jdludlow

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by jdludlow 15y ago
I asked if it is a network if it is built on top of another network. I think in that case, the answer is no. Ironic that the network he's talking about is built on top of the TCP/IP stack. I guess the point of the article is to argue abou
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by jdludlow 15y ago
It isn't easy, but it pays off. I slept on my floor for 2 years after I got a job as an engineer at IBM. The overall point is this. If you say that you're poor, but you have a cable connection, TV, cell phone, data plan, multiple cars on
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by jdludlow 15y ago
I was talking about private insurance, not COBRA (which is crazy expensive). This was the single largest factor keeping me from quitting the corporate world for my own business, but only due to my own ignorance. Once I looked for a high ded
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by jdludlow 15y ago
Amen. The trait of rich people that I try to emulate (not always successfully) is that they tend to purchase assets that appreciate in value. Toys are paid for with highly disposable money and not the nest egg. The trait of poor people that
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by jdludlow 15y ago
As someone from South America, I'm amazed that in the U.S. you're out of health coverage if you're not employed. You're not. The tax structure encourages this kind of behavior, but the day I quit my job 5 years ago I started cutting a che
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by jdludlow 15y ago
Each fingerprint listed on my audit page was exactly what I expected it to be.
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by jdludlow 15y ago
I love my MBP, as it seems clearly designed to get some work done with minimal hassle. Apple's desktop choices are very frustrating. I only buy Mini's as a computer to attach to the TV. It's great for a little, quiet computer that I don't h
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by jdludlow 15y ago
It's mainly the inertia of not knowing where to begin. It's good to know that the process is easier now though. At the risk of descending into total newbie-land, when you say "do some research" where do you start with that? Has the state of
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by jdludlow 15y ago
== The article itself I wish that it went into more detail on the hardware choices that he used. I'm constantly toying with the idea of building a Linux box for dev work, but then get lost in the morass of hardware options. The high level d
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by jdludlow 15y ago
The site is down, but I'll take a stab at it anyway. Not owning a TV doesn't make you an asshole. Making sure that everyone else knows you don't own a TV is what makes you an asshole.
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by jdludlow 15y ago
Plus, no vim? Seriously?
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by jdludlow 15y ago
I generally loathe recruiters, but I do feel a bit sorry for them. They are up against the real recruiters in this field: other software developers. The pattern that I've seen over and over is: * Good developer #1 starts a project. * Hey, t
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by jdludlow 15y ago
Is there a height at which "bouldering" becomes "rock climbing"? It's probably defined in the insurance contract somewhere.
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by jdludlow 15y ago
You mean that you deleted it with dd ? Can you show a before and after of what you're trying to accomplish, because it's very likely possible. I'm just not sure what you're trying to do.
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by jdludlow 15y ago
45G does the same thing as :45 , so the people using gg and G can also remain consistent with their muscle memory.
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by jdludlow 15y ago
I'm sure that you're right, but then the vast majority of people are easily swayed by cheap political rhetoric. If they're playing by the same rules, which it appears that they are, then what's the problem? It's not like he hasn't already p
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by jdludlow 15y ago
Can we please knock off the nonsense of this "Buffett secretary" talking point? Debbie Bosanke is estimated to make north of $200k per year, while Buffet is paying capital gains rates. Of course her rate is higher.
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by jdludlow 15y ago
Heh, wow. I read the article and managed to miss that sentence completely. Thank you for pointing it out.
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by jdludlow 15y ago
People are getting rid of bookshelves. Treat the money you budgeted for shelving as found money. Go to garage sales and cruise the curbs. I found this amusing as the first bullet point, since it pretty much screams, "Don't open a bookst
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by jdludlow 15y ago
This article says absolutely nothing. OK, there's a new Basecamp coming. Some people are going to complain when they see it, some people are going to love it. Can we see some details? Maybe a screen shot. A green field "version 2" isn't exa
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by jdludlow 15y ago
I could definitely get used to that. Did you remap that in vim itself, or from your operating system?
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by jdludlow 15y ago
Remap caps-lock to escape Ugh, why? Remapping caps-lock to Ctrl makes more sense to me. The Escape key is still in the upper-left, and banging somewhere in that vicinity usually hits it. Also Ctrl-C equals Escape in vim, so you still have
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by jdludlow 15y ago
The answer is in their documentation. We generate a new 2048-bit RSA public/private key pair when our client is installed, store the public key on the local disk and transmit the private key to our datacenter via https. Then, for each back
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by jdludlow 15y ago
Also on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3471726
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by jdludlow 15y ago
Yes, this is what I meant. Sorry if my original post came off too strongly. I didn't mean "haha you screwed up." We've all screwed up. It was more a commentary on how no other devs, unit tests, or human testers caught this before it went li
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by jdludlow 15y ago
A brand new Basecamp developer is allowed to push a change like "disable HTML support" directly into production, without anyone pointing out that it might be a bad idea? Seriously?
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by jdludlow 15y ago
the directions said to code as you would professionally I'm curious to know if anyone wrote test cases for their code. I didn't see any here, but maybe they are in a separate file or weren't allowed to be submitted to the study.
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by jdludlow 15y ago
(I'm not a desktop app developer, so maybe I'm way off base here.) There's the obvious observer problem where you have two views of the same buffer and changing the text in one automatically updates the other. Isn't that harder to tack on l
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by jdludlow 15y ago
“When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning.” -- Reiner Knizia (He's a well known German board game designer and mathematician. I like the quote, because it applies to more than just gam
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by jdludlow 15y ago
"You can't drop off the grid. Ten years from now, it will be virtually impossible to drive a car that doesn't have an electronic signature," said Neil. My sawzall and soldering iron beg to differ. In Minnesota, we waste hundreds of millio

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