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by jmbwell 4y ago
I hope this is a joke. This sort of corporate garbage language is a scourge. No need to be rude, no need to fill the space with pseudo-professional gibberish. Just speak plainly.
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by jmbwell 5y ago
In what situation would you want private relay on, but block traffic to Apple?
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by jmbwell 5y ago
Cat5 can be capable of multi-gigabit over runs less than a couple hundred feet. Don’t count yourself out yet.
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by jmbwell 5y ago
I think the point of the article is that this seems like it would be an easy problem to solve, but it is not. Lots of commenters insisting that they need to validate somehow. If you have a need to validate, use a good email validation libra
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by jmbwell 5y ago
It’s dark in that the entity who purchased and installed it is not yet using it. Telcos install big multi fiber bundles, then actually use only a few strands. The rest are dark, waiting for growth or expansion or to be used as backups. You
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by jmbwell 5y ago
Seems like whatever editor someone might use, they /also/ use BBEdit. Like it rises above editor wars.
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by jmbwell 5y ago
Indeed. In my most challenging and valuable CS classes, the ones I think about still to this day, the grades were practically irrelevant. We spent most of our time looking over our solutions, talking about why one person did it one way and
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by jmbwell 5y ago
> never get concrete feedback on whether you're meeting the goals you need to meet … but you do get concrete feedback. What more concrete, detailed, specific feedback could there be than comments on what's good and where you ne
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by jmbwell 5y ago
And to this day, the representation of memory contents at the time of a kernel panic is called a "core dump."
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by jmbwell 5y ago
Except that the peer you’re giving the silent treatment provides oil, gas, and metals to every part of the world that isn’t North America. Your point is taken, it’s not physically blowing someone up. But from the global perspective, isolati
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by jmbwell 5y ago
United Airlines has been posting jobs for internal application development for a while... --including at upper management levels.-- Just saying.
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by jmbwell 5y ago
"Web results" are. "Siri Suggested Websites" and "Siri Knowledge" are not — those are fed by Applebot. "Applebot is the web crawler for Apple. Products like Siri and Spotlight Suggestions use Applebot.&quo
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by jmbwell 5y ago
Apple is operating a search engine right under our noses, hiding behind Siri. Applebot is regularly crawling the web. They’re probably much further along toward a privacy-focused search product than any of us would know.
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by jmbwell 5y ago
He writes “don’t work” but he seems to mean “aren’t easy to monetize.” The protocols “work” just fine. It’s making money that seems to require centralization, even by his own examples. And if the making-money part doesn’t happen, the commer
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by jmbwell 5y ago
In Texas (dunno about elsewhere), Goodwill has "Computer Works" stores that take older equipment in working or mostly-working condition. They assemble systems from donated components and sell them for pretty good prices. Behind th
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by jmbwell 5y ago
For others who might be curious, here's how you break into the app dev market: 1. Dev an app.* 2. Market it. * abbreviated for clarity
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by jmbwell 5y ago
Does this describe actual entrepreneurship, or does it describe working for a number of platforms instead of working for a single employer? It seems to me the platform is the entrepreneur, not the person logging into the app to try to hustl
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by jmbwell 5y ago
Indeed, the book scanning project at Google at one point involved removing the spine of a book with a bandsaw, then scanning the loose pages. For fun, they collected the sawed-off spines and glued them to boards fashioned to look like bookc
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by jmbwell 5y ago
The open platform didn't implode. The open platform was forked and kept alive. The remaining platform was then made proprietary and then destroyed. The point of being 'open' isn't to prevent implosions, but to facilitate
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by jmbwell 8y ago
"Boolean butch; // don't call pete drag handlers in PantyTrack" Always assume that one day, the world will see your code.
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by jmbwell 9y ago
Business choices, perhaps, aimed at reducing costs by reducing editors and moving more responsibility to reporters. See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/business/media/new-york-t...
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by jmbwell 10y ago
Perhaps it should be noted that Criteo can send the email on the behalf of Sears, without necessarily giving Sears your email address? Small distinction, maybe, but more squarely within the terms and conditions.
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by jmbwell 10y ago
There is a lot to be said for systems that do their jobs despite their age, and which have been validated and refined over the course of decades. In many ways, I'd rather maintain an old, well tested system than a modern system with wi
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by jmbwell 11y ago
I read this less as the company trying to control your 20% time, and more as the company making your 20% a first-class citizen among its other projects, by using the same resources and processes.
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by jmbwell 11y ago
Applicants for funding should demonstrate an ability to read and follow simple instructions.
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by jmbwell 12y ago
Tl;dr: SSL/TLS downgrade attack forces browsers to the RSA_EXPORT cipher, then MITM attack compromises the session. There is more and better info at https://freakattack.com
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by jmbwell 12y ago
Everything that matters about vdev size and configuration is explained here, complete with charts that indicate the actual overhead of different arrangements: http://blog.delphix.com/matt/2014/06/06/zfs-s
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by jmbwell 12y ago
What is your exit strategy? What will your buyer value? What is best for your product? What do your engineers understand?