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by nosequel 15y ago
I had a cube at one point at a company who wouldn't buy me a stand-up desk, so I just put a box on top of my desk and put the monitor / keyboard / mouse on it. I obviously don't know your situation, but unless you are explicitly told you c
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by nosequel 15y ago
Why is standing all day horrible for your health? I'm assuming your are talking about the post above yours referring to a work day. I stand 10+ hours a day, with no foot pain, and don't stand on a pad or in shoes. Just because of this, I wo
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by nosequel 15y ago
It could have been the particular agency that was doing the clearance in my case. With a military customer, I saw less issues, but with the customer I was referring to in my previous post, there were lots of denials. I think the location
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by nosequel 15y ago
It is call a "Lifestyle" Polygraph and it is meant to weed out anything that can be used against you in exchange for divulging secrets. The major component to most of the clearance questions revolve around bribery. People don't divulge se
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by nosequel 15y ago
Whether the machine works or doesn't work is irrelevant if they convince you during the poly that it does work. I had one, and the technician was far more intimidating than the machine. If I had something to hide, by the end he would have g
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by nosequel 15y ago
Well this is certainly only partly true. The difference between a generic Secret clearance and the level of clearance talked about in the article is probably bigger than the difference between having a secret clearance and not having one
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by nosequel 15y ago
I think his point was that the original email was very particular to his use, and it might not have the same issues used by different people. So his public opinion of Scala wouldn't be him lying, it would be him generalizing it more. He was
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by nosequel 15y ago
I guess it is fitting that something as self promoting and and dramatic as TechCrunch covers the startup industry that is self promoting and dramatic.
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by nosequel 15y ago
I read the article thinking there would be some fundamental flaw pointed out that the AUS universities were doing. Instead, it complained that the CS curriculum was theoretical and used old languages like C, instead of PHP, Python, and Ru
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by nosequel 15y ago
If they have the talent, time, and funds (they have all three btw), why shouldn't they? The might have not a lot of competition right now, but that will change in the future I'm sure. Any competitive advantage is a plus IMHO. As a dev
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by nosequel 15y ago
Backend / Server software, build tools, general scripting (using escript).
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by nosequel 15y ago
Exactly. This is sort of a stretch of a metaphor here, but consider the predator having a server system that provides an API. The ground station is just a client putting out requests to that API. The ground station computers had the vir
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by nosequel 15y ago
No, because they are all civilians who don't even carry GS rankings. Mitre is just a government contractor like everyone else in that space, but they are different because they are a not-for-profit corporation. They serve contracts for
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by nosequel 15y ago
Seriously, what are you talking about? What investors? You have proven you don't know what you are talking about in this thread, but I am curious what you think is true? Who are the heads of the NSA meeting with who would be considere
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by nosequel 15y ago
No one from the government competed in the Darpa Grand Challenge. It was all private companies or universities. I was there, DARPA sponsored it and oversaw it, that's all. Check the wiki link below and tell me which team listed was from
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by nosequel 15y ago
One nitpicky-type thing for me in the article is saying that Sebastian Thrun invented the first driverless car. Yes, he was the head of the Standford team who won in 2005, but he was on the CMU team the competition before where Red Whitak
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by nosequel 15y ago
NSA gets their money whether you like it or not. They certainly have people in charge who talk to the legislative branch, but they aren't MBA/marketing people. The are usually ex-generals. Other agencies might seek outside contractors
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by nosequel 15y ago
How would you know if it is top secret? Most top secret tech never gets seen outside of the top secret circles. Unless you have a TS/SCI clearance, the best you can do is speculate on what exists now. Obviously not all fields are cover
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by nosequel 15y ago
People at those "special genius places" can't participate in any of the things you mentioned. They get paid for other, much more important jobs. Darpa grand challenge wasn't due to the government not being able to do something, it was d
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by nosequel 15y ago
How do you feel about Erlang's "let it fail" policy? I personally was afraid of it at first thinking you couldn't write stable code, but the result was quite the opposite. Things fail, and get started back up by supervisors and everythi
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by nosequel 15y ago
The user systems are usually very much different than the flight control systems. In the plane I worked on, all flight control systems ran on VxWorks and hardly used networking for anything. The majority of the communication between syst
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by nosequel 15y ago
Exactly. And it is WAY cheaper. $100/month gets you more users and one less thing you have to worry about backing up and keeping up and running.
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by nosequel 15y ago
XCode is just recently free, it always cost something before now. Without GCC being out there, would it have been free this whole time? I don't know either way, no one does, but I cheap != free. GCC has always been free.
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by nosequel 15y ago
My thoughts exactly. I can buy a cd, rip to flac / mp3, listen to the mp3's everywhere mobile, and flac in my home theater or on my nice headphones. All of the cd's I buy still costs me less than some subscription service.
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by nosequel 15y ago
I write with my hands on paper as much as I can to get my eyes off of the monitor and my hands off the keyboard. Yes taking notes on something like evernote is more useful down the road, but for me there is something more free about jotti
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by nosequel 15y ago
Thanks, I was going to put in a PR, but you got to it first.
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by nosequel 15y ago
$ sudo brew install node.js $ sudo curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh $ wget https://github.com/downloads/github/hubot/hubot-1.0.0.tar.gz $ tar zxvf hubot-1.0.0.tar.gz $ cd hubot $ npm install $ ./bin/hubot Mine had some path issues
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by nosequel 15y ago
Bah, my memory did not serve me well then. Looking at the scripts they are certainly clean now, so kudos on the re-write! Hope you guys / gals are ready for a pull-request torrent this week!
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by nosequel 15y ago
Well that's good to hear. I didn't mean to sound like a dick by any means, I just didn't expect to only see mustache generators. Your posts on it particularly in your blog made me excited to look at the repo for the infrastructure / CI co
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by nosequel 15y ago
Okay, sorry ahead of time for being a Debbie downer here, but there are no work-related or useful scripts in the repository. All the great stuff they talk about running builds, deploying code, checking on servers, getting test results are

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