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by emidln 6y ago
Many organizations seem to use Outlook/Exchange and configure Exchange to make it difficult to use other mail clients (not enabling imap, not enabling caldav support so that a separate calendar and email client need to be used unless y
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by emidln 6y ago
Unless they have a different agreement from the standard User Agreement, AWS Custom Agreement[0] 7.2(b)(ii) states that: (ii) By Us. We may also terminate this Agreement immediately upon notice to you (A) for cause if we have
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by emidln 6y ago
> Facilitating peer-review, being selective, indexing content, archiving and copyediting does indeed cost money. Sci-Hub and arXiv both manage to be useful without peer-review (not everything these sites host is a pirate copy of a paywal
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by emidln 6y ago
Computer maintenance doesn't exist for most people I know. If something gets slow or stops working, they ask a friendly wizard to magically fix it, or they buy a new/different thing, or they do without. It's not that people h
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by emidln 6y ago
Getting connected the first time is cheap. It's the bill that comes for the second month for all those minutes that gets you!
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by emidln 6y ago
> [1]: "a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor" There is even a decent editor application available these days in evil[0]. [0] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil
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by emidln 6y ago
Scryfall.com (a Magic the Gathering search engine and deck building site) does this and the experience is very nice. I'd have to check, but the session Scryfall uses feels pretty long. I rarely, if ever have to authenticate again on th
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by emidln 6y ago
I don't think monkey patching is required. Although without a dedicated interpreter, you can just do what sbcl does under the hood and maintain what is essentially a tempfile and keep compiling that and reporting the output for every n
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by emidln 6y ago
Their recommender system likely has multiple inputs that are under specific constraints and weightings. How well their recommendation algorithms work will probably never be known by the general public as we are force-fed a steady diet of wh
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by emidln 6y ago
> The real problem is the demand for college is enormous because it's the only way to a semi-decent living these days. There are well-paying jobs that don't require a university degree. Skilled trade jobs exist and are in high
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by emidln 6y ago
You could probably get pretty close with Red Hat Linux 7.2 or 7.3 to 8 to 9 to Fedora Core 1 and on. There might be a break somewhere that the upgrade doesn't work, but nothing sticks out in my mind. Anaconda is a seriously impressive
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by emidln 6y ago
If they paid well enough, your average working programmer would flip to COBOL for a pay raise. Once you've learned a few languages, you can solve problems in any language. It's just about having the manual and maybe an overview of
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by emidln 6y ago
This doesn't pass the sniff test regarding throughput. I've observed both cc and various linkers take hundreds to thousands of seconds on template-heavy and sometimes not-well-organized c++ on machines running around 4ghz with ddr
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by emidln 6y ago
Mattermost too. Slack competitors are going to benefit from companies not wanting to touch Salesforce with a 10 foot pole.
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by emidln 6y ago
I've only seriously worked with bazel, but it seems pants and bazel have at least enough compatibility for twitter to migrate to bazel. They gave a talk[0] at bazelcon this year about the effort. [0] https://opensourcelive.w
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by emidln 6y ago
Power consumption would be my guess for why one would choose NVME over SATA in this application.
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by emidln 6y ago
So you agree that you should Read The Fine Manual when you hit unfamiliar territory? My post wasn't aimed at saying git isn't complicated, but to encourage reading the thorough documentation of the tool giving you trouble rather t
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by emidln 6y ago
> and you have to ask a coworker or StackOverflow to rescue you... That or you could RTFM. That's what your coworker and the person writing on StackOverflow did.
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by emidln 6y ago
Would another manufacturer automatically inherit your certifications? I'm ignorant here, but I would be very surprised to learn that merely having the same basic schematics means no certification cost.
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by emidln 6y ago
I work at a trading company on builds and developer productivity. vi is known by all 600+ people that touch code or admin systems as a baseline. I think we mention the basics in our dev school. If you need to edit somewhere outside your per
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by emidln 6y ago
In many places privacy laws prevent unmarried partners from being automatically notified in medical situations, from making medical decisions, and misc other medical situations you might expect your committed partner to be involved. This pr
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by emidln 6y ago
All HFTs I'm aware of have a continuum along developer_speed to execution_latency. On the developer_speed end we have things like Python (or Perl, Ruby, etc) -> Java/C# -> C++/C/assembly -> programmable nics&#x2
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by emidln 6y ago
At least in finance (I realize HN is FAANG/SV focused), the signing bonus typically vests in 12-18 months. Finance also offers cash bonuses instead of RSUs. Finance also typically has paid leave built into the contract as a noncompete.
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by emidln 6y ago
I typically use a whiteboard, dry erase markers, and a camera (usually my phone's) and then upload images. It is fast, even works via webcam, and I get the same level of control I'm used to having in-person.
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I did this once for Clojure and named it car-cdr-construction-set! with an argument for how many levels deep to define in the current namespace.
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> I feel safer knowing that there are people out there, hunting down these unsecured caches of data. There's very little difference between maliciously encrypting someone's data once you have managed to establish code execution
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by emidln 6y ago
The International Journal of PoC||GTFO [0] includes a lot of old tech ads if you're into that thing. A nice touch alongside the hardcore engineering feats you see in the publication. [0] https://www.alchemistowl.org/poc
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by emidln 6y ago
This, and in the rare circumstance where they only accept regular mail or faxes, I use HelloFax.
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` (backtick) is also right above tab. On a US keyboard, this makes Cmd+Tab switch apps and Cmd+` switch windows of an app. It's probably worth noting that the defaults remain on common Linux (at least KDE, GNOME, and Cinnamon) and Wind
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by emidln 6y ago
The closest vim has (to my knowledge) is Unite/Denite, although fzf is functionally similar minus a couple limitations on starting new fzf searches from the callback of another. Like helm, fzf and Unite can be fed arbitrary completion

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