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Atlantic Media Takes a Stand on Intern Pay.(dailyfinance.com)
1 points by wooster 17y ago|0 comments
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by wooster 17y ago
"none are ever mentioned in the video" They specifically mention a Bradley ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Bradley ) in the video.
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by wooster 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Tel...
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by wooster 17y ago
From GPLv2: "You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change." http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
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by wooster 17y ago
Ever been to Napoli? It reset my idea of what a dirty city looks like.
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by wooster 17y ago
Oh, I'm sure they did. Are you a virgin? http://www.flickr.com/photos/awooster/4483136943/
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by wooster 17y ago
There are countries outside the US where the province may be required for proper routing of mail. I'm still working on my address support. It's hard, considering there are more de facto countries than are legally recognized by any internati
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by wooster 17y ago
As someone who's built his own infrastructure, I'll respond. 1. 30m requests/month is about 11.5 requests/second. My service can do 300 search requests/second sustained off of one machine. That's with a pretty minimal setup. Data is backed
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by wooster 17y ago
I'm not down-modding you, but I am using AMQP in production on http://tweeteorites.com/ with RabbitMQ. I need persistence and flow control, as my consumers are unreliable and production rate is highly variable. This will become even more
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by wooster 17y ago
Cattle rancher here. You can get tapeworms by eating uncooked beef. Thankfully it's usually easily, albeit unpleasantly, cured. However, you need to know you have them first, which can take some time.
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by wooster 17y ago
Some of the biggest companies with the most social impact were started to solve problems everyone (sometimes even the founders) thought were trivial first world problems. Microsoft was started to write software for the Altair. Apple was sta
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by wooster 17y ago
I've only ever used the C implementation. It's slow.
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Unfair Internships(unfairinternships.wordpress.com)
13 points by wooster 17y ago|14 comments
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Summer interns can’t just be free labor - Management 101- msnbc.com(msnbc.msn.com)
2 points by wooster 17y ago|1 comments
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Unpaid Internships? No Such Thing - BusinessWeek(businessweek.com)
1 points by wooster 17y ago|0 comments
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Some unpaid internships may be against the law | ScrippsNews(scrippsnews.com)
6 points by wooster 17y ago|3 comments
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BBC News - Unpaid internships 'breaking minimum wage law'(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by wooster 17y ago|0 comments
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Not Enough Golf - flextime policy led to a ruinous fight with federal regulators(reason.com)
5 points by wooster 17y ago|6 comments
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by wooster 17y ago
I use them internally for a recommendation server, but will be moving away from them because they're extremely slow in Python.
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by wooster 17y ago
Lay off the personal attacks, please.
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by wooster 17y ago
As far as I can tell, the Scientology thing was due to a DMCA takedown notice by the Church of Scientology. Due to that, Google now publishes all DMCA requests here: http://chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi They also link to those DMCA reque
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by wooster 17y ago
I learned to program by reading code others had written. This was way before college. By the time I got to college, I had years of experience reading Perl scripts and very complex C networking programs. If there's one thing I would fix in C
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by wooster 17y ago
I'm pretty sure that was meant to be humorous.
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by wooster 17y ago
Unpaid software internships are for suckers. * If an intern is providing value for the company, they should be paid. * The barrier to someone providing value as a programmer is extremely low. A bright, hard-working sophomore CS major should
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by wooster 17y ago
Oh, yeah, it's still going on, but at least the tide of "in the future everyone will use disposable cell phones and computers" articles has died down a bit.
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by wooster 17y ago
I carry a metal bottle, and NALGENE is now moving to stainless steel bottles. It would've been great if we'd just skipped all the steps between canteens and going back to metal bottles, though. That whole 80's-00's trend of making products
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by wooster 17y ago
As far as I can tell you cannot: * select or copy text * highlight * take notes * search for text Making this less useful than paper books or PDFs, which is quite a feat.
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by wooster 17y ago
The Census obfuscations have apparently screwed up a variety of research findings: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/can-you-tru...
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by wooster 17y ago
Funny you should mention that, as the doctor shortage in the US is at least partially caused by lobbying by the AMA: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-doctor-shorta...
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by wooster 17y ago
I feel like I've read this article in Reason before. http://reason.com/archives/2004/01/09/flower-power

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