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by rilindo 7y ago
Months? This is going to haunt the US for decades.
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by rilindo 7y ago
Given the huge reliance on outsourced IT labor in India, I would curious to see how it would affect operations in the West. The pandemic is already affecting school's and testing centers that rely on online proctoring based in India -
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by rilindo 7y ago
I find it hilarious that even in a worse scenario with the climate crisis, Chicago somehow did not get any migrants .
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by rilindo 7y ago
Rebranding won't help, unless IBM actually put in the CapEx behind their cloud: https://www.platformonomics.com/2018/05/follow-the-capex-sep...
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by rilindo 8y ago
These are the same authors who then wrote the Dictator's handbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictator%27s_Handbook CPG Grey has a summary of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7n
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by rilindo 8y ago
It would be odd if they do. They seem to pushing all their Linux efforts on Amazon Linux 2, which is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise 7.
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by rilindo 8y ago
That would Scalia and he didn't retire - he died.
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by rilindo 11y ago
You would choose CentOS if you need to run enterprise-level software (example, Oracle), but you can't pony up the operational money to buy Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses on your server fleet.
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by rilindo 11y ago
I been around IT long enough to know that this statement: "DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run" Was never a common saying. It is actually: "DOS ain't done till Lotus runs" I am not sure how it devolved to
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by rilindo 11y ago
I guess John Oliver will be drinking Budlight Lime live.
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by rilindo 13y ago
The developer does came across as a prick. The thing is, does the company allow anybody to access the code? Probably not, because that code is very likely proprietary company information that only certain people are allow to view and modify
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by rilindo 13y ago
The cost inflicted by oil is measured in centuries. A year or two saved may not make a difference in terms of total lives lost: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/1... Moving oil throu
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by rilindo 13y ago
Related by possibility off-topic: How about signing a NDA? I am not advocating it (in fact, I probably would have significant reservations about any company that will pull that on me), but if you are that concerned about the questions leaki
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by rilindo 13y ago
Yes and I appreciate it. https://gist.github.com/rilindo/6576017 New toy to play with. :)
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by rilindo 13y ago
Here is a first go at it: https://gist.github.com/rilindo/6575580 Essentially, I just checked to see if the characters in the first string exists in other string and exits out of the code. It probably won't cover
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by rilindo 14y ago
FWIW, when I upgraded to ML, my boot time was cut down from 20 seconds to 5. Awesome.
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by rilindo 14y ago
Much of decrease is due to the sharp decline in Southside Chicago as well as the growth of the suburbs outside of Cook county. http://igpa.uillinois.edu/content/census-reveals-population-... Thanks to the economy, however, the trend is so
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by rilindo 15y ago
That would be very difficult to do: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2011-04-27-...
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by rilindo 15y ago
Sysadmin here, 11+ years now, grokker of Perl/Python/Ruby/Shell/PHP, manager of physical and virtual servers. I think the whole point is the developer no longer have to be concerned about the day to day management of the server (e.g. tun
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by rilindo 15y ago
Expect this to be brief. For a while, there was uncertainty because CentOS updates were way behind Red Hat (the upstream vendor). As of January, CentOS is effectively in sync with RHEL.
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by rilindo 15y ago
That's not unique to CTA. That is the nature of public transportation - you will always deal with those characters. Its no big deal. The usual response is to ignore them and generally they will go away (unless you are up very late at night)
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by rilindo 15y ago
I disagree about Atlanta. Atlanta does not have a well-developed rail. I should know - I live there. :)
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by rilindo 15y ago
And notably, in the last 15 years, they got a fairly effective rail back up up and running (the MTA rails) as well as Metrolink. I am surprised that Atlanta is on the list. In terms of public transit, it is not only abysmal, it seems that t
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by rilindo 15y ago
The growth of the suburbs in the middle of the last century and the subsequent flight from the inner city. These two factors contributed to the death of railway transit systems in all but a few of the large and medium-sized cities. From tha
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by rilindo 15y ago
"Why are you still deploying overnight?" Because you don't hire a system admin to do that job for you. :}
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by rilindo 15y ago
Masterzora, Correct. Programming Perl is not meant to be a tutorial. That role is filed by the most excellent O'Reily Book "Learning Perl."* * My first scripts were done using Learning Perl as my tutorial. It is still one of my favorite pro
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by rilindo 15y ago
That is why when you are interviewing at a company, you treat everybody you meet politely and cordially - even the cranky secretary. :)
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by rilindo 15y ago
I'm surprised. 81 comments in and nobody commented on the real reason why you work best in the coffee shop: that's where all the hot people are. You don't go there to work. You go there to look busy while you people watch and maybe- just ma
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by rilindo 16y ago
This like these always makes me uneasy. Yes, you can do stuff on X number of machines all at the same time. That also means you can break things all at the same time.
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by rilindo 16y ago
At least with education, There is a strong correlation between race and education, namely blacks are less likely to be well-educated than whites. Connect that with income and you are not only seeing a drop in population, but very likely a s

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