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by amyjess 8y ago
You can do that with Facebook too. You can make lists and publish posts to specific lists instead of just "Friends". You can also do "Friends except [list]" or "Friends except [person]", too. I haven't tak
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by amyjess 8y ago
Indians don't have their own census category now, either. They're officially considered Asian; the census lumps them in with East Asians and Southeast Asians.
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by amyjess 8y ago
I find this interesting, because my family used to take road trips all the time (annually in the '90s, less often since then), and we mostly stayed in motels that were part of national chains like Hampton Inn, La Quinta, Holiday Inn Ex
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by amyjess 8y ago
18/20 Only missed Mattel and Staples.
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by amyjess 8y ago
It could be synesthesia. There are many, many forms of synesthesia out there, and some are much more common than others.
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by amyjess 8y ago
There was a lot I liked about System 7, but I always hated how Mac OS handled multitasking. And Mac OS 8 IMO was a massive improvement aesthetically. Back in the day when OS 8 was stuck in development hell, I was a diehard Aaron user just b
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by amyjess 8y ago
Not too long ago, I was exploring places to move to should my state (Texas) pass a law hostile to trans people that they were considering. The bill failed, so I stayed, but before then I did a lot of research. I had a number of people rec
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by amyjess 8y ago
I was directly replying to a comment that linked the Symas post and recommended it over OP's article. I don't think I could've been more clear.
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by amyjess 8y ago
> There is no need to attack Symas for selling a supported variant of OpenLDAP, it's valid under the license after all That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that one shouldn't take their criticisms of a competit
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by amyjess 8y ago
That article is incredibly biased. Precisely because it's run by Chu's consulting company, I cannot trust them when they describe 389DS as "a less-capable LDAP server". It is simply one company attacking a competitor&#
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by amyjess 8y ago
According to the article (and articles I've read on this subject before), they are not ditching LDAP entirely but rather they are switching which implementation they'll be supporting from now on: instead of supporting OpenLDAP, th
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by amyjess 8y ago
They booted Amazon before for similar. Amazon caved. Edit: actually, it was Google, not Apple. Google Play's brand isn't as strong as the App Store, but Amazon still caved to Google, which only underscores my point. https:/&
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by amyjess 8y ago
I loved Best when I was a kid, and I was so sad when they disappeared. I never knew they liked to do cool stuff with architecture. There were one or two locations in the Dallas area, and now I really wish I remembered what the buildings loo
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by amyjess 8y ago
I've personally moved all my Python scripts I run as cronjobs (for my company, not personal scripts) into Jenkins, and that's never been a problem. Everything is fully Dockerized, and Jenkins is set to just run the docker image wi
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by amyjess 8y ago
We've been moving all our cronjobs into Jenkins lately. It works wonderfully, and I really recommend it.
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by amyjess 8y ago
NMS engineer at an enterprise telecom here. At my company, we've been switching over to Jenkins for job scheduling. Most of what used to be cronjobs have been fully Dockerized, and now we have Jenkins run periodic "builds" vi
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by amyjess 8y ago
> I feel like we have an embarrassment of riches in terms of good Thai food here in the Triangle area Ditto for North Texas. Some of my favorites include: Banana Leaf in Far North Dallas Thai Spice in Far North Dallas (they live up to th
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by amyjess 8y ago
> When I imagine a 60s artist, I tend to forget how young they achieved their stardom. Indeed. What surprised me wasn't that she hadn't already died but that she was much younger than I thought. I thought she was in her late 80
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by amyjess 8y ago
To me, what makes it 'lite' is that it doesn't have a client-server architecture that requires a running daemon. It's just a file format and a library designed to interact with it.
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by amyjess 8y ago
I once worked at a company exactly like this, and I agree entirely. It was awful, and I'm glad I quit. In fact, it was the only company I've ever quit (of the four companies I've worked at, I got laid off from two others, a
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by amyjess 8y ago
Not GP, but my guess is ban evasion. Someone gets banned from bad behavior, they create a new account. So you IP ban them. Then they switch over to Tor and keep making new accounts from anonymized IPs and start disrupting the forum by spamm
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by amyjess 8y ago
> you can run your own off-site instance, that can be hosted with your favourite cloud provider. How much would it cost to hire an admin to set up and maintain that instance? The whole point of Dropbox is that I don't have to do any
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by amyjess 8y ago
Nobody on "the left" has ever argued that companies can't have a terms of service that prohibits bad behavior. Net neutrality has always been about preventing the companies that control the last mile for consumers from extort
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by amyjess 8y ago
> All my friends with PhDs are unhappy, and do not enjoy doing research. They are all intelligent, some a little bit creative, and only curious when forced. They are experts of citations (a tease that never gets old to me, sorry) and I’m
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by amyjess 8y ago
> If you are a single person with a single income, you are not renting a 2BR. You might have a roommate, but in that case you are a two income household splitting the rent on a 2BR. Hi, I'm a single person on a single income renting
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by amyjess 8y ago
To be fair, I've recently gotten into typesetting anime fansubs, and I've found it to be highly rewarding. It doesn't require any fine motor skills, as it's all done in a really janky scripting language called ASS. I can
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by amyjess 8y ago
The problem isn't that nobody wants to live there; it's that nobody wants to work there. It's a bedroom community for people who commute to Manhattan. A very nice, wealthy bedroom community, but still a bedroom community. The
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by amyjess 8y ago
I'm in Dallas, and I've noticed something similar here. Most of the tech industry in Dallas is telecom. There are many, many reasons why I categorically refuse to ever move to SV, and one of them is that I love telecom and can&#x2
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by amyjess 8y ago
> However, most Asians (and even Europeans) prefer to stay on the coast due to the storied past, Silicon Valley name recognition, socially liberal policies, huge diversity, access to ethnic food etc. Tell that to the huge Asian populatio
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by amyjess 8y ago
> Considering the Cali coast has the highest cost of living, doesn't that mean it is where many people want to be? CA has more natural boundaries that spike the cost of living higher. For example, pretty much the entire LA area (exc

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