Periodic

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by Periodic 14y ago
The unix utility apg has some nice functions for generating passwords. Particularly I like it's "pronounceable" algorithm which tries to generate passwords that are slightly pronounceable. It's a good way to get those 6-14 character passw
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by Periodic 14y ago
This was what confused me. I look at the home page and the major features seem to be that it is well documented and has "bundles". That doesn't really tell me how it will make my development easy.
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by Periodic 14y ago
I used to do something similar. Luckily, I had a cube at the end that faced a wall. After I started feeling some wrist pains I set up a keyboard-timer, a program that was part of Gnome that locked the screen after a given interval of cont
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by Periodic 14y ago
For a major site with any sort of budget, RAM is a secondary concern. For my small, personal sites that have very little traffic I want as little memory usage as possible. Having a DB server, web server, a few websites including some that
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by Periodic 14y ago
What I'm curious about is how much control they are willing to give their developers over their workstations. At a previous company they had trouble because the developers needed administrator access to their Windows systems because they n
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by Periodic 14y ago
Does that actually work? Is it enforceable? I would imagine that if you sent back a contract with modifications for their review that they would balk at hiring or you would get involved with the lawyers who are so much better at legal neg
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by Periodic 14y ago
This is a generalized frontend for modeling parallel computation. OpenCL is a future backed target.
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by Periodic 14y ago
So, in all the companies I've worked for so far you accrue vacation up to a cap, and if you leave the company you get paid out for vacation you don't take. This has lead to a nice chunk of change when I switched jobs in the past. So what a
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by Periodic 14y ago
I have "up to 15 Mbps" cable internet. I've gathered this is becoming a pretty standard speed for this type of service. If I use the torrent to download the image of Ubuntu 12.04 it takes < 10 minutes. That's 650 MB, which is enough
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by Periodic 14y ago
As a society, at least in the US, we seem to have decided that audio-only activities are acceptable while driving. I suppose this is because driving mostly engages visual and motor skills, leaving our audio and language processing free to
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by Periodic 14y ago
I believe just-woke-up me learned a different version of mathematics. When I set the alarm the night before I can budget my time appropriately. 30 minutes to get where I need to go, 15 minutes for morning chores, 20 minutes for breakfast,
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by Periodic 14y ago
This is what works best for me when I need to get up. I have the problem that there are always a million more things I want to do before I go to bed. If I let myself do them I will be wide awake and focused until I hit a wall and have to
133.
by Periodic 15y ago
If properly encrypted with an authenticated encryption mechanism then the server can be sure that the data has not been modified and has not been read. This would allow private data to be stored. As long as the server is the only one that
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by Periodic 15y ago
The benchmark is pretty simple and artificial. I think what we should be looking at is that the performance can asymptotically approach C, where C is used because it's the closest to the theoretical optimum assembly that is still practical
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by Periodic 15y ago
I believe they do optimize for the simple cases, but just in very different ways. Haskell optimizes for composition, abstraction and expressiveness in a function-application sense. C optimizes for imperative loops, simple functions and co
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by Periodic 15y ago
This makes more sense. Thanks for the explanation. I like "fastness" and "deepness". I've definitely noticed a difference between people who are best at getting things done under time constraints but procrastinate anything longer (myself
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by Periodic 15y ago
Node.js is built around a lot of continuations, if I recall. It's very common in event driven computing. I believe the basic way to do it is that the function that processes the original request both returns the output and the continuation
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by Periodic 15y ago
From my experience as an enterprise coder I saw a management that didn't understand that there were bugs. Everything was supposedly done with Scrum, so at the end of each two-week sprint there were supposed to be no more bugs left on that
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by Periodic 15y ago
Would you please expand on your four characterizations, explaining what this quality is, what it makes someone good at, and maybe an example persona that exemplifies it? The four adjectives don't immediately create images in my mind of what
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by Periodic 15y ago
With both my desktop and my wife's, I can't remember the last time we had a major hardware incompatibility with Linux. Both were built piecemeal. Since Ubuntu added their restricted drivers installer, I haven't had a problem with many har
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by Periodic 15y ago
I tried running other operating systems on my Apple laptop with the large touch-pad and none of the other laptops I tested were able to reduce the sensitivity or do typing detection properly to prevent random mouse clicks while I type. Wit
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by Periodic 15y ago
Perhaps Blank is just testing a new model for his blog. He created an MVP and is now testing it with us users to see what the reaction is. I wouldn't be surprised if he just wants to play with his style a little bit, particularly if he has
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by Periodic 15y ago
I listen mostly to NPR. Occasionally (pledge drives, reruns, shows I don't care for) I will turn to traditional radio to fill the void while driving (older car with no MP3 interface). It's amazing to me how many commercials they have! Th
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by Periodic 15y ago
There was a notable case in 2004 with EA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts#Treatment_of_em... It was basically standard in the industry for everyone to work weekends and nights for a month before release. It's calmed down per
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by Periodic 15y ago
I still believe the chance of Google losing or preventing access to my data is much lower than the chance of me accidentally screwing up my own server and finding out my backups don't work. It's a huge amount of work to get anywhere close
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by Periodic 15y ago
After playing around with Bootstrap, I realized what a huge boon it was to my projects (programmer lacking in design skills). One thing I like about it is I don't have to pick colors. It does the border, button, text, and nav-bar colors f
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by Periodic 15y ago
I notice the lists are mostly games. I wonder if that shows Linux's lack in entertainment compared to other platforms. The lists also don't seem very diverse, which is probably due to the store being so new. It's good to see people able t
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by Periodic 15y ago
Looking at it now I see you're right. "PHP developer" is meant to be less limiting than the options the author of the MicroPHP Manifesto was considering. When it was brought up in the context of this article, I read it as someone being pro
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by Periodic 15y ago
I find that when I work with a framework for a while, I do start to understand it very well. I find myself looking at the implementation more and more as I learn the subtleties about how it is written. After a while I start to feel as fam
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by Periodic 15y ago
I'd go as far as to say that typing speed has never really been the rate-limiting factor in programming. That is exactly why Dvorak is easier to switch to for programmers than some other professions. We have the luxury of a profession whe

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