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by kfcm 13y ago
The only way I've found to ensure this doesn't happen is to set about:config -> network.http.use_cache = false. Private browsing keeps it for at least one restart (with clear everything set in options), even though I can't
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Google and Microsoft both take financial hits in 2Q
1 points by kfcm 13y ago|0 comments
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by kfcm 13y ago
Another consideration is it all depends upon where you're located--geographically, company-wise, and technology area. At least in my observation. Infrastructure tends to have less ageism than development/software engineering. La
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by kfcm 13y ago
When first starting out many years (decades?!?) ago, I experienced what could best be called "reverse agism". Guys in their 40s-50s were concerned about hiring a 23-25 year old "wet-behind-the-ears" high-energy "ki
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by kfcm 13y ago
Or use the route I went: start your own consulting business.
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by kfcm 13y ago
"Profanity is the language common to all programmers". This entire thing is the clash of two cultures: corporatism (and its drive to mediocrity/milquetoasts) vs "getting sh*t done right"-ism. It all comes down to t
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WSJ: Open-floorplan layouts compromise employee concentration.
1 points by kfcm 13y ago|0 comments
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by kfcm 13y ago
(5) It is always possible to agglutinate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea. --RFC 1925, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1925.html I highly recomme
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by kfcm 13y ago
Has everyone made certain they're running the most current version of Tor?
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Facial recognition: State photo-ID databases become troves for police
1 points by kfcm 13y ago|0 comments
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by kfcm 13y ago
Or this may be a black op/psyop, with the leaked documents being fake, obsolete or irrelevant. Snowden himself may be a willing operative, or an unknowing patsy. This is intelligence, where misdirection and outright deception are ways
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US drivers license photos in a shared "criminal" facial recognition database(kcci.com)
4 points by kfcm 13y ago|0 comments
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by kfcm 13y ago
You've never heard of RIAA, MPAA, et al? What happens when marketing departments realize they can use the data freely given to them to target people to blackmail and extort, rather than just flash ads at and try to sell to? "For a monthly r
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by kfcm 13y ago
What a bunch of whiners. It's not as if you don't hand much--if not all--of the same information over to marketing departments, app makers and ad companies when using a smart phone.
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Tiger Global Pays $50M for Stake in WordPress Maker Automattic(blogs.wsj.com)
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by kfcm 13y ago
Was placed in such a situation many years ago by an old boss before I struck out on my own. Never, EVER again. My workload was more than the regular employees, and definitely more than hourly contractors/consultants.
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by kfcm 13y ago
After nearly 25 years, I've worked in almost every known office layout. My opinions, based solely on my subjective experience: --open-plan offices can work great for small teams of maybe 4-6 max. Beyond five or six people though, producti
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by kfcm 13y ago
Details here: https://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2011/06%20June/0611_artistic.pdf
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Prepare for new copyright crackdown: GDP to treat artistic works as investment.(webcache.googleusercontent.com)
2 points by kfcm 13y ago|2 comments
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by kfcm 13y ago
>many of my programers are too busy being productive to be interested in dicking around with making things work anymore, and increasingly I hold this view This is a sign of maturity. Time is our one true finite resource, and we need to
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by kfcm 13y ago
He wasn't sending 5 figures; he was receiving it. And why is he a clown for assuming his "verified with state and federal ids" Dwolla account could receive such amounts, and he could get it? It's a business account--5 figures is nothing. T
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by kfcm 14y ago
Cloudflare is crying: "the sky is falling". Gizmodo is taking the other extreme: "nothing to see here; move along". The truth is in the middle. There were repercussions in Denver/Colorado with a Tier 1 network provider, mainly in the form
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by kfcm 14y ago
Laziness? Possibly. Incompetence? More likely. Incompetence due to having 45 #1 priorities and developing a deep understanding of secure configurations is a #3 priority? Most likely.
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by kfcm 14y ago
+100. I split my time between a large metro, a smaller metro and rural farmland. My unscientific breakdown is this. Metro areas are serviced by multiple carriers, many of which offer both iPhones and Android smartphones. In my metro areas
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by kfcm 14y ago
@ericabiz: couple of comments. First, it was a wise move not to react at your 'hoped for' mentor's remark about his wife. I will address this to everyone, and not just you: it's not your place to "openly react" to another person's comment
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by kfcm 14y ago
And completely missing, the old reliable pie chart. Used when showing attributes (percentage, counts, etc) of a whole. And then there's the scatterplot. Very useful in regression models for best fit. Charts and plots are tools. To limit
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by kfcm 14y ago
One other comment. If anyone watches the tv show NCIS, you'll notice that while others use smartphones, Gibbs uses what looks to be a ruggedized no-name flip-phone. Maybe a Motorola government model. While the character is portrayed as a l
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by kfcm 14y ago
I've never had a smartphone, and do not look forward to the day when the good old fashioned flip-phone is obsolete. Several comments have already stated my reasons for not having a smartphone: battery life (3-4 days, easy), relative rugged
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by kfcm 14y ago
And just thinking about businesses who may still be running "fat" business-required (if not critical) webapps in Java and Flash. Upgrades are cost and time prohibitive, and clicking each time a user wants to start may alienate people.
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by kfcm 14y ago
Please tell me this click_to_play can be completely disabled in about:config. The PDF thing is going to be a nightmare for clients of mine who have researchers going to different university, research center and journal sites (repositories)

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