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by BrandonM 12y ago
Perhaps you missed that redbot.org is now one of the sites using SNI? That means that the tool can no longer connect to itself: https://redbot.org/?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fredbot.org
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by BrandonM 12y ago
Yep. My parents live a half hour outside Wilmington, NC, and they can't even get Hughes (satellite Internet). They currently pay $90/mo for 2gb of Verizon wireless data. Their only other choice is DirecTV's offering, which is
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by BrandonM 12y ago
I looked through that, and it seemed that the vast majority of the changes were in prose, tool output, and println. There were some other smallish changes as well, but that doesn't seem so bad for a language that is being very clear th
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by BrandonM 13y ago
I agree that entrepreneurship is a great opportunity to make and learn from mistakes in execution . It's also an opportunity to try completely new things that may or may not work. Other sorts of mistakes, though--like being ignorant o
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by BrandonM 13y ago
I imagine that the types of feedback you're suggesting, such as "market already saturated", would only be half of the story. A founder who is making such a mistake is automatically making a second mistake: not being good enou
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by BrandonM 13y ago
HN is crawled, the links are just nofollow.
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by BrandonM 13y ago
> it's imperative that all code made for security purposes is carefully considered, and architected to avoid the tiniest bugs. I agree wholeheartedly, but all you have to do is take a look at these security libraries' code, p
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by BrandonM 13y ago
In many other areas of CS (e.g., gaming, language development, DB design), the experts are simply more willing to discuss or enumerate the requirements of the problems they are solving. They make an effort to educate those who are intereste
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by BrandonM 13y ago
I like that. I think by that measure, though, OpenSSL is failing badly. It's like an old rusted-metal and rotten-wood bridge that should have a sign saying, "No vehicles over 2 tons," but instead it's carrying highway tr
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by BrandonM 13y ago
This seems to be the natural outcome of Amazon's excellent customer service policy, where they have on numerous occasions[0] refunded costs for hacked instances. When they commit to that policy, they have a huge incentive to limit cust
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by BrandonM 13y ago
Sales taxes are regressive, so much so that combined US state taxes are also regressive, being largely funded by sales tax. Refer to the big square in the middle of https://xkcd.com/980/
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by BrandonM 13y ago
Is it coincidence that their stock ticker is COUP? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/coup
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by BrandonM 13y ago
> And here we have a project. Virtually nothing is done, previous commit was 20 days ago, and the last commit is adding the fundraiser link an hour ago. I mean, the author doesn't seem to be fanatically enthusiastic. I understand th
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by BrandonM 13y ago
Poker absolutely isn't gambling for skilled individuals, any more than a casino is gambling by offering games of chance that have a house advantage.
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by BrandonM 13y ago
Our 7-programmer startup develops a webapp, and we do it on Ubuntu.
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by BrandonM 13y ago
Not true. There are two separate groups in Columbus: OSU Police and the Columbus Police Department.
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by BrandonM 13y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'm sorry you've had such an awful experience. I gave you an upvote, but I want to emphasize that what you have experienced (and are experiencing?) is very wrong. I suggest either gathering evidence and repor
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by BrandonM 13y ago
But the 5 helper functions are all very reusable, making the code specific to this particular usage shrink from 7 lines to 2. With a handful more usages like this, they can have a huge decrease in code size. And later on, seeing "map
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by BrandonM 13y ago
What about Microsoft developing some of the best enterprise programming tools in the world? I don't use any of the following, but I have to admit that they are (or at one time were) best-in-class is basically all of them: * C#, F#,
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by BrandonM 13y ago
I am completely behind code review and refactoring. I am our company's Chief Refactorer (a title I just made up, but it's accurate), and after instituting code review a few months ago, it has made our development process so much
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by BrandonM 13y ago
Except where it doesn't. I have a Google+ account. I also have a separate work email that uses a Google Apps account. Without my prompting, and after already indicating that I didn't want a Google+ account for my work account, G
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by BrandonM 13y ago
I think that a lot of companies forget that they are also being interviewed during their interviews. Were I to interview at your company, I would think that your employees spend most of their time performing code review. I would probably wa
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Poor practice in plotting(leancrew.com)
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by BrandonM 13y ago
It's pretty ridiculous that this discussion devolved into a few people who have been here for 1.5 years or less telling someone who's been here for nearly 8 years that he's doing it wrong. I have no problem with affiliate lin
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by BrandonM 13y ago
What if NewEgg offered a membership for small tech businesses? The businesses would pay $x for year, and would get either a nominal discount on orders, or cheaper shipping, or faster shipping, or a super-special support contact, or whatever
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by BrandonM 13y ago
> I work at a fairly liberal software company in SoCal, and if I scrolled down to the bottom-most picture with the hand-drawn fully-naked chick and someone happened to glance at my screen, I would most likely be fired. If that would be
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by BrandonM 13y ago
It looks like you have both saykou and uokyas usernames? That's frowned upon here.
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by BrandonM 14y ago
Just add -C to the ssh command to enable compression.
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by BrandonM 14y ago
Did you see slides 22-25? It sounds like they have the potential to cut a lot of people regularly. That would easily lead to disgruntled ex-employees. Edit: See also slide 38.
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by BrandonM 14y ago
EasyESI ( http://easyesi.com ) - Berkeley, CA (SFBA) - full-time, US residents only EasyESI is 7-person, tech-led startup that helps lawyers sift through mountains of evidence in a case to find the smoking gun. This is a good business to be

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