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by wtracy 12y ago
My first reaction is: This would be really cool if I hadn't already invested the effort to learn LaTeX/XeTeX. Does this really provide anything beyond the really nice formatting?
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by wtracy 12y ago
The sources that tell you to have a one-page resume typically expect you to edit out anything that doesn't apply to the job you are currently applying for. It makes some sense. You're trying to ensure that all the high points in
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by wtracy 12y ago
How does this differ from FRP in Haskell?
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by wtracy 12y ago
If EVA isn't even an option, what exactly is this manned mission supposed to accomplish that an entirely robotic one can't? It seems like a manned mission purely for the sake of being a manned mission.
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by wtracy 12y ago
Also, keep multiple windows open at different zoom levels! It's pretty ancient, but here's Larry Ewing's notes on how he created the original Tux image in Gimp: http://isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/note
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by wtracy 12y ago
Is it just the bigger company will hold off because you now have "ammunition" to also sue them for infringement in a kind of MAD standoff? That's exactly it.
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by wtracy 12y ago
Haxe looks really cool, but the last time I looked at it, the documentation left a lot to be desired (most of it assumed familiarity with the Flash drawing APIs). It does look like the situation has improved since then, but I'm guessi
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by wtracy 12y ago
I'm not a founder either, but I could see someone relying on a patent to coax the next round of investors on board.
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by wtracy 12y ago
The problem is not that the Flash game is so tightly coupled to the hardware, it's that it is tightly coupled to the Flash runtime. (Mainly because Flash forces a certain structure on your code, but also because Flash's idiosyncra
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by wtracy 12y ago
I'm curious about the rationale for declaring this process unconstitutional. "Unfair" doesn't automatically mean "unconstitutional".
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by wtracy 12y ago
That's cold comfort when your startup has six months of runway left.
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by wtracy 12y ago
Care to elaborate? Does FreeBSD make assumptions about the root user's shell that Linux doesn't?
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by wtracy 12y ago
Peopleware actually covers a study where standardized programming assignments were handed out to developers for them to take back to their offices and complete. The programmers were asked to time how long it took to complete these tasks. Th
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by wtracy 12y ago
It's not quite what you're looking for, but the Kindle Paperwhite will apparently pair with a Bluetooth keyboard. EDIT: Better choice: The OLPC lets you turn off the screen backlight and that gets you a grayscale display that work
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by wtracy 12y ago
Heh, the B&W RED camera costs more than the color version, and people still buy it. I've seen zilch available in the consumer space, though.
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by wtracy 12y ago
> Don't put anything at more than 3 clicks in. How do you balance that against the "maximum six plus-or-minus two items at each level" advice?
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by wtracy 12y ago
There's actually been at least one phone (in the UK) that uses an x86 chipset: http://www.cnet.com/uk/products/orange-san-diego/
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by wtracy 12y ago
> Offputting is the strong focus on libre in the announcement. While I actually like that I often find that projects that emphasize their relation to free/libre software are .. failing in the real world. It's a GNU project. GNU
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by wtracy 12y ago
Interesting. I would have expected the impetus to be Snapchat thinking, "We have lots of users. How do we monitize them?"
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by wtracy 12y ago
Five years in the industry here and I've gone through about that many jobs, too. Not once, ever, have I had a conversation with a third-party recruiter lead to a job offer. Every job I've gotten, I've had to do the legwork my
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by wtracy 12y ago
These days most of them seem to know how to edit PDFs. I kind of want to add a PGP signature to my resume, and add an opening line that warns the recipient not to trust the resume unless the signature matches up. Naturally, the recruiters w
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by wtracy 12y ago
Would optical processors be immune to some of these problems?
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by wtracy 12y ago
> also makes AT&T less competitive I'd bet dollars to donuts that the proposed cancellations only affect areas where no competition exists to begin with.
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by wtracy 12y ago
How would you go about increasing competition among broadband ISPs? I think we all would prefer to see that, but I don't see how to make it happen. Lobbyists are already making it illegal for local governments to address the problem by
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by wtracy 12y ago
At this point in time, no. If any of the runtimes that you use decide to start adding a systemd dependency, though, then you need to start paying attention.
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by wtracy 12y ago
Does Amazon use some kind of stack ranking?
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by wtracy 12y ago
You misunderstand me. If a woman is denied a $80k job oppportunity and forced to take a $30k job instead, she has suffered a direct $50k/year financial loss. If a man is pushed out of one $50k job into another $50k job, he has suffered
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by wtracy 12y ago
This is a job posting for at administrative assistant position, which is generally not considered a prestigious or high-paying role. While the attitude displayed in that discussion is very frustrating and disappointing, it's not really
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by wtracy 12y ago
It is a valid strategy to not sweat the individual purchases, but watch your bank account and track your overall burn rate, then adjust if necessary.
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by wtracy 12y ago
I take it that here we have a starting point for building an authentic haunted house.

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