stuartcw

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by stuartcw 10y ago
c.f. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8930894
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by stuartcw 12y ago
No. I have had numerous interviews in Japan and never had a kind of test like this. Maybe be one company has used this, but it is far from the norm and as the z2 mentions, the intro is Chinese.
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by stuartcw 12y ago
Perxactly!
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by stuartcw 13y ago
Here's another fun steganographic tool: http://www.spammimic.com Hide messages in SPAM Text: Dear Decision maker , We know you are interested in receiving amazing intelligence . This is a one time mailing there is no need
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by stuartcw 13y ago
Relevant video of Philip K Dick discussing this very matter recorded at Metz sci-fi convention in France, 1977: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXeVgEs4sOo
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by stuartcw 13y ago
Trying cutting down on wheat based foods. If you are troubled at night, don't have any dairy before going to bed. In fact have your last food several hours before going to bed.
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by stuartcw 13y ago
Has Elon Musk ever said that he intends to land on Mars this way? I know that he has mentioned Grasshoppers launching cargo into orbit and returning.
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by stuartcw 13y ago
Run your code in Production. Scaling. Robustness. Error Handling. Correct logging. These will all keep you up at night until your code is correctly engineered.
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by stuartcw 13y ago
I think the editor must have removed the prefix "Preschoolers" from the title. I can't believe that most people here haven't see the Dymaxion Map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
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by stuartcw 13y ago
It's not a matter of winning or loosing. The pre-unicode mix of character sets was a mess when it came internationalization. Try truncating a Japanese Shift-JIS string in C. That will learn you..
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by stuartcw 13y ago
How to win. Get in the middle of the 0 and drill a small hole with your own missiles up through the 0. From now on you will be safe and most of your shots initially will hit an invader. Once you get down to the last one it is a matter of ti
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by stuartcw 13y ago
I completed 9 levels and decided to give it a rest.
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by stuartcw 13y ago
Those who remember this family of Software might see some similarity ;-) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userland_Software#Frontier Just look at the article for protocols that they introduced and popularised. There's lots of other cool stu
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by stuartcw 13y ago
I didn't and have had people say to me that they don't connect with current colleagues. I also don't connect with recruiters until I have announced that I am leaving. I'll happily chat with them via private messages or give an alternative e
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by stuartcw 13y ago
My biggest gripe with LinkedIn is that recently, I made the fatal mistake of letting it look at my Gmail contacts. Getting suggestions for contacts who are already using LinkedIn was the intention but they invited anyone who had ever mail
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by stuartcw 14y ago
They corrected the title: "Photosynthesis-like process found in insects": "The original headline of the piece incorrectly implied that the researchers had discovered evidence of photosynthesis in aphids. In fact, photosynthesis requires car
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by stuartcw 14y ago
That's exactly how I felt at 7 in 1975 : http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/viking/viking-20060714.htm...
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by stuartcw 14y ago
Google Maps is one of my most used applications. Especially, in Tokyo, it is a lifesaver for finding routes or train times using the train system or by foot. The maps are excellent. If it disappears, I will definitely get the Google maps ap
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by stuartcw 14y ago
I'm curious, how did you justify the return on investment of developing this? In most business situations, "Use Zoom to make the font bigger" would have been the boss reply. I almost always have to seed Version 1 as a stealth project or wee
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by stuartcw 14y ago
OmniFocus: I love the way I can assign a todo to location context and have it pop up automatically when I next visit that place. In the end, the app or site doesn't matter, it just matters that you have one list that is always available
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by stuartcw 15y ago
1) Work with a large company for a few weeks. You'll see hundreds of areas where there are inefficiency and problems to be solved. 2) ... 3) Profit.
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by stuartcw 15y ago
I have become an Data Analyst after many years in Software Development. As a team we are studying the DAMA DMBOK c.f. http://www.dama.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3345 which is the Data Management Body of Knowledge in order to become ce
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by stuartcw 15y ago
"Do I continue down the path of steady, stable employment in a field I don't hate but am not passionate about, or do I make the jump into a field that I love but doesn't offer the level of perks that my current job affords?" This is the cha
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by stuartcw 15y ago
May the Source be with you!
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by stuartcw 15y ago
I have upgraded and a all of the CPU hogging problems I have been suffering recently have gone away. I am very happy with the upgrade so far.
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by stuartcw 16y ago
I can't make the Bounenkai so I'm looking forward to up voting the Shinnenkai..
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by stuartcw 16y ago
C.f Lion Kimbro's free Ebook "How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think" http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/nb/
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by stuartcw 16y ago
Nice to see y'alls!
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by stuartcw 17y ago
Doctors were quizzed, "Do you want to use a checklist?", they answered, "No.". "Do you want someone who is operating on you to use a checklist?", they answered, "Yes.". If you read the book you'll find that almost everyone hates checklist
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by stuartcw 17y ago
Yeah, Goya looks like and tastes like something you should definitely not eat but is a great food when cooked, despite it's bitter taste.

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