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by webjprgm 13y ago
If there was a 1% decline, would it work to not adjust pay but record this negative inflation so that next year if it's +2% then the employees only get +1% raises? If the economy continues to go down then this won't work, but it
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by webjprgm 13y ago
From knowing nothing to building a simple web app, PHP is faster. If you already know RoR and have your dev machine and deployment environment all set up, then it's not hard to get a Rails app working. Rails has a significant advantag
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Could you get your pizza or Chinese food delivery via drone?
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I would also recommend looking at the code generated by Lex and Yacc as well as hand-written code to parse a Lisp or Scheme. That might give an idea of how to organize a hand-written parser. Though, without reading Modern Compiler Implement
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Also remember that most of the time you have two hops on your wifi network: PC -> router -> TV. (Newer wifi cards can skip the router if the software on both sides supports it.)
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I don't have vision insurance, but my health insurance will cover the eye exam.
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I figure I should stay a year because usually the hiring bonus has to be returned if I don't.
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Still doesn't count. You're perceived entirely differently being that young (younger than a typical college grad new recruit). You also don't have the same life goals to deal with, like raising a family which is much more exp
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And then remove the existence of cookies altogether, I infer. Since only a unique identifier is necessary, with all other session data and preferences being stored on the server. I notice in a comment further up that Apple has two separate
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by webjprgm 13y ago
On my personal blog I made a button to disable/enable all the social media plugins. I don't know if anybody uses it (my readership is approximately zero, so no point in tracking clicks or A/B testing), but I figured I'd
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Yup. This may be part of the lack of technical background in the article, but how do Facebook widgets on people's sites track whether you are logged in to Facebook if not via cookies? The mechanisms I know, user agent and IP address, d
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Or you could get motor power for 30 miles and manually bike the remaining 6. The wheel doesn't stop you from manually moving the bike, does it?
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A simple example comes from the article itself. Parameter 'strength', the strength of the frognication. What is the range of that? Is it 0 to max int? min int to max int? 1-100? (A real-life example would be a function that output
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I might point out that some employment contracts specifically say you can't discuss salary with fellow employees. (I know I read it somewhere I applied or worked, probably at my current job too.)
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Personally I don't care about being paid for unused vacation days. I just want my vacation. And I don't want to have to use it all for Christmas. (Some employers I've worked for give you a week or two for Christmas automatica
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by webjprgm 13y ago
You can see the person's finger (or the CastAR wand's tip). I imagine the rendering engine will show the same thing in the same place relative to the real world for both users. It doesn't have to, in the case of a game where
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by webjprgm 13y ago
They have a clip-on to the glasses that convert from AR to VR mode. So you wouldn't need a reflective surface portal as you say. I believe switching between the two headsets would just be a matter of software. I'm wondering if th
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How does this compare to Oculus Rift in terms of cost, quality, and potential to be a "game changer" as everyone calls both? Especially since CastAR can be both AR and VR, could one hook up a CastAR to the games and demos we alrea
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Someone would have to own each Wikipedia page to approve pull requests. As it is now, anyone can do the edits directly even if there's not a person dedicated to curating a particular page.
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Exactly. Google does not have my credit card and I don't want to give it to them. Amazon already has it. Just like I prefer to use PayPal when I can to avoid giving a new online merchant my credit card directly, I could now use Amazon
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Apple iBooks lawsuit by the US government is relevant here. Book publishers and Apple made a deal to change pricing to an agency model, where the publishers dictate the price. The US government sued them on the basis of anti-competitive pri
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Do people really pigeon-hole themselves into being just back-end engineers? Or just front-end? I can imagine a designer-type person picking up HTML, CSS, and eventually JavaScript and calling him/herself a front-end engineer in a limi
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Maybe someone has an official answer, but I always thought of front-end as anything in the browser and back-end as anything on the server. Front-facing is user-facing. Back-facing is hidden plumbing. The article seems to be more about UI vs
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It encourages you to imagine what these things can be good for, therefore get excited about even just this small progress.
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Could we have loser-pays-cost only for patent lawsuits?
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I worked on a project not long ago that used Rails to serve up purely JSON via a REST API and the front-end was all Ember and Coffeescript. (Coffeescript because an intern started prototyping part of the UI in it, and we all figured it&#x27
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Only if you'd be able to use those 3 minutes productively. You can't sit down at a computer and work for just a minute and a half, you'd have to be able to get to work a minute and a half sooner to capitalize on this. If you
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I find that at work I get more disheartened when I know there's a fun hobby project waiting for me at home. Part of OP's problem is that he, like me, started with programming as a hobby and still wishes it was. Note that in hobby
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All through high school and most of college I knew I wanted to be a programmer when I grew up. But when I was about to graduate I suddenly had to decide what kind of thing I wanted to program. I have many interests; too many to study them
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I think this is a great idea for getting more people to experiment with hardware projects. Then they can move on to learning more things. But for a first try the barrier to entry needs to be as low as possible.

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