laurentdc

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Shadow IT(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by laurentdc 6y ago|0 comments
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I used to do that in Counter-Strike Source days and it wasn't even worth it back then. I was losing about $100/mo but still did it for the fun. Also got booted off multiple providers for the inevitable DDoS attacks you get as reta
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I've ordered three Xbox Play and Charge kits from Amazon, two were blatantly counterfeit (came in a plastic bag, scratched and with no markings, I don't believe it's "OEM"), the other was genuine but with batteries
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by laurentdc 6y ago
> The Nespresso system made every customer feel like a connoisseur: you had to make a choice every time you put a capsule in the machine, even if it was just between black or purple. Ironically this is what turned me off. After borrowing
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by laurentdc 6y ago
PHP to me is a bit like the new Perl. Sometimes you just need a small script that does one thing well. Took me 10-15 minutes to implement an interface for customer support so they can look up a clients last order based on incoming phone num
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I'm wondering, what's to gain in all this? Does switching to slightly different parts (e.g. Micron vs Spansion flash module) make the final BOM so much cheaper that it's worth manufacturing a fake Ethernet switch? Just by tak
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by laurentdc 6y ago
Ubuntu LTS. I chose it because it mostly just works and there's plenty of documentation and q&a online (StackOverflow) As for the problems, on the desktop side I wish it was more polished. For some reason every time there's a
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by laurentdc 6y ago
In my experience for many professors teaching is pretty much a side activity, more like a chore. Fun fact: Galileo was envied by his colleagues because despite being paid full time by University of Pisa he was exempted from teaching and cou
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by laurentdc 6y ago
What's with the hate against wires? Wires always work. My wireless printer never worked. Well it prints once, then I have to power cycle it to print again. Thanks Samsung. The minimalism point doesn't really cut it: you still need
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I can't count the times I've started to write some basic internal tool with React only to rm -rf everything 1 hour later and replace it with 20 lines of jQuery/vanilla js
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by laurentdc 6y ago
A nice, laid-back, zero-bs team is all I need. I value that much much higher than money. I have no interest in workplace drama. I've always considered career and competition to be quite pointless: if I had a good idea I'd build th
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I don't mean to sound snarky but isn't "local storage of personal data" what off the shelf NAS devices (QNAP, Synology, WD..) have been doing for almost two decades? Even the backup thing, last time I tried they all had
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I don't know. Text is important to me, but high refresh rate is much more. Even scrolling text or dragging windows around at >120 Hz is a game changer. Going back to the MBP display gives me instant headache until I re-adapt. It&#x2
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by laurentdc 6y ago
Just out of curiosity, do you write HTML5/CSS inside a text editor with live reload or have you switched to builders like Bootstrap Studio, Webflow, Pingendo etc.? Asking since I'm converting a design into a template for a Symfony
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by laurentdc 6y ago
Red Hat 5, Gnome 2.6 and Geany was the standard at my uni for C/C++ firmware dev. Good times :)
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by laurentdc 6y ago
Agreed. External factors aside (e.g. ADHD) to me procrastination is a good indicator of whether what I'm working on is meaningful or not. Quoting some other post I've read on HN: > Remember that you are going to die. Time flies
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by laurentdc 6y ago
Agencies and consulting companies have built their fortune on clueless customers. But I honestly don't really care anymore. I just want to write code and go home
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Rosenhan Experiment(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by laurentdc 6y ago|0 comments
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by laurentdc 6y ago
> track flights to speculate on M&A, or use satellite and aerial imagery to look at parking lots This is very interesting, got any source or article? Thanks edit: found this https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/a
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by laurentdc 6y ago
Unrelated, but has anyone written a Chrome/Firefox extension to browse the web sending out Googlebot or Facebook user agent? I wonder if you can bypass paywalls or see things that aren't generally presented to regular users
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by laurentdc 6y ago
Probably an automated tool. Sometimes I even get the "Hey |REAL_NAME| ," ones.. Worst thing, these recruiter emails rarely have an unsubscribe link or some sort of opt-out. I don't have a LinkedIn but I once accidentally set
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by laurentdc 6y ago
Many universities (at least in Europe) still teach some C in introductory level courses to build basic terminal apps with file I/O, string manipulation and pointers. One of my exams was to build a basic address book with fseek or draw
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I've noticed that "I have no idea" as an answer is one of the boldest statements you can make in the workplace. Most people are playing fake it till you make it most of the time (until shit hits the fan, then incompetence bec
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Do you still have project managers?(medium.com)
1 points by laurentdc 6y ago|0 comments
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by laurentdc 6y ago
> Don't hire people for stupid things. Adobe cloud is 20 bucks a month, read a few books, watch a few videos and make simple designs yourself. If your thing takes off, you can always hire for better later. This resonates so much. My
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by laurentdc 6y ago
ThinkPads are an underappreciated marvel of industrial design, along with Siemens LOGO PLCs and IBM line matrix printers
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by laurentdc 6y ago
> Knowing a wide variety of people and organizing an event takes a lot of creativity skill and chutzpah. I used to look down on soft skill heavy jobs and tasks thinking it was bs that only people who failed in "real" tech/
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by laurentdc 6y ago
> The concept of "working" for three days before my direct supervisor even noticed my presence is so foreign to me I left my old company for the same reasons. I didn't know who my boss was or who I should report to for mon
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I just disable them via /etc/hosts because I can't tolerate any more useless javascript putting load on my CPU. My workstation (E5-2640) has seen multiple generations of operating systems, video editing software, DAWs. Browse
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by laurentdc 6y ago
> Furthermore, when I installed and ran a VNC server, I didn't detect any difference in site behavior - so why is it looking for it? I think behind the scenes they keep log of some sort of fraud risk, e.g. geoip different from billi

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