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"Hard work and determination" are what the Honorable Esther Salas '94 instructs law students who ask her advice on achieving a rewarding career. Those attributes only partially explain the striking career trajectory of Judge Salas, newly confirmed by a unanimous vote of the U.S. Senate to the U.S. District Court for New Jersey. Others speak of her intellect and passion, her generous spirit, a commitment to public service, and a respect for education and family instilled by her mother.
|Hon. Esther Salas '94
In comments on her Senate confirmation, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez '79 said: "Judge Esther Salas is one of the most highly respected magistrate judges in New Jersey and I am pleased that her nomination to the District Court has been confirmed. Judge Salas will be the first ever Latina to be appointed to the New Jersey District Court, making this a historic nomination. Her story is testament to the quality of education that Rutgers provides its students and the important role it plays in forming the next generation of leaders in our state."
Judge Salas, who as an undergraduate interned in the Middlesex County Public Defender's office, headed directly to law school after receiving her B.A. in 1991 from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, where she was a political science major with a double minor in philosophy and Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies. "Rutgers Law School has a great reputation for offering an exceptional educational experience while remaining affordable," she offered. "There was no doubt in my mind that I wanted to attend Rutgers Law School."
Looking back on those three years, "I would have to say that my entire experience was memorable and influential," Judge Salas said. "Every one of my professors, including but not limited to Professors Chen and Jones, had an impact on how I viewed the law. In particular, through the teachings of Professor Jones, my interest in criminal law flourished, which led to my decision to become a criminal defense lawyer." (Note: Professor Ronald Chen is now Vice Dean Chen and Professor Charles Jones is an Emeritus Professor.)
Among her law school honors and activities, Judge Salas was a Marie Slocum Memorial Scholar, a vice president of the Association of Latin American Law Students, and a Student Bar Association representative. Most significantly, she participated in the Minority Student Program (MSP), of which she continues to be an ardent supporter.
"Without a doubt," Judge Salas stated, "my participation in the Minority Student Program was instrumental in my professional success. Dean Jan Robinson, who was MSP Dean at the time, and her entire staff helped guide me through the challenges I confronted in law school. The program offered academic support, which was critical during my first year. In addition, MSP provided me with an immeasurable amount of support and encouragement that extended far beyond traditional academic support. That unyielding support got me through some tough times and in the end provided me with the strength and courage to pursue my professional goals."
"Without a doubt, my participation in the Minority Student Program was instrumental in my professional success."
After receiving her J.D., Judge Salas served as a law clerk to the Hon. Eugene J. Codey, Jr. of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex County. From 1995 to 1997, she was an associate at Garces & Grabler, P.C., Plainfield, where she focused her practice primarily on criminal matters and handled appellate work. She served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender from 1997 until 2006 when she was selected from among 99 applicants as U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey, becoming the first Latina in that position.
Judge Salas's private and public sector experiences have prepared her well for the new challenges of a U.S District Court judge. Having worked for almost a decade in the Office of the Federal Public Defender, she knows first hand how much time and effort an attorney expends in preparing submissions to the court. "With that in mind," she said, "as a Judge I thoroughly review all submissions and carefully deliberate over any matter prior to rendering a decision."
All of her experiences as a U.S. Magistrate Judge will undoubtedly assist her on the District Court. "For close to five years," she said, "I have been blessed to work with some phenomenal District Judges. These judges have taught me so much and have provided invaluable insight on the judicial process. The responsibilities of managing a docket of well more than 300 cases, presiding over dispositive motions on a report and recommendation basis, ruling on a whole host of discovery disputes, and presiding over criminal matters will better prepare me for my new position."
The daughter of Cuban and Mexican immigrants, Judge Salas is a past president of both the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey and the Hispanic Bar Foundation of New Jersey. Among other public service activities, she has been a member of the Governor's Hispanic Advisory Committee for Policy Development, the Supreme Court Committee on Minority Concerns, and the Supreme Court Committee on Women in the Courts.
Asked what career advice she would offer current students, particularly minority students, Judge Salas said: "The one piece of advice that I would offer any student, especially a minority student, is to believe. There will be many times that you doubt yourself and your abilities. It is imperative that you work through the self doubt and forge ahead. Be proud of who you are and never lose sight of that which makes you special. Embrace your differences and stay true to yourself while remembering that success is earned through hard work and determination."


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Here's a review of the valley amigos' hero, some of the quotes from the most feared man in Lilliput. "I didn't set a red line in Syria." "We'll create shovel-ready jobs." "I will cut the deficit in half and close Guantanamo Bay." "I didn't know about NSA spying." "You didn't build that." "I never said, 'If you like your plan you can keep it.'" "We don't know the IRS was targeting conservative groups." "The private sector is doing fine." "Benghazi was caused by a YouTube video." "I had no idea about the AP phone tapping." "I'll have the most transparent administration in history." "Bill Ayers was just a guy in my neighborhood, and the Rev. (Jeremiah) Wright is an America-loving preacher of God." The best one is, "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period." This bum should resign and let Biden take over. At least he'll make us laugh. Amigos, feel free to list President Barack Obama's accomplishments.
Obuma states "I don't need the Constitution or Congress, I have a phone and pen." And for the amigos who'll argue Bush used more executive orders - I hope they can comprehend this - it's not the amount but the content of the executive order. It's one thing to free a turkey on Thanksgiving, and another thing for a turkey freeing illegal aliens and changing laws without Congress. Jimmy Carter is smiling somewhere knowing he's not the worst president any longer. What truly terrifies me is not Obama, but the loons who elected him.
November can't come soon enough. Speaker Harry Reid needs a psychological workup. The man, if he can be called one, has no shame and no facts. Remember this one: "I have evidence Mitt Romney cheated on his taxes." His new one: "All these horror stories about Obumacare are lies." Yet this jerk waived his staff from having Obamacare. Why Reid? You think some of those lies are true? Talk about a jerk. If we really wanted Obamacare we wouldn't need a law to make us buy it.
Amigos, we're still waiting for you to name a Democrat that's running on Obamacare. Why are senators too busy to greet the holy one when he arrives in their state? They claim schedule conflicts. They don't want to be associated with the loser (38 percent approval rating, 54 percent disapproval rating.)
Watch out Putin, John Kerry's over there. Kerry will bore you to death with his global warming warning. He says it's the same threat as Iran having a nuke. Where does Obama come up with these people?
The unholy trinity - Obama, Reid, Nancy "Pinocchio" Pelosi. Obama and Hillary Clinton's god - Saul Alinsky.
Shaun Arthurs wrote on March 2 "religious rights don't trump human rights." Why do you think the Founding Fathers made religious freedom the first of five rights in the First Amendment? Please quote where the Constitution guarantees human rights.
