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by iigs 17y ago
challenging work and brilliant colleagues Word on the street is that there's some fun work to do but there's a lot of vanilla corporate grinding on the Adwords interface and reporting infrastructure, and that Google hires a lot of people
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by iigs 17y ago
One of my must-have applications for a smartphone is a SSH client. I'm really looking forward to seeing if that type of application can be built using the HTML/javascript API that has been such a hot topic, or if there will be another way t
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by iigs 17y ago
The QS20 looks interesting, sad to hear it didn't work for you. Do you have any good links for developing for it? The little bit of Googling I did for QS20/21s just found glossy type info and few concrete examples of things that you can do
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by iigs 17y ago
In our case, we were using this Encrypt() method to experiment with storing some state data in web pages related to the login process. We thought it was secure, because the data was encrypted. Sure it's encrypted! It says Encrypt() right t
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by iigs 17y ago
Sorry to be naive about java, but isn't .jar just .zip with a manifest and a different extension? Even if the goal is to make jar "100% pure java", which I don't recall it being, why wouldn't they transcribe a relatively complete implementa
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by iigs 17y ago
Perhaps when the opportunity cost of building is greater than the actual cost of purchasing. This frequently is true when specialization or large scale production makes the producer more efficient than someone who does not have those attrib
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by iigs 17y ago
No. If the market for a less expensive good is there, it will happen with or without a company. Intel's fortunate that they can make a product for the segment and dominate that segment, even if it means a smaller overall market for the rest
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by iigs 17y ago
It's tough to program (and doubly tough to do system administration!) without being connected to the internet to search for documentation or solutions to problems. I have a hard time keeping myself from getting distracted, especially when I
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by iigs 17y ago
I find your comment rather astute. I have great eyesight and a high resolution monitor, but these diagrams are too busy to really be practical on a conventional PC monitor at this time. The Amazon mockup is a great example. It uses 50% more
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by iigs 17y ago
IMO you're absolutely correct. It's generally frowned upon to select esoteric crypto algorithms of any type if another more widely tested one is available. I have confidence in the author and high hopes for the algorithm but I believe it pr
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by iigs 17y ago
In the interest of what you say I decided not to spoil it with my comment. I will however, say the following things: 1) When I hit the surprise "my mind was blown", to use a phrase popular elsewhere on the internet. 2) I still don't have a
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by iigs 17y ago
I got my wife a white E71. It's pretty rad: integration with my home asterisk server is neat. :) Have you had any issues with the browser crashing? Ours tends to get confused when you go forward/back and occasionally I can find a reproducea
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by iigs 17y ago
This type of question is really too vague to answer without knowing what the data is and exactly what you want to do with it. How much of the 20k of data items and 100k related objects do you actually have to scan/process over? If the 20k i
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by iigs 17y ago
These would be great for really high density systems... 50 machines in 10U, or beyond. For certain cluster applications you could even make the individual systems not hot swappable to save packaging space -- just migrate the workload off of
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by iigs 17y ago
Sorry for not following up sooner. Honestly I wonder if distributed version control systems, as currently being heralded by the open source community, might not be the answer. If you remove (or augment) the hierarchy with lateral connection
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by iigs 17y ago
It beats abusing Excel to accomplish the same objectives. Access is most certainly not aimed at people who read this site. It's a great tool for what it does (GUI relational-ish data design and user interfaces, such as forms and reports) Ye
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by iigs 17y ago
There's probably an overarching design requirement that their software not contact MS's servers for privacy reasons. The buttons should be in a different order, and the wording should be changed, though.
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by iigs 17y ago
It's nice to see a concrete example of the "design-by-committee" that MS is accused of with windows. In Windows, the node I was working on was 4 levels removed from the root. This is terrifying. It sounds like the Windows development proc
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by iigs 17y ago
I've been using non-stock firmware on my v1 WRT long enough (since before OpenWRT had version numbers) that I can't even compare them to the stock firmware anymore. I tend to end up using my wireless gear in dumb WAP mode. This is usually p
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by iigs 17y ago
And you can wget the install directory to a local web server while you're burning/booting the net install ISOs and by the time you need the files they're local. This makes installing the OS actually faster than doing so from CD.
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by iigs 17y ago
PGSql/MySQL don't really offer concrete solutions to protect data - apart from common sense like patches, secure passwords, et al. Now look at offerings from the big co's. You're comparing commercial databases favorably to Open Source d
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by iigs 17y ago
It's a neat little device but it would be so much more useful if it had GPIOs. A 1.2ghz Arduino-alike running Linux would be really cool.
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by iigs 17y ago
They're about as drastically different as major free Unices can be. The BSDs are the reference standard for add-on package management. In the RedHat 5 days (a decade before RHEL 5, mind you) the BSDs had a huge third party software library
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by iigs 17y ago
There is a cognitive gap here: Those of us who were in law enforcement in New York City in the late '80s and early '90s remember how drug dealers pioneered the use of 9-mm guns. We heard over and over from our friends in the police departm
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by iigs 17y ago
The folks on this list are currently working on a startup of their own but are available for part-time work. Please DO NOT contact any of the people below unless you are interested in hiring them. Hi. I'm a leaf node at a medium-sized tec
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by iigs 17y ago
I don't see how the preview box is any faster than conventional tab usage: result miss case: read the preview, decide you don't like it, go back (no difference) result hit case: read the preview, decide you like it, click "yes I want to rea
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by iigs 17y ago
This is somewhat sad, since hobbyists (look up NUIGroup if you are interested) have gotten better results with a pure glass surface I think this is what bothers me most about it. There are probably at least a dozen different ways to achie
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by iigs 17y ago
The whole experience was probably best summed up by Amanda who, when asked why it was taking us so long to get the machine up and running, and why we all looked so unhappy, replied “Oh, it’s just so…Microsofty.” This is exactly the proble
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by iigs 17y ago
I had a rant all prepared but decided against it. A fixed width page that has been well designed for 1024x768 (such as this article) is frustrating to read on my 1600x1200 LCD, and would be even worse on a 1900x1200 LCD. Maybe an extension
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by iigs 17y ago
Have you looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MonetDB ? It exposes some of the DB guts at a different layer while leaving a SQL "porcelain" feature available for people who desire that.

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