migrantgeek

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by migrantgeek 13y ago
Dropbox doesn't offer great encryption because the service is meant to make it very easy to share files and not a secure repository for your things. The gripe is like someone saying "this axe doesn't cut butter very well&quot
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
Why are there so many articles about women in tech? I think it's just a wish of some guys in tech to have more women around. If it's just diversity we're after let's get some black and hispanic people among the ranks. I've worked with a lot
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
If you're too busy to get a date, you're too busy to go on one. Relationships are hard. Even purely sexual ones take time and effort.
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
My hiatus from HN didn't last as long as I thought :) I don't think there's any correlation between my past posts and the candidate search. The most important thing I'm looking for is that they think this stuff is cool and they are motivate
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
I don't doubt that companies are trying to get a piece of legislation passed that allows them to pay employees less. Increasing margins, that's what companies do. I do take issue with the idea that the talent shortage is a myth. I work for
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by migrantgeek 13y ago
It's true only from your world view. You should have titled the post "Git is hard for me" but it would have attracted less eyeballs. I'm a daily user of Git interacting with thousands of developers committing against the same repo. Here's m
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by migrantgeek 14y ago
It depends on what you value more. Do you want as much storage as possible and not care about redundancy? Then RAID 0 or JBOD would give you a lot of space. I wouldn't recommend it myself but it's an option. If you care about redundancy but
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by migrantgeek 14y ago
Just SSH and the built in screen sharing app since it's headless and just sits on a shelf. Admittedly my needs are easily met. I really just wanted the following * stream downloaded content to PS3 * host virtual machines for testing (I use
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by migrantgeek 14y ago
I just bought a Mac Mini and attached some external drives. I run PS3 Media Server for Mac to stream content to my PS3 and app enabled TV. It's not super slick or cool but I don't care. I spend at least 8 hours a day at a Linux or Solaris t
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by migrantgeek 14y ago
Would you have stumbled on it if it weren't? I know I wouldn't have. The internet can be too focused sometimes and we lose out on a lot of serendipity as a result.
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by migrantgeek 14y ago
Instead of attacking the NYT, why not just let another paper do the same test with the same car? There may be an issue with that particular car, the journalist could be bias or the battery may just not perform well in cold weather. It’s har
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by migrantgeek 14y ago
I haven't followed this thing very closely but has anyone suggested testing this again and trying to reproduce the problem? If someone said my code was faulty, the first thing I do is repro. Why doesn't another newspaper just try the same e
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by migrantgeek 14y ago
Those guys aren’t ninjas and they aren’t dying out. Blackwater has hired lots of ninjas. A ninja is just some dude who gets paid money to get dirty using the best tech and skills available at the time. If they had Glocks in the 15th century
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by migrantgeek 14y ago
I have the same complaint regarding gems. They’ve always seemed more brittle than Python modules. I have an operations background so I’m used to supporting these apps rather than writing them but I’ve had a lot more trouble in the package m
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by migrantgeek 14y ago
There's a pretty good list here http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks I'm sure the winners will depend on your needs. Do you need a full stack or not? For me, it's either Django or Flask for Python depending on how much of a framework
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by migrantgeek 14y ago
We’re not creating anything. We’ve always found ways to distract ourselves. Life is a horrible place underneath fishing, video games, Twitter, hiking, stamp collecting, sports, coding, horticulture and everything else we’ve invented. It wou
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
If we could turn pedantry into electrical power, geeks on the internet could power the planet forever. The takeaway summed the point up nicely although everyone's arguing over sizeof(int). Sure, there are cases when sizeof(int) is not 4 but
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
Operations shouldn't develop and Development shouldn't do operations. That isn't to say that Ops can't program. I write a lot of Python to get things done but that's not Development. I'm a sysadmin in a 100% AWS shop. Before I showed up, De
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
Seems like everyone agrees that GoDaddy is terrible. What's strange to me is the interface has always sucked and gets worse as they've grown. You'd think with the revenues they see, they could get some good designers to make it much more us
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
I could be wrong but I thought it read A and B or C.
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
Yes, if someone is taking works from others without permission and posting it on a website where they make a profit, they should be fined and possibly jailed if they are repeat offenders. The law just gives companies more ammunition in the
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
"The word "felony" should really be reserved for crimes that hurt people." Oh, I agree and don't agree with the law. Just stating that it's not as overreaching as stated by the linked article. I do not know much about the law I believe this
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
"potentially putting people in jail for embedding YouTube videos or just putting up YouTube lip synching videos. " Sounds like FUD If you read the amendment here http://thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.978 : It updates this http://www.la
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
They can certainly protect against this but it's not a good idea. I pay US taxes and I don't want the cia.gov site to be on the same type of hardware as say Google just to be DDoS "proof". They shouldn't be connected with a 33.6 modem but t
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
I agree with showing how poorly secured websites are and how easily our information is distributed even when we think it's private. What I don't agree with is their use of DDoS attacks against sites like cia.gov. DDoS attacks are pointless.
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
I prefer Red Hat/CentOS in production because it's a standard. Solid certifications exist and it's easy to find employees with experience. It's also slower moving than say Ubuntu but I prefer longer release cycles and have more confidence i
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
I limit my subs to mostly tech and feeds that post infrequently but well. I go back and forth between enabling Hacker News and disabling it. It's too busy and distracting sometimes when I need to get things done and I don't want to get lost
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
24in60
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
That's uncalled for. If he owns the data and pays for the connectivity, he should be free to do as he pleases just like I can exclude you from my home or business without justification.
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by migrantgeek 15y ago
"Archiveteam projects are different because we run closely-monitored, highly targeted crawls." Maybe, but does that make robots.txt useless? I don't think so. Your app may do the right thing but who's to say another app isn't? Why should so

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