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by pbnjay 10y ago
I've lived a few places on the east coast basically, all lower cost of living. But I've been freelancing with folks in SF and Chicago, so the differential is in my favor. I started freelancing in grad school, so I've pretty m
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by pbnjay 10y ago
Freelancing. Had I started just 2 years earlier (when I started grad school) I would have been able to knock out my debt much faster by the time I graduated.
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Is this a resurgence of the "company town" of yore? Facebook now has work space, restaurants (nee "free meals"), plenty of other amenities (things like laundry, childcare, haircuts, massages, etc). Add in housing and you
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by pbnjay 10y ago
I assume it's for legal reasons. It's very hard/expensive to deal with international legal issues. Much simpler to stay within your own country.
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Stridatum LLC | Lead Developer | Charlotte, NC or REMOTE | FT Stridatum is a small development agency based just outside of Charlotte in Concord, NC. We like to geek out on cool data and beautiful code. You are responsible for designing, im
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by pbnjay 10y ago
I've used most of the tools mentioned here. Plain text or Google keep work fine for most of my notes. But I often need to sketch things and I have yet to find hardware/software that can beat pen+paper for responsiveness. If I want
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Ask HN: Why do sites give login page (instead of marketing) when I return?
1 points by pbnjay 10y ago|1 comments
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My hope would be that they somehow engineered a failure on all the systems that they would have to debug at 3am
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From a purely academic standpoint, I find this project and it's goals intriguing... And I'd be interested in playing around with the environment, if only it weren't for the "Hoon" language. I'm fine dusting off
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> “find the distinctive cries of premature infants actually aversive—not exactly what we would expect after a deep history of premature babies being correlated with better outcomes.” This is given as a argument against the main point, bu
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by pbnjay 10y ago
Stridatum LLC | Lead Developer | Charlotte, NC or REMOTE | FT Stridatum is a small development agency based just outside of Charlotte in Concord, NC. We like to geek out on cool data and beautiful code. You are responsible for designing, im
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by pbnjay 10y ago
This is my life right now. Fighting customers for on-site installs. This hits too close to home...
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The linked ticket has more detail than this: https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/814 Basically, allows ECDSA certificates alongside RSA.
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That's fair. It's definitely good for training/exercising the syntax parser and debugger in your head without relying on an IDE or compiler errors. And you definitely have to plan ahead to complete the problems in the time al
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by pbnjay 10y ago
I did a competitive programming course in undergrad, these problems are really interesting if you're not familiar with it. I highly recommend folks try a few problems and look at the solutions. It can be really eye-opening. However, I
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by pbnjay 10y ago
I think it will really depend on the role. - One project is in active development, and I probably spend about 70-80% of keyboard time coding with 20% debugging. - A separate project is in maintenance mode, and obviously most of my time on i
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by pbnjay 10y ago
Sure I understand, but my point is that they should be ahead of the game on basically everything else. Echo was released over a year ago so surely Google has been working on far-field tech since _at least_ then. To still be aiming for end o
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by pbnjay 10y ago
"OK Google", Google Now, their voice recognition tech, and NLP recognition are far far past Echo's version. So if the hardware is that easy this should have been out yesterday. The even mentioned earlier in the keynote how th
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by pbnjay 10y ago
I find it odd that Google is going to take so long to get this out the door - "later this year" seems like ages. Did they start on the hardware that late? Amazon has what, 6 months to get more competitive on the search/trivia
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The truly mind-blowing thing here is that it's "intermittent" ... so they only _sometimes_ check the username for "user" ??
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by pbnjay 10y ago
Cross platform isn't there yet though. I'll definitely give it more thought, especially if it does cross-platform GUIs (something Go does not have good libraries for). That said, Go's tooling, documentation, and ecosystem are
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by pbnjay 10y ago
Swift for GUIs on OSX / iOS. Go for everything else. Haven't had much reason to play with Rust or D, but also haven't seen nearly as much of them in the wild...
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5 Things You Can Get in India with a Missed Call(blogs.wsj.com)
3 points by pbnjay 10y ago|0 comments
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by pbnjay 10y ago
If I were a subscriber to "one of the largest WISPs in Spain" ... I'd be a bit concerned right now. Wow. To paraphrase: "It was working perfectly, so I didn't bother checking for security updates, for my over 3000 a
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by pbnjay 10y ago
When I saw the post with this number in it the other day, I had a similar thought! "Man, they're that well-known and they still aren't profitable... Will I ever be?" I know most startups aren't "crushing it&quo
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by pbnjay 10y ago
This was my first thought on seeing Infosys too... In my experience, I've found very little reason to look up to them. I understand it as a PR move for them, but it really devalues the concept to me.
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by pbnjay 10y ago
It's really tempting to slack off on the PhD when you get a big contract, but if you're serious about the PhD do not put it second. If you're in classes still, you should be good for a while, but once you get into research it
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by pbnjay 10y ago
Writing code for 20y. "Official" workforce something like 10y. MS and PhD in Comp Sci. Software Dev as a part of research project during that time, so 6y there. Day-jobbing as a developer now for ~3y. Freelancing for the past 6-7
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by pbnjay 10y ago
I would expect the local device audit log to store the server's signed acknowledgement too. With 2-party asymmetric signing this should be pretty much airtight.
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by pbnjay 10y ago
Not in NC, and I don't see Informix in the description so he probably wouldn't be interested anyway. Thanks for letting me know though!

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