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by wmil 13y ago
The "producers" are likely just management and several of the rest may in fact be unpaid interns trying to break into the industry. But researched articles like this are expensive to produce. That's why PR firms are so succ
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by wmil 13y ago
It's a perfectly reasonable choice. It's better than Excel for that sort of work and Government IT policies usually ban any real scripting language or database.
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by wmil 13y ago
"U.S.-backed 2009 coup" is really misstating what happened. First of all, the US was pressuring Honduras to re-instate the president. Next, there were complex constitutional issues. The US ambassador's opinion isn't mor
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by wmil 13y ago
That wasn't the rationale. Diplomatic cables are classified for many reasons, and it's completely legitimate.
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by wmil 13y ago
It makes sense if they post a lot of code.
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by wmil 13y ago
Works fine for me. Try going to chrome://gpu/ to see if you can spot the problem.
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by wmil 13y ago
But it's not strongly enforced. Actually it'd be very interesting if it was. A lot of 20-somethings in New York get more than that from their families. Enforcement could put an end to many unpaid intern jobs.
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by wmil 13y ago
The long term looks better on WebGL. And it's safer to bet your business on an open platform. Adobe actually announced that they would be charging royalties on 3d games developed with flash. They backed off after developers pushed bac
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by wmil 13y ago
YAML is neat, but library developers have a history of writing unsafe YAML parsers. There's the famous Rails vulnerability due to YAML. Python needed to add 'yaml.safe_load'. YAML is a little too rich. It's always one
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by wmil 13y ago
From the article: "He didn’t fully understand how Goldman could think it was O.K. to benefit so greatly from the work of others and then behave so selfishly toward them." I don't think he understands Wall Street.
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by wmil 13y ago
There was a DailyWTF article years ago about a "Robert Null" who would be shown whenever you searched for employees with a blank input. http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Paging_Dr_0x2e__Null.aspx
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by wmil 13y ago
To put things in perspective, from 1933 - 1964 it was illegal for US citizens to own non-jewelry gold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 There are already many limitations on currency, this can last as
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by wmil 13y ago
> If you like Gnome, great. If you don't like Gnome, you should use something else. Arguing this old subject hasn't yet accomplished anything, and there are plenty of alternatives available now. (I really like KDE4.) The proble
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by wmil 13y ago
That's largely because of tradition. All capital is easier to engrave in wood / stone. Because of that all of the old signs were in all-caps. New signs with proper capitalization look odd.
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by wmil 13y ago
You'd think, but jQuery had to remove code.jquery.com/latest.js because people were linking to it from production sites and complaining when things broke.
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by wmil 13y ago
Think of the price of medical equipment, salaries, insurance, and drugs. That pallet of iPads might as well be a pallet of stationary supplies.
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by wmil 13y ago
There are shapes that can't easily be generated with traditional manufacturing processes. For instance, with 3d printing you can make a fully assembled crescent wrench. Traditional methods require you to make 3 parts and put them tog
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by wmil 13y ago
It's extremely politically incorrect to talk about, but Detroit never really recovered from the 1967 riots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot Things got bad. The insurrection act was invoked. The US
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by wmil 13y ago
Color film degrades fairly quickly. It won't last 100 years unless it's constantly climate controlled.
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by wmil 13y ago
This line... > Considering that our cells depend on sugar for energy, Is dishonest. In general parlance "sugar" refers to sucrose. Sucrose is a glucose bonded to a fructose. Our bodies need glucose to live. However they do not
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by wmil 13y ago
That's just installing it on a desktop. Try installing an SSL certificate on a mobile browser.
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by wmil 13y ago
I have one possible explanation. Proposition 13 limits property tax increases to 2% per year in California. As a result, many homes are taxed at far below their market value. If a lot of long term residents with dirt cheap property tax sol
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by wmil 13y ago
Actually that works in their favor. It's been long enough that they can probably run the original system and software on an emulator with a faster CPU setting.
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by wmil 13y ago
Personally I'm still trying to put together a bitcoin machine that can be marketed as a cost neutral electric heater.
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by wmil 13y ago
Flowcharts are waste of time. But diagrams can be very helpful. The important thing to remember is that "a complete map" will be too noisy to be useful. A diagram can describe a few parts of a complex system quickly and easily.
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by wmil 13y ago
I use Umlet: http://www.umlet.com/ It's good for quick diagrams when you need to explain some of the more bizarre architectural choices in your system.
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by wmil 13y ago
No, quickmeme doesn't actually generate the final images. Instead it layers a transparent PNG on top of the image.
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by wmil 13y ago
> Surprised the cab to the airport didn't "break down" (or blow up) or he didn't get mugged on his way to the airport. He's in no danger of being assassinated. There wouldn't be any point. Killing him to &qu
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by wmil 13y ago
It'd actually be pretty safe to do it in the tech industry. The DoJ and activists are only interested in suing companies where a) it's difficult to rate individual performance and b) judges think that "anyone can do that job&
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by wmil 13y ago
There have been plenty of people over the years who have requested asylum from the US. It's not a new thing. Actually I'm not aware of any point in US history where an NSA employee could leak information to foreign journalists and

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