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The biggest reason to use it is that you can easily tell apart zero and capital "O" and one and small letter "L".
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"Maintenance" is a terrible metaphor. Code isn't like a car where pieces age and fall apart with use. Code can't "rot"; it's just logic. "Maintenance" is the effort to adapt code to *new* requirements, whether they come from business or technological changes.
What is usually meant by "maintenance" is "continuing support of a system that is necessary but that no one is excited about, because it has reached a state where career-making improvements are not possible in-place."
Software maintenance is a necessary evil, because there's a lot of institutional knowledge that lives only in code. (Should such knowledge be in a software-independent database? Yes. Is it usually in such a place? No.) Also, the truth is that many software systems are written well and "maintenance" of them is a tiny cost: maybe a couple hundred developer-hours per year. If the maintenance overhead is only 100 hours per year, and it'd cost 5000 hours to rewrite it, in-place maintenance probably is the right answer.
On the other hand, when a system requires full-time maintenance efforts and is thereby creating morale and career problems, it's time for that system to be taken in the back and shot.
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I guess it depends on how many pixels are actually available but why wouldn't you use a [variant](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.4239) of a [Hough transform](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hough_transform)?
BTW Hough rhymes with cough.
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In some sectors, of course. We are talking about highly specialized fields where real expertise is needed.
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Just doing the groundwork on my dissertation in offline handwriting rec. and this was an interesting read, nice find!
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Thanks, I was wondering wtf h1b was
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Same here. I'd rather type a bit more and get something I can actually read again later without effort.
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don't forget Inconsolata, Consolas' open-source cousin.
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I think it would be worth it to gather a party to abduct and force Yaron to write a book on modern, practical OCaml programming.
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You clearly are not familiar with highly specialized fields. Since this is /r/programming: there's no shortage in finding someone to code up your website but if we are talking about highly specialized programmers in a small field/industry, the story is vastly different.
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androo87
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Cool. Did you design this motion detector yourself? Do similar devices have a history of being used in sleep research? Can you show us simultaneous EEG and motion headband recordings?
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Sorry about that. I didn't have any caching going and my shared hosting company killed my blog because it was taking over 20% cpu. It's back up now though.
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Care to expand on this one ? This sounds interesting !
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This is great! Makes me want to do my own...
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An important lack IMO is that OCaml doesn't natively support Unicode. I believe the project Camelia helps remedy this, but I would rather that the language itself be Unicode-aware.
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ELI5 please.
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> Adding and/or Removing functionality should never be up to a single person. It doesn't matter if that person is a junior or senior developer, no 1 person should say, "That feature is underutilized, I'm removing it."
> As such, they don't -need- the power to determine that. They only need the power to suggest it to the team.
The problem with such "suggestions" is that they're rarely acted upon. People have other things to do. I think one has to be careful in terms of how much power is given to that person, but yes, I think the only way to get code maintenance done decently (by people who care) is to give them a certain autonomy and even a bit of power. Steven Sudit (who commented on my blog) said it better than I have.
> And guess which is harder, new development or maintenance? Yeah, new dev is harder. That's one of the reasons the senior developers get it.
Completely different kinds of difficulty. And how are we measuring "hard"? New development requires a certain creativity that reactive maintenance doesn't. In that regard, it's harder. It's also more difficult to do *well*. On the other hand, let's take a cynical and functional approach and define difficulty as follows: how hard is it to get appropriate career credit for one's time? On that, I think new development wins, hands down. You learn more, and get more visibility, on the new development project. Even if you fail and your product is a dud, you develop skills that are in demand, which is better than the failure outcome for maintenance (isolation and non-achievement). And it's therefore easier to stay motivated on a green-field project. The upsides are greater and the downsides are less.
> As for junior devs making a mess of the code... Why aren't they being watched? Code reviews are made especially for this purpose. They help guarantee that quality code is checked in, and not just random garbage.
Sure, but code review is an incremental process and therefore won't catch the "creeping" problems such as over-long methods, bungled dependency graphs, and too many parameters. One hundred code reviews might individually look OK, but if each adds a boolean parameter to a function that originally had 3, you now have a function with 103 parameters (and it's probably several hundred lines long).
