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artmageddon
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About artmageddon
Email: arthur dot baczyk (at) gmail dot com
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Comment #31879188
I thought they were the Africanized ones? Those were the ones I read about as a kid in my school library, and the way they depicted their projected spread across the USA made it lo…
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Comment #24327375
It is, but some interviewers can be intentionally vague.
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Comment #24324891
> > is the list sorted If I were the interviewer, this question would almost make me dock points off of the interviewee Why? Knowing that can be a useful filter to reduce the searc…
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Comment #19092751
And how much time did you spend updating your new information with the government, your banks, your work, and other services that you interact with?
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Comment #17716372
As someone going through a Master's in CS to get into ML, this makes me a little sad.. (though I do understand what you're getting at)
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Comment #17625548
Not all of us used Android when Flash was available for it
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Comment #17507065
Does $72K go far in Sweden? I would assume not due to taxes...? I'm in a position of ignorance so I'm just looking to get a better idea of what it's like there :)
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Comment #17303380
My last job in finance(still am in finance fwiw) used much more VBA to price out billion-dollar swaps and swaptions than I was comfortable admitting to...
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Comment #17302766
Reading this thread, with all the Javascript talk, makes me feel like I should be scared of continuing to be a C# developer..
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Comment #17120972
I ran into a similar issue myself. Why would PayPal, of all companies, have a problem with this?
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Comment #17084757
I wish I could say I found them remotely, but alas these were literally friend-of-a-friend type deals. More details: One of them was a bakery that was taking all its orders on pape…
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Comment #17083663
I have; it can be tough especially if the client is a demanding one. For me it was more like 10-15 hrs/week, but sometimes it'd easily be 30 hours if things were broken or some new…
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Comment #17067381
Public health - would you willing ingest fish or other foods if you new how badly it was tainted?
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Comment #17066255
> While there's a lot of plastic in the ocean it's relatively thinly distributed. It's not like there's a bunch of bottles floating in one place. It's a bunch of plastic dust in th…
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Comment #17065022
"Keep your army fighting fit with this one simple trick!"
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Comment #17065011
My Honda CR-V will periodically beep with "NO KEY" lighting on up on the dashboard(say I give my wife the key to get inside our home on a crappy day while I go park the car elsewhe…
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Comment #17056376
1). Marrying my wife 2). Sticking it out in CS undergrad when I was having a hard time with the material instead of dropping out 3). Leaving shitty jobs(though I could've left soon…
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Comment #17042580
Same here! I even saved my password in KeePass only to find I still can't login!
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Comment #16798618
Nope; happened in Boston and NYC. They have signs up at each one specifically saying they want a signed credit card.
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Comment #16793009
> America is so stuck in legacy tech. Nobody checks signatures. The USPS sadly still forces credit card users to have signatures on the back. They don't check signatures against th…
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Comment #16768181
So that's what I should've done while I was there so we could've gotten a legit database to handle our yield curves processing! We were expected to do everything in Excel, and if w…
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Comment #16394488
> Last time, Boris and Natasha were outside the polling place and wouldn't let me in. Tell that to Moose and Squirrel.
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Comment #16367223
Got any tips on how to get going on a site like Upwork? I'm not sure I tried that one before, but I had a horrible experience on Freelancer.com and I've sorta shied away from those…
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Comment #16358743
I can't read the article(blocked at work here), so at face value I agree with you. But then the question is, how do you go about measuring the latter?
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Comment #16223159
> Shhhh don't let them know. Funny thing is that Professional Shops and video companies are really starting to embrace these open source libraries. Oh, I haven't worked there for a…