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by ajdlinux 11y ago
The primary motivation for those I know who have moved to the Bay Area isn't the pay (although that certainly is part of it), it's finding more interesting work and being in the SF/SV culture. Personally, I don't like th
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
As an Australian, it saddens me every time I hear of a friend leaving for the States. I can count at least six or seven people off the top of my head who went through my uni's computer science program - a relatively small department, I
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
I have a close relative who's being treated for ADHD - can confirm that she has certain activities into which she can be extremely focused.
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
Update: they've changed the wording on https://developer.apple.com/opensource/ "Open source software is at the heart of Apple platforms and developer tools, and Apple continues to contribute and release signi
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
Remember the good old days when IBM made PCs? :P
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
WebKit was a fork of KDE's KHTML engine, and so had to be open source from the outset. IIRC, in the early days Apple was not on good terms with KHTML upstream and weren't exactly model participants in the open source community.
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
Australian National University - was discussed extensively in our 4th year Parallel Systems course, but not really anywhere else. Might have scored a mention in our 2nd year core Concurrent and Distributed Systems class, but I wouldn't
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
I haven't changed how I use that button... I'd always used it as if it were "like", as do most Twitter users I know.
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There’s One Thing Volkswagen Can Do to Stop the Bleeding: Beat Tesla(bloomberg.com)
3 points by ajdlinux 11y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
A comment I just sent to the list: "I'm not going to second this request until we get someone slightly more informed to make a comment. I'm pretty sure that this section does not mean what many people on this list will imme
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Docker: Just Stop Using AUFS(sthbrx.github.io)
1 points by ajdlinux 11y ago|0 comments
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CompCon 2015 – Daniel Axtens – Being a kernel hacker(youtube.com)
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
According to the ACM copyright policy at http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Re... , the transfer agreement states that the author retains the right to publish on their home page and on an ins
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
This has bitten me in CTFs before - anyone aware of any disassembler tools that help with this problem?
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
Australia doesn't have a national identity card, and we don't have anything that's used like the SSN. Indeed, the Tax File Number (which identifies one's tax record, similarly to how the IRS uses the SSN) is legally prot
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
Since the article doesn't actually say - the barcode is PDF417.
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
Even if the FF number were not printed on the boarding pass, the booking reference/PNR and surname are generally enough to log in and retrieve the FF number from the booking.
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
They've changed - new QFF accounts are something like 10 or 12 digits long. (I'm 7 digits myself.)
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
My regular airline is Qantas, which prints the full frequent flyer number on the boarding pass, but not the PNR/booking reference.
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/tame-fsec2015/mgp00007.html "Optional security is irrelevant (in the long term). Mitigation technologies which can be disabled -> fade into history" This this this this t
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Uber, other ride-sharing services able to enter Canberra from late October(abc.net.au)
2 points by ajdlinux 11y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
I never hear "on accident" here in Australia.
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A review paper on the lack of political diversity in social psychology(heterodoxacademy.org)
42 points by ajdlinux 11y ago|15 comments
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
I assume one is meant to look at the lecture and tutorial documents that are linked from there.
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
You can start by looking at http://danluu.com/about/ . Assuming his CV is accurate he presumably has a reasonable amount of knowledge in the area.
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
SABRE is a GDS - it's used by a whole bunch of US and non-US airlines.
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
And error handling in many C applications, since in the absence of exceptions they're very useful for doing cleanup.
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
> I'm actually a bit more excited about Power8 servers, but are there any non-IBM available yet? Yep, OpenPOWER machines are starting to come out - Tyan has the Habanero server as well as the Palmetto reference/development plat
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
IBM Australia Development Laboratory - Open Source Developers, Full Time - OzLabs, Canberra https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/faces/job_summary?job_id=SYS-... IBM is seeking enthusiastic Open Source Developers to joi
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by ajdlinux 11y ago
I like the inclusion of the AES library's MIT licence terms

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