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by johngalt 14y ago
I've been using Bitnami VMs for years. Surprised to see them in a 'new startup' batch.
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by johngalt 14y ago
My question was posed more to highlight that we only see men as aggressors and women only as victims. If the situation was reversed there would be outrage at the man . It's frustrating to see people justify that context though. I.E.'of cou
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by johngalt 14y ago
Does history allow women to be given 20% more latitude than a man? 50%? Is there any harassing behavior that would be unacceptable coming from a woman? How much worse would it have to be?
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by johngalt 14y ago
What other kind of behaviors would you find unacceptable for a man but not a woman? Do you consider yourself a sexist?
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by johngalt 14y ago
My guess is this: Male picture taker is excoriated for invading her privacy, and the posting the picture was 'intimidation'. She would have lost her job due to his 'abuse'.
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by johngalt 14y ago
Time for the bigotry test: Lets reverse the genders. It's a woman making the sexualized comments to a friend, and a male attendee eavesdrops. Then he takes a picture her without her consent. Immediately posts said picture online. She loses
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by johngalt 14y ago
If you're interested in alternative keyboards, take a look at GKOS. It's a thumb based chorded keyboard. http://gkos.com/gkos/index-gkos-com.html
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by johngalt 14y ago
A ring bufferred dumpcap is a huge time saver. Narrows the scope of troubleshooting quickly and reliably. Start with looking at what actually happened on the wire for X problem. Then use the rest of the tools/logs etc... to determine why it
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by johngalt 14y ago
How about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(listening_device) Powered by an external radio beam. Transmits by modifying that same beam and reflecting it back. No internal power source. No active transmission. Weighs 1.1 ounce and
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by johngalt 14y ago
Of course. Metropolis DLC Underground DLC
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Yes Dungeon Defenders is the headliner of this pack. Very interesting game: third person shooter, team based, tower defense.
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by johngalt 14y ago
You could spend all day arguing about where you will learn more, but what you really gain is perspective. Even if you decide that you never want to run a business again you'll be a more effective employee. Without that perspective you'll pr
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by johngalt 14y ago
Is that dropbox@domain.com email listed on any of your phone contacts? Ever had a virus on a machine that has sent or received an email from that account? How many people know that account exists? Only one of them needs to have a careless a
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by johngalt 14y ago
From a sysadmin: Redundancy = Reduce the number of component failures that can lead to system failure (RAID, live replication, hot standby). Backup = Recover from an obvious failure or overwite (Weekly full backups, daily differentials). Ar
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by johngalt 14y ago
"How I was setup to fail." Who asks junior engineer to develop directly on live systems with write access and no backup? Are you kidding me? Edit: No one ever builds a business thinking about this stuff, until something like this happens. T
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by johngalt 14y ago
facepalm I was writing the comment and originally had another 10 in there. 10 classes a month, along with some more with prep times and comparing it to other jobs. Pared it down before I posted to try and make it more approachable. I woul
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by johngalt 14y ago
What I did at that age: computer training classes. Your friends are already familiar with a classroom setting, and probably have something they could teach to people who aren't computer/smartphone/tablet savvy. Think 'Intro to smartphones'
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by johngalt 14y ago
How to fight feelings of impostor syndrome: 1. Look back rather than forward. Consider where you were even just 2-3 years ago. How much more you know now about X,Y,Z. The next goal will always stretch out in front of you. When looking forwa
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by johngalt 14y ago
Make the best case you can for adopting course of action X to solve potential problem Y. Then step back and let the person in charge make the decision. My rule of thumb is two 'No' answers. It goes like this: Present affirmative reasons why
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by johngalt 14y ago
I agree completely. The VA is a excellent example of a national healthcare system. Talking to veterans who've spent time in the VA, and visiting VA hospitals are a surefire way of convincing people what side to be on for the NHS debate.
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by johngalt 14y ago
When I hear a comparison made in that manner my fraud antenna goes up. 'Higher radiation doses than those living near nuclear power plants!' Is the sort of breathless thing you can say without considering that people living near nuclear pow
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by johngalt 14y ago
'Idea guys' are common, and almost universally not worth dealing with. If idea guys provided value, why are all the job postings for developers? Why isn't Microsoft trying to H1-B idea guys from India? This is not to say all non-tech peop
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by johngalt 14y ago
The jobs being done today perhaps. In practice you see that as automation increases, it just makes the surface area of the market larger. It's hard to see this going forward, but easy to see if you play technology in reverse. Lets play it
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by johngalt 14y ago
Ouch, the worst of HN? HN should pay attention to the narrative given to the tech community. Specially when it is routinely co-opted by people seeking to make some kind of point about economic inequality or gender. I identified this article
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by johngalt 14y ago
Get ready to have the same old arguments about Marxism. Only instead of 'means of production' it will be 'means of technology'. The article isn't looking for truth its looking to push an agenda about class with technology as a proxy. Techno
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by johngalt 14y ago
Density and Time. Density: A meteor's energy release could be described as a long narrow cone. An atom bomb would in a dense sphere/hemisphere. To make it comparable you'd have to get the meteor to expend all it's kinetic energy in one spot
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by johngalt 14y ago
Measuring the total energy release of a meteor vs a nuclear weapon yield is not an apples to apples comparison. Not when measuring destructive force.
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by johngalt 14y ago
Here's a justification for private property. How will there ever be an orchard otherwise ? Orchards don't just burst spontaneously into existence. Imagine that no one 'fought the natives for it'. Instead the land was a vacant waste with no
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by johngalt 14y ago
I've already seen that site, only it was at a different URL. http://www.CaliforniaAndNewYorkShouldRuleTheWorld.org/
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by johngalt 14y ago
Teacher: "Measuring results is the reason we are recording poor results."

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