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by flipper 13y ago
I think OP you are on the right track trying to leverage your skills in one area by applying them to another. I'm in the process of transitioning from IT to Law. This obviously takes longer than a year and it's certainly not for everyone. H
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by flipper 15y ago
The pop band Devo have been pointing out since the 1970's that people seem to be getting dumber as technology advances.
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by flipper 15y ago
To paraphrase the epitaph of Sir Christopher Wren - if you seek his monument, log in.
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by flipper 15y ago
This article sums me up. When I started in my current job I had a really smart guy for a manager who was interested in hearing new ideas from his people and generally championed them. A couple of years ago we got bought out and I got a new
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Ceglia files email evidence showing he owns 50% of Facebook(businessinsider.com)
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by flipper 16y ago
What do you think about the Anthropic Principle? Not only in the sense that the physics of the Universe is just right for complex life to exist, but also in the sense that if aliens 'got there first' we would never have been allowed to evol
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by flipper 16y ago
I came in here to make the same point, though I too was pondering the karma hit. Have an upvote. To drag another tangential fantasy/sci-fi reference into the discussion, in an episode of Blake's 7 Avon and Vila smuggled their supercomputer
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by flipper 16y ago
Two years ago my employer threw out the 12-month old decent chairs my IT department bought for ourselves, and replaced them with spectacularly uncomfortable new cheap ones. So I bought a 6-year old Aeron on eBay for my own use at work and h
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by flipper 16y ago
Do any of the sites use captcha? That wouldn't stop a human nursing a PC running bots, but it would stop someone starting a bunch of bots, then going to sleep for 8 hours.
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by flipper 16y ago
Would cloud farms be practical if your assets lived on the cloud as well? That could solve the bandwidth problem both with the render cycle and collaboration with other shops. Or would getting the assets there in the first place be impracti
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by flipper 16y ago
Yeah, if I was an employer (and I have been from time to time) I'd probably read this, smile wryly, and move on. But someone else might not. I don't have a problem with the guy asserting that he can pick up new technologies quickly, as long
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by flipper 16y ago
You could create a text file called alpha2omega.txt, which contains the line: Look at the binary representation of pi; you'll find the sum of all human knowledge encoded there in ASCII, EBCDIC or any other code ever invented. You just need
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by flipper 16y ago
Digressing for a moment, what about the reverse, i.e., how long would the average HR consultant last as a programmer? They'd have to organize a swap: the programmer hands over their brain, the HR consultant their mendacity.
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by flipper 16y ago
I see you are an undergraduate so I presume you're young. I'm neither old nor young, so let me tell you something (I'm not being condescending, I want you to take this to heart) - you won't believe how fast it all goes past. Until you start
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by flipper 16y ago
Yes, it's not just the volume of the noise, it's the nuisance: constant buzzing noises (especially high-frequency ones) are much more annoying than random 'household' noises, even if they are not as loud. I would have thought though that
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by flipper 16y ago
Perhaps, but I did point out that I was talking about my direct experience. I must say that all of her colleagues I dealt with appeared to behave in exactly the same way.
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by flipper 16y ago
Based on my own experience of MBAs I tend to agree with you. My company brought in a US name-brand management consulting firm to assist with a large M&A. One of the MBAs was assigned to help me write a transition plan for the integratio
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by flipper 16y ago
No. Have a look at the posting on reddit to see why.
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by flipper 16y ago
Something that emacs and vi users can agree about then - we're both glad that RMS wrote emacs!
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by flipper 16y ago
I for one am very glad RMS existed to write emacs and save us all from vi.
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by flipper 16y ago
I've seen a few bad lawyers and there are a million and one things they'd rather do before worrying about their typography. It'll be a long while before the bad lawyers' typography is as good as the good lawyers' typography.
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by flipper 16y ago
Impressive, yes, but they're not the first self-domesticating species. Cats pulled this stunt 10,000 years ago.
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by flipper 17y ago
From my own experience, women of above-average intelligence and education tend to seek men who are at least as intelligent and educated as they are. Within that pool they will still prefer men who are are socially well-adjusted, good lookin
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by flipper 17y ago
I experience the same symptoms. When I get over a difficult hurdle, and realize that successful completion is a 'formality' a wave of pleasure envelops my brain and I stop working.
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by flipper 17y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it either, but in the situation you describe couldn't the cheater just raise on the flop? If they get looked up by their opponent, when they catch a lucky Ten on the turn they can just say they were bluffing with
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by flipper 17y ago
Got it, thanks.
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by flipper 17y ago
Though I think I get the idea from the first two paragraphs, perhaps you could provide a summary for those of us without a WSJ subscription?
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by flipper 17y ago
I tend to agree with you about the value of ethical behavior, but I would assert that many people who claim to be religious act as though they are not coerced by their God to do anything. Therefore, ethical behavior is quite valuable, from
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by flipper 17y ago
Yes, if I was the victim in this article I would strongly consider suing the police for wrongful arrest. He would have an excellent case against the police for negligence causing him substantial loss. If the police had investigated his case
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by flipper 17y ago
Unfortunately that's the price paid for getting an interesting piece of science news into the main stream media - neither the journalist who wrote the article or his sub-editor probably have much grasp of what science is for so a hyperbol

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