consultant23522

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by consultant23522 13y ago
Yesterday I was reading an article about this case that stated Newegg didn't even bother to call their witnesses to dispute the amount of damages that would've been caused by their patent violation. It gave the impression that th
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by consultant23522 13y ago
I grew up and live in the lower right 1/3 of the US and his depiction is not that far off. Based on totally made up statistics that I'm pulling from my nether regions right now I'd guess at least one jury member had the exac
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by consultant23522 13y ago
I was wondering this myself.
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by consultant23522 13y ago
I'd be interested in hearing of any warrant canaries that disappeared.
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by consultant23522 13y ago
It's sad that I thought it was serious/plausible right up until the robot doubles.
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by consultant23522 13y ago
Releasing information can be civil disobedience and imho should be shown leniency when it is. I don't suggest that I'm the one that should determine whether something should qualify as civil disobedience or not, but there's
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by consultant23522 13y ago
For the millionth time. If you're going to tell me you don't trust me to work from home you'd better not be pushing to outsource to India. I mean how can you trust someone on the other side of the planet but you can't
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by consultant23522 13y ago
No, people could always have said things about me and I'd have no way of stopping them.
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by consultant23522 13y ago
Is this not the case with all three big players in the smartphone market? I don't have an iphone but my ipod sure seems useless without an account with Apple. It's the same account I use for itunes, apps on my macbook pro, and t
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by consultant23522 13y ago
"The majority of people prefer it this way" seems like the perfect justification for a coding standard. Consistency is way more important to me than perfectly matching up with some specific ideal.
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by consultant23522 13y ago
I had the opposite experience. Working long hours never got me a raise or promotion. Successful projects got me raises and promotions, but I generally don't need to work even 40 hours to make that happen. Once I lifted my head up ou
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by consultant23522 13y ago
I feel like what companies mean when they say that children should learn to program is that they should learn problem solving and critical thinking skills. In my experience these things are saved for only the children who are tested and ma
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by consultant23522 13y ago
Something, something, xkcd, $5 wrench.
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by consultant23522 13y ago
It's the old statistics vs story narrative. People don't relate to stories of the masses. They can relate and react to the story of an individual though. So governments and organizations need to be focused on the broader statis
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by consultant23522 13y ago
I'm also a white male and reading the article I kept thinking "The requirement for speaking and dressing well doesn't have anything to do with your skin color." The old adage about dressing for the job you want is tru
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by consultant23522 13y ago
Incidentally this is PRECISELY why our country was founded on the idea of a weak federal government and strong state governments.. it's just too damned big with too many different competing cultures and ideologies to get anything done.
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by consultant23522 13y ago
I'm an American so I'm probably biased.. but what I've found is that in most school districts you can get as good of an education as you want. I grew up in South Carolina and went to high/secondary school in Florida.. t
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by consultant23522 13y ago
lol, a one year severance package. That sounds like fantasy land to me.
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by consultant23522 13y ago
I would assume any country with a big enough economy/budget is monitoring international internet communication in its totality. Or at least attempting it. Of course there's really only a hand full of nations that could likely pu
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by consultant23522 13y ago
Meh, in exchange for DRM I get Netflix and Hulu content streamed to my house for dirt cheap pricing. Now I might DISAGREE that DRM was necessary or even useful, but the content providers simply would not have made that content available wi
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by consultant23522 13y ago
I actively avoid Paypal for anything other than Ebay, and that's only because Ebay won't let anyone else but their own payment system on the site. I'm usually quite happy to use Google's payment system and I'll be
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by consultant23522 13y ago
There's a few other players trying to do similar things. The big box stores are getting better at their online fulfillment. Sears is famously going that route putting a bunch of brands together. No one has come up with the silver bu
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by consultant23522 13y ago
I had a manager that would repeatedly use this type of remark. We had this particular application that on one could touch without breaking something. It was always a mess. He would often remark "I wrote the whole thing over a weeken
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by consultant23522 13y ago
What purpose would it serve the government to describe its limits?
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by consultant23522 13y ago
Coral cache has it: http://blog.splinter.me.nyud.net/salaries-for-developers-and...
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by consultant23522 13y ago
There's a local startup here that I would absolutely love to work for, except for one thing. I have a lot of experience in their technology stack and some domain knowledge. They won't hire be because I'm not willing/in
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by consultant23522 13y ago
To be fair, Reddit has been bitten by several image hosts before doing nasty things like botting up-votes to increase their traffic. It's not surprising they're skeptical of new hosts.
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by consultant23522 13y ago
I recently worked a gig where the company was a medium sized international business with I think a few thousand employees but did not yet have a local office. They found a place with old, "conventional" offices with real walls a
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by consultant23522 13y ago
Well, if you go by % of internet traffic Google is 40-50% of all internet traffic. You could probably get above 99% of all internet traffic with a shockingly small number of sites. While Google, for example, uses SSL it's not like yo
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by consultant23522 13y ago
I think the big difference is that the civil engineer doesn't actually lay the cement himself, but the software engineer does. This has a lot of ramifications about how each approaches the problems and sees themselves in context.

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