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by TheCapn 14y ago
Mild frostbite != blackened skin. I'm curious of what situation you got yourself into because that sounded fairly serious.
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by TheCapn 14y ago
Although that is sound advice in the event you're caught in a small rift of snow, it will mean nothing when hitting a ditch that sinks your car to the frame in snow which is often the case in situations that the story illustrates.
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by TheCapn 14y ago
Depends on what the criteria for violent is... Mario Kart is rather violent when you define it as injuring or impeding your opponent. Blood and guns don't make for a violent game although they are present as part of a violent game frequentl
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by TheCapn 14y ago
My interpretation was that they had a budget of $x to run their servers with from y paying customers. $x in no way could provide the services that y+z needed (z being the number of pirates) regardless of infrastructure or efficiency of code
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by TheCapn 14y ago
I had an issue with Paypal (outside of eBay) a few years ago and since have given up on anyone I can't work with my credit card company directly against. I bought a few car parts from a shop who ended up shipping me only half my order. I co
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by TheCapn 14y ago
I don't want this question to sound loaded and threaded with negative connotations for/against apple but why would you label the computer as "one of the best I have ever used" if one of the primary interfaces to the user is repeatedly fault
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by TheCapn 14y ago
An IDE that I use at my job does this trying to pull up variable declarations for whatever you've selected (even if its giant blocks of data). I know that feeling.
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by TheCapn 14y ago
Anyone care to fill me in why creating a web server, opening access publicly through the creation of an authorized user account and publishing information on said access does not constitute explicit permission to access? There's a lot of fl
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by TheCapn 14y ago
This is the inherent problem with building your product with dependencies on other products . You are tied to their system in such a way that your existence relies on the faith that they keep doing what they do and do not change to a syste
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by TheCapn 14y ago
"A design patent may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture." [Source: http://www.uspto.gov/main/faq/index.html ] I really try to be objective when reading things about this as
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by TheCapn 14y ago
TL;DR as used by a producer of content should be used as a summary. Tag your article with the details you feel are most important; if they pique the interest of a reader they'll read the whole thing. TL;DR as a consumer should be used to in
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by TheCapn 14y ago
This is a weird subject. I think, as a social group, we're on a hinging point where women will be making equal footing in the tech industry, but haven't yet. Its coming. Women are going to get disproportionate treatment during this transiti
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by TheCapn 14y ago
Its more of just a fallacy for those who dislike the law game. People shout out "only the lawyers win" type line when its pointless lawsuits going back and forth and is only ever true in cases where the lawyers are hired on a per-case basis
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by TheCapn 14y ago
Slightly off topic, but I just want to point out that I think he was getting at in his analogy was that German courts were "the teacher". That is to say, it'll be a hard time getting Apple to believe they were in the wrong because a differe
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by TheCapn 14y ago
Realistically a lot of utilities are sitting on darknets internally so they shouldn't see disruptions in an internet outage. Telecommunications might be a bit different... I'm curious how things are set up but in my small industrial shop ou
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by TheCapn 14y ago
You're probably right on trades but what you said about management is entirely right. You can have good workplaces and bad ones regardless of union status.
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by TheCapn 14y ago
Based on anecdotal experiences mine were nearly the opposite. Now I was never a trades worker but I did work for a unionized company. Up to a few months ago before leaving for private sector. Union: - Everyone is complacent with work, m
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by TheCapn 14y ago
I'll admit to making the gaming laptop mistake during my university years. I convinced myself the $1,300 price tag was justified because of the other high computing needs I'd be relying on it for. Turns out, I only ever did those things whi
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by TheCapn 14y ago
I'm Canadian so obviously our privacy laws will be different but when I worked at a Telecomm we were told that in order to be compliant with the law we could only use customer data for what they has explicitly agreed to. Any changes to what
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by TheCapn 14y ago
The mindset between engineers looking at new ideas and resolving old ones are different. A good engineer with foresight can see when an idea or proposal is good but at the same time he's thinking of the challenges it poses. I know I do this
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by TheCapn 14y ago
If we're going to rally against archaic "security" practices can we start to jerk about signatures? I'm not sure how my scribbles identify me when the person looking into it has no clue if those are TheCapn's scribbles or Brucehart scribbli
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by TheCapn 14y ago
You're comparing brands and not features here. 1) iOS apps vs. Android apps is subjective 2) My Android has seamless integration to my Samsung TV and home media as well as laptop and PC via OSS apps and software. Again, we're debating brand
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by TheCapn 14y ago
I don't think he's wrong in any sense of the word when he wrote it. From the opening he's very forward about his "hacker radar". From a hacker perspective, Java is typically a poor choice. But it didn't succeed on hacker merits so much as
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by TheCapn 14y ago
R&D in the likes of this is virtually sunk cost to the company. In order for researchers to conduct the work like this they typically need two things: 1) A bountiful supply of cash 2) A reputation #1 pays the bills, #2 gets them in th
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by TheCapn 14y ago
Difference being though is that you can submit a fix instead of having your report go to a private system in which you can never follow.
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by TheCapn 14y ago
BBC won't provide the technical details that we hackers would require to differentiate the two. If it shares the likes of Stuxnet then it would have some pretty clever 0-days inside to help with infection and spreading.
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by TheCapn 14y ago
When I vi a read-only file: "/etc/mail/aliases" [Read only] 36 lines, 1023 characters Its simply a matter of remaining keen when doing admin tasks. Sure I have to close/re-open with sudo but its prompting me up front that I won't
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by TheCapn 14y ago
Further, a technical interview question is rarely designed to have you solve that question but show that you have an understanding of the subset of knowledge to solve that kind of question. If they want you to solve bit manipulation que
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by TheCapn 14y ago
The best coders I've ever worked with rarely memorized the nuance little algorithms that they want you to regurgitate during these interviews. The ones that I know that are capable of this are terrible coworkers because they lack other nece
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by TheCapn 14y ago
You're only hitting half the points here. 1) Yes, a referral bonus is optional 2) It no longer becomes optional once you make the offer to your employees. At this point you have established intent; especially if it is provided in writing.

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