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by tannhauser23 10y ago
I'm reading "Farnham's Freehold" by Robert Heinlein which is basically a thought experiment in how to build a pioneer-like society in a post-nuclear war world. It's not a great book, honestly, but it has a lot of ma
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by tannhauser23 10y ago
I also transitioned from a professional services career to programming through a bootcamp. When others ask me for advice, I only recommend the bootcamps that have a rigorous precourse/admissions process. And even then, I tell them it&#
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by tannhauser23 10y ago
Sensational title. Most of article is about one bootcamp, which seems particularly badly run, and there are few comments from recruiters at large companies like Google, Cisco, and Autodesk that say they don't really look at bootcamp gr
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by tannhauser23 10y ago
I went through coding bootcamp and this is correct. We had former lawyers, bankers, accountants, IT personnel, database administrators, architects, and on more recent graduate front, physics majors, math majors, econ majors... We also had p
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by tannhauser23 10y ago
What philosophy program is this? At my school the professors explicitly told us to write in active voice. Also, what material are you studying? It's been a while since I've been in school, but most analytic philosophy material I r
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by tannhauser23 11y ago
These issues have actually been litigated in court. The broad consensus is that yes, the police can use a surveillance plane can take pictures of you without first obtaining a warrant (Florida v. Riley), but no, they can't use infrare
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by tannhauser23 11y ago
Did you read the article? The court didn't order Apple to decrypt the phone. Instead, Apple has to disable the phone's feature that automatically wipes the hard drive after 10 failed password attempts. This is so that the FBI c
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by tannhauser23 11y ago
All government work related emails are archived. They're available to the public through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests - basically, you make a request to the federal government for certain types of information and they ar
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by tannhauser23 11y ago
Samsung built an ICE RINK right next to the courthouse. They did that because they thought pouring money into town would help sway the jury pool in their favor.
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No no no, regulations have the force of law, and if you violate them you can be fined, jailed, banned from the industry, etc. This is serious.
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by tannhauser23 11y ago
Have you ever noticed how there are fortune tellers occupying prime storefronts all over the city? The places with a little chair behind the window and a thick curtain? I never saw anybody ever go in or out of those places. I asked a pro