roqetman

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by roqetman 14y ago
Opened this with 1/2m to go - good timing
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by roqetman 14y ago
"It's the 'finishing the back of the drawer' - you can argue that people will never see it and it's very hard to, in any rational sense, describe why it's important but it just seems important. It's a way that you demonstrate that you care
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by roqetman 14y ago
"Apple under Tim Cook will embrace efficiency to an even greater degree" - I've never seen a company that starts adding project managers to a process that is deemed "inefficient" but profitable that has led to a long-term improvement. In th
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FCC boss backs usage-based pricing for cable Internet access(bottomline.msnbc.msn.com)
1 points by roqetman 14y ago|1 comments
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by roqetman 14y ago
I fully agree here. A couple of years ago, when I went on interviews at startups, they were all using nosql db's and were proud of it. More recently, I've been interviewing at startups that are now bigger, need to mine the data that they've
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by roqetman 14y ago
My main concern is that people learn a bit of the easy stuff, then extrapolate that coding is easy therefore inexperienced and cheap programmers are all that's needed to complete a project. Quality of code will drop, as will salaries (even
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by roqetman 14y ago
Maybe more "gatherings" and less conferences are the way to go (invite a speaker once you have an interested group) - kind of like the way these BSD guys in NYC do it: http://www.nycbug.org/
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Steganography: how al-Qaeda hid secret documents in a porn video(arstechnica.com)
3 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 14y ago
My favorite is the DSKY emulator: http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/yaDSKY.html I used to use it as my desktop clock for a while.
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Google Drive vs. the competition: pricing plans and perks, compared(engadget.com)
2 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 14y ago
Engadget is crunching the numbers (comparing the different services (google drive, dropbox, icloud, skydrive)): http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/24/google-drive-vs-the-compe...
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by roqetman 14y ago
I understand what you mean, but I think it comes down to what level of detail gets generated. As an example, my kids and I are often amazed at the landscapes and other things generated in minecraft.
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Rodina, by Elliptic Games vs 0x10c, by Notch(anotherkindofmonster.com)
1 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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Pebble e-Paper Watch has raised over $4.1M(ycombinator.posterous.com)
1 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 15y ago
Ahh, good times... not. I clocked over 6000 hours guard duty during my military time; a game based on my experience would be a few minutes of action and hours of boredom.
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Schmidt: UN treaty a 'disaster' for the internet(zdnet.co.uk)
4 points by roqetman 15y ago|0 comments
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Linus Torvalds: requiring root password for mundane things(plus.google.com)
5 points by roqetman 15y ago|0 comments
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The Lively Morgue - A Treasure House of Photographs(livelymorgue.tumblr.com)
1 points by roqetman 15y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 15y ago
Similar here, but I've found that as long as I don't drink caffeine after 3pm, I sleep well. Any later than that and I wake at 3am or so. Made such a difference when I discovered this... I lost a serious amount of grumpiness.
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Google says circumventing Safari privacy features accidental(arstechnica.com)
1 points by roqetman 15y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 15y ago
The original link (has more detail): http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm
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by roqetman 15y ago
I agree - I did this a long time ago; while it's fun to go through logs sometimes, I prefer to weed-out the general bombardment. My hits dropped from about 90 a day to 0 (after 6 months).
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by roqetman 15y ago
I think that his forgiveness isn't for the dictator, it's for himself.
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by roqetman 15y ago
It does wear off after a few years; at least it did for me. Now I can hear a car backfire without dropping to the ground (yes I did this once and felt pretty foolish). But I still freeze for a moment when I hear a distant firework or other
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by roqetman 15y ago
I wonder how Google's Android would fit into this?
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US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers - Slashdot(it.slashdot.org)
2 points by roqetman 15y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 15y ago
Or runic... but I guess I'm showing my age there.
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After 17 months the Mars500 hatch is open and crew has left isolation(esa.int)
1 points by roqetman 15y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 15y ago
I just setup my Tonidoplug yesterday (based on the same basic technology from what I understand). Primarily as a backup server, but the sharing between pc, laptop and mobiles is definitely cool: http://www.tonidoplug.com/tonido_plug.html
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by roqetman 15y ago
Personally, I think it's a myth. I did a lot of y2k work in cobol in '98-'99. It has been on my resume ever since then, but I've not had one recruiter call me up asking about my cobol skills, just my more recent java and db skills.

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