photosinensis

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by photosinensis 11y ago
If, in 5 years, we're all using node.js, I will leave the industry. JavaScript is an abominable language, I hate that we're stuck with it on the frontend, and I will leave any shop that tries to make it my primary job. Python has
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by photosinensis 11y ago
Houston and New York are also designed with an expectation that those cities will flood. Most buildings in Houston, for example, forgo a basement and instead have a collecting vault underneath them that the rain drains into and from (and l
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by photosinensis 11y ago
Texas school districts are independent of any other body with one exception: Stafford MSD (southwest of Houston), which is municipal. Some are county-wide. Some cover large territories of low density ranchland. Some don't even cov
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by photosinensis 11y ago
It'd be nice if they remembered us. We seem to be the only creative types not being targeted here. And yes, I'd actually consider it for a few purposes.. No, don't ship the SDK by default. Make it so that it only runs loca
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by photosinensis 11y ago
I've found that most servers in business environments are Linux-based, not Windows-based. It's significantly cheaper to spin up CentOS licenses for cost centers.
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by photosinensis 11y ago
That's the only period where it wasn't a hassle. Then everything went to shit at the beginning of this year, and there's nobody to approve visas (even if you wanted to visit Yemen now).
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by photosinensis 11y ago
I find it distressing that getting to Eastern Europe would be difficult for me. There are many shrines, monasteries, and associated holy sites that I'd love to visit--not out of mere fascination, but out of genuine devotion (I've
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by photosinensis 11y ago
They might be able to run Irix. But why would you use an operating system that hasn't been updated in 9 years? It's not going to have sufficient crypto support to be useful. That said, the smartphone market in China has been dom
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by photosinensis 11y ago
Habit from scripting. Remember that users can modify their own paths, possibly to prioritize ~/bin over everything else (which may have unexpected behavior).
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by photosinensis 11y ago
I'm so used to X11 remapping it to Ctrl+Shift+C, Ctrl+Shift+V that I didn't know about this. This is unfortunate, because Chrome will map Ctrl+Shift+C to the developer console, meaning I open the page inspector instead of copying
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by photosinensis 11y ago
It still comes up quite often. Autoboxing and type erasure are two of the biggest mistakes that have been inflicted upon the Java language after its original release. Not knowing about them will lead to a world of hurt. They should have k
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by photosinensis 11y ago
There's obsession and then there's workaholism. The former is something that you're driven to do internally out of great desire for it. The latter is just trying to avoid problems by working.
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by photosinensis 11y ago
I worked with RS232 earlier this year, and I hope to return to it in some capacity. Sometimes, the old stuff isn't even all that bad.
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by photosinensis 11y ago
I might add pierpoint.com to that list. A few hours ago, I got an email from them asking me if I was interested in a job with my immediate previous employer (which is kind of a mu question to ask, as I'm so interested in that idea t
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by photosinensis 11y ago
If you're seeing a demand for it in Word format, they're a recruiter and a lazy one at that. Most in-house guys accept PDF. I explicitly tell recruiters that my resume is typset, so they have a choice: a PDF or a LaTeX file that
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by photosinensis 11y ago
If you're seeing a demand for it in Word format, they're a recruiter and a lazy one at that. Most in-house guys accept PDF. I explicitly tell recruiters that my resume is typset, so they have a choice: a PDF or a LaTeX file that
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by photosinensis 11y ago
Basically, it allows you to requisition servers more quickly by providing a baseline system. If you're not doing scalable-on-demand work (and most of us aren't), it's not that useful.
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by photosinensis 11y ago
And I know for a fact that they still haven't managed to kill it, despite actual internal will to do so. If it is Raytheon's STAR program, the consultancy is probably CSC.
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by photosinensis 11y ago
If you support Ubuntu, it's trivial to extend that to Debian. Ubuntu is still very tightly pinned to Debian.
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by photosinensis 11y ago
At my current company, those using Linux use Ubuntu. One guy is on Xfce, I'm using e17, and I don't know what the others use, as they're on a different team. I've become known for advocating its use.
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by photosinensis 11y ago
波, which is "wave".
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by photosinensis 11y ago
They're providing enough of a Mach-style interface that would allow them to use launchd. Basically, they're creating a compatibility layer in the kernel that allows it to pretend to be Mach.
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by photosinensis 11y ago
The key there is that every car that passed through that part of town during that hour or so did the same. You can set up checkpoints as per Federal law (though your state may vary--some states have provisions against it, in which case your
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by photosinensis 11y ago
The parts about Theodora are suspect, as there's only one source for them: the Secret History, which was clearly written by a disgruntled former palace insider. Furthermore, the style of writing and the accusations made are typical of
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by photosinensis 11y ago
Yep. Short selling is usually very bad financial advice, outside of some very specific situations where you have solid reasons to believe that prices will fall. But if you're going to say financial catastrophe is right around the c
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by photosinensis 11y ago
After you get past that, maybe some basic scripting would be in order. The course needs more content, through and through. You've got a solid beginning, though.
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by photosinensis 11y ago
No, it's not intended for me. I'm actually evaluating it for other people (I work with people that are totally lost in Unix shells) and playing with its terminal to see exactly what I've been given.
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by photosinensis 11y ago
The biggest problem is that Avid Life Media has done jack squat in response to the data leak. They've not communicated any kind of risk mitigation strategy. They've not allowed users to change their compromised passwords. They&
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by photosinensis 11y ago
$ ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 23 2014 /bin/sh -> dash That's the
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by photosinensis 11y ago
vim is available, and if you know how to use it, it doesn't seem to know what text editor you're using. At least, that was my experience. But I'll also agree that the edit bash_profile stuff was repetitive. I might have pre

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