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by cschmidt 14y ago
Right, I'm sure the BP rebrand included new expensive signs at all of their gas stations. I isn't like the logo design walked off with hundreds of millions.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
The biggest advantage is easier configuration. You can set the DNS on the router, and then all computers on your network (including Xboxes, iPads etc.) and work with it. It also seems like it would be a bit faster not having to do a VPN.
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How do DNS-based proxy services work (e.g. to watch the BBC olympic feed)?
4 points by cschmidt 14y ago|3 comments
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I imagine he would say being a genius (which he clearly is) is neither necessary nor sufficient for working in math.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Were you traveling to the UK? If so, then your card's fraud department probably just declined the card. They're super picky these days, you really need to call the card company now before you travel internationally.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I'd guess it is the name of a disgruntled business owner.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I guess that is the underlying issue. Yelp is fundamentally a protection racket. "Those are some real nice reviews you have there - it would be a real shame for something to happen to them." I imagine that there are lots of business owner
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by cschmidt 14y ago
They had a big competition where lots of cities bid to be the first city, and they won. One issues was that all utilities in town are above ground on poles. They wouldn't have to bury any cables, just string them along the existing poles.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I use Xero for my startup, which does everything I need. It has integration to my bank and credit card companies, so I don't have to retype a lot of transactions. http://www.xero.com/
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by cschmidt 14y ago
My previous job morphed from being something quite interesting, to a company running a jobs website that sold education leads. Before I left, I ran the traffic to a website selling education leads. It was many of the big online players. Yo
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I have a Ph.D. in engineering, which entailed a great deal of math. I do a lot of machine learning now. I think you'll find that proofs are the great divide between "real" math, and the more applied stuff you use in ML or CS. I suppose it
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Wow, such a lot of negative comments. HN really sounds mean sometimes. Sure, it is a charity program targeting a specific group of people. But that's true of essentially all charities. The Boy Scouts only help boys, PyLadies only teaches wo
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Lou Gerstner's turnaround of IBM, in addition to the obvious Apple comparison.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
You're in for a treat. Paul Rand's books like "Design, Form, and Chaos" are great. Also, the book "Paul Rand" by Stephen Heller is well worth reading. www.amazon.com/Paul-Rand-Steven-Heller/dp/0714839949
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by cschmidt 14y ago
A wonderful man. I followed everything he wrote for many years. To this day, I do a double take when I see Congressman Rand Paul in the press, and then feel disappointed.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I don't think anything 'designer' is what the OP was talking about. You're certainly right that designer clothes are not necessarily the best quality, as they are being sold on (at least perceived) exclusivity. I do wear expensive jeans be
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Their RSS feed has new hires almost every day. I suppose they need to pay all those hires. I wonder why they need quite so many people.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I guess it depends on what are of OR you're doing. I've moved into Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics. There are all kinds of jobs in those fields. The math is very much the same.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Another distinction is that you typically send transaction email to a single person, because some transaction has happened. Bulk email you send a (perhaps customized) email to an entire list of recipients in one go.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Is this an open source project, or are you planning to sell it?
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by cschmidt 14y ago
A nice layman's explanation by Glenn Fleishman @glennf
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Password theft: Leaked out(economist.com)
1 points by cschmidt 14y ago|1 comments
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I'm not an expert in any sense, just a Django user. I've never actually looked under the hood, since it just works. You specify an order of the hash algorithms, putting the one you want first. Switching to bcrypt for me was just a matter o
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Yes, that's exactly what you do. In Django 1.4 (the latest), they store passwords using PDKDF2 or bcrypt. The nice thing is that it automatically upgrades the hash function if it used to be something else: _______ Password upgrading When us
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by cschmidt 14y ago
[Edit: parent said he felt Dow was unethical, and then edited it to the statement above. That's what I was responding to.] I agree completely that businesses must act in an ethical way. However, I don't feel that Dow was unethical. The wiki
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by cschmidt 14y ago
What on earth does this have to do with the original post? I don't think propaganda from Noam Chomsky has any place on HN. I don't agree with a single sentence. The original post seemed very biased in an anti-business way, and this is even
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Those are 4 top notch engineering schools. Why is it a surprise that they would be popular with employers. (Disclosure: I'm a CMU alum.)
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by cschmidt 14y ago
For the record, on a Mac, save your password in a text file called password, without a return at the end of the line. Then: openssl dgst -sha1 password will give you the hash you need. Mine has been leaked but not cracked, according to thi
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I use 1Password, rather than lastpass. On that system, your password file is stored locally by default, so their isn't a centralized password store to attack. If you do syncing of passwords between machines, you keep an encrypted password
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What It's Like To Be The CEO: Revelations and Reflections(onstartups.com)
6 points by cschmidt 14y ago|0 comments

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