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decode

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About decode

I'm a software developer in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Email me here: http://definingterms.com/contact/

http://definingterms.com/

http://github.com/aag

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    Comment #44004976

    > I am also curious about the mentioning of Indian males in the text alongside native American women, with the chart excluding Indian males, this is also somewhat confusing. I also…

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    Comment #32468604

    I too found it confusing when people started using "crypto" to be short for "cryptocurrency" (and later, all blockchain-related things) rather than "cryptography". However, that sh…

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    Comment #18506446

    It is indeed hard to see in the Nature video, but this one has the full flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9yYu-ZM1S0

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    Comment #18050697

    In Germany, you can also collect unemployment benefits after you've quit or been fired with cause. However, in those cases there is a waiting period of 12 weeks before you can star…

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    Comment #17459346

    While I agree with you in general, a surprising number of grammatical features that make many other languages difficult to learn are missing in Indonesian. Some examples: No gramma…

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    Comment #17192361

    I'm pretty sure that when he says "the rest of the employees" he means what Scrum calls stakeholders, not members of the development team.

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    Comment #14062995

    > I think what he was referring to was the fact that the graphs appear to be hand drawn. Yes, and so was your parent comment. Some people have suggested that the hand-drawn appeara…

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    Comment #11961900

    > US Copyright defaults to the author, it is only with employee contracts/agreements that one can forego the default and assign to the company. I'm pretty sure this is not true. In…

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    Comment #11486612

    A somewhat similar question: what do you do with frontend assets? If you have JS/CSS/image files with a cache-busting URL, and you have different versions on different servers, you…

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    Comment #10703398

    I agree. Both the TRS-80 (which was specifically mentioned in the audio version of the article) and the Apple II were released in 1977.

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    Comment #10594517

    It's not quite that clear-cut: Sample clearance is generally not required if: - You are just using the sampled music at home. - You are using the sample in live shows. This is beca…

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    Comment #10492744

    Hitmeister - http://www.hitmeister.de/ - Cologne, Germany (Full Time, ONSITE, VISA) Web developer: full-stack, frontend, or backend. Most of us work at all levels of the web stack,…

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    Comment #10271727

    The first footnote in your linked page contains a link to an explanation of the charts by their original author: http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep12/Hirtle--When-Is-1923... On …

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    Comment #10264050

    I assume you're referring to the rule that works from before 1923 are all in the public domain. Apparently the rule is all works that were copyrighted before 1923 are in the public…

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    Comment #10160242

    Hitmeister - http://www.hitmeister.de/ - Cologne, Germany (Full Time, ONSITE, VISA) Web developer: full-stack, frontend, or backend. Most of us work at all levels of the web stack,…

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    Comment #9996588

    Hitmeister - http://www.hitmeister.de/ - Cologne, Germany (Full Time, ONSITE, VISA) Web developer: full-stack, frontend, or backend. Most of us work at all levels of the web stack,…

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    Comment #9919450

    > In 2015, there is no excuse to do UA sniffing Unfortunately, there are cases where it is still necessary. For example, IE 10 reports that it supports the CSS pointer-events prope…

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    Comment #9812642

    Hitmeister - http://www.hitmeister.de/ - Cologne, Germany (Full Time, Local, VISA) Web developer: full-stack, frontend, or backend. Most of us work at all levels of the web stack, …

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    Comment #9568431

    Both projects seem to be quite mature, but according to the git history, mineserver is older. The first commit of mineserver was on Oct. 12, 2010. https://github.com/fador/mineserv…

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    Comment #9393083

    A similar, little-known disease caused by a lack of dietary diversity is pellagra. It's caused by a lack of vitamin B3 (niacin). In the early 1900s it became an epidemic in the sou…

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    Comment #9307476

    Hitmeister - http://www.hitmeister.de/ - Cologne, Germany (Full Time, Local, VISA) Web developer: full-stack, frontend, or backend. Most of us work at all levels of the web stack, …

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    Comment #9128493

    Hitmeister - http://www.hitmeister.de/ - Cologne, Germany (Full Time, Local, VISA) Web developer: full-stack, frontend, or backend. Most of us work at all levels of the web stack, …

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    Comment #8995971

    My experience and knowledge are fairly limited here, as I've only been working in Germany for a year and only in Cologne. However, my impression is that software developer salaries…

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    Comment #8983426

    Hitmeister - http://www.hitmeister.de/ - Cologne, Germany (Full Time, Local, VISA) Web developer: full-stack, frontend, or backend. Most of us work at all levels of the web stack, …