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by m0nastic 15y ago
I've watched his 27c3 talk a bunch of times over the past few months, and have convinced myself about 80% of the way to start messing around with CurveCP.
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by m0nastic 15y ago
It might just be regional variations. In Quincy (quite near Cambridge), Roxie's is currently selling chicken breasts for 1.79/lb. Roxie's is a local meat market where my family used to buy most of our meat (the other place being an illegal
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Most of them were never big on phone calls (which suits me fine, as I absolutely never answer my phone), but would occasionally use text messages for something temporal (like: "Hey, I'm at the bar, where are you guys?"). I never had much lu
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I spend a good portion of time logged into Facebook (in Chrome, which I don't use for anything else, and is the only place Flash is installed on my system). It started with old friends from high school, which was sort of nice, but obviously
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I may be in the minority that actually might purchase one of these. I still use a typewriter for all my prose (currently an Olivetti) for the one dumb reason that it's the only way I've found to stop myself from editing my writing as I writ
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I definitely think it's a matter of someone's personal ritual. I've been working from home for the past four years, and I have definitely slipped into a habit of being lazy with my clothes/appearance. I sit around the apartment in a pair of
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I don't know of any (although I confess to not following this stuff that closely). Conspiracy-theorists could probably find something interesting in the fact that in general Microsoft seems to be mostly left alone by patent trolls.
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I think indemnifying your customers from IP lawsuits when they use your product/technology isn't a bad thing. It's the carrot at the end of the FUD. "If you buy our stuff, you'll be safe from someone suing." "What's that, still going to use
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by m0nastic 15y ago
One of the things customers of Microsoft products "benefit from" is being covered by their IP indemnity policy‡. For large enterprises deploying stuff with Microsoft kit, that's a pretty big benefit. ‡ http://download.microsoft.com/downloa
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by m0nastic 15y ago
The BUILD conference was a nice coming out party for Windows 8, and it's given people the opportunity to be excited about something non-Apple for a change. If he wasn't covering it, you'd hear cries of "Typical Gruber, ignoring all the inte
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Thirded. We used an earlier edition at my school for Linear Algebra, and in spite of having a Professor who was retiring at the end of the class (complete with "I'm getting too old for this shit" demeanor), the book was approachable enough
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I thought it was insane rather than to deal with issues like that on a case by case basis, they decided to just fire ~ 30 people. But then again, I'm not a corporate muckety-muck, so what do I know.
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I agree. My boss at my previous employer somehow managed to convince the higher-ups that we needed a lab full of about 20 ridiculously well-spec'd desktops with high-end video cards (and this was well before you could argue for their use in
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Correct, they were specifically worried about the appearance of them condoning whatever content was produced if it was publicly known. The result from this was for them to just dissolve that entire department, and then outsource any future
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by m0nastic 15y ago
One of the most awful forensic engagements (that didn't involve the threat of bodily harm) I ever worked was for a company who called me in to image the drives for an entire video production department. Apparently, they discovered that one
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I may have done a disservice using that metaphor, as it wasn't my intent to suggest that anyone who choses to work on/at a startup is up on a ledge. What I was trying to convey, was that even someone like myself (pretty much without an entr
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by m0nastic 15y ago
As way of a cautious recommendation: About a year and a half ago, I was stuck for a week away from home traveling for work. Searching for something to read while I was gone, I popped into an Atlanta Barnes and Noble and futilely tried to fi
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Neat, K&R's itoa implementation example (page 64, in case anyone is curious) specifically calls out that it doesn't handle INT_MIN, and explaining why and fixing it is one of the exercises.
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by m0nastic 15y ago
While I suppose it's nice to see it codified in bullet points, this shouldn't actually be surprising. The fact that Google develops Android in private and only pushes the changes to a public repo after it's finished is well-known. There are
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by m0nastic 15y ago
If you're curious around the financials of running a conference (albeit a security conference), I highly recommend the following video from Shmoocon 2011‡ They go over all the associated costs of putting on the conference as well as revenue
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by m0nastic 15y ago
My experiences haven't found it to be that cut-and-dry: I moved from Boston to Silicon Valley in '99, and found it was significantly more expensive with only marginally better salary (which I was happy to accept as we would leave at lunch a
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by m0nastic 15y ago
It's not quite equivalent, but in '98, I was thrilled when I got a job as a network engineer for 40k (in Boston). At the time it seemed like more money than I knew what to do with (I very quickly became much more imaginative).
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Yeah, after finding out about it, I did submit the paperwork. I'm presently waiting for everything to get approved (they said the lead time was about a year).
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to infer that she left because of some over-arching national issue. At 14, she took her six sisters and ran away from home to escape an abusive father. They wound up in the U.S.
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by m0nastic 15y ago
My mom is a Canadian immigrant to the U.S. (fled as a young teenager). I found out a few years ago that I am technically a Canadian citizen as well (they passed a law granting citizenship to people born of Canadian parents, regardless of th
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I don't think Google posting a Google Doodle tribute is akin to shilling (is it shilling when they have doodles for other world figures?). I will agree that there is some commercial benefit to Google for this sort of thing, but even I'm not
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Yeah, movie reviews might not have been the best analogy. My general take on movie reviews is that I only use them to discover movies that I might have otherwise missed (i.e.: a bad review will never dissuade me from seeing a movie, but a g
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I would hope that Yelp doesn't actually operate in the manner in which its detractors accuse it of (as it would seem to be pretty cut-and-dry extortion). I assume Yelp operates in the way they say they do, but I still find it functionally u
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by m0nastic 15y ago
When my current company (~200 employee startup) got acquired about 5 years ago my internal stock was translated into about 20k. We then had a 10k payout for staying an additional year. Considering everyone assumed that our internal stock wo
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by m0nastic 15y ago
It sounds like you want a Galaxy Tab 7 for $250. I'd actually be surprised if Amazon allows it to be reflashed (insofar as you can actually restrict it). That would eliminate their entire point in selling it (their ecosystem of content).

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