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by joncp 10y ago
Don't forget that HTTPS everywhere is not just about privacy.
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by joncp 10y ago
If you're in the Visual Studio ecosystem, I enthusiasically recommend ViEmu. It let's you learn the vi keystrokes a little bit at a time, all the while being able to fall back to the VS keys when you don't know how to do some
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by joncp 10y ago
I still have mine in the closet. I learned to code in TI BASIC on that beautiful machine. I've kept it for 35 years because it's the biggest single influence from my childhood on who I am today. I should pull it out and relive som
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by joncp 10y ago
This has been coming for a long time. First, AT&T spun off their less profitable stuff into Lucent, and then Lucent spun off their dog investments into Avaya. It's all part of the plan.
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by joncp 10y ago
Came here to say this. Does anyone know whether there's an effort to port this to a sane wiki system?
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by joncp 10y ago
That's almost certainly Amazon's endgame.
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by joncp 10y ago
> It seemed to work quiet well That's the most perfect typo I've seen in a while.
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by joncp 10y ago
This seems like an excellent interviewing technique if you invert the results. If someone actually lets you install spyware on their machine, they fail. If they raise no concerns about access to reference materials, they fail. The ones that
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by joncp 10y ago
Ironic, since so much of Amazon's infrastructure runs on Linux.
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by joncp 10y ago
Clearly, this is what they did when they found a spider of sufficient size in their hut.
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by joncp 10y ago
Interesting point, which reminds me of one theory about why Silicon Valley took off: it was thousands of miles from the meddling money people on the East Coast, back when those miles mattered.
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by joncp 10y ago
This is Amazon, which is known to be one of the least ethical dev shops around. I'm terribly unsurprised by this.
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by joncp 10y ago
It's Microsoft's habit. Even Outlook for Mac requires admin access (which scares the crap out of me).
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by joncp 10y ago
The original comment above contained no dilemma. There was no choice between saving the mother and the foetus. The mother was already dead. Stand down; you're batting at a straw man.
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by joncp 10y ago
I would say, ...or you've let the child die with her.
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by joncp 10y ago
When a headline follows the format /change(d|ing) .* forever$/. I figure it's fluff and not worth my time. Am I wrong?
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by joncp 10y ago
Why? Is it really that hard to just learn the command line tools?
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by joncp 10y ago
Uh, this isn't the direction I was expecting this to go. When you start killing judges, corrupt or not, you have Mexico. I was thinking more along the lines of being disbarred and exposed to civil and criminal liability. Gag orders sho
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by joncp 10y ago
So, when is it going to be considered misconduct for Dana Boente and the (not so) honorable Theresa Buchanan to tack on gag orders for no good reason? How do we change that? Calling our representatives in Congress won't help. Signing p
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by joncp 10y ago
One reason I like git so much is that right there. The author is interested in reasoning about what branch certain changes came from, but I have to wonder why. Once changes are squashed and ff-merged, it's pretty clear where they came
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by joncp 10y ago
> Facebook is for the pleasure and benefit of the whole world I wish that were true, but Facebook is actually for selling the world's eyeballs to advertisers.
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by joncp 10y ago
...cool boat. Poor website. Why, oh why, do designers insist on interfering with the simple act of scrolling through their website? Don't mess with my scroll speed. Ever.
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by joncp 10y ago
When a headline is a question the answer is almost always no. This is no exception.
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by joncp 10y ago
That article doesn't mention leasing, but that seems like a reasonable compromise. If you, as a manufacturer, are hell-bent on locking down your firmware and parts supply, then you have to stop pretending that you're selling anyth
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by joncp 10y ago
Please please please don't come to Seattle.
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by joncp 10y ago
Well, it's pretty standard knowledge that Google's hiring process is a capricious shambles. Give it a third try and you might get in. Not sure about Amazon's hiring process but from what I hear, you're better off not wor
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by joncp 10y ago
I dunno, he meanders through the story in a very long-winded way, including bunches of stuff that doesn't actually move the narrative forward. A good editor could have helped him cut maybe a third out of that without losing anything o
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by joncp 10y ago
In the clips the modulated female ended up sounding like an effeminate man, which raises a whole other set of questions about bias.
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by joncp 10y ago
Harris has very very high turnover. I believe that people get hired not knowing what they're getting into. It takes a while to figure out that not all is as it should be.
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by joncp 10y ago
I wish I had a route to a local Wegmans, congested or not.

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