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by ax0n 16y ago
The second startup I worked for ended up folding and selling the smoldering remnants of any intellectual property worth having to David Warthen. It was also a solution for a problem no one had, but with a similar slant to the product Ask wa
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by ax0n 16y ago
No. In my case, I worked for the headhunter as a consultant to a company that eventually hired me. The agency takes a percentage of the first year's salary in many of these situations. That said, I had really good luck with this agency and
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by ax0n 16y ago
A few rebuttals, though... The Jurassic Park scene was genuinely Unix... the screen was showing FileSystem Navigator, a 3D... uhh... File system navigator... on SGI Irix, an operating system that counts as Unix in my book. WarGames simplifi
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by ax0n 16y ago
That's nice and all, but I fail to see what's wrong with my Airwalks/Sketchers, jeans, black tee shirt and charcoal-colored hoodie.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Played with it a bit. I like it :D
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by ax0n 16y ago
No. You, sir, are not normal. I'd love to know what sort of evil hackery you're cooking with that setup, though.
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by ax0n 16y ago
A lot of times, programmers do things that many people might find pointless... I don't know how many different "new operating systems" or "new programming languages" I saw come from the CS Department in 9 years spent working at a college. A
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by ax0n 16y ago
Wake me up when you finish writing one in any language.
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by ax0n 16y ago
I was interviewing them as well, but I was 4 months unemployed with a disabled wife that couldn't work but whose disability claim was in limbo. I might have actually taken the job had I been offered one, sadly. Fortunately, all's well that
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by ax0n 16y ago
Your answer sounds a lot like "Because $language is better" and there are no winners of holy wars.
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by ax0n 16y ago
I had a four hour long interview for a systems programming/administration position where plebeian admins were allowed to grill me for about 25% of the time, asking me to whiteboard viable algorithms for cute little problems they concocted.
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by ax0n 16y ago
When someone asks "why?" to something, I almost always think "Why not?" Is there a good reason you shouldn't play with Ruby, Scala or Python on Android? If so, why not PHP?
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by ax0n 16y ago
sudo cat ~/something.txt | grep 'hello' | sudo tee ~someoneelse/result.txt or use "| sudo tee -a" (append) in place of >>
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by ax0n 16y ago
The number one thing to do as he grows: allow his curiosity to flourish, even if it means letting him hurt himself a bit. Some learn better through words. Some learn better through visuals. This is mostly rote memory stuff, and it's crap. E
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by ax0n 16y ago
I couldn't agree more. This thing is a disaster. A reasonable cyclocross bike with fenders, lights, a rack, some panniers or a trunk box/bag would be cheaper, more functional, 1/8 the weight and made of inexpensive and easily-sourced compon
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by ax0n 16y ago
I sympathize with the immigrants. I don't have an interest in artificially reducing the availability of skill labor. I have a really big problem with leaving our own people out of a job because corporations would prefer to hire immigrants
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by ax0n 16y ago
You got me there, but I still assert that the vast majority of immigrants aren't founders hiring Americans, and what's happening in Silicon Valley simply doesn't hold true many other places here in the US. In my part of the country, I'm act
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by ax0n 16y ago
You're right. I lost it there, and it was uncalled for. Edited to remove it. I still believe the points I made hold merit, though. Immigrants aren't "stealing" our jobs, but corporations who choose to employ them in large numbers are not "c
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by ax0n 16y ago
I'll admit, the path to a GC is equally broken. And I genuinely feel bad for most immigrants here in the US. Sure, they might have it better here than they do elsewhere. Why else would bright folks leave the comfort and familiarity of their
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by ax0n 16y ago
And I greatly appreciate it, but you're an edge case at best.
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by ax0n 16y ago
This thing would never get charged in my never-more-than-very-dimly-lit home office.
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by ax0n 16y ago
You spend two to four years learning rote-memory crap from outdated books, then you get thrown into the fire where your mnemonics mean absolutely nothing. In the real world, IT folks are forced to wing it using critical thinking skills, whi
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by ax0n 16y ago
If I ever encounter a backscatter device, I'll ask for the frisk. Hey, I'm not the one who's gotta grope some stranger's junk.
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by ax0n 16y ago
If he was using Truecrypt Deniable Filesystem with FDE (and the proper protocols), we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Seriously. I love this kind of thinking! Hell, it might just work.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Once the community gets tired of it, they'll stop upvoting them, or maybe even flag them. That's the beautiful thing about HN. Offer HN: A cane to shake at people.
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by ax0n 16y ago
As MC Frontalot raps: "You can't hide secrets from the future with math."
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by ax0n 16y ago
It is valid, and it is morally reprehensible. In the US, the Fifth Amendment protects us from such travesties.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Bull crap. Hamster and Ferret was only slightly harder to use than Firesheep. You had to run it, then adjust your proxy to localhost:1234. Aside from that, it does exactly the same thing. And before it was around, we were using cookie editi
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by ax0n 16y ago
Old: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1564795

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