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by Rudism 10y ago
I haven't made that transition, but I can say from experience that (for me, at least) hobbyist side projects are a lot different than working on software full-time. When you're coming up with your own side-projects or picking FOSS
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by Rudism 11y ago
I wore a pebble for about a year and came to the conclusion that I'm much, much happier when I'm not immediately notified of every little email and text message I get over the course of a day. I cannot even remember a single ins
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by Rudism 11y ago
Did the button actually operate as advertised? It wouldn't surprise me if it did nothing, and the real April fools joke were planted fake outrage "I got fired over this!" tweets.
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by Rudism 11y ago
He did specifically call out Let's Plays that just run through the game with little to no commentary. Though I suspect those might have less views than ones from the more popular streamers.
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by Rudism 11y ago
I've never lived in silicon valley, but I moved to Nashville (actually Franklin) from SW Florida a few years ago and agree with everything you say here. Tech scene is very active---we have Nashville Coding School, a growing number of s
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My Experience with the Uberman Sleep Schedule(codeword.xyz)
1 points by Rudism 11y ago|0 comments
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by Rudism 11y ago
For anyone into metal looking for a way to discover new stuff they haven't heard before, I recently discovered that there's a pretty great selection available on Bandcamp if you're willing to sift through the various metal-re
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by Rudism 11y ago
My XPS 13 with Arch Linux lasts 10+ hours of continuous use on a single charge. Mine is the non-HD non-touch model though. I suspect the model with the beefier resolution and touch screen wouldn't do as well.
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by Rudism 11y ago
The Olympics are particularly notorious for being a complete money sink. The host city builds all kinds of infrastructure to support them which become useless eyesores after the Olympics are done. You can find photos of abandoned and unused
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by Rudism 11y ago
I am against DRM in general, but I don't really understand the whole "free" software movement. Whenever I see the FSF (Stallman et al) deriding any and all software that isn't open source and licensed for free use by any
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by Rudism 11y ago
I don't understand how they can include Google's app ecosystem and still claim to be privacy-oriented. Google Play Services is basically a firehose of information straight to Google. It seems to me like setting up your own disk en
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by Rudism 11y ago
I could also quite easily live on $44k per month.
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by Rudism 11y ago
That's the kind of suggestion that would get you ahead quickly at a company like that (assuming you were also willing to personally follow through with it).
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by Rudism 11y ago
When I worked for a company that distributed malware (mostly desktop, but trying to break into mobile), we had relationships with a few people who would buy up android devices in bulk and then charge money to companies like ours to have our
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by Rudism 11y ago
I was surprised, too. I thought my reference to animal farm (some animals are more equal than others) was particularly clever. It's possible that the head English teacher was the one who wrote the original Winston's Way, however,
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by Rudism 11y ago
Harder to read in what respect? The new theme is actually the one I had planned to use all along, I was just too lazy to make the necessary modifications for code highlighting which is why I went with the other one.
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by Rudism 11y ago
I never really found out how they caught me. I suspect the guy in the states who started hosting the site after the initial shut-down told them my name when they contacted him, but who knows.
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by Rudism 11y ago
I was really surprised by how it all went down as well. Up to that point, I had felt that the school, teachers, and administration were all very progressive and tolerant, which was a huge factor in my decision to go forward with the whole p
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by Rudism 11y ago
Author of the original article here. I chose this template for my blog because I liked the clean, simple layout. I've been meaning to remove some of the JS functionality and fix some styling stuff for a while now. I didn't realize
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The Website That Got Me Expelled(codeword.xyz)
639 points by Rudism 11y ago|281 comments
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by Rudism 11y ago
Does LibreOffice have better MS Word compatibility? It only happens once in a blue moon, but my wife will receive a word document from someone (most recently a resume that she had professionally written) in Word format, but OpenOffice break
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by Rudism 11y ago
I'd find this very surprising, if true. When I worked for a company that was essentially developing malware, we were able to get ourselves whitelisted by most anti-virus software (either by going through an automated submission process
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by Rudism 11y ago
There really is no defense. It's just a money grab. When I was working there I dealt with it through compartmentalization and rationalization ("if I wasn't doing this someone else would, so I might as well earn that paycheck
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by Rudism 11y ago
The point was never to sell access to compromised computers or anything quite as nefarious as that. The point with all of these schemes is to get users to install applications on their computer (or phone) that we were getting paid for on a
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by Rudism 11y ago
I missed the original comment before it was deleted, but you are correct in that I wasn't trying to write this anonymously.
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by Rudism 11y ago
The replies are correct--I mentioned Paint.NET mainly becaues that was/is a highly effective site to get people to click the misleading "Download" button ads. As for browser cookie storage, there's not much the browsers
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Exploiting Android Users(codeword.xyz)
192 points by Rudism 11y ago|63 comments
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by Rudism 11y ago
If you're into this kind of thing, I've used anveo.com before which has a pretty powerful call flow engine that can be programmed via a nice drag-and-drop web ui. I found it similar to Yahoo Pipes but you're dealing with phon
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by Rudism 11y ago
I suffer from occasional SVT episodes and gave up caffeine as a result (it causes them to trigger more frequently). I'm not sure how it would be in other industries, but as a software engineer, telling colleagues that I don't cons
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by Rudism 11y ago
Comcast uses code injection like this in markets where they implement the 300gb/mo bandwidth cap. Not for injecting ads or anything outwardly malicious, but to display a javascript overlay telling you when you're approaching or ov

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