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by gknoy 12y ago
I'm surprised he has not yet cancelled the card. The mystery rider will end up having to put in his real card number, problem solved. It's definitely something to report to your card's fraud department, because someone is fra
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by gknoy 12y ago
(Edit: Doh! Scooped by falsedan. His is shorter and probably more readable. :) In my defense, I tried it to make sure this works.) What I found via SO [0] was in the context of routing things to dev/null instead of stdout, but you ap
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by gknoy 12y ago
None if this is legal advice, and quite likely not all of of it would work. It's possiblpe that someone who thinks so little of obeying the law would be willing to hassle you personally constantly for such behavior. Most of these idea
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by gknoy 12y ago
I am very happy that police will often choose not to use lethal force, even if it would be allowed. The point is, however, that had such a thing happened without cameras, proving it (versus an officer's word, which is often treated as
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by gknoy 12y ago
I realize it's a little bit comical to consider customer service so highly, but I have had __consistently__ excellent support from Sonic.net, and have been a very happy customer ever since literally the first day it was installed. I ha
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by gknoy 12y ago
I was going to ask if one of the fine IDEs from JetBrains (e.g. IntelliJ) would suit your needs, but then I discovered that my PyCharm instance is currently using 9GB of memory. Whoops.
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by gknoy 12y ago
badthingfactory may have been waiting for a more tactful time to say it, rather than blurting out "You're full of it, I did that for you!" in the team meeting. While such a thing may be true, and may need to be communicated t
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by gknoy 12y ago
You are discriminating ... if you are hiring for a job that requires javascript and don't hire people who don't know it. Is that a bad thing? I dont' think so. You might be overlooking good coworkers or employe
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by gknoy 12y ago
Her book is "Living Clojure", from O'Reilly: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034292.do
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by gknoy 12y ago
They might have wanted to use 'wsad' for movement rather than arrow keys.
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by gknoy 12y ago
How do you share the files with your Vagrant VM? When we tried that at work, we noticed that trying to have a git repo on a share with Vagrant (rather than having it created within the VM's filesystem) was VERY slow.
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by gknoy 12y ago
[N]o local copies of development files are allowed ... without special authorization I'm curious what kind of employer would hire programmers, and they tell them they couldn't develop locally as a matter of _security pol
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by gknoy 12y ago
What matters is how you raise them, not why they were born While that's likely true, I think it's also wise to consider that it is probably unwise to consider "having kids" as a _solution_ to a problem. Having k
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by gknoy 12y ago
Sabatticode? Ah well, too late now.
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by gknoy 12y ago
How are you working on improving your written communication skills? I think that's something that I and others have lots of room for improvement in as well.
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by gknoy 12y ago
I'm slowly making my way through the Microcorruption puzzles. The first three seemed easy, but I feel completely stuck on the next ones. It's very satisfying, though, because I feel like I can learn my way through it, and then th
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by gknoy 12y ago
I hope this isn't flippant, but have you read the Perl regex man pages [0]? "Perl compatible" regexes are very common, and are explained _really_ well. Similarly, the Perl Cookbook (from O'Reilly) has a whole chapter o
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by gknoy 12y ago
A 100k Python project doesn't sound that bad, especially with a modular design and a great IDE (PyCharm). Good tools make reading and navigating the codebase easy. At that point, it matters a lot less how big it is, because you can tru
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by gknoy 12y ago
I think it's awesome that you linked to smile.amazon.com. Thanks for the reminder.
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by gknoy 12y ago
While you might be hiring, it was remarkably hard to find any details on job listings. (edit: I don't think I actually found any.) The closest I could find was by following many links and eventually getting a web form where I could gi
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by gknoy 12y ago
I think "Dianetics-level bonkers" might be overly harsh. If one believes the radiation anomalies are from nuclear explosions, it seems at least remotely plausible that they came from off-planet (because who would do that to their
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by gknoy 12y ago
I think it's important to separate the idea of the GPL (which IMO is awesome!), and it's key distinction between free as in not-paying and free as in freedom, from the zealous nature of its creator. I believe that there are many b
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by gknoy 12y ago
For those of us who are confused / ignorant, would you be willing to share some of those financial innovations? I trust you that there are some, I just can't think of any.
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by gknoy 12y ago
That sounds dangerously similar to saying, "... you don't have to actually follow the law, because no one checks, and you'll never get caught". Maybe it's my inner pessimism, or maybe I'm channeling Woody Alle
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by gknoy 12y ago
You probably made progress on that task, though. Added unit tests, clarified requirements, etc.
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by gknoy 12y ago
Don't volunteer for that! Of course they will say yes, just as if someone asked if you wanted them to document something, or just as customers always say yes if you ask if they want a feature! Just tell them, "... You should docum
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by gknoy 12y ago
In what way do they differ? If I want to eat meat (I do, it's delicious), what is the ethical difference between killing it myself (gun, bow, spear, knife) and paying someone else to do the killing in a slaughterhouse? I feel like the
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by gknoy 12y ago
My biggest worry is the ease with which one can accidentally wipe out everything and reset it to factory settings every time you boot up. I might be super careful, but all I need is for my four or seven year old to turn it on wrong, and su
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by gknoy 12y ago
I can only imagine that, the first time you do this, the entire rest of the week will be Not Fun for the parents.
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by gknoy 12y ago
I think you have an interesting concern. I don't worry that this will become an "extra certification", though. I imagine that one might still get called for a 3 day interview, but I suspect that people using a work-test like

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