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by caw 14y ago
As an enterprise sysadmin, I concur that Java is focused for long term code maintenance. Reliability of the JVM is for another discussion :) We do have Rails and other "fun" language applications, but there are few people who know how to wr
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by caw 14y ago
I have a sit/stand desk. I stood for a while after I got it, but haven't recently. My coworker has been using a stand up workstation for years because of back troubles. The standing desk greatly helps him. He has a high stool for when he ne
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by caw 14y ago
I think my company's opinion is sort of as follows: 1) In person for train the trainer, or significant demand in any one location 2) Webinar for cross-geo. We might have 2 sessions in order to hit reasonable hours 3) Videos for short traini
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by caw 14y ago
EMC uses RAID5 as the default for storage arrays, and then has some number of global hot spares. Netapp uses RAID6 by default, and then also has some number of hot spares. I've never had data loss from either system as a result of multi-dri
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by caw 14y ago
I think my last microwave had a knob that did 10 second increments up to 60 seconds, and at some point started skipping to 30 second or 1 min increments.
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by caw 14y ago
1) This is due to the page structure and how it's cached. Many people complain about it. 2) That might be nice. Does anyone have this as a browser extension? I know there's a few to make HN a bit more readable (I don't use any) 3) "Ask" I b
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by caw 14y ago
Patrick - When you were starting your video course, how did you figure out how to go about doing it? Did you seek any advise from Ramit, since you're friends and he has multiple video info products?
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by caw 14y ago
There's an un-ban page somewhere around here. PG posted it because he figured out that the problem exists.
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by caw 14y ago
You could check out lowendbox for cheap VPS. I had one for a year, only paid $50 for a 512MB Xen VPS. It ran a low volume rails site just fine. I did have to do a trick with mysql, and that was to disable TCP in MySQL and only use the local
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by caw 14y ago
Grandparent got deleted, but it suggested that you may be interested in systems administration. I was also a Math geek, and hadn't programmed a lick until sophomore year of college. I graduated with a CS degree. Programming was interesting,
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by caw 14y ago
I think the site was http://pleaserobme.com/ It was a perfect example of TMI on the internet, but the difference I think was that people intentionally posted this information, whereas everyone listed by the paper had no choice.
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by caw 14y ago
Since not everyone here is ops, if your holiday is going to be potentially impacted by a deployment, you are fully aware of that going into the deployment. We take note of people with blacked out dates (e.g. you booked your flight before we
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by caw 14y ago
Well, it depends on what the product is exactly. Some of my internal tools it doesn't matter if we gut the whole thing so long as at the end the same functionality remains. However, if it's the core of your product, then that should probabl
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by caw 14y ago
I'm not a founder, but the exact same problem comes up at large companies as well. Get it done quickly or get it done fast, get it done right or get it done as well as you know how to. It really comes down to how much you're going to gain o
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by caw 14y ago
IntelliJ during it's 75% off sale. I'm still experimenting with it, but overall it seems solid and better for Ruby than my previously used Textmate or Aptana Studio. I also bought a couple of games, split equally between PC and PS3.
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by caw 14y ago
I'm in my early 20's, so my perception of my childhood chores: * We had a paper & pencil chart with the shared chores. The chart was because my sister and I alternated dishwasher unloads, and that didn't happen every day. At some point
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by caw 14y ago
If you enjoy Mark Twain, you might want to take a look at his lesser works and short stories. Some of them are quite good. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1420931210/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... I remember "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras
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by caw 14y ago
The trick is to get them when they're on academic probation. My school had the "4 horsemen of the math department" and overall their GPA averages tended to be in the "square root club" (sqrt of the GPA is higher than the actual GPA). Howeve
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by caw 14y ago
5. Talk to your cofounder honestly It's amazing how much people don't like to talk to one another about things. With 4, you just end up getting pissed off and exploding later. 2 and 3 burn bridges, 1 could be conveyed as wanting to take ano
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by caw 14y ago
I've held a perception that Stanford students have ludicrous offers from Bay Area companies, and I definitely expected the average to be higher due to cost of living. However, these numbers really are similar to Georgia Tech's CS numbers fo
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by caw 14y ago
> It was the same thing with switching to Linux, where I have a more personal relationship with my laptop because I've taken the time and effort to care for it. Don't suggest this to a sysadmin. OS religious arguments aside, sysadmins d
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by caw 14y ago
I'm not sure. I know the wages are compensated like this: if your server wage + tips doesn't equal the standard minimum wage, then the employer has to make up the difference to get you to minimum wage. Since the tips are higher in nicer res
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by caw 14y ago
I'm guessing you mean handheld showers like the ones on a bracket on the wall, and then you can remove them. I think it's mostly in newer construction. I've seen a few hotels with them. It's really not a big deal for the affixed one, so lon
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by caw 14y ago
I think this is correct, but for all positions rather than just executives. If you want to be a Principal Engineer or a similar position in the technical track, this would also work. Even with my company being so large, there's a few key na
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by caw 14y ago
What's your configuration on that? 3x2, 2x2 with 1 to either side of that, or 6 in a row?
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by caw 14y ago
If you take the programming statement to be "take the time to get an understanding of situations" then that is a pretty good change. It would imply that previously the GP made decisions rashly, based on a programming ideology, or without al
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by caw 14y ago
Describe office hours some more. If you mean managers sitting around with a defined period of time for someone to walk in, no it doesn't happen that way. They can't afford to block off that much time in case someone comes in. What the compa
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by caw 14y ago
I just got my electric bill from the city of Austin. On the newsletter, they mentioned that short term vacation leases ("vacation rentals by owner") require a license from the city. There's also a license for longer term rentals, but basica
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by caw 14y ago
I'm not strict about column widths. If it starts to look too long (100+?), I check the column position and see if I shouldn't hard wrap it. Most of what I write isn't super long or super complex one-liners. If I were working on a team based
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by caw 14y ago
My point was mostly that they sell other stuff but you have to go looking for it. The business class desktops are mostly for IT standards, so they don't have to update the image so frequently. Making major purchases once a year and always g

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