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Draconian ‘Wi-Fi police' stalk Olympic Games(theage.com.au)
84 points by srazzaque 14y ago|86 comments
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by srazzaque 15y ago
I agree with this fully - especially the "proud of" part. I hate having my name on some code that I had to hack up as a personal temporary solution, then have it slowly move into production as the solution because 'it works'...
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by srazzaque 15y ago
Good response and well put - I tend to agree that labour price differences eventually work themselves out when service providers start to work out what they CAN charge, especially in light of domestic demand increases. As for the other aspe
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Ask HN: How does one stay geeky and secure good pay checks?
6 points by srazzaque 15y ago|5 comments
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by srazzaque 15y ago
Agreed. Regular exercise, good health and good sleep - would just like to re-emphasise that there's absolutely no substitute for it.
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by srazzaque 15y ago
This is a great question. For me, my "acid test" would be: "is the task that I feel like doing now DIRECTLY related to my goals/projects/objectives?". Several successive "no's" over a long period (like constant "no's" over a few days or wee
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by srazzaque 15y ago
I totally agree with what you're saying about minority group entrants into industries dominated by another group - and I've seen this myself, they are generally quite talented and driven. However I think this comes at the cost of being scru
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by srazzaque 15y ago
Of course, the JVM is the JVM wherever it runs, but when one is under the impression of a blanket statement like "Java is secure", they're likely to be thinking of server-side processes which rarely get compromised for reasons you've stated
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by srazzaque 15y ago
Agreed - this has very little to do with the JVM and server-side Java processes. Java applets.. shudder