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by aavotins 10y ago
Please read the first sentence of original comment. >For $699 you can build a Skylake based mini-ITX system that uses a real, PCI-Express 3.0 x16 video card (in the $225 price range for the video card alone) that will kick this thing&#x2
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by aavotins 10y ago
I am genuinely interested in such mini-ITX setup. Can you post an example please? Disclaimer: Last time I built my own computer was in 2004 or 2005, so I have no idea what to look for and what is considered powerful these days.
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by aavotins 10y ago
I was born in a post-USSR, but now European country, where payday loans entered the market in 2009. All I can say is - Google did it the right way, as this business model is very, very evil. Until strict regulation takes place, payday loans
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by aavotins 10y ago
Why is it a risk? If you're applying for a job and potential employers see your all-green contribution graph, there is a very high chance they'll ask you to elaborate on that. At least now it is possible to actually show metrics f
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by aavotins 10y ago
Turns out it's a Brave New World instead of 1984. And I am not surprised. A semi-totalitarian government based around ideology. If China's idealistic goal is set to be achieving communism through socialism, then what's better
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by aavotins 10y ago
Author himself stated that rm has a -P flag, that actually does the same thing more correctly and more securely: >Files are overwritten three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff, then 0x00, and then 0xff again, before they are delete
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by aavotins 10y ago
That's the catch - you don't improve as a sole developer. You can learn a lot, but actual improvement requires feedback. I advise you to start collaborating to Open Source projects, don't be shy. Everyone is welcome and I&#x2
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by aavotins 10y ago
Let me elaborate on that. Usually contracts include a probation period. Use it to evaluate your potential long-term employer in the same way the employer evaluates you as an employee. It shouldn't take more than a month to understand t
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by aavotins 10y ago
Feel free to quote me and adjust my quote to be better sounding.
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by aavotins 10y ago
I can add another thing from my personal experience - if you've just started out and you land in a job where you're the sole warrior or you don't see a single person who's smarter than you, get out as fast as you can. In
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by aavotins 10y ago
Oldest surviving code dates back to 2006. It's a simple PHP script, that generates an Excel file(without the help of any libraries. I was really into not-invented-here then) containing information about banners shown for a week. If it
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by aavotins 10y ago
Quote: "I want to write Python code that spits out the HTML and JavaScript required for these interfaces and I still want to handle all the logic in Python." Substitute Python with PHP and it feels like 2004 again. I think we all
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by aavotins 10y ago
Incredible dedication and a fantastic project. I wonder if a setup made from a FLiR Dev Kit, a Raspberry Pi and the Pi camera would produce similar result?
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Google is giving away the tool it uses to understand language Parsey McParseface(theverge.com)
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by aavotins 10y ago
A dead simple example - scrape data from a webpage that doesn't have an API. You could down the wrong route of trying to parse the HTML and end up implementing a lot of logic manually OR you could use this wonderful library.
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by aavotins 10y ago
What if I know how to code and most of the tools that I can't find can easily be implemented in crude yet effective scripts? Usually I weigh out the cons and the pros and end up creating a simple script/task that I, as a programm
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by aavotins 10y ago
I agree. Every encryption can be cracked given either infinite resources or time. The goal of encryption is to make it (much) harder to eavesdrop on communications, often to a point that it's not feasible to do so anymore. Even if SS7
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by aavotins 10y ago
It's just incredible. Webpages are now filled with such bloat, that there are third party tools popping up to help users combat other third party developer solutions eating up resources on their systems.
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by aavotins 10y ago
Christmas is early this year.
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by aavotins 10y ago
With people like Moxie the future doesn't look that bleak anymore. The guy is really dedicated to what he is doing and, quite honestly, it is pleasing to see someone in the tech community who is not egocentric around creating his onlin
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by aavotins 10y ago
Second this. It is terrifying to know that mission critical, medical grade software runs on a consumer operating system. Military/aerospace systems have numerous requirements and clearly defined practices and ways of developing these s
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by aavotins 10y ago
Very nice. More companies should come up with posts like this to a) spread awareness b) encourage more people to work on open source projects(when there's money on the table). That would also clear up the question of how open source so
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by aavotins 10y ago
If so, then why did they offer the juvenile public a chance in the first place? It's not like nobody expected shenanigans
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by aavotins 10y ago
It's absolutely baffling. This kind of practice is never okay, be it bricking the device(that is borderline not-okay) or injecting garbage data. I, as a consumer, don't care about your IP, I care about the goods which I buy legall
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by aavotins 10y ago
Not blocked in the Netherlands, but it opens the https version , which displays the following error: The submitted https request was not able to be completed at this time. Please retry your request using http. This may require disa
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by aavotins 10y ago
First version of Twitter's API had no authentication, it was as free and open as it can get, so it got integrated everywhere. Everyone without technical knowledge could copy and paste a snippet into their WP powered blog or website, de
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by aavotins 10y ago
First of all - kudos for starting a pet project that's actually ramen profitable! At least it's not collecting dust and slowly syphoning out your money, which is the case with many "toys" that we all love to create. I al