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Is this term only well-known in Southern Germany or also in the deep North? Is there short alternatives for modern High German? Does anyone know a similar English short expression?
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The term isn't even well-known in all of southern Germany - a Bavarian, for example, might well not know it. According to Wikipedia:
Der Begriff wird insbesondere für einen Beigeschmack von Speisen und Getränken oder einen verdorbenen Geruch verwendet und im übertragenen Sinn für Sonderbarkeit, spezifische, anderen auffallende und widerwärtige oder lächerliche Art eines Individuums oder Standes benutzt.
The term seems to carry a connotation of an unpleasant or weird taste. I'm not aware of any single high German term with the exact same connotations. "Beigeschmack" probably comes closest, but isn't used in quite exactly the same way. In some cases, you can also use "anrüchig".
(Edited to add some suggestions, thanks, commenters!)
Actually the German Wikipedia uses "anrüchig" as an expression for "Gschmäckle" for High German, which is what I have heard it as as well. The word "Beigeschmack" as mentioned in an earlier comment works too, but I think "anrüchig" nails it.
Leo.org suggests to translate "anrüchig" with "dingy".
As was already stated Gschmäckle is definetely a bad aftertaste. "Beigeschmack" doesn't transport that for be. It would be "schlechter beigeschmack". Gschmäckle mustn't cover all taste. (I went to school in Stuttgart ;-))
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for the figuratively used Gschmäckle.
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The non-regional term would be Geschmack, which could be translated as taste or flavour.


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I'd like iTunes to automatically add any music that I add to my music folder to its library. I don't want to have my music on the same hard-drive as Itunes, though, so I can't just copy it into any of the Itunes music folders. Is there a way to do this?
No, iTunes will not "listen" for music in a given folder (like the popular BT program Transmission, which will load torrent files once they've been downloaded to a given directory).
You have to manually add music by dragging it in the iTunes window or going through the file menu (CMD + O).
However, you could achieve what you are after perhaps with some voodoo in Apple Script. Or simply sort the contents of your music folder by "date added" (provided you are using Lion) and manually add the songs as they arrive.
But then if you are going through all this trouble of manually managing files, you may wish to ask yourself, "why"? It might be less of a burden to just let iTunes do its thing (like it was mentioned before, you can tell iTunes to copy the music anywhere you like, on any drive connected to your system, even on a network) than micro-manage a bunch of files.
Whatever you do don't use the Automatically Add to iTunes folder.
This will destroy any system you have for arranging and naming your files. I had all my files in one folder named "Artist - Album - Song Name" now they are all Artist Folder/Album Folder/"Track Number Song Name". I wanted to use the automatically add folder not the organize files feature, but apparently you cannot add files without organizing them.
I think the easiest way would to be manually manage your iTunes library yourself. Under Advanced in iTunes preferences, uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library".
This will add reference to the tracks to iTunes without copying them to the iTunes library.
This apple support file will guide through the steps required to transfer your media file to an external disk or any other location. There is also a link in the article you should follow if you are running itunes on windows
To populate iTunes with media on an external disk etc. just alt + drag your media folder into the iTunes window. This will make a reference to your files
Buy iTunes songs then open windows media and open I tunes folder , you want to burn the songs to a disc then rip the disk back on the computer this really sucks but you can't copy iTunes music any other way


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You can get better quality meat at a local butcher. Not only will it taste better, but you'll support a local independent company. Hell, CostCo sells fresh sirloin for $4.99 per lb!
As someone who grew up in Iowa, I've had Omaha steaks on several occasions, and frankly they've been disappointing every time. Who eats a 5oz steak bought online anyway?
Then there's the part where all of this arrives frozen. Look, if I'm going to buy steak, it sure as hell won't be a 5oz Sirloin that arrives at my house frozen. If I need a taste of the midwest on my plate I'll order from Rube's. At least the cuts are man-sized, the meat is top quality, and it arrives without having ever been frozen.
Sure, it costs more but why in the hell would I spend $80 for crap I can buy locally of higher quality?
I've purchased a deal like this once before. Pricing it out compared to my local butcher this deal blows them away. The quality is very good. Their burgers are amazing. If my freeze had room I'd snatch this up right away.
@jmacas429: Really?
Let's break down that pricing:
Stuffed Sole: $5.97 for 2 4.5 OZ portions
Potatoes Au Gratin: $10.40 for 8 servings.
Caramel Apple Tart: $14.99 for 6 servings.
That's a total of $31.36 for those items using pricing on Omaha Steaks.
Are you telling me that:
1.25 LBs of Sirloin
1 LB of Pork Chops
1 LB of Chicken Breast
1.33 LBs of hotdogs
1 LB of Steak Burgers
(Total of = 5.58 LBs of meat) is worth $8.71 per lb, and this is cheaper than where you live?
I can go to a local bar here in Seattle and get a 6 oz Ribeye w/ french fries for $8.99 cooked, and delivered at my table. I can buy fresh Ribeye at the grocery store for $6.99 on sale, and $9.99 when not-on-sale. Bone in, delicious, still not frozen when I get it.
Because, that's higher than average grocery store prices here, and at least the Grocery store's meat shows up fresh and not frozen.
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So what's the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of Florida? This beautiful state has its fair share of madness- Rick Scott's staunch opposition to Obamacare that has left 754,000 low-income adults in this state without health insurance, the famous Miami cannibal attack of 2012.
But even with all that, there are so many reasons to love this Sunshine State. From its amazing food to awesome culture, to its gorgeous scenery, there are lot of things about Florida that make it just plain awesome.
I'm a Naples native, and many people interested in this city often ask me-Is Naples, Florida really a nice place to settle?
When you're searching for a second home, a preferred vacation destination, or a place where you can settle peacefully after retirement, you might be tempted to compare the Naples real estate with that of Sarasota, which is just hour and a half from east coast of Florida, or the North of Naples.
You might also wonder why properties of Estero, Bonita Springs, or Fort Myers look so cheap when you're searching online. Many get confused on whether they should buy a home in Naples or search in other areas where better deals can be found.
Many people interested in this area like to see homes not only in Estero and Bonita, but also in Naples real estate. In fact, once they visit the area and check out few properties, the differences become crystal clear.
So, do you know the benefits of living in Naples, Florida? What's it that sets Naples apart from other cities of Florida? Let's have a close look at few reasons on why it's the best city to live in the world:
10. Awesome beaches- Naples boasts of more than seven miles of beachfront, and has some of the cleanest ands and gulf water that you'd ever experience. These beaches are some of the best in the world and often rank high on the top 10 lists of the best beaches around the world.
