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Can you email me? m9chang <A> uwaterloo dot ca

I'm a student in an undergraduate Engineering degree program. My institution (the University of Waterloo) procured such software last year, but hasn't started implementing it yet. (A previous project to build a replacement to the existing software, "JobMine", failed; rumour is that it was due to patent issues.)

I'd like to talk to you more in-depth, and make sure you're really sure about the whole "selling it to the school" thing. (From a business/procurement perspective, having the right reports, performance, and checklist functionality is the most important thing. Spending resources on decent UX in other parts of the product may result in you being outbid on RFPs and going out of business. Optimizing for the "best" match (it's "just" the stable marriage problem) might be too slow for the institution's internal processes. The disconnect between the procurer's needs and the needs of the people using the software is the reason why everyone sells LMS software that looks the same, feels the same, and is universally hated by students and faculty alike.)
I had a dream about the Microsoft and the NSA
Exactly. My very first thought was why on Earth would you even bother trying to program using that? Write an assembler, and then write a C compiler, for goodness sake!
Kind of ironic for a language whose motto is "explicit is better".
Perhaps it's because we have an entire industry (and government bureaucracy) dependent on there being dependent class? Yes, the goal posts get changed. It's not that kids are hungry, they're food insecure. Same with parents, job insecure. Well, they used to call that life. You'd go out, work your butt off, save what you earned, and only rely on family, friends, and church. Nowadays, it's depend on your monthly EBT and never improve your lot.
Depends on what you mean by overkill. Effort? Then yes. Security? Then no. If the data is there but inaccessible you can be detained until it is. If the data isn't there to begin with, there's no reason to detain you.
I must be getting old... no one's ever said I look old before!
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So the prosecutor alleges. The problem I have with this is that it doesn't make sense. Why would he tell him to refer to his brother as a "distant relative"? This doesn't seem like remotely sound advice for fooling a polygraph. Better advice would be "lie and pretend you don't know anyone who is into anything like that, and then use countermeasures on the control questions so that they don't know you're lying".

I mean, what scenario could they have been talking about where that advice would make the slightest bit of sense? Had he mentioned his brother before, and Dixon was advising him to backtrack ("My mistake, I thought he was my brother, but he's actually my fourth cousin twice removed")? Did CBP already independently know about him, and that they were related but somehow not know they were brothers?

I get that this was a sting, so the scenario in question was fictitious, but I cannot fathom a story the agent could have told Dixon where that would have been good advice. The only vaguely plausible explanation I can think of is that Dixon was trying to subtly trick the guy into getting caught by volunteering the connection unnecessarily.
Attackers will switch to attacking an IP that isn't null routed.

You could theoretically keep changing your DNS entries. But many ISPs cache entries for a day instead of whatever your TTL is, so you get customers locked out.

Source verification is called BCP38, and as for the cost, this standard was published 13 years ago, and the majority of networks haven't implemented it.
Most traditional RVs or even conversion vans like the rialto have more or less uninsulated plumbing which will be destroyed the moment it goes below freezing unless you winterize which is a huge pain, or have the plumbing removed or convert a van yourself and simply never install A minimal van conversion probably consists of little more than blackout curtains and a sleeping bag... If you're willing not to have plumbing, you could probably buy a conversion van without working plumbing fairly cheap. Much as houses with destroyed plumbing tend to go pretty cheap.

As a homeowner with occasional $400 heating bills in the frozen north I disagree with expensive to heat. RVs, especially conversion vans, are small vehicles. My parent's RV furnace literally physically could not burn $400 of propane in its furnace per month if it ran 24x7, which of course it doesn't.

This is a solved problem in the frozen north because of two hobbies probably not very popular amongst the most urban SF residents... deer hunting and snowmobiling. RVs get quite a bit of use indeed for those activities (I don't personally do either, but I do enjoy snow shoeing and there's nothing better than a RV at the end of the trail). Its much colder than NYC where the locals use RVs, its really no big deal.

