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by jonesb6 11y ago
I think it depends on how hard your software pushes the hardware. If complex configuration / maintenance is needed then the likelihood of a human-error bringing the system down is much higher. Service disruptions can have costs much hi
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Agreed, who doesn't bring there laptop/phone chargers anywhere where the intend to have even medium usage (airport, car trip, study session , etc).
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Redwood City to San Francisco via Cal Train. Usually couldn't catch an express train in the hours/days meetups were typically held, plus walking a few blocks. And yea, outside of the Bay Area / My college town I don't ha
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I first joined meetup when I dropped out of school and the biggest challenge I ran into was the accessibility of events. Even in the Bay Area where public transportation is decent, and the frequency of tech meetups high, I found myself slug
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Wait wait wait wait. You're saying project managers (which can be superimposed to middle management in general really) are innately better at understanding users then the average developer? Edit: Ok you said product managers. Which I s
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I remember when a colleague first showed me BEM and I was really excited. Then came a deadline and any chance of optimizing our styles flew out the window. Complicated further by the fact that we have no designer on the team. I don't k
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Can we stop falling into the long-standing [1] tradition of acting like this is all the fault of a particular generation. It stems from a multitude of things, like a political climate that caters to the vocal minority, the PC movement that
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Bottom line is to put yourself out there. It's a small statement with a broad meaning. You'll find yourself thinking at the end of the night "That was a good call going out rather then staying at home" more often then no
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I wonder how many of the people who "downvoted" this comment used a device with an Intel chip. In reality many of us only care because it is fashionable to do so.
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Couple points your comment made me think of, In some cases bad documentation can be worse then no documentation at all. If you find yourself here, improve your app and your documentation. In some cases too much documentation can be a hindra
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+1 for LetsEncrypt. Really great, and if your using DO their is already a tutorial for it. Completely free SSL Certificate. 'Nuff said.
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I won't play oracle here. But I would like to point out that there are a number of skill sets you yourself can develop over the next year to make you more resilient to hiring trends (and depressions). Networking. Sales. Domain knowledg
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Learning a single tool is a small value proposition to an employer. Showing an employer that you can learn a tool quickly and effectively is a large value proposition. Either one would do that. Pick the one you enjoy most.
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With cash I can buy happiness, if I get a Facebook Like, Twitter follow, snapchat view, I feel happy, therefore Social media validation is like cash.
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I'm in the same place, but there are a lot of people who aren't. I think the gym is incredibly intimidating to the uninitiated. Probably best to start with pushups / situps at home, cardio at your local park at a deserted hou
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I'd counter that even though 3x5 leads to faster progression, in beginners it will lead to poor form. I don't think beginners should be pushing a high squat number if they don't squat properly. This goes double for more &quot
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I'd also consider a poorly written and documented 30k LOC to be a "large" codebase, and it would probably take multiple people to wrestle with it.
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Better still people wishing to make a name for themselves could just peruse the deprecated/abandoned repositories, fix them up, and maintain them. Viola, you now have a great resume item and likely learned a large number of useful skil
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Sure most of us disagree with what "fucking_tragedy" is saying, he doesn't offer evidence, and it stems from a weak line of reasoning. But we shouldn't bury it just because we disagree with it. Even though I side with en
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Also consider these two personal observations: 1) The increase in college enrollment has exceeded the capacity of many in-state schools (a.k.a. the more affordable ones) and influenced many 18-year olds to enroll in out-of-state schools (a.
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"I created a horse-racing simulation game in Applesoft BASIC in Manhattan Beach Middle School’s computer classroom and ran a small gambling operation." Great story about a successful business that gained tremendous value based on
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A word of advice on passport. Don't just throw it in there and not learn anything about it. It's a really crafty middleware/library that is intended to be customized/extended. If you write your own strategies (after look
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If we make enough back doors the hackers won't know which door to take! They'll be trapped by indecision!
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I... really need this.
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Edit: What I really meant.. Poor choice of words on my part. Take it in this context: "Person X doesn't have a stomach for hard engineering problem Y". "Doesn't have the stomach for" now can be interpreted as a
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I for one think Steve Ballmer is a beautiful man and his speech at the Microsoft Developers Conference a few years back was better then any Steve Jobs ever gave.
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My understanding is that Facebook also had a MASSIVE amount of PHP code written. They then ported the performance bits to C++ and then realized they still had a huge amount invested in PHP, such that it wasn't worth it to switch off it
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The 4chan example was the mass shooting at a community college in Oregon. Personally I find a connection between how many people see computing as a black box, and the criminals who insist on posting there deeds to social media and elsewhere
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I would also point out that there is a danger in perceived complacency (a.k.a. honeypots). Here's a metaphor of sorts: An MMORPG has a large number of "bots" which farm valuable items and in game experience. Player A bots and
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As always I think the answer is in the middle. You can't have a piece of software that defaults to insecure and expect everyone to have the common sense and skill to secure it. You rarely can release a piece of software with hard secur

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