ajdecon

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by ajdecon 14y ago
> It does depress me, daily, that I do not have a career in physics or chemistry or biology or medicine where I could work on "big problems." The simple truth is, I'm not smart enough, I don't work hard enough, and I've been napping wh
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Cloud is infrastructure with an API(robhirschfeld.com)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
At the moment, it's mostly an overloaded buzzword. :) The best definition I've found is that it's a culture of collaboration and integration between development and operations, rather than a role for one specific person. Ben Rockwood from
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App developers, here are 23 pages of suggestions from CA’s new privacy cops(arstechnica.com)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
> His wife left him. Clearly she had ended the relationship with her husband/the boss-man. She moved on to a relationship with this employee. This order of events is incorrect from the OP. > Recently, I found out that one of my empl
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by ajdecon 14y ago
> Nice post. Ops guys though, like to see the bushes rustling right away so that we can reboot that switch before all hell breaks loose :-) I don't think you're disagreeing with the article. He shows a real-time dashboard of ops stats,
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DMTCP : Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing(dmtcp.sourceforge.net)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
It would make me very very happy, if that's a good reason to do it. :-) The user experience with encrypted email frankly sucks right now, and if you improve it, I think you'll be getting a lot of existing GPG users as well as newbies. But
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I want this to succeed so much. Out of curiosity, will there be options in the client to either (a) keep private keys un-synced (but still be part of the public key network), or (b) import an existing keyring? Or other mechanisms for someo
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I agree that the issues the OP brings up are problems -- at least from the perspective of a single man -- but I'm not sure these are problems with online dating so much as dating itself, or the world. The male:female ratio is a problem in m
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by ajdecon 14y ago
> Also, simple historical reasons -- Python was first to the scene (if you exclude Perl), so it has more scientific libraries. Don't exclude Perl! :-) In certain scientific subdomains, Perl is still widely used, also for historical rea
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Downside: those new Python 3 scientists will be unable to use the Python 2 libraries which already exist in their domains, so they'll all end up re-implemented poorly...
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The traditional answer to outdated libraries on clusters is to install them in a non-standard location and use Environment Modules[0] to select which libraries to use. Modules are a common tool since clusters have big user bases with lots o
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by ajdecon 14y ago
OT, is there a good guide somewhere for writing software which works in both 2.6+ and in 3.x?
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Ask HN: Equivalent of "Learn X the Hard Way" for Javascript?
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The anatomy of a bad idea(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Not sure that I'm a "valley-type techie" since I don't do web development... but I am in Silicon Valley, so here goes... During middle and high school my passions were physics and computers, but I never thought that computing could be anywh
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Andrew Ng, who teaches the CS 229 Machine Learning course at Stanford, has his lecture notes online: http://cs229.stanford.edu/materials.html . I have found these useful in the past. He also teaches the Coursera machine learning course:
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For someone who sees 1 year as a long time, the one year vesting cliff may be a reason to discount the equity portion of the compensation package altogether, especially at a small startup where the chances of cashing out are low anyway. Af
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by ajdecon 14y ago
In no particular order... 1) Cooking. I have a few standbys that I can make on a regular basis, but I'd like to expand a bit and find some more dishes both my wife and I enjoy. (She's a vegetarian, I am not.) 2) Systems / low-level programm
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Beethoven, Beatles, and Beyoncé: more on the Lindy effect(johndcook.com)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I work in high-performance and scientific computing. Mostly I'm a sysadmin and cluster builder, but I also do a bit of related software development, and I often have to help debug issues with user code running on my clusters. In terms of ba
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LISA mixes the ancient and modern: report from USENIX sysadmin conference(radar.oreilly.com)
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Authentication is machine learning(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
The problem is that a wrong map is a lot worse than no map. If you don't have a map, you might ask a local for directions or take a cab if you're in a hurry to get somewhere that you don't know the location for. If your map is wrong, you a
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by ajdecon 14y ago
6.5-8.5 hours, depending mostly on how obnoxious the cats are that morning. :)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I think Hacker News is as close to a "non-social" discussion forum as you're going to find, while maintaining high engagement. The cliché is that humans are fundamentally social creatures, and I think one of the primary ways we maintain the
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Linux desktops and Linux workstations are pretty common for certain classes of scientists and engineers. I work with a lot of folks at national labs and big engineering companies who run Linux exclusively on all their systems.
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CA to app devs: get privacy policies or risk $2500-per-download fines(arstechnica.com)
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