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by bstpierre 14y ago
> If other things in life are higher on your list of priorities, accept that you are making a trade-off that is right for you. [...] You have chosen different rewards. Yes! I used to work with someone who, when someone suggested, "That'
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by bstpierre 14y ago
You have a system running "Package A v1.0", which requires "Package X v2.3" and "Package Y v4.5". You need to install "Package B v2.0", which requires "Package Y v5.0". Note that Y4.5 and Y5.0 are incompatible. RPM/APT have ways of dealing
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by bstpierre 14y ago
"[Top executives were] plunged into years of nut-crushing negotiations [...]" Perhaps unnecessary hyperbole, but entertaining nonetheless. If you want "just the facts" without the hyperbole, read the indictment [1]. FWIW, I find the RS arti
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by bstpierre 14y ago
It's an interesting methodology. Some thoughts: (1) 12 times is way too low for number of wears. I'm probably extreme, but I've got tech shirts that could apply for a drivers license; I've easily worn some of them hundreds of times -- let's
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by bstpierre 14y ago
It seems ironic that a document that wants to avoid a "small group to have oligopolistic control" is hosted on Google. The primary problem with a "completely decentralized internet" seems to be glossed over in the document. They focus on ro
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by bstpierre 14y ago
It's been a big week for the Streisand Effect. Between The Oatmeal and Never Seconds, nearly a quarter million dollars has been raised for charities.
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by bstpierre 14y ago
Given that (a) the Flask-Security extension's changelog only goes back a couple of months and (b) the extension registry explicitly lists some (but not all) extensions as "approved", I'd guess that it just hasn't gotten listed yet. Since so
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by bstpierre 14y ago
To Americans who argue "not in my country": * In the 1930s being Japanese in the USA was perfectly legal. After 1942 it was not. * Prior to 1947, Americans had freedom of association. Starting in 1947, numerous people were denied employment
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by bstpierre 14y ago
$65 a month for USED designer clothes for a BABY? Unreal. Kudos to your friend if they manage to cash in on this.
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by bstpierre 14y ago
Sounds like there's no reason for me to switch. I've already messed with configs and everything is stable now, so that's a sunk cost. I already know bourne-style syntax, so learning fish (even if it's easier) is an added cost, not to mentio
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by bstpierre 14y ago
They need to update the slogan? "A command line shell for the 90s" doesn't really draw me in. What I want to know: 1. In what specific ways is it better than zsh? 2. Is it absolutely, rock-solid stable?
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by bstpierre 14y ago
Most companies I've worked for have had some kind of annual fire drill / alarm testing. They announce it the prior week, and then, say, Tuesday at 10am the alarm goes off, everyone files out of the building into the parking lot for 5 minute
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by bstpierre 14y ago
> Prerequisites: > - about 6 hours, excluding download time Why bother with an in-place upgrade? It should only take a couple of hours to simply blow away the system, install debian from scratch, and then restore config/data/$HOME f
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by bstpierre 14y ago
Are the investors getting money out of these deals, or is FB just recruiting away the talent? If the investors are getting screwed, I would expect to see new terms on employment agreements in an effort to protect their capital.
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by bstpierre 14y ago
They'll keep at it -- inventing new TLAs as needed -- until all of the individual pieces are passed. I'd bet a shiny nickel that (at least in the US) the worst bits won't be part of any big standalone legislation, they'll be buried in some
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by bstpierre 14y ago
Instead of changing the asserts in the test, change the code you're testing. Inject an intentional failure and verify that your test fails.
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by bstpierre 14y ago
Have to enable js/flash (I browse with NoScript), but it's interesting that it works through FF's Private Browsing (FF 11.0).
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by bstpierre 15y ago
In other news, a one-way trip to Mars only costs $50k. If you don't make it, you can sue for a refund, but you have to sue in Martian courts, which won't be set up for a few more decades.
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by bstpierre 15y ago
Assuming you've got the bandwidth, you could "watch" more than one video at a time.
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by bstpierre 15y ago
It's interesting how so much is focused on airport security. Let's assume that we figured out how to make airline terminals 100% terrorist-safe and completely secure, no exceptions. (Yeah, it's a fantasy, but stay with me...) At that poin
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by bstpierre 15y ago
Some bugs that it has already found: http://gcc-python-plugin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/success.h...
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Run python inside GCC to generate custom warnings(fedorahosted.org)
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by bstpierre 15y ago
All good points. To some extent you can work up to a $10k deductible using an HSA. First year, you elect a $4k deductible -- the premiums are more expensive but you have lower exposure. Drop the max into your HSA. If, at the end of the year
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by bstpierre 15y ago
I don't really see the problem with a simple NDA. Them: We're going to tell you secret stuff during the interview. Promise not to blab? Me: Yeah, sure. As far as non-competes and IP-assignment, from what I've seen these have gotten much mor
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by bstpierre 15y ago
For whiteboard coding, I've always given interviewees their choice of programming language and have said, "Don't worry about syntax." For me it's more about how you approach the problem than whether you can spell correctly.
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by bstpierre 15y ago
I've interviewed for small companies that want an NDA at the front door too.
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by bstpierre 15y ago
The idea of a "passive investment" is a joke. The example of a web app as a passive investment is crazy -- how many apps exist that won't require support, ongoing maintenance, etc? That's significant work. Stocks, bonds, mutual funds -- the
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by bstpierre 15y ago
Or, if your data requires a high level of privacy, encrypt it before you store it somewhere else, in a way that the storage platform can't decrypt it. E.g. tarsnap.