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Why We Chose to Write Important Code in F#(jobtraq.com)
3 points by joshyeager 11y ago|1 comments
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by joshyeager 11y ago
In that example, Sandberg tried a tactful approach twice before being blunt. If she had stopped giving the guidance because Scott didn't understand the tactful suggestions, Scott would not have learned from that scenario and may have b
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by joshyeager 11y ago
Vista was a major security redesign, not just bug fixes. UAC was one of the biggest security improvements in the OS, because it meant that users were no longer running as admin by default.
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by joshyeager 11y ago
I actually tried that for a contract project about 10 years ago. It didn't work. If you blink slower than 20 times per second it's really annoying to the user. And if you blink faster than 10 times per second it's pretty easy
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How Let’s Encrypt Is Making the Web More Secure(jobtraq.com)
2 points by joshyeager 11y ago|0 comments
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by joshyeager 11y ago
I live and work in a suburb of a small city with fairly rural areas around it. I have fun driving at least half of my car trips.
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by joshyeager 11y ago
Quicken can download transactions from every bank I've used. From what I can tell, it uses the same APIs that Mint does. But the data is never stored anywhere but my home server.
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by joshyeager 11y ago
High-bandwidth communication channels are more effective for building relationships. It is much more difficult to build relationships when you don't have face-to-face interaction. Lack of good relationships with the people you work wit
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by joshyeager 11y ago
Swift Systems - Ellicott City, MD - Systems Engineer II - http://www.swiftsystems.com/careers/systems-engineer-ii-fred... Swift Systems is a full-service IT engineering and services firm focused on the delivery of mana
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by joshyeager 11y ago
Synology is great. I have a DS-215j, and it handles everything I need much more smoothly than my old NAS. And since their OS is shared across their whole product line, you get access to all the enterprise-level features of their big units,
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by joshyeager 11y ago
Oh, yeah. I definitely agree with that.
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by joshyeager 11y ago
I love suburbia. Living in a city is stressful and crowded. I'd like to live in a rural environment, but then I'd have to drive a very long way to get to work, stores, and entertainment. Living in a quiet suburb gives me the best
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Another example of Angler exploit kit for Wordpress pushing CryptoWall 3.0(isc.sans.edu)
1 points by joshyeager 11y ago|0 comments
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by joshyeager 11y ago
Swift Systems - Frederick, MD - Systems Support Engineer I - http://www.swiftsystems.com/careers Swift Systems is a full-service IT engineering and services firm focused on the delivery of managed IT services. We are looki
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by joshyeager 11y ago
You see "Thanks" as passive-aggressive? To me it reads as a very straightforward statement that communicates a moderate level of real gratitude.
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by joshyeager 11y ago
Some leap seconds are negative, so the total change since 1972 is less than 26 seconds.
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by joshyeager 11y ago
An employee is not the client of a company's legal counsel. The company is the client. So there is no expectation of confidentiality. Copying their legal team might make them more likely to act on the problem. But it won't protect
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by joshyeager 12y ago
The CEO wholly owns the company. So his only fiduciary responsibility is to himself.
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by joshyeager 12y ago
These two Career Tools podcasts cover several aspects of getting fired, including a very good answer to your question: https://www.manager-tools.com/2011/03/getting-fired-part-1 https://www.manager-tool
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by joshyeager 12y ago
How does that help if the code we want to use is a library? A recent example was an image manipulation need. We found a great library that met all our requirements, but was GPL. Our other options were an inferior MIT-licensed library, an in
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by joshyeager 12y ago
Ok, good point. But for a small- to mid-sized software company, a big fine or a big reengineering effort is pretty dangerous too.
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by joshyeager 12y ago
The problem is that no one really knows what constitutes "safe" use of GPL code. Even in a highly-technical OSS-friendly community like HN, there are many different interpretations of what the GPL's restrictions actually mean
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by joshyeager 12y ago
This chain of comments illustrates the reason that companies think the GPL is risky. Even in a highly-technical OSS-friendly community like HN, there are many different interpretations of what the GPL's restrictions actually mean. That
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by joshyeager 12y ago
That only works if startups fail 50% of the time. If they fail more frequently, a coin flip would be wrong.
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New Cryptolocker Emails: "HSBC Advising Service"(sanesecurity.blogspot.com)
1 points by joshyeager 12y ago|0 comments
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by joshyeager 12y ago
Swift Software - Frederick, MD (Near DC) - Software Engineer in Professional Services Ready to work closer to home? Swift Software is a growing enterprise software product company seeking a talented software engineer to join our team in Fre
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by joshyeager 12y ago
Here are some of the problems I had with previous employees that tighter hiring filters would have prevented. Now that my mindset is "don't hire the wrong person" instead of "hire someone", I don't have these p
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by joshyeager 12y ago
I took the survey, and would have done a 20-minute phone screen with five out of the six resumes I got. All six were basically qualified for their roles. That is vastly different from reality. When I post job ads, at least 25% of the resume
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by joshyeager 12y ago
Swift Software - Frederick, MD (Near DC) - Software Engineer in Professional Services Ready to work closer to home? Swift Software is a growing enterprise software product company seeking a talented software engineer to join our team in Fre
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by joshyeager 12y ago
Pretty cool idea. I don't have a beer menu here to test with, but the search is very fast. One critique: your website doesn't explain the difference between Free and Pro. I had to go to the App Store to find that info, which took

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