> With the right mindset, it's a great position and not the onerous task that many make it out to be.
Oh yes, I agree. That was actually my point. Code maintenance isn't *intrinsically* unpleasant. It's the powerlessness associated with the maintenance role that makes it so. If maintenance is done by a developer with some clout who cares deeply about the system being maintained, it can be purposeful, efficient, and even fun. I, for one, enjoy maintaining my own stuff.
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I have really found a lot of the stuff in this article to be true -- especially #2. I've had the greatest success in bringing business stakeholders around to a decision when I have narrowed down the set of possible choices as far as possible.
I did a lot of analysis of a particularly thorny problem recently and came up with 6 or 7 possible choices. But after writing a number of them out, I realized that only two were really plausible. In the document that I sent around to the stakeholders I put those two as the real options, with an appendix including the other 4 or 5 options so that it was clear that I'd done my homework.
The conversation we had in the subsequent meeting was fruitful and useful, rather than wasting time banging around options that weren't really options at all.
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Because PHP isn't *real* code AM I RIGHT GUYS?
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#include <stdio.h>
void foo(char **a) { printf("%p, %p\n", a, a + 1); }
void bar(char a[][10]) { printf("%p, %p\n", a, a + 1); }
int main() {
foo(NULL);
bar(NULL);
return 0;
}
This prints:
0x0, 0x8
0x0, 0xa
Pointer to pointers vs pointer arrays of size 10. Learned from [this test.](http://stevenkobes.com/ctest.html)
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Average is $6-7k for an H1B depending on the type of work in Aerospace and Mining.
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le_kommie
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How is this article even "Mocks vs stubs"? There isn't anything about stubs and certainly not about differences.
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I at least got a chuckle out of the humorous typo:
pubic void testSut() {
Sut sut = new Sut();
sut.set(collaborator);
sur.execute();
assertTrue(sur.isAsExpected());
}
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Good call :D
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What would be a practical application of this? (not criticizing, just curious)
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Comic Sans.
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fabzter
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You say it like it's bad thing.
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I think the crux of this guy's argument is that AJAX and REST don't fit together because REST is an integration architecture and AJAX is an application architecture, and the two SHOULD NOT BE MIXED because the concerns of one will bleed into the concerns of the other.
At the integration side you will want to build the "one true API" and at the application side you will want to shoehorn application-specific context onto the server to prevent "chattiness" by getting content optimized for the rendering model. These two opposing interests will lead to either/both the integration architecture or the application architecture to be suboptimal.
I think this is only a problem if you want to try to create "one true API" and treat the REST layer as some kind of integration platform that can work for multiple clients. Is it wrong in making the REST layer only really *designed* to work with one client, the Web browser + AJAX?
As far as I can tell, he seems to favor frameworks like JSF or WebForms where the server side and the client side are one cohesive whole, rather than the patchwork that is AJAX + REST. Perhaps applications of this model are easier to develop, but is it a better model for web-based applications?
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Yes. I usually find Indian contractors to be completely average, if not below average. I work 10 minutes outside Edison. The H1-B situation has to be changed. We do not need H1-B's to be doing entry level programming and systems administration.
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dbilenkin
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Thank you! I have thought about that actually. I was thinking about what I should do to improve it/clean it up before emailing my biology teacher from high school to see what he thought. Any suggestions?
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fabzter
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Upboated. As a linux user I'm so tired of everyone complaining about people wanting to use easy and nice looking applications.
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My boss asked me to implement this (the problem; not this particular solution) a couple months ago. I'm not sure I can answer your question in entirety, so consider the following ficticous example:
What if you sell displays for $300 a piece, and you have a spec that says all pixels have to work. Imagine that 10% of the displays you make have a handful of defects in them.
Now, it turns out you have a customer that only needs half the display resolution, but wants to pay less.
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Indians and Chinese take software jobs in America because they suck up all the low level positions by applying for work visas.
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OCR, he mentions it in the second sentence of the paragraph
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donkey_lz
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Why ruin such a beautifully simple system?
