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   by dantillberg 13y ago

   I look to tech leaders to demonstrate personal responsibility and accountability; it's part of the engineering culture, and we shouldn't hold our leaders to lesser standards.
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   by dantillberg 14y ago

   I vehemently oppose long-term civil liberty restrictions as much or more than the next guy, but I totally agree with parent. Police were in an active search for a man believed to be: - suicidal, intent on taking as many people down with h
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   by dantillberg 14y ago

   Can you post a source please?
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   by dantillberg 14y ago

   To expand, there was an armed carjacking in Cambridge by two men. The carjacking victim escaped after a half hour. Lojack on the car led officers to Watertown. When officers found the car, reports of shots fired, explosions / grenades an
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   by dantillberg 14y ago

   Is it trivially possible to determine the public key based on an SSH authentication attempt (without knowing the private key)? If not, then does it not make it less secure to broadcast it? While maybe this is "okay" for github to publi
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   by dantillberg 14y ago

   Thanks, done! FYI to other account-closers, you can download all your connections (the names, at least) by loading e.g. http://www.linkedin.com/profile/profile-v2-connections?id=YO... I like the idea of a social network for professional c
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   by dantillberg 14y ago

   I actually really like the focus on personal & emotional issues we have here; I think that a lot of readers here suffer and/or have suffered alone, and this is a bit of a community of sorts for many.
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   by dantillberg 14y ago

   Another possibility (perhaps more feasible?) would be for an intelligent alien civilization to observe light / radio transmissions from Earth, record them, and kindly play them back for us.
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   by dantillberg 14y ago

   Yet wolfram alpha isn't quite smart enough to tell that this wasn't really an earthquake but a nuclear test: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nuclear+tests+in+north+...
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    by dantillberg 14y ago

    The polite thing to do first would be to notify the maintainers of rubygems.org - not post the link to HN.
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    by dantillberg 14y ago

    Isn't this basically what e.g. MySQL secondary indexes are?
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    by dantillberg 14y ago

    You spammed a million people for this? Enough that over a hundred thousand people spent the time and energy to write an email reply? Please do justice to the collective time you took up with the survey. Could you break down the data by na
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    by dantillberg 14y ago

    This is kind of an unfortunate title for those of us that still remember 9/11.
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    by dantillberg 15y ago

    I wonder if the "insanely stupid" comment isn't about the omission of the semicolon but about the omission of "if". Since when is a good old-fashioned if-statement out of style?
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    by dantillberg 15y ago

    Unfortunately, it doesn't support either BREW or WHEN requests. No coffee for me. tillberg:~ dan$ curl -i -X BREW http://134.219.188.123/ HTTP/1.0 501 Unsupported method ('BREW') Server: BaseHTTP/0.3 Python/2.4.4 Date: Thu, 26 Ja