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by 3am 11y ago
It's fair to point out they also sued after they issued a warning shot, in the form of a C & D. I like your analogy of the site being forked. I don't believe for a 2nd that the companies scraping the CL data and putting a pret
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by 3am 11y ago
CL is popular because it's simple, easy, cheap. They have tons of competitors that they manage to beat, so they're doing something right. Companies that want to horn in on them should create the marketplace as well as the front en
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by 3am 11y ago
I don't think that temporary part fabrication for critical assembly lines qualifies as overhyping 3d printing. That seems super reasonable :) A 3d printer in every house, completely removing the need for centralized manufacture or dist
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by 3am 11y ago
Would this actually be a pretty bad application of 3-d printing? I thought the metals were generally or exclusively done through sintering, and and for some reason (may be incorrect) it didn't do as well with tensile & deformation
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by 3am 11y ago
Don't forget agriculture, aerospace/defense, banking. Hard to get bent out of shape when someone gets a slice of the pie that is trying to improve things.
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by 3am 11y ago
"Those fears were not in the slightest irrational. People had really really bad reactions to the regular pertussis to the point that people routinely advised new parents not to get it for their children." Simply not true. You can
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by 3am 11y ago
Just because you are willing/able to leave a company doesn't mean you advertise it. Hence "explicit" vs "tacit" in my comment. What a person says about being loyal is irrelevant, you can't assume anyone wi
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by 3am 11y ago
That is apples and oranges. He's talking about a tacit understanding, and not necessarily in the context of upward movement. You're talking about explicitly telling management that you are actively looking. They'd have to be
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by 3am 11y ago
Outstanding answer - thanks for the pointer to the Lakos book.
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by 3am 11y ago
Not a PuTTY fan. I generally install Fedora or Linux vms on personal Windows systems (where they are mandatory/heavily advantageous and where security policies permit) in large part to have openssh-client, and then use vmhgfs shares to
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by 3am 11y ago
Test driven development usually refers to unit testing or integration testing. It would be interesting to know if you went beyond that and the nature of contract work you were doing (testing for an internal service with a RESTful API being
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by 3am 11y ago
1) Experts in all fields are always wrong sometimes. The nonexperts are wrong more frequently on average and people are less interested in proving them wrong. 2) Saying that implementing your own cryptography usually implies a production
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by 3am 11y ago
I could not disagree with you more. Maybe you could suggest what might be "more helpful" but I personally could not think of anything more useful that than telling people to not do something that puts their customers' and the
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by 3am 11y ago
It will turn into a cloud of asteroids surrounding the earth intended to prevent the human race from unleashing whatever hell we create with those autonomous mining robots on the ISS (would be my guess, at least). Feel like the agent/p
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by 3am 11y ago
My first reaction to the linked excerpt was that Seveneves reminded me of Galapagos (thematically)
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by 3am 12y ago
Yes, and pre-ACA, if were diagnosed with anything during a coverage gap, it would fall into the dreaded "pre-existing condition" category.
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by 3am 12y ago
Typical process might be - and this is at a very hight/crude level - 1) job that checks out & runs unit tests triggering 2) a job that creates a build triggering 3) a job deploying to an integration/staging environment and pos
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by 3am 12y ago
This is a pretty good list. It's a bit self-serving on the technology questions as well as the general line of questioning for TestMunk (understandably). If you are really hiring a QA Manager, also consider asking them about their team
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by 3am 12y ago
It's news because of index funds, that now must rebalance by selling T and buying AAPL. Otherwise, I agree completely that the DJIA is becoming a bit of an anachronism.
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by 3am 12y ago
You should talk to a CPA [edit: sorry, Canada - CGA], not an attorney, first. You are upset about something that might not be an issue. You haven't mentioned what type of stock options you have (in the US there are ISO and NQSO, and -
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by 3am 12y ago
I find your response a bit insulting and presumptuous. I'm sufficiently well developed to separate my feelings about a politician from their political party, and in turn from my own feelings about an abstract ethical scenario. And none
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by 3am 12y ago
Hah! Try spoofing an email to a recipient in the State Dept and tell me how it works out :)
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by 3am 12y ago
So, anyone with a brain realizes this is a political hit job leading up to the 2016 presidential election. So the promotion of this story has very few honest brokers involved & a lot of partisan motivation. But I am genuinely curious ab
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by 3am 12y ago
I thought it was notable that Buffet referred people to Airbnb for lodgings in the Omaha area for the shareholder meeting. Not a guy particularly noted for being on top of trends (note: I am a huge WEB fan in numerous ways, though). edit: s
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by 3am 12y ago
Tom Levenson posted a very nice tribute to him here: http://www.balloon-juice.com/2015/02/13/on-david-carr/
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by 3am 12y ago
I know you're joking, but to put how progressive the program is in context: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/02/12/south_car...
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by 3am 12y ago
Yeah, their ability to replace US/developed nation demand with internal demand in order to allow the RMB to float freely will be interesting. As it is now, a lot of their growth is based on government spending and some creative financ
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by 3am 12y ago
The world can't sustain a China middle class the same with similar proportion/consumption as the US (look at per capita oil consumption, fresh water consumpion, CO2 production, et al). That's maybe the bigger story in a bigge
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by 3am 12y ago
So this is a non-story. The royalty was based around a feature the company hasn't been able to deliver and was not contractually obligated to by any time. The kid doesn't seem particularly upset, and while it's not heartwarmi
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by 3am 12y ago
Not sure about budgetary minutia but surely this qualifies? http://www.cnet.com/news/obama-adds-14b-to-budget-for-steppe...

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