kisielk

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by kisielk 14y ago
The trick is having enough skill to be able to evaluate the professional you're going to hire. I've been bitten by this before both in my personal and professional life. If you don't know enough about the field even someone with only a marg
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by kisielk 14y ago
I find most of the time I'm using sudo I don't want to type it before every command and so I use sudo -i which pretty much negates the benefit of logging anything other than to tell that I was sudo at some point.
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by kisielk 14y ago
Well, it's hard to find a job that's <40 hours a week for one.
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by kisielk 14y ago
You don't have to do that. It's just the test framework they are using alongside HTTPretty in their examples. You can just as easily use the traditional unittest.TestCase methods: self.assertEqual(HTTPretty.last_request.querystring, "wh
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by kisielk 14y ago
So did he talk to you first? or did you have to start?
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by kisielk 14y ago
All good points, but there's a big difference in trusting my distro's package manager to install packages from their secure repos, verified by certificates I installed with their OS in the first place, and running a shell script from a blog
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by kisielk 14y ago
$ curl https://install.meteor.com | sh I really wish people would stop giving instructions like this. Despite all the focus on web security and sandboxing, we continue to instruct people to run arbitrary code on their user account. People
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by kisielk 14y ago
In my experience many software developers are pretty ignorant about hardware issues since they rarely have to deal with hardware beyond their desktops or laptops. If you live in the IT world for a while and work with enterprise-grade equipm
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by kisielk 14y ago
Yes the packaging system has signatures but unfortunately Python's SSL implementation doesn't verify certificates, nor do its packaging tools. The signatures come from the same server as the packages, so if someone MITMs the server you can
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by kisielk 14y ago
I'm also a developer of a workflow processing system, though not open-source, and fairly specific to our company. A few more things that are desirable if you have a lot of data or need to do processing that takes a lot of time is the abilit
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by kisielk 14y ago
Also interesting to see that (at the time of this writing) the average is only $5.50 which is a lot lower than the averages I've seen for previous bundles.
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by kisielk 14y ago
It makes you realize how bad the synthesized instruments they used for it were... also not arranged for an orchestra. You can't just simply take the original note for note and play it on different instruments.
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by kisielk 14y ago
It's also simply not true. I have an iPhone and listen to music on it all the time. I haven't purchased any music from iTunes, ever. I refuse to buy music with DRM so I don't. I'd rather subscribe to a service like Rdio instead or get music
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by kisielk 14y ago
I already replied higher up with a suggestion to check in to the sciences. Seeing as you're in Maryland you're pretty much right in America's Biotechnology hotbed.
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by kisielk 14y ago
You might also want to look for jobs in the sciences there is a demand for highly optimized code in many fields that is often written at least partially in C. Offloading stuff to GPUs provides even more additional low-level programming chal
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by kisielk 14y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by file formats becoming obsolete all the time. This may be true for some proprietary formats that are no longer readable by a modern application, but for any reasonably widespread format there should not be much
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by kisielk 14y ago
Here in Vancouver there is definitely a lot of programming types at the rock climbing gym and at the crags. Other professionals that seem to be attracted to it are Engineers (of all types), Geologists, and Environmental Sciences people.
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by kisielk 14y ago
Care to send me a description of your setup? If I use the nvidia binary driver with twinview then the rendering is glacially slow. It's fast with nouveau but then I have display artifacts everywhere, regions of the screen get filled with so
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by kisielk 14y ago
Trying to use multiple monitors on an Nvidia card and nothing but pain. They work just fine under Windows.
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by kisielk 14y ago
That one seems totally backwards to me. Experienced programmers should be able to read and understand more technical documentation such as language specs or RFCs and use it to figure out the answers to their problems. Inexperienced programm
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by kisielk 14y ago
I'm also in Canada, and while Rdio does have a lot of the stuff I listen to, maybe I should try iTunes match as well.
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by kisielk 14y ago
I'd add the varying availability of tracks as a major problem. Having some things simply not available is an annoyance, but I can live with that. What's worse is finding some albums I like, adding them to my collection, and then having them
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by kisielk 14y ago
Once it's commercialized it won't be off the beaten path for long.
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by kisielk 14y ago
I've always double-checked my Google maps results to make sure they make sense before actually using them. There have been numerous times where it didn't correctly interpret my query and gave me directions to somewhere else. Typical problem
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by kisielk 14y ago
In Go if you use the return value of a function you must also assign the error to something, either a variable or explicitly ignore it by assigning it to _. It was designed this way specifically to avoid the problem of not checking error co
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by kisielk 14y ago
The fact that some users don't want to contribute to community doesn't mean it's not worth having it be open. You can still cater to consumers without closing your product to hackers.
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by kisielk 14y ago
I think people complaining about the tag line are missing out on the obvious pun.
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by kisielk 14y ago
The Clojure language is great, but the dependency on the Java ecosystem and the JVM are deal breakers for me.
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by kisielk 14y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty surprised that the people working at the casino wouldn't notice the same pattern emerging and either stop the game or start manually shuffling the cards.
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by kisielk 14y ago
My fiance's bike was stolen a few months ago. By coincidence someone who was a friend of a friend of her's ended up buying it off of craigslist. We discovered this when he arrived at a BBQ riding her bike. When we asked about the details of

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