ajaxian

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by ajaxian 16y ago
> Even more absorption can be had if you use pyramidal foam Hell, it would also make the pat-down a lot more interesting! Thanks for the detailed answer. Of course my original question was somewhat facetious, but I do think it's farcica
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by ajaxian 16y ago
Serious question for the physicists: How feasible would it be to put a faraday cage in one's underpants that wouldn't trigger a metal detector but would mess up the body scanner?
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by ajaxian 16y ago
Thunderstorms and lightning don't care who's driving the plane.
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by ajaxian 16y ago
I think it's safe to say that Greenspun isn't working as a junior pilot for the money since not too many people making $18k/year have their own plane, helicopter and Acura NSX.
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by ajaxian 16y ago
It's not all bad: The California proposition to legalize marijuana was defeated in yesterday's election, which should help maintain demand for BC Gold dope.
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by ajaxian 16y ago
I can testify first-hand that the way the current H1B green card application process is structured actively discourages long-term investment in the US by H1B visa holders. Given the possibility that you have to leave the US if you lose an H
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by ajaxian 16y ago
I've been in the US since mid-2006 on an H1B, and making $100k+ annually. However, I'm currently in the final stages of applying for residency Down Under and am planning on leaving the US w/ my wife and son in early December. The reasons
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by ajaxian 16y ago
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/20/live-from-apples-back-to-...
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by ajaxian 16y ago
Consider the typical "corporate IT" environment where your boss is not qualified to evaluate your ability as a programmer. Unfortunately for you he stumbles across an article like this in a reputable business newspaper and thinks to himsel
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by ajaxian 16y ago
> How much time are you planning on spending worrying about whether or not you'll be invaded by barbarians today? That seems to be a primary concern of the Arizona state legislature: http://www.google.com/search?q=arizona+sb+1070
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by ajaxian 16y ago
Fun facts: Gene Simmons was born as Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel, and at one point planned on being a rabbi.
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by ajaxian 16y ago
Incidentally the US Federal Reserve is currently the world's second largest holder of treasuries after China ( http://www.zerohedge.com/article/deconstructing-pomo-fed-bec... ) and is on track to become the single largest holder in about a
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by ajaxian 16y ago
To my mind this is the key quote: "If you have a low skilled job there is a higher chance of your job being outsourced but if you are a software developer developing complex software you are very much in demand." The fact is that most new C
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by ajaxian 16y ago
Fair point. I didn't intend to diss C, and if one were to write Oracle from scratch today, C is (sadly?) still probably the best option given its performance and portability constraints. What I had in mind was that for anyone who is techni
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by ajaxian 16y ago
It probably doesn't matter much to Oracle to stay on good terms w/ the technical community since technical people aren't their customers. The people who have the budgetary authority to buy Oracle's very expensive products very likely haven'
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by ajaxian 16y ago
I work in finance and have an undergrad CS degree. It's common for folks in finance to have undergrad technical degrees (e.g., physics, math, CS) and graduate degrees in something more closely related to finance such as an MBA or MS in quan
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by ajaxian 16y ago
Roughly 30 - 40% more than you could expect to get working as a programmer outside of finance. But considering that the hours are longer, it's not much more on an hourly basis on a straight salary basis. However, if you're an employee, yo
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by ajaxian 16y ago
I work in finance (for an investment management firm that's a household name in the CNBC world) and can confirm that the synopsis re: working for finance, "Lots of money but crappy environment, dull projects etc." is correct. Here's a summa