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by maxaf 11y ago
The author did limit his "sunk cost" analysis to 7am-7pm due to this exact reason. I think that part at least is quite sound, and is probably the most enlightening takeaway.
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by maxaf 11y ago
There should be something on the box or in the associated paperwork. Think "frustration-free service terms", similar to Amazon's frustration-free packaging. I shouldn't have to dive face-first into reams of legalese just
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by maxaf 11y ago
As a longtime Dropcam owner, I find this very unsettling. Truth be told, Dropcam service has steadily decreased in quality ever since the Nest acquisition. Not a month passes without an unexplained multi-hour outage; our mobile apps are ran
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by maxaf 11y ago
I've personally come to assume that everything I do on an electronic device is being recorded all the time, so the mere presence of surveillance isn't in itself a deterrent. Most reasonable people will IMHO realize that no one&#x2
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by maxaf 11y ago
There isn't a totally bullet/fool-proof way, but it boils down to aggressively locking down computing functions to match closely the job functions expected to be performed by every employee. This requires a thorough understanding
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by maxaf 11y ago
Linux on MacBooks can be hit or miss.
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by maxaf 11y ago
I do a lot of craigslist deals, and it's not for the faint of heart. Here in NYC one has to be a bit street smart to avoid getting robbed or worse by a craigslist buyer or seller. Amazon is probably a safer place for most people.
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by maxaf 11y ago
+1. Also goes without saying that Amazon has lots of quality refurb ThinkPads. They're priced accordingly but are solid machines nevertheless.
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by maxaf 11y ago
There are better (aka more creative) ways of inducing rage in fellow cow-orkers. https://twitter.com/noahlz/status/709961243277332482
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by maxaf 11y ago
It's a fun read. You know, I'm not normally one to jump on the "offended" bandwagon. In this case I felt compelled to speak up because the name makes it pretty much impossible to reference or recommend the project in a b
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by maxaf 11y ago
That naming scheme definitely needs a long, hard rethink.
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by maxaf 11y ago
Yesterday I discovered that OpenBSD runs well in EC2, but EBS attachments are silently ignored. :(
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by maxaf 11y ago
When 5.9 was still -current, https://github.com/ajacoutot/aws-openbsd was a viable if clunky way of producing one's own AMIs. As you can see from the script, there's quite a bit of work that happens before a
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by maxaf 11y ago
Is "don't do it" concrete enough for you? Don't do it. At all.
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by maxaf 11y ago
GitHub natively supports multiple ssh keys, multiple emails, and the sending of repository alerts to different email addresses. These features make it easy to keep just one GitHub account, which - to me, anyway - sounds like the better opti
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by maxaf 11y ago
I'm "technical" and "hands-on", yet I was gullible enough to believe the story, IM-ed it to my wife, and was surprised when she hadn't panicked like I did. I read way too much science fiction. Back to work now!
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by maxaf 11y ago
The main point in support of your argument is the fact that Unix utils are bundled in larger packages instead of shipping in single-command packages. Think of Fileutils, Shellutils, and Textutils... which got combined to form Coreutils! Ha!
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by maxaf 11y ago
Taking an idea to the logical extreme is an effective means of invalidating said idea. How many UNIX utilities are 17 silly lines long? A bit of code duplication would go a long way towards bringing sanity to JS land.
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by maxaf 11y ago
I have a private Twitter account and use it as a personal diary of sorts. I see Twitter as a write-mostly device with some recall capability. There also happen to be 300-odd individuals who have read-only access to my diary. It's great
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by maxaf 11y ago
I wasn't aware of a specific limit. Those were very legit "QA lapses" (to quote one Apple genius). I had three iPhone screens separate from the housing despite never having been dropped, and two other iPhones lost all cellula
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by maxaf 11y ago
The last 5S I've owned got replaced five (5) times. I'm not joking! Every apple device I've owned since my first PowerBook G4 in 2003 completely justified the purchase of AppleCare.
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by maxaf 11y ago
It all comes down to AppleCare: I don't want to own an aftermarket phone that isn't covered for damage by anything other than my own wallet. The 5/5S can only remain a viable option for me if they're sold directly by App
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by maxaf 11y ago
It isn't competitively priced. The 32G used to be a sweet spot I could go for, but it's gone now.
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by maxaf 11y ago
The 16GB storage size is a deal breaker. :( Going to stay on the 4S, see how things pan out later on.
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by maxaf 11y ago
I've found that the kind of company that cultivates a culture in which degrees are paramount is not the kind of company I want to work for. I skipped college because I was alone in NYC and had to make ends meet. In that I'm wholly
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by maxaf 11y ago
That was at MLB Advanced Media. Looking back I think MLBAM was the most solid employer I'd ever worked for.
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by maxaf 11y ago
This simply isn't true. I received a >$30,000 raise at one of my previous employers after they realized that I was being grossly underpaid for the work I was doing. Granted, I had to bring my managers' attention to this, but th
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by maxaf 11y ago
Oh, webpack is a great example of my frustration: I suspect it might be better than browserify for my needs, but I'm already so shell-shocked from adopting browserify at work that I no longer have the nerve to disturb the house of card
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by maxaf 11y ago
GWT is weighed down heavily by its mission to be both a Java->JS compiler and a UI framework. Scala.js is, first and foremost, a Scala->JS compilation mechanism, and only incidentally can have a type-safe interface to UI (or any oth
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by maxaf 11y ago
I'm tempted to rewrite your comment using s/Scala/JavaScript/g and then wager it would still make perfect sense. I've recently had to bootstrap an Angular project using nothing but pure JS and some Sass. This isn&#x

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