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by sratner 11y ago
I suspect you aren't seeing much discussion because those who have a reasonable process in place, and do not consider this situation to be as bad as everyone would have you believe, tend not to comment on it as much. For the sake of di
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by sratner 11y ago
Right; my "false" applies to the entire statement (if p then q).
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by sratner 11y ago
Yet it is certainly false that if you are able to get CS basics right, you will be any good at deep engineering.
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by sratner 11y ago
Is there a specific syntax for nested fields, such as `res.status:403`, or do you flatten the json structure for indexing purposes?
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by sratner 11y ago
Well, more accurately, you can't pay a foreign worker less than some floor set by the DoL for the given job description and location. It is unrelated to how much a given company is paying to any one of their other workers.
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by sratner 11y ago
DoL already has a process for determining prevailing wage for a given location. There is no reason why "sorting by wage" can't mean "sorting by ratio of wage to local prevailing wage".
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by sratner 11y ago
If you pay taxes, your participation is non-zero.
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by sratner 11y ago
Keepass2Android does exactly that, and additionally auto-fills password and confirmation fields when you focus them with the custom keyboard active. Very handy. ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepas
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by sratner 11y ago
My two last laptops have been from ASUS. No complaints, no problems with reliability, decent trackpads and generally solid builds (not Apple-solid, but they are also not Apple-priced as you point out). For a while, they were the only compan
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by sratner 11y ago
1. SurfaceConnect on the right edge of the base: https://dri1.img.digitalrivercontent.net/Storefront/Company/... . Same connector as the new dock.
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by sratner 12y ago
There is http://emojione.com/ .
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by sratner 12y ago
The prevailing wage data does not necessarily reflect what people are actually paid. It is the minimum required salary for the company to be able to apply for a labour certification on behalf of a foreign worker. It is obviously in the comp
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by sratner 12y ago
A bunch of data here, and not just for H-1Bs: http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm#d... [edit: for a searchable interface to this data, as well as complete approved applications, check out http:/
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by sratner 12y ago
Comparison with `null` is strange. First thing I thought of was JavaScript's `undefined`.
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by sratner 13y ago
JavaScript strings are UCS-2 or UTF-16.
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by sratner 14y ago
It is definitely annoying, however you can side-load the latest YouTube apk (you also need "Google Services" apk if you want to be able to log into your account), making the original Kindle Fire a pretty good YouTube machine. The YouTube ap
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by sratner 14y ago
A lot depends on what you are trying to achieve. In my case, for example, I wanted to group images that may have perceptually similar colours either as a dominant component or as an accent (say, a red shirt and a white shirt with red stitch
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by sratner 14y ago
> for bitmapped images, go high-resolution and let the browser scale down Wait, I should use more bandwidth than I need, and impose a client-side performance hit? What is wrong with a little CSS to serve the right assets to 1x, 1.5x and
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by sratner 14y ago
Strength of "encryption" notwithstanding, it was a fun exercise: https://github.com/simonratner/fontcrypt Perhaps of some use to those annoying coupon code sites that go to great lengths to prevent copying of the coupon code in order to f
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by sratner 15y ago
Numeric labels also don't work: 10: PRINT "hello" GOTO 10 This works though: label: PRINT "hello" GOTO label
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by sratner 17y ago
These are pretty much the conditions for an E-3 (treaty worker) visa available to Australians. I believe Canadians have something similar, too.
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by sratner 18y ago
And with html5 video support in Webkit, another advantage of Flash evaporates. There is still the question of distribution, though.
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by sratner 18y ago
Also seems like a misunderstanding of C# features: > type safety is loosened and a few keywords are borrowed from JavaScript (var) C# is strictly and statically typed. The var keyword is only similar to Javascript's in using the sam
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by sratner 18y ago
For some reason, there are ever larger numbers of C# advocates in most hard-core programming forums. This can only be explained in one of three ways: 1) astroturfing by Microsoft; 2) good old-fashioned trolls trying to start a flamewar; o
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by sratner 18y ago
I don't know anything about economic viability of nuclear power, so I won't comment. I understand that wind and solar both receive substantial subsidies in the U.S. as well. There is also a possibility that were nuclear power as trendy as w
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by sratner 18y ago
> but fossil fuels are also much more widely used (I imagine by several orders of magnitude) True. Also consider the relative efficiency of the generation methods. Supplying the world's demand for energy with nuclear power would probabl
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by sratner 18y ago
> Really? Dangerous? Like loaded gun in the hands of an angry monkey dangerous, or just riding a bike while wearing flip flops dangerous? Neither. More like making generalisations dangerous (Although I am sure you will be able to pick a
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by sratner 18y ago
Here's a nice list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Comparison_w... Several of those disasters, of scales arguably larger than Chernobyl, were caused by attempts to generate power. And although I do not have any evidence t
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by sratner 18y ago
Nuclear reactors. See above.
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by sratner 18y ago
I suspect any engineer in a position of sufficient power did know about this, but no orders were given to upgrade the process appropriately, or, gasp!, take the reactor offline; doing so would be equated to admitting defeat of the Soviet nu

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