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by skeltoac 15y ago
Students, this is why many great employers don't put much weight on the Education section of your CV. (Cheaters, you should be figuring out how to crib a nice github account, not how to pass exams.)
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by skeltoac 15y ago
Neither student is a victim in the scenario you give. Peer pressure does not make one conspirator innocent.
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by skeltoac 15y ago
Wrong target, Anon. Law enforcement personnel, while a natural ally to every form of official corruption, do not have the power to improve the immigration situation. At most they could refuse to uphold the law by ignoring any suspicion of i
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by skeltoac 15y ago
Odds that one of the crew is commenting on this thread?
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Using Git to work on a project in Subversion(markjaquith.wordpress.com)
1 points by skeltoac 15y ago|0 comments
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by skeltoac 15y ago
I'm a father (still pretty new) working from home with an office in an outbuilding. My wife stays home with our crawling 10-month-old. She has asked me to watch the kid while I work from the couch so she can be free to make dinner. It doesn
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by skeltoac 15y ago
I thought it would be obvious that I didn't want to reveal that. :)
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How to thumbnail an image in real-time (line by line)?(stackoverflow.com)
14 points by skeltoac 15y ago|4 comments
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by skeltoac 16y ago
True. But the MySQL servers have layers of access control beyond passwords. The unauthorized access has been closed. So even if the attacker saved the passwords, they don't have the other factors for a MySQL connection.
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by skeltoac 16y ago
"Low" as in far down the stack; deep; not near the surface.
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by skeltoac 16y ago
Database access control is layers deep. Even if you had the MySQL passwords, you wouldn't be able to connect to the database servers.
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by skeltoac 16y ago
It might actually do better if it were marketed that way. Make it whatever standard form factor will fit inside the plastics and spend the rest on an Ubuntu theme.
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by skeltoac 16y ago
As a big fan of and small contributor to ejabberd (I run im.wordpress.com), one who has used Jack's excellent strophe.js, and one who is anxious to see websockets in more use cases, I was pleased to read this news. However, I still consider
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by skeltoac 16y ago
I saw the leading photo (no supporting text) on a disreputable image board last week. OP was asking what it was, everyone else was getting their minds blown. I went right to Google, typed "mobius gear" and found out. The image did spur a fe
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by skeltoac 16y ago
Early 20th-century child labor laws were a misguided attempt to solve an important problem (the exploitation of a specific class of workers). The evil they meant to prevent is child abuse, which is a subset of basic human rights abuse. Abus
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by skeltoac 16y ago
Contemplate, sure. Seriously think about, no. It's too hard to make the case that it's an economically viable activity.
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by skeltoac 16y ago
http://buddypress.org/about/story/ Andy Peatling invented it before joining Automattic.
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by skeltoac 16y ago
We use a different domain for uploaded files. Example: http://andy.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/walkingdesk-e1294433... This way we can direct those requests to services better designed for serving and caching static files. We use NFS for
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by skeltoac 16y ago
This is true. After a person has received and accepted an offer for employment, they work as a member of the Happiness (support) team for three weeks before starting on their own job. When WordPress.com opened, everyone in Automattic (Matt,
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by skeltoac 16y ago
Barry has the strength of ten sysadmins.
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by skeltoac 16y ago
Automattic has around 70 people working full time. I can't keep track. Not everyone works on WordPress.com. Without referring to any records, I'd guess we have a couple dozen on technical, a dozen on support, a handful on design, and a hand
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by skeltoac 16y ago
I help make WordPress.com. Any questions?
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by skeltoac 16y ago
I switched from Blogger to WordPress and began learning PHP in January 2005. In August 2005 I went to work for Automattic as the second full-timer (after Donncha, inventor of WPMU). That was before WordPress.com was announced. I am still wo
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by skeltoac 16y ago
The word "sexism" is too often used without any discussion of its definition. Here are a few definitions for "sexism" from Google: I. discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of the opposite sex II. prejudice or discrimination bas
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by skeltoac 16y ago
Agreed. This sounds like an ideal learning project for Erlang. Open a few tabs of erlang.org/doc/, grab a book (Joe Armstrong's Pragmatic book is a good one) and get started. You'll be surprised how easily you made your first Erlang product
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by skeltoac 16y ago
If you took all of those drives apart and put the spindles in a pile you'd have a big pile of motors. The Petabox consumes 6kW so let's be generous and call it 60kW of servo motors. 60kW is roughly 80hp. (I know this is a specious compariso
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by skeltoac 16y ago
Have you considered glass? My favorite whiteboard was recycled from a 7-foot tempered glass tabletop.
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by skeltoac 16y ago
This is almost cause to speculate that California may eventually become solvent without additional bailouts.
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by skeltoac 16y ago
I am just now getting into Lisp so I can't say how learning it would affect subsequent language exploration. Functional programming is good but if it's the most interesting part of any language, that would be a boring language. Erlang's fun
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by skeltoac 16y ago
It's not a leak if the government published it: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/...

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