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by wizzard 13y ago
Yes. If we're talking Roman numerals, MM would be 2000, just like XX is 20 -- not 100. This notation makes no sense to me either.
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by wizzard 13y ago
Well, sure, as logical people we know that you can't predict failures and that it's always better to play it by ear. Unknown unknowns and all that. I have worked at several places where salespeople have sold a feature without even
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by wizzard 13y ago
He also mentions that data was deleted and configuration changes made. If all of these things happened to you in a short amount of time, on multiple machines, what would your conclusions be? Would you just shrug it off as coincidence? Perso
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by wizzard 13y ago
Anyone who downvotes you hasn't tried to use their forums. I hadn't seen yesterday's news though so here's a link for anyone else interested: http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/65338904338/wow-or-fro
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by wizzard 13y ago
Awesome, thanks for the info!
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by wizzard 13y ago
I am strongly thinking about encouraging my kids to take a break before college if I think it could be beneficial to them. If they're rocking it in high school and eager to dive into four more years, then maybe I won't bother, but
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by wizzard 13y ago
Also, since I just realized who you are (hey!), is there any info on award categories or working in teams somewhere? Are hackathon projects expected to utilize the Restly SDK/API? If so, is there any chance of getting an API key before
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by wizzard 13y ago
I'm in the southwest, so at least it's not cross-country. And I see it was originally announced October 3rd and I'm just behind the times. I'll see if I can throw together some plans. Glad I found out about it at all!
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by wizzard 13y ago
Wow, I'm interested in this, but only three weeks' notice to plan travel to SF, request time off, etc.? Yikes...
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by wizzard 13y ago
A false dichotomy if ever there was one. Anyone who doesn't think the code is ugly must just be blinded by hero worship? How about the possibility that a1a is one of the people who just automatically equates "large volume of code&
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by wizzard 13y ago
I'm sure the length of the crunch varies. And in a startup situation having a crunch every 100 days doesn't seem totally unreasonable to me. Also, people's versions of "crunch" differ... one person might picture 60-
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by wizzard 13y ago
I enjoy it when the problem is in my code. I despise it when the bug is in a third party library or utility. That's usually the last place I look and often the hardest to fix (or have fixed). And sometimes you find a limitation that ca
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by wizzard 13y ago
Unfamiliar with Smarterer, I went there and tried a sample question: http://imgur.com/puk2Bav wat
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by wizzard 13y ago
There seems to be a mistake in almost every paragraph... "How it works?" - either "How does it work?" or "How it works" "one profile that gives complete picture" "a resume doesn't do justice
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by wizzard 13y ago
I got a new Thinkpad with an SSD at my job last year and it died after 10 months. Luckily I had pushed everything but it was still mighty inconvenient. I just put one in my desktop and will be backing up religiously. This is just one data p
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by wizzard 13y ago
Sorry, but it sounds like you are a troll. I'd be happy to give details if you don't know (or don't care to see) what I'm talking about. But based on the upvotes to my comment and very similar complaints in other comment
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by wizzard 13y ago
Sure, the release process might be easier on Android, but there are other factors involved in app development. Android is becoming a kind of curse word at my current job. Getting a working emulator can be a huge exercise in frustration (lik
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by wizzard 13y ago
A friend of mine got a call from Google and set up a phone interview. They never called. The recruiter called again a few days later and apologized, and set up another phone interview. Once again, no call. The recruiter called again and my
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by wizzard 13y ago
Simple, just prop up your phone and video yourselves having sex. Like a Kinect, it can detect the position of your bodies. And it can analyze the audio to determine if the female orgasmed. And then the video will be automatically uploaded t
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by wizzard 13y ago
Not to mention the Greatest Snow on Earth®.
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by wizzard 13y ago
True, but there are multiple openings available. I guess they're probably already executing in parallel though. When I looked earlier the DBC average was 17 seconds... with browser form fillers you could beat that!
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by wizzard 13y ago
Well, pg gave several examples of "things that don't scale" in his article, and I believe Jason is referring to focusing on individual users, not doing tasks manually. He mentions eschewing automation but he's talking ab
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by wizzard 13y ago
Yes, but the services utilize human interaction to solve the captcha and that would almost certainly prevent all the openings from being taken in <1 minute.
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by wizzard 13y ago
Well I don't think he was saying "cut and paste this exact code into your codebase" but rather that it is possible to write safeguards such as this... in this case, perhaps checking whether an account has already been billed
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by wizzard 13y ago
I believe Monster.com allows you to do this; there is an option to hide your contact info and only allow recruiters to contact you through the site. This is ostensibly to allow you to apply for new jobs without being discovered by your curr
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by wizzard 13y ago
Just a fun fact, this stopped being true as of June 25, 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Structu... But since there probably aren't many two-year-olds applying for jobs nowadays the comme
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by wizzard 13y ago
There is always going to be code that takes more than grep and a glance to understand. Sometimes you won't fully grok it until you've stepped through it line by line, even without "tricks" like metaprogramming. And more
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by wizzard 13y ago
Good to know the guy turned himself in (apparently). This should be the link of note now.
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by wizzard 13y ago
Again, wealth does not equal need. You're assuming all of the desperately stranded people have $200 at the ready for a taxi trip that's normally only $20. And some people will pay whatever price for convenience, because they have
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by wizzard 13y ago
The problem is that need doesn't necessarily correlate with wealth; in fact there may be a reverse correlation. The people who need to travel the most can't necessarily afford to spend six times the normal price to do so. For othe

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