9. Better safety and low crime- Naples is a safer city than rest of Florida and the US. In fact, many from around the US move onto Naples, when they come to know about its very low crime rate. The place has much lower crime rate (57 percent) than Florida and National average. Naples is 25 percent safer than other US cities. In fact, this place is so safe that many of its residents leave their font doors unlocked when they go on a walk to the beach!
8. Unique Architecture and Greenery-In Naples, you get unrestricted views of the Gulf of Mexico and beach. There are no tall overbearing buildings in Old Naples, so you can enjoy ample sunshine. The local government has imposed strict restrictions on billboards, signs, and building heights in the area. For instance, instead of tall 40 foot signs visible in other US cities, here you'll see small signs down on the ground. There aren't many such places in the US or around the globe. Naples also keeps you focused on its Neapolitan architecture, and topical greenery all around.
7. Best Ever Dining Experience-Naples boasts of some of the best restaurants in the US. The hot favorites are Chops City, Trulux, Club Sushi, Blue Provence, the Turtle Club, and Baleen, just to name a few.
6. Pristine-Pristine is the best word to explain Naples to any outsider. It's clean, and has litter less street, small signs, low crime rate, clean beaches, beautiful landscaping and conscious efforts by its residents to maintain it that way. Neapolitans really love their piece of paradise and work hard to maintain its beauty.
5. Boating and Fishing-There are so many exciting things you can do in Naples. Boating and fishing is one of them. In fact, they're not hobbies but ways of life for local residents. This place boasts of some of the best waterfront in the world. You can even fish late in the night at its lighted docks!
And there's lot of golf in Naples. There are more than 70 golf courses for you to choose from. Many like to live in golf communities regardless of their desire or level of play. There are many high-end luxury homes in numerous golf communities like Collier's Reserve, Grey Oaks, and Quail West. It's thrilling to be able to drive your golf cart right form your garage to the first tee without even getting in your car!
4. Magnificent Sunsets-The sunsets in Naples are really very special. When sun hits the horizon, you can put down your cocktail and join the clapping, for you've just witnessed one of the most sacred movements on the Gulf-Sunset.
Sunsets in Naples are very special to say the least. Around the time of the setting sun, if you venture down any of the Old Naples avenues that end at the Gulf, you are bound to be shoulder to shoulder with several others looking West. If you're lucky, and you don't blink on any lucky day, you can even see the elusive green flash the moment sun vanishes right below the horizon.
3. Weather-The average air temperature in Naples is around 77 degrees Fahrenheit. July, August and September are the hottest summer months. You'll find the best weather in this area in November to May when there's less rain and humidity. Mostly, gulf water temperatures in Naples range from the 50's in the winter months to the mid 80's from spring through fall.
2. Downtown Old Naples-Well, Old Naples is the heart of the city. You'll be amazed to find that unlike its name, there's nothing in this place that looks old. The place is actually the cultural essence of the city. It's here that Naples originated form tiny fishing village. There are many historic beach cottages, homes, and buildings that remind of the early history of the place dating back to the 1900's.
1. The People-They are the biggest asset of Naples. People come from all parts of the US and the world. Naples has become a melting pot of cultures and everybody is really happy living in this little paradise.
Once you've experienced this place yourself, I'm sure you'll agree that Naples is one of the best places in the US to reside and enjoy life. You can easily buy your own piece of paradise and become a fellow Neapolitan!
On the other hand, real estate in Fort Myers is slightly cheaper and very close to Naples in proximity.


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The limit is $$\lim_{x \to \infty} \left[ {x^{x+1} \over (x+1)^x} - { (x-1)^x\over x^{x-1}}\right]$$
Experimentally, this limit appears to converge to ${1 \over e}$, but I can't figure out how to solve it.
A fairly mechanical approach is to write the limit as $$\lim_{x\to\infty}(f(x)-f(x-1))$$ where $$f(x)=\frac{x^{x+1}}{(x+1)^x}.$$ Then $$\log f(x)=(x+1)\log x - x\log(x+1) = \log x - x \log(1+1/x)$$ and so $$\log f(x)= \log x - 1 + 1/(2x) + O(x^{-2})$$ as $x\to\infty$ (using the Maclaurin series for $\log(1+t)$). Therefore $$f(x) = (x/e)(1+1/(2x)+O(x^{-2}))=x/e+1/(2e)+O(x^{-1})$$ and so $$f(x-1) =(x-1)/e+1/(2e) +O((x-1)^{-1}).$$ Subtracting, $$f(x)-f(x-1)= 1/e+O(x^{-1})).$$
Making the change of variables $\; z = 1/x \;$ and collecting together like exponents yields
$\quad\quad\quad\quad \displaystyle \lim_{z\to 0^+} {\frac{(1+z)^{-1/z} - (1-z)^{1/z}}{z}}\; = \;\lim_{z\to 0^+} {\frac{f(-z)-f(z)}{z}} $
Applying the well-known $\rm exp$ and $\rm log$ taylor series to $f(z) = (1-z)^{1/z}\; = \; e^{{\rm log}(1-z)/z}$
$$f(z) = e^{-1-\frac{z}{2}+\;\cdots} = e^{-1} (1 + (-\frac{z}{2} +\;\cdots) + (-\frac{z}{2} +\cdots)^2 + \;\cdots) = \frac{1}{e} - \frac{z}{2e} + O(z^2)$$
Therefore $\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\displaystyle \frac{f(-z)-f(z)}{z}\; = \;\frac{1}{e} + O(z)\quad\quad\quad$ as confirmed by Macsyma:
HINT You can write the difference as $x \left( y^{-x} - z^x \right)=x\left(1-(yz)^x\right)/y^z$, where $y$ and $z$ are rational functions of $x$ such that the limiting value of $y^x$ (and $z^x$) is well-known, finite, and non-zero. Now focus on finding the limit of $x\left(1-(yz)^x\right)$.
(Restricting $x$ to integers and invoking the Binomial Theorem helps, but that only shows what the limit --if it exists-- would have to be, leaving open the possibility that the limit might not exist when considering non-integer $x$.)


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Name: Freddie Viens
Location: Fayston, Vermont
Project: Homemade rope tow
Materials Used: Rear axle of a Model A truck; electric motor from an early milking machine; belts, pulleys, rope
Time to Assemble: Three weekends
Inspiration: Viens, a mechanic and antiques collector, enjoys putting together machinery from old car parts. "I'd never actually seen a rope tow before I built one, but people told me how they remembered them," he says. "Later, I went online and looked at pictures, and everything I saw looked pretty similar to what I'd built."
