-sighted by?
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by slavak 15y ago
Black Hawk Down was an incredibly lucky (for the Somalians) accident that, if memory serves, was enabled by the combination of huge, close-by targets holding perfectly still, and a whole crap-load of rockets fired into the air. All this is
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by slavak 15y ago
I've been using this method since elementary school. It's funny to see someone mention something that seemed like such a "private trick."
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by slavak 15y ago
You probably meant to say "making laws against things that have actual victims," but this came out oddly appropriate...
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by slavak 15y ago
This is great. I'm going to apply for and get a job at a company advertising for "ninjas," then not let my boss know when I'm taking vacation or a sick day - just so when he calls to ask where I am, I can reply with "Well, you did say y
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by slavak 15y ago
Do you really see many talented programmers submitting to the process you're suggesting? Interviewing is a two-way street. While you're trying to figure out my coding skills, I'm trying to figure out if I'm interested in what your company d
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by slavak 15y ago
I find a good rule of thumb for any kind of negotiation is this: Don't bluff - be actually prepared to walk away if you're not getting the deal you want. You don't have to walk away in a huff - being super nice about it is fine. If it gets
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by slavak 15y ago
What, am I seriously the first one to say this? I don't care what this thing is supposed to be used for; I want one!
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by slavak 15y ago
I for one would be grateful if an interviewer asked me this kind of question. It gives me an instant and unambiguous indication that this is not a place I want to work, saving me a lot of wasted time - and God forbid if I'd otherwise actu
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by slavak 15y ago
Personally I always preferred the mathematician's method for catching a lion in the Sahara...
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by slavak 15y ago
Wow. Finally my country places high on an important list!
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by slavak 15y ago
Not only that, but if I'm reading the article correctly the ruling only refers to turning on the phone in order to find out its number. They didn't actually rifle through the phone's phone-book, call history, or anything of the sort.
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by slavak 15y ago
No, but good job on buying the copyright lobby's threat-mongering.
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by slavak 15y ago
How is Convergence different from the Perspectives add-on[1]? I ask because I honestly don't see any significant advantage to one over the other. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/perspectives/
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New Google doodle in honor of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz(washingtonpost.com)
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by slavak 15y ago
'Allow foreign phone companies to charge fees for "international" Internet traffic' Your honour, I present exhibit #1 as evidence that the accused has no grasp of the way the intrawebs works.
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by slavak 15y ago
Your way sounds great. Unfortunately, in practice this system is usually used to raise prices outside the US for countries where the public is used to paying more for stuff - not the other way around. Anyway, I was mostly referring not to
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by slavak 15y ago
To be totally frank, I don't really understand the legal requirements from this. Do I really have to comply with all of a country's laws in order to allow its citizens to purchase electronic goods from my online storefront (assuming I have

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