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dbilenkin
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Thanks! You totally should. I got inspired by [BoxCar 2D](http://boxcar2d.com/) who was inspired by something similar as well. Keep it going!
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give us some example industries.
petrochem? defense? aero? I'd say i've met more qualified americans in those fields (as a general rule)
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For aerospace, I can tell you that the work just isn't there to keep a highly specialized, expensive person direct. We're talking people get $60/hr and up plus bennies. Better to write the SOW a little late and bring the person on there for the rest of the duration of the project.
The other things that's happening is they aren't looking to pay for thirty years of experience-they know what a Sr. Level pay grade(Sr. begins at ten years) is and that is all the experience they need. With the contractors I deal with, it just means they are out of work for a little longer(2 - 3 months sometimes).
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c2nhllh
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t3_kuye2
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t5_2fwo
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rlbond86
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#1 font
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c2nhln2
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2nhln2
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t5_2fwo
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If we really have so many unemployed U.S. Citizens then why are we dishing anything out to H1B's?
I understand some of the H1B employees find ways to stay and become citizens but I also know from working with quite a few from India that they send most of their money home and then leave after a few years.
Wouldn't this money be better spent in this bad economy on employing the locals?
Call me what you will.
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False
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c2nhlsw
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t3_kuye2
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t3_kuye2
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1427662688
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3
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t5_2fwo
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True
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mithrasinvictus
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I see 2 zeros.
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False
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c2nhlwd
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2nhlwd
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t1_c2nge5m
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1427662689
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6
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t5_2fwo
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True
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nick_carraway
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I'm interested in seeing how this works as a classifier. For this, it needs to work with n-dimensional points, not just 2-d or 3-d points. Bonus if I can define my own distance functions. I'd also be interested in how well it handles updates.
I understand this is a GIS DB, so I wouldn't expect them to suport n-d points. But I if it does I have an interesting project idea I could use this for.
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False
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c2nhm1t
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t3_kuxxa
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t1_c2nhm1t
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t3_kuxxa
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1427662692
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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XxXeLitE420sNiPeRXxX
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I meant to say "true Unix." Since, as I assume, the Linux kernel and any other Unix kernel are very similar.
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1317303089
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False
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c2nhm2v
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t3_ku8az
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t1_c2nflmk
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1427662692
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t5_2fwo
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True
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sltkr
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Hough transforms do not seem directly applicable to this problem and even if they could be adapted to be, it is likely they are more complicated to implemented and less efficient.
So maybe the question should be why *would* you use a Hough transform when the ad-hoc algorithm is correct, concise and efficient?
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False
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c2nhm52
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t3_kv3ww
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t1_c2nhm52
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t1_c2nhg60
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1427662692
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8
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t5_2fwo
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True
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HeadphoneWarrior
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Since there's a delta of about 15k, I'm going to call a 15k sum *ctzl's motivation* from now on in the hope that you get the pay you deserve in your new job 6 months from now.
I myself am trying to work out a job that pays 0.75-1 ctzl's motivations more than my current offer. :)
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1317303138
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False
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c2nhm9z
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t3_kuye2
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t1_c2nh9hn
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1427662694
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2
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t5_2fwo
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True
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genpfault
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> Given a binary image, find the largest axis aligned that consists only of foreground pixels.
That sentence no noun!
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1317303154
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False
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0
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c2nhmc4
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t3_kv3ww
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t1_c2nhmc4
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t3_kv3ww
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1427662695
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-1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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XxXeLitE420sNiPeRXxX
| null |
I'm not worried about the price after some of Apple's questionable business decisions in the recent past.
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1317303169
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False
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0
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c2nhme0
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t3_ku8az
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t1_c2nhme0
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t1_c2ndhqx
| null |
1427662695
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2
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t5_2fwo
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True
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D_duck
| null |
From a typographic standpoint a serif font like Courier New is easier to read IMO.
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1317303170
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False
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c2nhme3
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2nhme3
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t3_kuti3
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1427662695
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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snottlebocket
| null |
I didn't know what OCR was. Wiki mentions licence plate recognition as an example. That helped.
