caymanjim

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by caymanjim 9y ago
My bad; I admit I missed that on first read. I was reacting more to prior discussions I'd had and simply seeing the Inc reference pushed me to comment.
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by caymanjim 9y ago
There's a followup article; Equifax appealed, and lawyers were allowed during the appeal: https://blog.legalist.com/i-fought-equifaxs-lawyer-in-court-... .
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by caymanjim 9y ago
Equifax may be terrible, punishing them may be good, this may be a good way to punish them. One might debate whether small claims court is the right venue, what the role of the government is, whether this is a civil or criminal matter, and
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by caymanjim 9y ago
This story is gaining a lot of traction, and publications like Inc are picking up on it as a David-vs-Goliath tale. Some of them link to Christian Haigh's blog posts ( https://blog.legalist.com/i-won-8-000-from-equifax-i
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by caymanjim 9y ago
I map CapsLock to Ctrl, where it belongs. I've recently gotten into the habit of using Ctrl-[ for Escape, though, because I'm stuck on a MacBook with one of those horrible touchbars, and I had to turn it off to remain sane.
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by caymanjim 9y ago
No serious user of Vim would ever suggest that you not customize it. It's worth knowing the basics of a stock Vim configuration for simple use cases on a new system or in an environment where you can't or don't want user conf
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by caymanjim 9y ago
In a large company, a company with sufficiently-sensitive data (where loss is a legal matter), or a company with a lot of money to lose (financial processing), having a dedicated security team might make sense and might be worth the money,
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by caymanjim 9y ago
Earth's orbital eccentricity has nothing at all to do with its seasons. It's nearly a perfect circle right now. The reason Earth has seasons is because of the axial tilt relative to the plane of rotation. In the northern summer, t
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by caymanjim 9y ago
Anecdotally, I've found the opposite. The most successful people ascribe their success to their own hard work first and foremost, discounting all the benefits that luck has brought them, most especially the accident of their birth (ric
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by caymanjim 9y ago
I'm too lazy to find a link for it, but last time I read about Cellebrite, they were cloning the data and simply trying unlock codes in sequence until one worked. They could restore the cloned data before each try, or possibly do it on
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by caymanjim 9y ago
These are Emacs shortcuts, not Vim. They're available in bash (the default MacOS shell) because bash uses the readline library. You can also put readline into Vi mode and use Vi/Vim shortcuts, but none of this has anything to do w
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by caymanjim 9y ago
Sure, there's room. Amazon just opened a giant store right here in Manhattan. You can even ship your Amazon packages there, or pay for books online and pick them up on your way home from work. Plan on seeing more Amazon stores. They&#x
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by caymanjim 9y ago
Many companies use the terms "software engineer" and "developer" and "programmer" and "analyst" interchangeably. There's no universal agreement on the difference. I'm not saying it should be
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by caymanjim 9y ago
This is largely how the Cayman Islands operate. There's no income or capital gains tax, but everything brought to the island for consumption is subject to 20%+ import duties. Non-citizen professionals working there must pay $10-25k ann
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by caymanjim 10y ago
Does anyone smart enough to install a browser plugin (much less visit GitHub) really need something to identify fake news sites?