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by caw 13y ago
> It helps to have a phone that is not the computer you are working on. Agreed. A coworker of mine rolled back to a restore point, which caused his computer to get kicked off the domain. He couldn't log in at all, so he had to call
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by caw 13y ago
I think at my last job we got an oversized item by DHL, though it could have been FedEx. sub $100 A-frame ladder with $2.99 overnight shipping FTW.
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by caw 13y ago
PS3 was the same way. Xbox completely dominated in the advertising space. I've seen XBox One advertisements on TV but not PS4.
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by caw 13y ago
> kids primarily only socialize with kids +/- about one year of age This was a huge realization for me after getting into the "real world". I suddenly had coworkers who had kids as old as I am. At times I felt like I had m
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by caw 13y ago
A reputable host for all those "curl <url> | sh" commands you see these days? Basically, verified to not do something like rm -rf /.
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by caw 13y ago
Kotaku documented it, push down the HDMI pin with something.
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by caw 13y ago
We have a custom password database application. You request the to view a particular password or set of passwords, and then it goes through an approval chain to grant you access. Afterwards, you can see the password. Depending on the securi
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by caw 13y ago
I work with smart people...Lots of smart people who make critical components for computers. Trust me, you still need desktop management, with corporate standard images. By corporate baseline, I imagine it's corporate standard image wit
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by caw 13y ago
It says it's powered by PCoIP. I've tested one of the PCoIP hardware thin clients before, and it works really well across a WAN. An employee ran from his home a graphically intensive 3D render application at 1920x1080 on one of th
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by caw 13y ago
At least 2010. I think before that.
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by caw 13y ago
> We concluded there was some firmware delay that caused the controller to time out some operation and call the drive 'failed'. There is indeed a firmware setting on how long the drive spends checking for errors after it detect
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by caw 13y ago
Some of them do. I took one at Georgia Tech. I can't remember the course name, but it's listed as a CS class. It's taught by Merrick Furst. The coursework involves basically going through the business model canvas, how to rap
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by caw 13y ago
Wow, I can't believe how many times I've had to explain this to people as they log on to shared VNC servers. "I thought this had 16G of RAM free, I asked for a 16G machine!". "It does, stop trying to read top!"
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by caw 13y ago
I would think the standard would be a breakup fee. The fee can be orders of magnitudes larger than any time involved (see AT&T & TMobile acquisition)
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by caw 13y ago
I currently live in Austin, and it's definitely great, but the traffic is killer if you're commuting. A couple of my coworkers live up north in the suburbs, and their commute is 30 min without traffic. With traffic, it's 1-1.
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by caw 13y ago
My worst horror story was a full server room shutdown. We killed servers, then the chillers, and then started work. About an hour after we started, we pulled our first floor tile to move some power cables. There was water under the floor! W
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by caw 13y ago
I've got a standard resume in Word and PDF form. Name and contact stuff at the top, then education, work experience, and skills. Just a light horizontal line break between sections to give it some visual separation. I would hope that t
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by caw 13y ago
Two things that I cook that make a ton and will freeze are baked ziti (or lasagna, ziti is a bit easier on prep), and Japanese curry. Prep on the curry takes a while because there's a lot of vegetable chopping, but cost per serving is
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by caw 13y ago
I use a mid-2010 13" MBP, and a Core i7 custom desktop from Nov 2008 (Vista, then 7).
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by caw 13y ago
One caveat is that MAC addresses are not guaranteed to be globally unique. In practice they may be, but with sufficient amounts of similar hardware you can get duplicates. Use the MAC if you're looking to make it silent. Use the free r
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by caw 13y ago
Doesn't the new OS have memory compression so that you can run more apps with the same amount of memory?
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by caw 13y ago
The only downside with splitting the membership is that only the primary Prime account gets the free streaming and books for Kindle. Still a good deal though.
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by caw 13y ago
"Programming Amazon EC2" mentioned using the "Alestic" Ubuntu image rather the one from Canonical directly, but it didn't elaborate on who/what alestic was. I appreciate the information and will definitely look
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Ask HN: Resources to Learn AWS?
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by caw 13y ago
It's a horrible sin for people who have to debug other people's code (read: team projects). Normally this team will have style guidelines on how to test, what to test, etc. My view is that for personal projects and limited scope c
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by caw 13y ago
It's called the "serial" comma, or "Oxford" comma. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma Some style guides promote use of it, some do not.
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by caw 13y ago
I know 2 people in GE manufacturing, and they enjoy working there. The benefits are good (vacation, healthcare, GE discounts), as well as learning and advancement (one has gotten some good raises and promotions). As far as the software goes
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by caw 13y ago
My (US) 2012 Mazda is 5k for Schedule A and 6.5k for Schedule B. Maybe high end cars have higher intervals?
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by caw 13y ago
Where are sources of carbon monoxide poisoning? The only two off the top of my head are near the garage and the fireplace. You could augment this system with 2 more plug-in type CO monitors that would put them lower on the wall. For any oth
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by caw 13y ago
Austin, TX. Dominos, et all are like $10 for a large. The premium pizzas are $17.99+ for a large cheese.

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