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Location: New Durham, New Hampshire
Project: Homemade luge run
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I have to agree here, Most of these a gorgeous!
by HxCookie Monday, February 11, 2013 at 01:22PM Report as inappropriate
great ideas
by LittleBunny Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 10:12AM Report as inappropriate
Sephora had some very awesome sets this winter season. Bite Beauty has a couple of great sets that didn't not require any wrapping. The article was too much fun to look at. It made me want to shop. I really geeked out on the Fresh set.
by Sari Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 02:56PM Report as inappropriate
by Nicole2814 Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 12:28PM Report as inappropriate
i love tarte is my all time favorite line of makeup
by sandyc Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at 12:43PM Report as inappropriate
love all josie products they really make your skin soft
by sandyc Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at 12:38PM Report as inappropriate
I am a huge fan of packaging!! I love fresh Sugar the glosses slide on soo smooth and they are extremely hydrating, and not heavy!! I love Philosophy but I'm not into "sweet" smells, I would love that gift set if it was in Amazing Grace or Pure, I prefer clean smells. I Love the Too Faced Kit and the MAC Gloss Kit! I especially Love the Tarte Kit! The packaging is beautiful! I love Tarte makeup!! I also like the full fragrance house packing, very unique! And the Lorac Kit! They are all so amazing and pretty! I really like candles, but I hate it when I get them as gifts.
by morgan_ledford Friday, December 28, 2012 at 07:46AM Report as inappropriate
Beautiful slides of these gorgeous products! i would love them all! Happy Holidays!
by rayshaviolet Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 01:25PM Report as inappropriate
With just the packaging alone, I would LOVE all of them! My favorite is the MAC and the Too Faced gift set. I'm afraid if I buy them, I'd end up opening them and using it myself. I deserve it!
by flirtygirl214 Monday, December 17, 2012 at 03:43PM Report as inappropriate
I want all of them!
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Just as the title says, what is your favorite whiteboard interview problem, and why has it proven effective for you?
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Just as the title says, what is your favorite whiteboard interview problem, and why has it proven effective for you?
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I ask the candidate to design a solution to a problem I actually encountered in my day to day work. Doing so, I try to create a dialog between me and the candidate. I try to discuss about the design he is building as if I had never thought about the problem before.
What I try to evaluate is whether we are able to understand each other, and whether we can talk about a technical problem without confusion.
Concrete example
(For a java desktop developper)
Design an API to handle the navigation history of a web browser (previous page, next page, list the 10 previous pages), and that can be reusable in many parts of the application (here I give concrete examples in our app). Then, sketch up an implementation.
I like this one, because it's simple enough, it's easy to illustrate, it can be solved step by step (add additional behaviors without breaking everything), it allows to talk about edge cases and error handling, and it also allows to talk about data structures.
I've found this one extremely illuminating when interviewing candidates and filtering out those with no business being there. It is similar in complexity to Fizz Buzz, but focuses on database skills.
I let them write it in any SQL variant they want, and am not too picky on minor syntax problems. I mainly want to know that they understand basic relational DB concepts.
Most candidates can get through part 3 with no issues at all. You'd be amazed how many think that the answer to part 4 is just to change the operator from OR to AND in the where clause.
"Draw for me on the whiteboard the design of the last project you worked on, without revealing me any sensitive detail."
My favorite which encompasses a few disciplines is to count the number of nodes in a binary tree given the interface (in C#):
and just for fun, here's the implementation, though the interviewee need not see this.
and the assistant class:
The solution I like to see is this:
As it demonstrates knowledge of:
Two questions that have elicited interesting whiteboard discussions for me are
They start off simple and then get progressivly more complex.
I don't like to use a puzzle or a design question as a whiteboard question. I prefer straightforward, simple, questions, that test the candidate's ability to write some code. My favourites are:
1) Write a function to reverse a singly linked list. (It takes a while before they realise they need 3 pointers.)
2) Given a binary tree, find the depth of the binary tree. (This question tests their ability to write recursive code. Lets me check if they have their base case intact.)
3) Write a procedure for binary searching an array of integers. (Like Jon Bentley says (in Programming Pearls), many people tend to make mistakes writing binary search. One can then follow up with finding bugs, writing test cases, running through the code, etc..)
We used this at one company I worked for.
We handed the candidate a piece of paper used for tracking time. It was a real timesheet used by one or our divisions. We asked the candidate to walk us through the design process for creating a better time tracking tool. No boundaries, didn't say what language etc., just want to see how good the candidate was at "full lifecycle". It gave us a real insight into how they gathered requirements. How they structured database tables, what kind of UI they might do. Communication skills were obviously needed for this task. It was usually done in a room with several large white boards and lasted as long as 2 hours.
We hired several people using this process and if they did really well on the task they did really well for us. If they were marginal and we decided to hire them anyway (separate topic) they were marginal programmers.
I use a problem that is relevant to my programming domain.
If I develop web applications, I want to see how they might draw up a web form that deletes records, and what approach they might take to removing the record from the database, for example. This tells me if they know basic database principles, how they interact with the user to verify deletion, and if they know what a soft delete is.
I don't have a favorite. The problem I choose will vary greatly depending on the job.
I don't care whether they can solve the problem completely or not in an interview, what technologies and languages they use, or how crappy their code looks on a whiteboard. I am looking for a thought pattern; I want to see if they know how to think through and solve problems.
My favourite was one a friend of mine used.
It works well because:
There's no need for them to get the answer right. If someone can think and explain their thinking then they're a long way down the road for being a good candidate.
Something called aff_z, which was part of my engineering school's C examinations and was used as a "dummy" test to have students fail when coming back from holidays (our marking system implied that failing a test stopped the marking, so failing that dummy test would invalidate your whole test. Forces you to pay attention to moronic details). I did reuse it once or twice during interviews.
Anyways... I forgotten the exact formulation but it was something like this...
The sad thing is that not only some students would come up with extremely convoluted solutions when the answer is fairly obvious, but that some would even manage to fail.
And believe it or not, it did happen during interviews as well.
Running it in interviews was fairly fun, as some applicants would start writing the possible branches and then realize what is wrong (obviously, if you only ask them orally, that is quite understandable that they do so as you speak... but if you give it in writing, I find it puzzling...)
It's dumb, but I guess it's a minimalistic screening (similarly, when hiring JS programmers, I always ask how to declare a variable, and then depending on their answer whether or not using var makes any difference at all. Quite often a sad moment, honestly.)
It really depends what you are looking for, as an organisation that does a lot of dynamic web work involving images, I tend to like to ask a geometry question pertinent to the job. In any case, I tend to ask a geometry question, as I find it a good maths test that is nice and visual and can show a candidates ability to visually present their working and methodically work through a problem.
For advanced candidates, I occasionally give the following question:
For an easier question I usually give the same sort of question, but use the "square within a circle within a square" example. Though this is very easy, so I would expect perfect algebra on it.
Over and above that, I tend to ask them to knock up an algorithm for generating all combinations of a variable length data set.
