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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Can you define what you are looking for in 'professional solution'?
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Agreed here, my preferences mirror this mostly. If I need to zone everything else out and focus in to get things done, I'll put on isolating headphones and music depending on mood. If I'm doing more contemplative work and the surr
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
> Too many MOOCs out there in my opinion that just transfer offline education to online. This is very true. And the hourly estimates required are underrated in my experience. I am taking a coursera course that claimed 5-8 hours of invest
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
So what crypto software HAS been sufficiently audited, and who audited them? Can we call upon them to audit TC as well?
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I don't understand the OP's original phrase "bled dry by the freebie parasites". So I don't know how people who use code on github would be "parasites", nor how they would bleed anything dry. Primarily ope
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
This is a very valid question and one worth thinking about. For one side, I would submit the following points for discussion. Accountability is indeed important for society, but lately it seems governments have been immune to accountability
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
My web work these days are personal projects, volunteer work, or small freelance projects; so I am answering from that perspective. For paid work, generally I stick to what I know -- a LAMP stack and whatever MVC/CMS framework fits the
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I don't know why you're using removal of the outer case in the event of damage as a comparison of durability. Can you expand on the reasoning here? You can't take off the unibody of a MBP if the case is dented or damaged and
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Sorry, let me re-phrase. What objective tests does Apple do to ensure reliability/durability?
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Agreed. From the screenshots we are given it doesn't look like DO gave much information to the customer. However the customer did leave out some screenshots of messages where they supposedly replied with all of their personal informati
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Durability is more than feeling solid and not having moving parts. Lenovo do some crazy durability tests [1]. Does Apple do the same? [1]: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-11-26/news...
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
The ThinkPad series has had, for as long as I can remember (including the ThinkPad I got last Christmas), a magnesium rollcage/inner frame [1]. Build quality is more than what you see with your eyes. Sure, it's not pretty and isn&
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
They're publishing the encrypted ciphertext, which is the plaintext message xor OTP (aka the key). The encrypted ciphertext would be the user id's of all recent retweets. The receiving party would have to know the OTP to decrypt t
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I think our environment is changing too quickly for a licensing/certification program to keep up. Unless you broaden the scope of such a license so that it applies regardless of the technology used.
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
You could try a Personal Kanban with a very low work-in-progress limit (maybe 3 or less?). This would help you create a rule to force yourself to finish one task before being able to start another, lest you go over your WIP limit.
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Agree with this. There's a definite stigma with contract-to-hire, at least in my group of tech friends. No one desires to be in a contract limbo where they aren't sure if they're going to be hired for real or or if they'
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I work for a shop that develops and tests embedded software in various avionics equipment. We use "Software Engineer" as our title. Previously I was a front and back end web developer for a startup-ish (200 employees trying very h
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
When we declared the war on terrorism.
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
I keep hearing about this supposed terrible thinkpad quality. Can you expand on that? I purchased one in December 2012 and I think the build quality is excellent. They did change the keyboard, but not everyone hates it (I think it's ju
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Just recently switched to Debian for a server distro. Early in my linux learning, I had been messing around with Gentoo, Fedora, and even Ubuntu. It's taken me so long to understand what Debian is and how important good package managem
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
The rest of the article describes how it's being pinched out of employees' schedules using performance evaluation policies.
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
> The biggest reason why Python 3 is/was seeing such late adoption is purely because web frameworks/libraries were not migrated to Python 3. That is a pretty big assumption to make, in my opinion. When we're talking in the
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Perhaps I can't read, but it seems the article is really lacking with a source for where this was found.
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Sorry, I have to speak up for Mr. Stallman here; that is not correct. Free software is Free as in Freedom with the explicit goal of protecting the users' rights and liberties. FSM is NOT simply an "open source movement". Thi
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Looks like more head-in-the-sand security from people who aren't detail oriented. Yes, your login pages need SSL. Perceived rarity has nothing to do with it! A password is being transmitted in plaintext . If forum passwords weren&#x27
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
At risk of doing the same, please stop mucking up this thread with irrelevant/flame-bait comments.
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Recently bought a thinkpad (Christmas 2012). I didn't encounter any marketing specific to military grade/army use. Perhaps it's different now. Some plastics are very durable, and the type that comes with the thinkpad is not t
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
Counterpoint -- this could be just that you are used to using a tool, and any other tool would initially be unfamiliar, unintuitive, and difficult. People stick to what works for them until a compelling value proposition comes along. Indeed
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
FWIW, they did give a valid use case and a valid issue in their initial post -- regarding configuration of distro vs. desktop environment. However, I don't know how valid that problem is in many Linux desktop environments today . Ther
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by ctb_mg 13y ago
It seems the model is driven by negative reinforcement rather than positive reinforcement. Charity or no charity, I'd prefer a model that rewards staying on track rather than punishing lack of motivation. When you're talking about

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