migrantgeek

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by migrantgeek 13y ago
I don't like the idea of boycotting a speaking gig. If you don't agree with what RSA is doing, isn't it best to keep a dialog going? If we only allow those who agree with us to speak to the choir, they'll be a series of
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
Sounds like a BS way to change the argument. I don't think the parent poster was suggesting that these guns somehow rose up and chased down another person to have them killed. We all understand people were the root cause. Guns don&#x27
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
This is exactly what should happen. The success of any protest is based on media coverage. If no one was arrested, this wouldn't have been a story. If this coverage reaches a few who are willing to get arrested for the cause, they&#x27
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
>Part of the big ease of Heroku is, that you don't have to create Heroku before you use it. I agree. It defeats the purpose of services like Heroku where users want a place to upload code and have it just work. You also make a good
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
What if the repo was malicious from the start just waiting for you to install the first safe version only to give you the trojan later? The shell script prematurely terminating isn't really a security concern and could be fixed by down
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
I agree that it's insecure but so is ./configure && make && make install Or what about places that give you a Yum repo to install cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget http://download.opensuse.org&#x2
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
Allow yourself to be less productive at times. I used to try and force it. If I was just not feeling it, I would suck down caffeine and charge ahead. Work generated from those blitzes always sucked. I'm not advocating being lazy but so
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
Dash may be a better fit for this type of work. http://kapeli.com/dash
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
You're right, there are other ways it can end. Of course I really don't know what's going to happen but my best guess with what I know is that it'll fade into obscurity within a year. Probably my #1 reason for BTC failin
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
How does being offshore make it more fungible? I cannot buy groceries, pay my mortgage, put gas in my car, etc as I do with the USD right now. Because I can't use BTC as easily as USD it is by definition less fungible. It also seems se
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
It'll always have some value and may always be traded. I'm sure people still own and trade pogs but I wouldn't call pogs a currency. When I said that it'll fade into history I meant that sites like Amazon will never acce
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
I think the point is that people aren't buying bitcoins like I might exchange my money for South African Rand. When I exchange Dollars for Rand, I can more easily use the Rand to purchase goods and services in South Africa. I'm no
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
If you're just storing data, your analogy is fine. It breaks down with more advanced usage like integrations which can be very difficult with large teams. I manage a VCS with thousands of developers committing to a large code base. The
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
10K - put everything into savings 50K - put 40K into savings and use 10K to get a hot tub 100K - buy hot tub with 10K and use 90K to buy more land EDIT: typo
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
I wasn't aware so many people cared about YouTube comments. I'd actually forgot they existed after installing a plugin to have them removed a couple of years back. When I did notice comments, I can't remember an instance wher
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
"maybe its a DDOS by the Germans?!" That would be newsworthy however no evidence of this was presented. It was simply "this thing is down now". If a large site goes down, I would like to know what happened. I'd be i
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
I don't mean to be inflammatory but what's the purpose of HN postings regarding sites being down? I've never actually been to nsa.gov and would have never known it was down. I'm sure most of the readers are in the same b
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
What are some examples? Like hiding a wallet in a shoe at the beach? Even that is actually successful in some cases. Most thieves aren't career criminals in search of wallets. Perhaps a respectable working man sees a wallet of a young
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
I agree. Changing the port or hiding with port knocking is useful especially for keeping logs clean. Generally, I think it's best to avoid publicly accessible SSH but if needed, changing the port is a good idea. I always remove passwor
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
This article is definitely lacking data but if you want to get the public's ear, you need anecdotes. Few people perk up with a zip full of spreadsheets. Anecdotes are fine though they should at least be linked to data supporting the ar
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
I'm sorry, I have no advice to give however I can relate. I've forgotten passphrases to a lot of things. I once locked myself out of a set of backups I needed which meant a great deal to me. Photos that can never be restored, writ
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
I don't know if that number means anything on its own. There are many more conventional cars including some older ones often maintained by shade tree mechanics. Newer electric cars are relatively expensive and have owners who probably
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
"The FBI isn't dumb" The FBI is just a collection of people. Some dumb, some smart and most fall somewhere in-between. My guess is the person(s) responsible wanted this on their performance eval ASAP so they can try to make a
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
I wonder how the cost of ownership breaks down over time. A library pays $15 for a physical book that requires re-shelving, index cards to be made and kept up, time spent searching when someone misplaced the book, floor space, shelving, off
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
There's more to come. I've interviewed with Facebook for a similar position. After a phone screen, they setup another call that was probably more intense. They asked me to be near a computer with a net connection so I assumed I&#x
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
"One such improvement would be to publish all this information publicly in the first place." As a tax payer I'd prefer they not do this. The cost of having every document redacted would be enormous. I'm sure many documen
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
I've started seeing a massage therapist for my back and when they gave me a tour of the office they showed me a shrine of the local high school football team with autographed pictures, helmets, etc. The kid giving me the tour was proud
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
Heh, this is some real movie stuff. Do you think some Yale grad with blonde hair is hanging around cafes in the Middle East or China trying to blend with a disguise too? Human collection work is done by that Yale grad paying some locals for
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
I've never heard this claim however I was interested so I took the 2011 data for US cities with a population of 250K or more and it looks like the distribution isn't even close to support that claim although Detroit looks awful h
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
Do not host yourself. Find a better provider. With collocation you'll end up responsible for all of the hardware and still be dependent on remote hands so service could still suck and likely get much worse. System Administration is har

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