hackula1

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   by hackula1 13y ago

   I actually talked to Google yesterday. Minimum tier is 100k per day at $17.5k per year. Very fair price (If you think that is expensive, then you clearly do not work in commercial GIS, where licensing of software and data is insanely expens
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   by hackula1 13y ago

   You can crack into any system with 30 billion dollars at your disposal. People are always the weak link. Most of the revelations of late suggest a "paid backdoor" rather than a mathematical backdoor or a technical backdoor. The
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   by hackula1 13y ago

   I think cutting out the agents and lawyers would be pretty dangerous if you were not able to solve the huge problems for consumers that make them necessary. I am about to close on a house next week and would be completely lost without a qua
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   by hackula1 13y ago

   I will accept goats and chickens before I accept Bitcoin. 99% of people have never even heard of it. I am pretty certain that 100% of my customers have never heard of it. Not worth my time.
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   by hackula1 13y ago

   I have been a Type I diabetic for the past 15 years, and have had the "pressurized stream of blood" that shot across the room a handful of times when injecting my stomach. Granted, being an insulin dependent diabetic, I have given
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   by hackula1 13y ago

   Well frankly, it seems like Android made the wrong choice. Going completely unresponsive is completely unacceptable.
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   by hackula1 13y ago

   1) Worst reputation for verbal abuse of any open source project around 2) Actively cultivated reputation for being esoteric and difficult to get started in 3) Few "big wins" left. Young devs want to work where there is plenty of l
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   by hackula1 13y ago

   I appreciate having bosses and sales guys around to play up the BS so I don't have to.
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   by hackula1 13y ago

   I think the worry would be that HR will miss a lot of people with relevant experience. "Oh, John Smith only has experience in C#, but we need someone with experience in .Net".
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    I left the .Net world about 3 years ago. There were plenty of things to complain about, but licensing was never one of them. Most of the stack is free until you get to the point where you should be able to pay for it anyway.
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    Are you implying that mysql is not a relational db?
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    Risk has this same dynamic. Going head to head on main choke does nothing but let the other players come in and mop the floor with you and your opponent.
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    Cheerio is really easy for anyone familiar with jQuery (most node.js devs I would imagine).
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    Poor Barkley.
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    And one day much farther down we will have same sex robots as well.
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    Flow based programming has a funny way of being suppressed... this has been tried many, many times. Some examples off the top of my head: Scratch, Windows Workflow Foundation, Arc Model Builder, etc. All of the marketing for NoFlo seems to
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    The one beef I have with the "my github page is my resume" meme is that many developers work in spaces where they do not have the ability to work with open source much. I personally have years of work checked into github in privat
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    I will not hire someone without seeing them code something... period. There are too many tricksters out there. I ask them to solve Fizzbuzz using any language they want, any editor, any question, any google search (including just looking up
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    2 months later: "Gary can do his mockups just fine in MS Paint. We're gonna have to deny that request for a Balsamiq license... mmmkay?"
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    Power and fame are strong motivators too.
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    Agreed. Especially for the young people referenced. People are flocking there in droves out of college with very little job prospects and an extremely competitive job market (outside of tech).
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    I would love to work there, but the rents look completely ridiculous compared to the rest of the country. I live in the heart of a wealthy urban area, and still pay close to a third what I would pay in SF. I am an engineer, so I could affor
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    I would point people towards the Stadium Pal, described by David Sedaris. Essentially, it is a urine bag strapped to your leg attached to an external catheter. I am not sure if it works for women, but I am sure Musk could figure that out.
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    10 minutes is perfect. I do not want to wait another half hour when I need my check. <5 minutes though is extremely annoying.
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    Can confirm from the south here. No idea about real Canadians but "Canadians" pretty much never tip in my area. I was shocked when I first heard this, but I have friends who have been in the industry for years and it seems to be n
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    So I guess he could have used a nix box then and just used curl, which comes preinstalled? I am not saying the government has no case here, but using wget is way too fuzzy to weak to be one of the central charges.
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    So do hammers.
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    At risk of being trolled into oblivion, I have not found unity to be all that bad. Keyboard shortcuts seem fine to me. Dock on the left is only annoying when I pick the mouse (actually trackball), which is rare. I use OSX and have found its
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    Can you not trivially turn off dns hijacking?
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    by hackula1 13y ago

    Skeptics Guide to the Universe did a podcast discussing this last week. Interesting.