ajdecon

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"Nothing like this will be built again"(antipope.org)
452 points by ajdecon 13y ago|95 comments
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by ajdecon 13y ago
I'm at a DevOps conference, which technically counts as work.
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by ajdecon 13y ago
/etc/hosts ?
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RHEL 7 is shipping GNOME Shell in Classic Mode(worldofgnome.org)
3 points by ajdecon 13y ago|0 comments
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Ansible: an introduction // Speaker Deck(speakerdeck.com)
1 points by ajdecon 13y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 13y ago
> I always assumed the GRE must have been designed to accommodate/calibrated to humanities and social science grad students (or other majors without a significant math component) more than STEM students. This is probably true. I mea
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by ajdecon 13y ago
Says someone who has never worked tech support.... cries (Yes, it's a workstation. Yes, I have worked with engineers who did this. Don't make life any harder for your users than you have to.)
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by ajdecon 13y ago
Regardless of the wording, no statement from Google (or Facebook, Apple, etc) is really going to be believed. A denial from innocence is indistinguishable from a denial which is legally compelled by the language of an order form the governm
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Cross Platform Configuration Management is Hard(blog.serverfault.com)
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by ajdecon 13y ago
> The renaissance man that emerged in the 13th century was someone who could “do all things if he will”. The renaissance man of the 21st century is the developer who’s capable of executing a software project from the bottom up. Becau
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by ajdecon 13y ago
Probably still not acceptable for many of these situations, especially when you're signing these kinds of data custody agreements. Oftentimes they specify requirements for physical custody of the hardware, and even if they don't, adding thi
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by ajdecon 13y ago
The actual "open letter" sent by the SJSU philosophy department: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Document-an-Open-Letter/138...
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Some advice to young graduate students(ivory.idyll.org)
1 points by ajdecon 13y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 13y ago
It's had some helpful effects for me, even when I have other lights on. The computer is what I'm spending the whole time looking at, after all.
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by ajdecon 13y ago
Netflix doesn't already have a huge amount of revenue from cable providers. Whether HBO could "afford" a streaming-only option is irrelevant; the question is, could they make as much ?
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by ajdecon 13y ago
If you give this a try, take note: the drivers include the <linux/config.h> header file which was removed in 2.6.19. You should be able to remove it from the source with no ill effects (a quick test of the "memory" driver worked)..
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by ajdecon 13y ago
Not exactly what you're looking for, but "Learn C The Hard Way"[0] isn't a bad tutorial... [0] http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
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by ajdecon 13y ago
> It seems disingenuous to say that facial recognition failed. As far as I can tell, all the images we had of these suspects were either very low-resolution, taken from angles, or both. Seems plausible that law enforcement didn't have
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by ajdecon 14y ago
There are a lot of positive things about HN, without it being "real news". The major value for me is that it is (often) interesting . I learn a lot here that helps me find new ways to think about technology and the web industry. But it is
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by ajdecon 14y ago
And this is why I'm happy to be working on computers now, and not in a wet lab. And I never even had to work with any of the scary stuff...
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Initial impressions: * The pitch shapes encoded in the notation are fun and probably help learning, but I think they'd be distracting past a certain point. They don't convey any extra information that the staff doesn't, and if they didn't m
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Coursera course on High Performance Scientific Computing(coursera.org)
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System Administration Survey Responses Are In | Standalone Sysadmin(standalone-sysadmin.com)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Science fiction, comic book, and anime conventions often use "con" in their names or as puns. WindyCon, Conclave, MegaCon, Worldcon, CollossalCon, ... Referring to media conventions as "cons" is pretty common in fandom. Veronica Mars doesn'
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Whether or not we get the same number of jobs back out of the economy, the newer jobs are unlikely to be equivalent to the jobs lost. In general, the new jobs have different and higher skill requirements than the original jobs did. In the
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by ajdecon 14y ago
> The only thing I can think of is either a Zero day TCP/IP stack vulnerability (not a realistic threat), or that the admin doesn't trust the other admins when they install new services. Yes, if an admin installs a new email server and
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by ajdecon 14y ago
It hasn't been updated too much recently, but I've used Bastille for this in the past, and it's in the Ubuntu repos. http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/
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Linus Torvalds: I will not change Linux to “deep-throat Microsoft”(arstechnica.com)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
The lack of relevance isn't what bothers them. It's the fact that the ads are not the show they intended to watch. And in fact interrupts it. If you could make all the ads I saw on TV perfectly relevant, I would still fast forward. Becaus
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Explicit boundaries are extremely helpful. Time-based boundaries like mentioned in the OP are good ("disable Internet access at night"), but I've found that location-based boundaries are also extremely helpful. As an example: no work in the

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