Another interesting point is if rent costs $3000/mo in Manhattan, you need to calculate how much propane you can burn to meet $3000/mo... I think you'll rapidly determine you could live inside an operating (small) rocket engine for $100 of propane per night.

The primary insulation problem is sound insulation not so much heat insulation.
I find it very interesting when people down-vote something like this without refuting even one of the examples provided. It can only mean that the down-voting is based on blind ideology rather than facts. Every example I provided is factually supported, yet the indoctrinated can't see past their ideology to even consider the fallacy in their arguments.

They applaud the government for creating the GPS system but recoil when someone points out it was created to aid in the military mission of killing people and not for Apple to use on their iPhone. That someone offends their sensibilities and they refuse to look at reality. The State is always perfect in intentions, foresight and results. Anything else is blasphemy.

And that's part of the reason we have the problems we have.
Economic security and a mortgage are mutually exclusive for most people.

And raising a family is unrelated to both.
If I'm evaluating something for a business, I find limited free plans very very useful. Money back? much less so. Personally, I think a time-limited scheme or a limited functionality scheme is the best compromise.
"[PHP] - had a functional nature which is easier to learn than the object-oriented programming"

This is the first time I've ever heard of PHP (in the early 2000s especially) called functional. And the first time I've heard functional programming called easier than OO! I can only assume OP means something else.

The article is full of typos, spelling mistakes, and weird not-quite comparisons (claiming:

echo 'hi';

and

console.log('hi')

are equivalent.

Weird. Not quite sure who the intended audience is.
I think it's what he is saying. Govs take money from the private sector to develop long term things, that the private sector won't have the leverage and the pockets to do, but the aggregate of a whole nation can. What OP is saying is that we need both. States to do basic and fundamental long term research. And applied, short term, cost reducing research, to give what the gov helped discover to the public at large.
Out Of The Fields And Into Computer Science Classes
Well hardly. The building was built on an old air strip and we had the trees planted!

I agree with your sentiment though entirely.
I Thought I'd repost some of losethos's comment, seeing as he is hell-banned, but the comment was quite relevant.

losethos:
Smart American kids my age had C64s and Apple IIs. We all entered 6502 machine code into DATA statements in BASIC programs. Everyone did it. It seems so fantastical and primitive to a monkey, doesn't it.
Generally, we used monitor program to disassemble and assemblers, though you had to buy an assembler. Every store had magazines with BASIC programs full of DATA statements with graphic and machine code data. People typed it in. We had xsum bytes on blocks.
Peugeot 3008
Peugeot has published a full set of details about the facelifted 2014 3008 MPV that will greet the public for the first time at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month.
The title mentions emails, but all of the email-related functionality tests had a negative result.
Interesting, so how will they convince all the localities and such of giving up their revenue made from people exceeding the speed limits? Surely that cannot be a small sum.
> Store and forward what?

1) Well, surprise, your location. Just store tuples of position and time where you were

2) Everything you type, passwords, patterns

3) Picture of your face if you have face lock

4) Accounts you use and maybe passwords
Websockets and More - 20 awesome node.js npm modules we use every day
I can't comment on your reply because it lacks any argument against my post. Tell me where I'm wrong. But what I can tell you is that if you give $1,000 per month to every adult in US without any requirement, then:
1) you might as well not give any money to anybody, because relatively no ones wealth will change
2) at first everybody will be able to buy the essential stuff, food etc. but then
3) you will end up with inflation, because free money will create more demand, which in turn will result in smaller supply (relatively to demand) and higher prices, and cheaper dollar - in the end these $1,000 after a couple of months will buy you only $500 worth of goods (end game is that these $1,000 will be worthless after some period)
4) you will be spending $3bn per month on this, out of thin air, effectively pumping cash into the system, decreasing dollar value even more

To some extent this already has been tried in the US in the form of cheap mortgage credit to the poor. Thousands of dollars were given to people who defaulted and never paid back. Look where it got us…
1. It's not only houses or buildings; land also is administered. Also, in apartment buildings, each apartment has a separate registration code.

