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by asuffield 12y ago
My current employer has a bunch of sites like that as well - abandoned projects from years ago that have since been replaced by new things, but the website files are still there and the virtualhost block for it hasn't been removed. The
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by asuffield 12y ago
I can see that you have not interacted with Theo before. Sometimes these things are just all personality.
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by asuffield 12y ago
Alcohol-centric social interaction is another form of exclusion. There are few things I find quite so unpleasant as sitting in a noisy bar with people who are getting progressively inebriated.
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by asuffield 12y ago
I have this unhappy experience every day, when I find people don't know things that are essential to doing their jobs. I try hard not to let it show too much or fall into the trap of acting superior, but the soul-crushing depression ma
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by asuffield 12y ago
Because that's really hard and you can't tell whether people are following it.
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by asuffield 13y ago
This looks cool. There's one piece missing that would make it ideal for me: I want to replicate the encrypted files onto my android tablet and access them from an app there.
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by asuffield 13y ago
Seems pretty clear - burnout. After 12 years of abuse he's had enough.
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by asuffield 13y ago
How does this system handle shared libraries and security updates to common components? This is not a new idea - the "application directory" dates back to riscos as far as I'm aware. It's been carefully examined many tim
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by asuffield 13y ago
Ah, you've made one conceptual error here that explains everything, and it's hiding right at the end: "tested as committed" implies that committing is some big special thing you do at the end after all your work is finis
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by asuffield 13y ago
Any time this happens it is a bug. I hope that you reported them. I've never had this kind of issue with Debian stable (other Debian derivatives may be less reliable, and if you're running sid you're expected to fix it yourse
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by asuffield 13y ago
You don't need that upgrade. The only difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is that dist-upgrade can add and remove packages, while upgrade will decline to make any upgrades that would require this. As such, dist-upgrade is almos
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by asuffield 13y ago
Two of them didn't exist ten years ago, and half of them would have been entirely unaware of the surveillance problem because they were too small to be targets. It's looking increasingly like Google didn't know until Snowden
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by asuffield 13y ago
Those aren't downsides of bitcoin, they're downsides of unregulated trading markets controlled by a single entity. You'd have exactly the same problems if MtGox was trading horseshoes.
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by asuffield 13y ago
Don't set too much store in the MtGox price - it's not real money, because all their bank accounts are frozen. The value is high because it represents the substantial risk that nobody will get any of that money.
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by asuffield 13y ago
In particular about this being the only major project they were working on. They didn't just rewrite, they stopped doing everything else in order to prioritise it. The mind boggles.
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by asuffield 13y ago
If a company "uses $thing to design their systems" as a matter of dogma, I don't work there. And "Amazon is a Java company" was the actual reason given by the people I talked to. If they were lying or had no idea wh
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by asuffield 13y ago
It's not a serious post... but I have interviewed with Amazon and their questions are a big part of why I don't work there. (The other reason is that when I asked people what they were working on, they all said they were rewriting
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by asuffield 13y ago
My guess turned out to be completely wrong, it's something else entirely
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by asuffield 13y ago
I work for Cisco (for a little while, at least), and my observation is that Cisco primarily obtains staff by acquiring other companies, not through direct hires. It then spends some time digesting each new acquisition, and finally is left w
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by asuffield 13y ago
Then one day somebody finds a critical bug in zlib and you need to go and fetch an update for every single application you have ever installed on your system. Then it turns out half of them don't have updates.
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by asuffield 13y ago
On the contrary, the people maintaining packages in the distribution are firmly on the side of shipping solid, tested code. That hacked up duplicate of a library that you copied into your source tree? It does not have one hundredth of the t