joshavant

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by joshavant 11y ago
Hi folks! I graduated from a moderately-ranked undergrad program with a 3.0 in Computer Engineering (the HW-centric flavor of CS), going on 6 years ago. After graduation, I wanted to get into the embedded field, but was discouraged by the e
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by joshavant 11y ago
I find these first-party interop libraries from Microsoft really interesting, in light of the fact that Oracle v. Google is still ongoing. Depending on how that case finally comes back, I'd expect that could really affect Microsoft&#x2
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by joshavant 11y ago
+1. I'm beginning to wonder if the ACTUAL policy Apple is trying enforce w.r.t. HTTPS is if you were to roll your own suite of encryption tools (i.e. as opposed to using the OS's TLS/SSL implementations). That would be far mo
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by joshavant 11y ago
Sleep deprivation is known to have fast-acting, acute antidepressant effects. This may have something to do with whatever sensation you're noticing.
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by joshavant 11y ago
By these numbers, does this mean Google makes somewhere on the order of $20/month/person from AdSense?
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by joshavant 11y ago
I've been wanting to setup a small distributed system like this as a project for a long time, but struggle to find something that would be useful to build (even to a small degree). Personally, I don't play Minecraft (and, thusly
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by joshavant 11y ago
It feels like this article contains a huge amount of bias. To sum it up in a sentence... of course 'founders' all want 'product programmers'! Ask only tenured, hands-on CTOs, and I bet that table would come out much diff
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by joshavant 11y ago
As a recent LA transplant from SF, I found it ironic that TWC offers such a fast, affordable internet service, yet SF - arguably the modern global hub of tech - struggles with slow, expensive internet, almost throughout. As a tech worker, t
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by joshavant 11y ago
This argument feels like 'legacy for legacy's sake'.
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by joshavant 11y ago
Cocoa and Foundation run nearly all Apple technologies and are pretty replete in their capabilities.
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by joshavant 11y ago
4 of the top 100 iOS apps are STILL using ASIHTTPRequest? ಠ_ಠ
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by joshavant 11y ago
Does anybody have a source for this? > A six year study of middle aged men showed that having more friends was the most powerful predictor of having a long life, more important than not smoking or getting exercise.
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by joshavant 11y ago
Absolutely!
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by joshavant 11y ago
Fortunately, the problem of having to share a single Storyboard file has been eliminated in the last month's Xcode 7 / iOS 9 release, with the addition of Storyboard References. Now, developers have a first-class solution to conne
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by joshavant 11y ago
I'm using this for a greenfields project and, while we haven't shipped yet, so far, I'm quite impressed by this framework. It's also one of the few (only?) moderately mature Swift-native binding frameworks available righ
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by joshavant 11y ago
One of my main tenants for living is to a.) always keep an active social circle of b.) people that I do non-tech things with. For my life, such goals provide a very positive counterbalance to the intense focus I give to my career and tech,
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by joshavant 11y ago
Honestly, the more I work with older developers, the more I realize how much of an asset they are. These developers have programming paradigms + design patterns down pat, after years of experience. Don't expect that with your 20-someth
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by joshavant 11y ago
I'm curious how this compares to existing companies that do this, like NewAer.
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by joshavant 11y ago
In the article, there's a link to a TSA Blog article that assures readers you don't need an ID to pass through security. And, at the bottom of that article, there's a link to another TSA site, which lists acceptable IDs (&#x2
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by joshavant 12y ago
This is one of the most realistic approaches to project management that I've ever heard of.
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by joshavant 12y ago
Without having looked at any wiring schematics for the iSight module... does anyone know if it's even possible to apply power to the iSight hardware module, without the LED becoming illuminated? I would presume the LED is wired directl
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NSA is monitoring key Internet routers (1996)(marc.info)
266 points by joshavant 12y ago|85 comments
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by joshavant 12y ago
Longtime user of your site! Thanks!
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by joshavant 12y ago
IME, the best way to get that is to work at a larger, more developed company that's remote-friendly. For example, I used to work for LivingSocial. They're based in DC, but have offices + developers around the country. I worked in
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by joshavant 12y ago
That's interesting, considering, for many years, I've seen this bus around San Francisco with 'jitney bus' literally printed on the side: http://images.nymag.com/travel/weekends/20090910sanfrans
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by joshavant 12y ago
IMO, you're missing the point. Is this laden with hyperbole? Perhaps. But 'how bad life REALLY is as a felon' is not so much the issue at hand, as it is the absurdity of pressing felony charges for what is, apparently, effect
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by joshavant 12y ago
Other people's examples! I frequently search Google for a class name and append 'site: github.com' in order to search all the source hosted on GitHub for examples on how others are using said class.
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by joshavant 12y ago
I got rejected by a random defense contractor, before getting a job offer from Apple. After a handful of years in the tech industry, I also begun to operate with the understanding that the tech hiring process is a bit of a cluster, industry
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by joshavant 12y ago
Literally everyone you know, both professional and personally. When staring in freelancing, at least initially, you will be casting a line out into the vast pool of the people you know, and desperately hoping someone has a need for your ser
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by joshavant 12y ago
Sorry, not an answer to your question, but I did think about this while reading the article, and these new findings do seem to make Richard Stallman's 'entirely free and open laptop' efforts seem not so crazy, after all.

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