2. 'Kadaster' is dutch for the English 'cadastre' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre)

3. The Dutch cadastre was initiated in 1811, by decree from Napoleon Bonaparte (the Netherlands was part France at the time). First ?complete? set was available in 1832 (http://www.kadaster.nl/web/Themas/themaartikel/dossierartike... in Dutch)
The problem with this whole premise is that iOS i.e. the iPhone/iPad are assumed to be great platforms for gaming. Maybe this will change with the new gamepad options in iOS 7 but iOS devices so far have not been really good for gaming. Personally, I found several interesting games on iOS but all of the ones I enjoyed playing were strictly in the 'Casual and fun' category. There's something about the pure touchscreen interface that doesn't work for me. (maybe I'm old fashioned and the new generation of gamers are okay with just touchscreens)

This isn't to say that iDevices aren't viable gaming platforms - the hardware does have the punch. Could Nintendo make more money by releasing games on iOS ? Yes. Should they ? Well, I don't know if Mario for iOS will get the same kind of reviews it gets on their platforms. Do they want to take that kind of risk with their flagship icon/mascot ?

I know that Square Enix did pretty badly with the Final Fantasy re-releases on iOS. I couldn't take the controls.

Also, Nintendo makes money on hardware. Why forget that ?

I find the following questions interesting:

Why don't other major game publishers, who are ONLY in the business of making software, make kick ass games for iOS ? Why are we begging/criticizing Nintendo for not making games on a platform that most AAA publishers are rejecting anyway ?
No, SF addresses are "obscenely overpriced" to you for your perception of what you get.
Great resource! I wish I had known about this previously. Can you clarify what is meant by "Top 5 Requested Jobs"?
If that is indeed the rationale, I don't think having more bodies in the SF Bay Area is going to help. (More people means housing prices will go up, and thus, the rational price accepted by half-decent developers should go up. It's easy to spend 70% of a entry-level Google salary on housing in the city right now.)

I wonder if buying up a bunch of houses in Detroit, and offering one as a starting bonus (along with gigabit Internet and a nearby Wal-Mart) would be enough to entice people to work for less.
Try a live aboard sailboat rather than the land-bound cousins. Some women find a dude owning a boat is an aphrodisiac. Most male boat owners have the inaccurate belief that percentage is 100% (its probably only about 50%). Source: I sailed a lot as a teen (although not a live aboard).

The funniest part of the whole situation, that I've observed, is the women see this guy spending like a drunken sailor on the boat, assuming that means 1) he's wealthy, I mean obviously he owns a 29.9999 foot yacht 2) he can spend money on me the same way as he spends on the boat. And usually it does not work out that way.
Even better: Simply send every single American citizen a check for $1,000 a month. This is more than enough to live comfortably, and wouldn't have to be means tested. Bill Gates would get one, and a six month old child born in poverty would get one.

The total bill would be around $3.6T, a bit over half what the US government currently spends in total.

Phase out all education spending, health assistance, pension assistance, welfare assistance. Replace it with a simple check that every single citizen gets.

More efficient, less waste, and more honest.
Storm was a terribly written character. Giving her strong power and little personality was a token "female" hero with little thought. It was just plain "crap story telling".

As someone else said, there are only a few xmen characters with depth - wolverine being one.
Reminds me of this ol' gem.

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/We-Use-BobX.aspx

But yeah, BANCStar still probably takes the cake.
I don't understand their prizes at all. You get a 10% profit share for winning, which "will continue until that idea will be live".. so you get a 10% profit share of, presumably your idea is what they mean by "that idea".. until it's launched ("live")? If the profit share is of anything else they might need to show what, their website has no projects and no products, nor any data.

