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by jquast 9y ago
supply of scala developers to demand is so unbalanced that you are sure to do fine. A portfolio that shows that you can complete all facets of a large project (tests, documentation, builds, artifact publishing) will get you hired fine, don&
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by jquast 9y ago
Please Arch Linux developers: stop stripping all packages of debug symbols
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I lost a weeks of work trying to implement Telnet SYNC mechanism into a python telnet library (telnetlib3) and eventually gave up. I too was thoroughly confused by all of the contradictory statements.
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JobyAviation - Santa Cruz, CA. ONSITE. IT Infrastructure Eng. http://www.jobyaviation.com/careers/?gh_jid=829002 Application Software Eng. (C#) http://www.jobyaviation.com/careers/?gh_jid=238558 D
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by jquast 9y ago
Is yubikey integration for mobile considered unsafe? https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey-neo...
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by jquast 9y ago
Because the patriot act. https://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/car-dealership-credit-rep... I was also very surprised to buy a car with cash, only to have a credit check required. It's a real thing. And according to
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by jquast 9y ago
Your version is mutable, whereas a namedtuple is immutable. a very important difference for my field. I use namedtuples all the time. Also, I can't expand an instance of your Point3d as arguments to a function, DrawPoint(*p), I would h
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by jquast 9y ago
well, except for "holding a laptop", which is probably a requirement you'd be better without, What do you need screen, speakers, and keyboard on a moving RC car for? something small like an Intel Compute Stick has nearly all
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by jquast 9y ago
just received this as a gift, https://www.elegoo.com/product/elegoo-uno-project-upgraded-s... haven't put it together yet, but its got everything you want except video camera, no reason it can't be added -- i
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"a few months later i was offered an interview for a position at the fbi office for cyber-warfare in nyc who as well offered to fix my immigration status" and, "before going to monterey and while exploring the beauty of san f
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Feeding a machine for fake likes, just like the advertisers on facebook.
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I've uninstalled Waze multiple times, being reminded that it has been accessing my location in the background while sitting at home relaxing always upset me.
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by jquast 10y ago
my toy 300 loc text editor for python, https://github.com/jquast/blessed/blob/master/bin/editor.py
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I also wrote an interactive shell that decodes cp437 to utf8, so you can just "cat" a dos art file from this special shell, https://bitbucket.org/jquast/pexpect-ud/src/3d7b590a5278173f...
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by jquast 10y ago
Yes, my python bbs has done this for many years, http://x84.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/userland.html#x84.bb...
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by jquast 10y ago
I don't know the value, but there is a noticeable improvement when using a program like mbuffer or pv to place a memory barrier between the pipe. Especially over networks like nc.
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by jquast 10y ago
The statvfs system call indicates the preferred block size of the filesystem. It is a very large value on zfs, for example. https://docs.python.org/2/library/statvfs.html#statvfs.F_BSI...
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I'm not sure if you are aware, nethack is now hosted on github and commits are public https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack The 'Net' part of the project Nethack is so named because it was developed over th
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Agreed, I took notes after every interview (bombed on several in a row, like the OP), then collated common questions and prepared brief, positive, well-written answers. I went from failing every interview to acing every interview, many woul
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Even facebook buys grocery rewards data, http://lifehacker.com/5994380/how-facebook-uses-your-data-to...
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This service exists, I've used it, can vouch for it. https://www.abine.com/deleteme/landing.php
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I witnessed male worker fired on the spot for wearing jeans to work instead of slacks (general motors). I was also once given a warning when my belt and shoes did not match (black and brown). I went to a business college, and we were taught
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Yes. In my coworker's experience, this person imitated him to describe that he's in danger and needs money sent by western union ASAP. I think his was also using a baidu link. He suspected his password was brute forced, its an old
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Previously using HATEOAS, gathering large amounts of data, say some kind of reporting dashboard, required a great deal of seperate HTTP requests, it was far less efficient in I/O and performance than without. Anyway, I find GraphQL pro
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I think what bothers me most about REST is that the endpoint is not sufficient to get started. The schema is never known. I hate SOAP and xml-rpc, but at least you can know for sure what endpoints, parameters, and variable types are appropr
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Just my brief experience of 2-3 hours with LastPass today. Broken javascript errors when trying to import. Searched for customer support, couldn't find any! How do I file bugs? Sign up and post to their web forum? I noticed their websi
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I've been programming python 15 or so years, and packaging seems very much a solved problem to me. I'm sorry its difficult for others, I just can't see the problem myself. I guess I understand them all at this point, and it a
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by jquast 10y ago
I wish python had case statements for this very problem. If the statement blocks can be defined by a common function signature, your example could use {'start': fn_start, 'stop': fn_stop, }.get( argv[1] if
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doesn't the modal "sign up for facebook" that cannot be dismissed take somewhere between 50 and 80% of your screen space? I'm talking of these "public posts" your users chose to share. Or is this just my large
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no. I've never used an HN clone, has anyone? I've seen dozens come and go. It's never populated, never interesting, never remembered to check again. Isn't this what sub-reddits are for? At least that's discoverable

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