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It's relatively new (2005) so I doubt that has come up yet. I believe it's even more relaxed than the TN class visa.

I do know of an E-3 holder who had their residency fast tracked, but there have been so few of them issued that it's probably a bit hard to tell the lay of the land.

The E-3 is a pretty good deal; indefinitely renewable, spouse can work etc. It's the visa I'd have if I wasn't married to a US citizen.

That really depends on the level of significance and the size of the effect you wish to detect.

That's quite sad: Formal methods should be one of the more exciting topics in your CS programme. Hope they didn't scar you too badly.

Bronwen Clune attempted something like that a few years ago with a company called Norg Media http://www.crunchbase.com/company/norg-media - there have been others too, of course, but no one has managed to get particularly far.

I find myself inclined to pay for news because just about all of the freely available opinion dressed up as news and/or analysis is complete tosh, and aggregators only get you so far. To wit, I fork over my hard earned for a copy of the FT 6 days a week, and would gladly do so to access HN.

Or the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Congressional Silver Medal... etc.

You're making a number of assumptions, most of which I believe are wrong.

a) No, it's not the first thing that springs to everybody's mind. Experience says it's the first thing that springs to a relatively small percentage of minds, actually.

b) No, someone who didn't ask about the kind of bus isn't necessarily under the impression that it's a toy problem. Again, experience says that for a large percentage of people the problem, or more specifically any problem of the ilk of this problem, is completely overwhelming.

Despite the questionable wisdom of it, right there in your answer is exactly why these questions get asked: you've just given the interviewer a mountain of information about you.

I've probably sat through 500 or more interviews over the last 15 years, and the percentage of candidates who would approach such a question with a blank, not incredulous, but blank look is utterly astounding.

I was using PeepOpen which is quite nice, but (of course) it doesn't work in the terminal. This looks quite spiffy.

Me too. But I hit it a second time and got the article. I very nearly flagged it. Not cool.

Complete failure of neoclassical economics, perhaps. There were plenty of people who predicted the GFC with varying degrees of accuracy; Steve Keen being but one.

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Damian Conway of Perl fame wrote an excellent style guide for C in the early/mid 90s which I'm pretty sure explained why (I can't find my copy):

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Oh dear.

60 minutes doesn't seem quite long enough. I'd look at perhaps 0.5 * mean ttl on the front page.

Every time I launch into the endless blue, unpowered, under a wing comprised entirely of what was just a crumpled mess of fabric just moments before, it's real for me.

Besides, why bother with flapping when you can soar and thermal? ;)

No, it doesn't entice me to apply. Intentional or otherwise, I think that's a good thing for both parties.

The ad is a window into the soul of their company, unfortunate perhaps, but hardly arrogant.

I've found anecdotally that acceptance of that word in a professional environment is limited to the two tails of the income distribution.

Interesting. I had a friend come back from a flying trip to China a few weeks ago and he said much the same thing - not common and too hard logistically.

It's not the sport for everyone, that's for sure. I love it, and am never quite so happily as when the vario is screaming, although I'll admit it's 98% bliss and 2% pure terror.

It's worth mentioning that a CuNim will happily break a 747 too - that's why all aircraft give them a wide berth.

In Manilla it was a case of competitive pilots taking disproportionate risks. Based on the photos I've seen of that day, I think a lesser pilot such as myself would never even have launched.

This story also appears in Gavin Pretor-Pinney's The Cloudspotter's Guide, which is one of the more amusing and inspiring books about clouds I've come across.

There's a slightly more modern instance of someone surviving a CuNim under canopy: Ewa Wisnierska (and some other pilots) encountered the mother of all cloud suck during practice for 2007 paragliding world championships in Manilla, Australia. Ewa survived after reaching an altitude of 32600 feet, ostensibly because her unconscious body slumped in a position that steered her glider out of the storm by weight shift, and the accumulated ice in the canopy (paragliders are a ram-air airfoil of non-porous construction) caused a collapse which returned her to a survivable altitude. Another pilot, He Zhongpin, died after being struck by lightning in the same system.

There's a documentary called Miracle in the Storm which details Ewa's survival.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead - Twain, Pascal, Cicero et al.

Yes.

Typically there are 3 tiers of graduate program by coursework (certificate, diploma, masters) and 2 tiers of graduate program by research (masters, Ph.D). Universities may offer none or all of these programs under different names.

There is sometimes another tier by coursework called a "diploma for graduates" which differs from a graduate diploma in that it is usually at the undergraduate level, and very occasionally you see a Ph.D by coursework.

Stanford also offers professional certificates through SCPD which are entirely distinct from their graduate program being targeted towards the continuing education market.

Tragically it's an excellent predictor, but his rationale for believing it so and subsequent gross generalisation is extraordinarily ignorant.

I went one step further and killed my account last week.

No, and COBOL and Fortran experts are being handed blank cheques if they truly are expert (and sometimes even if they're not... how fast can you read? ;))

I think your point is generally true of computer science graduates, but there are a great many wishy-washy vocational IT degrees for which employer and employee would both be better served with an apprenticeship.

What you describe applies to investors. He's "marvelling" over the parallel tax system for traders where capital income is treated as revenue.

Or, to continue the Cubanist line of reckoning, because it is so difficult to start a company without reading on someone's patent.

Of course he uses money as a measure of success, he's an investor!

Buffet did an interview on CNBC some years ago where the question where he was asked about success and his reply was something to effect of "Success doing what you love and doing it well".

This rings true to me.

A little anecdote told by my father in law, who was Buffett's pilot for a time, tells of Buffett being welcomed home to Omaha by a hostess. On remarking that he'd lived in the same house for 50 years it's claimed she said "Gee! You must have a lot of equity in that house Mr. Buffett."

Whether this speaks to the unpretentiousness of Warren Buffett or the unworldliness of the hostess is an exercise for the reader.

I suspect you'll find that clause in your contract is to protect your sponsoring employer from liability in the event that you declare bankruptcy. That is, they cease to be your sponsor and thus absolve themselves of any liability.

Not necessarily manually-operated. See also: LOIC Hivemind.