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by ucee054 14y ago
I don't they are really comparable. Swartz was in effect martyred by the US Government over an "information wants to be free" matter of idealism. Vayner became a laughing stock because some asshat in UBS leaked Vayner's awful, awful , AW
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by ucee054 14y ago
Next question: Would you hire the bank robber guy? I ask because I don't think I could do it (assuming I were in a position to hire)
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by ucee054 14y ago
I heard there was a military bootcamp program you could go through and get your criminal record scratched. Is this applicable, or am I confusing things?
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by ucee054 14y ago
I wonder what your response would have been if he had committed a similar crime but was an Afghan insurgent.
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by ucee054 14y ago
"I don't go that low-level" This suggests to me that the OP is on to something. In the 80s, we had to .
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by ucee054 14y ago
A PhD isn't about critique. It's about: A) finding a grant-buzzword-friendly research direction ( Green ICT social networking for wireless sensor motes anyone?) B) politicking to get as many publications squeezed out from one's meagre resu
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by ucee054 14y ago
I hope you never have any students, because it sounds like the abused will become the abuser.
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by ucee054 14y ago
The "supervision" in a PhD can be a problem . Some Professors just keep shooting down their students' ideas, rather than actually teaching or guiding them. Some don't provide any feedback at all, like the student is supposed to pick th
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by ucee054 14y ago
You can right now rewind a database to an arbitrary point in time right off the transaction log. The feature exists in the technology, the vendors just haven't productized it. What does that tell you? That the demand for your use case is c
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by ucee054 14y ago
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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by ucee054 14y ago
But saying we as a group don't understand the internals of what we use ... is a bunch of bull Just out of curiosity, can you tell me what the mnemonic LDAC means without looking it up?
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by ucee054 14y ago
OK this trend is NOT "progress". It would be progress if the library based approach were a 1-to-1 replacement for the code a DIY programmer would have written, but that's never the case. The new library solves maybe 95% of the problem, bu
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by ucee054 14y ago
So what's the best dating method for us sweaty, drunk guys?
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by ucee054 14y ago
Are you complaining about Hacker News fonts or Dave Winer's fonts? Because if your beef is with Dave Winer's fonts, you better email him or rant on his site directly. No one on Hacker News is responsible.
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by ucee054 14y ago
The 2-step shuffle is yours. If Swartz's material had been released, J Random Hacker, who simply wouldn't have read any of the JSTOR papers before, would now read them. MIT, on the other hand, would still pay for them. Though I can see how
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by ucee054 14y ago
But a vendetta against a prosecutor because people are fed up with plea bargain abuse DOES.
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by ucee054 14y ago
"99% of all crimes are small potatoes compared to LIBOR" I doubt that you can show me that Swartz's "crime" was somehow doing more damage than 99% of all crimes . I doubt that you can show me that it was doing more damage than 51% of al
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by ucee054 14y ago
Swartz's actions would have been an "attack" on a research archive, which the article classifies as having "little" commercial value (and Swartz wasn't profiting, it was civil disobedience). The Reuters news for yesterday lists the LIBOR sc
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by ucee054 14y ago
Were you making that point in the abstract, or were you, I don't know, in a thread of comments on an article about Aaron Swartz?
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by ucee054 14y ago
Enraged lynch mobs are why you have democracy and justice systems and human rights rather than the Diktat of the King, which is what we used to have before enraged lynch mobs.
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by ucee054 14y ago
You NEED access to journals and conferences if you are silly enough to become a research student (like I did) or even sillier and become a professional researcher. Also, there is no way on earth you can pay for it on a researcher's salary
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by ucee054 14y ago
Also who gives a fuck about money above 50k GBP? Someone with 2 children in private school.
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by ucee054 14y ago
commodities, which already have a market price Balls. Go to a commodity exchange and you know how you find the price? The last price paid at auction. Sometimes the negotiation is disguised, using an order book or dealer system. But someti
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by ucee054 14y ago
as I didn't intend it to offend at all What on earth did you think it would do, make him jump for joy? Especially since "it works for me" is standard helpdesk-speak for fobbing people off and closing their issues. It didn't even occur to
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by ucee054 14y ago
Frankly, you deserved what you got.
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by ucee054 14y ago
OK so the way to deal with you is to lie on the resume and in the interview, and start cramming right before the interview just enough to keep fooling you. Got it.
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by ucee054 14y ago
"They're worth 10 times the next rung down" So you will pay 10 times more salary, rather than waiting a couple of months for a new engineer to get up to speed? You must be in a hurry . What about all those other employers doing enterpr
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by ucee054 14y ago
There is the option of NOT changing it but switching to a better job than tech
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by ucee054 14y ago
Then don't complain that you can't find any candidates. That's what you employers do: you filter out everybody, so there are left like 3 people in the same continent who fit your arbitrary criteria. Then all of you get into a bidding war ov
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by ucee054 14y ago
Harvard, Stanford, INSEAD, London Business School, UPenn, UChicago, Columbia, Northwestern, Duke, MIT <let's stop here> Which were the top 5 again? It changes by year and publication

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