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by heresy 15y ago
Ah, this is annoying. Selling is only allowed to people in the US? What on earth for? I realize it's available free but I wanted to buy for the principle of the thing.
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by heresy 15y ago
There is PowerShell (which I use) but if you thought cmd.exe was slow, its got nothing on PowerShell, which takes slow text rendering to a new level. On a Core i7 clocked at 3.5Ghz with SSD :) Getting home to work on a Linux terminal or Ter
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by heresy 15y ago
I wonder how many of these we will see before people started using anonymous prepaid VISA credit cards to purchase non-logging VPN subscriptions from internet cafes, and then used these VPNs to do downloading. I imagine trying to track that
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by heresy 15y ago
Yes, please appeal. I use one of the existing (paid) HN apps, it has less functionality than yours, and, bonus, yours includes source code, so if something annoys me I can fix it myself. I started writing my own, but now that seems kind of
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by heresy 15y ago
Check out some of Gary Bernhardt's videos (also a play by play on Peepcode). I stole a whole lot of things from his VIM setup (red/green bar for test runs in VIM just rocks).
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by heresy 15y ago
If you take the time to read the recently passed legislation in NZ, it's big media's wet dream. Presumption of guilt: check. Bypassing of due process: check (fucking kangaroo court tribunals). Three strikes and termination of Internet acces
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by heresy 15y ago
> Is there somewhere else where immigration is much easier than the United States? Yes. The rest of the Western world. > Have you ever thought of living there? Currently in New Zealand, was in Australia. Got citizenship after being
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by heresy 15y ago
JAXA's pie in the sky SSPS project avoids the problem of variability of supply. Emplaced at a Lagrange point, one could imagine a potential 24/7 source of energy. Also, one of the proposed ways to transmit the energy back to earth is via la
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by heresy 15y ago
A bonus of limiting your caffeine intake is the quality of sleep you get. I get a solid 8 hours since quitting caffeine, and it's really good sleep, too. I'm almost 100% ready to go as soon as I wake up. And I get a lot less of the "you loo
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by heresy 16y ago
Sometimes they are promises. To customers. Who've already paid for it. :S
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by heresy 16y ago
I used Linux for six years as my primary OS, on OS X for a while now. On OS X, the biggest annoyance for me, coming from Linux, is the lack of a consistent packaging system. I don't like the MacPorts style of compiling everything on my own
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by heresy 16y ago
Play to win.
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by heresy 16y ago
Before internet came to our parts I would make long distance calls to BBS's with a 2400baud modem, spending hours downloading classics like WinZip :) My parents got a $900 phone bill once (a lot of money in South Africa). I mowed many law
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by heresy 16y ago
Being online via Trumpet Winsock was how I downloaded my first Linux distribution. Knowing Linux at the right time (1998) was how I got my first job. Donated.
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by heresy 16y ago
Caching!
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by heresy 16y ago
Thanks, I wasn't even aware of iTunes U. Looks great.
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by heresy 16y ago
Well, it was a bit of a kick in the pants to fail so spectacularly, believe me, I'm not trying to protect whatever fragile ego I do have left, after that intro the technical parts of the interview were brutal, the interviewer decided to ham
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by heresy 16y ago
So what would you recommend someone self-taught who just bombed his past couple of interviews do? Nothing like failing on elementary math questions to make you feel like a class A idiot, especially if your title is 'Senior Software Engineer
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by heresy 16y ago
If you've been to the South, the comparison is stark, and it's hard to believe the two were one country a few decades ago. That said, if re-unification, happens I imagine the progress in the North will be rapid, and the country as a whole w
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by heresy 16y ago
(Sorry, I missed this reply). For me, it was the best decision, as I enjoy programming much more than sysadmin work. I get my kicks out of creating new things. Valuable experience though.
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by heresy 16y ago
Workflow systems for defense contractors (awfully vague, sorry).
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by heresy 16y ago
TPS?
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by heresy 16y ago
Our company charges $250k. Per CPU. Yes, I didn't believe it either. And this is just one of the many line items. According to VC, some of our bigger customers didn't take us seriously until we charged the money they were used to paying.
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by heresy 16y ago
Great addon, but I wonder how long it will be able to hide all of the advertisement elements. Then again, Chrome allows AdBlock in its extension gallery.
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by heresy 16y ago
Probably best career decision I ever made, was in 1999, 1 year into my career, to switch from system administration to programming as my focus.
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by heresy 16y ago
Where "engaging with the ACM" means entering my credit card number into their website to access any content?
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by heresy 16y ago
If you explain in terms of what it actually means, a large subset of people will and do care. "Huh? Farmville wants my phone number? What the heck for?"
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by heresy 16y ago
I use iTunes on Windows and Mac to manage a 300GB music collection. Never lost data, speed fine after first import and sync (to iPod an iPhone) works fine. I have auto sync off though, obviously.
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by heresy 16y ago
I'd be worried if the carrier has this info. I bought the iPhone 4 from Apple, the micro SIM from vodafone, two separate unconnected transactions.
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by heresy 16y ago
There is something to be said for not taking DRY to extremes. This appears to be one of those extremes.

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