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The point is that the algorithm isn't what people are currently trying to get past, they are trying to get past human hiring. When they switch to a strategy gaming the algorithms i…

In my experience, they are easy to find in the US: Get a job at a company with East and West Coast offices at the East Coast office. Always offer to help on the projects and areas …

Except, he doesn't actually say life is fair or a meritocracy. Rather, he claims that you are competing in an unfair and demand driven world. My own experience is that people who f…

I buy low end smartphones (~$25 off-contract) and I couldn't be happier with them AFA my own use. Sometimes you need whatsapp or what not to coordinate or want to run some other ba…

I'd recommend something in the spectrum of Jon Kabat Zinn's work in whatever format you prefer. For casual interest, you can find him guiding mediations on youtube or buy any of hi…

Once you leave you are on a very small list and you no longer have any legal protections from perpetual US surveillance and potential harassment. Will you eventually be bulk added …

I didn't look specifically at Tor, but even early p2p anonymizer proposals had each node aggregate groups of standard size newly encapsulated chunks that were only sent out when th…

Your US citizenship will chase you abroad, make you file more crap than and get you more closely watched by the US than can even be done illegally domestically, all while preventin…

Most people have to flip the coin once or twice to get heads, would they comment on a statement that it is easy to get heads? Probably, lawyers are good at email if they are routin…

> limit the number per person to something like 3, except where a special permit is held. Organizations are people too, or corporations end up getting special permits? Either one l…

It seems like a potentially interesting article, but it reads like it is not not written in double negatives. I mean the article states that being drab is about not investing in ex…

Very true, but I wouldn't blame the utilities for understanding the basics of the US. This model is really the US standard to screw lower social classes that plays out elsewhere, i…

For safety, you should keep yogurt warm as it can be out-competed by harmful things, I once tried using something like this: http://smile.amazon.com/TAYAMA-YX-45A-Tayama-Vacuum-Pot…

> But it is not given that a user has physical access to the machine, is it? Yes, I think the logic here is flawed. The only way to know someone can do something in the physical se…

I don't think you need to worry about the suffering of current mobile app devs, I think these kinds of articles are more about shrinking the pipeline of new junior devs and devs tr…

> baseless paranoia You mean like this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/10/condoleezza_rice_to_... But a paranoid board director is reasonable, or?

The first thing I find odd is that so many employers actually read cover letters carefully enough to discriminate based on them. The lower discrimination level with inexperienced c…

I don't know much about the English market, though I occasionally get their spam overflow. Still, I have to question how you regularly get into those kinds of relationships with an…

> an always-connected car Hmm, I actually find that very unsettling in the context of this article and the recent VW debacle. Detecting fraud and recall worthy software failures wa…

> our brains are remarkably changeable based on how we use them, so a better comparison might be measuring an athlete's muscle mass in different parts of the body. Yes, I immediate…

> being the world's richest country The US is the worlds #19th richest country as far as GDP (per capita) which makes the most sense as a measure of individuals and taxes. I don't …

Now I am even more confused. What is Apple's license on Apple's UI elements that facebook can make this derivative work? From reading the description it sounded like they were maki…

Yes, and the assumption is that a horse is worth between $0 and some number so there is never a reason to refuse a gift horse. In the case of other "gifts" the value can be negativ…

> "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" The winners apparently write both the history and the idioms. The Trojans would have done well to look a gift horse in the mouth. A wooden …

The license on the IOS GUI: http://facebook.github.io/design/license.html You can't use any of this in an actual application. So, I make a mock up and show it to someone and then m…