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by uiri 10y ago
In the 19th century, New York was given jurisdiction over the original land and New Jersey had jurisdiction over the surrounding waters. As the island was expanded through land fill, the newly created land was treated as part of New York un
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by uiri 10y ago
The term Big Four originates in accounting where there actually are a specific set of four large, established companies. For tech, I usually remember it as AmaGooBookSoft - Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Apple is sort of a hardware
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by uiri 10y ago
This is why Software Engineering as a profession should be regulated and licensed just like other engineering fields - mechanical, civil, electrical, etc. Professional Engineers are bound by a code of ethics stressing first and foremost the
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by uiri 10y ago
This is really old news. These kinds of attacks have been well documented for over a decade.[1] An ICMP type 3 code 3 or type 3 code 2 packet MUST be treated the same as a TCP Reset packet (per RFCs). You can also do blind performance degra
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by uiri 10y ago
> If you don't have a driver's license, you have to have a "state-issued ID card", which is the same except it doesn't confer the right to drive. Why? There are alternatives for ID and proof-of-age, such as a pas
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by uiri 10y ago
> So if you are paying 120K in the US, the same should cost you 54-60K USD when the engineer is in India When you are comparing to the US, are you talking about Silicon Valley or the Midwest? In Silicon Valley, $120K is probably a junior
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by uiri 10y ago
There are a TON of resources like this which focus on lexing and parsing which is all fine and dandy but interpreting the resulting Abstract Syntax Tree will be extremely slow. Are there any resources on the code generation side of things?
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by uiri 10y ago
Wait until after the Presidential election this spring... it is looking like it will be Sarkozy vs Le Pen or Juppe vs Le Pen in the run-off round.
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by uiri 10y ago
1 USD is ~Rs 66. That is a staggering difference in purchasing power! I would guess that the only note in the US with a similar reputation which is still issued would be the $100. Notes larger than this ($500, $1000, $5000, and $10 000) hav
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by uiri 10y ago
(Frozen string literals allows strings to be in memory only once and not having to reallocate each time, so a pretty big memory and cpu optimization) Isn't this the purpose of symbols in the language? This seems like a pretty basic o
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by uiri 10y ago
I would recommend TOML, but I am a bit biased as the author of the toml python package.
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by uiri 10y ago
Isn't that the whole point of Alphabet? Google can play empire defense while Larry & Sergey make bets by creating subsidiaries and funding them with Google's free cash flow. I think Google's board recognized this phenomen
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by uiri 10y ago
There are rather severe height restrictions in Mountain View because of Moffett Airfield. Despite this, there are Google buildings in the area that are at least 4-5 stories. It doesn't have much to do with NIMBYs (although I'm sur
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by uiri 10y ago
According to http://www.frontierim.com/files/file/download/id/1220 the top 20 US Endowment funds allocate their assets like: Private Equity 19% Domestic Equity 13
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by uiri 10y ago
Your Harvard column adds up to 105%.
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by uiri 10y ago
> The conventional wisdom is that UX is everything. But a new generation or two is growing up today that is "digital native" and has grown up using computers of every kind. Might this generation of digital natives actually have
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by uiri 10y ago
Amazon generally has team aisles with 7 (iirc) foot walls between teams which blocked out most conversations from neighbouring teams and desks placed against 4-5 foot walls breaking up the aisle into sections. Each aisle had a window at the
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by uiri 10y ago
Patents are only valid for 20 years. That is short enough that even if the patent system did predate numerals and walking, these patents would have long since expired.
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by uiri 10y ago
Dividends make sense for established, profitable businesses. They don't make sense for startups. No one wants the startup to issue dividends. The employees won't receive any dividends unless they have already paid to exercise thei
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by uiri 10y ago
And there's typically no way you get an EE diploma without a soul-wrenching course on signals & systems. Similar to the person you're replying to, my education is in computer engineering rather than electrical engineering. I
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by uiri 10y ago
I've never set it up but I believe that you can get it to work the same way. Install the desktop application: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2374987 Change sync settings: https://support.g
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by uiri 10y ago
One metaphor that comes to mind is that of an employer asking for the same data (personal email credentials). I'm sure some people may (to their detriment) comply with such a request while others would not. Some may be so offended tha
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by uiri 10y ago
I agree that a lot of post-secondary institutions in the US push students into irresponsible loans. If you measure program quality in terms of employability, some others may mislead students students as to program quality too. If you measur
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by uiri 10y ago
I think the title should be changed back. The author glosses over the single, real biggest red flag: She never received any paystubs and the company was late on payroll as of before she was hired I have never, ever been paid without either
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by uiri 10y ago
Balboa Park has a BART station. The K, L and M lines of the Muni Metro serve Forest Hill, West Portal. The L line goes to the SF Zoo but the K and M (along with the J) lines terminate at Balboa Park station. Personally, I prefer the Metro o
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by uiri 10y ago
I'm not sure that a market crash is a prima facie bad thing. Market crashes often precede or accompany economic recessions but I'm inclined to believe that they are a symptom or result rather than a cause. An economic recession
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by uiri 10y ago
I hope the following is helpful rather than confusing - feel free to ask any clarifying questions. Also, I will preface this with the fact that I am an engineer and not a finance person. I may be subtly wrong on some points and I am happy t
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by uiri 10y ago
"We couldn't give you more because then you would be making more than your coworkers. Do you feel like you really deserve more? You should be happy to have what you do already." The answer is to call their bluff and tell them
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by uiri 10y ago
No, you don't end up paying 35%. Part of the advantages of a 401k come from distributing dollars being taxed at a high marginal rate to another year when they are taxed at a lower marginal rate.
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by uiri 10y ago
This article is poorly fact-checked: "Queens College" is, I'm guessing, referring to Queen's University in Kingston (since the attendance number cited also matches), which is over 150 miles away from Toronto. I'm su

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