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by sown 17y ago
I think that Obama's prize was because of his work on nuclear weapons http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09...
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by sown 17y ago
I was just trying to be helpful.
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by sown 17y ago
I'm talking about some producer at Fox who wanted to do the same thing. The FAA said no and then 9/11 happened. And it was 1999, not 2001, my mistake.
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by sown 17y ago
Neat! I wonder if he had to do a bunch of quiz answers first, though.
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by sown 17y ago
Yes. And the examples won't always work on modern linux distros depending on configuration
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by sown 17y ago
For a lot of these tutorials to work, you also have to turn off SELinux or any other stack protection.
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by sown 17y ago
I also can't help but notice that some of the interview questions were confusing or misleading when taken into context with the other questions. The engineer says that he got lost when she mentions ads might have a 25% click through rate bu
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by sown 17y ago
I seem to remember that a similar enterprising young woman who made myspace designs who almost or did have all of her money (~1million) taken from her by the state because of something about child labor laws, taxes or something. I would jus
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by sown 17y ago
I think it was more about how they treated her. or at least her perception of how they were treating her.
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by sown 17y ago
> I'm sorry but if you think that Gmail earns only She qualifies it with "a real number?" comment and I think she was wondering if they wanted a "solid number" > I suspect not at Google though. I dunno but it's a big corporation now
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by sown 17y ago
There was a similar effort in the US in the summer of 2001. We all know now what happens when a plane crashes.
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by sown 17y ago
I've always felt that as an engineer I don't know how to handle or maneuver through office politics.
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by sown 17y ago
You could try and make membership a bit harder to achieve, similar to how demonoid will open and close memberships occasionally and have allowed them to maintain their unique culture (to say nothing of torrents).
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by sown 17y ago
Well, it is a good product and I will probably keep using them.
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by sown 17y ago
No I think you mis understood me. Being best-of-best isn't good enough, either. They've got to throw in some other random elements to make it look...I dunno, fair, different, genuine? I just fail to see how being an expert viola player or a
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by sown 17y ago
Yeah, I know.
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by sown 17y ago
I'm not arguing that everyone is equal. What I am saying is that it is almost but not quite discrimination. I can't control with total fidelity what school I get in no matter how good a student I might be -- ie, if I'm good enough to go to
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by sown 17y ago
>* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from a top-tier institution. I always hated this requirement. I'm sorry if I don't have the right pedigree to satisfy people like this. I'm sorry I didn't go to the "right" school, wasn't born
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by sown 17y ago
I'm not sure what he means by "AS A PRODUCT." If it had failed in the areas he praised but succeeded in the areas he slams would it still have failed? Is this just a list of cons?
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by sown 17y ago
What about cost reduction -- less than 1 pilot per plane, there only to monitor situations that require a human?
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by sown 17y ago
This would be very useful for WoW.
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Cost of cracking passwords with Amazon EC2(news.electricalchemy.net)
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by sown 17y ago
One one hand it is still part of the system he dislikes. He takes what he can and doesn't "give" anything back. Some might call him a moocher. The idea of profit as inherently evil seems like saying atomic power is also such. On the other,
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Everything is amazing and no one is happy(youtube.com)
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by sown 17y ago
I'm wondering if this is one of those situations where people are expected to take responsibility for these duties but aren't given the power or recognition to do so. >Over time, the aggregated actions and values of an institution’s fac
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by sown 17y ago
Live light, save, save, save, live in Oakland or Dublin and use the BART time to read or something; consider riding a bicycle and ditching a car. Just live like you're poor and save as much as you can.
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by sown 17y ago
If it doesn't help next quarter's or Fiscal year's numbers then I think most people don't care. :(
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by sown 17y ago
It is not as if there is something magically american about these robots. Other nations can and do build their own military robots. Also, they are not cheap. They, as of now, require personnel to operate. I wouldn't worry about an army of a
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Boston Dynamics makes bi-ped robot(gizmodo.com)
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Google Maps seemed to have changed(maps.google.com)
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