nemesisj

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by nemesisj 13y ago
I love it whenever anyone insists something "isn't a big deal" or they don't care about it that much. I will simply say that it is a big deal to me, so if it's not a big deal to them, they might as well do it my w
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by nemesisj 13y ago
Agreed. This is a lie. Plain and simple. Even of you don't know any of the particulars about this issue, the post just contradicts itself. This is a textbook example of how not to own up to a security issue - if anything, this response
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by nemesisj 13y ago
I wonder if you couldn't just find some kind of white noise emitter that randomly generates noise for the frequencies in the same band?
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by nemesisj 13y ago
The article linked above mentioned one person hired at the time of its writing (2007). Obviously it's six years later now, but even if they hired two hundred, it would still be a staggering investment by the local government ($1 milli
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by nemesisj 13y ago
Heh - one of those data centers (Lenoir) was the focus of quite a bit of optimism in the Piedmont area of North Carolina a few years ago. I can't find the news articles, but essentially, massive tax benefits were provided to Google an
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by nemesisj 13y ago
One thing that's always confused me about the reader is the fact that there's no bracing to prevent stress on the audio jack during a swipe. Almost every merchant I've seen using the reader has some kind of silly putty or ju
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by nemesisj 13y ago
There are two sizes of tube trains - "deep tube" and "sub surface" trains. The deep tube trains are much smaller, and they are difficult to stand in if you're near the doors for anyone who's over 6 feet (I&#x2
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by nemesisj 13y ago
For your second point, again, I think the point of MailChimp pricing is you may have thousands of emails to send, but you won't be sending to thousands of email addresses. This makes most of their customers start on the free plan, the
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by nemesisj 13y ago
A few things here that I think most are missing: 1. Mailchimp is targeted (and priced for) the small business. Most small businesses aren't going to have lists more than a few thousand, which means most of Mailchimp's customers a
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by nemesisj 13y ago
I think it helps to separate the problem into two spheres. I took the article to be arguing that we've blended the two spheres below: On a human, moral level if someone is offended by something I've said which I didn't inten
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by nemesisj 13y ago
We've had a horrible experience with Rackspace. Truly awful. We're in the UK, hosting in London (as a backup) with Linode as a primary. The main problem is that Rackspace has no proactive monitoring or support in any way, and t
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by nemesisj 13y ago
I'm hopeful this means they can start offering their services in the UK! We'd love to integrate this in our app.
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by nemesisj 13y ago
While this is true, every locale in West China essentially runs on "pirate" time, which is adjusted as if it was in its own timezone. So yes, trains and planes are scheduled and run on Beijing time, but everyone else adjusts the
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I've Never Wished I Was Less Technical(peebs.org)
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by nemesisj 13y ago
This is great news, and comes as a bit of relief to some. I remember talking with a professor at the University of Edinburgh who was concerned about delays with CERN referencing the fact that the Nobel prize isn't awarded posthumously
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by nemesisj 13y ago
I was with you until the "only 20% margin" bit. That's a great multiple for most industries that aren't software. On here, we all think that's horrible, but for a non-software business, that's great. I guess
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by nemesisj 13y ago
Yeah, as you realised, and as another person mentioned, it has always worked this way on pretty much every OS I've used - Linux, Windows, Mac OS, iOS.
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by nemesisj 13y ago
It struck me that the post on why we hate infographics vs. the product the company puts out (visualisations of various data sources) was a bit of a non sequitur but the product does seems interesting and I'll probably give it a go. A b
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by nemesisj 13y ago
On all gens. They're all terrible.
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by nemesisj 13y ago
This is either brand new (within the last few weeks) or your coworkers don't know anything about it. The whole monitoring thing has been a farce for a year or more, as it's been coming real soon now, then in beta, then severely l
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by nemesisj 13y ago
I'd stay away from Rackspace London as well. Horrible horrible experience. 1. Noisy neighbours impact you all the time 2. The staff are really poorly trained and don't know how to troubleshoot. 3. They're expensive. 4. Their
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by nemesisj 13y ago
"...and was finally in a position to really influence our development decisions at every level. Even at the most sensitive of them all: language choice" When people say that "programming language doesn't matter", th
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by nemesisj 13y ago
Sadly, they took down the random mission statement generator from Dilbert.com, so you can't find any examples, but they were hilariously great.
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by nemesisj 13y ago
This is great, reminds me of a story from when I was an intern. In 2002 I was working at Freddie Mac for an internal business unit as a summer intern. I was tasked to create our internal group's website. After a week or two of my bos
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by nemesisj 13y ago
The flaw with your thinking is you don't actually know what was important or worthwhile until after it happened, and it may take years for that to really play out. Some of the best employees and friends I've ever had came about t
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by nemesisj 13y ago
I think the keys are to develop habits around working full-out during the day, planning well, not allowing yourself to inflict a culture that relies constantly on heroics for success, and taking responsibility for when things don't go
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by nemesisj 13y ago
Wow I couldn't disagree more. I have a rule that I'll never turn down a 30-45 minute catchup with someone who needs some advice, or wants a sounding board, or just wants to talk about something they're excited about. Life is
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by nemesisj 13y ago
One of the things we talk about a lot is how overtime and working more than 40-50 hours a week is always a management failure. We didn't raise enough money, or plan well enough, or get enough people, or understand what we were doing,
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by nemesisj 13y ago
Yeah, it was installed in the late 60s, but it was really poor during the 80s (and yes, I rode it in the mid 80s as well). There's really no comparison between it then and what it became just prior to the olympics. Same with the high
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by nemesisj 13y ago
I think there's an important psychological dimension that's often missed from these calculations, particularly for countries that have a chip on their shoulder. It's a way for the entire world to be focused on something that

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