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by nwatson 9y ago
The Symantec CEO has been in that position only since Symantec acquired Blue Coat last year, where they were CEO previously. The Symantec CA happened well before their current term.
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by nwatson 9y ago
I just froze my family's credit reports with all three credit reporting agencies ... I wonder whether that blocks employers from this info as well, I imagine it's a completely separate service though.
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by nwatson 9y ago
The hit or miss nature of black swans means you can run out of money and willing investors even when expected return is in your favor. The only way to fund the famine years is to subsidize with a regular portfolio ... but then you don'
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by nwatson 9y ago
Having personally seen the sausage factory on one of the "scanner" companies, I would be very careful and do due diligence on any such thing I contemplated buying. Compliance & Security "in the enterprise" is a smoke
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by nwatson 9y ago
Postgres has the BLOB functionality, but also has the JSONB data type that not only stores structured JSON data efficiently, but also allows indexing on the contents of that data. So you can use BLOBs and explicitly store in the table what
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by nwatson 9y ago
I paid capital gains on my sale of 325 BTC and used the profits to buy a Butterfly Labs Monarch mining machine. I was unlucky ... BFL never got their engineering straight and the machine never appeared. I was lucky ... I demanded a refund e
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by nwatson 9y ago
For this ... Any successful read() from each byte position in the file that was modified by that write shall return the data specified by the write() ... perhaps I can re-open() and re-read() the same byte value written
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by nwatson 9y ago
It informs me of software I didn't know about and yet is popular among presumably mostly developers and power users. I need to know about that.
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by nwatson 9y ago
I remember considering spending lots of student-budget money in 1993 for an SGI Indy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy ), a low-end graphics workstation from SGI. I think this was shortly before peak-SGI. I'
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by nwatson 9y ago
Prisoners use >> cans of mackerel << as currency: https://www.wired.com/2011/01/st_prisoncurrencies/ .
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by nwatson 9y ago
With a good IDE with an integrated debugger Python and its ilk, and even Java, are like clay. PyCharm, IntelliJ, and their siblings.
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Red Hat adds Microsoft's .NET Core 2.0 to its Linux and cloud offerings(zdnet.com)
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by nwatson 9y ago
Contrarian Investing ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrarian_investing
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by nwatson 9y ago
I listen to a number of NPR podcasts and perhaps I'm misremembering but it seems there's an uptick in the past few years of interviewing and discussing the lives of just "regular folks", people who work blue-collar jobs,
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by nwatson 9y ago
At current job we use a "standup" Slack channel in my group, works well enough.
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by nwatson 9y ago
$8/pound for guava sounds real expensive. I can get real good Mexican guava for around $3/pound at this grocery store in North Carolina: https://www.facebook.com/Compare-Foods-Winston-Salem-NC-1196... (I suppose
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by nwatson 9y ago
That is the real downside to remote work. I used to enjoy frequent outings and lunch time with co-workers.
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by nwatson 9y ago
Yep, I have a very good deal at this co-working place: http://flywheelcoworking.com/ They're also very involved in the community and encourage a lot of small companies. [Edit] I'll also say a good perk is this aw
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by nwatson 9y ago
I live in North Carolina (not in the tech-heavy part) and "work in" SF Bay Area ... it's a good situation.
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by nwatson 9y ago
But the article isn't talking about UC, it's talking about CalState ... this link is old, but emphasizes differences between the two school systems: https://www.imperial.edu/ivc/files/WHAT_IS_THE_DIFFERE
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by nwatson 9y ago
Guy takes a flyer on a horse that already shows some promise and his bet comes out well. His monopoly on winning is so strong he has to pivot to an alternate strategy to profit even more from his horse. Colorful VC that didn't come t
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by nwatson 9y ago
But getting equal time on each pixel as you spiral out would be crucial to trigger the right phosphorescent equal luminance from your light-emitting material. Theta would not be linear with time.
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by nwatson 9y ago
According to this link ... http://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/2010/03/yakuza-and-e... ... it's not the police that lower petty crime rates but rather the Yakuza gangs working as enforcement-for-hire.
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by nwatson 9y ago
And in the mean time, other parties will step into our USA internecine war with their own agendas and prey off our pride and ignorance, e.g.: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-ra... . [Writ
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by nwatson 9y ago
Just found out today ... came to Amsterdam from Copenhagen, and no, the data plan and phone both do not transfer without the additional setup I think is described in a sibling comment here. Still, I used a lot of data, was well worth it. I
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by nwatson 9y ago
I'm working from Copenhagen right now. A valid-for-one-month 30GB data + 600 unlimited minutes on Lebara SIM card is $15 (and that includes free international calling to, e.g., USA or Brazil or wherever), and I can re-up at any time.
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by nwatson 9y ago
In Spanish and Portuguese "mal educado" == literally "poorly educated" is used to mean "someone with poor etiquette ... doesn't know how things should work" ... writer probably means in that sense.
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by nwatson 9y ago
Bye bye Common Stock options.
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by nwatson 9y ago
In the 24 years I've been working for Silicon Valley / SF companies (7 companies, the latest two as remote positions) I've never gone through HR or gone through the regular job-posting-or-board search ... I've gotten all
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by nwatson 9y ago
RHEL/CentOS has more of the long-term enterprise audience and will be around for a much longer time.

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