mjolk

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by mjolk 13y ago
>You will pay the price that a couple of non-contributors will fly under the radar for a bit longer, but between git logs and productivity tools you should still be more than capable of gauging productivity, which should be a binary. You
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by mjolk 13y ago
Wow, that's deep, you should get a tumblr account
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by mjolk 13y ago
>It's interesting that this event may spur countries into making their own electronics Or, more likely, some hand-waving policy that states "cooperation in fighting the thread of global terrorism" and more monitoring/
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by mjolk 13y ago
I'm not failing to grasp that. Most of the software I write is meant to make relatively easy things easier. However, searching for an app? Seriously?
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by mjolk 13y ago
Please, tell me why stores should get in the business of working against their best interest.
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by mjolk 13y ago
I'm sure your girlfriend is capable of searching for apps on her own.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Biomedical and nuclear research potentially yields boons for the public good. Constantly recording your existence for the benefit of an online marketer does not.
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by mjolk 13y ago
I've been trying not to get too worked up over the whole NSA/PRISM issue, but the potential success Google Glass changes the magnitude of the issue. By proxy, every Google Glass owner will be acting as a remote recording device fo
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by mjolk 13y ago
At first, I was dismissive of your point of view, but your cogent reasoning convinced me otherwise.
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by mjolk 13y ago
What I find most offensive is that this level of police response is that it's being used against someone that facilitated sharing of content between users that would have never paid for it, yet, good luck getting a third of these resou
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by mjolk 13y ago
What's the point of buying all those toys if you never get to use them? And what's a better time to use them, but when you know they can't potentially get damaged?
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by mjolk 13y ago
Sure, donate to the EFF. Write to your senator. Try to keep it in the medias' eye. And I know you were "kidding" about the "debt to China" part, but the economy doesn't work that way.
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by mjolk 13y ago
We're playing a game of truths and realities. It's embarrassing to company to have this happen. It's more embarrassing and painful if the employee that made it happen was grossly overcompensated in the eyes of shareholders.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Nothing they were doing is illegal, so I'm not sure how you can make a claim that they don't give a shit about laws.
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by mjolk 13y ago
If by "once you take into account," you mean "if you pretend/arbitrarily decide he received," then sure. I'd like to see your source that states that a 30% annual bonus is typical.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Yes, "fun," because it's absolutely hilarious to flood your government with busy work as a valid protest. Stop being a petty child and realize that the only effect that this would have is either a stoppage of serving request
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by mjolk 13y ago
I don't think it's an attack for Booz Allen to release the numbers to clear up a lie he (Snowden) made in an interview in which he was referencing the company. Imagine that you're an employee for the company with a degree and
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by mjolk 13y ago
Likable people succeed in roles that put them in front of people? What a dystopian nightmare!
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by mjolk 13y ago
>Not that it excuses any of it but they really don't try to hide it. Exactly. I had a chat with a recruiter a couple years ago and he was upfront about contracts with government agencies and data mining. But sure, someone internet
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by mjolk 13y ago
Entry level programmers will continue to have things taught in university - seemingly more Java than anything. Changing the scope of your comment to mean "entry level programmers" and not just "entry level people:" the
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by mjolk 13y ago
>SO: Rather than making it outright illegal, why not balance out some of the incentives in the name of efficiency? Hosts SHOULD be able to rent out their place when they don't live there.. Except that the other tenants get all of the ne
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by mjolk 13y ago
Yes, in 3 to 4 years, programming in Ruby or Python will be considered a skill that entry-level positions should have. In fact, I envision a future in which even the doormen of a building hook into hackernews APIs to verify the account sta
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by mjolk 13y ago
So, what do you propose as a realistic alternative?
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by mjolk 13y ago
Yes, the risk of losing your investment of real money and resources becomes more enticing when it's more likely to not work in your favor.
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by mjolk 13y ago
The most surprising part of this for me was that the machines weren't running linux in the first place.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Well, that's anecdotally good enough for me!
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by mjolk 13y ago
> we just approached people in line directly And the Starbucks was fine with you soliciting people in line?
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by mjolk 13y ago
You missed the point. The idea is management and investor confidence, buy-in. Here's how it works in most companies: MySQL goes down = something seriously bad happened. MariaDB went down = that database that Ted suggested sure is a piece
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by mjolk 14y ago
"No one ever got fired for buying IBM." As a corollary, no one wants to be the guy that suggested MongoDB before it caused an outage.
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by mjolk 14y ago
>I think it's our jobs to make sure we don't promote poor practice and un-ethical behaviour. No, it's our responsibility as decent people. I don't need to sign some online pledge to keep myself from pushing people in front of trains.

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