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by engtech 14y ago
Verify they still have access to that email. A lot of people have 6yo+ facebook accounts. I quite enjoy the fact that my verified facebook email goes to a dead account that I only monitor on a 6 month basis... it saves me from a ton of spam
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2008 FISA allows americans to spy on foreigners using US cloud computing(ottawacitizen.com)
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by engtech 14y ago
Passwords have been compromised before by being captured in server logs that ended up being accessible. If you are logging failed password attempts anywhere, then you've got a security hole. Here's the details on the breach I'm talking abou
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by engtech 14y ago
One of the subtler issues I've had with piping find in a scriptis that you end up calling a program N times instead of just opening N files in the program. So if the program has overhead when loading, using a -r option instead an outer find
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by engtech 14y ago
Being poly-operating-system also gives you a unique viewpoint and can be an advantage in most things, provided you're using each OS for what they are best at and not just trying to emulate a different OS.
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by engtech 14y ago
FYI, Polar H7 is iOS supported only. Android/Windows users should not buy one. http://www.polar.com/en/support/FAQs/H7_heart_rate_sensor_co...
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by engtech 14y ago
I'm so happy you guys are using a real email address validation software! I just had to take over yet another person's itunes account this morning because they signed up using essentially my gmail address but with a period in it somewhere.
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by engtech 14y ago
That actually sounds like a really fun time and that some good friendships could come out of it.
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by engtech 14y ago
Did anything ever come from the book he was talking about writing? He was 19 when he wrote that blog post.
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by engtech 14y ago
I'd actually trust the OK Cupid guys to do an interesting take on this. Their blog has been a fantastic source of interesting articles of the things they have discovered with their unique dataset. http://blog.okcupid.com/
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by engtech 14y ago
Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for techcrunch.com/2013/01 What is the current listing status for techcrunch.com/2013/01? This site is not currently listed as suspicious. What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 694
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by engtech 14y ago
I had the same issue with my Galaxy S3 where trying to get my dad to understand how to use Google+ hangouts for video conferencing was very hard. Having the hangouts be part of the Google+ infrastructure is hurting it's uptake because most
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by engtech 14y ago
awk script to convert abook to vcf vcard (found with a search, haven't tried it out) http://blog.karssen.org/2010/05/24/script-that-converts-a-sq...
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by engtech 14y ago
For those who haven't played Legends of Grimrock before: it's fun, but some of the puzzles are difficult to the point where you'll stop playing the game or look up solutions online. Some of the puzzles are difficult to the point where even
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by engtech 14y ago
Infographic on gun ownership around the world that was published by a Canadian newspaper after a public shooting at a mall. http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/28/guns-ownership-aroun... note that the black circle is not scaled by the po
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by engtech 14y ago
My carrier phone in Canada finally updated to Jelly Bean 4.1 last night. My dad has the same phone bought the same day and he's still on the pending list to get the update... so, not fast?
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by engtech 14y ago
I will be borrowing this: "its syntax isn't just simple, it's simplistic" I've lost hours to the syntax errors in comments before. Coupled with TCL's bad error messages it's maddening. #syntax errors in comments are dumb proc te
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by engtech 14y ago
This also breaks, because comments are syntax. proc some_proc {a b} { } # some_proc
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by engtech 14y ago
We use TCL for a couple of core scripts at work because most of the tools we spend millions of dollars on in licensing use TCL as their embedded interpreter (I work in EDA/semiconductors). I find the most unproductive use of my time at work
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by engtech 14y ago
The craziest thing about looking through the warrants is the amount of charges that are either about property or drugs. The media focuses so much on violence and sexual assault that I thought there would be more violent offenders in the mug
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by engtech 14y ago
"They simply avoid the problem in the first place, so not knowing is irrelevant." I always see this as a quality that I'm missing compared to other coworkers. They'll go for the simple implementation with the complicated usage pattern whil
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by engtech 14y ago
I never thought I'd see verilog-mode, haskell-mode and scala-mode in one person's dot emacs file. I'm in telecom semi and I know companies like Huawei are using a model where they have 100s of engineers in China with less than one year expe
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by engtech 14y ago
off-topic: you should edit your comment to get rid of the three spaces before your bullet point. The three spaces indicates pre-formatted text, so it won't line wrap. It creates scrollbars on your comment, so less people will be able to rea
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by engtech 14y ago
The bigger problem I had with that snippet is the exposed string. I haven't seen the original video this is from, but I can't wonder but removing this hardcoded string was the bigger reason. Encoded strings like this are a maintenance probl
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by engtech 14y ago
You make a really cool product I'd never heard about before. Definitely of interest to parents who let their kids play with an ipod touch. Kudos. (link for the lazy: http://smallworks.com/ ) I love your slogan: "brick your phone"
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by engtech 14y ago
off-topic, but it's almost December. I just came across a recipe for freezing coffee in ice cube trays, and then putting it in with Baileys and vanilla vodka. This sounds like a winner for the annual "It's a Wonderful Life" every time they
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by engtech 14y ago
Why do I get the feeling that dcurtis' friends are going to endlessly chide him whenever they go out for dinner? I wish one of my friends would write an anecdotal story like that.
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by engtech 14y ago
Yeah, but for all that running it on Linux is a pain-in-the-bum, Netflix is on iOS, Android, and most set-top TV boxes. I have 8 devices in my house that can play Netflix and only 1 ubuntu machine that can't -- but only because I don't wa
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by engtech 14y ago
If people care about this kind of thing? Back when I ran a blog, I did 60k hits in a day once on feb 14th 2007. I stopped writing it in 2008. My old blog was averaging 15k views/month in 2010, and is now averaging about 12k views/month in 2
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by engtech 14y ago
Short variable names are fine if the variable exists for a short time (eg: if the variable lives more than 5 lines of scope then use a longer variable name). But don't use single character variable names. We've all gotten in the habit of us

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