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I remember being a kid, and playing that game at a local pizza place. It was the only game that ever gave me nightmares. The voice was just so evil :)

But we can look to states like Washington - where there were 2 votes - 3 years apart on gay unions. One established domestic partnerships with all the state-granted rights and responsibilities of marriage. The other legalized same sex marriage.

They both passed with nearly identical results. To me that indicates that a pretty large percentage (at least in Washington) of the electorate that opposes same-sex marriage, opposed anything - no matter what it's called.

Yes, there are some people who really are concerned about the name of the relationship, and he might be one of them. However, based to the Washington results, they seem to be in the vast minority of those who oppose same sex marriage.

I agree with this. I went to a strong American school, and if I look at the co-ops/interns/fresh grads I see from my Alma mater and those that have come from Waterloo, on a lot of areas they're pretty much on par (Comp Sci fundamentals,, etc). But the Waterloo Grads just know how to work within a team better. It makes a great first impression to everyone else, and gets things off on the right foot.

There really is something special about the way the school gets them ready.

That's not really accurate. 4 are usually college hires, at 5, other job families can split off. Engineers, Managers, TPMs, Product managers, etc. they're all in parallel. So you have Level 4,5,6,7 and higher engineers as well.

Try again later. Really - each interview loop has different people who look at different things. Just because one set passed on you doesn't mean that another will.

If Amazon seems like a place you'd like to work, there's no reason not to try again with a different team.

The standard deduction for a single filer is "only" $6,100. It doesn't take a very large mortgage to combine with real estate taxes and other potential deductions (State Income tax/Sales Tax) to move you out of the standard deduction category.

When I've had a mortgage, I've never taken the standard deduction. When I've not had a mortgage, I've never itemized.

I wouldn't say they taste the same - there's an overlap area with some where there would be confusion. But there will be whites that are simply not likely to be confused with reds, and vice versa.

Though if you handed a white wine from that overlap area and colored it to look like a red. I'm pretty sure all but the experienced blind tasters would just accept it as being a light red.

I am studying Enology at the moment, and have no doubt that I could be confused with the right wine. My pallet just isn't good enough. But having done enough bind tastings in the past I really feel like some wine types really do stand out enough to be recognized.

I'm a woman. Only comment occasionally but do a lot of lurking.

It's a pretty major part though. The study that I remember reading was done in Australia with white wines that had been aged for 5 years with different closures(though in the same environment). The sensory results did indicate that the choice of closure did have a pretty significant impact in the way that the wine aged. Synthetics had more oxidized notes, Screw cap wines tended to be reduced and have varietal characteristics consistent with younger wines, while cork aged as expected.

"Better" is a subjective term, and most people would actually prefer the fruitiness of a youthful wine. Heck, I know I do most of the time :) But there's something that develops with certain wines over time that I'm not just convinced that you can get with screw caps.

Synthetic cork has been shown not to be as 'good' as the natural type for certain cases. For one reason or another it either lets too much Oxygen through causing the wine oxidize too fast, or not enough causing wines to age slowly.

Wines that are meant to drink while young do great with a screw cap. Anything that I'd want to put in a cellar and age I'd want to have a natural cork.

Wow... that's the exact opposite of what I like to see. I want to see a thought process -- not someone throwing together code to get something there. When I've seen people like that get hired dealing with their code long term is painful. You tend to get "mostly working" code with a bunch of band-aids.

For an entry level position, getting an answer is important, but for more experience developers knowing how to figure out what actually is important (in my experience) is a better indicator (and yes, they actually need to be able to code).

Experiences vary though :)

If you're looking at it full time, then yes, but my partner just finished her part time AA in WA, and the peak we had for tuition/fees/books in any one year (she did it in a little over 3 years) was $2100 (the link you had shows the maximum that a community college can charge for 3 15 credit terms, not all charge that). If we had spread it out over 4 years, $2000 would have easily covered it all.

Not to say that this is an people will be lining up to get a job at an Amazon warehouse for, but it is something that can help some employees get a little ahead.

The turn by turn could heavily integrated with the Siri functionality, which is only on the 4S. Total guess but it seems to make some sense.

No, they're not influenced by blogs, but they are influenced by family members/other adults telling them, "Oh no, you don't want to play with that, that's for boys." Some of us were lucky to have had parents that had no problem with us having fun with computers and video games (partially because my mom loved playing with our Intellivision :).

But there's still pressure and expectations on what kids play with. Girls get dolls - they've not been expected to play with video games and the like.

However (as the demographics are showing) - that is changing. Parents weren't into games, it was just a toy that happened to be part of the "boy" group. But they've grown up, and still play them. I was rare in that my Mom and Dad introduced me into video games and that helped spark my interest in computers. I have friends who are parents who ask their daughters if they want to try this game or that game. I can't imagine most of my friends' parents growing up doing that.

Will that shift us closer to a more balanced demographic in tech? I don't know, I'd like to hope that coming generations of women don't feel pushed away from the field due to really artificial or societal reasons.

Apparently there was a change to (or at least a change in the interpretation of) the law - I got the same email. Also found it mentioned here: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/amazon-web-services-collect-sal...

That's not quite true - as shown in your link, gatekeeper's default (at least for now :) is to allow App Store as well as Signed Applications. If a developer is willing to get their application signed, then end users will still be able to install the application outside of the app store.

