aohtsab

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by aohtsab 14y ago
I haven't talked to an immigration lawyer; and I think that they will be able to clear up quite a bit for me. Mostly I've been working through this on my own, with some help from the Australian Embassy as well. I will get in touch with one.
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by aohtsab 14y ago
My boyfriend lives in Melbourne; hence the motivation to move. ThoughtWorks has an office in Melbourne, and Google in Sydney, but it was hard to find other pure tech companies in the area. It's a shame that there isn't a well-defined exchan
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by aohtsab 14y ago
This is interesting to hear. I'm in the process of applying for an Australian visa (no CS degree). To get an independent visa, I need 2 more years of work experience, before I qualify to apply to have my skills tested by ACS in very speci
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by aohtsab 14y ago
When I was starting out in German, I started listening to the audiobooks and reading the German text. Knowing the small words (prepositions and other stopwords) isn't of much use on its own, but having a general feel for the plot and knowin
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HelloWallet raises $12m in Series B funding(fis.dowjones.com)
1 points by aohtsab 15y ago|0 comments
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by aohtsab 15y ago
A faster approach would be to spoof your user agent -- announce yourself as IE 8 on Windows XP.
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by aohtsab 15y ago
A simple SOCKS proxy would have saved him a lot of trouble.
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by aohtsab 15y ago
word of advice: never combine the phrase "rock star" with "hacker".
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by aohtsab 16y ago
On the contrary, I found the book engaging and interesting. Maor's passion for trigonometry shows through in his clever examples and humorous stories. (Read the prologue about Ahmes the Scribe)
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by aohtsab 16y ago
What's the point of this? Drinking a beer on an empty stomach will compound the alcohol absorption, and mixing a depressant with red bull puts you at serious risk of heart problems. If it's a new diet fad you're after, you'd be much better
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by aohtsab 16y ago
> You'd probably be arrested out of sheer spite You're probably right, and this makes me very sad. For all the supposed rights US citizens fight to defend, both the TSA workers and air travelers are just rolling over at the threat of be
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by aohtsab 16y ago
I suppose it's "donation-based", but you fill in the donation with the actual subscription. NCG doesn't sound like a non-profit. I wonder what Paypal's stance is on this.
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by aohtsab 16y ago
no matter how many times I read this, I'm always slightly caught off guard. The image many people seem to engender of fb is one of a public service -- ie they only "see" their friends on fb, not some abstract CEO. With that reasoning, it ma
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Netsukuku: P2P Internet Connectivity(netsukuku.freaknet.org)
2 points by aohtsab 16y ago|0 comments
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by aohtsab 16y ago
I've always been confused on this part — do ISPs have a certain bandwidth to start out with, of which they then allocate portions to their customers? The problem with 'bandwidth-hogs', from that assumption, is that ISPs oversell pieces of t
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by aohtsab 16y ago
I would rather pay $10 a month than have to shuffle through corporate-generated content.
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In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That(nytimes.com)
2 points by aohtsab 16y ago|0 comments
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by aohtsab 16y ago
I usually code 5-7 days of the week, ranging from 1/2 hr - 7 hrs. My hands are the limiting factor in this regard, seeing as my carpal tunnel syndrome dictates the amount of time I spend on my computer. And if I'm not coding, I read about p
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by aohtsab 16y ago
I'm very intrigued by the Sans Institute; has anyone attended one of their classes?
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by aohtsab 16y ago
>But, with the exception of a rare few, it seems that neither male nor female programmers give a rat’s ass about fashion. Fantastic. My sister got on my case about not dressing up or, as she called it, 'showing off my body'. You're only
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by aohtsab 16y ago
Does anyone have experience working with WINE? (WINE Is Not an Emulator). Also switching from Mac to Linux (Ubuntu), but have a few applications that require Windows.
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by aohtsab 16y ago
I am also getting into trading, and I've been frequenting fool.com — they have great beginner/novice resources.
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by aohtsab 16y ago
uh oh. Also, you have DEBUG = TRUE in your Django settings.
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by aohtsab 16y ago
This just reminded me to look into online grocery/misc shopping -- my plan is to analyse my shopping/use patterns and then try to automate that. I can't agree with this post enough -- I really hate grocery shopping. I don't mind running nec
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by aohtsab 16y ago
This reminds me of the markov-generated paper that was accepted for review (or publication) at a distinguished organisation! I don't have a link, although I think it was on HN awhile back.
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Ask HN: DefCON 18?
1 points by aohtsab 16y ago|1 comments
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by aohtsab 16y ago
Wouldn't the investors be able to see through the smoke, though? I mean, if a phony starts getting peppered with technical questions, and he balks, shouldn't that be a giveaway?
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by aohtsab 16y ago
That's a really neat idea! Now I'm thinking of which short stories to frame on my wall =)
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by aohtsab 16y ago
I don't think either's success can be compared accurately — one is a behemoth of a company and the other operates on a much, much smaller scale. Besides, Ren & Stimpy did garner a sizeable cult following (not including myself) — and qua
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by aohtsab 16y ago
fortunately I'd blend in because I'm Eastern European -- and its something I'll have to deal with anyway. =)

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