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by zephjc 16y ago
> It means that anyone who's interviewing for a job at a company > can look up what everyone else at the company makes, so they > don't have to waste time interviewing with companies that pay > too little, and it gives them
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by zephjc 16y ago
All I can say is http://i.imgur.com/eCOz1.jpg
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by zephjc 16y ago
Needs "women laughing while eating salads alone" and "racially diverse business team" categories.
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by zephjc 16y ago
Well, "Thundernuts" just sounds like a flattering nickname.
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by zephjc 16y ago
My new TV does that - it came with the mode enabled, and when I watched an HD movie off Netflix, it seemed very odd and low-budget - this soap opera effect - until I realized what was going on with a second movie doing the same thing. It's
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by zephjc 16y ago
Maybe change the candidate requirements to ask for Python or Ruby knowledge, even if it's not required for the actual job. You might get more people with enjoy programming rather than those for whom it is just a job. However, be upfront w
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by zephjc 16y ago
Wow. Kind of reminds me of a cross between http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk and http://www.timecube.com/
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by zephjc 16y ago
"That's it, we're quitting. Sincerely, The Canonical database servers"
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by zephjc 16y ago
A stumbling block: effectiveness decreases as the number of concurrent occupants increases
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by zephjc 16y ago
The Registry - and by extension, installers in most cases - are over-engineered solution to the program config problem. OSX has been successfully using XML config files for 10+ years, and Unix in general with /etc/ and user's home dot-files
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by zephjc 16y ago
Because this is based around notions of geography w.r.t economy and society, it might be worth trying to simulate it in Minecraft (one would have to set up constraints to mimic scarcity of resources, etc).
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by zephjc 16y ago
Except it appears that, according to an update, CNN is sending 'only 50 "reporters, cameramen and crew"' to the wedding. The WSJ (who first reported this about CNN) is refusing to retract it because, well, that's just the kind of quality re
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by zephjc 16y ago
Only re. point two, googling "privacy vs convenience" returns a whole mess of articles, about cell phones, data mining, etc.
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by zephjc 16y ago
http://i.imgur.com/bzGxO.png Minecraft, WoW, Steam - you know, the essentials.
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by zephjc 16y ago
When I was younger I thought something like a hacker monastery would be fun (probably inspired by the term "Perl Monks"), but monetizing to the point of it being at least self-sustaining could be difficult.
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by zephjc 16y ago
"Hopefully you like php"
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by zephjc 16y ago
I think we are behind schedule for Back to the Future 2's 2015 prediction of the abolition of all lawyers.
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by zephjc 16y ago
This is pretty brilliant. A simulator of this device would make a good tool teaching tool for helping people grok bayes' formula. Weekend project anyone?
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by zephjc 16y ago
Now that the MacPaint src is out, I would like to see a web version of that. Sure, they're functionally pretty similar, but I have more nostalgia for MacPaint.
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by zephjc 16y ago
When love means never having to say "...Ok, now right-click on Local Area Connection..."
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by zephjc 16y ago
"Since April 1998, development has been picked up by others, notably Tim Hickey at Brandeis [...]" It seems Hickeys are cornering the Lisp-on-Java market.
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by zephjc 16y ago
That might explain GNU Hurd's development pace
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by zephjc 16y ago
This is interesting but very long. Is a transcript on the horizon?
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by zephjc 16y ago
Marie Curie in "Bride of the Toxic Avenger"?
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by zephjc 16y ago
Which gets to the root of the Wolfram's real issue with it: If you go to wolframalpha.com on an iOS device, you are shown an ad for their $1.99 app (which you can ignore and continue to the mobile version of their site). If you go straight
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by zephjc 16y ago
From a year ago, but still relevant. It's also a good lesson in handling program state without needing to make it mutable.
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by zephjc 16y ago
Partly it's API familiarity - clojure and clojure.contrib have a LOT of functions to offer, and a lot of the time may have higher order functions to do what you might be doing the hard way :)
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by zephjc 16y ago
It's amusing to see a place I grew up written up as a tourist attraction.
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by zephjc 16y ago
I think I missed that in my history books
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by zephjc 16y ago
http://oil.ly is already taken, btw, but seems unresponsive. http://oi.ly is also taken. Alas.

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