Also no offence or anything, but their current web presence (as far as I know just this website) doesn't really suggest they can produce a web product. I'm not sure why I get the impression that's the type of product ideas they're looking for, but it is. Their source code has some seriously bizarre errors too (>1 html, head, body tags). I know it's unfinished and whatever, but just a standard landing page would have worked a lot better I think. The form's pretty unclear too, what sort of file do they want and what should it contain?
Just FYI: rents are similar in NYC, though I doubt people would use an RV here since: (1) parking is limited (2) parking is expensive (3) hard to find parking which also provides power and gas.

Question though: how do people living in RVs shower? Monthly membership at a gym? (Asking because a friend suggested that was likely the case.)
Title slightly misleading for non-programmers.

I imagined soemthing like programming for Al-Qaeda with a pistol pointed at you. :-)
So Nintendo has not chosen to take their world-renowned franchises and use them to crop-share on iOS, and we're calling this a failure to capitalize on an opportunity?

I don't think I could disagree more.

These franchises are a tremendous draw and guarantee a large amount of device lock-in for Nintendo, presently. They have made the games Nintendo produces a renewable resource, where oftentimes the company can re-release game content with a newly polished engine and be critically acclaimed for it.

If Nintendo gives Apple any amount of access to these franchises, then the lock-in is diluted and so, consequently, is the Nintendo brand.

Not to mention that in exchange for diluting their brand and sacrificing their lock-in, they will also be diminishing their profits by 30%.

This is effectively just handing it over to Apple even though there is no obvious marketing or distribution advantage to having their applications available on iOS.

After all they'd lose from the arrangement, it almost feels ludicrous to suggest that Nintendo pay Apple for the honor of diminishing its brand, don't you think?
> According to you, that must mean I support a Stalinist regime[1]. This is false, to say the least.

Agreed, and I apologize for the rhetorical device. I'm not sitting here twirling my mustache trying to get people to say "BI == Stalin!!" - it seems to to me to lead in that direction, though, and I'm genuinely wanting to understand why it doesn't (or if it does, why that's okay).

> Considering supply effects, the likely first order result of a basic income is an increase in the cost of basic goods and also an overall increase in the consumption of them

The increase in cost seems obvious (as the necessary contraction of available capital would invariably cause), but I guess I'm hung up on the idea that there would be an overall increase in consumption (or at least, enough of an increase to offset the costs). People are already buying basic goods, be it on government welfare or not; would BI substantially increase purchases of those goods? As I understand BI, the general idea is to provide enough money for everyone to be able to purchase a minimum level of food, clothing, and shelter, so as to attain some particular quality of life. So, my first question would be "how many people do we currently have who are not able to attain this minimum quality of life?", which seems like would be the only market for whom consumption absolutely would increase under a BI plan. As I understand BI, for those currently on welfare, it's approximately analogous - there wouldn't necessarily be much of a change in income. I feel like this is a piece I'm missing - why would consumption of basic goods significantly increase? Basic goods by definition have a price elasticity of less than 1; you don't get linear returns in demand by increasing income.

Re: [1] Woefully unfamiliar, and making an effort to fix that by reading basically all the economic philosophy I can get my hands on. I'm aware that the USSR wasn't a great implementation of Marx's ideals, but I also believe that even the best system gets screwed up by people - if we could actually implement ideal communism, it'd probably be awesome. I guess I more meant "Marx's ideal of the elimination of social classes as we've seen it (mis)implemented".
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So what you're saying is that if I have to go to a hospital and can't afford it, it's okay for me to go and rob other people?
Are you guys interested in a part-time intern that just graduated?
RTM Pro and enterprise doesn't do that for me (got my isos last night). Preview did. RTM less than pro probably does it.

cisco didn't sign their driver or get it approved. If you disable driver signing you leave a big hole in your system.

Well you're certainly trying to get it to commit suicide.

