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by iigs 17y ago
Strictly speaking this is true. However, if it were to be that Linux code ended up in NT, you might expect that the damages would be disastrous to the company. Perhaps enough so that the only practical remedy would be to release the kernel
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by iigs 17y ago
It's less of a risk in this case and more of a risk of a GPL library ending up in an executable (Linux kernel source in NT, libreadline in cmd.exe, etc). It's something MS is very conscientious and deliberate about in every case, even when
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by iigs 17y ago
As a former MS employee (with quite a few friends who still work there) it definitely surprises me to see them releasing GPL code at all. MS is terrified of the GPL -- I don't mean as an enemy in the marketplace (although there too) -- but
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by iigs 17y ago
It annoys me when router vendors (Cisco, looking at you) advertise their throughput as theoretical maximum bi-directional. Almost no real network design can take advantage of that speed. If this router only has 4x10g port (the two left card
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by iigs 17y ago
Not to be too dismissive of the causes of the problem, but I think when you get to problems of this size and complexity there's rarely "a" root cause -- you're either stuck with one phrase low intellectual effort summaries ("greed", "stupid
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by iigs 17y ago
While I admire the spirit of this, unfortunately I believe it's of limited use: Once word gets out that these guys are LEA "unfriendly", it will start to attract the kinds of people that get LEA attention, and then they'll have to respond t
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by iigs 17y ago
Enough that I don't know. I honestly can't name a relative that was definitely descended from an immigrant. I do have an approximate idea of my overall immigrant make-up though.
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by iigs 17y ago
I agree. One other thing to consider is retirement, though.
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by iigs 17y ago
Actually I'm currently in the prime of my hiring age, and it's not listed at all, but it's very easy to infer, particularly if an individual has dated their college history (I honestly don't recall if I did or not).
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by iigs 17y ago
You have 100 resumes to read and you're reading the long-form bodies of emails? Why? I've always had the benefit of a HR department to do that screening but I'd think I'd read the resumes first and then go back and follow up and read the em
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by iigs 17y ago
Reasons why I'm currently looking for a new job: 1) I'm looking to change locations, half way across the USA 2) I've been in my current position for nearly five years, and am ready for a change: 2a) In my chosen trade (being a unix sysadmin
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by iigs 17y ago
Counterpoint: In my experience as an interviewer (for peer positions) there's no benefit. It's vaguely amusing to read people imagine what the position might be like and try to spin it to sound like what they want to do, or to hear them tal
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by iigs 17y ago
The fake receipts are $40/each by the looks of things. That prices the service out of the petty theft realm (i.e. you're not spending $40 to expense a fake $50 dinner) and well past most of the legally dubious but (arguably) morally accepta
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by iigs 17y ago
This is presumably the genesis of several directives that resulted in derailing Vista (mentions "Blackcomb", currently the codename for W7, I guess, but were eventually targets for "Longhorn", now Vista, see: http://www.winsupersite.com/fa
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by iigs 17y ago
regarding comment above: You realize that by stating "You haven't seen this before", you are just challenging readers here to find and name products and projects that are similar to yours, don't you? http://jwz.livejournal.com/847649.htm
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by iigs 17y ago
This problem could be on AT&Ts end, or some communication provider in the middle. I have a similar configuration set up for my work extension (not related to Grandcentral/GV). The GC/GV system basically works as a man in the middle, and
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by iigs 17y ago
1) Sample size of one (or did I misread?) -- Enron. I don't have any guesses on what a wider analysis would reveal, but you can draw all kinds of conclusions from data when you have the data and the backstory and no other data to verify aga
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by iigs 17y ago
Is this yours / do you know how this works? The responses seem pretty good, although one of the three recommended for me is giving invalid data for google.com, and it's giving me the same three servers for several different connections in t
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by iigs 17y ago
I paid for a sizably more expensive ($60+) kit with one (or more properly, had one paid for for me for Christmas) because it's a ready to go kit with a USB-serial interface, some other support circuitry, and firmware in it already. I suppos
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by iigs 17y ago
I've done a fair amount of job interviews and cover letters are always stripped by our (internal) recruiters. When external recruiters are involved it looks like they do $ cat resume.doc | strings | mail iigs@company.com . Maybe there's
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by iigs 17y ago
I mitigate this issue by gambling with myself. I make my best estimate and if it is close enough to never or always I use those words. I benefit from this because more often than not if I'm wrong it's because my mental estimating model is w
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by iigs 17y ago
Hello. A lot of your early years sound very similar to mine: Liked computers, grew up in a place where nobody knew/cared about them, was smart but never worked very hard, got by in school but never excelled. I lucked out and knew a professo
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by iigs 17y ago
What is the "real stuff" by name? I am not familiar and would like to investigate further.
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by iigs 17y ago
looking to get out of her current gig in journalism and into software Is this for commercial/employment purposes? If so I'd consider looking at the job market for desirable positions and selecting a tool set from there. Even if the idea i
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by iigs 17y ago
I hold precisely the opposite opinion. (How's that for HN-sanctioned "YOU'RE WRONG!"?) The poster is doubtful "an idiot" for posting something that is a serious attempt at solving spam. Sure the idea won't work, but if coming up with a succ
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by iigs 17y ago
It would probably be helpful if you broke up the read/writes estimates. Also, are those writes mostly inserts or updates? There are different types of solutions depending one what you expect your profile to be like. Also are you reads just
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by iigs 17y ago
I've also never used rentacoder, but my observations, and the observations of others that I've heard leveled against it rarely stem from "the price is too good to be true". Commonly the problem is that a client requests a specific attribute
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by iigs 17y ago
Perhaps a more forward posture causes the front of your body to be "shaded" by the rest of your body, leaving the front (that you notice more) drier?
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by iigs 17y ago
Wow. That man did not hold back words. He'd have done great on 4chan. I tried some of their "Grilled" chicken yesterday and I suspect he'd also not approve of that. It was not very good.
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by iigs 17y ago
I agree with you. The place that I work does not have a cafeteria with food (modulo vending machines), and not only would it be "neat" to get free food, I find myself frequently going to one of the closest restaurants and getting the same t

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