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by emidln 10y ago
Yes they can. It's not my fault the government has access to shit hardware or that it'll take a really long time. Encryption is just a really big combination lock with a very long series of inputs.
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by emidln 10y ago
Das Keyboard 4 Pro with Cherry MX Blues. I also use the keyboard on my 15" Clevo which, although not mechanical has good travel and a nice sound.
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by emidln 10y ago
I've had interviews where someone expected me to write "compiles and runs code" in languages such as Python, Java, and C. I've also had interviews where "solve the program on the whiteboard with any language you fee
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by emidln 10y ago
This is more like a clojure macro in that it runs via a compiler extension to avoid the runtime call overhead of something like get-in. Seeing how verbose and painful it looks, it's also an interesting commentary on macros in JS.
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The Treaty of Orlando [pdf](web.media.mit.edu)
1 points by emidln 10y ago|0 comments
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by emidln 10y ago
Do harsh punishments do anything other than slightly affect the expected value calculation for a sociopath? For the majority of people, the reason they don't commit arbitrary crimes is a feeling that it would be wrong. I don't kil
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by emidln 10y ago
Having done several event-processing systems (lately with Storm in Java/Clojure and Onyx in Clojure), I fail any event outside the hotpath, which sends it to an alternate queue where remediation passes attempt processing. This results
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by emidln 10y ago
How many? I could certainly be framed for upwards of 20 without trying too hard.
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by emidln 10y ago
TIL my Magic: the Gathering forum for combo decks is a terrorism board. Guess we probably should stop naming decks Blitzkrieg and Spanish Inquisition.
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by emidln 10y ago
This is well-documented[1] in their API. You can list a repo's PRs and the associated metadata/links that make most of the github ui work (code reviews, linked comments, commit statuses, etc). [1] https://developer.gith
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by emidln 10y ago
When I was on contract at the Illinois EPA around 2008, there was exactly one computer that could program the dataloggers used to monitor air quality around the state. It was the slowest computer at the IEPA, and it was still too fast to re
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by emidln 10y ago
The premise of my post was a change to an auction-style H1B program. Let's assume there is a $FooCorp in Alabama looking for a SysAdmin but not having much luck. They'd like to spend $70k and enter the H1B lottery under our curren
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by emidln 10y ago
> The entire South would face a skills shortage. Maybe the "entire South" should increase their rates if they want to compete on talent. I have no sympathy for a company that can't find talent because "we don't p
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by emidln 10y ago
My bill rate vs what I accepted from my firm in comp (salary+benefits) was roughly a 35% markup in Washington, DC between 2011 and 2013. I was working as a software dev in mostly Python and Javascript on web properties.
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by emidln 10y ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10968604/The-NSA-... The gist is that typewriters aren't really that much more safe. You still have a weak human element, and it's also easy to bug a typew
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by emidln 10y ago
The client might be a legitimate issue, but being an information black-hole is no different than IRC. If you wanted a history, you should have made your client or a bot log that history.
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by emidln 10y ago
How difficult do you think it is to build jamming equipment? If you are technical enough to install new firmware, you can follow directions to block cell phone calls in your immediate vicinity. It just takes a Google search and a soldering
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by emidln 10y ago
Also, despite the name, it works for a wide range of online video sources. youtube-dl is an amazing project.
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by emidln 10y ago
I ended up RMAing 3 different 2015 pixels. The g+ group was filled with hardware issues (possibly an echo chamber; how many happy users were posting in hardware problems threads?). I really wanted the pixel to be a medium screen size with a
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by emidln 10y ago
The regulatory requirements are bullshit. I can build out of spec transmitters in my garage. If I use one, I get in trouble with the FCC. The requirements as they stand are nothing more than an excuse for shitty networks to spend less on re
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by emidln 10y ago
Data created on someone else's computer cannot ever be owned by you. Data created by someone else's proprietary software on your locked computer is probably never exclusively yours either.
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by emidln 10y ago
As someone who did a fair amount of hacking in vimL, evil-mode is a drastically improved vim. It gets basically everything right, out of the box, and extending it isnt nearly as painful as using vimL or interacting with vim's Python AP
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by emidln 10y ago
I did this with a tslime plugin from vim for several years. I used it extensively for javascript, sql, python, and clojure. After awhile, I stopped fighting and switched to spacemacs so I wouldn't have to both do my dayjob and maintain
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Programming Language for Old Timers (2008)(users.rcn.com)
2 points by emidln 10y ago|0 comments
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by emidln 10y ago
At least in my case, the time to mature was necessary. While I could have passed most of my college classes as a freshman in high school (at least the ones I took freshman year in college, unsure that I could have passed the higher maths I
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by emidln 10y ago
My high school was mostly like this. "Block-8" scheduling was utilized, which resulted in four, roughly ninety minute classes per day, with our days alternating between an "A" and a "B". This provided for 8 cla
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by emidln 10y ago
This largely depends on how much stuff you're taking with you.
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by emidln 10y ago
Chicago taxis are roughly double the cost of an Uber/Lyft w/o surge pricing IF you're not crossing the city boundary. In my experience, the only time a taxi end up cheaper is if you need a flat rate to the airport during a ti
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Joxa – A concurrent, distributed Lisp(joxa.org)
122 points by emidln 10y ago|15 comments
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by emidln 10y ago
There was a tech demo for a talk where Tim Baldridge linked Python via the ffi and then was importing random things.

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