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by hguant 7y ago
Working in a systems engineering position for a year and a half now: the grey hair comes to you.
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by hguant 7y ago
Your edge case is correct, but I think it's a useful first order approximation for an 'ELI5" type answer. What's another common situation where two things physically repel each other because of an invisible force?
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by hguant 7y ago
Sounds like they've bought into the Heinlein/Rand general specialist myth (quote below) and were looking for that. Problem is, it's very easy to mistake lunatic confidence for competence, especially in an interview, and espec
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by hguant 7y ago
>Yes, Argo is very "SDN" under the covers :) Ha I was reading the post again thinking about how you all did this, and it boiled down to OpenFlow/OVS/SDN magic, or you REALLY went all in on Cisco offerings. >We&#x27
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by hguant 7y ago
Spoilers ahead for a 30+ year old novel. What's particularly interesting about this idea of a 'memetic demon' is that the character unleashing it knew all along that it would be/had the potential to be [0] a monsterous t
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by hguant 7y ago
Looking at how Argo is presented (from the blog post), it seems like you've got a really strong use case for SDN, if you're not already using that already. As far as I can tell, dynamically updating routes across an internal netwo
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by hguant 7y ago
Off the cuff? Probably nothing fatal. Lets assume the laser works by dumping a lot of thermal energy into the missile. It's safe to assume for two reasons - primarily because I think that the power requirements for anything other than
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by hguant 7y ago
Not OP, but in my experience it's the customer. Some contracts (mostly government) have a strict definition of what an FTE is/can be. Because it's the government, instead of having a nuanced understanding of the field, they t
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by hguant 8y ago
Does he keep his towel on hand?
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by hguant 8y ago
The food scene in Charleston is amazing. I had a buddy who lived in Florence, and every six months or so I'd make the drive down to see him for an extended weekend. I'd never been to Charleston before and it blew my mind.
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by hguant 8y ago
Microsoft created VFS for Git, specifically because the windows kernel code was too large for git to handle without being intolerably slow (git status taking hours to complete for example). https://github.com/Microsoft/
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by hguant 8y ago
Taibbi is an interesting writer who is hard to pigeon hole politically. As far as I can tell, he mostly gets torqued off at people lying and does his best to call them out on it, be it the Pentagon, Wall Street, or his peers.
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by hguant 8y ago
>the main point is that a single man can fully understand this interface and can cope with all the effects of a change on __either side of the interface__ (emphasis mine) This is a really great and subtle point, and something that takes
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by hguant 8y ago
The New Yorker article referenced in the first paragraphs of this piece provides a nice overview of k-punk and Fisher's writings, but other wise offers very little of substance. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page
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by hguant 8y ago
New York City officials are lazy, corrupt, or just don't care, and are happily committing perjury so they don't have to do their job. This is not a new story.
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by hguant 8y ago
I think the problem is that you're comparing art pieces that have different purposes, and even more, different value systems. Those Soviet pieces are meant to be poignant, they're meant to be instantly emotionally evocative, and t
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by hguant 8y ago
It's my understanding that Amazon had a lot of difficulty working with the city's unions, owing to the latter's opposition to Amazon's anti-union stance. The unions had a lot of support from the local councilpersons and
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by hguant 8y ago
>This sort of adds up to "how to look like a tech startup when you're not, really". To be fair, "applying tech start-up mentality to non-tech fields" seems to be the new hotness, after the low hanging fruits of &
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by hguant 8y ago
Living in the DC-NOVA area, Amazon coming here seemed rather inevitable. There's a confluence of infrastructure, cheap office/datacenter space, and a stealthily growing engineering talent pool that Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon and t
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by hguant 8y ago
'Joke' from my mother (an English Lit. professor): If someone tells you they enjoyed Ulysses, they're either pretentious or mad. If someone tells you they enjoyed Finnegan's Wake, they're a liar -- because no-one ha
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by hguant 8y ago
Immunity debugger is quite useful as well. Of course, if you really hate yourself, GDB on Windows is a thing...
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by hguant 8y ago
Quarter to quarter mentality is the biggest downside to becoming a publicly traded company. 'Maximizing shareholder value' has a nasty habit of crowding out all other concerns.
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by hguant 8y ago
Nope - just a few weeks ago the largest oil reserve in the US was announced by the US Geological Survey. https://www.abqjournal.com/1254493/usgs-permian-oil-gas-rese...
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by hguant 8y ago
>How come the whole west were willing to look the other way at most if not all human rights violations in China for most part of the last 3 decades, only to now raise concern? This could be the subject of an interesting thesis paper in p
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by hguant 8y ago
I found this article incredibly naive and idealistic. The divide between China and America isn't a mere disagreement about trade 'disparities' and how IP is handled. The Chinese Communist Party is running an authoritarian, dr
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by hguant 8y ago
I'm absolutely amazed at how bad Gmail has been running lately. Slow to load initially, UI not updating in a timely manner, keyboard shortcuts stuttering - the list goes on. At first I thought this was a browser issue (I run Firefox Ni
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by hguant 8y ago
Complicated and sophisticated are not synonyms.
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by hguant 8y ago
Wikipedia says that 1890 was when the American Bar Association really started pushing the for all lawyers to have a JD.
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by hguant 8y ago
>Time was if you wanted to get into law you’d join a firm as a clerk, learn the ropes, study for the bar, then become a lawyer....The replacement of junior staff with AI could effectively kill that route permanently. That ship has sailed
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by hguant 8y ago
Perfectly valid cert for the evil.com domain - someone below pointed out that I flipped the domain names. In reality the "evil" page would look something like " https://www.login.chase/login?id=DEADBEEF/.e

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