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by caw 15y ago
I agree Perl is great for everything listed except: sub function_name { my ($var1,$var2..) = @_; } I know why methods are like that, but it doesn't make me any less unhappy to have to read a function in order to fi
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by caw 15y ago
I look forward to the job postings. I always try to see how many cliches can be put into one job posting. This one didn't have too many. At minimum they need to add something about partying hard. Anyone up for "HN Job Posting" bingo? I thin
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by caw 15y ago
I think the hack is jeans + (t-)shirt + blazer look. I haven't had the context to try it, but it's supposed to be a bit more "trendy" than a suit.
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by caw 15y ago
5 days late, so hopefully someone answers -- If you run your web stack on Heroku, and your database in another provider, doesn't that introduce a ton of latency for your DB queries? I thought that you should strive to host in the same datac
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by caw 15y ago
By artificially limiting the number of invites, you get a finite number of individuals to work with and get feedback from during your beta. I'm not sure the referrals program is always the solution you want. You should try to make sure the
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by caw 15y ago
I think that you may see this trend because of how recently computers became prevalent. As a result, the situation is more based on leadership skills rather than other factors (wealth, heritage, etc). I think in 30-40 years we may see a shi
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by caw 15y ago
I'd just like to point out, if you pre-order via steveblank.com (using Amazon) you get charged full price, and pre-order via Amazon gets you a reduced price. I don't know if it will get updated when it ships. I didn't notice this until I cl
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by caw 15y ago
I'm in Austin, but I moved here just recently so I wasn't around for the last SXSW. As far as active HN community, there was a thread about it ages ago, but nothing ever happened ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3221674 ). It stands to
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by caw 15y ago
I would suggest to charge what you need to cover expenses. Nothing worse than a freemium service that has to close or everyone starts to hate because they took away the free. I think you have to ask these groups how they would rather pay.
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by caw 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (or Austin) Linux SysAdmin by day, freelancer by night. Need a sysadmin? I'm your guy. I eat specs for breakfast, and design HPCs over lunch. I can help improve your infrastructure efficiency--allowing you to get more
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by caw 15y ago
Deadlines aren't difficult to hit if you can properly estimate the amount of time required. It sounds like in your case your deadlines are being pushed down from above without any regard to feasibility. Obviously the larger in scope the pro
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by caw 15y ago
You could try looking for a larger netbook, those had fairly decent battery life, and you could trade out batteries. However, the screen probably won't be as nice. You could also look at Ultrabooks (similar to the Air), but they'll have the
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by caw 15y ago
My last job hosted an XMPP server, and we also had a locally hosted pastebin. On the XMPP server we hosted chatrooms, so the IT people would hang out in one, and the software devs in another. What I use right now is Microsoft Lync (aka Comm
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by caw 15y ago
What's the time function on your graph? Are you only showing the last X weeks or all time? Things like police patrols could affect the frequency of crime over time, and that may change your predictions and confidence intervals. EDIT: Depen
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by caw 15y ago
Where I am it seems like the commercials are synchronized across stations so you can't flip through radio stations and listen to music. I've switched to Pandora and my mp3 collection on my phone. I pipe that to my car stereo, which works we
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by caw 15y ago
This is true. Patio11 has Halloween Bingo Card Creator, so why not "SecretSanta" themed gift buffer? Nothing says that the recipients of the gifts can't know each other offline, but the gift giving process is what needs to be anonymous.
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by caw 15y ago
Steam is an excellent service, but does Steam work for console(XBox. PS3) gaming as well? No it doesn't, and I suspect this question was largely rhetorical. My point stands that my particular experience doesn't care about your product. Th
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by caw 15y ago
I'm a member of a computer forum, and the forum members there sometimes send each other stuff as either random acts of kindness or as thank-you's. But because of the group being in to high end gaming computers, everyone has Steam, and so mo
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by caw 15y ago
You need to profile your application to see your resource utilization at a given rate. From there you can estimate. There are other factors involved with trying to look at a site and guess their optimizations. Perhaps they're using a CDN t
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by caw 15y ago
I agree with everything stated here. I'm also a Unix admin, but I used to be a Windows admin. Unix people can usually comfortable with either That depends entirely on the person. Most of the Unix admins I know would jump through hoops to
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by caw 15y ago
I second the "sitting in it." When I bought my chair I got a chair I hadn't even considered previously. I went with an Embody. I was considering an Aeron and Humanscale but they just didn't jive with me. The Steelcase Leap is what I have
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by caw 15y ago
I have 17-beta, but here's the flag: "Prerender from omnibox Enables prerendering of suggestions from the Omnibox and predicts appropriate network actions (prerendering, Instant, DNS preconnect) by calculating a confidence value for each Om
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by caw 15y ago
I think being in college you do have the position of staggered job interviews. At my college it was understood that there was almost always on campus interviews going on, so you could interview with 2 very good companies but two weeks apart
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by caw 15y ago
Being of the sysadmin sort, my immediate thought is if the memory is going to downclock because of the number of DIMMs populated. Of course, this only happens if it's an Intel box. And you also may not care. With only 288GB you can definit
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by caw 15y ago
So I've never sold, but I've just taken a college class with someone who has sold a few companies. This is adapted from a hypothetical discussion of selling or licensing a patent. I think it'd be best to picture this as a normal sale of pr
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by caw 15y ago
I think the quickest way of learning it is to make something dependent on it. With newbie Linux installs, something is going to break on you, and you have to fix it. Whether that's flash player, a dependency hell, or messing up a critical c
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by caw 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Austin, TX Linux Sysadmin with experience in high performance computing. I recently helped save my employer six figures in support costs on outdated hardware by consolidating storage to newer equipment. After the pl
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by caw 15y ago
I don't have a blog, but I'll answer this question: As a reader, do I find comments by other users on your blog useful? Yes. The "me-too" and "great stuff!" comments I could do without, but a lot of times you get the situation of "I did wha
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by caw 15y ago
As a matter of opinion I use zipties for permanent cables (tray runs, other mostly fixed cabling), and velcro ties for in-rack where they're more likely to be updated. But then again zip ties are cheap and it's sometimes just easier to cut
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by caw 15y ago
When the last company I was with bought some colo rack space (we hosted our own data center but had a need for some colo), we purchased the server, installed it, tested it, and set up our own console on our IP range. I don't know what the c

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