ChrisArgyle

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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Isn't it odd that this press release spends so much time discussing encryption? Neither the FBI nor Apple will be touching any encryption functions of the device. It seems the primary aim of this statement is to prevent rumors that wo
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Don't forget early OS X. So slow it was nearly unusable until performance improvements in 10.3.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
> The way I see it, pip and virtualenv are not practical for deployment or distribution. You shouldn't have to download and install things during a production deployment. I even created a tool ( https://github.com/obj
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
The goal being Alice will transmit her methods and habits to the entire team.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Hopefully by then someone will notice Alice should be a team lead or manager due to her pragmatic and customer focused nature.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
I remember this well. Especially when it came to browser compatibility.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
The big reason I remember from my PHP days (late 90s early 2000s) is that you want to separate design from development. Graphic designers were expected to know HTML/CSS while developers focus on PHP.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
A support rep's main job is to put the customer at ease. The more details the customer has to contend with the more stressed out they are. The best action here would be explain that there was an internal process issue at Tesla, apolog
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
So many red flags, time to find a new job. The big one I recognize from a previous job is the 2AM feature implementation. In our shop it generally went like this: * Sales, having trouble closing a sale, promises a non-existent feature * C
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
There is a huge cultural/generational component to it. There are some people who you just cannot wire to be suspicious. Either hire the right people or build security into your processes.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
About 7 years ago I had a job where we supported almost every Unix all the way back to AT&T SVR3 (including OpenServer, UnixWare, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, OSF/1). With the exception of SVR3 every single one had binary packages for Perl
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
tl;dr Even climate change deniers must face that fossil fuels are polluting our air and water and are eventually going to run out. Investing in clean energy is just pragmatic and doesn't make you a tax-and-spend liberal.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
+1 on the Caustic recommendation. The mobile version is perfect when you want to explore ideas without being chained to your workstation.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
My mother expatriated Cuba when she was in her 20s and this is exactly her experience. Basically, if you're not important to The Party you're on your own.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
My thesis advisor had a saying about crackpot physicists: The easiest way to get noticed is to say that Newton is wrong, Einstein is wrong.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
To my knowledge none, but there do exist problematic constants that we can't measure consistently. Famously, measurements of the gravitational constant G vary in a pattern that repeats every 5.9 years. There are a few theories about
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
tl;dr Prisons are designed like their goal is not reform but waste containment. Also, your sentence doesn't really end after your release due to housing/job restrictions, societal biases against ex-cons. A pretty good read but no
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
^D^D should do it
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
And now I know what I'm doing for April 1st next year.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
This topic definitely needs a lot more discussion but, unfortunately, the author mischaracterizes the strongest argument against `curl|bash`: trust. > Most package managers will even execute scripts from the package at install time – as
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
The number you really want is the size of the market that Chile sold in. More than likely this is much smaller than the total worldwide production.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
I couldn't disargee more about Microsoft's current place in tech markets. They've lost quite a lot of weight since their 800lb gorilla days in the 90s. They used to exploit their dominant market position to replace de-facto
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
The author's take on ad blockers is quite alarmist. There are plenty of obvious solutions and counter-arguments: * Is it fair that you collect and sell data on your users without telling them exactly what that data is? Do you think t
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Ignorance easily explains this unfortunate, embarrassing incident. The boy's father is from Sudan and is well known for being outspoken against anti-Islamic policies. To an unworldly south/midwesterner that spells "potential
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
This is the exact article that taught me decorators. Simple, to the point, well-written examples with helpful sample output. A very efficient way to learn decorators.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
From the national anthem of Canada, O Canada: "The True North strong and free"
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Same paper that suggested America planned the Charlie Hebdo attack [1]. Next. [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1134...
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Same experience here running a client's email server (Postfix, Dovecot, SpamAssassin, ClamAV) for 2 years. Spam filtering techniques (and subsequent techniques for circumventing them) are constantly changing.
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
Unfortunately this article neglects one of Gmail's strongest features: superb turnkey spam filtering. Anyone with an email address older than 5 years is going to be buried in spam thus will need spam filtering with a super low false po
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by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
It's one of those dark, dirty corners of physics theory that doesn't have a great conceptual explanation (like wave function collapse). The math works but we honestly don't have a great understanding of "what's rea

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