bicknergseng

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by bicknergseng 11y ago
Ah no I think I misunderstood. tptacek replied with examples though.
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
Heartbleed and Shellshock come to mind. There have been others, and the "revelations" of NSA et al actively poking or preventing the closing of holes in all kinds of software and hardware.
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
> if you simply pay $100k to trained employees Assuming 1) you can find trained employees, and 2) they are willing to work for $100k. If the value of the trained employee is $111k, then why would they work for $100k except for ignorance
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
Has anyone who played the original tried the iOS version?
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
I can't help but wonder if that was a bit of brigading...
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
I haven't tried Steam's streaming yet or Nvidia's Shield based streaming (have a Shield, but needs a 6 or greater series card and I have a 5 series). Splashtop does work with OS X, tablets, and phones, and also works over the
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
For this, check out Splashtop. I've been using it for years and it works great. They even have Win8 touch integrations so you can play Civ 5 touch, and an OS X client so you can use a Mac from a tablet or phone.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
I feel like this is an obvious "duh" followed by "that doesn't go far enough." I feel like the real question is "do we need fighters or bombers at all?" Seems like we would just want delivery platforms f
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Was my first thought, too, after reading about the link between the sugar industry and those early sugar studies. Seems to me like the scientific community should be overly open about its sources of funding, conflicts of interest, etc if it
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Ugh. I hate to think of all of the "I told you so's" from the misguided people in Portland who continually vote against fluoridating the water with no actual scientific basis for doing so.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Also super happy with T-Mobile's speed- it's faster (bandwidth-wise) than my stupid U-verse. But the whole text message issue they have is driving me nuts to the point that I'll probably switch to another carrier with less a
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Safari is the new IE. No idea why they still require vendor prefix for a range of accepted and implemented standards.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Furthermore, depending on a number of factors, $60k is not a legal wage for a salaried software engineer in California. The minimum for an exempt employee as of 1 Jan 2015 is now $41.27 hourly, $7,165.12 per month, or an annual salary of no
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
I don't... and have tremendous respect for people who build software and systems that are "mission critical." They're in the same situation as civil engineers and the like. They build a bridge that falls down, they go t
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
I didn't even think of that... good point. Is this an issue with nest?
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Imminent danger of death? I want a Nest (that works, though this video is anecdotal and seems staged-ish) as much as the next person, but I have to silence a standard smoke detector once every never. It's inconvenient when I do, but l
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
I only have one option, AT&T Uverse, and I live in a < 10 year old building in downtown San Francisco.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
On the other hand, I'd probably not want to work for someone who thought IRC was the best solution for team communication in 2015, and certainly not for someone who thought it was better to bang your collective head against all of IRC&
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
You might want to include your contact info in your HN profile.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
>>But I think the most sensible way forward would be to synthesize this effect with drugs. I'm no naturopath, but something about this attitude really bugs me. I know in context he was cautioning against jumping to conclusions,
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
I wouldn't even say we have a shortage of "good developers." Like commenters pointed out a few days ago on the "how to make it in the tech mecca" post, there is a shortage of "ideal" developers willing to
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
From another comment: >>It's transparency, it all helps Sorta pedantic and not picking on that comment so much as the CA Prop 65/label GMOs/Citizens United world that we live in: transparency might not be a real solutio
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Furthermore, it's not like physical licenses are particularly robust against identity fraud. Go to the nearest college campus and you'll find a dozen kids with fake IDs in 10 minutes.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
If by easier you mean "doesn't require vast amounts of capital" then yah.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Pretty good chance we live in the same building. I've called our building rep a couple of times to try and pressure them into turning up the speeds, but no luck so far.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
As a side note, I really hate article titles that use this kind of wildly inaccurate accusation. The nation of China did not breach the U.S. Postal Service, a Chinese government team did. Still inaccurate and vague, but there's a wor
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Even the NSA has to deal with Huxley.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
I'm not suggesting that learning to code isn't "worth" 4 years and 250k, given no other option. I would say that there are far more efficient ways to learn to code and win that kind of job or salary.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
>“Why would you spend a quarter of a million dollars and four years to learn to code in Python?” He's right. That is insane. But so is spending $27,950/year for 5+ years to "be taught how to think." Coupled with th
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
>Is a university really an appropriate place to send someone who couldn't keep up with high school coursework, whatever the reason, in the first place? A really good question. I'd say the US does a very poor job of either provi

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