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by cbanek 8y ago
Watermarks or small changes that encode the user accessing materials, such as small dots on printed material, or hidden metadata on electronic documents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code This a
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by cbanek 8y ago
This is how I feel with automating tasks. It really frees me and other people up to work on the never ending pile of work that is more valuable than just rote daily maintenance tasks. I've never been able to automate so much that I a
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by cbanek 8y ago
Working at Blizzard, they give you a card good for 10 years of free World of Warcraft (along with all the other games they sell, in a cute little bag). There's also a tavern (with full bar) in one of the buildings, funny enough called
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by cbanek 8y ago
Well now it will be even trickier since they've decided to not disclose the number of iPhones sold in the earnings reports anymore. https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/18053782/apple-earnings-q...
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by cbanek 8y ago
This doesn't feel like some special debugging area. If you really want another "area" try the second quest by putting your name as ZELDA. "This quest was created due to the programmers using only half of the space alloc
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by cbanek 8y ago
Well, I suppose it depends on the denomination! "According to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, all U.S. bills weigh the same: one gram. About 454 grams make a pound, which means that a ton of dollar bills would be worth $908,000.
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by cbanek 8y ago
Exactly. And one of the reasons why I think NPR is different from other things I can listen to is the lack of ads. I know there's placement and sponsorship, but they don't have other ads spliced in (usually at a much louder volu
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by cbanek 8y ago
Right, I get that they have to lead the company. But if other parts of the company are doing well, and engineering is struggling, and they have key insights into how the software was built, and why it was better, it would seem they would b
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by cbanek 8y ago
I do the same with listening to NPR, the BBC World Service, or some Ken Burns documentary. Sometimes just some classic tv works too. Anything to provide a bit of background noise and something for me to listen to other than my own repetit
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by cbanek 8y ago
>> Are your founders / leaders Engineers? > Actually, yes. They wrote the software that is currently used in production. > But they don't want to touch engineering with a ten-feet pole. One time they complained that en
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by cbanek 8y ago
Thank you for posting this. I was just joking at work a few days ago about how my job sounds like Geordi's babble. Open source X doesn't connect to Y because of Z? Well I'll just reroute to the auxiliary EPS grid and use t
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by cbanek 8y ago
This! Also, I find that when I start to learn about something, as long as I'm just going thru the motions on a hello world, and actually look up what the things do, I learn the most. Coming in with that beginner mindset you learn fast
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by cbanek 8y ago
Social engineering for the win! Such a great story. I'm always amazed by really good social engineering, people are generally the weakest link in any security system!
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by cbanek 8y ago
Having written safety critical code (and reviewed it) it is very useful. On the other hand, as soon as someone not safety minded gets their hands on it, trouble happens. Comments aren't updated (and there's no way to make sure th
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by cbanek 8y ago
The other factor not talked about is that in general the prices seem to be going down due to a lot of supply (both on the retail/licensed market, and the grey/black market). About ten years ago, a really good pound (in bulk) coul
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by cbanek 8y ago
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (date: controversial, but definitely BC)
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They weren't just going across the Atlantic just because. They were looking for a new trade route with Asia. Discovering the New World was just a fluke.
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I think it was more "who has a bigger rocket who can hit a precise target with a nuclear weapon" war. Going to the moon just proved the capability without nuking someone. I don't think people really understand the tyranny of
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by cbanek 8y ago
I agree, (mis)education is one way how we inherit trauma. Being a parent is something generally learned from your parents (based on how you were raised), with maybe a bit of advice from books/tv/friends. A parent with a traumatic
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by cbanek 8y ago
I figure with the numbers they are quoting, they are offering private stock with a certain valuation (409A), and including that in the number. I hear they are going public in 2019 too, so that might go up or down depending on how the IPO g
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by cbanek 8y ago
Just like the money in your wallet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency
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by cbanek 8y ago
I feel like it used to be this way, but in tech these days it seems the rule is speak your mind. If you get fired for ruffling feathers and are at least halfway competent, there are plenty of companies willing to scoop you up and pay you m
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by cbanek 8y ago
Nevada doesn't have a state income tax.
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Tesla also have some convertible bonds out there that can be converted to stock if the stock price is above a certain number, but otherwise I think Tesla has to pay it back in cash. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/08&
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Visit Abandoned Soviet Space Shuttles (Buran) in Baikonur [video](youtube.com)
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There was a great youtube video of some people visiting the site which I found absolutely riveting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q7ZVXOU3kM
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Well probably all of them - otherwise they would have done it differently! :)
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"You're giving away all our best tricks" - Wargames. It's true. And boy did it surprise those leakers who wanted to show off the fancy new UI and the new avatars.
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by cbanek 8y ago
I feel much the same way. But let me start off by saying that I think being able to get into "flow" or "fluid coding" is actually a rarity, something I need to plan for. It means things like working from home for a few
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by cbanek 8y ago
A lot of the Windows Phone OS is ported from the Windows code at the time (networking stack, libraries, UI) with fixes for multiple architectures (ARM/MIPS), power, and performance. Source: I worked on it.

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