Swannie

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by Swannie 12y ago
I believe the gp is referring to the conversion of a 457 (temporary residence, sponsored by employee, much like a H1B), to PR. This can be requested at any time. Prior to approx. 2010 (IIRC), this was a pretty standard way for people to gai
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by Swannie 12y ago
Hah. Sounds very familiar. Get yourself in a customer facing role ASAP. This was the advice given to me by a director of product management, who went on to be the GM of our division, and now CEO of a well regarded UK startup. I switched to
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by Swannie 12y ago
Yes. Paperwork, taxes, expenses, etc. sigh . No amount of structure can remove the fact that they are inherently extremely unrewarding, and even staring out the window offers more rewards. The stick just doesn't seem to work for my AD
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by Swannie 12y ago
Don't confuse a WebRTC implementation with the Cisco supplied H.264 codec binary and MPEG LA coverage. You get H.264 support in Mozilla & Chrome via this mechanism.
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by Swannie 12y ago
Because the inmates need to convert their balance into goods in the prison. They don't have cash, just an "account" with the prison operator.
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by Swannie 12y ago
IIRC a number of the contributors to the downstream projects of Serval were some of the early contributors to freifunk.net. My understanding is that freifunk was a pretty major testbed for peer-to-peer mesh network protocols in Linux, and i
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by Swannie 12y ago
Heard the same often repeated about enterprise grade storage arrays. These things keep the disks spinning pretty much all the time. A home grade NAS is going to aggressively power save. Absolutely: don't confuse home/SME with ente
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by Swannie 12y ago
Do you know how much of Amazon is publicly traded? How much of Amazon is held by the Amazon management team? You're correct in asserting that the shareholders are entitled to direct the board to do their will. However, you seem to be a
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by Swannie 12y ago
I think I'm going to go for a third read :-)
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by Swannie 12y ago
That's what I thought too... But I'm biased, because I've only been to Stavanger and not Bergen. The reason I assumed for not having super cars around there is because it gets too damn cold. Now the number of high end 4x4&#x2
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by Swannie 12y ago
Note that CloudFlare never states that they use Telstra for transit, nor what the blended cost would be for transit with the other transit providers, so this is actually, somewhat misrepresenting Australia.
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by Swannie 12y ago
Holy crap, this got popular fast. This will probably stop some drive-by hacking - great. But my understanding from some well informed people, is that increasingly rootkits can hide their network traffic. So, whilst this will add piece of mi
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by Swannie 12y ago
Nothing shocking - a little surprising, definitely disturbing. The lack of regulation is the most surprising thing, and the lack of interest from the US federal government to do much about it is disturbing.
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by Swannie 12y ago
As far as I am aware, OpenVZ has had running container backups for over 2 years now: https://openvz.org/Backup_of_a_running_container_with_vzdump And it uses copy on write for even faster snap-shotting and consistency.
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by Swannie 12y ago
From my limited experience, it's a lack of the kind of systems thinking present in companies like Stack Exchange, and present on the High Scalability blog, that results in a poor architecture. And this is compounded by people who have
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by Swannie 12y ago
SourceFire is a really small company by comparison to Cisco.
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by Swannie 12y ago
Docker is the answer to your challenges, IMO.
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by Swannie 12y ago
Same in secure operating environments in Australia, too. And by secure I mean environments which may, or may not, have access to (or even information about) classified networks.
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by Swannie 12y ago
Good luck getting back to work. I personally recognise the "highly productive week" followed by relative unproductive weeks. For me it's a personality thing, and understand when I consider things "done", and what is
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by Swannie 12y ago
"Anyway, not trying to armchair psych" But I will. If "can't get up to do anything at all" includes loss of appetite, inability to find enjoyment in things you usually enjoy, excessive sleep, and generally depressed
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by Swannie 13y ago
John ffitch. I was lucky enough to be taught by John. He believes he may have been one of the first people to make computer music - spending precious compute cycles at Cambridge with a speaker hooked up instead of an oscilloscope. He's
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by Swannie 13y ago
No, that's not what I'm saying at all. It's that when it comes down to actually making it work, it's the engineer that has to provide a working solution to the specification. Not a figurative engineer with years of exper
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by Swannie 13y ago
Having been a developer, contract developer, consulting analyst, and consulting architect, I can say you are right. There are challenges for business analysts, similar to this. But it's not the same league. Technology often comes down
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by Swannie 13y ago
True, true - there was no web dev/web designer, no front end/back end... webmaster had to be a *nix admin, coder, HTML, graphic designer & security guy all rolled into one.
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by Swannie 13y ago
Yes yes yes! You were a webmaster based on the article posted. You were a web developer if you'd torn apart and rebuild Matt's Forum, Poll, and other widgets.
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by Swannie 13y ago
And there is the scene where Woz tells Jobs that he'd given them some of his own stocks (or similar). I was watching "Jobs", and was shocked that it was not in there. Very poor portrayal. Pirates was much more balanced.
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by Swannie 13y ago
Nailed it. The only other thing that I would want to add: consulting can be a path towards this too, as you get to pitch the work you'd like to do for the client. (That is, real consulting, not contracting on a technology).
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by Swannie 13y ago
I'm not consistent with this, but I do reject games from things like "Developer file system access" - WTF does a game need with that? The challenge is more widely used apps that ask for permissions that make no sense to me as
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by Swannie 13y ago
What is the power utilities number one priority? Profit? Supplying power? Providing reliable power? Serving its customers? Buying back power from PV arrays? If you answered any of these, you're wrong. The number one priority (at least
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by Swannie 13y ago
"In Australia and NZ, if the grid goes down then your solar inverters turn off" Yes... and that's precisely the issues here. How do you know when the grid is down? You'd see a drop across your grid connection? Makes sens

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