The best FizzBuzz answers I've seen are:
SQL Server 2008
C# (simple)
C# (clever)
I look for a couple of things in candidates that I have interviewed. For reason I can't describe online, we get pretty poor candidates, and I've come to expect it, so I'm pretty easy on them. Even still, I look for:
Considering the number and quality of the applicants we've gotten, I've interviewed everyone who's ever seriously applied. I've hired no-one.
I usually let them sketch a block diagram of the last system they've worked on, asking about the relations between the blocks and than let them elaborate on the block they were working/in charge on. You can learn many from this exercise, like how one looks beyond his small domain, how much is it important to him to know 'where' he is acting, also you can learn about the role he was playing, was it a key or side role.
Write an algorithm for the following problem: Given a number n, output the total number of (unique) binary trees that have n nodes.
Thus, for n=0 and n=1, the answer is 1. For n=2, you have 2: the root node, and then the second node either to the left or the right.
You can gain insight into design techniques and to see if they think of recursion or memoization or the dynamic programming solution.
[See also this StackOverflow discussion for the related, but different, case of binary-search trees.]
If I were to interview a software developer, I'd ask him to design a software and describe hardware requirements to remove duplicate entries from an arbitrarily large file containing a full name on each line. I leave some parts of the problem description ambigous purposefully. Then I challenge him to see if he understands analysing and clarifying requirements, different trade-offs, data structures and algorithms, I/O (secondary storage), software and hardware technologies, scalability, etc.
I think it is a small yet challenging problem, revealing applicant's knowledge and abilities in many computing areas.
Many guys could stuck on this. If some solution is given - usually it uses recursion. After that:
Can't tell you, how many fellows fail to complete both tasks - 50% of candidates.
For databases I go with:
Table: Things ID Name 1 Bodkin Van Horn 2 Hoos-Foos 3 Hoos-Foos 4 Hot-Shot 5 Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face 6 Snimm 7 Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face 8 Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face 9 Dave
Write me some SQL that will de-duplicate a table like this based on the name (and I don't care which ID I get back but whichever one is returned must be valid for that name). So the table once the correct SQL has been applied to it will present something like:
Table: Things ID Name 1 Bodkin Van Horn 2 Hoos-Foos 4 Hot-Shot 5 Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face 6 Snimm 9 Dave
I like it because:
(This is where I find that there is some entirely trivial way of doing this and I've been over complicating it all these years).
My favourite C++ whiteboard problem is to have the candidate implement
From this I can learn
How would you represent a standard 52 card deck? Any programming language is fine. How would you shuffle the cards?
My favorite is to start with asking the prototype of printf. Then given a low level API printc(char c), which will print one character, implement printf. Gives all sorts of interesting responses like the stack is part of the CPU. As you might have guessed I am from a C and embedded background.
You have a bowl with 200 fish in it. Of these fish 99% are not guppies. How many fish should you remove so that 2% of what remains are guppies. Show your work.
This is about confusing requirements. It is said this way to change perspectives multiple times during the same question. It is meant to see if they can figure out what is really going on.
You would be surprised how many people get it wrong.
I have a few favourites, but here are a couple that nearly always come up. Most of the time I'm doing final round technical (C++) interviews so favour longer and more open questions which lead to new areas of interest. There's no 'right' answer, just an opening to other conversation.
1) Implementing a basic shared pointer, explanations of where there's deficiencies compared to tr1 or boost's shared pointers in their implementation, how it should be used etc.
2) A code review. For experienced hires we expect them to be able to confidently review some provided code for design problems, errors, coding horrors and potential maintainability problems. Also, of course, how they'd fix it; and sometimes how they'd give that message to the junior developer they're shooting down.
One question that I've been using ever since it was used on me is the following:
A large part of the reason that I've been using it is due to the fact that you can then take there solution and move in various directions:
Their answers to these questions could give you insight as to how they respond to changing requirements as well as if they can recognize performance considerations. A strong candidate might respond with a question in regards to what the function is needed for an how often it would be called.
Moving in a different direction:
I use this as a way of checking their lateral thinking. Since calculating prime numbers can be slow as the max value gets larger it sometimes makes more sense to just use some sort of calculated or pre-calculated look-up table that is adjusted on the basis of the problem you are trying to solve.
Here's one to provoke some thought--It's straightforward, involves a bit of math, and checks the candidate's knowledge of basic computer design (overflow, numeric representation, etc):
Write a program (or procedure) that takes a pair of integers X, Y as input and determines whether X*Y is evenly divisible by 10. IMPORTANT NOTE: X and Y may be large enough that X*Y overflows the largest integer type available on your machine.
Sample solution:
Fill in the following method: PS A mode of a number is the number (in the list) which has the most occurrences.
This is to see of effecient is your code.
How would you represent a spare matrix that's relatively large... say 1000x1000 but has at most 100 non-zero entries?
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For a given flywheel (thin-walled cylinder, assume a spoked bicycle wheel) rotating in the x-y plane, I'm trying to calculate the force generated in either direction along the z-axis.
It seems to me, in line with Newton's first law of motion extended to rotational dynamics, what forces are physically being generated that prevent a rolling wheel from falling over?


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Great - easy and clear coverage of a topic that had me stumped.
Very good so far. Good language level for beginners and well paced. Good selection of material.
Great information and very easy to follow
Thanks Dai! good stuff.
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Thank you for a very good tutorial. I looked for a long time, but this was the only one who said clearly that you have to mark the shapebox and not the text when you click text flow around box.
Do you have any videos on how to make 3.fold pages (eg. for a brochure). When I click 3 fold it looks exactly the same as just one page. How do I get the right help lines?
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Thank you Dai , Excellent lesson straight to the point .
Good technique.
Very useful tute, many thanks.
Slight problems with finding controls in ver 1.3.6 as they are quite different in places to those used in the tute version.
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This tutorial gives me courage! The intimidating first impression of Scribus dissolved. Knowing how-to makes me feel at ease with Scribus.
I'm really appreciating these videos. Thank you!
Very helpful.
Good one Dai.
I love using your videos to learn Scribus! Your descriptions are easy to understand and you are answering the questions I have about the software. Thank you!
Informative - but you seem to stumble your way through it.
I have viewed this before and come back to it as a reference. This whole Scribus series by Dia is very helpful.
Great video, its simple to follow, and not too many people have tutorials out there on Scribus so I'm thankful for your Video.
Keep em coming!!!
Very good, simple, and straight-forward
Thank you, David, for taking the time to create these video tutorials. I am a very new usser of Linux and I'm interested in creating a web page, so I thought that it would be instructive to first learn how to use a DTP package, so Scribus was an easy choice for me. It may take me some time to master it, of course, but it's great to be able to go through your tutorials and get an pover view of how ut all works, before having a go at creating a page for the first time. Good work! Thanks again. I've watched the first 3 so far. . .
