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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Ha, maybe the market has indeed adjusted without me hearing about it :)
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I'm always amazed about how there isn't more competition in this space. As my Master's thesis [0], I built a crawler that did similar fingerprinting (although less generic). It wasn't something breathtakingly novel, but
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Same here. Grew up and started working in Germany, moved to the US (First Cambridge, now Menlo Park). I feel the same. To me it seems like this: - If you want to mainly enjoy things outside of work and just see it as a way to finance those
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Here's a similar one we use a lot in all sorts of slide sets at Facebook: http://imgur.com/a/EN0G8 (Stolen from Pedro's "Notes from Production Engineering" talk: https://www.youtube.com&#
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I wanted less devices and I wanted PoE. I would love to see everything in the webinterface for the controller, but I can't really find a good reason to replace my one device with two...
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
> One annoying thing is there's no idiot protection... You can lock yourself out of the admin interface and only way to recover is restore factory defaults. Been there, done that :)
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
The only thing I'm slightly sad about with my ubiquiti setup is that the Edge Router PoE doesn't integrate with the controller. It's basically the same hardware as the security gateway, but no way to manage it :(
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Along the same route: I run the UniFi Controller using the linuxserver.io docker container: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/unifi/ 2 commands to get it up and running in a semi isolated environment.
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
A colleague of mine gave a talk at SRECon about the fun world of IPv6 provisioning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gjuVhph520 Granted, that isn't necessarily a pre-requisite for going dual stack (aka: just attaching
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I recently spent a little bit of time looking into this and one thing that was interesting is how much the look of a stone is also relying on the quality of the cut. You can get diamonds/moissonites/cz in the same cut, but they wi
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Off topic, but: Really nice to seem doom9 mentioned. Doom9 is one of those places that I used to frequent a lot. That knowledge saved me a lot of learning in university :) Sadly also one of those places where I forgot both the password to m
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Is the bitstream for the decoder a lot more complex? From what I recall (and it has been a few years), usually the standard mostly specifies what the 'end product' will look like and the encoders basically have to figure out a way
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I was "self-employed" ("Freiberufler") and working for a US startup 100% of my billable hours. They hadn't formed a company in Germany at that point, so I just send them a bill and paid the employer and employee par
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
As I said, this is not necessarily my position but the position of someone with a PhD in nutritional Epidemiology who focuses her research on gene diet interaction. Seeing as I don't know anyone more competent than her, I'll just
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I don't have a lot of insight into the science behind it, but one thing that always makes my partner (PhD in Epidemiolgy) slightly angry is that while Soylent does tick all of the "amount and type" boxes for what people consi
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
> they found a 20+ years experienced engineering manager holding patents on computer networking under-qualified for an ordinary site maintenance position. To be fair, I've interviewed people at previous companies that had patents an
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
To save the lazy people a google search: "The current territories of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka form the countries of South Asia."
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I have no idea, but just a random guess: If you try to sell a lot of secret spying services to the government (which I think Palantir does?), they probably think it helps if your employees don't look/sound Chinese, seeing as the g
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I recall other folder names that would presumably make windows machines throw up when you clicked on them. Stuff with "LPT:" or "COM:" in the names.
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
That time when John Nagle ("Animats") responded to a comment about Nagle's algorithm in TCP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048947 ( - "If I'd still been working on networking at the time, tha
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Then again, patching it 'once' usually involves restarting all processes that are dynamically linked anyway (and really hoping that it loads the new lib). If deployment is fully automated and scales well, the only painful thing is
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
The Production Engineering org at Facebook uses a lot of Python. Check out https://code.facebook.com/posts/1040181199381023/python-in-p...
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I've seen high throughput apps doing 45 second "stop the world" garbage collection cycles because of high disk I/O and enabled GC logging (the process just sat there waiting for some I/O time to flush the GC log fil
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Alternatively: any medium sized high throughput Java app needs somebody with a PhD in garbage collection tuning, because otherwise the app will just grind to a halt regularly :(
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
> But our huge rules of grammar and special word cases makes it ridicoulus I'm German but living in the US for the last few years. I've had American friends in Germany and from what I understand, most things are pretty "re
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I don't think the social engineering/sniffing is the real problem. From what I recall the signaling system they use (SS7) is just a shitshow and everybody with $1000 can buy access somewhere in eastern Europe and send/receive
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
I like my desk clean and absent of personal items :(
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
Same goes the other way round. There were some LinkedIn buildings in SV, but the connection to the MV headquarters wasn't really there.
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
The question reminds me a bit of the idea behind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem It was a fun project back in the day :)
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by rb2k_ 10y ago
There is a Federal + State one: http://driveclean.ca.gov/pev/Costs/Vehicles.php For a Chevy Volt, that was $7500 Federal + $1500 State Worked nicely for a lease too.

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