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by m0nastic 16y ago
I feel like you're inventing this concept of Boston being a "startup curse" as an excuse to use a bunch of Red Sox analogies. I'm genuinely curious if anyone else feels the same way about startups in Boston? The impression I get is that the
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by m0nastic 16y ago
LinkedIn serves as a "Someone I Know Looking For a New Job Early Warning System". If I get an email that someone has updated their LinkedIn, then I know that they're looking for work. It's the same thing if someone I know gets their CISSP.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I think this is really smart on their part. I got super nervous about their viability after Microsoft launched Outlook Social Connector (which seems to not be as good, but is free and natively part of Outlook). I've tried using Rapportive a
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Ryan Dahl Intro to Node.js Presentation from Feb 22[video](youtube.com)
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I would argue that both Reddit and Digg are like drinking from the Ganges river; in that the amount of shittiness is related to where along the source you decide to drink from.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I was a little hesitant at first, so I don't know if long-term I'll regret doing it. If flavors.me dies (which is absolutely a possibility, as I have no idea what their long-term plans are), then I lose the static about page that I've set u
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I use flavors.me (which for all intents and purposes appears to be the same thing), and here at least was my rationale. I'm trying to reduce and simplify my online presence stuff (basically the least amount of work I can put into it, and al
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by m0nastic 16y ago
The precursor to Android was actually BSD-based instead of Linux-based. I assume that when the Danger guys left to start over with Android, they figured starting from Linux would give them a technical advantage.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I find the Command Line Kung Fu Blog ( http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/ ) really informative for demonstrating the utility of Powershell. Basically, every entry is a problem someone has submitted, and they post a solution using the Unix S
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by m0nastic 16y ago
"The most unpopular color for women is orange." And here we have one explanation for the discrepancy between the number of male and female applicants to Y-Combinator.
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Using Dropbox to Compile Programs While on the Go(blog.tengulabs.com)
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I think you're probably right. I think people don't necessarily associate ridiculing someone on the internet with bullying (in many cases because the target of ridicule isn't there interacting with them).
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by m0nastic 16y ago
It would appear that you hang around on a different internet than I do. I'm envious. The internet I frequent is populated by people who love to forward stories around, post links to Facebook (with comments like "I can't believe how stupid t
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by m0nastic 16y ago
We've been talking a lot about this article on Facebook since Luke published it. Full disclosure: I grew up with the guy in question, and am friends with the author of the piece (both were in my Boy Scout troop). I was most struck by the fa
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I just got done watching this video while sitting at a coffeeshop, and it was super useful, as I'd just started using 0mq on a client/server for testing fuzzing.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I've been using EnCase for about a decade (including a large portion of that working with the FBI), and I honestly can't think of any amazing technical innovations. The support for reading .pst files? The fact that it can finally handle fil
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by m0nastic 16y ago
That was my first impression as well, having recently set up a flavors.me page (which includes github, and visually looks identical to their site). I'm all for competitors in the space though, so good luck to them.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I was annoyed when it happened, but it was a few years ago, and I try not to dwell on negative experiences. Usually about a day after something happens, I process it and move on. Also, it tangentially led me to go back to doing technical wo
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I did. I also explained that the place I worked had a very strict policy forbidding any employee from serving as a reference (the only thing we're allowed to do is give them an 800 number to call which will verify employment) The person I w
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I had a scenario a few years back where I interviewed with another company in which the person I interviewed with was friends with someone I worked with. As part of their due diligence, they asked that person about working with me, and that
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by m0nastic 16y ago
In that vein, all three members of the J. Geils Band were engineering students at my college (WPI) ;) And apparently the lead singer/guitarist/keyboardist for OK Go (although I think that was after I left)
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by m0nastic 16y ago
There are absolutely nuclear power plants which use web technologies for their control panels. Specifically, There are at least some which use ASP.NET in their SCADA control systems (although they are not connected to the internet). I have
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by m0nastic 16y ago
That's what I'm hoping for. BinNavi always seemed like it was priced the way that IDA should have been (considering that for what IDA does it's way under-priced).
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Like a lot of folks, I'm curious how this will effect sales of BinDiff and BinNavi (I don't see Google in the business of selling security software); but this should be really good news for Halvar and Co.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Presumably the loaf of bread you bought did everything that it was supposed to when you bought it (and without bugs, or else hopefully you'd throw it away). Software is almost never bug-free when released, and increasingly isn't feature-com
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by m0nastic 16y ago
There's also Brian Cox (there must be something in the UK water about turning out musicians/physicists): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I've had both CLR's Algorithms book and Skiena's on my wishlist for a while, and would be curious to hear why you prefer Skiena's. I had a copy of CLR back in school, but like most of my textbooks from back then, I'm sure I sold it for food
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by m0nastic 16y ago
This is the first positive thing I've read to come out of this fiasco (and I don't say that lightly, as I am particularly sensitive to companies suffering security breaches; but they've handled this about as poor as one could).
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Or ValuJet, or Ryder truck getting rid of the yellow trucks...
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by m0nastic 16y ago
The listed link is PR, but here is also some more details about what 4.0 contains: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda_4_0_RC_downloads.htm...

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