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1317303179
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False
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c2nhmfh
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t3_kv3ww
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t1_c2nhmfh
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t1_c2nhkxe
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1427662696
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t5_2fwo
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True
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I'd say in general that unless a new system provides an overwhelming benefit that addresses issues that your team is having, migrating to the new 'cool' system du jour often does not justify the cost.
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1317303183
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False
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c2nhmfy
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t3_kuit6
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t1_c2nhmfy
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t1_c2ng441
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1427662696
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4
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t5_2fwo
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True
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snottlebocket
| null |
Ah thanks.
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0
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1317303185
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False
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0
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c2nhmgx
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t3_kv3ww
| null |
t1_c2nhmgx
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t1_c2nhkrr
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1427662696
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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I talk to people about salaries all the time and the H1Bs tend to be above the average. Only time I found one that wasn't, was because he took a much lower position so he wouldn't be kicked out of the country. He went from a mine engineer to analysist for mine related stuff.
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1317303200
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False
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c2nhmi1
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t3_kuye2
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t1_c2nhmi1
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t1_c2ngwub
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1427662698
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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XxXeLitE420sNiPeRXxX
| null |
The last thing I'm going to do is get a Mac to get access to OSX. Hackintoshing or a virtual machine is fine for me.
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1317303212
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False
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c2nhmjy
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t3_ku8az
| null |
t1_c2nhmjy
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t1_c2nevaz
| null |
1427662698
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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TinynDP
| null |
The Java support for byte buffers, which are normally needed in some way, to pump data into the libraries, is really lousy and obnoxious.
| null |
0
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1317303257
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False
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0
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c2nhmqb
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t3_ktwk1
| null |
t1_c2nhmqb
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t1_c2n8003
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1427662700
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2
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t5_2fwo
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True
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yellowjacketcoder
| null |
> code review is an incremental process and therefore won't catch the "creeping" problems
That doesn't sound like code review to me. Yes, in general if all you do is add an if statement or an exception to a method, the method can grow out of control. But really, developers should have style warnings or compiler warnings to handle things like large numbers of parameters or too long methods. "Creeping" problems seem to really only occur if nobody uses the million and one tools to finding them and making it unacceptable to commit code with warnings.
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1317303276
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False
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c2nhmso
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t3_kursf
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t1_c2nhmso
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t1_c2nhiab
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1427662701
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4
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t5_2fwo
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True
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ashishgup
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You imply that companies don't actually care that quality work gets done by the people they hire (foreign or not!). If their interview process is so dumb that fakers can easily get by - they probably deserve it. It is very expensive for a company to hire an unqualified person - apart from the salary there is a whole other set of expenses that come with it - not to speak about the continuing cost of poor work quality.
I haven't seen that for firms I have worked at but maybe you have examples you can quote ?
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1317303278
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False
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0
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c2nhmt1
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t3_kuye2
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t1_c2nhmt1
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t1_c2nh7w3
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1427662701
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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XxXeLitE420sNiPeRXxX
| null |
So, XCode is basically the Visual C++ of Unix? Powerful and flexible, much like VC++ with Win32?
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0
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1317303291
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False
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0
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c2nhmuc
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t3_ku8az
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t1_c2nhmuc
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t1_c2ng09m
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1427662701
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2
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t5_2fwo
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True
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SciK
| null |
COMIC **SAAAAAAANNS!!** [\*](http://www.explosm.net/comics/2301/)
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1317303316
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False
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c2nhmy2
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2nhmy2
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t1_c2nh9k3
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1427662702
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11
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t5_2fwo
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True
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roymustang86
| null |
Are you working as a software engineer? Just curious.
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1317303352
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False
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0
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c2nhn35
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t3_kuye2
| null |
t1_c2nhn35
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t1_c2nhlsw
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1427662704
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3
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t5_2fwo
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True
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day_cq
| null |
Comic Sans only works well with Haskell
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0
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1317303428
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False
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0
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c2nhndt
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2nhndt
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t1_c2nh9k3
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1427662708
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6
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t5_2fwo
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True
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OnlyAJerkOnReddit
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image, axis, pixels
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0
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1317303466
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False
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0
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c2nhnif
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t3_kv3ww
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t1_c2nhnif
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t1_c2nhmc4
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1427662711
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10
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t5_2fwo
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True
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nocturne81
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XCode is similar to Visual Studio for Windows. I develop on OSX and Windows. My personal opinion is that XCode is incredibly annoying unless you have 5 monitors hooked into your system. Visual Studio is my personal favourite.
