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by aprinsen 5y ago
Is this a joke? Top 3 comments follow almost an identical format?
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by aprinsen 5y ago
Summary from the other thread: USAID is the United States Agency for International Development -- a U.S. federal international aid agency. The Russian hacking group Nobelium compromised the agency's Constant Contact account -- appears
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by aprinsen 5y ago
In summary: USAID is the United States Agency for International Development -- a U.S. federal international aid agency. The Russian hacking group Nobelium compromised the agency's Constant Contact account -- appears to be a MailChimp&#
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Nobelium comprises USAID marketing service account, spoofs phishing emails(blogs.microsoft.com)
8 points by aprinsen 5y ago|3 comments
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by aprinsen 5y ago
>The anti-globalist movement of the 90s is long dead. The far-left which fueled it has been co-opted, down to the level of its language and internalized identities, by global business interests. Coordinators of anarchist riots appear in
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by aprinsen 6y ago
I didn't care for Java when I learned with it in school, found it verbose. Working with it as a dev, my opinion improved. A lot of the new FP inspired APIs make logic much terser, and the OOP stuff can make implementing certain archite
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by aprinsen 6y ago
You've characterized your performance as "bad", but I'd challenge you to do a little more analysis. You can learn a lot from retrospecting over projects you've lead, especially as they transition into the hands of o
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by aprinsen 6y ago
I've lived in the Midwest my whole life, mostly in college towns with small stints in Midwest cities. Nothing techy. Today I work remotely for a company based in California, but previously I've worked at several local firms, large
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by aprinsen 6y ago
Is owning a car (or maybe, a second car?) more freeing? Are you that much happier for owning a blender? I think there's another take on this advice, that it's not about optimizing spending, but simplifying your life and obligati
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by aprinsen 6y ago
Teams I've worked on have not had dedicated support staff, but rather engineers rotate 24 hour support duties on a weekly basis. I have always had mixed feelings about "on call". I dread my turn on the rotation because the im
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by aprinsen 6y ago
Consider building a tolerance for work in the absence of motivation. My experience is that the sense of deeper motivation you are looking for follows action, not the other way around.
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by aprinsen 6y ago
I got interested in mazes late last year and found Mr. Buck's resources invaluable. In fact, I received his book for Christmas. I highly recommend it, definitely worth the paperback purchase to support his work. I implemented several o
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by aprinsen 6y ago
Yes! As a matter of fact Jamis's book includes an extensive section on non-grid mazes.
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by aprinsen 7y ago
Seems we've all been busy. I made a simple browser version. https://animate-object.github.io/life . Life was one of my first introductions to programming in school. Mr. Conway also a strong impression on me through his
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by aprinsen 7y ago
Hey OP, I have been exactly where you are, about three years ago, and now I have a backlog of completed side projects of varying size that I am very happy with. Here's some quick advice: * Start smaller. Your projects are probably too