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by skuhn 12y ago
How? If I send an e-mail via Amazon's service, they must at minimum have the standard e-mail headers in order to process it. In which case, it's no different than PGP-encrypted e-mail, available with almost any e-mail provider. Th
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by skuhn 12y ago
My understanding is that the smart way to sell real estate in California is to simply not sell it, and rather to sell control of the company that owns the real estate. There are non-tax benefits, such as bypassing probate, but as the value
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by skuhn 12y ago
I don't see how the article addresses this point at all. The owner_name is simply text in a field, and could represent a subsidiary of another entity, a front company or an LLC established simply to own that piece of property (common
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by skuhn 12y ago
Well on the plus side, sqlite has no daemon and pretty much requires no care and feeding. However, I also think it is totally wrong for this use case.
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by skuhn 12y ago
Two things come to mind that a potential acquirer might be interested in: 1. The sheer volume of traffic, available pretty cheaply. While their sites are largely in decline and the focus is still all over the map, I could see their sites ca
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by skuhn 12y ago
I can see how this benefits Yahoo's shareholders, and they are after all a publicly traded company. It still seems like an exceptionally poor way for Yahoo itself to reap the rewards of this long term investment, particularly when it n
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by skuhn 12y ago
Per the Ubuntu security advisory for this, 14.04 is not impacted.
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by skuhn 12y ago
Oh yeah, I always forget about the QFX series. Seems like that would do the job. List prices are utter nonsense for switches, but the QFX does come in above the other two I mentioned. Perhaps because of its fibre-channely nature that no one
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by skuhn 12y ago
10 gig still isn't even commonly available on server motherboards, because of power / space / cost. There also aren't many copper 10 gig top-of-rack switches, just the Cisco Nexus 3064T and Arista 7050T come to mind. Jun
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by skuhn 12y ago
It is kind of maddening, considering that consoles now know all of this metadata about your usage. Digital purchases should have a number of improvements over a physical purchase, but that hasn't really happened and perhaps it never wi
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by skuhn 12y ago
I also found the assertion about demos interesting, and it seemed somewhat unintuitive to me. I can think of two possible reasons for the correlation: 1. Demos provide enough of the gameplay to satisfy your curiosity 2. Demos let you
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by skuhn 12y ago
I feel like you're assigning feelings to me that don't mesh with what my comment described. I don't want to get into a personal thing, but here's my condensed point again one last time, in the hope of clarifying: I think
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by skuhn 12y ago
AWS does have a way to warn you when your bill crosses a certain threshold: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/...
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by skuhn 12y ago
Thinking that something is beneath me (which is not what I said, by the way) and feeling that the interviewers have undervalued my skillset are two different things entirely. During an interview, I'm interviewing the interviewers as we
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by skuhn 12y ago
I mentioned that I'm not a programmer because that's typically the biggest hurdle for me in technical interviews. I don't write code for a living, nor do I want to. Yet I still get asked programming questions, but nothing rem
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by skuhn 12y ago
As you say, in a phone screen might be suitable place for it. And I certainly don't think there's any point in iterating on it, the only real optimization available is to eliminate the third check for 3 and 5 simultaneously. Truly
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by skuhn 12y ago
The reality is that most job postings aren't tied to actual jobs that need to be filled right now. These postings just hang out there on websites and passively gather resumes. Occasionally someone actually looks at the applicant pool f
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by skuhn 12y ago
I'm not a programmer, and had never heard of the fizzbuzz question. After seeing so many people come out in favor of it in the comments, I looked it up. It is just so easy that I have to imagine people who "bomb" it are faili
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by skuhn 12y ago
You can be denied for a checking account. Most banks use ChexSystems to look up your account history. I've known a small handful of people who were simply unable to open a checking account. They had to resort to all manner of ridiculou
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by skuhn 12y ago
True, although she didn't personally live through the civil war. Missed it by 50 years.
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by skuhn 12y ago
Perhaps, if you work on a team of peers. I'm not speaking from personal experience in terms of managerial problems, but I have often been the only person doing my sort of work, which makes peer review challenging. And I don't thin
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by skuhn 12y ago
My second hand experience says that they are very prone to firing people. At first glance this seems good, because I've certainly worked places where dead weight was permitted and there seemed to be no getting rid of them. The problem
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by skuhn 12y ago
Yeah, that is my main worry about their strategy as well. A public key server and visibility into the keys selected for a conversation could solve this, but the usability cost would be gigantic. I think it's pretty tough to make someth
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by skuhn 12y ago
The former NSA lawyer sort of has a point, but he is over simplifying in order to mislead. The first option is to use provably broken cryptography, like 512-bit export grade RSA, that the government can just bust whenever they feel like it.
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by skuhn 12y ago
The service hasn't actually launched yet, per their Kickstarter updates and comments. It makes sense, you have to line up advertisers before you start letting people print, but I think that could have been made vastly more clear on the
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by skuhn 12y ago
The large American ISPs (i.e. cable and telephone companies) have made an enormous mistake with their recent attempts to create artificial network congestion to extract rent, and I'm glad that the FCC seems to think that this isn'
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by skuhn 12y ago
They used to be notorious for frivolous lawsuits. I personally found it amusing how badly they got played by Beats, as documented at http://gizmodo.com/5981823/beat-by-dre-the-inside-story-of-h... and elsewhere. My per
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by skuhn 12y ago
It is specifically this product that Amazon is retiring later this year: https://payments.amazon.com/help/201626250 They still have other payment products, but I couldn't tell you what the differences are.
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by skuhn 12y ago
Thanks for the reply. My main beef is that I don't terribly want to modify each standard formula (causing more work when I do sync with upstream), but I want the system to be completely self-contained. Most package managers separate th
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by skuhn 12y ago
That's interesting about the power levels per-channel. In my case, I actually WANT the not-going-through-walls experience. In an apartment (or hotel room), the goal is just to get as much coverage as you need, not to blanket three floo

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