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by ctb_mg 12y ago
Speaking in general terms here, because you didn't specify any course specifics. I wouldn't base your trade or part of your career on an online course alone. In order for the knowledge to stick you need to apply and practice it (l
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by ctb_mg 12y ago
And someone in that thread replied that even with that feature disabled, they still get location requests.
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by ctb_mg 12y ago
I know what you're talking about. I remember feeling it often when I was first hacking away at QBasic in high school. I don't have any good suggestions on how to bring that "sparkle" back, other than to find projects tha
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Agreed that cloud services may be using OpenSSL to transfer the KeePass database to/from the client. Presume an attacker obtains the KeePass database via a MITM attack on communications to/from this cloud service. Then what? The a
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I've been waiting for Canary to launch for forever. [1] [1] http://canary.is/
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Ask HN: Any good investments for those saving a substantial portion of income?
45 points by ctb_mg 13y ago|77 comments
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
My two cents is that this situation is more prolific than you might think. My own theory is that most young engineers start out by valuing their own time -- but they find themselves in a situation like this. They then relegate themselves to
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I started my blog as a personal journal more than anything else... so I didn't expect anything in terms of hits, comments or trackbacks. It was literally my own small space to record my life events, ramblings on technology and so on. O
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I believe Ducky and Leopold make mechanical keyboards under or near $100.
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I use grooveshark for 'casual' listening. For anything I want to keep and put on the phone or play in the car: Music is stored on a samba file server on the network as: Music/Artist/Album/file.mp3, or Music/Ar
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
In the linked markup, the difference between the bookmark star when the page is bookmarked (vs not bookmarked) is that the star is filled in grey rather than an outline. I think this is a subtle design problem that doesn't easily show
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Did some research. To answer my own question: DTI is a debt-to-income ratio that is considered during mortgage negotiations. It's desirable to have less than a 36% DTI such that your monthly debts (CC payments, mortgage, car payment, e
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I second this. I've been struggling with this problem as well, and this is the only thing that's been remotely effective. Usually something physical and not at the computer (making dinner, clean up the apartment, get groceries, et
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
You really can't play music in an environment where knowledge workers go about their day! That notion is crazy to me. That's like playing disco during a grandmaster chess tournament. Personally I could work with or without the mus
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
So has this gone into effect immediately for new memberships and renewals? My prime expired last month when it was still $79, and I'm considering renewing.
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I also disagree with the premise that these situations are very abnormal. Ours is a big field which expands outside of sunny California, where you can't walk a few feet without bumping into a rockstar coder. In the rest of the world wh
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
> At the traditional 3x debt to gross income metric Can someone give more information/source on this?
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
As a consumer I personally haven't seen the 'killer app' needed to require such horsepower. Rather, it seems Intel is focusing on the next logical thing -- low power, more efficient chips.
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Agree completely on all points. I've also seen the large disconnect between people who say they practice Agile and those who have actually spent time to learn it. Regarding the Agile manifesto. It seems like it's a relic of the pa
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
So of course, you'll never see the Agile/Scrum implementations that are successful.
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
You should know that most people would probably consider vim as sufficiently "modern" -- it is actively maintained and still useful for many. 'vi' is the old school predecessor... I believe vim has an "easy mode&quo
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Same here, it is very difficult for me to tell levels of nested structures in yaml. Though I'm sure if I sat down and read up on it I could force it into my brain. But shouldn't it be intuitive to read without that?
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I think you'll struggle to find a solid suggestion since disposable income isn't something people directly budget for; it's what's left over after you've ensured everything else is budgeted for. The thing is, what i
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I'd really like to see this as well. To me, planning sightseeing trips has always seemed like it was a lot more effort than it should be. I'd love to somehow see comments from other users for specific pit stops, containing the sor
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Ask HN: How can I encourage my co-workers to grow further as engineers?
5 points by ctb_mg 13y ago|8 comments
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Yes, I have, but only because I was looking for items under a certain category. I would still have gotten the same usefulness if it were just a regular list of tags as opposed to a cloud. My opinion is that tag clouds are better served as a
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
1. A web-based email client that's as good as gmail or fastmail, but open source, and runs on my servers. 2a. Document/file storage as good as Google Drive/Docs, that is open source and runs on my servers. Corresponding mobil
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
rdiff-backup + rsync.net for a simple mirror; duplicity + rsync.net for backups
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Are you a shill? Serious question.
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I have a mirrored copy of all RAW files on a local file server, separate disk. A daily cron takes care of the mirroring using rdiff-backup. Every time I do a shoot, when I bring the RAW files into workflow I also export them as fullsize jpg

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