markbnj

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by markbnj 10y ago
Apples and oranges, imo. There is no difference in practicality or usability between 64k of RAM and a gigabyte. There is a big difference in both as you make passwords longer and more random. This is not a commentary on whether that's
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by markbnj 10y ago
I have run docker in production at past employers, and am getting ready to do so again at my current employer. However I don't run it as a native install on bare metal. I prefer to let a cloud provider such as Google deal with the infr
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by markbnj 10y ago
>> I simply cannot imagine picking an unidentified piece of fruit from the ground and eating it. I absolutely share your astonishment. It seems reckless beyond all justification, especially given that this incident occurred in a land
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by markbnj 10y ago
I don't know about everyone else, but when I read 'The LHC "nightmare scenario" has come true' I expected a black hole, or reality being sucked down a pinpoint wormhole. Maybe those are the same thing.
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by markbnj 10y ago
It's not really all _that_ arrogant to say your stuff doesn't suck, is it?
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by markbnj 10y ago
Nice work on the site. I'd give the software a shot on my own server but its sort of hard to give up the WP ecosystem. Any import capability for messages and categories?
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by markbnj 10y ago
Someone has to fix this problem, but I wish the front page of this site had more to say about how the network actually functions and how it is different.
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by markbnj 10y ago
>> Software projects can be estimated Managers, for the most part, keep saying that. Usually its because they have, or they've read about someone who has estimated accurately one or more times. How do I know they were not simply
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by markbnj 10y ago
>> Remember this moment in five to 10 years, when it becomes obvious the television industry is in trouble. Really? It's not obvious now?
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by markbnj 10y ago
It doesn't much matter how "similar" they are. Unless you can copy and paste the code you're building new stuff and running the risk of encountering all the issues inherent in building new stuff.
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by markbnj 10y ago
>> If I am running a business that is looking at what projects to fund for the next year, and one of those projects is a software project with an unknowable time to completion vs (for example) opening a new store, with a well known ti
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by markbnj 10y ago
>> We will have tools, accessible, easy tools; Arduinos and Pis of the future; sure. But it will not replace, nor eliminate or reduce the amount of code written. I think something eventually will, though. My reasoning for this conclus
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by markbnj 10y ago
We lived in upstate NY during the 1960's and I visited the Kodak campus in Rochester, I think as a cub scout. It was an amazing place. I remember feeling awe as we were walked through this long dark place where they proofed new rolls o
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by markbnj 10y ago
The OP sort of touched on this with the point about "some jobs going missing" at the transition points. It's roughly the same issue I guess. Anyway will certainly join in the chant of UTC, UTC, UTC. Not long ago I had to mana
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by markbnj 10y ago
Captures intruder events during those quick trips to the market.
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by markbnj 10y ago
>> You can now leave your home in all security. >> 20 minutes flying time. O_o. This has to be one of the best written websites ever.
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by markbnj 10y ago
Years ago a VC who passed on my startup drove my co-founders and myself past a restaurant in the western Philly suburbs. He pointed to it and declared that he and his father had almost bought it. "Why didn't you," I asked. He
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by markbnj 10y ago
As a former Windows/C++/C# dev who has been working on linux for five years now, I have never automatically assumed Windows was slower than linux. The main advantages of linux over windows are not in the performance area, imo, but
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by markbnj 10y ago
It could also reflect that job boards are becoming less and less useful for employers or job seekers. I recently went through a job hunt and enabling my resume on boards like Dice just resulted in a flood of irrelevant recruiter spam. I&#x2
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by markbnj 10y ago
I don't know, Google has a web-based shell for their cloud platform that uses oauth and deploys keys (very similar to the OP project) and it's not half bad. I do still prefer to ssh in from the command line using gcloud, but the w
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by markbnj 10y ago
My wife is a member of the R.N. club, but sadly it appears that there are no perks associated.
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by markbnj 10y ago
Good advice and worth reading especially for younger devs. With respect to... >> Prefix systems like hungarian notation were initially meant to add meaning, but with time they ended up being used in less contextual ways, such as just
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by markbnj 10y ago
The sysadmin role isn't being neutered or sidelined, it is being moved from something every company has to do to something that primarily will be performed by large providers at massive scale. System infrastructure and the management o
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by markbnj 10y ago
Systems that provide an online account tied to a physical device have to be carefully designed for transfer of ownership scenarios, and it sounds like they didn't do the work here, or else something went wrong and the resulting error s
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by markbnj 10y ago
Same exact situation here, and for the same reasons. I was young and stupid and worked as a roadie for a rock band, and numerous other very loud activities (engine room of a tugboat, for example) with no protection. I have constant tinnitus
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by markbnj 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11877774
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by markbnj 10y ago
I absolutely agree with this. Moreover, this basic approach of giving the candidate a reasonable set of requirements, a quiet space, and as much time as necessary is hands-down the best way I can think of to asses competency. It's how
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by markbnj 10y ago
I'm also pretty ignorant here, but if I understand word vectors correctly they are a trained model that results in the ability to predict the next word in a sequence. I can imagine extending that idea to images, i.e. in such a way that
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by markbnj 10y ago
Ugh, how could anyone hope to teach programming by beginning with "Data Modeling and Classes?" That stuff only becomes interesting after you've become enthralled by getting the computer to do stuff.
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by markbnj 10y ago
Yes, this. Sorry I was away all day and didn't have time to reply.

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