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by jcurbo 10y ago
It is surprising to people outside the DoD, but most applications are exceedingly mundane - I would lump a lot of them under "database frontends," like personnel, finance, and logistics systems. One problem there is that, in many
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by jcurbo 10y ago
As discussed elsewhere in this thread, acceptance of open source is very much an agency-by-agency deal within the DoD. IC orgs have pretty wide latitude to do what they want and NSA even more than others because of the primacy of their mis
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by jcurbo 10y ago
For some reason the AF seems to have draconian web filtering in place, compared to other places I have experience with. In the late 2000's when I was still on active duty, we used to complain about having to look stuff up at home beca
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by jcurbo 10y ago
Thanks for posting here, I was explicitly looking to see if anyone mentioned Fastmail after I saw it on that Github list. You might want to post something on your site if you haven't already, kinda like 1password did.
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by jcurbo 10y ago
Had the same thought. The article mentions the 1815 but I have a 1515 which apparently has a C2538, which is one of the models listed. (Synology 1515 specs: https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1515+#spec )
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by jcurbo 10y ago
That just happened to me too (just accepted an offer for a new job). When they asked I politely told them I would not share that info, but I would tell them what range I'm looking for. It worked out fine.
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by jcurbo 10y ago
Thanks, much appreciated.
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by jcurbo 10y ago
Can we get a quick review? It looks really interesting but looking around the net I can't find many people talking about it. Does it wobble any? What joystick are you using on it? What kind of chair do you use with it? (Warthog + Ob
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by jcurbo 10y ago
So, I see tons of unwrap() in Rust code I've looked at in the wild. I understand the concept of unwrap() and Option types. What would this type of code look like with proper error handling? It seems like it'd devolve into a ton
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by jcurbo 10y ago
I didn't go look but that was going to be my guess. Since Debian is volunteer-ran, each architecture needs people to manage it, as well as having adequate hardware to test/build on.
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by jcurbo 10y ago
As someone just getting into music theory the interactivity is extremely nice. The visualizations and sound just click for me.
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20 CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team(nobi.com)
4 points by jcurbo 10y ago|2 comments
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by jcurbo 10y ago
As long as they don't change their format I'm ok with this. They seem to go to a great deal of trouble to discuss all the possible options, and criteria they used to write their recommendations. That allows me to judge for mysel
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by jcurbo 10y ago
As someone self-teaching themselves piano, this is really fantastic. I already play drums but have no notion of what notes are what on a staff and piano keys and have been slowly teaching myself. The MIDI keyboard support really makes thi
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by jcurbo 10y ago
I was an officer, but went to Officer Training School (OTS) which is a 12-week boot camp kind of approach, and I came to post similar thoughts. My dad was in the AF so I knew there was some level of BS to deal with, and just put up with it
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by jcurbo 10y ago
All true. The Post-9/11 GI Bill was a large driver of this - if you've done your time, it's basically free schooling and all you have to do is sign up. The govt sends the tuition money directly to the school, you just have
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by jcurbo 10y ago
Still alive and kicking it seems. http://www.dreamwizards.com/
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by jcurbo 10y ago
On my Windows Slack client, it says "Message #general". Same when I log into Slack via Firefox.
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by jcurbo 10y ago
I haven't found one, but I suspect the IASE page is only over HTTP for legacy reasons, as there are lots of things that download stuff automatically from DISA. I could be wrong though, and I agree that it should be served over HTTPS.
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by jcurbo 10y ago
MilitaryCAC is not an official source, it's about using CACs on personally-owned computers.
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The Power of Company Mottoes(mondaynote.com)
47 points by jcurbo 10y ago|16 comments
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by jcurbo 10y ago
This extends to more than just planets, too. The University of Maryland Observatory runs a summer program for amateur astronomers that I signed up for this year, and we're learning how to do exoplanet transit detection. There are dat
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by jcurbo 10y ago
I find it interesting that you still thought of RS as a choice. Has there been a RS you could go to for components or soldering stuff any time recently? I haven't seen one that wasn't more than just an electronics store like Bes
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by jcurbo 10y ago
I feel like emacs is the same way. All the talk of buffers, kill rings, yanking, etc always threw me off. I'm used to it now but I feel that audiences that are used to Windows/Mac style 'normal' text editors probably b
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by jcurbo 10y ago
In my experience, insurance people & cops have used "collision". "Crash" sounds too hyperbolic to me and "accident" implies (to insurance people anyway, I suppose) that no one was at fault, which is not al
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by jcurbo 10y ago
If I can't get a podcast into Overcast (because there's no RSS feed or whatever) there's a pretty good chance I'm not going to bother. I have limited time to listen to stuff, plenty of things on my plate, and unless it&
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The Future of Podcasting(stratechery.com)
148 points by jcurbo 10y ago|109 comments
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by jcurbo 10y ago
As a pretty heavy RSS user, I too miss Google Reader, but what I really miss is Bloglines. They had a very fast, responsive UI that I really liked. I always felt GR was clunky and slow compared to it. After GR shut down I bounced around w
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by jcurbo 11y ago
That's good to hear, I hope it is as streamlined as Discord because it really just works there. It's also free in Discord (although I don't know what their business plan is) and according to that page it'll be part of
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by jcurbo 11y ago
I use Discord for gaming (which seems to be their main market?) and it is amazing how nice it is. I wonder if Slack could just buy them and integrate the voice features into Slack, or introduce their own similar functionality. The voice s

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