daxelrod

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by daxelrod 9y ago
For me, it wasn't about efficiency. Walking turned out to be the one thing I could work into my routine and actually do consistently every day. A big reason was that I enjoyed it. Threre are a couple health benefits that walking has ov
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by daxelrod 9y ago
Wow. What bank?
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by daxelrod 9y ago
See https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/205240127-mention-a... for a description of the UI for atting a duplicate display name.
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by daxelrod 9y ago
Programs in C and C++ can still execute data as code with buffer overflows. They're not a panacea either.
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by daxelrod 9y ago
> Private browsing is NOT secure. Security is not an absolute. The best you can do is talk about whether something addresses a particular threat model. There are different tradeoffs to Tor. A big downside is that unencrypted traffic is n
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by daxelrod 9y ago
"Perl 5 was my first love as a programming language" is exactly how I describe it too. The language has tons of warts, but also an amazing community. Participating in that community taught me more about the practice of software en
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by daxelrod 9y ago
They used to provide standard MP3 streams. Not sure if they still do.
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by daxelrod 9y ago
The feature is called "source maps". Here's an MDN article about it https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger/How_...
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by daxelrod 9y ago
You can actually export them, but the format is undocumented, and is meant only for import into GitHub Enterprise: https://developer.github.com/v3/migration/migrations/
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by daxelrod 9y ago
They occasionally do, and they call them Incident Reports. https://github.com/blog/2106-january-28th-incident-report https://github.com/blog/2273-incident-report-inadvertent-pri...
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by daxelrod 9y ago
GitLab does not fully embrace Open Source. GitLab Enterprise Edition does not have an open source license. Since GitLab.com runs GitLab EE, their two (presumably) primary sources of revenue (EE licenses and GitLab.com paid accounts) come fr
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by daxelrod 9y ago
I feel similarly. I think the best dividing line between Gen Y and Gen Z is "Can you remember a time before internet access was ubiquitous?" The terminology you link to is interesting, I had not previously seen Gen Y and Gen Z com
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by daxelrod 9y ago
My first internship actually provided an IP agreement upfront. Ever since then, I've told companies that in order to consider their offer, I also need details about their benefits and copies of anything that I would need to sign as a c
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by daxelrod 9y ago
Which code is "my code" here? My assumption from that dialog box would be that at most, the code I currently have open in my editor would be uploaded. Not all the source code on my computer.
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by daxelrod 9y ago
Ooof, I've always had the privilege of getting these up front with my offer. I don't think I'd agree to an offer without knowing what all of these were up front.
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by daxelrod 9y ago
I'm guessing that, despite the passive voice, kevintb is actually asking why those users flagged it.
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by daxelrod 9y ago
A white pattern is an idea that I'd considered but never actually tried implementing. It has the advantage of being able to spontaneously create email addresses when signing up for things, while still blackholing most guessed addresses
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by daxelrod 9y ago
I used to do this. The amount spam of mail I received to mailbox names I had never used started to dwarf my actual email. This is apparently made worse because spammers take the fact that these addresses will receive mail as a signal that t
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by daxelrod 9y ago
So that users can run all of their existing binaries. Both Mac processor architecture changes so far have included emulation or binary translation layers for this purpose. 68k -> PPC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma
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by daxelrod 9y ago
Note that even on Windows, you still have to deal with the shell interpreting what you type. The biggest downside of the Windows way, though, is that there stops being one answer to "how do I pass arbitrary strings on the command line
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by daxelrod 9y ago
You do need to use something centralized, but LFS is not specific to GitHub. Bitbucket, GitLab, and Gitea also support it. Full implementation list https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/Implementations
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by daxelrod 9y ago
WiFi is clearly the correct solution in 2017. It's just sad how this has gotten harder for users as technology has otherwise improved.
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by daxelrod 9y ago
> In theory my wifi's fast enough for copying data to/from my phone I could HotSync my Treo over Bluetooth 10 years ago and it was an effortless two-way sync with reasonably good conflict resolution. It amazes me that nothing
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by daxelrod 9y ago
Do you mean USB-C was two years ago? I think that's the only reading that makes your comment make sense.
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by daxelrod 9y ago
They can confiscate your belongings though.
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by daxelrod 9y ago
CI is powered by testpacks: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/testpack-api . A test command has always been a missing part of Heroku's buildpacks. I love that testpacks are expected to output TAP, a protocol t
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by daxelrod 9y ago
Could you please point to some good m4 learning and reference resources? The only time I had to write m4 was admittedly in the context of autotools, but I found it really difficult to get answers to my questions about how everything worked.
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by daxelrod 9y ago
What's the weakest link in your case? How resistant are your locks to picking? Can someone just smash a window or drill the lock?
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by daxelrod 9y ago
Uber now has rental and leasing partnerships to make it easier for their drivers to get qualifying vehicles: https://www.uber.com/drive/new-york/get-started/car-rentals-...
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by daxelrod 9y ago
Uber is a low-wage job that is extremely easy to get (no interview required) and has very few skills as a prerequisite. McDonalds fits those criteria as well.

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