It could stop people from switching though - I didn't see the "right" link when I went there - I just skipped past the yellow box like many people. That led me to get a feeling that the results weren't very good.

It wasn't until I read the comments that I realized that I missed the link that I would have wanted, and the results were good.

It's not ideal that people have been trained to subconsciously skip over certain results, but it's something that has to be accounted for. Otherwise you're going to leave the completely wrong impression in a significant portion of your potential users's minds.

I've been called a bitch to my face during architectural debates. I've had responses to my technical comments come back as "whatever, sudo make me a sandwich". Been asked while doing interviews, "Oh wait you're not HR?" I've gone to many presentations contain sexist images, etc. Throughout my career I've been constantly had to deal with implications that I don't belong - and that my opinions can be dismissed..

Yet, somehow I manage to keep the perspective that technology isn't populated by sexist assholes - sure the ones that are there stand out and make up a lot of the things that come to mind when I'm stressed. But really it's a small percentage [even though that small percentage can really get to you].

Try to keep the same perspective about women, the vast majority of us aren't "bitches".

I don't have a problem with paper - I just feel like it would work against a candidate - not because "Oh...they used paper", but because some of the things that I think are signs of a good candidate don't show through.

I've never interviewed a candidate that asked me to use paper, so I can't be sure - it's just my instinct.

It might be completely biased though - I far prefer to use whiteboards - I love the space, I love how easy it is to erase without a trace. I can throw thoughts up there and the manipulate them.

The natural posture, position, and size of writing on paper discourages that. It's also essentially impossible for me to step in and point to/mark up their code (and then erase it). The paper takes away any of the collaboration that can occur during an interview. Your code might be better, but I have trouble seeing that you'd be able to project as a positive impression as if you used the whiteboard.

As an interviewer, I'd much rather see your intermediate steps - the messy parts, etc. I feel like I can get a better idea about how you work and think. Interview questions (for me) aren't about "can you solve this" they're more about trying to see how you work. I ask questions about decisions you made, and I like it if you can talk about what you're thinking.

Interview problems are contrived. I don't care if you stumble a little bit. Heck, I'm always happy when I see someone start off the wrong way, notice that something's wrong, take a step back and go a better path.

If you go off with a paper and pen and just give me an answer, I miss out on a lot of that. And even though the anxiety might not show how you normally interact (and I totally understand that) - I can't possibly get any sense as to how you work in a collaborative environment.

I've never had anyone ask to do problems on paper instead of a whiteboard, and I wouldn't refuse it to them - but I just get a feeling that I'd be less likely to be inclined to hiring them - not because of the paper, but because there's no way to see the things that I most like to see.

It's likely because of the way the Amazon FPS API works. You can set it up to pay directly to a third party while keeping a cut for yourself. That way Kickstarter doesn't have to act as an intermediary that collects the money and pays the project starter.

Actually they do have a blog entry on it: http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/amazon-payments-and-us-only

I don't think I've ever worked in an environment where that's been something that happens all the time. Maybe occasionally being with someone while they try to sort out a bug.

But actually creating new code with someone sitting there - that's something that's not something I've seen often

When did Amazon ever claim to offer one year? The initial announcement of it was one month of free prime (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/09/amazon/).

If your LCD is defective, contact Amazon and they will take care of it - that's what the warranty is for :)

I think it makes sense to encourage women to consider doing a start up - yes for some women raising a family is the fulfillment that they want. But for those that do want to focus on a career, it's very possible to feel left out. Although (intellectually) you know that there's no reason why if this guy or that guy can do it, you can't - there's something somewhat sobering and potentially disheartening about almost everyone being "different" than you. As the years start adding, up its the same thing with age - I /know/ that I can do it, but there's that seed of doubt for one reason or another.

So I think it's a good thing to encourage anyone who doesn't meet the standard expected start up founder profile - whether it's women, or people who have been around the block a couple of times. They (we :)), might have good ideas, we might need to be reminded that can be done - and to be pointed in the right direction.

Ahh.. okay. For some reason the claimed vs. registered didn't click here for me. Thanks - that makes sense to me.

I was surprised that they list 32665 with their trademarks (I had to search to figure out that was the FBOOK SMS short code). Can you trademark a number? I thought that's why Intel ended up with the "Pentium" instead of "586".

For me, the UI performance is the single biggest reason why I don't use Android as my primary phone. No matter how fast the underlying action is, the jumpiness and occasional lagginess makes it feel slow to me.

It frustrates me - there's so much I like about the OS that so many good things can be erased by leaving the visible perception of being slow.

It is to some people - I know I'd be bothered by it. Mostly due to my own insecurities. I'd wonder "Why?", and wonder what I'm not doing that he wants.

For some it might been seen as a light form of cheating.

I think that it's a sensitive enough topic that if you're doing it without your partner knowing that you're likely treading into a potential problem.

(For the record, I feel like searching your partner's computer for anything is a gross violation of trust - more so than watching porn without the other person knowing)

But that may not always be obvious to people - in my case, for some reason I worry about my future manager "seeing" me in a negative way. Or perhaps they will decide that I'm not a team player and revoke the offer.

What makes it completely loony, is that I have been the manager, and I never looked at it that way. But yet, I assume everyone else has a very different view of things than I do.