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961.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Obviously it's going to be different in different places, but gender issues definitely come up here in Australia.
962.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
I was involved in a project which had some potential to become a startup, but for various reasons we decided against going into business - we ended up GPLing the proof-of-concept application we'd been working on and put it up on GitHub
963.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Site's not loading very well for me. I definitely like the idea of preserving the source code of abandoned projects though. Ultimately, I'd like some equivalent of the "legal deposit" principle that applies to books and
964.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Because a seat on Concorde cost significantly more than a regular first-class seat on a transoceanic flight. If you had enough money to afford it...
965.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Starting a (generally GUI) application in the background and detaching it as much as possible from the current terminal, so it doesn't quit on a SIGHUP. I have this as a bash script (~/bin/bgrun), but it could pretty easily b
966.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
I've used Vagrant for a few projects over the past few years - mostly small things like hackathons and such. Haven't used it much in the past year or so though. At my last job we used Docker extensively for developing our main sof
967.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Didn't (mechanical) voting machines cause the Florida 2000 debacle?
968.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Note that in Australia, we do use electronic counting in the Senate. (cf http://easycount.mjec.net )
969.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Tor Browser is great, but I'm not going to use it for watching video, which is all I ever use a VPN to do...
970.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Linux-Mandrake 7.2 was the first distribution I successfully installed and used as a primary OS. All of the memories :( (I may have abandoned the RPM world for Debian, but it was Mandrake that got me using KDE back in the 2.0 days - it&#x27
971.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Anyone like to recommend a browser-extension-based VPN tool that's a bit more respectful than Hola and is relatively cheap? (Of course I run my own VPN server using OpenVPN, but Hola is really convenient when I'm only trying to ge
972.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
It was more faculty politicking than anything else. I'm not too familiar with all the details, but basically - the course was initially proposed as an introduction to "computational thinking" primarily aimed at non-CS majors.
973.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
In Australia this used to be the case (same justification of taxi driver robberies), but I believe it's now only legal in Queensland - the other jurisdictions have all changed their rules in the last few years. The taxi driver lobby gr
974.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
They're using this to teach an interdisciplinary computing course at my university. I haven't played with it enough to form my own opinion on it, but some of the academic staff here are pretty sceptical.
975.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Here in Australia, the majority of academics and university staff fall under union agreements with publicly available pay scales, so you can work out at least an approximate pay grade based on minimal information about the people involved.
976.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Have submitted my application - I'm not planning on starting any businesses right now, though it's a possibility in the future. More interested in how the Estonian government is actually experimenting with technology in a way that
977.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
https://tkbt.com/ , based out of Canberra, Australia, is developing the "Intelligent Composition Environment" for legal document drafting.
978.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
Well of course that's correct, but it's wrong to take that and then make the conclusion that the GP does - that building a technology business these days doesn't actually involve much technology because everything's so u
979.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
An experienced programmer can cobble together a moderately buggy, YouTube-esque site which kind-of-works for whatever video formats that can be converted by their local ffmpeg install, and allows a basic commenting system and upvotes/d
980.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
I got a foundation-class licence a couple of years ago - unfortunately I haven't really had the funds to buy a transceiver (foundation licensees aren't allowed to use home-built equipment) and I let my licence lapse last year. I m
981.
by ajdlinux 11y ago
There are stores that accept only one type of card? Is this kind of thing common in the US?
982.
by ajdlinux 12y ago
I feel I could benefit from having a consistent routine like this, though it doesn't help that I work part-time and due to various factors my hours tend to be scattered throughout the week. (Ultimately doesn't really matter for me
983.
by ajdlinux 12y ago
I currently work from home, and I find actually starting work is hard for me when there's no-one to force me to get to the office by 9am. (Then again, on the handful of occasions I have actually worked in the office, I've really
984.
by ajdlinux 12y ago
I won't go into too much detail as it's still a while before I start - systems programming at a firm that is quite heavily invested in POWER, and does a fair chunk of work out of its Australian offices, of all places.
985.
by ajdlinux 12y ago
Will shortly be starting at a new company where I get to do things with OpenPOWER. I've never even touched a POWER architecture system apart from the occasional PowerPC Mac, so this will be an interesting learning experience for me.
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by ajdlinux 12y ago
They're not running again next year? :(
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by ajdlinux 12y ago
You will have issues with visas - for stuff like internships, many companies insist that you're a permanent resident or an Australian/New Zealand citizen.
988.
by ajdlinux 12y ago
According to https://launchpad.net/bamf , it's the BAMF Application Matching Framework