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by slumdev 7y ago
Name and shame. I'll start: American Express passwords are not case sensitive. It is possible that they UPPER(...) the password before hashing it and then compare against that when you log in. This explanation would only be a little
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by slumdev 7y ago
The original Twitter thread is funny. This site doesn't add anything. It looks like SEO more than anything, and now that HN has linked to it, it's been successful.
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If one believes that an activity (be it homosexuality, eating pork, or using emacs) offends the Almighty, and one also believes that we all will have to answer to the Almighty eventually, it doesn't make sense to fight for the right of
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by slumdev 7y ago
Christianity is inherently and irrevocably against gay rights. All three religions of the book are against gay rights. It is not possible to be a faithful Christian, Jew, or Muslim while also supporting gay rights. There are many denominat
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Bluntly: We don't bother. We don't even have reliable mechanisms for collecting feedback from customers. I'm leaving soon.
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Any kind of absolute moral law is antithetical to the kind of (John Locke) liberalism that guides Western politics. Even something as seemingly universal as the Golden Rule is incompatible.
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I've never met someone who consistently put in 10+ hour days and also was good at what they do. I have observed an inverse correlation between consistent, unasked overtime and ability.
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This is what happens when you run country music through lossy compression.
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It doesn't mean much that the software was written in-house. Boeing has literally relocated their plant operations cross-country in the past in order to break the workers' unions. Just think about how much pressure they can exert
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I thought that's what the MCAS was. Unless there's more than one system that overrides the pilot to pitch the nose down?
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by slumdev 7y ago
Ford (and other manufacturers) need to own the reset process. There's no way you can rely on car dealerships to do this. https://www.fi-magazine.com/311144/but-the-dude-can-sell
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I'd be surprised if this is just real estate. HR and other things get rolled into overhead cost numbers.
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> The only thing I can do is put on my trusty noise-cancelling headphones That's not literally the only thing you could do. You could quit. I'll never again make the mistake of hiring on somewhere without first seeing the work
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by slumdev 7y ago
Malcolm Gladwell hypothesizes in Outliers that children whose parents' efforts are rewarded are more likely to work hard themselves because their brains are wired from a young age to associate work with reward. Immigrating to the Unite
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Well, the Equifax hack was way bigger. Probably took a little pressure off of the other bureaus when that happened. Periodic reminder that there are more bureaus than just Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion, and all of them buy and sell you
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I work hard to make sure that all of my Javascript is also valid Typescript.
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This is true, but it comes at the cost of diminished influence for the person doing the assholery.
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A pull request should not be blocking. They shouldn't sit unreviewed for days, sure, but addressing them within a few hours should be sufficient. If your colleague can't get anything done during those few hours, you might not be
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by slumdev 7y ago
You might be happier. If everything runs on pointless meetings, ServiceNow, and Jira, then learning how to best use your time in between those things would give you more control over your time (even without getting you away from those thin
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by slumdev 7y ago
This is true. Everything new technology seems like an evolutionary improvement on one or a few aspects of programming, like separation of concerns, expressiveness, correctness, etc. None of these things should surprise anyone unless they&
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by slumdev 7y ago
Assume that, for the people on your team, work is a #4 or #5 priority. And there's nothing wrong with this, as long as they're giving you a solid 80-90% effort during working hours. If you ask them to put work ahead of family or
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by slumdev 7y ago
I mean this question at face value because I don't want to be that guy -- what are the applications? This seems like a very small amount of power with very specific and unusual benefits over other power sources.
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by slumdev 7y ago
You're responding to something I didn't write. You have an obvious great respect for the environment. I do, too. Mining asteroids and colonizing other planets will do more to destroy Earth's environment than just building n
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AWS and Windows Server courses are definitely not university-level CS courses.
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You use Vim in your example. Get your students out of it and into something like IntelliJ IDEA or VS Code or (at a bare minimum) Eclipse.
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> Earth being embedded in a vast ocean of resource This reads like prosperity gospel and law of attraction nonsense rolled together and repackaged for a technical audience. A kilogram of anything from space is orders of magnitude more
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An HR functionary doing a preliminary phone screen might dismiss a candidate who asks $135k for a position with a $100-130k range. A hiring manager, after having offered $130k, would never do something that stupid.
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Cool. Nobody has any right to pry into your business. But from a practical standpoint, they would just want to know that it's not going to happen again because you're taking care of yourself now. That's all.
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> Now i feel completely healthy, refreshed, passionate and ready to rock again What did you do to get refreshed again? And can you keep this up while working 40 hours a week?
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Further, those people are loser PHBs whose antisocial behaviors drive away good talent. Their behavior will eventually catch up with them.

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