Comment Computer Science (Score 4, Insightful) 203
Stop asking software engineer candidates about computer science, unless you have a good reason. Ask them about software engineering.
Stop asking software engineer candidates about computer science, unless you have a good reason. Ask them about software engineering.
As a customer, I would *love* to buy AT&T Femtocell devices to have in my home and my office. The value proposition here seems excellent for all parties. AT&T gets load off their cell network so they can save much of that $18 billion upgrade cost they're facing. As a customer, I spend a small one-time cost (the price of a month or two of cell phone service, say), and in return, my cell phone can actually make calls reliably, for a change. When are they going to get these out of beta and let people start really using them?
This Python page is the best language reference page I've ever seen. And it's not just a quick reference. Once you have a vague familiarity with Python, or possibly even just a familiarity with scripting languages, this page is the fastest way to learn the bulk of the language and its libraries.
The only other language reference I've seen that comes close is the VisiBone JavaScript+DOM reference cards. It defines Javascript and its browser environment (DOM) in well-thought-out JavaScript snippets. But as far as I'm aware, you have to buy them in glossy spiral-bound cards; you can't just view them for free on the web.
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When the time came and your battery died, you were probably thinking you'd have to send your iPhone off to Apple as part of their expensive and complicated battery replacement program -- but now you've got a sketchy DIY option instead. Once again, a mysterious Chinese company has stepped in and "created" a "solution" to your problem with its iPhone battery replacement kit. For just $20, which is cheap enough to elicit genuine concern, you get a 1400mAh, 3.7V iPhone battery, some type of screwdriver-like tool, a strange plastic shiv, and an instruction manual (presumably in English, but you never know). All you have to do is crack open your $600 phone, de-solder your old battery and solder in the new one... and probably some other, more complicated stuff too. At this price, it seems unlikely that this battery won't explode, so buy at your own risk, and definitely try at your own risk.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Memory fault -- brain fried