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by drags 10y ago
My understanding is that the "testimony" would be in the text of the password: compelling someone to reveal the password could be self-incriminating if _the password itself_ led them to additional evidence (e.g. a password of &quo
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TSA's idea: End screening at some airports(politico.com)
1 points by drags 10y ago|0 comments
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by drags 10y ago
Race is the theme of the article: "Our national history is rife with examples of black Americans facing exclusion from labor movements, as well as general workforce discrimination. It’s not hard to see how the effects of these policies
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by drags 10y ago
I think it's interesting that we're 44 comments in and nobody has commented on how race fits into this. She sees herself as someone working her way up into a freelance writing career. Her customers, her bosses and her family view
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Buying groceries for rich people, I realized upward mobility is largely a myth(buzzfeed.com)
51 points by drags 10y ago|65 comments
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by drags 11y ago
There's some evidence that a related effect may not be real: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...
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Ask a Hostage Negotiator: What's the Best Way to Get a Raise?(theatlantic.com)
7 points by drags 11y ago|0 comments
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Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich(thebaffler.com)
4 points by drags 12y ago|0 comments
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Why we should give free money to everyone(decorrespondent.nl)
6 points by drags 12y ago|0 comments
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by drags 12y ago
If he's the one who can't handle the breakup then shouldn't he be the one to leave? The knee-jerk assumption that _she_ should leave is an example of the implicit sexism that sucks about our industry.
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by drags 12y ago
>>> VERBA - San Francisco, CA >>> jobs@verbasoftware.com >>> http://staging.verbasoftware.com/ (we're mid-refresh) >>> Senior Rails/JS Product Focus - FULL-TIME or HALF-TIME wit
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by drags 12y ago
If this story piqued your interest in late Communist Poland, give Timothy Garton Ash a read. His "The Polish Revolution" is a great in depth account of the 1980/81 Polish uprising, and "The Magic Lantern" is a rompi
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by drags 12y ago
I'm being audited right now (over a $2,500 student loan interest deduction, of all things) and it's totally automated. It seems like they have an internal process that goes "Taxpayer claimed deduction, IRS doesn't have p
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by drags 12y ago
It doesn't fix the "custom book" problem, but if you're an instructor you should encourage your institution/bookstore to mandate price comparison for textbooks. We run white-labelled price comparison sites for about
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by drags 13y ago
I've mentioned this a couple times before but we hire Rails engineers for 24-40 hours a week + health insurance (in fact we're majority part-time at this point). It's not for everyone, but it works well for us. We're all
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by drags 13y ago
This post boils down to one statement: "every 100 days we have a 20-day-long crunch time". I'm all for getting things done, but scheduling arbitrary crunch times is a great way to wear the team down until people quit.
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by drags 13y ago
This is where triggering deploys through Jenkins is really helpful. Now you have a record of which SHA was deployed, when it was deployed and a copy of the console log for the deploy. Can't do much better than that.
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by drags 13y ago
VERBA - San Francisco * Rails/JS Product Focus - HALF-TIME with benefits * Rails/JS Product Focus - FULL-TIME * Product/Infrastructure Reliability/Performance Focus - HALF-TIME with benefits I mentioned a couple months a
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by drags 13y ago
This article makes it sound like an either-or, but JRuby is a mature alternative that allows you to pair Ruby's excellent web tools ecosystem (Rails foremost within it) with the ability to shunt off expensive tasks to Java or another J
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by drags 13y ago
It's easier to make this work when the company is smaller. One of the big advantages of SF (and especially the financial district) is that it's possible for most people in the city, the East Bay _and_ the South Bay to get to work
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by drags 13y ago
Why does it need to access my data on all websites? Shouldn't it only need access to mail.google.com? Same question for the tabs and browsing activity permission.
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by drags 13y ago
The federal system of justice doesn't generally work like this. Except where specifically allowed by statute US courts don't issue declaratory judgments, and the fact that LinkedIn didn't cite any statutory authority that wou
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by drags 13y ago
* SF - Rails/JS Product Focus - HALF-TIME with benefits * SF - Rails/JS Product Focus - FULL-TIME * SF - Product/Infrastructure Reliability/Performance Focus - HALF-TIME with benefits I mentioned a couple months ago that
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by drags 13y ago
SF - Rails/JS - HALF-TIME with benefits (or FULL-TIME) I mentioned a couple months ago that we have a few engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombi
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by drags 14y ago
If you're interested in learning more, "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein goes into some depth on these and other shenanigans.
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by drags 14y ago
The split is not so clear-cut on search and seizure issues. Remember that it was Justice Scalia who wrote the majority opinion in Kyllo, which decided that using thermal imaging devices to search for grow houses ran afoul of the 4th Amend
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by drags 14y ago
SF - Rails/JS - HALF-TIME with benefits (or FULL-TIME) I mentioned a few days ago that we have a few engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombinator
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by drags 14y ago
Maybe I'm naive, but the idea of manipulating a partner into doing what one wants really rubs me the wrong way. Wanting things is a legitimate choice, and it seems unfair to deprive someone of that choice through trickery.
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by drags 14y ago
Unfortunately, this is close to impossible in my industry, and most others. You work 40-plus hours or you work zero. I've mentioned this before but my company hires Rails developers for 24hrs/wk. Health insurance is provided and salary is
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by drags 14y ago
ddply can be very slow. Strongly recommended to get your data into the form you want in something map-reduce-y _then_ throw it into R for analysis and graphing.

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