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by brandon 10y ago
I used to commute on the trolley from La Mesa to Downtown and it was great. But if you don't live on one of the trolley lines, SD public transit is dreadful! I spent years between a few healthcare startups, and I feel like there is a s
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by brandon 10y ago
As a San Diego native who relocated to the Bay about five years ago: the income difference scales up faster than the rent difference. I've put away a lot of savings on that margin. Now if your intent is to own a home, well, that&#x27
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by brandon 10y ago
I appreciate that the author shared his data because it's interesting to compare notes. I embarked on a strict ketogenic diet in 2012 from a significantly higher initial weight and observed a very different pattern of weight loss: htt
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by brandon 10y ago
What do you do about WebSocket connections or hanging GETs? Do you lie to the page about whether its still being rendered visibly? Etc etc. This all seems terribly expensive relative to removing a hotkey used by fewer than 1% of users.
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by brandon 11y ago
Site looks terribly defunct. No announcements since 2012?
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by brandon 11y ago
That's untrue; Linode offers PV-GRUB. I've been using it to boot FreeBSD with their Xen offering for years.
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by brandon 11y ago
You might also consider setting Content-Security-Policy headers to enforce your intent. http://content-security-policy.com/
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by brandon 11y ago
You might be surprised at the amount of innovation that has happened on that very page. As an example, I believe it was the first place that U2F was deployed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor
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by brandon 11y ago
Ubiquiti makes wireless equipment, so this is not the traditional sort of anechoic chamber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber#Radio-frequenc...
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by brandon 11y ago
I think that the majority of unhappy open-office employees are more upset with distractions than with the lack of privacy. The widespread application of headphones to "solve" this problem is silly. It does nothing to screen out th
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by brandon 12y ago
It's not necessary to forklift the entire population of 20,000 employees when you have the option to grow elsewhere in the region. You might be surprised to hear that a significant number of Google employees in Mountain View were recen
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by brandon 12y ago
Don't forget that the PlayStation shipped with a 33MHz MIPS CPU before the SHA1 standard was even published. This game came years later, but it's possible that CRC was the most effective option from a performance perspective.
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by brandon 13y ago
The kernel and X stack get regular backports over the life of the LTS release (since Precise): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
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by brandon 13y ago
You'll have to forgive me for the awful presentation format and pacing, but here's a fun trick for bypassing the auth system on the Asus WL-700gE circa 2007: http://www.toaster-of-doom.com/~brandon/no_crawl&#x
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by brandon 14y ago
I am happy to clarify! By "blanket" I mean to say that there's no organization-wide policy. I don't know of any specific cases, but I would not be shocked if certain groups within Google have stricter policies in this area. I was just tryin
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by brandon 14y ago
No such blanket prohibition currently exists.
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by brandon 14y ago
My favorite tool for this is the Saleae Logic[1], but I've had mixed success with the cheaper Bus Pirate[2] as well. [1] http://www.saleae.com/logic [2] http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate
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by brandon 14y ago
Fun fact: the A6, while designed by Apple, is fabbed by Samsung.
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by brandon 14y ago
Two-finger scrolling works great, but I've never had any success configuring three-finger gestures under X11 (on this laptop or any other). I used to be an aggressive user of those same gestures when I used OSX, but frankly around the Lion
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by brandon 14y ago
I've got an X1 Carbon running 12.04 without any significant hardware issues besides battery life. I only get 3-4 hours on a charge, but I've also not done any intense tuning as of yet.
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by brandon 14y ago
The trackpad on the X1 Carbon works phenomenally well on my unit running 12.04.
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by brandon 14y ago
Fortres was still alive and kicking in the early 2000s. (Actually, it appears to still be alive today! I love that their icon is a sad kid: http://www.fortresgrand.com/products/f101/f101.htm ) My internet forebears had already catalogued m
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by brandon 14y ago
He didn't go on a starvation diet; he went on a ketogenic diet. While there are still risks associated with this kind of weight loss, its rapidity can be attributed to a few things: 1. As water retention is significantly diminished while in
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by brandon 14y ago
It doesn't. Glass is designed to project the image at far-focus, so if you have good eyesight or corrective lenses (like me) that allow you to see in the distance, there is no need to re-focus to see the image. http://www.extremetech.com
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by brandon 14y ago
I can corroborate this for Tripplite switched PDUs, but their dumb metered PDUs always held up for me.
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by brandon 14y ago
It's really cool that Maciej is so open about his setup. This is especially true given how opinionated people are about these sorts of operations. For example: I'm hoping the Hurricane Electric facility he mentions is Fremont 2. The Fremont
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by brandon 14y ago
There's also a substantial Awesome user base at Google; I think the choice of tiling window manager is largely based on peer usage.
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by brandon 14y ago
Most of the big name hardware vendors are starting to get more serious about supporting Linux on their professional product lines. The bigger problem is that no attention is given to Linux on consumer gear and the components within are refr
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by brandon 14y ago
The biggest possible upside to this project will be if Shuttleworth & Company get on board to support the XPS13 as a first class Ubuntu platform because of Sputnik. And when I say first class, I don't mean "give it the Supported Platfor
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by brandon 14y ago
I'm completely cool with it. Modern equipment can handle plenty of SSL traffic, and SSL-by-default will protect me (and you) from lazy developers. The real question is whether or not this will proliferate and to what extent.

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