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by shubb 11y ago
Sure. On one project we built a custom Linux distribution by mounting a file as a loop back file system and copying the right files in. We installed a grub boot sector at the start. Then we copied it as a file into a simple live usb. The li
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by shubb 11y ago
What about Double-UTF-8 -> D-UTF-8 ->"Duty-F-8"
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by shubb 11y ago
I wouldn't judge that too quickly - it could well be about hiding money stolen from another country: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-proper...
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by shubb 11y ago
Spoiler - it's a secret because someone is evading tax, hiding mafia money, or money they gained through corruption. It's a shame but unsurprising the investigator is a journalist rather than the British police or revenue service
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by shubb 11y ago
How much of the value of the company is tied up in it's technology? Your leverage at the moment is, if you decided to get another job, you would walk away taking all knowledge of the current system with you. Imagine you quit, and somet
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by shubb 11y ago
I find this idea that there are lots of fake programmers kind of nuts. Presumably, when you do a resume sift, you look for people with either a qualification or work experience. Either they somehow faked it through those, or your test is ba
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by shubb 11y ago
Oh! So that's why OpenBSD has that mutant fish logo!
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by shubb 11y ago
I wonder if polygraphs are there as a cover for refusing clearance due to secret evidence. If you know bob is a Soviet spy because your agents in Russia say so, you don't want to blow their cover, so you need an arbitrary reason to ref
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by shubb 11y ago
Totally off topic but I'm seeing a lot of hiring going on in Texas. What is going on down there?
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by shubb 11y ago
Ideally, you'd want access to the underlying data, and some tools for working with it... sad although there might be some technical reason like they don't stream all the data back over the wireless link.
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by shubb 11y ago
Initially I assumed that this was just an accelerometer, but actually the device detects hand motions by detecting electric impulses from the skin. That's really exciting - even if it can only detect fairly gross gestures, it opens up
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by shubb 12y ago
Anyone else in the uk doing work like this? Can I help?
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by shubb 12y ago
Ah that's a really interesting part of the picture - Google clearly doesn't pay adequate tax on the sales it makes in the EU. Google are pretty obviously not paying tax like a normal company. To put that more explicitly, they are
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by shubb 12y ago
China has 66M google users, while France has 44M. However, if we split HK google users from mainland Google users, it would be pretty clear that Google is toast in China just like Excite in the US. There are a lot of people in China. Only
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by shubb 12y ago
I used to feel the same way about fast feedback, but after working on slower to compile applications for a few years, I'm not sure it's a good way of working. When I used to work like that, I'd write code, and constantly be c
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by shubb 12y ago
There are viruses for both. Keep your computer behind a NAT firewall, don't open dodgy looking emails, pirate software, or go on dodgy websites and you can be fairly confident. The best security model on a common operating system is pr
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by shubb 12y ago
The worst standup I've seen was lead by a fitness fanatic tech lead / manager. He used his superior endurance to 'win' technical arguments by just talking until people gave up because they wanted to sit down. These were
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by shubb 12y ago
Totally unsurprised - Unhealthy levels of facebook use, particularly apparent addiction to those annoying invite games are pretty obviously not the behavior of a happy person. When ever I get a slew of invites to Candy Crush or similar, it&
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by shubb 12y ago
It's really nice to see a government backed on line identity system, backed by 2 factor authentication and real background checking.
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by shubb 12y ago
What did he do? I'm reading this and understanding that he bought real dollar bills as sheets, then had them perforated so they were easy to tear off...
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by shubb 12y ago
I think he is guessing that the grandparents thinks that www or 'world wide web' means 'the internet' and should be root. But actually 'web' reveals to the graph of hyperlinks between http/html pages that
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by shubb 12y ago
It's a long article with lots of value, but it's also affiliate marketing for a book about affiliate marketing. Inception.
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by shubb 12y ago
Big company. We use a mixture of Linux and Windows. Working in C++, this is tricky, our product is cross platform, so it guarantees someone is trying it out on both OSs, and with different compilers (we autobuild gcc, clang, MS). Stuff that
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by shubb 12y ago
I really hope they didn't buy it and kill it. Hopefully even if they did, one of the alternatives that appeared when it was clear people were interested in VR will do well. I like this technology, but it's movies rather than VR o
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by shubb 12y ago
Millennials is trending hard: https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=millennials It's hard to see why - I see a lot of pretend statistical articles on the subject but nothing validating that this group is actua
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by shubb 12y ago
We have cars navigating america autonomously as we speak. [1] From a regulatory perspective, I think driver-less cars are making better progress than drones, because auto regulations are more relaxed than air. [1] http://www.daily
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by shubb 12y ago
I suppose how bad this is depends on who Witness A actually is. I feel sorry for the poor temp though - everyone makes mistakes in their first job(s). Many times in that kind of a role, people don't tell you enough to enable you to ma
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by shubb 12y ago
Something pretty nutty honestly. I wondered if it was a parody.
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by shubb 12y ago
My perception, based on hearsay, is that Amazon is a high turn over, burn out kinda place. Even recruiters say that. Doesn't mean it's true but the perception is out there.
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by shubb 12y ago
And anyway, driverless cars are happening. Why do you need a drone when the robo uber taxi had a robot arm in the boot and delivers packages during slow times of day? Drones could be useful for a lot of things but if the problem is deliveri

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