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by le-mark 8y ago
My personal theory of how this will play out is that Mars will be a shallow gravity well industrial base for solar system development. We take for granted how integral gravity is to pretty much every thing we do when it comes to building st
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by le-mark 8y ago
If anyone's interested in beta testing an app for easily viewing/editing fixed length files (ACH format files) shoot me an email.
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by le-mark 8y ago
This is a shining example of old web content we've lost in the current era of walled gardens and social graphs. People writing honestly about their journey and observations. Sure people still do in some form or another, but I personall
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by le-mark 8y ago
And you have media for the OS you can install on them? And setup and configuration to a useable system is as simple as the guided wizards other OSs provide?
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Ask HN: Annual Bonus Time, Team's Not Happy
46 points by le-mark 8y ago|45 comments
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by le-mark 8y ago
My understanding was that the concern wasn't necessarily that the jvm was insecure, or the browser was insecure (although they've all had vulberabilities at one time or another) it was the integration between the jvm and the brows
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by le-mark 8y ago
Well, HN does do something, it's currently the highest level of discourse I know of on the internet today. The greatest pearl to muck ratio one could say. I agree the quality has declined in recent years, as these things do with popula
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Ask HN: Is This Project Manager Desciption Normal?
2 points by le-mark 8y ago|2 comments
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by le-mark 8y ago
I've also been guilty of this for a long time. I annoy myself, and fear I undermine my credibility when talking to peers and managers. > I think that when I'm speaking, I want to say words faster than my brain can build a sente
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by le-mark 8y ago
When I was growing up our family had a fairly sizeable strawberry patch. My Dad enjoyed gardening, and for a few years my parents canned the produce we produced. Strawberry preserves were a treat I didn't realize until I was an adult.
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by le-mark 8y ago
Nice article, but this part is a bit misleading: > American engineers went in the opposite direction. They believed that a fuel-rich mixture in the preburner was possible and could be done with existing metal alloys, so long as hydrogen
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Ask HN: AWS Reverse DNS Records
2 points by le-mark 8y ago|0 comments
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by le-mark 8y ago
Note raptorjit is a fork of luajit.
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by le-mark 8y ago
Where I'm at (US Fortune 500 companies) it's all Java, very little .net. Ymmv
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by le-mark 8y ago
I heard stories of a guy who did this; was local, then went remote, and then didn't vpn in for months. There was a whole story around it, but ended up taking management a few more months to get him fired. This was a process heavy compa
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by le-mark 8y ago
Hell, some companies will even walk you out (terminate, fire) when you give notice, and deny you the two weeks earning you would've made. I've seen this happen at multiple companies, to multiple people, myself included.
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by le-mark 8y ago
It's even simpler, "tell me about a challenging bug you've vanguished, what it was and how you solved it." People in the trenches love to tell war stories. I do.
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by le-mark 8y ago
I worked at toys r us in the mid 90's and snagged a bunch of "rare" action figures. I've been sitting on them for 25 years now. They aren't worth anything more than what retail price back then. My lesson was to stay
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by le-mark 8y ago
My highschool job was at a smallish mom and pop grocery store. I took care of the floors every night; sweep, mop, buff. There's a real zen to doing this kind of work, I really enjoyed it.
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by le-mark 8y ago
When it gets tied into career progression, I've come to the conclusion it's folly to pursue any one companies career progression maze. Because you get corralled into all sorts of sillyness like this; vying for projects with you
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Ask HN: Companies with Remote Positions?
24 points by le-mark 8y ago|7 comments
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by le-mark 8y ago
I'm also really impressed with language server adoption. It's really quite revolutionary. No longer does any editor/ide implementation have to roll their own parsers for every supported language. I was doing program static an
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by le-mark 8y ago
I worked at a place that had a large netbeans rich client platform app (phone reps used it to access customer data during calls, among other things), we used netbeans to develop it obviously. I always liked netbeans, it was pretty solid, an
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by le-mark 8y ago
Great! Is this on github or some other? I had a couple of applet entries it'd be nice to package up.
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Amazon Next Day Shipping Bug
3 points by le-mark 8y ago|1 comments
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by le-mark 8y ago
Ha, I recall that passage, it made an impression on me as well.
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by le-mark 8y ago
Used to work with a guy who was similarly boarish and oblivious, he'd comment on his email to the entire office, every damn morning. Interesting wikipedia minutia? Whole office. I quit in large part to get away from this person.
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by le-mark 8y ago
I'm just finishing up a year+ project to make an old IE7 app work on Chrome/Firefox. IE7 is the oldest version that IE11 supports in compatability mode. As it stood, this old app was actually quite impressive. It was a true SPA be
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by le-mark 8y ago
It's a 2010 actually, I did get it to work. Seems like i had to disconnect the battery.
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by le-mark 8y ago
Wow I really miss Radioshack. I needed a resistor to hack my my cars evaporation sensor. A $1000 job to replace the sensor (remove dashboard) or a $.20 resistor. Luckily found a shop not to far away.

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