BrailleHunting

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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Perhaps specialties in large urban govt bureacracies (like GIS, facilities maintenance, etc.) often require many Windows-only apps and drivers from vendors whom can't justify Linux development (Mac would probably be first). Having IT s
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Note the report on which the recommendation was based was authored by a derivative of the Big5 firm which helped Enron. (Arthur Anderson -> Accenture) Technology consultants inventing expensive "customer need" projects is nothi
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
The weak are meat and the strong do eat.
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Engineering Disasters: Sherman Tanks(youtu.be)
3 points by BrailleHunting 10y ago|0 comments
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
zlib is one of those packages that's often the root of all packages. (Were you expecting "evil?" That's only in packages distributed without checking GPG signatures of sources verified by strong web-of-trust, built on we
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Perhaps "smart" is too un-nuanced by conflating the real performance of many types of intelligence areas (social, emotional, political, spatial, logical, etc.) into a singular narrow attribution based on brief interactions? (Also
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Also considering lower frequency Russian radar which almost negates most stealth technologies, preponderance of advancements in remotely-controlled drones, hypervelocity missiles and other technological changes, the F-35 program tries too h
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hogue
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James Hogue pleads guilty after camouflaged shack discovered(mercurynews.com)
2 points by BrailleHunting 10y ago|1 comments
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
In the US, with a US-originated iPhone 6s (Verizon), I also encountered this battery issue (randomly shutting down between 17-45% without warning) and Apple replaced it under their recall program (serial number eligible). Apparently, during
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Apple met with Chinese regulators about iPhone’s mysterious battery drain problem(qz.com)
2 points by BrailleHunting 10y ago|1 comments
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
In the US, education, military and other budgets are seen as sacred cows as proxy signals for the emotional investment in their missions, such that insisting on service value for budget outlay is viewed as "social treason." The US
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Keeping anything in China is inherently risky. Rights (ie property, monetary, human, civil, etc.) aren't consistently certain from one day to the next.
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Unlike getting a plurality of IITians together. ;) In the US, ACT/SAT scores and # of acceptance letters/incentives are the closest to undergrad bragging rights/proxy for rank. There are numerous competitions in varous academ
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Yup. The CMM of "firefighters" is immature and drama/chaos-oriented. Solid engineering is best when it often goes ubiquitously unnoticed because it just works like a reliable utility (uptime FTW).
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Distributed Great Firewall of America beta v0.0.3 changelog - Start deprecating net neutrality (Title II) :'( Porn, political and streaming sites are next unless customers/grassroots people raise hell.
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Hypothesis of "least surprise:" Sane defaults implies warning users about impending destructive actions ie deletion), give them a chance (ie grace period, lotsa warnings) to change settings and/or pay more money to keep large
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Certainly, it can also look like trying to hide guilty parties, but I doubt that's the primary reason. IIRC any organization that deals with non-human animals are rationally paranoid about being targeted by animal/ecoterrorists li
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Ask HN: Experiences with small business banks with an API?
1 points by BrailleHunting 10y ago|1 comments
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Statistically since ye olden times, losing data is an LD50 event within 6 months. Always test yur backups automatically and fail the backup job if the restore fails, because DR/BCP is no guden without viable customer data.