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1317303573
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False
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c2nhny9
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t3_ku8az
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t1_c2nhny9
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t1_c2nhmuc
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1427662716
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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AeroNotix
| null |
ARP Poisoning? 10 years ago called...
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1317303578
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False
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c2nhnz2
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t3_kv7hk
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t1_c2nhnz2
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t3_kv7hk
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2
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t5_2fwo
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True
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tinou
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Good one. Thanks !
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1317303592
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False
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c2nho1k
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t3_ku6gg
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t1_c2nhiz5
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1427662717
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t5_2fwo
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True
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acm
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don't think there are many h1b's in defense. what with security clearances and all that...
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1317303625
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False
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c2nho63
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t3_kuye2
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t1_c2nhl71
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t5_2fwo
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No, it's simpler than that. I've seen these jobs and wondered about them for a while. Someone on reddit explained it. They are called Ghost jobs in the industry. It's basicly where the hiring manager writes a requirement on the position that is basicly impossible to fill;something like a Sr. Software Developer with 10+ years in C#.NET WPF. Outside of a handful of people, WPF is only about 5 years old. After the position has been open for a long period, I don't know how this process works-the hiring managers files, complains, or does something that gives him premission to hire an H1B.
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1317303713
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False
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c2nhoji
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t3_kuye2
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t1_c2nhoji
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t1_c2nh8s9
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3
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t5_2fwo
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True
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trevdak2
| null |
Wow, I thought of the same solution, only it was oriented in the other direction in my head.... And the values I associated with each rectangle was the number of pixels before a background pixel, not the coordinate of the next background pixel.
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1317303872
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False
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c2nhp58
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t3_kv3ww
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t1_c2nhp58
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t3_kv3ww
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1427662733
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t5_2fwo
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True
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day_cq
| null |
trick is to read from right to left when you see composition.
it's like this in stack based language:
im rows (map cols) (all and)
| | | +------ test if every cols and rows is True (all pixels are set)
| | +----------------- for each row, get cols.
| +------------------------- get rows of im.
+---------------------------- first, push im to stack.
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1317303889
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False
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c2nhp7u
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t3_kv3ww
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t1_c2nhp7u
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t1_c2nh4j6
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1427662733
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15
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t5_2fwo
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True
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name_was_taken
| null |
Partials kind of fascinate me, but I've never really found an application for them. That kinda makes me sad.
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1317303912
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False
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c2nhpap
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t3_kv7vh
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t1_c2nhpap
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t3_kv7vh
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1427662734
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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AeroNotix
| null |
There's a stdlib Python module specifically for argparsing. Incidentally, it's called argparse.
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1317303918
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False
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c2nhpbq
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t3_ku73e
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t3_ku73e
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1427662734
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3
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t5_2fwo
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True
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Amablue
| null |
That sounds like it corroborates my first suspicion, that normal users may find the mouse faster. And the article is mostly talking about command key shortcuts and the like, not about users who are sufficiently skilled in editors like Emacs or Vim. People using these editors are not a typical case, and I doubt they were the the demographics this study was looking at. I still maintain that a skilled Vim user will be demonstrably faster on the keyboard alone than they would be if they used a keyboard and mouse.
I regularly use Vim at home for programming, and Visual Studio at work. The speed at which I can navigate to a location, make a change, and hit :mak is measurably faster than doing the equivalent change and hitting the compile button in VS (though who actually hits that? hitting the F keys is faster here too.) On that subject, I've purposely gone through the menus, removing nearly every icon except for the 10 or so I might actually hit. With rare exception, those buttons are completely useless, and I've gotten much faster since learning the keyboard shortcuts for each of the things I commonly do.
