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by Luyt 12y ago
Okay, but real engineers can rely on the quality of their building materials, like mortar, brick, concrete and iron, with constant quality through decades or even hundreds of years. Contrast that with the building blocks the 'software
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by Luyt 12y ago
I can do that in Python ;-) a = [7, 9, 2, 8] print sum(sorted(a)[-2:])
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by Luyt 12y ago
I thought he meant the 'Borg' design pattern ;-)
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by Luyt 12y ago
> I have seen folks coming highly recommended Who did recommend those useless candidates to you? A recruiter, perhaps? Read this horror story: http://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/pages/recruiter-anxiety.htm... Th
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by Luyt 12y ago
Another way to do it, assuming that the list can be mutated: find the largest number in the array, store it somewhere and remove it from the list. Do this a second time. Then add those two numbers. It evades sorting the array, but you have
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by Luyt 12y ago
If you microwave slices of smoked cheese (on baking paper), they become crispy crackers (lowcarb, even).
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by Luyt 12y ago
Use some software with which you can do remote maintenance on your parents' computer(s). Or, introduce them to more stable OSses, like Ubuntu instead of Windows. That worked for my neighbours ;-)
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by Luyt 12y ago
the website that folks have been linking said that it didn't detect Superfish (sorry, I'm typing this from a phone) The website you're referring to, is https://canibesuperphished.com/
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by Luyt 12y ago
Freenode #pocoo is also the channel were Flask users hang out.
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by Luyt 12y ago
Restart Firefox, then choose History/Restore previous session.
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by Luyt 12y ago
I think that had to do with some patents on the truetype font hinting interpreter in Freetype.
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by Luyt 12y ago
Scroll down, there are many more gems in the comments! ...and what a spelling errors: "This kludge is needed because /bin/sh seems to set IFS to the defualt even if you have set it; We also can't just ignore it because
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by Luyt 12y ago
Or on mousepads! Especially the same moment when you're working behind the PC. http://www.luyt.org/pictures/cats/mousepadcat.jpg
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by Luyt 12y ago
Would this be a solution to the problem? -> Make mosquito nets that disintegrate when soaked in water.
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by Luyt 12y ago
I translated Paul's article on Stuff in Dutch, it can be found at http://www.michielovertoom.com/articles/paul-graham-spullen/
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by Luyt 12y ago
This quote from the article made me think immediately of the 'motion trackers' as used in the Aliens films, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yNOT6lWedA "The radars work like finely tuned motion detectors, us
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by Luyt 12y ago
Did you have to obtain any special visa or permits for this? Do you happen to know if it also works the other way round? For example, suppose I'm from the EU, can I travel to Australia as a tourist and legally telework from there?
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by Luyt 12y ago
Did Mr. Hrescak have a special visum for this, to be able to work in the EU as an US citizen? (I assume he's an US citizen because it is meant he's from Facebook). It doesn't work the other way round. If I remember correctly,
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by Luyt 12y ago
I wonder about the legal aspects of this. I guess one cannot come from Asia/Europe to the USA on a tourist visum and legally telework from there. Other countries seem to have trouble with foreign teleworkers, too. Wasn't there an
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by Luyt 12y ago
> DON'T TELL THEM HOW MUCH YOU ARE CURRENTLY BEING PAID OR GIVE THEM A RANGE. [...] No matter what, don't give them a number. Make them give you a number first and negotiate from there. What tactic do you use for this?
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by Luyt 12y ago
What do you think will happen? Will the engineers earn more than the managers, or will the managers salaries go up just because the engineers earn more?
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by Luyt 12y ago
He didn't configure exim4, for which he was hired. He wasn't hired to investigate the compromise, which he did do.
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by Luyt 12y ago
The author writes: "As we finalize our installation setup for CoreOS this next week (after plowing through Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS)" Pity he doesn't elaborate on that. I understand that CoreOS is his choice, but it would
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by Luyt 12y ago
And you'll immediately see it when your program hangs in a loop ;-)
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by Luyt 12y ago
http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ ...featuring a novel kind of diagrams which show you when to do what, for example, look at the bottom of http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/227/Ratatouill
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by Luyt 12y ago
I visited a workshop a few weeks ago, and also attending was a COBOL programmer (in his 50s) who still was active on that platform. I wonder whether it could be lucrative to learn COBOL (and CICS!) and work on those legacy systems that are
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by Luyt 12y ago
That's a silly video. There's no need to destroy a perfectly functioning hard drive after it has been physically removed from the RAID.
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by Luyt 12y ago
Indeed. This is the "Appeal to Lack of Authority" fallacy [1] Authority has a reputation for being corrupt and inflexible, and this stereotype has been leveraged by some who assert that their own lack of authority somehow makes t
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by Luyt 12y ago
From the book Ignition! ( http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf ) "But something more potent than alcohol was needed for the X-15 rocket-driven supersonic research plane. Hydrazine was t
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by Luyt 12y ago
Ah, yes, the flicker and delayed drawing. I noticed that also a few years ago with Windows applications. They used to be written with the Win32 API or MFC or even VCL, but when WinForms became popular it introduced a lot of ugly flickering,

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