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by jdcarter 11y ago
Well, best case scenario is that both of you are impartial. Sometimes the manager will actually have a sensible explanation for why something is the way it is. I do actually sympathize with the scenario you describe, I've been down
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by jdcarter 11y ago
Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware of Manager Tools before. Found the site, will take some of their podcasts for a spin!
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I've been on both sides of the 1-on-1; was a manager for a while, decided to go back to focusing on the technology. I've only observed the power dynamic you describe with managers who actually care about power over their subordina
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by jdcarter 11y ago
My company seems to think that Scrum stand-ups are a replacement for one-on-one meetings. They're very, very wrong. Coordinating work and keeping the project moving forward is one thing, but like Alex points out here, there's far
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by jdcarter 11y ago
Good reminder here that all publicly-visible services are part of your overall attack surface, including beta sites and other things you never expect people to look at. The DROWN vulnerability from last week was similar: people disabled S
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by jdcarter 11y ago
Wow, really impressive response from GitHub. The right amount of technical detail coupled with balanced tone--halfway between "we support you" and "you make us crazy." One correction to the post title: it's not maxi
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by jdcarter 11y ago
Every post on HN is, at most, six degrees of separation from a emacs vs. vim debate. In this case, it was a mere two.
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I was confused about this, too. I added an "electric bass" part to the auto-created "my first score" and didn't see a "tab" option. Browsed through the "support -> editor" page and didn't
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by jdcarter 11y ago
Harsh, yes, but I had the same experience. I scrolled around looking for some actual music, then left the site to check HN news comments. Thanks for the tip about the "popular" link, I had missed it. After checking out a couple sc
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I think it's entirely appropriate that the article just scratches the surface; as you say, going into all the crazy details just makes the topic scary to a newcomer. In college I met a guy that had co-authored Marathon, the first big h
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The Politics of the Internet of Things(techcrunch.com)
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by jdcarter 11y ago
FWIW, I did an install from source and it was totally painless--no dependencies to track down. ./configure, make, sudo make install and you're done.
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I've enjoyed playing the Steam version of this. Really good puzzles and even has a story line. Print out the manual for a proper old-school experience!
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by jdcarter 11y ago
So where do you go to discover non-Steam games? These days I only browse for new games on Steam, and I know I'm missing out on some great stuff, but I don't know where else to look.
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by jdcarter 11y ago
Another Rimworld player here. The parent post was complaining about knock-off survival-style games, and Rimworld assuredly isn't a knock-off. The developer, Tynan Sylvester, put a ton of thought into the game mechanics and created a si
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by jdcarter 11y ago
Problem with 802.11 isn't the radio layer, it's the security. Early 802.11 didn't do security right at all, then we had WEP and that got broken, then WPA, then WPA2... Example: I created wifi drivers for a handheld platform b
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by jdcarter 11y ago
> ...the presence of wifi and bluetooth stacks and cameras and microphones means that you are living with a long list of vulnerabilities... No, you just turn those off. I bought a TV recently and didn't have any option (for this par
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I saw a demo of BeOS at MacWorld (Jan 1996 I think) that blew my mind. The guy started a video playing. He started playing a 16-track audio arrangement. He opened a web browser and more. Flipping between apps, the video player never lagged,
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I type on Dvorak, so lots of "oeuieu" (clusters of vowels) in there. Midway through the gibberish I typed "this is a dvorak keyboard" just for grins.
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by jdcarter 12y ago
That's so funny in way, the noise of a coffee shop in your own private workspace! It's so weird that I might actually use it.
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by jdcarter 12y ago
I worked at General Magic, one of the mid-90's "super startups" in silicon valley, and this is very close to how our workspace was structured. While we had cubes, they mostly had high walls except for where the opened to a co
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by jdcarter 12y ago
This is a huge point I was hoping the article would address, but failed to. The war wasn't just a matter of location, it was a matter of stress (in a huge way) and a whole way of living (as a GI vs. civilian). If you're an alcohol
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by jdcarter 12y ago
Antarctica doesn't need zombies, it already has Aliens and Predators doing battle down there. A continent can only take so much! (Apologies to those who missed the first AvP movie.)
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by jdcarter 12y ago
Probably because of other services--not necessarily written in Go--which already use memcache. Don't fix things that aren't broken, right?
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by jdcarter 12y ago
In my case I frequently need to link to C libraries, so Java is a non-starter. (I realize many others have the opposite problem.) Go allows me to easily build wrappers for the libraries I need, then get to business. From there it's the
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by jdcarter 12y ago
Over-provisioning is normal in enterprise SSD. They use extra capacity for re-packing blocks (i.e. garbage-collecting partially erased blocks) and to account for blocks wearing out from use.
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by jdcarter 12y ago
I'd say "cynical" rather than "conservative." Most people here aren't against change, it's that we've all been burned by these things, time and time again.
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by jdcarter 12y ago
Also note how many raids are the result of a single informant. I was browsing raids in my area and most of them were from a single informant; in one case even an informant who had a known antagonistic relationship with the subject of the ra
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by jdcarter 12y ago
I was thinking that "no-knock" raids happened very little around my area (Denver) but this map proved me wrong. While not exactly commonplace, I found several instances of raids in/around Denver based on nothing but a single
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by jdcarter 13y ago
There are more than a few people who have done well in the professional world, only to discover that said "value" is a myth. Your value is intrinsic, it doesn't come from any job, any social status, or any amount of money. So

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