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by 16s 13y ago
I think many sys admins thought of js as a web technology and back during w2k, systems and the Web were considered totally unrelated and many systems guys were dismissive of the Web. Things are much different today.
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by 16s 13y ago
It sounds simple, but you'd be surprised how many programmers don't grok the fact that types/data have sizes (especially numeric types). For many tasks, this doesn't matter, but when it does matter, you need people who understand. As an exa
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by 16s 13y ago
I like templates for code reduction. By using a template, I turned about 12 functions into 1 function once. Makes code maintainability much easier.
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by 16s 13y ago
If the allegations are true (they murdered women and a child and blew off the limbs of innocent men women and children) then they are not victims, they are criminals. Saying they are victims and suggesting that pity be given them is wrong.
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by 16s 14y ago
Every part of America I have ever been in would not tolerate that. It's illegal.
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by 16s 14y ago
There are countless cases of where rich people would push poor people on bikes off the road and into ditches with their cars. That would be a serious crime in the USA. If you did that, and you got caught, you would be in very serious
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by 16s 14y ago
I disagree. Ask them what "recursive queries" in DNS are. Ask them to explain the difference between a forward and reverse lookup. DNS is fundamental to "The Internet" and hardly any young person I have met can answer these basic questions
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by 16s 14y ago
And the young ones don't know the math behind why iterating over a list is slower than doing a lookup in a map. I don't care what new-fangled, whiz-bang language/framework is cool. If you don't grok data structures and when to use what, you
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by 16s 14y ago
I call this the "Fart App Generation Phenomenon". They take technology and use it to satisfy immature juvenile urges and then say, oh, wow, this is so cool. Give them an iphone and they'll write an app showing boobs that jiggle when you sha
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by 16s 14y ago
Carry a 2M HT and hit the local repeater when you break down. Give them your position and they'll call a tow truck for you.
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by 16s 14y ago
Agreed. I added a smiley face to the end... maybe that will help others see the humor.
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by 16s 14y ago
I was joking.
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by 16s 14y ago
Cellphones are tracking devices. Plain and simple. The fact that the trackees/victims are paying 70 to 100 bucks each month to build and support the tracking infrastructure is the amazing part.
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by 16s 14y ago
NSA is development, FBI is production ;)
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by 16s 14y ago
Over the years, I've noticed that many programmers who want to re-write, just aren't comfortable modifying other people's code, or it wasn't written in their favorite language. So, they are critical of the code and urge for a re-write. Thes
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by 16s 14y ago
Grads from big state universities with a technical focus do pretty well too.
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by 16s 14y ago
I know several electrical engineering professors (PhD's from Carnegie Mellon, etc). They have no issue getting jobs at universities or in private sector. They are paid very well too.
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by 16s 14y ago
Thank you.
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by 16s 14y ago
Debian has it. I assume Ubuntu does as well... at least for the 8.4 version. --- PostgreSQL 8.4.17 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc-4.4.real (Debian 4.4.5-8) 4.4.5, 64-bit
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by 16s 14y ago
I agree. Postgres is one of the most well thought out DBs I've ever used. They are slow to add features but when they do, they are done right with lot's of attention to detail. Everyone makes mistakes.
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by 16s 14y ago
"Ham radio kits are still around, right?" Amateur radio may be the last bastion of free, decentralized communication. 70 years ago (when the Internet did not exist) Hams could send and receive signals all over the world, and they stil
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by 16s 14y ago
But while trying to store a 64-bit integer in double the exact value can be lost (see picture 1). I've seen that first hand. In fact, I wrote code to fix it. The guy who wrote the code, still did not get it... 64 bits is 64 bits he sa
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by 16s 14y ago
If you can swap out your wife's car alternator, install an electrical outlet in her sewing room, til up the garden and replace the kitchen faucet when it leaks she'll keep you around for many years and she will bake you cookies! It seems pa
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by 16s 14y ago
Linux or BSD based DNS servers can rate limit with iptables, pf, etc. to mitigate this a great deal.
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by 16s 14y ago
Some quotes from the article: “These things are essentially like nuclear bombs,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare. “It’s so easy to cause so much damage.” "He likened the technique, which uses a long-known flaw in
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by 16s 14y ago
When I had formal HR training, I was told to never use the phrase "ability to" in job descriptions... rather we should use the term "experience with". Anyone can assert that they have the ability to lead, but fewer can demonstrate that they
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by 16s 14y ago
So what do you do when you have a guy who continually fails to complete his tasks? I mean you can't praise him publicly. It's obvious to everyone that he fails. You need to let him know that he is not meeting expectations and I feel that sh
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by 16s 14y ago
Yes. We can blame the ipchains/iptables syntax on him ;) Also, he used to poke fun at C++ (many older C devs did that) but more and more of them are coming around to C++. The last automobile systems programmers I worked with were switching
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by 16s 14y ago
Where is the source code to his bot? I don't see it. Maybe I over-looked it. Without seeing source code, I find this story hard to believe. Also, who is the person behind it? The PGP key published is to an anon Gmail account internetcensus2
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by 16s 14y ago
You can cd to /home/user or /home/user/ as well. The dot's in DNS are equivalent to the slashes in your Unix file system. / is root . is root I'm shocked that many people on HN don't seem to understand this.

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