thirsteh

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by thirsteh 13y ago
The problem with L-1A is that you're expected to directly manage a significant amount of people. As far as I understand, it's harder to get, but it is extensible up to 7 years, compared to only 5 years for L-1B.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
I see. Curious.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Just curious: what country are you from? I'm from Denmark and my L-1B process wasn't nearly as bad; certainly not as bad as my IR1 which is still ongoing--but maybe the fact that I have an IR1 application helped with the L visa so
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by thirsteh 13y ago
L-1B is intra-office transfer. You still have to prove "skill", there's just no degree requirement. If you're a specialized worker (L-1B) or manager (L-1A) and have been so for over a year for your sponsoring company (a
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Exactly.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
It's not so much the menubar--I've disabled that--but that I spend most of my time in ssh sessions, and I tend to re-launch emacs all of the time, to the extent that the start-up time of the GUI version bothers me.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Then again, the same thing can be said for any of us reading Ph.D. dissertations outside our fields.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Definitely LV. Caesar's Palace, the Rio--pretty distinguishable buildings. And you can see the light beam from the Luxor.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
You can put the key on the disk itself too--you just need to zero out the space containing the key when you're done. That's how phones with encryption and remote wipe features usually do it. In fact, a lot of SSDs, e.g. Samsung&#x
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Worst cost-saving measure ever.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Ditto. Can't stand the UI.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
But you don't have to keep redundant copies around forever. Immutability means nothing in the past can change, which means it's perfectly fine for future entries to reference old values. New rows can essentially be deltas, much li
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by thirsteh 13y ago
You're disagreeing very passionately with points I never made. I literally said "I don't disagree that tests are essential." I followed that up with the statement that programs written in languages with compilers that pe
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by thirsteh 13y ago
My statement that you're unlikely to experience problems if you write something in a language with so many compile-time checks isn't "true at all"? Really? And if you really want to argue about silly examples, we can tal
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by thirsteh 13y ago
At least it's not suggesting you poke your pair programming partner with a fork to increase... productivity.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
> I was watching some anime last night where the characters were trying to make a computer game for some contest. They finished it, but it was too buggy to play through to the end without crashing (or causing the computer to restart, not
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by thirsteh 13y ago
> I'm not sure who this fellow is, but this is the actual Jamie Wong: https://twitter.com/JamieJWong This is the stupidest thing I've read today.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
"However, since their servers are no longer hosted in the US or the EU, they're no longer protected by US or EU laws! So congratulations, Clipperz!" If you read the post, it seems pretty clear that they wanted to not be subje
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by thirsteh 13y ago
You're right, but the vast majority of databases aren't that big. You are very explicitly recommended against using something like Datomic if you think you will need to purge data with regular intervals.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Being different from the mainstream isn't a bad thing. For the sake of argument, Rust is very different from the mainstream too.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Given that you 'forkIO' functions in the IO monad, i.e. impure functions, what do you mean by that? 'forkIO' in Haskell is essentially the same as dispatching a green thread in any other language, e.g. the same as '
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by thirsteh 13y ago
It's necessary for HTTP requests. Are you being deliberately obtuse?
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Both: Manual memory management and library support.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
I don't think Torvalds has said C++ is slow, just that the language is shitty compared to C.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
The hyperbolic intro didn't really help: > If anyone in Silicon Valley knows the value of secure access and keeping information safe, it’s him. I can think of, I don't know, 30 people at the top of my head that I would rather b
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by thirsteh 13y ago
The solution they chose seems to be the absolute silliest way to solve the problem.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
> "especially considering that a lot of malware today actually relies on social engineering rather than 0days" That doesn't mean "most". > My response was simply that this isn't 100%, that many malware va
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by thirsteh 13y ago
A lot of malware uses social engineering to become deployed, including on Windows, with or without exploits. If you don't think so, I seriously doubt that you work at Malware-Bytes in an R&D capacity, given that Malware-Bytes is
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by thirsteh 13y ago
I'm not saying it's the only one, just that it's by far the biggest one. If you have a choice between writing malware that could affect 70% of computers or 10%, you pick the 70% demographic. If Mac suddenly had the biggest de
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Probably just about all of the Windows 8 users.

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