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by three14 15y ago
But they do keep your software running on newer versions of Windows years after Windows has moved on, so long as you kept to the API as documented. Also, it's hard to say that Apple or desktop Linux is fundamentally different, except tha
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by three14 15y ago
I'm in a similar situation, and I can't. I sometimes do IT for a small Windows network and for Linux and the VPN that connects everyone to both. I program in C#, perl, Java, shell, and XSLT depending on which part of my job I'm doing, and
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by three14 15y ago
Anyone know where to find a laptop with a screen with something x 900 resolution, 8G RAM, and a non-crazy markup for an SSD? Preferably without various other upgrades that drive the price to $2000? Thanks for any tips.
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by three14 15y ago
That's true, but the grandparent's point is important also - most people seldom fully understand their own motivations, and most people have trouble seeing themselves as outsiders see them. It's a pain to fire someone, and then you have to
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by three14 15y ago
I interviewed someone, and following a hunch, asked him to write FizzBuzz, and he couldn't do it within a half hour. He wasn't overthinking it; he just couldn't decompose the problem.
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by three14 15y ago
Nothing has changed? What do they mean? I can understand patent #1, and it's not even in my field. Good luck trying to do that with a modern software patent.
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by three14 15y ago
Even if true that it's only the USPS, and yummyfajitas implies that it's actually a broader requirement, here it's a difference between a mistake and not making a mistake. It's not simply an accounting treatment. It's not a defense of the
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by three14 15y ago
...and I strongly support the general accounting change, particularly for government or semi-governmental entities that might be counting on taxpayers footing the bill they run up. Just because USPS suffers by having to do something reason
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by three14 15y ago
I don't get it. Why is it unreasonable? If I promise to pay somebody $40,000 every year after they retire, but I don't set aside money to do it, you can guarantee that down the road, I'll come crying to the government to get them to pay f
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by three14 15y ago
Gold is the longest term example I can think of, but it's hard to believe that the stock market game is not a significant percentage of the price of AAPL and that it's solely fundamentals. Stocks in general get that same goldbug enthusiasm
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by three14 15y ago
Doesn't gold behave that way? Market forces prevent gold from reflecting the value of using gold for jewelry or industry or whatever else other than playing the market. It seems like an unexceptional claim that there are other financial i
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by three14 15y ago
An alternative read is that he thinks that non-value investing is swamping value investing, and that prices have little correlation with underlying value. It's sort of like trying to figure out how much gold is worth, if all you know is ho
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by three14 15y ago
Of course they're not financially responsible. That doesn't matter. "We encouraged you to do something that wrecked your home and sense of security, but we didn't accept liability, so we're off the hook." It's legally true, but it's atro
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by three14 15y ago
"What this guy did is no different from trying to destroy someone... in more conventional ways" is exactly the point. If someone did exactly the same things in conventional ways, he should still get the same sentence, and he probably would
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by three14 15y ago
The grey on black text works better on good monitors than on my laptop. I lose contrast when the viewing angle changes, so if my laptop screen tilts a little to much, the text becomes unreadable. I wonder if the designers tested on a non
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by three14 15y ago
The GP doesn't want it outlawed, just doesn't want people to specifically choose to have transactions privately for fear of moving the price, because that's a sign that the market isn't healthy. A healthy market should be resilient against
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by three14 15y ago
But that's so much better than the GP. If the GP smiles at the waitress, he can only manage a real smile at her as her superior or a fake smile as a fellow human being. You at least have the option of a real smile as a fellow person.
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by three14 15y ago
Which of course isn't actually contradictory. Provided that you can distinguish accurately between someone who is merely your "enemy" and someone who is objectively "wicked", you can decide whether or not to celebrate.
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by three14 16y ago
How do you know that the Montessori method is what makes Montessori good, though, rather than the GP's theory?
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by three14 16y ago
I think he's not suggesting investing in "bright kids," but "smart and gets things done." Or "relentlessly resourceful." Smart is just one of the criteria, but he still would invest in people, not in "the idea."
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by three14 16y ago
This comment is dead for some reason, but useful: 1 point by nas 52 minutes ago | link [dead] From the bitcoin.org forum: "Google is pleased to announce the release of BitCoinJ, an implementation of the BitCoin system in Java. You can get i
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by three14 16y ago
I was tempted to downvote, then wondered why, then realized that downvoting would have been a translation of an urge to groan.
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by three14 16y ago
The problem is that timesheets are answering the wrong question for you. You want to know whether your employees are working or goofing off, and you want to know how long projects take. You should be able to tell that from the results of
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Stack Overflow Careers Also Targeting "Passive Candidates"(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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by three14 16y ago
I just interviewed someone and literally asked fizzbuzz, and their answer took the better part of an hour. Any tips on cutting an interview short without insulting the interviewee?
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by three14 16y ago
Come on. Even in the U.S., the people get to pick between a couple of none-too-attractive choices. It wouldn't be shocking for 51% of Egyptians to pick a theocracy given a bunch of poor choices, but that doesn't mean that's what most peop
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by three14 16y ago
Preventing old people and sick people from dying in the streets is just one of those costs you're going to have to pay for, like it or not. Raise Social Security to 68, maybe. Cut it off, though, and you'll find that the country will sti
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by three14 16y ago
It's also possible to just undercharge for support (and maybe even advertise that fact to limit expectations), but use the money as a filter. Ideally, you could even charge exactly cost, and then you wouldn't have misaligned incentives (an
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by three14 16y ago
I found that it reminded me of a cemetery.
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by three14 16y ago
Can you share your website? I would expect that patio11 is correct, since I wouldn't recommend it at my company just because the website doesn't inspire confidence. Maybe your case is special in some way? Are you actually making sales th

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