studer

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by studer 16y ago
"My hope is that our employees never, ever feel patronized, belittled or small." Anyone applying to your company after having read that pile of patronizing crap are probably genetically incapable of feeling patronized or belittled. (Serious
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by studer 16y ago
Freak of nature in absolute terms, or for being a talented chick? From the article: "... evaluators tend to make negative judgments about women who behave in masculine ways to fulfill the needs of their jobs." (Oh, instant downmod for askin
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by studer 16y ago
Hint: you can use search engines to find job descriptions: "As an AdWords Associate, your main responsibility will be to manage a portfolio of advertiser accounts. You will be working directly with your advertisers to drive revenue and cust
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by studer 16y ago
Resin (and possibly others): http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#LjVQoypFBrg/modules... And this has been around since forever. I feel old.
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by studer 16y ago
Given your statement on MD5 collisions, it's not entirely clear to me who's the script kiddie here.
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by studer 16y ago
Posting an active exploit to their hosting service is a pretty massive violation of the blogger ToS, though...
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by studer 16y ago
And you know for sure that he contacted them that way?
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by studer 16y ago
"Because the writer in question had a copyright on her website where the article can be found, the content of the website is under copyright law." Ouch. Surely there must be a better source than some junk written by a clueless "digital jou
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by studer 16y ago
Also: http://illadore.livejournal.com/32647.html
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by studer 16y ago
"A canoe is deeper, wider and fatter (like some Canadians perhaps ;)" Not sure about Finland (where the article's author lives), but a wide, fat open canoe is actually called "a Canadian" in many parts of northern Europe. The concept of an
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by studer 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
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by studer 16y ago
It's being rolled out in Sweden: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/helping-you-find-emer...
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by studer 16y ago
It resulted in a 9% increase of the "calls to hotline" metric, so you can just go ahead and pay him: > In April we began prominently displaying the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at the top of the results page for
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by studer 16y ago
You're seriously arguing that a throw-away comment from an anonymous internet poster is enough to invalidate her story, and that we should ignore the victim's story because we might find ourselves in the attacker's situation? What the fuck
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by studer 16y ago
I'm probably unusually dense today, but I don't understand the "Can't I find out where you live by seeing your goo.gl links" part of that question. How do I get to see someone else's links?
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by studer 16y ago
No, health care in Sweden is not solely financed through regional income tax. Large parts of the social security system are financed through payroll taxes and corresponding mandatory contributions from self-employed people (the latter is c
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by studer 16y ago
Public health care doesn't mean that nobody pays for it. Since he's not employed by anyone else, it's part of the ~15% in mandatory fees that he'll end up paying in addition to the ordinary income tax.
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by studer 16y ago
That's not how currency exchange rates work...
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by studer 16y ago
His company (Mojang Specifications) is a sole proprietorship, so the tax situation is interesting (i.e. most of it is taxed as personal income, and Sweden has a progressive tax system, and he has to pay insurance contributions as well). I
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by studer 16y ago
Ok, I can see why it may be fun to counter something that partially reads like a personal attack on Magaziner with something that's definitely a personal attack on Peters (insert discussion about HN as a forum for spectator sports here), bu
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by studer 16y ago
Nope. I figured it out, and it turned out to be something even more devious.
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by studer 16y ago
The earlier attack on the Scientologists sent at least two guys to prison: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/guilty-plea-in-scie...
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by studer 16y ago
Am I the only one seeing a huge chunk of Viagra spam ("A proposito viagra 50 mg di pazienti affetti da malattie coronariche 10,8-11,8 arteria laureato rilevando ...") in the middle of that article?
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by studer 16y ago
The post you're referring to is here: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobeg... and the argument is that you should try to "only hire candidates who are above the mean of your current employees", rather than just hir
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by studer 16y ago
Click "cached", and you get the explanation: "These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: what we have here is failure to communicate"
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by studer 16y ago
Hmm. I just searched for it. 46,100 hits. Not a UITableView within sight. Are you sure you didn't mistype? If I type in USTableView, it shows me two UITableView hits at the top, before the exact matches.
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by studer 16y ago
Given that numpy/scipy is basically a collection of C/C++/Fortran primitives, chances are that you managed to write a program that spent very little time actually computing things, and a lot of time doing something else. Not sure what that
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by studer 16y ago
As someone pointed out over at MetaFilter, a big part of the realism of that scene is thanks to a solid understanding of how cameras, lighting, and film work and interact, rather than super-detailed modelling. Trumbull is a photographic ef
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by studer 16y ago
Two shorter Blade Runner clips can be found here. http://douglastrumbull.com/videos The one about how they filmed the blimp was pretty amazing.
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by studer 16y ago
Looks like a high-resolution timestamp (the first 32 bits make up a time_t for last Saturday).

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