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by zecho 13y ago
JShint would catch that.
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by zecho 13y ago
It's partly private. To say it is not part of government is also inaccurate. It is independent of several branches in many respects, but relies in the government in others, by design. For example, the chair and vice chair are appointed
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by zecho 13y ago
Governments don't regulate technologies, they regulate people. There are a million ways governments (who are also made up of people) can and will regulate bitcoin and the like. The persistent belief among some cryptocurrency proponents
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by zecho 13y ago
If it's not anti-educational, it's an affront to education. Online education is an actually interesting problem space in the world and Blackboard, Desire 2 Learn and some horseshit software from Oracle is like the best stuff out t
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by zecho 13y ago
Oh god. My office ruined an entire afternoon of productivity with this game. Not because we were playing, but because we were one-upping each other on hacking the game. Great fun!
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by zecho 13y ago
It was Cow Clicker and it was a weird, terrible experiment. http://www.bogost.com/blog/cow_clicker_1.shtml http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_cowclicker/all/
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by zecho 13y ago
DDoS has also been used to cause netsplits, which can then be exploited to gain access to private rooms.
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by zecho 13y ago
Yep. The users with names like that in channels I'm in are actual users.
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by zecho 13y ago
I got annoyed, but mainly by the volume and persistence of a few bad recruiters. Many recruiters poorly represent their clients. The one that caused me to close my LinkedIn account spelled "projects" as "progects" three
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by zecho 13y ago
Alias sudo
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by zecho 13y ago
If you measure efficiency as the number of students per lecture, sure. I never found large classrooms to be all that useful while I was at university. I certainly remember more from my smaller classrooms where I was more closely connected t
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by zecho 13y ago
You didn't get it right. From the first sentence in the article: "A Florida woman has filed a $1.5 billion class-action lawsuit against online dating site Match.com..."
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by zecho 13y ago
Well, nearly every public speech from members of Congress and the executive office and the judicial branch is recorded, with some notable exceptions like national security, but even then, eventually that information enters the public record
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by zecho 13y ago
My general rule of thumb with unnamed sources is to completely disregard what they have to say. With named sources, my general rule of thumb is to assume they have ulterior motive for speaking to the press, usually apparent by looking at th
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by zecho 13y ago
The front end does, that was built by Development Seed. The problems have seemed to come from other contractors, such as CGI Federal, though I'm loathe to trust anything I've read in the news about this clusterfuck so far. The rep
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by zecho 13y ago
iTunes Radio has a similar issue with "Never Play this Song" which is found in a dialogue after clicking a star icon, which I assumed means "Play More Like This." On more than one occasion I've found my finger hover
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by zecho 13y ago
EFF is a 501(c) group, as is ACLU, but they both cover these issues aggressively.
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by zecho 13y ago
I'm talking about the tradeoffs, with space being one example. You can certainly rent a whole house, at what will most likely be more than the owner's mortgage so if you want to compare apples to apples on the final dollar amount
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by zecho 13y ago
Sure, if you're looking at the final dollar amount. Other factors need to come into play when you own a home. My rent was about $1000/month with utilities for about 1000 sq. feet. I now pay a mortgage of $1375/month + about $
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by zecho 13y ago
That's most likely untrue unless you find a rent controlled apartment or you compare apples to oranges in housing. Sure if you compare an $800/month 1-bedroom flat to the mortgage on a quarter million dollar home, there will not b
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by zecho 13y ago
We do this at my job. We try to come up with projects that are good fits for the candidate, usually a small version of a problem we've recently dealt with. It's not a first line, though. We tend to start by actively recruiting&#x2
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by zecho 13y ago
I hear this quite often about Github and it's a bit disturbing to me. If I heard an editor judge an author's work based on what that author posts to twitter, I'd be horrified. I can't be the only person on Github that us
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by zecho 13y ago
I'm not really talking about on the spot knowledge, though. After awhile, you should just know things. If every time you sat down to write a program, you had to look up the definition of a variable, you'd be in for quite a diffic
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by zecho 13y ago
Oops. My bad. I fixed it. Thanks.
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I believe that's the idea, yes. Small communities tend to be underserved for news content and local businesses don't want/need to advertise in their region's metro news sites, but may be interested in something more loca
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by zecho 13y ago
Imagine a disease in the modern world today that primarily affects young children and causes parents to bleach the streets and sidewalks. Local officials quarantine blocks of neighborhoods when someone is found with the disease, because the
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by zecho 13y ago
Facts are the building blocks of argument. One shouldn't expect an 8th grader in 1912 or 2013 to have particularly well-developed arguments until they understand basic facts. You might think "rote memorization" has little val
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by zecho 13y ago
I agree, but a very damning statistic is buried at the end of the article. The vast majority of these 1-star reviewers don't have other reviews on Amazon, which seems very odd, considering the book's subject matter is wonkish.
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by zecho 13y ago
I agree with this, but data for data's sake is worthless, which is where many life hackers get lost in the weeds. Knowing your calorie count helps you understand where you may be overestimating your exercise and underestimating your in
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by zecho 13y ago
I don't know. Often I'm not sure if I want the job or not whem I apply, so I see interviews as an opportunity to learn more about the company. Many companies are very different in what they ask for in a listing and what they'

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