kmoser

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901.
by kmoser 3y ago
Ok, but what happens when Woz then assigns himself employee number -1? Jobs should have foreseen that and assigned himself employee number Woz-1.
902.
by kmoser 3y ago
You don't have to engage in small talk or chit-chat: just have a genuine conversation with the other person, and end it when it starts to get tedious. I don't see these conversations having to last more than 10 or 15 minutes; an h
903.
by kmoser 3y ago
You're assuming a hire based on networking is somehow unqualified. In reality people hire based at least partly on networking because there is an assumption (whether true or not) that you can trust that person to some degree: I know th
904.
by kmoser 3y ago
100K+ employees doesn't necessarily mean they're all engineers, even at Google. Many of them are probably either engineer-adjacent (meaning they work with engineers but don't code themselves) or are scientists of another sort
905.
by kmoser 3y ago
Also GRiDCASE 1510 https://www.griduk.com/products/rugged-laptops/gridcase-1510... (albeit admittedly a niche device as well)
906.
by kmoser 3y ago
Make sure to include the unlock code for your phone, for the inevitable 2FA notifications that get sent when they try to log in to your accounts. In addition to usernames and passwords, don't forget answers to security questions like &
907.
by kmoser 3y ago
Students with Windows machines who are learning web development. These devices are not serving pages publicly.
908.
by kmoser 3y ago
Links to all results (not just domains) would be nice, too.
909.
by kmoser 3y ago
Except when it interferes with other software you install. I've inexplicably had many people unable to get Apache to serve PHP files from local folders that are synced to OneDrive. The only solution was to disable or uninstall OneDrive
910.
by kmoser 3y ago
The original URLs can go away just as easily as the archive.today mirrors of them, which is why Wikipedia (or any website of record) should contain links to both, IMHO.
911.
by kmoser 3y ago
> “Calculations show that, maintaining the actual rate of population growth and resource consumption, in particular forest consumption, we have a few decades left before an irreversible collapse of our civilization.” Given humanity'
912.
by kmoser 3y ago
Still waiting for my check(s) from a Microsoft settlement back in 2006 that had something to do with NY State. No idea how much I was entitled to, but since I owned several Windows machines during the period in question it should have been
913.
by kmoser 3y ago
Not disagreeing, just commenting that I would have assumed that taking the entire system offline for a reboot on a weekly basis would be untenable from a business perspective. It seems at odds with the concept of all the redundancy built in
914.
by kmoser 3y ago
> I think DNS is something few people take the time to learn, but it's not actually hard to learn. Hard disagree. For me, DNS is like doing taxes: I touch it once a year or so, find it Byzantine, know enough to be dangerous, but am
915.
by kmoser 3y ago
Wow, even Windows boxes can run longer than a week without having to be rebooted. I figured a mainframe would be able to last almost indefinitely.
916.
by kmoser 3y ago
Looks like an interesting idea but wouldn't an attempted theft render your bike horribly noxious smelling? Assuming the thief wasn't high enough to not care, or wore a respirator.
917.
by kmoser 3y ago
> Great product designs require no manual, and similarly, great interfaces need no documentation. Imagine having to read a manual on how to use a coffee mug. It's a fallacy to assume a perfect interface needs no documentation, just
918.
by kmoser 3y ago
> The attorney representing Flannery Associates sent a letter to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, one of several agencies investigating the matter, issuing a formal response. > "No foreign person or group holds any significant inte
919.
by kmoser 3y ago
Using a passport as ID is a great way to prevent anyone, not just airlines, from learning your address.
920.
by kmoser 3y ago
Often reading HN. Not kidding, I spend down time surfing sites containing everything from news to coding advice. At any time I'm either developing, learning more about development, or learning more about industry happenings. Once in a
921.
by kmoser 3y ago
Freelancer here. I'm just a data point of one, but I work on all kinds of projects, both product-side and customer-visible. For the "invisible" (to the customer) work, you can always add a description of it to your CV (along
922.
by kmoser 3y ago
Yes, but do your tabs indent by two, four or eight spaces?
923.
by kmoser 3y ago
Plus some rando named Guido van Rossum.
924.
by kmoser 3y ago
Yep. Unless it's part of a legacy project, or I'm developing something as a fun experiment, I have no interest in languages that lack modern, robust, stable, up-to-date libraries.
925.
by kmoser 3y ago
In addition to projected cost to maintain, there is also the potential ill will you are continuing to generate with your customers if the existing buggy/legacy system affects them. Your reputation with your customers matters. This is o
926.
by kmoser 3y ago
One middle ground between requiring location access and failing to run at all would be to ask the user to provide an address. That way the user would have some control over what info they provide.
927.
by kmoser 3y ago
What I want to know is how "the regularity of completed calls, call duration, long-term inactivity, range activity, or successful incoming traffic" translates to a trust score. Do less trustworthy people tend to make longer or sho
928.
by kmoser 3y ago
It would be trivial for sketchy websites to have fake (but real looking) "official" Visa/MC forms, or even for multiple fake "official" sites to be set up. So redirecting everyone to the One True Payment System is n
929.
by kmoser 3y ago
Websites are very modern interfaces to the Sabre system that was originally developed in the 1950s. The way it was described to me at the time I was working in the travel industry (20 years ago, yikes!): Sabre is essentially a command-line
930.
by kmoser 3y ago
Just start numbering your list with 0 instead of 1 and you'll have solved the last one.

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