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by jboggan 13y ago
I can't help but hearing Frank Zappa while reading this news. Strangely this music really helps me concentrate on coding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukbu9dmmzJg
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by jboggan 13y ago
They probably spent twice that - Kaggle takes a cut.
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by jboggan 13y ago
We were pair programming with myself in the driver seat, so to speak. I didn't code Python fluently and he didn't code Perl fluently, so we just implemented the same logic in our respective dialects. Edit: http://proje
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by jboggan 13y ago
Mixrank, they're a YC company. Nice folks and really sharp too.
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by jboggan 13y ago
The best technical interview I ever had involved picking a random Project Euler problem in the hundreds and pair-programming our way through it. The CTO wrote his version in Python and I worked in Perl . . . he was astounded mine ran 8x fa
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by jboggan 13y ago
Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Factual’s location platform enriches mobile location signals with definitive global data, enabling personalized and contextua
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by jboggan 13y ago
Three cheers for the tech life in Santa Monica! I also moved here after a short stint in SF and decided this is a much better life overall. I even have a nice hill to live on if I want to pretend I'm back in SF. Groundworks is great
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by jboggan 13y ago
All the NCR machines I encountered post-ADA upgrades were running Windows XP and still had the standard admin backdoor passwords on them. There's only two different ones to try.
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by jboggan 13y ago
This is really fascinating, I'd love to see this on a larger scale. I was exposed to music very early but I never began to learn an instrument until I was 12. It was, however, the bassoon, which being rather unstable in intonation lea
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by jboggan 13y ago
Fascinating, thanks! We (Factual) recently moved offices but stayed in Century City because we like the locale so much. But our employees are distributed all around LA and it is a relatively central location for them. Most drive but sever
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by jboggan 13y ago
This is why Santa Monica and Venice are much closer to the startup center of gravity than Los Angeles proper is. My parents have been visiting here (Santa Monica) for Christmas and it has been very easy to do everything without having a ca
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by jboggan 13y ago
They are, and if you flip one hardware switch inside you go into diagnostic mode and can print out the IP and all config information and trivially reconfigure without any sort of security or logging. The days of expensive dedicated lines a
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by jboggan 13y ago
Perl's my mother tongue (started in bioinformatics) but I've been doing a lot of Ruby at my current gig in LA. That being said, I miss Perl's syntax and autovivification. I did a hackathon project with Perl at work, and my
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by jboggan 13y ago
There are still so many ATMs running Windows XP. Not that the regional banks running them are actually patching them in the first place, but still.
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by jboggan 13y ago
This has happened in my experience before, and it is one of the strongest reasons for good source control that is infrequently considered. It was a tragedy when a very wonderful and dear researcher in our group died suddenly, especially to
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by jboggan 13y ago
The NCR/Diebold techs charge out at 200-300 an hour which regional banks cannot really afford. I was working for a 3rd party servicing company which existed only because of the duopoly's insanely high service rates. We were cont
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by jboggan 13y ago
I'd love for you to expound on this point. I'm curious, what are they doing?
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by jboggan 13y ago
Because it was probably cheaper that way. The manufacturers are passing the security buck to the banks themselves, and folks who work in banking IT/infrastructure don't generally know enough to understand what these machines do.
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by jboggan 13y ago
Most of the machines in service were older and running OS/2 which was an awesome system. Some major banks (BoA, Chase, WellsFargo, etc.) ran newer machines that had fancier features like check image recognition. Those meant a move to
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by jboggan 13y ago
The screenshot shows APTRA which means this is an NCR machine. I've commented on threads here before about how freaking vulnerable and buggy many of the NCR machines are, since they are essentially running Windows XP and are infrequen
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by jboggan 13y ago
I doubt the author has any comprehension of the errors involved in synthesis of a physical sequence from a text string, the mutations introduced into the sequence during the lifecycle of the organism, or the errors involved in sequencing th
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by jboggan 13y ago
There's no reason to assume that we are currently working with a single independent abiogenesis point on this planet, that is one plausible hypothesis among many and not one I particularly favor. I am particularly interested in biology
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by jboggan 13y ago
Is anyone else tired of hearing about the dangers of interplanetary contamination, particularly from the Earth to Mars? I want to see the whole place terraformed and I can't imagine that we'd be so successful in our lifetimes tha
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by jboggan 13y ago
Buy a cheap motorcycle and head in no particular direction.
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by jboggan 13y ago
Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Factual’s location platform enriches mobile location signals with definitive global data, enabling personalized and contextua
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by jboggan 13y ago
Well I took a phone call this morning on the beach while drinking some excellent Groundworks coffee . . . it was almost too hot in a t-shirt and jeans. Weather is niiiiiiice in Santa Monica. The tech scene is healthy and not frothy. Googl
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by jboggan 13y ago
Meanwhile Silicon Beach soldiers on and the weather is looking mighty fine this time of year . . .
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by jboggan 13y ago
No UPS for a lot of machines. I can't imagine the OS/2 getting an update simply because core ATM features haven't changed since the 80's. But it was still impressive uptime because ATMs are generally cantankerous creat
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by jboggan 13y ago
Up until March of last year a lot of ATMs in the US were still running OS/2 . . . I "upgraded" a lot of them to Windows XP. Yuck. When I would take the OS/2 system offline and replace it with a Windows cage the payment
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by jboggan 13y ago
I'm saving this to repost in 5 years. Ha. There is a lot of uncertainty in establishing a value relative to the dollar because the positive Senate hearings on Monday injected ebullient chaos into the market. Wherever the value tempor

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