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by foo101 9y ago
The debate about username vs. password can be more formally described as a debate about public part of the credentials vs. private part of the credentials. Let us call them public identifier and private identifier. One very important proper
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by foo101 9y ago
On which Linux distribution did you find the "This program is obsolete!" note in `man ifconfig`? I have Debian 9 and I don't see it in my `man ifconfig`!
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by foo101 9y ago
> He does also, at various iterations, include UNIX, Linux, and UNIX-like on his resume. Where did you find his resume?
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by foo101 9y ago
> Solaris and AIX /are/ UNIX. Did you read my comments carefully? I am saying the same thing as you are. I am saying that Solaris and AIX /are/ bonafide Unix systems in all my comments.
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by foo101 9y ago
All I am saying is that when technology people like us are debating about terminology, we can cut the recruiter some slack, be nice to him or her and be more explicit in our communication to the recruiter. For example, instead of responding
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by foo101 9y ago
Unix-like systems are not synonymous with Unix systems nowadays. * Solaris, HP-UX and AIX are Unix systems. * FreeBSD and Debian GNU/Linux are Unix-like systems but not Unix systems. When technology people like us are debating over thi
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by foo101 9y ago
Can the downvoters care to explain what in my comment is incorrect?
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by foo101 9y ago
Here are the facts about Unix. * The name "UNIX" or "Unix" is trademarked. * AIX, Solaris and HP-UX are certified Unix systems. These are bonafide Unix systems and there indeed are software developers today who work with
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by foo101 9y ago
Wrong: "Yep, I have UNIX experience!" Right: "Yep, I have Unix experience! I have worked on Solaris which is a bonafide Unix system. I also have experience with Unix-like systems like FreeBSD and Debian GNU/Linux."
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by foo101 9y ago
Did you read the email exchange carefully? The Facebook recruiter did not ask for experience with the AT&T Unix systsem of 1970s. The candidate perhaps assumed that incorrectly. Facebook asked for actual Linux and Unix experience which
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by foo101 9y ago
I Googled and I find that the candidate was wrong. The recruiter was right. AIX, Solaris and HP-UX are bonafide Unix systems and there indeed are software developers today who work with them. In any case, it is not very hard to write someth
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by foo101 9y ago
I think both integrated monolithic framework as well as microframework + library based web development have their place in software development. Most of my career, I have seen Flask to be popular wherever I worked, but I am well aware that
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by foo101 9y ago
Following text quoted from the README[1]: "This microframework was born as a result of experimenting with WSGI framework. Since what started as a small experiment turned out to be several hundred lines of code, it made sense to share t
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by foo101 9y ago
Can you share some examples of what you consider "better bsd" and what you consider "not as clean bsd"?
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by foo101 9y ago
It is very unlikely that Oracle will do the right thing. Oracle, as a company, is known to be ethically challenged. A company like Oracle that is known for its apathy towards its own developers cannot be expected to make careful considerati
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Take that Alexa, Wal-Mart partners with Google to offer voice shopping(cnbc.com)
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by foo101 9y ago
So your point is that I need to RTFM to know something that should be intuitive? That kind of corroborates the OP's point.
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by foo101 9y ago
What's wrong with VPSes? Care to elaborate?
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by foo101 9y ago
> Point me to anyone who has had a gun pointed at them to be forced to take a job and I will agree with you. This was your earlier comment. You were responding to another comment (not mine) where you were seeing someone was forced to tak
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by foo101 9y ago
You don't have a choice when every corporate in your city would try to lowball prospective employees belonging to a certain class into accepting a lower than market rate salary.
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by foo101 9y ago
The parent comment never implied that anyone was forced to take a job at gun point. Why are you putting words into our mouths? The parent comment implies that not everybody has a choice. This is true and this is not necessarily the same thi
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by foo101 9y ago
Please don't be condescending. I obviously know that corporations are not made of aliens. Corporations are not made of a group of people, which is precisely my point. With a corporation or conglomeration, the dynamics of negotiation us
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by foo101 9y ago
Fair point. I chose a poor example there. A better example would be: Engineering jobs (not the IT or software kind but licensed engineering jobs) in many European and Asian companies have publicly disclosed salaries.
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by foo101 9y ago
> I see that you hold the belief that consenting adults willingly working are being forced to do so ... No, I don't believe that. I was pointing out that employment contracts are usually not between two consenting adults. They are u
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by foo101 9y ago
Except most contracts in the private sector (IT, finance, etc.) are not between two consenting adults. They are usually between one consulting adult and a huge corporation, a corporation that can choose to pay a certain class of people unfa
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by foo101 9y ago
What makes you think salary is a matter of privacy? In a lot of countries, many government jobs come with publicly disclosed salaries. Why do you think a job in a private sector should maintain secrecy for salaries? Privacy applies to priva
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by foo101 9y ago
I don't find myself uncivil. I would totally say what I said in a face-to-face conversation to preserve the decorum of a forum.
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by foo101 9y ago
This is not Reddit! Please post substantively on Hacker News or not at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html reply
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by foo101 9y ago
One may not bothered about things like mission and loyalty, care a lot about their income and yet care a lot about the work they are doing. Caring about money, caring about mission and loyalty and caring about work are all orthogonal to eac
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by foo101 9y ago
You are completely ignoring the fact that if an employee is able to come up with a significantly higher offer every 6-12 months, then the company is probably paying him way below the market rate, otherwise it won't be so easy to come u

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