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by ceautery 10y ago
I never learned "real" lockpicking, but I'm puzzled at how trivial it is to bypass some lock systems. For instance, the Kensington laptop lock, which was purchased in bulk for all the laptops of a large utility I worked for s
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by ceautery 10y ago
Sorry, everyone, looks like choosing to host my site on appspot was incongruous with high traffic, since I only get 1 gig of outgoing bandwidth per day. Here's the cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=
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by ceautery 10y ago
I wrote a piece on GNU APL a little over a year ago. Maybe you'll find it helpful: http://curtisautery.appspot.com/5776042744610816
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by ceautery 10y ago
What kind of trolling nonsense is this? The senior engineers I know all have spouses and children, and our employers find us quite desirable to have around. If you're focusing on learning each new whizbang whatsit that comes out, you&#
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by ceautery 10y ago
After this was posted, there has been some serious trolling in Github with "fake" commits matching this search.
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by ceautery 10y ago
We've been experimenting with Sococo at my office. It can share voice, screen, and video with multiple people. It's worked pretty well so far.
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by ceautery 10y ago
*are
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by ceautery 10y ago
His use of a metal fork in the non-stick omelette pan really bugged me.
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by ceautery 10y ago
In the 90s, I worked for an ecommerce network, Sterling Commerce, that processed data for Ford part suppliers. The suppliers would download purchase orders, and be required to respond quickly with advance ship notices, or be fined. Through
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by ceautery 10y ago
What does "radio silent" mean? You should give them a week, send an email query (still interested in me?), and wait a week for a response. This covers any anomalies on their side such as illnesses and emergencies, and let's t
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by ceautery 10y ago
It's weird that the 2036 NTP problem isn't called out in the article, but is linked to in the categories at the bottom. I conjecture that, like the article, this will be overlooked and have bad consequences. Fortunately, I'll
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by ceautery 10y ago
Fun times. My first experience with modem file downloads was the ASCII Express protocol on my old Apple //. Cutting my teeth on modem init strings, and keeping current with file protocols helped me break into IT despite not having
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by ceautery 10y ago
>> Comments, by their nature, are static. Says who? Comments, like unit tests, and READMEs, need just as much attention as raw app code. As others have said here, explaining what the code is doing isn't the end goal of comments,
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by ceautery 10y ago
A poor man's version is to draw it onto a canvas and save the canvas, e.g.: var svg = '<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="100" width="100&
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by ceautery 10y ago
I can't reach Troy's site right now, but I'm curious about the API itself: Does it handle Gmail "+" aliases? E.g., joe@gmail.com and joe+probablySpam@gmail.com route to the same mailbox. If I just search for joe, wi
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by ceautery 10y ago
The bleakest and most compelling statement I have ever read comes from the "Death Squared" paper mentioned in the article: "For an animal so complex as man, there is no logical reason why a comparable sequence of events shoul
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by ceautery 10y ago
This was roughly the same time the ANSI committee was trying to standardize ASCII. IBM was a proponent of ASCII, but they had shipping deadlines, and kept with their own character set rather than delay while they created ASCII peripherals.
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by ceautery 11y ago
There's a long history of railroad involvement in time changes, e.g., the "Day of two Noons". Adjustments for railroads are why we have time zones, and why Date.toLocaleString has weird minute and second offsets for pre-1800
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by ceautery 12y ago
This reminds me of an encounter with our department's director recently at an "all hands" meeting at my current gig. My company has been under financial pressure for the past few years, and there have been reorgs, layoffs, fe
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by ceautery 12y ago
I hear it's actually going to be 1.21 Jigga-bps.
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by ceautery 13y ago
- Hide the liquor.
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by ceautery 13y ago
Nice, thanks a lot. Great animations. "Shader" was a term I was confused about at first when I was learning WebGL. In fact, in the WebGL world, it seems like one is expected to come from an OpenGL background and be familiar with w
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by ceautery 13y ago
Hey, I found these when I was untangling WebGL, and found them pretty useful. Thanks for making them.
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by ceautery 13y ago
If we can show that sexual orientation isn't a matter of choice, then we can say oppression of people based on it is objectively wrong.
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by ceautery 13y ago
Well, when your partner dies and the State doesn't recognize your marriage, you don't get survivor benefits. It's conceivable to be with a partner for most of your life, and then lose the house you lived in to your partner&#x
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by ceautery 13y ago
I don't know that there's a list of famous people including sexual orientation and whether they've received death threats or not. However: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6239098.stm - 17% of UK gay stud
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by ceautery 13y ago
A cheap marketing stunt would have been to redirect Firefox users to Christian Singles. I won't presume to second-guess OKC's motives, and I'm glad they took some sort of stand for the LGBT community, but I think they ultimat
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by ceautery 13y ago
I notice OKCupid still uses JavaScript. Just sayin'.
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by ceautery 13y ago
My mistake. Your story is very similar to a former coworker of mine. Left a utility for a security gig. Those were his initials.
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by ceautery 13y ago
JB?

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