fancy_pantser

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   by fancy_pantser 11y ago

   Isn't your proposed job posting "insanely broad"?
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   by fancy_pantser 11y ago

   Right, because the stdlib calls out to C/C++'s malloc/calloc/realloc/free implementations. Their allocators ask the kernel for memory which, in this case, doesn't exist yet because we're starting from bare
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   by fancy_pantser 11y ago

   If you don't understand how then you must have not tried to do an internship while you were in college. It's not very hard, especially somewhere like Austin. It is not a miracle. I see close to 100 openings for interns at HireUTex
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   by fancy_pantser 11y ago

   If you don't understand how then you must have not tried to do an internship while you were in college. It's not very hard, especially somewhere like Austin. For students going to UT, I highly recommend an internship somewhere lik
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   by fancy_pantser 11y ago

   Yes, it is Soundcloud Berlin. He indicates the source at the bottom of the article: https://www.flickr.com/photos/heisenbergmedia/8409314268/in/...
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   by fancy_pantser 11y ago

   Here's a table: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Replication,_Clustering,_an... It's worth noting that BDR is much more mature that the table indicates and is probably the easiest to set up today (for up to 4
7. 247.▲
   by fancy_pantser 11y ago

   There's nothing about how you handle user authentication. Are all of the stats just open to the public?
8. 248.▲
   by fancy_pantser 11y ago

   The real question is when will they extend their API to facilitate integration?
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   by fancy_pantser 11y ago

   Modafinil has been around for a long time. Here is an article from 8 years ago that covers its [ab]use in the bay area: http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/15/how-many-of-our-startup-exe...
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    by fancy_pantser 11y ago

    Aaaaaand I'm officially old. I learned the word from JARGON.TXT, a text file passed around BBSes in the 90s. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/mu.html
11. 251.▲
    by fancy_pantser 11y ago

    Maybe he's coming from Perl or something with narrow scoping.
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    by fancy_pantser 11y ago

    I'm always at a loss. "indices is generally preferred in mathematical, financial, and technical contexts, while indexes is relatively common in general usage"
13. 253.▲
    by fancy_pantser 12y ago

    Hahaha, so interesting!
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    by fancy_pantser 12y ago

    URL Schemes are the only way to communicate between apps. So to launch an app you'd need to know it's NSURL (for spotify it's "spotify") to build a URL and do: [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:];
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    by fancy_pantser 12y ago

    I was really excited by pdo until I saw that it only supports mysql and sqlite. Maybe this weekend I can fork and add at least postgres.
16. 256.▲
    by fancy_pantser 12y ago

    But in this case, it is.
17. 257.▲
    by fancy_pantser 12y ago

    It sounds like they want to only pay coastal prices.
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    by fancy_pantser 12y ago

    https://www.wfh.io
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    by fancy_pantser 12y ago

    I can't think of any general reasons this is bad, just very narrow cases on the individual level. What are your fears?
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    by fancy_pantser 13y ago

    There is no data provided here. It's just a company blog saying how its product can be used.
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    by fancy_pantser 13y ago

    I think it's a hot topic in security circles right now that a worm or virus could infect these mobile devices and "phone home" with the data, resulting in a media nightmare.
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    by fancy_pantser 13y ago

    Why not a link or something?