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Now I want a retention holster for my mouse >.>

Survey of eating habits among philosophers: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2012/10/philosophers-e... . I assumed they all starved because one guy never passed the fork.

It does make you look like you wasted hundreds of dollars on one outfit.

Yes, it's a lighter (very minimalist) version of lisp, as opposed to common lisp. Scheme seemed like more of a fun academic exercise. If I wanted to actually do more complex work I…

As someone who works under the title Software Engineer, I take it with a giant grain of salt until we're suddenly all taking the P.E. exam and getting our rings. Titles have the sa…

That brings back memories, used that to mess with friends back in highschool in 00-02. "Weird, my cd drive just opened up."

Man, contests like this seem like a bad idea for everyone involved. Solicit bids, take 2 million dollars and get a prototype/demonstration of capability from your top 4-8 options. …

They have split ratings, schools that only provide an undergrad are in a separate category.

Thanks for a Joel article I hadn't read before. Two of my favorite class projects fell heavily into what he mentioned, implementing FAT12 in C for the OS course, and implementing a…

That'd be why the taxes it listed me as paying previously seemed high.

There are two major things I really gain out of rebasing frequently. Firstly and most importantly, Thanks to rebase I'm constantly working against the most recent mainline, merge p…

What do you define as an apprenticeship program? We bring in 3-6 development interns each summer, for a company size of about 80 developers.

I currently work for a polyglot shop so I guess I can chime in. We employ about ~90 engineers now and have been in business for around 25 years now, so I consider that successful. …

How is the UI just calling to_lower on the password while passing it to your encryption difficult to understand? No case sensitivity has nothing to do with no hashes. Period. Also …

Again I'm not seeing how a to_lower on a string in any way implies plain text storage. There's no indicator at all frankly. It was a 2 minute decision by whoever implemented the us…

Honestly this is the same argument that has been swirling around Diablo 3 recently regarding their decision to use case insensitive passwords. The importance of case sensitivity is…

Are you looking for a full time developer or part time?

Assuming it's not ad supported and is just a one time purchase I don't see where your motivation would be in free updates unless it was bringing in enough money for you to be livin…

using what was considered Sun's open, but in some ways restricted, code in a way that would offer little benefit to struggling company that had invested tens of millions of dollars…

Easier debugging, faster code navigation, better refactoring tools, auto complete, inline documentation, tighter integration of unit tests, and probably many other features I'm not…

Nothing glaring, but he's probably referencing the (#awkward) comment in the blog.

When did Socratic discussion become heckling? I'd much prefer to attend an event where if a speaker was incorrect I'd find out about it.

I don't know about beauty, but I realized I was done with math during my functions of a real variable class when we did a proof to the extent of, "There exists a rational number be…

Basically it walks you from low level boolean logic up through processor design, compilers, operating systems, and languages Isn't that what his university degree should have alrea…

I also normally have 3-4 sound sources during normal home computer use, all at different volume levels so they self prioritize. I'm not sure what the gain would be for removing the…