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   by simmons 15y ago

   Let's not forget that work is a vector quantity: direction is as important (or more important) than magnitude. Also, it's important to understand the relationship between work and productivity. I knew a wannabe programmer who once bragged
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   by simmons 15y ago

   I'm in the same boat. I post work stuff to my "Techno-Geeks" circle. Then when I look at the stream for this circle, I see all my geeky friends' cat pictures that they're posting to "Public" or their "Friends" circle. I'd love to have a
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   by simmons 15y ago

   And as several people have pointed out to me, it looks like there is indeed an RFC for it: RFC 4436, Detecting Network Attachment in IPv4 (DNAv4).
4. 304.▲
   by simmons 15y ago

   It is unscientific. A more comprehensive study would analyze each device in a variety of well-defined scenarios, but in the interest of time I just took a few captures and put a couple under the microscope. I hope I didn't come across as
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   by simmons 15y ago

   I'm the author of the original blog post. I also ran my tests with a Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. Its DHCP Vendor-Class string is "dhcpcd 5.1.4". The DHCP performance seems fair, around 2 seconds. However, the total network initializati
6. 306.▲
   by simmons 15y ago

   Huh, interesting. My Asus EeePC 1000 has the slowest network sign-on of any of my devices, but I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on it. I wonder of Arch Linux has better Wi-Fi drivers or something. I the author of the original blog post, and I pe