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by TheCapn 12y ago
Articles like this make me believe that even if I managed to find my way into Silicon Valley I simply wouldn't fit in. My job is not my identity, I feel its healthy to generate a life outside your work that is entirely separate; heck I
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by TheCapn 12y ago
1. Because I love food and take-out often is not nutritionally complete without paying an obscene amount of money. Money isn't a direct factor for why I cook at home, its a definite bonus of everything since I can get a delicious and b
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by TheCapn 12y ago
How did it identify you as a student? Couldn't you alter the routine to bomb someone else's grade?
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Often these types of articles go in one ear and out the other of people with irrational fear of the unknown or are incapable of understanding the way a researcher might discuss the topic. I feel this is often the case simply because those s
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Industrial Automation here.... I'd kill for a TDD framework in the tools I use. While you label many things as "hip programming" my industry is several years behind the fast paced methods of more popular platforms like the we
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Its not like there's some standard or minimum level of competency required to create an account and comment here. I think many expect this to be an enlightened and learned crowd of commenters when most people here are likely still coll
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How much do you know about your car's internal combustion engine and components? Your home electrical? Your home plumbing? Natural Gas? Lawn care? The pumps that fuel your car tank? Not everyone can be an expert in everything. Someone
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www.netflix.com/openconnect
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Seems overly complicated... couldn't you just meet with the lawyer, each sit at one end of the table then write your price down and hand it to the lawyer all in person?
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I think its more feasible and smart of Google to find engineers with a subset of soft skills that you describe than hire on those soft skills alone and hope they have a subset of technical skills.
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>We could see an FPS rise in eSports prominence again Arguably CS:GO has been picking up steam lately hitting the #2 spot on Twitch.tv fairly constantly and spiking greatly during big tournaments. This announcement couldn't have com
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by TheCapn 12y ago
To be fair, I fail to see what sacking a CEO has to do with a technologically negligent practice. Yes, their Canadian expansion was botched but it seems like there might just be bad media reporting trying to link everything back to their ve
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Depends on your goals. The core game is Minecraft but mods have existed for a long time that make "Hunger Games" style adventure where your tools and foods must be earned.
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"Agents from the FCC used direction finding techniques to find that strong wideband emissions were coming out of a blue Toyota Highlander SUV driven by Humphreys." This I find interesting and am curious what devices they had to ob
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by TheCapn 13y ago
Someone who's read the terms of use and licensing and all those other jazzy legal documents could correct me if I'm wrong, but is there anything stopping a company from having one of their promises an equity stake in the company?
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These companies are desperate. They'll pay for anyone to get the training if they're able bodied.
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The game isn't a stacked deck in that the outcome can be determined but there is a specific point in the game where you are guaranteed to only have a few tiles available (ex: 1024 + 512 + 256 + 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 yields half the bo
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by TheCapn 13y ago
I managed to beat it following a basic pattern similar to yours: 1) Mash up-left (or towards any corner) until blocks stop moving 2) Press right 3) Start over The trick is to keep the high numbers in the top corner so the new numbers don&#x
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by TheCapn 13y ago
I am pretty sure people are just finding different ways to say "Stress shortens your lifespan". 1) Find item/activity that creates stress 2) Graph that vs. life expectancy to see how stress = death The chart they cite in th
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I get news of hacks irregularly from Reddit's CounterStrike community and I have to say, its a losing fight for systems like VAC that try their best to adhere to user rights of privacy. Certain hacks essentially hook themselves into yo
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by TheCapn 13y ago
Even 2-factor is susceptible to social engineering. Years ago when I worked IT for a company the protocol for providing a 24hr bypass to their RSA token was to ask generic questions that any 'friend' could likely answer. We'd
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by TheCapn 13y ago
I may, and/or may not have caused a production site's PLC to go into STOP mode during daily operations while making network updates remotely. Possible outcomes of unplanned system haults include plugged machinery that would need t
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by TheCapn 13y ago
I don't know if I feel the author fleshed out this conclusion enough to get his point across firmly. Sitting where I am right now I want to disagree only because a lot of his thoughts are hastily concluded and don't reflect a real
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Its written into our Code of Ethics in Canada that all Engineers are to put the public good above that of our own personal gain or that of our employer. Our tasks are to be selfless and to the betterment of all mankind but like any difficul
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If a government entity was willing to pay for 0-day exploits to target a specific system and infrastructure I don't think it really mattered what OS was behind the controllers since they'd be building the super-virus to the needs
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I've done it casually on various games or forums simply because when you use the communities sometimes the effort it takes to make a quick helpful comment is worth it. If you're already participating in the community then often ti
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For the record, the reason why his slip up was significant is because: 1) They were able to find code identical to the SO question within the SilkRoad source code 2) They already had circumstantial evidence linking him to the site, this jus
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by TheCapn 13y ago
Difference between the hobby and the job I find is your control over what and when you do the things you want to do. Both have the type of work everyone loves, its just not as free at a workplace. I program Android at home and decide when I
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Honestly, Hackathons are more about what the developers get out of it. I went to a couple to try and build a wider network among my local devs and to try and win cool stuff. Some went to hone existing projects using the APIs presented (to k
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In a sense we're already there. I use my Android to stream music, run GPS and display car diagnostics while driving (via bluetooth in OBDII port). I put in a fairly good stereo headunit not too long ago only to be disappointed that the

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