Even I understand this, great.
Thanks..off to practice..
Cognitive, but I did not here answer "Why it so?" Why we can not just say "Make it proportionally and move right line of picture little bit more right. I mean make construction without box, only picture.
Good job :-)
Nettes Tutorial, Dai ! Gibt einem dieses Gefühl, weiterzukommen mit Scribus. Very helpful. Thanks.
Very helpful!
You are doing pretty well. Congratulations!
thanks Dai!
Very useful tutorials!
good video, i learned a lot from this one. i might actually learn how to use this program
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I would like to find out what it takes to create a custom implementation of an ArcGIS function. In particular, I would like to implement GeoAnalyst.ISurfaceOp2.Visibility() in order to get it to run faster. Right now, it is taking ~3 seconds per call to Visibility(). From my limited understanding, the bottleneck is the writing of temporary rasters to the file system. If this could be done in-memory, I suspect the processing time would decrease significantly. I am doing this in a .NET project, but solutions in any language are welcome.
This answer memorializes and expands on some of the discussion in the comments. A RAM disk emulates an external disk drive using some of the RAM in a computing system. It can read and write at speeds comparable to in-memory caching, minus a little overhead for the translation protocols to convert disk-oriented commands to memory-oriented commands. A RAM disk is created by running special operating system-level software, a "device driver." Open source and free RAM disks are available for many operating systems, including Windows.
Therefore, one way to speed up a bottleneck due to intermediate disk I/O is to set up a RAM disk (buying the additional RAM if necessary) and place the scratch folder there. (This is usually a software setting.)
Another option is to install a high-end DRAM solid state device (SSD), which essentially is a block of RAM in separate packaging with an electronic interface to act like a disk drive. It installs in a computing system in place of a disk drive and will behave exactly like another disk drive without any additional software, but will read and write almost as fast as memory accesses. These are relatively expensive, but likely only a small one is needed even for very large intermediate raster storage.
Before taking any of these steps, it is important to profile the process to ascertain where the bottleneck really is. (Windows has been delivered with increasingly powerful profiling and monitoring apps in recent years, available in Win 7 as the Task Manager/Resource Monitor pair, and of course many similar apps are available for other OSes too.) Many systems are automatically configured, or can be configured, to cache disk reads and writes in RAM for short periods. Caching works almost the same as a RAM disk, but is probably even faster: the software thinks it is writing intermediate files to disk, but the OS writes them temporarily to RAM first, not accessing the disk, in the hope that soon the same data will be read back and deleted, in which case a physical write will never be necessary. Profiling the physical disk operations while the bogged-down software is running will indicate whether or not disk I/O is the bottleneck.
Given the amount of computation needed for any full visibility calculation (in a naive algorithm, every cell has to be inspected for visibility once for each viewpoint), one should at least suspect that computing speed, not disk I/O, may be the problem here. If that is the case, RAM disks or SSDs will be a waste of time and money. Instead, effort should be directed at analyzing and improving the underlying algorithm.
Some discussion of whether RAM disk performance helps ArcGIS has appeared in another thread.
Unfortunately, you cannot set the IRasterAnalysisEnvironment to work with an in-memory workspace.
This thread addresses the issue.


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Voting delays: The other national disaster
Long lines at gas stations in the Northeast will ease eventually, and were the result of a natural disaster, the "act of God" known as Sandy. But the voting debacle in Florida is man-made, and a true national scandal, in my view. It is a problem that could manifest itself in many places tomorrow, Election Day. That raises all sorts of questions about the legitimacy of our democracy. People waiting seven hours in line to vote? Voter fraud fears are unfounded. This is a real disenfranchisement, and while it seems to affect the working class and elderly and others on the margins the most, this seems like it is a problem that should concern both parties. Such lines are a great disincentive to voting.On this date in 1872, Susan B. Anthony voted (Republican) and was arrested, and later convicted for her crime. Is this any way to honor her activism?
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From what I understand each state is responsible for holding elections. They obviously require more polling places in certain counties.I know up here that volunteers staff polling centres (my mom was one at one time) and that representatives from each party are allowed to be at the table to observe and obviously elections officials oversee everything.If there are long lines and delays, it is due to poor planning, not enough polling centres and volunteers and ultimately poor leadership and organization at the state level.
Florida has had more than enough time to get its act together. I must ask if it may not be inappropriate for the federal courts in the state to get involved in light of de facto disenfranchisement. This is outrageous!
The best way to breed distrust and lack of interest on the part of voting citizenry is for them to have more than a little suspicion that the voting process is deliberatly rigged, mishandled or designed to disenfranchise certain segments of the voting population.This year is as close to that actuality that I have ever seen in my 54+ years of voting.This country is going down a bad road from which it may not recover as easily as the more naive among us believe. Contrary to what Fr. Flanagan said: there IS such a thing as a bad boy.
@George D (11/5, 11:38 am) "If there are long lines and delays, it is due to poor planning...."That depends on one's definition of planning. One possibility is, as you suggest, sheer incompetence on the part of local and state election officials in certain states.Another possibility---one for which there's a fair amount of evidence---is that the long lines and delays are due to *effective* planning by local and state officials who want certain constituencies *not* to vote. As tech geeks say, it's not a bug; it's a feature.
As a long time poll inspector I see the huge lines in Florida and Ohio as a treasonous GOP disgrace. In my twenty years as inspector there was never more than 5-6 people in line at San Francisco polling places. When there was a long, time consuming ballot more tables and chairs were placed in the church basement.
Early voting began in our state a few cycles ago. For a couple of weeks there are lines outside the early voting places, and people boast of waiting two to four hours to vote. For which I thank them. On election day, my wife and I have gone to our usual polling place and voted in under 10 minutes.The reason it takes so long to vote early is because our Legislature, in its wisdom :-( , and local governments in their chauvinism don't have any election districts that overlap, so every block needs a different ballot from the block across the street. So each voter's ballot has to be printed separately on printers (that break down). Eventually, the Lege will demand that each ballot be drawn by a calligrapher, and the lines will get longer. This year, to add to the fun, the Legislature included the full wording of its many and useless proposed constitutional changes -- a finger in the eye of the State 'Supreme Court which said the lawmakers' summaries were misleading (which they were). As a result, the ballot is as long as Anna Karina and not as interesting, but if people try to read it, we will be here well into 2013.
Emily Bazelon at Slate gets righteous:http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/11/early_v...
You mean they have to vote on Tuesday?!
Jim P., Is your comment above all that you have to say about this problem?For your sake, I hope not.
Thank you, Bernard D.