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1317303926
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False
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c2nhpd7
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t3_ktenx
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t1_c2ngk2n
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t5_2fwo
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ethraax
| null |
Except I said:
> You cannot cryptographically disallow someone from printing a PDF.
Which is true. This relies on every reader application respecting this rule, which is really not security. Considering that there are open-source libraries and applications that read and print PDFs, printing a "locked" PDF would not take much time.
(Also, pages 75-77 of that spec seem to be about the JBIG2Decode filter.)
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1317303986
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False
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c2nhply
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t3_kssyt
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t1_c2nhply
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t1_c2nf55p
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1427662740
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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kristovaher
| null |
Thanks for the nice words, it being comfortable was the main goal :)
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1317304043
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False
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c2nhpuh
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2nhpuh
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t1_c2nhepf
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1427662741
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2
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t5_2fwo
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True
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utexaspunk
| null |
Neat font, but it wouldn't work well for programming. The numbers hang and the quotes are slanted, among other things.
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0
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1317304070
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False
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c2nhpyp
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t3_kuti3
| null |
t1_c2nhpyp
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t1_c2nepjy
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1427662743
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0
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t5_2fwo
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True
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[deleted]
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1317304074
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False
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c2nhpzi
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t3_kuye2
| null |
t1_c2nhpzi
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t3_kuye2
| null |
1427662743
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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itaborai83
| null |
WTF! 125 comments over fonts?
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1317304119
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False
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c2nhq6h
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t3_kuti3
| null |
t1_c2nhq6h
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t3_kuti3
| null |
1427662745
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-5
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t5_2fwo
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True
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Redtooth700
| null |
Because of the lack of a sensationalized title/story, I am not sure whether to feel angry about this salary revelation or elated by the prospects of foreigners. Instead, I will brood/lurk quietly until someone else tells me how I should feel about this.
| null |
0
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1317304120
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False
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0
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c2nhq6q
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t3_kuye2
| null |
t1_c2nhq6q
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t3_kuye2
| null |
1427662745
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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forcedtoregister
| null |
C++ was not just about being OO.
OO, templates and RAII(which your totally forgetting) are certainly useful to people who are concerned with speed. std::vector/map/etc. are as fast as anything in C and far more convenient. Then you realise smart pointers are kind of useful. Finally you need some run time polymorphism, it's nice not to have to fudge this yourself in C, and its quick outside of tight loops. Have a look at the [eigen](http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page) library for a demonstration of how all of this can come together to do great things.
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1317304205
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False
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c2nhqit
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t3_kteac
| null |
t1_c2nhqit
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t1_c2neyep
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1427662750
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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notintexas
| null |
I've never moved past 6x13. Does that make us lesser programmers?
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1317304267
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False
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c2nhqrp
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t3_kuti3
| null |
t1_c2nhqrp
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t1_c2nhelp
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1427662752
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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banuday
| null |
It's an "extract" of this article: [Mocks Aren't Stubs](http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html)
| null |
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1317304277
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False
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0
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c2nhqti
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t3_kv7p3
| null |
t1_c2nhqti
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t1_c2nhj1r
| null |
1427662753
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1
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t5_2fwo
| null | null | null |
True
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ochronus
| null |
And still a working technique :)
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1317304282
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False
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0
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c2nhquh
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t3_kv7hk
| null |
t1_c2nhquh
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t1_c2nhnz2
| null |
1427662753
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
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1317304287
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False
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ethraax
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I don't think the terminology really matters here. I'm pretty sure we all know what Jigsus meant.
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While you are absolutely right as far as this toy problem is concerned, the article states that this problem is a simplification of a real world problem of finding blocks of text in images.
Blocks of text are not contiguous areas of single colored pixels. There is work involved in reducing real images into binary images with a lot of approximation and guesswork going in.
Hough Transform is a shape finding algorithm that has been shown to produce good results in certain noisy real world applications. I wouldn't claim Hough is better than OP's algorithm without actually conducting experiments, but I wouldn't dismiss Hough so trivially either.
