cleaver

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by cleaver 13y ago
Alas, "Stay away from rebase" will get more clicks than "Git-rebase caused me some problems and I should be more careful". I've found rebase essential in maintaining nice clean feature branches. Occasionally I run into issues, but I make su
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by cleaver 14y ago
And if you drink a whole lotta lattes, you will start to feel stronger gravitational attraction to nearby masses such as the earth.
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by cleaver 14y ago
:) "New Java 0-day Vulnerability" is like the headline: "Dog bites man". "New Java 0-Day Vulnerability Not Being Exploited in the Wild" is the "Man bites dog" headline. :P
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by cleaver 14y ago
Agreed. If you're using a tactic to get your way and with the assumption that you are the expert (and the other person is wrong) then you are missing out. In my experience, the best solutions came after those discussions where you get the
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by cleaver 14y ago
SublimeText is a great choice... I especially like tools that are multiplatform. I use Thunderbird as my mail client for just that reason.
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by cleaver 14y ago
I love it. Unfortunately, it wouldn't work where you need smartcard chip readers. A lot of the world outside the US uses smartcard + PIN — I can't imagine America is too far behind. Hopefully they have that under development.
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by cleaver 14y ago
Comparison between the USA and Canada is probably more meaningful. In recent times, Canadian gun laws have been stricter, but that was not always the case. There's something else behind the numbers. Universal healthcare? Cold weather? Who k
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by cleaver 14y ago
I can't state for sure what is the legal status of UKNova. However, they have worked with copyright holders to ensure that they are not infringing. Most of the content is free to air British TV shows, that in many cases can be downloaded fo
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by cleaver 14y ago
Sure bombing innocent civilians is bad, but for me it would be enough to simply say I won't run a large Oracle server for ethical reasons.
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by cleaver 14y ago
That paralleled my brief career in government. Managers are not promoted for efficient decision making—they are promoted for not having been associated with an unsuccessful initiative.
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by cleaver 14y ago
The full disclosure debate is almost as old as the Internet itself. There's a case to be made on either side. Disclosers gonna disclose. Know what I'm saying?
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by cleaver 14y ago
I looked at doing BB development when it was it's prime. It was too expensive to get into and the cost of a BB enterprise server was prohibitive for a amall shop.
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by cleaver 14y ago
I don't think they lack in research, or at least spending on research. I think the main thing they lack is a culture of innovation. They sat on their laurels as the market leader and they avoided cannibalizing any of their revenue streams.
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by cleaver 14y ago
I doubt the smart ones are out of a job for long.
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by cleaver 14y ago
AOL might have a case... don't know, IANAL. Doubtless they could tie him up in court. However, I don't imagine they would try to touch him. The kid has the makings of a modern folk-hero—it could only result in bad PR for AOL if they did go
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by cleaver 14y ago
I can think of a few reasons for the grammar rules in the commit message... It is direct, concise, consistent and tends to active voice rather than passive voice. Further, not everyone writing or reading the messages will be a native Englis
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by cleaver 14y ago
I had a BIX account! For me it was one of the cheapest ways to get Internet access (pre-web). It was noteworthy for the coding discussions.
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by cleaver 15y ago
I know a developer who tried polyphasic sleep. He said it worked as far as productivity goes, but his unwelcome side effect was that he would get sick very easily.
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by cleaver 15y ago
An IBMer once shared a joke with me: "Q: How do you rid the world of illegal drugs? "A: Legalize them and put IBM in charge of marketing." I can relate as a one-time business partner. Our biggest competitor was IBM Global Services. Once we
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by cleaver 15y ago
OSX 10.7 and Chrome 18 is OK.
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by cleaver 15y ago
That's like shouting "Punk's not dead!" as you preen your greying mohawk.
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by cleaver 15y ago
The business model of monetizing a product that is on the way out is well established. At least that was my reaction to the announcement. CA (Computer Associates) made this their primary product revenue stream by buying up old software (eg.
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by cleaver 15y ago
I think it is actually pretty common for authorities not to cover a story if it is in the public interest. For example, a kidnapping case in progress and so on. The question then, is it in the public interest not to cover this story. I'd sa
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by cleaver 15y ago
"The world needs more weird people who know how things work and who love to figure it all out." At your best you can become antibodies in the global cultural organism.
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Rumblefish issues DMCA takedown notice for birdsong(google.com)
3 points by cleaver 15y ago|1 comments
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by cleaver 15y ago
Actually making presentations changes things a lot for a person. I've seen people who spoke so softly you could barely hear them improve dramatically with some practice. Try joining Toastmasters.
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by cleaver 15y ago
Sounds like me in a way... I love to talk to someone interesting one on one, but I don't tend to interact as much as a group. I do have a theory that a lot of the people who engage you in smalltalk also have similar dislike for the practice
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The Shy Connector(slideshare.net)
178 points by cleaver 15y ago|27 comments
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by cleaver 15y ago
I once got caught up on sleep over a period of several weeks. I then started falling into the segmented sleep pattern like in the article. I didn't get out of bed when I woke up, but I found I was extremely lucid. As soon as I could use the
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by cleaver 15y ago
Yep. That's what got Randal Schwartz convicted for running a security scan (as part of his job at Intel).

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