The bulletin in my state (Rhode Island) had ballot questions on how to spend money: do you want to give $x to veterans, $y to state parks, $z to local schools?Such questions strike me as very strange. How would I know the answer of such questions if I do not have a global view of the budget? Without the time to study it and competence to evaluate it, I would much prefer those to be resolved by elected officials. What are they elected for, if not to do some sound planning, and why should I make decisions that are really their job to make?But I suppose that long time US citizens are so used to it that it's normal in their eyes.
But let me not derail an interesting topic. The only connection is: "US voting has weird features"...
"...the ballot is as long as Anna Karina and not as interesting" Tom BlackburnAll happy elections are alike; each unhappy election is unhappy in its own way.
Bernard, John Page and all: sorry for the brevity. I don't think it's unreasonable to wait in line to vote. Lines can form on Election Day, or during early voting. Sometimes it's cold out, too. Sometimes it rains or snows. Sometimes it involves driving or riding a bus. None of these are insurmountable problems. So no, I don't find it a scandal or a crisis that voting may entail some personal inconvenience. Our laws ensure that employers permit their employees to vote on Election Day. If employers are abusing employees by not excusing them from work on Election Day, then the remedies provided in those laws should be applied.If citizens in Florida or some other jurisdiction want expanded early voting, they are free to petition the governor and their legislative representatives.Personally, I vote in the morning, before work, because the lines tend to be shorter than late in the day. I've gotten to know some neighbors by waiting in line to vote. It's a privilege to be able to vote in a democracy.
John P., Nicely done! I couldn't agree more.Jim P., It's a little more complicated than that. Chuck or Jake or Wolf or Mara would be proud to tell you that conventional political wisdom (their stock in trade) holds that early voters are Democrats while absentee voters are Republicans. The theory seems to be that Democrats have to work on Tuesdays, and Republicans can send their man to pick up their ballot and return it for them. I am not sure I believe the theory.But Republican governors, who watch Chuck and Jake et al, try to limit early voting hours, and Democratic governors try to extend them. And each side tries to counteract the other. Pretty soon the theory becomes self-fulfilling prophecy. The "citizens," especially those coveted independents, have no way to influence it. Of course.
Jim, my husband has arthritic hips and a pacemaker. After standing in line for an hour to vote, he was worn out for the rest of the day. You're very fortunate that (apparently) you're in such good health that you can be on your feet for a couple of hours, and can afford to lose a few hours' pay. Try putting yourself in the places of those of us who aren't.
Jim P - would suggest that the *catholic* position, if there is one, on voting would be to encourage, support, extend, influence, and all but compel folks to responsibly vote. The concept that voting happens on only one day is a figment of someone's imagination in today's world. Is there some magic to having to vote only on the first Tuesday in November? (30% of all voters this election will be early voters)Reality for catholic social justice is that many folks have to work on Nov. 6th; have family or other responsibilities in addition to work; do not have the *luxury* to take a vacation day or pay for children to be watched; elderly w/o transportation; elderly who can't stand in line for 3+ hours or in the freezing cold, military on duty; etc. (other arguments appear to sound like the Romney welfare w/o work mantra and, as FactChecker showed, has just as much truth)That barely 50% of the US votes is a scandal (if that high) There is no proven issue of fraud, voter mistakes, etc. so why the *high bar* for photo IDs; restricting early voting days/hours, limiting voting hours, etc.
Jim P."I dont think its unreasonable to wait in line to vote." But in Florida 6 hours, 8 hours? That is what is being reported.You mentioned that you vote early in the morning, when the lines are short. Consider this scenario:But lets say that the poll opens at 7 and you have a 2 hour commute to your job where it is important that you arrive at 9 and when you come home you are dead tired from being on your feet all day and oh, the kids are home from school and need dinner. Do you expect such a person would want to travel to their voting precinct and wait in line for several hours? Boo hiss.
Angela - I'm sorry for your husband. Bill - I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that everyone who works on election day is permitted by law to miss work in order to vote, and needn't spend vacation days. Helen - your employer needs to accommodate your right to vote. Tell her that you need to start at noon that day because you are voting. I'm glad people are willing to wait hours in line to vote, and I'm sorry the experience was so bad for them. But this is not the equivalent of being stuck on a highway for eight hours with no exit ramp. They were free to leave at any time, and come back tomorrow, or the next day, or to skip the whole thing without a penalty.Six hours is nothing. Try being impaneled on a jury. That's six weeks of my life I'll never get back. And it's not optional. Then there's military service ...
Jim P."Helen your employer needs to accommodate your right to vote. Tell her that you need to start at noon that day because you are voting."My scenario was a hypothetical. I live across the street from my polling place. I just have empathy for people who are not so fortunate. Your jury (for which I would think that you got reimbursed) and military service (which are no longer compulsary) comparisons are not convincing. The long lines and hoursof waiting to vote do not have to be that way. So, double my "Boo hiss."
Jim: With all due respect, the law isn't always much help to an employee whose boss doesn't want him to vote; when they say no, they mean no; Lord help the employee who appeals to the federal gov't (!). Work life for many African Americans in South Florida isn't much more fair than the situation they encountered when they showed up at their polling stations.
"Your jury (for which I would think that you got reimbursed)"That's true, I was. Actually, I was fortunate in that my employer continued to pay my salary, so financially, it was a wash for me. There were a couple of jurors on my jury who were self-employed, and it just about killed them financially. The reimbursement in Cook County, IL, where I lived at the time (this was back in the 1980s) was $17.20/day. I'm too lazy to figure out what the poverty line was that year, but I'm pretty sure that a worker making $17.20/day was below it. About half that reimbursement would have paid the parking garage fees for people who had to drive.For some reason, I've been called for jury duty nearly a dozen times, so I can vouch that, as of a year ago, Cook County was still paying $17.20/day. It probably doesn't cover a daily downtown parking rate anymore.At any rate: even people with long commutes or who are stuck at home with kids can make arrangements, one day every four years, to vote in a presidential election. If it's important to them, they'll figure it out. If they're not able to work out arrangements, they have problems a lot bigger than inconvenient polling hours. Sorry, I'm not very sympathetic.
This site for Broward County indicates that early voting in Florida was available from 10/27 through 11/3 this year. People complaining about long lines on 11/3 are like people who complain about the crummy postal service while they wait outside the post office with their tax return on 11:58 pm on 4/15.http://www.browardsoe.org/content.aspx?id=152
Jim P. --Imagine this old lady -- 75 years old, family live in other states, serious heart problem, crippling arthritis (can't get into a bus), her friends are all either dead or they work so they can't help her to the polling place, and a cab would cost her two days food.If you were she, what would you do?