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Where I was at, suggestions weren't 'rarely acted upon'. They were always discussed, sometimes at great length, and all the good ideas got done, no matter who suggested them. (That included testers! I still disagree about that one change -grumble grumble-)
I dont think we disagree about difficulty.
Code review absolutely would catch that, if done correctly. It certainly would have caught it at my last job. One of the tools we used was a complexity checker. If you tried a function with 103 parameters, that thing would barf all over you. It would never have made it through. Now, granted, we used it as a guide and not a rule, but by 103 parameters, none of us would have even considered ignoring the complexity checker's complaints. But even without that thing, code duplication makes my skin crawl and I'd have vetoed it even if nobody else did.
(I keep saying 'my last job' because I had a team there, where it's mainly just me here now, which actually makes these problems a lot harder to keep corrected!)
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dbilenkin
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Makes sense. Thanks!
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asteroidB612
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The Clojure fanboyen like to claim it as a Lisp b/c doing so lends Clojure a certain legitimacy that it might otherwise lack. That they also promote this masquerade on the website comes as no surprise.
None the less, a PL which doesn't let you mutate cons cells as a matter of course and at _your_ leisure is not a Lisp.
The Clojure cult should celebrate it's merits on it's own terms and "leave Lisp alone!"
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ethraax
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> Aerospace and Mining.
I got the image of an airplane with dozens of drills mounted on it just flying through a mountain.
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AeroNotix
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And still the most overblogged hacking technique. If you're the OP of the article, you're just showing an application of ARP Poisoning, specifically Facebook.
Not a bad way to get in pageviews you ethically blurry blogger you.
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Having seen a lot of vitriol regarding H1B in the US, I'm convinced that most people that have an opinion are not realizing the global picture, and only have tunnel vision regarding the secondary issue (that some jobs are being redirected to foreign workers).
These foreign workers are living in the US and contributing to the local economy. An individual H1B worker will make much more than the median *household* income. By not attracting this talent to the US and keeping them there, you are promoting a brain drain where the talent acquires higher education in the US, and then takes it back to their home country. Guess what, the large company will eventually follow that talent back home (Google/Microsoft etc have huge R&D and dev centers in India now, for example). The US local economy cannot follow them back. So now you have a double whammy - you've lost localized economic growth as well as many more jobs trying to save the small handful that were being taken up by non-immigrant workers in the first place.
Edit: downvotes, really?
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I'm confused by the scenario where he outlines the 4 key exchange problems with public key systems. Mallory intercepts the public key exchanges and replaced them with her own, and Alice sends a message to Bob as previously described (encrypts with her private key, then "Bob" (really Mallory's) public key). Now when Bob tries to decrypt the message, won't it fail because when he tries to decrypt it the first time, he's essentially trying to decrypt Mallory's public key with the Bob private key, so he would know something is afoot would he not?
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Exactly...so what industries are we talking about? thats why im hesitant to say we need these guys for "super technical" stuff.
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ethraax
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Although you probably got downvoted because of the racist undertones in your post, you bring up a fair point. Some companies will have someone in mind, and then tailor the job requirements to fit them. Of course, this usually doesn't take the form of requiring the applicant to speak Indian, but it will probably manifest itself as the applicant having to know a half dozen or so tangentially-related technologies.
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ochronus
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So you think silently not showing the public the dangers of unencrypted networking communication is more ethical :) Strange.
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I know Java is the fastest thing next to C/C++/Fortran, But on lots of those benchmarks C++ takes a third or half of the time, which is important for me. When you factor in that java has poor libraries (in terms of features and performance) for linear algebra/other numerics, that I'll need to interface with hardware/libraries that deep down are talking C, a Java GC pause could mean lost data, etc. the gains from using Java diminish significantly.
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dbilenkin
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So cool that your playing around with this. I made 4 segment ring creatures at one point too. Very entertaining :)
I definitely need to add the ability to share creatures. This DNA copying and pasting is a pain and doesn't work unless the settings are the same.
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This is also a classic technique used by "creatives" for things like marketing and advertising: show 3 options only. Say a color scheme or proposed mock-up. More overwhelms and generates paralysis. Fewer seem insufficient or limiting. 3 is the sweet spot.
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