megaman22

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by megaman22 8y ago
Is there no way to sign scripts with a code signing certificate? I certainly have to do some hoop jumping to execute the equivalent of curl |bash on powershell.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Good luck. I'm more grumpy than many about people just reinventing their own half-assed wheels rather than learning how existing tools work, but it's not feasible to reverse. And honestly, it should not be. The day one cannot cust
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by megaman22 8y ago
Is this real? Are architects actually trained to think like this? As a layperson this seems so far out in left-field.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Intrusive anti-virus products imposed by people that don't know better than to click on dodgy porn sites and download and run untrusted binaries is a great way to waste tens of thousands of dollars of developer productivity. God help y
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by megaman22 8y ago
Never Invented Here. Or maybe duct-tape programming.
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by megaman22 8y ago
I think that they are these[1]. At least that is the same design; the flared-out base fills the ear and stays in better than most others I've seen. I'm not totally sure on the model; the plant my Dad worked at had huge boxes of
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Amiga Plot Routines(uridiumauthor.blogspot.com)
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by megaman22 8y ago
I quite often wear the orange Max ear plugs my Dad acquired bushels of over the years as a logger and diesel mechanic, at work when people are talking excessively loud next door, or the general buzz of conversation gets overwhelming. I&#x2
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by megaman22 8y ago
Is team chat some newfangled thing, or have people just forgotten that this has always been a thing? Ten years ago Sametime and Microsoft Office Communicator had persistent chat rooms that are identical to Slack channels, and they were cert
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by megaman22 8y ago
Mandarin is hamstrung by an impossible writing system, even in its various alphabetization schemes, so I do not see that as a reasonable winner. It simply requires too great an effort to reach functional levels of reading and writing profic
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by megaman22 8y ago
This is all tied together even more closely than that. Consider that from the beginning of the European China trade, the only reliable good that westerners could exchange for silk, tea, porcelain, etc was silver. An enormous fraction of the
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by megaman22 8y ago
Caps-lock is an abomination. I used to try remapping it to something useful, or disabling it in software with autohotkey or the like, but that was not sufficiently foolproof, so I've given up and just rip the keycap off my keyboards. L
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by megaman22 8y ago
Because that's not how the internet ever worked before this foolishness.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Pretty sure NPR shouldn't be particularly concerned about foreign regulations. It's an entirely US based entity.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Sorry to be contrarian, but not really. I'm not jobhopping, so whiteboards are something that sit in the corner gathering dust, while I actually write code or slap together Visio diagrams if need be. I'm largely distrustful of p
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by megaman22 8y ago
Teams is bundled into Office365, so if you use that for email or Office software, you've got it for free. It's exactly the same product as Slack, almost carbon copy.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Wanna learn history? Pick up some of the Paradox grand strategy games; Europa Universalis, Victoria, Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings. A side effect is that you'll pick up a lot of geography by osmosis, which is in my experience, the e
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by megaman22 8y ago
Personally, I'm of the opinion that educated, competent workers in useful fields are exactly the kind of people you would want to have immigrate and become permanent citizens. So the whole H1-B charade is rather stupid from that persp
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by megaman22 8y ago
Because that should be table-stakes for the profession. And too many H1-Bs are just awful. I don't necessarily blame them individually, but it's a perverse suboptimal system. If I ever run my own business, I'm going to put a
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by megaman22 8y ago
As far as I'm aware, you can pull your contributions out of a Roth IRA without penalty - they are post-tax dollars when they go in, until a regular IRA or 401k. Earnings and returns are different.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Most do not. Financial illiteracy is rampant; most do not understand how to use credit intelligently, or to figure out how much interest rates cost them if they do use credit. Consequently far too many people either avoid using credit ent
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by megaman22 8y ago
Somebody does need to actually implement things before it becomes a standard to work out all the kinks and realities that aren't apparent when you're off architecture astronauting on a whiteboard.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Most websites shouldn't care, because they should be static html, and the dumping them to disk and reloading them shouldn't make a whit of difference. The rest should probably be an actual application.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Bookmarks are a thing. Evidently people don't use them anymore, given how shitty the default UI for it is in Chrome, but I recall being a young whippersnapper on dial-up with Netscape Navigator, and bookmarks was how you kept track of
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by megaman22 8y ago
We're all going to die. And if we don't get killed by something else, we die of cancer, eventually. Death, taxes and cancer are as close to a trinity of certainty as you can get, and I'm not sanguine about finding a "c
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by megaman22 8y ago
Fighting cancer is being the little Dutch boy sticking your finger in a dam. Adding a decade or so at the end of people's lives is great, but bodies break down, and you're going to be fighting a constant rear-guard action. Gettin
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by megaman22 8y ago
Bit silly for a blanket policy. Who cares if a read-only site is delivered over HTTP, HTTPS, or carrier pidgeon?
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by megaman22 8y ago
I would hope that Googlers can make their sites work fastest on the browser that they own and control the internals of. If I were building a browser, I'd be seriously tempted to do a lot of things for speed that don't seem to be o
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by megaman22 8y ago
I can swim, so I'm not overly concerned. I've floated on some questionable conveyances that needed quite a lot of duck tape to make them hold water chasing trout. Then again, I usually don't bother fishing when there are near
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by megaman22 8y ago
It's funny, but sad, watching people trying to kill the golden goose by a thousand cuts.

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