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by rcoder 19y ago
There have been a number of good app-specific recommendations below, but I think there are some more general things to keep in mind, too: #1: Keep your system up-to-date. Your most likely entry vector is a perfectly legitimate service like
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by rcoder 19y ago
Google only provides the apps for free to 501(c)(3) organizations, not 501(c)(4) or PAC groups. Unfortunately, many of the groups doing (IMHO) the most interesting, progressive non-profit work aren't eligible for C3 status, since they do so
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by rcoder 19y ago
I didn't find the essay insulting, but I do disagree with several of the core arguments. I worked at startups for several years in the late-90's and early-00's, and then set off to run my own company, and discovered one unfortunate and unav
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by rcoder 19y ago
I'd work on a free, secure set of tools for the IT needs of non-profit organizations. Hosted and LiveCD/appliance deployment options, and containing a full, truly usable stack for CRM, fundraising, event planning, and publishing. There's in
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by rcoder 19y ago
I've seen a number of resumes which significantly over-stated the experience someone had gained while self-employed, but it's difficult to verify what the person accomplished without being able to contact clients and/or coworkers. Just don
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by rcoder 19y ago
After several years of using ThinkPads running Linux and BSD for mobile work, both my X24 and T30 died within a few weeks of each other. I thought about it for a couple of weeks, then bought a mid-spec MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo, LED backlight
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by rcoder 19y ago
I've said as much in the comment thread on the basic article, but basically all of the limitations baked into the SDK boil down to one primary lesson: Apple thinks that they, and only they, can and should decide what software will run on th
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by rcoder 19y ago
If you don't have an idea burning a hole in your brain, and can pass up the extra income, at least for the moment, you might consider contributing to one or two open source projects. It'll give you exposure to a new code base, earn you some
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by rcoder 19y ago
Color me the unimpressed. Anyone writing an article promoting the use of threaded concurrency and using PHP as an example of threading done right obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. PHP has basically zero support for threads,
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by rcoder 19y ago
I use a MBP at home, because there's nothing within a light-year of Lightroom (or Aperture, which is pretty much an equivalent package) for RAW photo workflow. If it weren't for that single piece of software, I could switch to Ubuntu/Debian
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by rcoder 19y ago
I'm not sure where you've been interviewing, but from my observation, a newly-minted CS grad is significantly more likely to get an interview for a programming job than an autodidact with a couple of years' experience, at least at most larg
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by rcoder 19y ago
Not necessarily. Demand in this market is for competent programmers, not graduates of US schools' CS programs. The two may be correlated, but they're the latter certainly does not guarantee the former. If fewer and fewer CS grads are enteri
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by rcoder 19y ago
Think of the security implications of allowing anyone to run any language on their server. It doesn't matter if it's PHP, Ruby, or C++, since they all allow shell and filesystem access, unbounded recursion, and all the other goodies that
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by rcoder 19y ago
So, you're basically proposing that people voluntarily opt-in to a world-wide database of email address/topic-of-interest pairs? No way. Absolutely, no f-ing way would I ever let my address get in there, and I would strongly advise against
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by rcoder 19y ago
That's just a semi-public form of greylisting. Greylisting works fine, but a large number of spammers have definitely figured out how to get around it at this point.
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by rcoder 19y ago
This is absolutely right. Options are a lottery ticket, and nothing more. My brother is currently working an awful, low-paying job with a startup because he has visions of a big stock payout dancing in his head. They continue to nurture and
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by rcoder 19y ago
Let me ask you the following re-factored version of your question and see if it illustrates the value of DRBD: > What is the advantage of "network I/O" over I/O? It seems to me that file copying is best left below the OS. Basically, DRB
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by rcoder 19y ago
The description of DRBD as software RAID is a bit misleading, since in most deployment scenarios, only the "primary" node of the pair can actually write data to the replicated volume. It's real use is in building high-availability services
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by rcoder 19y ago
I used DRBD to build a replicated PostgreSQL setup a couple of years ago: http://people.reed.edu/~lennon/scaling.html It worked pretty well, but the write speed was probably about 1/4 to 1/5 that of a local database. We've sense moved to
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by rcoder 19y ago
I don't think this article would ever have been written by someone with any significant amount of experience writing assembler. The reasons to move away from low-level machine code and towards high-level languages like Java are numerous (sa
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by rcoder 19y ago
Let me see if I've got this right: you want to open source your code so you can get a bunch of free bug fixes, QA testing, and positive press, and what you're offering in exchange is a crippled, deployment-size-limited version of your packa
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by rcoder 19y ago
This isn't "better" than Single Sign On; if anything, I would call it a complementary, not competitive, technology. A client certificate is a statement of trust for a particular machine , not a user. They can be very useful when you want t
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by rcoder 19y ago
I just wanted to second this -- getting a UPS Store mailbox is much better than a PO Box, if for no other reason than the fact that you can receive UPS/FedEx/DHL/etc. packages there. The post office won't sign for packages from 3rd-party ca
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by rcoder 19y ago
Going to a small, private college is also a completely different experience than attending a large state school. The entire pedagogical style is difference: small (<15 students) conference courses and one-on-one meetings with profs are
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by rcoder 19y ago
$50,000 per year is not actually that high in the grand scheme of things as a total cost to attend a private college, since most undergrads depend heavily on their parents for financial support. If you subtract a base tuition of $35,000 fro
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by rcoder 19y ago
I think most of the comments here are missing the key argument in this article: namely that in addition to college being a poor fit for many potential students, there are some much better, more productive ways that young people could spend
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by rcoder 19y ago
I've been following the new Terminator TV series, and still tune in to the local public broadcasting channel for a while when there's a good documentary or news show scheduled, but network TV in general makes me twitchy and angry more than
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by rcoder 19y ago
If you like southern Oregon, but want better job options, it's tough to imagine how you could do much better than Portland. There are plenty of big tech employers along the 26 corridor, great mass transit and bike access, and an increasingl
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by rcoder 19y ago
People are social animals. Living and working by yourself 24/7 is a recipe for burn-out, maladjustment, and general unhappiness. I'd recommend finding some ongoing events to draw you out of the house: volunteer with a local charity, or join
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by rcoder 19y ago
I dropped out of college after my freshman year to join a startup. I've been doing programming and general IT work ever since (~8 years). After taking some more classes part-time, I've probably got about 1/2 the requirements for a degree in

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