Trusted installer can add rules. Software should ask but if it doesn't you can always deny access to it anyway.
Yes. I don't think I broke it down that precisely but that's probably what it boils down to.
My point wasn't that the vast, vast majority of energy available to humans on Earth isn't ultimately nuclear in origin. Just that there are energy potentials in the Universe which aren't nuclear in origin. If you trace back the formation of the Solar System itself, as a generation 3-4 system, even the gravitational potential represented in it originates from nuclear reactions.

The Big Bang (background microwave radiation) and Dark Energy would also come to mind as non-nuclear energy systems.

Not of much practical use to us on Earth, however.
Absurdities exist just so we can observe the absurdity. This is more a historical curiosity at this point, but I'm glad that it does exist. Just so I can be curious about it.
Haven't the expectations usually formed from experience? I don't understand how that is a problem.

Is the theory that if there were more movies about female bank robbers, there would be more real bank robbers, in turn making us believe movies about female bank robbers, which would lead to more movies about female bank robbers - goal achieved?
One thing I noticed as someone with red-green colour blindness is that while the article claims that "darker magentas are more distinguishable than lighter ones", I saw lighter magentas as being more distinguishable than darker ones. So the perceptual distances between colours are probably different for us.

If high contrast between colours is desired, you could take some further precautions in some of the suggested algorithms, e.g. if you're choosing certain hues as a basis of your palette, then making sure that none of the pairs are problematic. If your algorithm checks the distance between colours to generate high-contrast pairs, then you could add in a check for problematic pairs as part of that step.
25% would be needed to get to equal wages. (4 * 1.25 = 5)

The 20% is the amount by which your income would be reduced if you were paid 4/5ths as much as today.
Not only that. Imagine Super Mario with just touchscreen controls. It would be a disaster. That would hurt them too!

Nintendo makes gaming hardware and software. Apple makes multipurpose hardware and software. These two worlds are meeting right now with some intersections that are great i.e. Cut the Rope, Tiny Wings, Ridiculous Fishing, etc. - but the really great titles have all been very 'casual'. Eventually these worlds will probably collide but Nintendo's firmly decided that now's not the time for that, for them.

I don't have any trouble with that as long as they keep producing great hardware. And has anyone seen the handheld console business lately ? They are ruling those numbers these days, so why the criticism ?
Most of the people commenting are probably urban or suburban residents, and as such, the minimum living wage is considered a lot higher than in a rural area. Basic Income shouldn't provide people the ability to live in an urban or suburban area comfortably, that's a luxury. It should provide sometime the ability to live in a rural community acceptably, not comfortably.

It shouldn't replace everyone's desire to work. It should have some built in compelling agent to keep people working m even if it isn't that much work.
> the parts of a CS background that have actually been useful in my everyday coding life

Someone fresh out of school would have no idea how to discern that from anything else in the wide, wide world of CS unless they have experience working in the industry (from, say, a summer internship or co-op terms).

Hell, mastery of basic DVCS operations (say, git pull, git commit, git merge, although equivalent experience with hg, perforce, or TFS would be reasonable) isn't a guarantee, even if students spent four months in a lab "using" such a tool.

The people who "do best" in university get told by their professors to become graduate students. Most are not optimized to teach the skills you seek -- if you picked a random fresh graduate and they happened to have those skills, it's probable that either they taught themselves or they learned them at another employer.
The anime genre isn't exactly known for its correct representation of the real world.
There is TechCrunch's Deadpool now. Not updated nearly as frequently as FC used to be.

http://techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/
Six weeks (of equivalent salary) + US$25K + expenses is a significant expense. You state the investment paid off for you, but I wonder how often that would be the case? Is the ROI there for most candidates?
Most RVs over 20-foot or so have showers with hot and cold water. A lot of campgrounds for RVs also have showers along with laundry facilities. Gym memberships are common, too.
claimed to be non-idiomatic

I write specialist-o-matic code. Lotsa DRY, composition, iterators, "fluent" APIs.

Makes me an unapologetically poor general purpose pair programming partner.

terse and clear at the same time

Concision is a virtue.