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by adekok 10y ago
Or the massive G forces on the passengers. If you're going 650 Mph in an airplane and hit a bump (air pocket), the plane can bounce 5-10 feet. So the acceleration is spread over a long time / distance. If you're going 650 Mp
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by adekok 10y ago
> It's just so they can avoid setting up a real interview with someone who doesn't know the basics. They're (allegedly) interviewing for a Director of Engineering. If google can't even google the guy and look at h
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by adekok 10y ago
> They asked me the same questions back in 2012. I was applying for a Java developer position. I've has similar issues with other companies. Network developer? Great! Let's ask some assembly / Java questions! Uh... if y
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by adekok 10y ago
I'm reminded of a story about Einstein in the 1930s. The fad at the time was to have a "skills test" which was supposed to place you perfectly according to your results. Einstein took the test, and did terribly . Everyone
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by adekok 10y ago
Similar comments have been raised about the MMPI. On a quick look again, I found: https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2009/08/fascinating-... he original developers of the MMPI questionnaire went about
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by adekok 10y ago
> A real barrier to a decentralised web is the difficulty of installing software on a server. Also, economies of scale. If people used a decentralized service called "UnFaceBook", the total cost of servers, administration, etc.
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by adekok 10y ago
What are the implications if we don't start from a trusted compiler? e.g. we have compilers A and B. Either of which may, or may not, have back doors. Is it possible to detect back doors via compilation? A complex backdoor can detect
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by adekok 10y ago
Put a clause into the contract which says that you own all copyrights, IP, etc. until such time as payment has cleared. It is perfectly legal for you to mangle your own web site. Even if it's a site you made at someone else's req
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by adekok 10y ago
I'm reminded of a story Hugh Daniel told me about Xenix. Hugh and John Gilmore visited Microsoft around the time of Sun 1, to see if there was anything they could learn / exchange. The Microsoft guys asked excitedly how they made
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by adekok 10y ago
The software is Open Source, and 100% GPL. We do custom installations and support. Load-balancing, fail-over, replication, high performance, new features, etc.
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by adekok 10y ago
Only in the same way that every hobbyist is an "investor" in their hobby. Let's not pretend that hobbyist tinkering is the same as VC investment. It's not, by a long shot.
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by adekok 10y ago
> Unless you have a revolutionary product, the bigger competition will likely stomp over you unless you have resources to grow your team and product and marketing. Or if you are comfortable with a small market share but a profitable one.
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by adekok 10y ago
> Was the argument by the bankers basically a complaint that retooling would be very expensive? Yes. Everyone else should be more vulnerable to MitM attacks and insecurities, because it's too expensive for them to fix their endp
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by adekok 10y ago
> that data clearly showed that entry-level cameras are used with kit lenses, and pro cameras are used with a larger variety of high-quality lenses. i.e. perhaps what's more interesting, is the variety of lenses used by a particul
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by adekok 10y ago
Ottawa, Canada | ONSITE | FULLTIME | Network / IT expert http://networkradius.com/ While we do RADIUS, a good portion of our work is designing and building networks. RADIUS, SQL, fail-over, load-balancing, replication
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by adekok 10y ago
> They had no incentive to. It's usually cheaper to keep an employee than to hire and train a new one. Sorry, as someone who runs my own company, such short-sightedness as seen above is stupid. I keep my employees happy, and make su
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by adekok 10y ago
I have a related story about job offers. I had a job offer fresh out of University, for about half of what the standard salary was at the time. After some thinking (2min... NO), and letting them stew for a few days, I told them "No&qu
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by adekok 10y ago
Tup's main problem is it's unusual, and it doesn't have a library of build rules. But it's fast! On a related note, I've always wondered if it was possible to have a build system based on dynamic library injection
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by adekok 10y ago
The same functionality should be available in various inotify / dnotify implementations.
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by adekok 10y ago
GNU make starts of with targets, and then talks the build graph (target -> source) to find source files which will re-build the targets. And GNU Make has to scan the files. Tup starts off with the list of sources which have changed, and
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by adekok 10y ago
Locking isn't the problem. Contention is the problem. Even "lock free" algorithms can still not scale due to contention. Read this paper for a good summary: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2991130 In sho
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by adekok 10y ago
Canada is almost as bad as the US. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/civil-forfeitur...
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by adekok 10y ago
Hobbes was wrong. http://popten.net/2010/05/top-ten-most-evil-dictators-of-all... No democratic country has killed millions of it's own citizens. Even Hitler waited until he changed the law to give himself d
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by adekok 10y ago
> But selling contraband, unlike theft, doesn't have a victim that can be compensated by returning the proceeds. The point is largely that people shouldn't legally profit from illegal activities. Whether the profit is cash or
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by adekok 10y ago
> If we as a society believe the person is still a danger, then we shouldn't let them out, ever. Well, no. After multiple DUIs, someone can have their license taken away permanently. The justice system has a long history of restric
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by adekok 10y ago
I'll upvote because you're not entirely wrong. It's entirely reasonable to require that the proceeds of criminal activity be taken from the criminals. Whether it's a stolen car, drugs, or money made from selling a stol
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by adekok 10y ago
"Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-... Who, exactly, do we need protection from?
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by adekok 10y ago
> people who still naively think that Rest/JSON is cool and schemas and databases should be flexible and "NoSQL" is nice and Yes, and no. Yes: REST / JSON is nice. I've used them widely as a kind of cross-platfo
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by adekok 10y ago
I suspect that the issue isn't the engineers. It's the changes. A system running just fine will usually continue to run just fine. Until it's changed.
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by adekok 10y ago
So "many eyes find bugs" is better than using good engineering practices? What an utterly ridiculous thing to say.

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