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by ww 15y ago
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp The point is a good one though.
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by ww 15y ago
You might mean most banks or big corporations have larger and more complex interrelated schemas than most developers are used to.
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by ww 15y ago
Well remember I said the managers in these cases are incompetent (pointy haired, Dilbert types). A random person off the street would be better. The tech guy that knows the business and the software and has been working with said software
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by ww 15y ago
Banks are another subject entirely: www.dartmouth.edu/~blnchflr/papers/finalrestat.pdf "We conduct an econometric analysis of loan outcomes by race and find that black- owned small businesses are about twice as likely to be denied credit
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by ww 15y ago
The racism that I've come in contact with (in corporate settings at least) is towards people from India. Not people born here and of Indian descent, but people from India with Indian culture. It would probably be better to call it "cult
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by ww 15y ago
It's pretty hard to get the (now increased) recommended allowance for vitamin D (600 IUs ... especially as an indoor-programmer-type). You need 10 glasses of milk to get that without supplementing. http://www.docgurley.com/2008/05/18/the-
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by ww 15y ago
The diet changed, and more then compensated for the exercise change.
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by ww 15y ago
My lawyer (a tax attorney) said this is rarely prosecuted on independent contractors who are themselves incorporated (along with things like actually have a contract etc). From my own experience this is true as well. Think about it, the I
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by ww 15y ago
"People still need what they need and want what they want and are going to buy those things regardless of what relative prices will be in the future." What about "investors" instead of "consumers"? Right now an investor simply makes a choi
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by ww 15y ago
>>Comparing the two over all domains is ridiculous as this includes mass domains such as parked domains which can easily give Apache 10s of millions of useless stat points as one registrar switches a couple of servers. If we are cou
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by ww 16y ago
>>There is absolutely no way for Mozilla to get your data, even if subpoenaed There needs to be more assurances like this in the world.
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by ww 16y ago
Is the EFF the most effective organization that accepts donations to fight this type of thing?
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by ww 16y ago
I really never had a large network of contacts. I just used DICE and the like. My technique is just do as many interviews as possible when it's time. If I wasn't so lazy I would market myself better. I have a bunch of other rules but th
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by ww 16y ago
Alternate between billing really high to fix really really screwed up projects and billing a bit lower but taking interesting projects that you can use to update your skillset. I've made 125kish a year contracting this way in the non-major
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by ww 16y ago
Microsoft's strategy is to build/own the platform and then add value to the platform by harvesting what is on top (buying software/copying ideas etc). From a game-theoretic view point, GPL is a strategy that works well vs harvesting and sh
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by ww 17y ago
I really don't think corporate programmers have a problem with sql but more so TSQL or pl-sql. I think they intuitively have a problem with what is essentially a wrapper language for sql that is using 30 year old language technology (proce
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by ww 18y ago
Count me as one from the 'services' that has gone on to well paying non-defense job(s). But you are correct in that it doesn't happen often. At least not without getting a degree somewhere along the line.
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by ww 18y ago
>>>>I simply will not reply to challenges that do not address this question. Refutability is one of the classic determinants of whether a theory can be called scientific. >>This falsifiability criterion is what deter
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by ww 19y ago
The company(s) mentioned in the book still exist, but they no longer try to 'play market'. The more incentive you give people/subgroups to compete with one another, the more incentive they have to not share information(best practices) wi
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by ww 19y ago
Theres a view in economics that you 'can not play market' within the boundaries of the firm. That is to say if there is an overseeing committee that can end a project prematurely then you are not really having market forces operate 'within
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by ww 19y ago
If you love what you do you will rarely find someone that can compete with you. That being said I am a non-degreed programmer of 14 years experience. Having researched this topic many times I believe Michael Spence has cornered why and h
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by ww 19y ago
The spam has historically been a problem with this but how about an OCR capable component where the contributor is able to upload a picture of their check (not available to the public) thereby becominge 'confirmed'. That might keep out the
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by ww 19y ago
Doctor Who has a real name, but Paul Graham encrypted it.
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by ww 19y ago
A degree in Philosophy = the same value as a degree in computer science. You come out knowing about as much as someone with 2 to 12 months of real life experience depending on how much you applied yourself. You shouldn't expect anyone who
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by ww 19y ago
The main purpose of philosophy is to find truth without exceptions. There are people, like descarte, that spend their lives trying to find something that is true, and then measure everything else within that truth Metaphysics: What is true,