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by mdip 8y ago
> Paying thousands of dollars per year just so that users can run your free software is ludicrous. While I agree that requiring code signing certificates to run free software sucks, I'm curious where the thousands of dollars a year
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by mdip 8y ago
I don't think it clearly beats my current solution of hacking something together from scratch in a couple hundred lines of Python. I've so thought this more than a few times[0]. Every single time I run into something on
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by mdip 8y ago
Interesting; I haven't used this tool, myself. I want to say that I've heard of it, before, but I'm not sure if I'm confused on that point (or if I just really want to have heard of it before). Looking over the docs
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by mdip 8y ago
--- While your point is completely fair in that 24 packages won't make a very useful service, it's also fair to say this is a new tool and it's OK to give it some time. --- (EDIT: for the sake of transparency, I'm crossi
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by mdip 8y ago
it always blows my mind that so few people really know how to use it at a decent level I'll second this -- it's by far the most used swiss-army knife in my arsenal[0]. A little part of me dies when I see scripts doing
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by mdip 8y ago
It's somewhat of a downside and an upside with the medication I take -- it's not a "take it when there's a problem" but a "take it all the time" kind of drug. In this case, because mine were so frequent,
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by mdip 8y ago
... as if I didn't write enough in the last comment, something came to mind that bears mentioning, as well. It occurred to me that I didn't inquire about the size of companies that you're looking at. You mentioned hiring man
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by mdip 8y ago
Glad I could be of assistance -- let me see if I can assist further: I have to say I'm a little surprised you're running into issues on the negotiation front -- but that may be where you live and other circumstances. Where I&#x
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by mdip 8y ago
I can't answer the first few questions terribly well, because I'm honestly not sure how to go about searching for jobs that directly offer the (rare) private office, these days, however, I have some thoughts on the later questions
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by mdip 8y ago
At risk of being downvoted, myself, as this is off-topic, but since there is no 'meta' and you're clearly looking to understand what happened, I suspect the issue originates in the first statement made from the original comme
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by mdip 8y ago
The unfortunate truism about the internet, and I think this applies particularly strongly on Reddit, is "People are d!cks on The Internet". I maintain a few hobby projects and get feedback occasionally -- the only time I'v
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by mdip 8y ago
This is very cool as far as I'm concerned. I suffered from migraines for about 17 years and due to sensitivities, I couldn't take most of the usual remedies (triptans). Migraine is one of those things that is frustratingly misun
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by mdip 8y ago
I've got a couple of thoughts on this -- it's one of my pet peeves, as well[0]. The first point is, and I get that this doesn't apply evenly depending on the kind of job that you have, but if you dislike a company policy ...
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by mdip 8y ago
I believe this happens if you've already visited a link to the article (that's what happened to me). Try opening a private browser session, paste in the google link and click through to the article and it should bypass correctly
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by mdip 8y ago
As my mom always said, "This is why we can't have nice things." I deeply miss the days when all it took was installing something akin to "Flask Block" and this problem was solved. I've been using Firefox wit
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by mdip 8y ago
I'll go on record as saying I am an ardent hater of U-Verse and AT&T due to personal experience with their service and would like nothing more than for this to be a purposeful act that would result in backlash on that company...
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by mdip 9y ago
I tend to agree with you there. It's difficult for me to believe that the single Cambridge Analytics thing is it personally. And it sounds like as far back as 2012, an Obama campaign person mentioned they were getting similar infor
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by mdip 9y ago
I joke that I have an ever growing private repository of code I'm too embarrassed to publish publicly. Only partly joking; it's actually several repositories. But as others have said, people who are programmers more than just pr
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by mdip 9y ago
I think a lot of those problems can be solved with a few techniques: In the case of the famous rm -rf /, having a flag to ditch confirmation (which, IIRC, the reason the confirmation prompt was not there in the first place is because &
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by mdip 9y ago
1. You're kindly welcome. 2. The last I had heard about that machine, specifically, was around 2011 and I'm fairly certain it was there when they eliminated the NOC in Detroit which was around 2013, if memory serves. The thing is
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by mdip 9y ago
LOL - I'm reading this as I'm checking my home nagios server to see why I just got an e-mail about the Raspberry Pi at my parent's cabin up north.
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by mdip 9y ago
I can't say that I'm completely sure, but I'm going to guess the answer is "Probably Not". The big telecoms tend to be very conservative about where they spend their money -- understandable with a product this expe
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by mdip 9y ago
My wild, totally uninformed, guess that it wasn't an assumption that empty meant wildcard but rather a failure to sanitize input at all. My experience, though limited, with these management applications is that the developers assumed
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by mdip 9y ago
An "Are you sure?" prompt goes a long way and sometimes takes a really long time to get added, even when it's historically been a problem[0]. Particularly in these kinds of cases -- this is software that is used by very few
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by mdip 9y ago
I commented more extensively in the root of the post, but you can't even begin to imagine. Think about every script you've ever written for "some thing at home" and how you only cared that it worked for the very narrow,
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by mdip 9y ago
I was an employee of Level 3 for a very long time (in IT, various roles -- most of my career was there). A small disclaimer: I left before this incident happened (about a year prior) and have spoken with nobody about it, so I have no insid
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by mdip 9y ago
Yes. But mainly only to direct my questions. Whether or not they were the primary author was mostly only important in knowing how well they knew the code in question. If it was written entirely by someone else but they fully understood th
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by mdip 9y ago
> If an employer can't ascertain your skill level through the interview process, their hiring is broken. I think the better way of putting that is "Interviewing is broken". Determining that a candidate meets a minimum lev
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by mdip 9y ago
> absolutely useless for comparing candidates or getting a full picture of what they've worked on in public. You're absolutely right. Using a single source as a metric, even if that source is as huge as Github, would be terr
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by mdip 9y ago
This -- exactly. I know of at least one person who's done this and a few others who were able to move into areas of their preferred language (i.e. going from a job that was mainly web/C#/MVC to mainly REST/C#/Angul

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