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by wmt 11y ago
Don't get fooled by the success-posts on FB, as they are an extremely edited version of real life. If you really put on effort to make your life appear as fabulous as possible on FB, wouldn't you be also feel shitty compared to th
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by wmt 11y ago
Don't self-diagnose yourself too quickly, as none the features are not unique to ADD. Reading through the list of symptoms at http://www.helpguide.org/articles/add-adhd/adult-adhd-attent... I can more or less
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by wmt 11y ago
Employee unions have traditionally resolved such employer abuses like lowering the hourly wage by unpaid overtime. Thanks to this many western countries have contracts or even laws which forbid unpaid or mandatory overtime.
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by wmt 11y ago
A man is in Spain and calls his mother in US for help, and mother then calls an US company for help, who refuse to hand out client information for random people who call and claim that the client is doing a crime? Instructing to call the po
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by wmt 11y ago
Education is not traumatic for people who can cope with failure, but can be devastating for those who have not learned how to deal with. Handling negative emotions like rage, fear, failure, regret, envy or disappointment are basic skills we
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by wmt 11y ago
Terrorists really should start using aliases like "John Williams", "George Bush", "Donald Trump" etc. to circumvent these name lists, as they already managed to max out the patdown ineffectiveness with the shoe
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by wmt 11y ago
If the startup has a total of two other developers, I'm not sure they're at a point where they can afford to hire juniors devs to babysit. Then of course there's the whole part about disclosing company trade secrets.
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by wmt 11y ago
Damn. The thing is, web programming is real programming. I work with low level system security components, and before that worked on medical software, i.e. what the author considers "real programming". However, during the IE 6.0 e
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by wmt 11y ago
The sad thing is that in Europe the employee unions managed to sell many benefits as reasonable for the employer unions, like: - Paid sickleave that doesn't count as vacation - Several weeks of vacation per year - Voluntary and paid ov
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by wmt 11y ago
Wait, you mean like _CRTDBG_DELAY_FREE_MEM_DF which will just mark freed blocks as freed and inaccessible? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5at7yxcs.aspx
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by wmt 11y ago
Work on a massive decades old software project and get ready to have your eyes opened. All the automated static and dynamic software analyzers catch only the easiest flaws, but can catch the more serious ones only if you're skilled and
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by wmt 11y ago
Rising property values doesn't sound that bad compared to actively helping repressive governments to hunt, torture and murder the people speaking against them.
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by wmt 11y ago
That would sound more reasonable, do you have a source for that or is that just heresay?
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by wmt 11y ago
By detecting some typical exploit pattern, the exploit kit itself, the malware the exploit eventually ends up downloading and executing, or even the malicious host itself. There might be other ways too, but those at least are the most typic
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by wmt 11y ago
That kind of conspiracy is just too fragile to be believable. While the opsec of such coersion operation with a company full of unpatriotic foreigners sounds like an absolute nightmare, it's also much much safer and much easier to buil
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by wmt 11y ago
It fills me with confidence when even a company has obviously never read its TOS and it's riddled with hilarious glitches like this: "Tilt is not liable or responsible for: 1. Any Campaign not attaining a goal amount, no matter th
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by wmt 11y ago
For me the illusion isn't really the Moon illusion but the sky illusion. Sky on top of me feels closer to me than the horizon, even though I know it isn't, so it's not that surprising that the same angular size near the horiz
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by wmt 11y ago
Comments are not to explain corner cases, but to explain why are you you doing what you are doing, what is your motivation. Why are you calling a system API with these strange parameters? Why do want to sort this table? Why are you lazy
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by wmt 11y ago
These election engines have been around for a really long time, but the funny thing is that often no matter how you answer the topical questions, you'll very likely end up getting a few candidates from very surprising parties. Unfortun
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by wmt 11y ago
Arraging flights for an in-person interview, or arranging the visa and accomodation for new hires are what legal and HR departments get paid for. The biggest problem has always been finding good new colleagues. Bad Internet connection for t
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by wmt 11y ago
"If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn’t have done it." https://blog.whatsapp.com/529/Setting-the-record-straight
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by wmt 11y ago
So wait, you know that Whatsapp has never have ads, but because it some day theoretically could have ads, you're saying that the post is irrelevant? Damn. Facebook have been bying all kinds on successful tech companies that don't
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by wmt 11y ago
How would they link your whatsapp account to your facebook account? Whatsapp only knows my phone number and what phone numbers I contact, and my facebook account doesn't know my whatsapp phone number.
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by wmt 11y ago
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2886
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by wmt 12y ago
Much further from the reality. The US has huge flaws and gaping failures with these matters, but still compared to China it is objectively way less authoritan, and has a much better track record with respecting free speech and human rights.
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by wmt 12y ago
The technical analysis pinpointing the attack to the Chinese government was definitely not blurry. TTL based tracing is very deterministic and easy to understand, and finding the injection point to be at the same spot with the Great Firewal
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by wmt 12y ago
Surprisingly my medium sized employer of ~1000 employees has had surprisingly good experiences with internal startups, during the last three years there's been three failures, one small success and one major success. The startups were
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by wmt 12y ago
I think the author understands the NIH syndrome just fine, and starts the whole post describing the IH syndrome as the extreme opposite of NIH pretty well, where one is ready bend over backwards to use a subset of a 3rd party library, even
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by wmt 12y ago
You can watch it in a movie theater. http://www.moviefone.com/movie/citizenfour/20058402/showtime... HBO is also showing it, http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/citizenfour , but if you just
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by wmt 12y ago
From the article it felt like nobody had called BS because they didn't understand the math at all, not because they were afraid of their careers or something. It is extremely rare that a researcher tries to debunk an article because th

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