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I Came Undone: One Woman's Horrifyingly Real Experience with Burnout(elle.com)
1 points by mrrrgn 12y ago|0 comments
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
Something like that exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_grammar#Grammatical_s... In most languages, word for word translation produces rubbish. In Esperanto it doesn't. Esperanto has no particular word
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
I think your criteria sound very fair. I would be curious to know how many generalists - which is what you seem to be describing - are able to produce the kind of 1000x returns that PG was describing though. Perhaps your definition of a gre
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
>I am pretty sure that most people would not have been able to contribute meaningfully to that type of revolutionary project. I agree with you totally. Didn't a lifetime of learning lead to that achievement though? The concept of cr
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
This concept of a "great programmer" is something I find very suspicious. A competently trained engineer who works with distributed systems may implement a trivial fix and save her company tens of thousands of dollars in AWS bills
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The Fantastic Mr. Feynman (2013 Documentary)(youtube.com)
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
Not sure who downvoted; but I appreciated the suggestions! Someone submitted a patch with the changes and I merged it a few hours ago. Thank you! :)
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
I'm only a learner myself. Not a security expert or trying to claim that this is super 1337. It's just a neat thing to play with.
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
Hmmm, well, no, it's not a full on "Trusting Trust" attack; though it has a similar outcome insofar as producing dirty binaries from clean source goes. The module is simple, with the only tricky part being replacing a system
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
Good advice, I may re-shoot the gif later and do that. Thanks! :)
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
I used licecap, it's extremely awesome. https://github.com/lepht/licecap :]
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Show HN: A simple, highly commented, rootkit which attacks GCC and Python(github.com)
94 points by mrrrgn 12y ago|13 comments
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
I've played sports my entire life (father was a basketball coach), and in that world these sorts of "rites of passage" are common place. I've also seen a bit of this at software companies -- for instance at Facebook I go
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Write a WebSocket chat server in 6 lines of code with Python(github.com)
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Buridan's Ass(en.wikipedia.org)
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Django middleware that prints query stats to stderr after each request(github.com)
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
I don't have any desire to be lavished in praise; but you're being unnecessarily rude I think. :[
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
I appreciate any feedback, of course, I'm trying to learn here! About the snippets you mentioned, my reasoning was: There's a variable outside of the functions scope. If the value of the global variable were changed before it&#x
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
Yes! That's definitely the way I think about it. These are just my way of taking notes, and I thought they'd be fun to share. I do it this way because writing a poem requires a bit of reflection, so, instead of just retaining n
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
Thanks! No plans of stopping in sight. :)
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A bash script for persisting tmux sessions across reboots(github.com)
1 points by mrrrgn 12y ago|0 comments
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Lessons learned about the importance of sleep while working in Iceland(linux-poetry.com)
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The Pessimistic Technologist(linux-poetry.com)
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Turning down the offer that could have made my career (linux-poetry.com)
5 points by mrrrgn 12y ago|2 comments
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Highly Documented WebSocket data-frame encoder/decoder(github.com)
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A Collection of Poetry About The Linux Kernel(linux-poetry.com)
5 points by mrrrgn 12y ago|0 comments
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
This author rails about how scientific progress isn't exponential; but that's not even relevant. The idea of accelerating returns was only ever meant to apply to information technologies. Though they are related on various level
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Show HN: Writing poetry about Linux(linux-poetry.com)
1 points by mrrrgn 12y ago|0 comments
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Irony is ruining our culture(salon.com)
59 points by mrrrgn 12y ago|65 comments
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Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options(gist.github.com)
2 points by mrrrgn 12y ago|0 comments

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