Ann - yes, I do understand that voting is a hardship for a number of people.It turns out that in some places, for some people, early voting is even more of a hardship than voting on election day. Lesson learned: those people should try voting on election day, when there are many more polling places open for longer hours with more people around to assist voters.Your hypothetical person would struggle to vote regardless of how many days and hours of early voting were available. In the old days, political parties had precinct organizations that would drive people in that situation to the polls. Maybe there is something to be said for that old-time, ground game organization.
Jim: Is that your argument? Early voting is harder before Election Day, which doesn't happen until tomorrow? You're quite confused. Voting is a right. Someone who favors democracy should favor a system that makes it easier for citizens to vote. A system that constricts the process, as we've seen in Florida and in Ohio, is not properly democratic, but rather, it seems, narrowly partisan. Your tough-love routine doesn't fly.
Allow me to quote Steve Schmidt, who ran McCain's '08 campaign (this has been widely noted, especially by Andrew Sullivan): "One of the things that you always want to be for, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, is that you want everyone who's eligible to vote to vote.... I think that all of this stuff that has transpired over the last two years is in search of a solution to a problem, voting fraud, that doesnt really exist when you look deeply at the question. Its part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that theres widespread voter fraud across the country. In fact, theres not."
"Jim: Is that your argument? Early voting is harder before Election Day?"No.The only argument I'm making is that those voters can vote on Tuesday; there are legal protections to ensure that they can vote on Tuesday; and voting, whether it's early or on Election Day, can require some planning ahead and a modicum of inconvenience. All of that seems so self-evident that I'm not sure why it would be controversial.If these points sound familiar, it's because I've made them all several times now.
It would be easier to agree with Jim P. that enduring a little inconvenience in performing a civic duty is not such a bad thing, if the whole sorry process was beyond human control. But that is not the case. It has been obvious for well over a year that the Republican Party is doing all it can to make voting difficult for citizens they think are likely to vote Democratic. Needess photo ID, misinformation, intimidation, shorter hours, long lines, it's all good if it discourages "those people" and gives another four years to folks who see their divine right to govern slipping away.This isn't about people who can't sort out their own lives enough to cast a vote. It's about plain, out-in-the-open, contemptuous finagling. Sympathy or the lack of it is beside the point. The right response is righteous, motivating anger.
@Jim Pauwels (11/6, 12:08 am) In my view, none of your points is controversial.Also, in my view, not controversial is the fact that there is a systematic state-by-state effort by one of our two major political parties to restrict the right to vote, to make it harder for many people to vote, to (in effect) reinstate a poll-tax-by-other-means by forcing some voters and would-be voters to spend hours of time (as opposed to actual dollars) for the right to vote.State laws vary widely as to whether employers must give employees time off to vote (e.g., Michigan, North Carolina, Montana, Rhode Island according to this information from the AFL-CIO, http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/In-The-States/Know-Your-Rights-State-Laws-on-...). Some states require employers to give employees a specified amount of time off (e.g., two hours in CO, GA, IL according to this chart from a human resource management association, http://www.dealerelite.net/profiles/blogs/state-by-state-are-employers-r...).So, for example, someone whose polling place is a half-hour's drive from their place of employment literally can't afford to wait in line for longer than 1 hour without risking their job in many states.
Jim P. -- "Our laws ensure that employers permit their employees to vote on Election Day" and "there are legal protections to ensure that they can vote on Tuesday". Wrong. Our laws require or oblige employers to permit . Ensuring that an employer actually does so is an entirely separate matter that may involve, among other things, important work that he needs to have done on Tuesday and later reactions to an employee who is missing when needed. Inconvenience aside, an employee may easily be trapped between two goods. Suing the boss for whom you want to keep working may support the civic good but not likely the other one.
Just voted at 2:30pm Tues. Number ahead of me exactly 0. At 7am, lines had been extremely long with people trying not to interrupt their work day, whatever the law might permit or require.
"A modicum of inconvenience." Some people have stood in line for seven hours.


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So you're the kind of guy who wants a sprawling, secure underground lair. But you still enjoy the simple things in life, like fine marijuana and quiet time with the neighbors. So how about this secret underground cavern, built right under a quiet town in Tennessee?
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The cave even had an escape tunnel that led up to an exit covered by a fake hydraulic rock which we find both awesome and supremely ridiculous at the same time.
While we like the idea of an escape hatch we question how much villain street cred you can really retain after crawling out from underneath a fake rock Hogan's Heroes style.
Cops eventually busted the pot growers and the cave was sold to a "cheese maker." The sale included the land, the remains of the house, the cave and, amazingly enough, most of the pot growing equipment. We expect that there is going to be some truly bitching "cheese" coming out of Tennessee real soon.
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Sweden, apparently a haven for both supervillains and delicious meatballs, is home to this supposed "ISP Data Center" that is built in an old nuclear bunker with 16-inch-thick doors, and refurbished with a total supervillain makeover, complete with triple redundancy cables and fiber optic network and a soothing greenhouse and waterfalls.
Worried that your power is going to be cut right in the middle of executing your world takeover? You can rest easy because the site also comes with two German submarine engines that provide back up power.
Our history isn't great but we're pretty sure this isn't the first time German submarine engines were used to try and take over the world.
The designers also installed the warning alarms from the submarines, but claim that was "just for fun" and not at all to give them enough time to launch a counterattack.
If you needed any more evidence as to why they built this place, look no further than the CEO of this company who freely admits that he wanted to get the same outfit as the villain Blofeld from James Bond, complete with the white cat.
Now, we know what you're thinking. "Sure, that's cool and all, but how can I, a supervillain, build my own? It's not like people are selling abandoned nuclear missile silos out there."
Well, you're in luck...
#4. The Abandoned Nuclear Missile Silo Home
As many of you know, people get suspicious when you apply for a permit to build something called "Underground Armored Missile Silo" in the neighborhood, as those things tend to seriously drive down property values. The good news is that the U.S. government has a few of these things sitting empty because those damn hippies finally convinced Russia and the U.S. that one million missiles could end the world just as well as two million.
Among the prime property for sale is this Titan 1 missile site in Denver if you want a fixer-upper...
... and this one in upstate New York, if you want one ready to move into.
In case you have some henchmen along for the ride, no worries, because the silos boast more than 40,000 square feet of underground floor space for them. Although the site doesn't specify what you'll be using all that space for, we suspect you could have some great dodgeball games after you deliver your ultimatum to the world leaders and wait for money to start rolling in.
Of course, you can't expect the authorities to just stay out while you start building your WMDs. Fortunately, the underground bunkers were built to give you the best chance of surviving any attacks, including 14-foot-thick walls and 150-ton steel doors over the silos. Plus there is a chain link fence which you can totally lock.
The video below gives you a tour of a yet another such site for sale in Washington, so feel free to comparison shop before you buy.