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by Daneel_ 11y ago
I would say the average designer assumes that users will punch-zoom in to see text in more detail. The only sites that irritate me in this regard are the ones that don't let you pinch-zoom. Full disclosure: I have great eyesight, so th
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
THIS. So much this.
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
Power consumption is a valid reason, however most T- or W- laptops from Lenovo aren't aimed at the mobile user - they're aimed at the power user. I know I'd gladly trade an hour of battery life or an extra 500 grams of batter
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
The number of people recommending MacBooks makes me cringe a little. Sure the build quality is good, but I can't live with the keyboard's crippling lack of keys and the need to constantly use the mouse in OSX. Lenovo isn't fa
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
Thanks for the thorough explanation - you summarised the issue well, as well as explaining the impact and flow on effects. I have to say, I agree with the engineer.. I'm cringing just knowing this sort of practice is seen as acceptable
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
As mentioned in the article comments, this is a classic example of why you should partition your systems. Still an interesting way to troubleshoot and alive the issue though. I'm sure during on-duty at 3am I wouldn't have come up
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
You're correct, although I'm unable to edit the original post now. Thanks for the correction too - it made me look up the definitions of both. Always good to learn something!
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
On the contrary, I was fortunate enough to be taught LOGO in primary school on an Apple II, and I attribute a lot of my interest in computers, robotics and mathematics to that early exposure. I still have extremely fond memories of those le
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
Every time I think I know a little bit about economics, I read articles like this and realise I'm playing with wooden blocks while the big boys are playing with space shuttles. ...except they made the space shuttle out of wooden block
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
I've experienced job burnout, but not because of the job. I had changed roles, which meant a change of team leader. Previously, I'd worked quite closely with my team leader, and he'd mentored me, as well as defending me when
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
This is the biggest thing for me - I use so many different machines on a day to day basis that it just doesn't make sense to use anything other than US qwerty (in the same way that custom aliases on linux machines just isn't a thi
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
Out of curiosity, is this Oculus VR related?
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
This is exactly why I use a Nespresso machine. At $5 and ~10 minutes per cup of coffee from the coffee shop, with varying outcomes depending on the barista, vs 70¢ + milk per cup and almost perfectly identical every time, it just makes sen
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
You don't need to use RC4 to support windows xp with IE8 - you can even get away with using TLS1.0 and above. If you need to support IE6 though, then yeah, you're stuck :/ The cipher list below (for apache) should work just f
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
I'd recommend checking out https://cipherli.st for practical information on ciphers. It's quite easy to achieve an A+ by following their recommendations, once you understand the impact some of the changes might have (
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by Daneel_ 11y ago
As an aside, Risky Business podcast is a fantastic podcast if you're interested in infosec. I've been listening to it for over five years, and can't recommend it enough, both for the quality of the content, and for the laughs
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by Daneel_ 12y ago
2x looks the most correct to me, based on the speed of debris falling at the end.
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Using SSLv3 in Card-Holder Environments Will Soon Cause PCI Compliance Failure [pdf](pcisecuritystandards.org)
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by Daneel_ 12y ago
For someone like me who knows zero Javascript, this is exactly the sort of puzzle I need to get started. Elevator programming has always interested me. Thanks also to SeoxyS for posting some code - I was struggling a lot to get started
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by Daneel_ 12y ago
I know both Allianz Insurance and Westpac leverage Mainframe and Java. Perhaps look at either of those companies? They both have Melbourne offices, so might be viable? I know Allianz has work-from-home options, so that might be an avenue
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by Daneel_ 12y ago
I'm right here with you bigB. I voted Greens, since they seem to have more common sense than either side. The current government is an embarrassment to Australia, both historically and politically. We used to be proud that we were f
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by Daneel_ 12y ago
It's important to note that I wouldn't recommend an ESB architecture for small scale.. You really only want to be looking at this sort of thing when your server count is 20+ and you have separate teams handling your application, d
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by Daneel_ 12y ago
There's a few benefits, the main one being decoupling of the application and the back end. This way, rather than your application developers needing to know how to talk to the database, they simply use an API to talk to the middleware
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by Daneel_ 12y ago
These are actually two separate things. The data would definitely be stored in a database on a SAN, and a NetApp SAN plus oracle DB would be just fine for that. This represents the database/storage layer of the operations. The part I
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by Daneel_ 12y ago
Posting the email I sent: I saw your blog post about your WoW blade, via Hacker News, and couldn't help but want to contribute. I have worked as a sysadmin and hardware specialist for the past 5-6 years, with a lot of experience with H
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by Daneel_ 12y ago
More than likely it would sit on top of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architecture, using XML to pass information between the servers. The general term for this is 'message passing'. A software example is IBM's Websphere
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by Daneel_ 12y ago
I've worked extensively with HP equipment. I've just sent August an email with a ton of extra detail about this blade. The 'weird custom card' mentioned in ChuckMcM's comment is actually a SmartArray 6i raid con