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Does the Elf contribute to the surveillance state?(hlntv.com)
2 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
Find out why he wants the NDA. Sometimes it is because they don't want it publicly known that they hired a freelancer to do the work. He might not want you shouting from the rooftops, "hey, I was the one who built this!" If t
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by thejteam 12y ago
Although I've never coded in Ada I have had to read existing code to figure out what it was doing. Ada struck me as a language that would be a pain to write in(at least it would take a long time) but it was a pleasure to read. Even wit
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by thejteam 12y ago
I liked the IEEE email header "DARPA prepared to bring Zombie Frankensatellites to life" better, but I went with the article headline.
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Darpa Prepares to Launch “Satlets”(spectrum.ieee.org)
25 points by thejteam 12y ago|2 comments
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Why have Visual Programming Languages not gone mainstream?
6 points by thejteam 12y ago|15 comments
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The Happiness Curve(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
And just like engineering standards, the nice thing about stock indexes is that there are so many to choose from.
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by thejteam 12y ago
1)Whatever metric you are looking to determine merit, whether it is University affiliation, GPA, or performance on a coding evaluation, don't think of the result as a single number. Think of it as a range. Even a probability distributi
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by thejteam 12y ago
I have worked on the writer side rather than the tech side but I have noticed some changes recently. I've seen 1)more obnoxious clients and postings and 2) fewer actual awards being made. A penny or two a word used to be the bottom end
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by thejteam 12y ago
Diamond Age is one of those awesome books where what you get out of it depends on where you are in life. I read it both before children and after children. I enjoyed it both times. But it was a different experience.
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DogVacay, the 'Airbnb for Dogs,' Just Raised $25M(businessinsider.com)
3 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - MD/VA/DC or remote Technical Writing. I'm a former software developer turned freelance technical writer. Do you need a user manual developed? Some tutorials? Use Cases for marketing? But I specialize in white p
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by thejteam 12y ago
Everything is negotiable. If they present you with an NDA that you aren't comfortable signing then counter with something you are willing to sign. These things are negotiated all the time. Not that long ago I was presented with a copyr
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Peter Thiel: We live in an anti-tech world(money.cnn.com)
1 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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Musk warns of 'summoning the demon' with AI(cnbc.com)
6 points by thejteam 12y ago|1 comments
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America's Worst Colleges(washingtonmonthly.com)
5 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
I would hardly call C "archaic". But that's beside the point. If you are a physics person then the problem will not be learning the language. You will pick up everything you need in a few weeks to a month at most. In my opini
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'Bad Paper' Explores the Underworld of Debt Collection(npr.org)
79 points by thejteam 12y ago|42 comments
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Detroit man wants to sell house for new iPhone(myfoxdetroit.com)
1 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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Supreme Court to Hear Case on Right of States to Tax Out-of-State Income(somd.com)
2 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - MD/DC/VA or remote Does your company need better technical marketing material? How about a white paper describing your solution for enterprise customers? A well-written white paper can be used to communicate to busi
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Kill Switch Nearly Causes Car Crash(mirror.co.uk)
2 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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Hearing That Things Can Change Helps Teens Dodge Depression(npr.org)
3 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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Hydrocarbons Unleash an Angry God(betterlivingthroughbeowulf.com)
1 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
I've read Automated Insights automated summaries of fantasy football games for yahoo. If that is indicative of their capabilities, then the role of human writers looks to be secure for some time to come.
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Superbooks: High-tech reading puts you inside the story(cnn.com)
1 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
I do some work on Elance as a writer. The only item in my "portfolio" on Elance is a short 500 word piece on why looking at portfolios is worthless. A few reasons: 1)There is some portfolio fraud. Every once in awhile a job listin
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Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent(finance.yahoo.com)
349 points by thejteam 12y ago|263 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
The source code for the winner of the first competition, iocaine powder, is at http://dan.egnor.name/iocaine.html , along with a good explanation of its algorithm. It did well in the second competition even after the publica

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