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721.
by phaus 13y ago
Did they do it on launch, or just after it was widely publicized that bypassing their paywall is laughably easy? Edit: Afterwards. I'd be more inclined to believe them if they had said it from the start.
722.
by phaus 13y ago
>When folks tell me "I'll do anything" I'm left wondering. Not everyone is a delicate little flower that requires every aspect of his environment to be perfect in order to come to work, bust his ass, and keep a smile
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by phaus 13y ago
>BTW this is deliberate. It's not like they're idiots. They intentionally decided to make the paywall easy to get around. Never attribute to cleverness what can be adequately explained by incompetence.
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by phaus 13y ago
>From a cursory glance, I think he believes Snowden is a misguided traitor, Manning should spend the rest of his life in solitary, and Wikileaks is a Russian-funded intelligence front. He's a professor at a military school, I'm
725.
by phaus 13y ago
It appears that he's still on a sabbatical. http://railscasts.com/announcements/12
726.
by phaus 13y ago
I didn't let the NSA off the hook, I was just commenting on the absurdity of congress acting like this wasn't the obvious outcome of decades of bad leadership and bad legislation.
727.
by phaus 13y ago
I didn't say that it was their fault that the NSA lied. Its their fault that secret courts, the Patriot Act, and a number of other things exist. Its also their fault that the constitution has been systematically undermined for the last
728.
by phaus 13y ago
You don't need all of that to be escorted on a single occasion. It really wouldn't be difficult at all to sanitize a conference room. People aren't likely leaving piles of classified documents on the table between meetings an
729.
by phaus 13y ago
There are people that have filed for bankruptcy that managed to get a TS. It would be highly unusual to be rejected for missing a single payment, provided you are current while the investigation is going on. It would also be extremely unlik
730.
by phaus 13y ago
They might not know what the NSA is up to, but they sure as hell created the mechanisms that led to that predicament.
731.
by phaus 13y ago
There are standard processes in pretty much every government organization for escorting uncleared personnel into a SCIF. The fact that they chose not to in this case might indicate that they aren't taking this seriously.
732.
by phaus 13y ago
That's a ridiculous statement. I recently took a job that pays 15% less than I was making, which was already much lower than I should be making, because it was either that or have my family get evicted from our home when we can't
733.
by phaus 13y ago
Its amazing money for someone living in India, but the guy in question was moving to America. If he's good enough for them to want him to work in the U.S., they should be willing to pay him appropriately to do so.
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by phaus 13y ago
The programming world doesn't really work like that. There are a couple of places selling certifications, but they matter so little that it would be a waste of money to get one. The best thing you can do is build stuff and show it off
735.
by phaus 13y ago
Another good place to seek advice would be to post on reddit.com/r/resumes. They helped me get mine in shape the last time I was looking for employment.
736.
by phaus 13y ago
Are you an executive? At a lot of companies executives can safely ignore company policies at their discretion. Also, you could just inform the customer to resend the info to the official channel and make sure someone is actually keeping an
737.
by phaus 13y ago
No one is claiming anything other than the fact that the captcha is really horrible. That being said, your defense of the site makes it sound even worse. Not only is the captcha horrible, but it took them almost all the way until 2014 to ev
738.
by phaus 13y ago
I didn't say that everyone would progress in a manner that's perfectly equal in every aspect, but I do believe that everyone can learn to draw just as well as professional artists do. History might not regard you as Michelangelo&#
739.
by phaus 13y ago
>That's a silly semantic argument about what I meant. Wanting to be able to draw has nothing to do with being willing to do whatever it takes to be able to draw. It isn't about semantics. If you wanted to draw well, you would d
740.
by phaus 13y ago
>I strongly suspect it will be a very uphill battle for the way my brain "naturally" works. What we have been trying to explain is that this belief is incorrect. Everyone likes to pretend that the ability to draw is some sort o
741.
by phaus 13y ago
Everyone on the planet that has at least one hand is capable of drawing at a professional level. The only thing stopping you is a lack of practice. If you want to get good at it, draw, observe objects closely, read books and watch tutorials
742.
by phaus 13y ago
>"How many soldiers have you seen die on the side of a road in Afghanistan because our ever-so-accurate UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicle] were unable to detect an IED [improvised explosive device] that awaited their convoy?" Right
743.
by phaus 13y ago
Without context and purely based on technicality you are correct, yet in the frame of this conversation your comment doesn't make any sense. Clearly there is a difference between a benign website and a site that hosts code that knowing
744.
by phaus 13y ago
There is already malware that "protects" the host by detecting and eliminating other malware. The idea is that if you keep the user's system clean (except for your malware) then you will evade detection more easily. If, as yo
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by phaus 13y ago
John Carmack
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by phaus 13y ago
Its terrible. If you want good Linux compatibility, get another Thinkpad. System 76 sells rebranded Clevos. The best Clevo laptops are mediocre, the worst are unusable. The Ultrapro falls into the latter category. Quite a few models of Clev
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by phaus 13y ago
>Most of the people on HN will never quit the game, and will keep trying to make more money until they have one foot in the grave. That's because, as was already stated, most of them won't have billions of dollars. If they did,
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by phaus 13y ago
He probably should have been fired due to his abrasive attitude, but he allegedly did good work, and so they created a night shift just for him. I wasn't implying that success at one job has anything to do with success at another, I wa
749.
by phaus 13y ago
Real life isn't a fairy tale. Bullies win these fights more often than their victims. When we are talking about the work place, losing such a fight can end in unemployment. Its not as easy for non-developers to find new jobs. Personall
750.
by phaus 13y ago
I wonder what he did at Atari if he didn't code? He wasn't a force multiplier there, he actually ended up on a shift by himself because everyone hated working with him. I always assumed that he could code at a very basic level, pe

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