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by jmccree 13y ago
The constitution also says "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", but try walking down a street in DC bearing arms. It seems the current federal view is that the constitution is a document to be wo
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by jmccree 13y ago
I can only speak for the Atlanta protest, but it was just sad. Your regular ATL assortment of Occupy types, militia looking folks open carrying guns in tactical vests, copwatch groups, guy fawkes mask wearers, random college age people, and
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by jmccree 13y ago
I'm curious how much mail also gets lost due to being delivered to the wrong mailbox. I average at least one mail per month that is not addressed to me in my mailbox.
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by jmccree 13y ago
Wow, your post brought back such great memories of my first trip to Amsterdam. Visiting the Van Gogh museum, walking through the red light district, having savory pancakes at a famous place... while all fun, are not the experiences I rememb
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by jmccree 13y ago
If you have to do "extra work to involve remote people" you don't have a distributed team. Adding remote members to an on-site team that works like an on-site team seems unworkable in my opinion. You can have remote developer
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by jmccree 14y ago
If by government they mean civilian government/law enforcement, and excluding military, then that's a very valid line of reasoning. Other than machine guns manufactured after 1986, which ban is likely unconstitutional(1), on a federal level
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by jmccree 14y ago
One word: paparazzi. They've rented helicopters to get pictures of weddings. Cheap and easy drones? They'll be hovering over every starlet's swimming pool attempting to get bikini pics. Private graveyard service? No worries, 10 drones hover
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by jmccree 14y ago
The problem is, a remote worker can only work well on a team with a remote workflow. Teams with remote workflows don't care whether someone works on-site or off-site, and can accept on-site and remote wokers equally. Teams with on-site work
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by jmccree 14y ago
I can't tell whether this is satire or not.
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by jmccree 14y ago
If you split AT&T land lines up, how would they be competing with each other? They'd just be 1,000 separate local monopolies. There is no monopoly on internet access at a national level. Go to any carrier hotel in the nearest major city
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by jmccree 14y ago
So any service this works for (sans the manually integrated ones with service knowledge) should be highly suspect for security practices, as they are doing nothing to prevent session hijacking. You're basically offering Session Hijacking as
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by jmccree 14y ago
I've yet to see research that compares a modern distributed workflow with github/trac/unfuddle, IRC/campfire, IM, Skype, etc. compared to on site. Some of the remote developer studies are hilariously out dated. Maybe there's a generation ga
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by jmccree 14y ago
I can't help but think flickr (pro member here) missed the "social boat". Yahoo acquired them for $35 million. Instagram was $1 billion. If they had jumped onto sharing photos on twitter/facebook at the right time, facebook might not have e
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by jmccree 14y ago
I've worked on a lot of distributed teams. For an actual team (not just subcontractors) every place has had some level of "office hours". Normally a ~4+ hour block every day that you are expected to be "in office" and available for calls/ch
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by jmccree 14y ago
Are you a repo person and my car loan invalidated? Did I steal my car from someone else? Was a car matching my car's description involved in a crime nearby that a judge ordered a warrant for a black ford F150 with a "geeks rule" bumper stic
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by jmccree 14y ago
Except the people don't elect the president, the states do, as it should be IMHO. So as I see it the goal is for each state to cast it's electoral votes for that which represents it's population's desire the most accurately. The current fir
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by jmccree 14y ago
I don't see any population based formula ever working to re-draw the state borders, because it lacks representation by those being "re-stated". You'll inevitably get rural areas being added as population filler around the smaller cities in
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by jmccree 14y ago
Because the United States was created as a union of formerly independent self governing states (Of varying levels between colony and full nation state). Think of a stronger form of the European Union. This is referred to as the Federal Gove
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by jmccree 14y ago
Though a lot of people do not believe it, they declassified Project Mogul which seems to explain it.
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by jmccree 14y ago
At least where I'm from in the US, un-flavored/sweetened carbonated water is a bit uncommon and more expensive. It was a shock to me the first time I visited Europe and was served "fizzy water" when I asked for water. Unless you explicitly
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by jmccree 14y ago
The CO2 canisters are refilled/exchanged and not disposable. It certainly passes the smell test to me and they have a ton of info on their carbon footprint on the website. For me, I love the convenience of not having to go buy bottles of so
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by jmccree 14y ago
The whole "being green" thing has contributed a lot to their recent success. Also their flavors (afaik) use actual sugar instead of HFCS and diet flavors have no aspartame. I use mine just to make soda water and love it.
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by jmccree 14y ago
I've always worked remotely. The lifeblood of every company I've worked at or know that has remote team members is chat. IRC in my experience, though I hear google hangouts are becoming popular now too. When people "get to work", they say H
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by jmccree 14y ago
I suspect trackpad vs trackpoint is one of those whichever you get used to first things. I use a USB thinkpad keyboard for my desk and have multiple times went hours before noticing my mouse was not plugged in. It somehow psychologically ma
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by jmccree 14y ago
I actually didn't mind OSX too much, but the using my work provided MBP was an experience in frustration. The usability was horrible compared to my thinkpad, and I ended up leaving it docked as a desktop mostly. Every corner of the MBP is r
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by jmccree 14y ago
I had one multi-az failover correctly, however the security group was refusing connections to the web servers ec2 security group. I had to manually add in the private ips of the ec2 instances. It appears the API issue is affecting security
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by jmccree 14y ago
Living in Atlanta, I wouldn't think to compare our current crime state to anywhere near Detroit or St. Louis, but this post made me curious how we actually compare. A quick check of homicide and rape stats show both cities at twice or more
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by jmccree 14y ago
I wonder how much of their 2-day is actually sent 2-day? Several times I've hit the $4 for overnight and it still came ups ground. I'd imagine at least half of the products ordered are within 2 day ups ground from an amazon warehouse.
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by jmccree 14y ago
I'm not sure how number 2 actually helps with security. If the hashing method is deemed insecure enough to stop using, would you not want to update all your users passwords stored in db to using a newer method? One method of doing so withou
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by jmccree 15y ago
I can't second this enough. I've held the job title "DevOps Engineer" twice, and the #1 thing is having enough of a background of all areas to pickup any part of the stack and run with it. If you want to hire devops, the best interview ques

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