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by kevinconaway 8y ago
Crystal City is a nightmare from a commuting perspective and an awful place to live. Its more or less a ghost town since BRAC moved out a bunch of agencies and contractors a few years ago. This had the effect of hollowing out what little i
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
> there really ought to be a concise way to say "panic and abort the process" when that's appropriate. There is, it is the Error class and its subclasses, e.g. OutOfMemoryError
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
Checkr Started 4 years ago[0] and raised $100m 5 months ago[1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7937476 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16820699
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
> I honestly cannot think of a reasonable argument for why constant values should not be in static constants or enums. My personal opinion is that values should be in constant values if: - Its repeated more than once or referenced outsid
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
> Personally, I follow a rule I read in a blog some time ago and don't try to de-duplicate code until I've copy and pasted it three times Known as "Three Strikes and You Refactor"[0]: - The first time you do somethin
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
From the outside looking in, the most interesting part of the post is the note about their new release cadence: > As we expect the language to evolve rapidly, we strongly recommend using the regular releases instead of the LTS releases f
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
Do you have children? I used to run or cycle at least 5 days a week but since my daughter was born (and stopped being an infant) it is a struggle to keep a regular exercise regimen. I try to run with her in a jogging stroller when I can but
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This new museum doesn’t want Instagram or crowds(washingtonpost.com)
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Walmart Completes Flipkart Deal(bloombergquint.com)
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Exercise Based Interviewing at Cockroach Labs (2017)(cockroachlabs.com)
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
What’s interesting to me about this is it seems like the hack still required physical presence to pull it off. The criminals had to actually visit hundreds of ATMs over the span of a holiday weekend to withdraw the cash I suspect it had to
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
It looks like they are charring the barrel https://www.angelsenvy.com/guide/whiskey-history/why-charrin... > People have suggested that the inside of barrels were originally burnt to remove the leftover flavors
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
>It was a very good wine for cheap and wine hipsters loved it. > Because it is now popular, and relatively expensive, wine hipsters turn their nose up at it. Could it be that the so-called hipsters enjoyed the wine priced at $9.99 but
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
Much like Pappy Van Winkle, its popular now because its popular. People want what they can't have. Good whiskey takes a while to mature (the lowest PVW ages for 15 years) so if there is a spike in demand, producers cannot react quickl
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
It would be nice if you posted the correctness report as is, without requiring me to be added to your marketing funnel.
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How Reddit Plans to Make Money Through Advertising(cnbc.com)
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
> We should be praising the companies that take the time (or implement the automated process) to send the rejection letters and not leave us hanging. Its interesting that there is an article on the front page [0] right now singing the pr
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
> On a more serious note: "even though it was “understood that the custom of eating flesh corrupts the body.” The source material [0] that the quote is taken from has a footnote that says "The Cistercians held that rich food in
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
> calling isInterrupted() actually clears the interrupted bit. Thats incorrect. Calling Thread#interrupted[0] clears the interrupt status and returns true if the current thread was interrupted. Thread#isInterrupted()[1] only returns th
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
The linked article[0] contains more narrative around the hobo lifestyle and the rules listed in the submitted article Wikipedia[1] also offers some definitions of the hobo slang used in the code: Boil Up - specifically, to boil one's c
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
Videoconferencing introduces friction in to the process. Those meetings must be planned and scheduled. There are no serendipitous hallway or kitchen conversations that flow easily when people are colocated There is also the friction of the
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TaskRabbit app, site down during hack investigation(axios.com)
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Logitech harmony remote glow timer not working?(weblog.failure.net)
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// Note Peter's comment below(github.com)
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A Cyberattack Hobbles Atlanta, and Security Experts Shudder(mobile.nytimes.com)
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Kaspersky exposed a counterterrorism spy operation(axios.com)
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USDA shifting away from allowing employees to telecommute(washingtonpost.com)
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by kevinconaway 9y ago
While I still think YourKit is a better profiler and has a better UX, the ability to start/stop/dump metrics collection on a running system without enabling an agent or adding JVM args is a killer addition to JFR, one that I don&#
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by kevinconaway 9y ago
The article is clearly targeted at managers and leaders, not your average individual contributor. Often new leaders & managers start in an established team and want to change something to "make their mark" or have an impact as
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by kevinconaway 9y ago
> From what I gather, the attack here was possible because Github engineers accidentally left the memcached port open. That is incorrect. The attackers made requests that were forged to have the sender IP address of Github to multiple pu

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