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901.
by staunch 10y ago
Also true of undergrad at so-called elite universities in the U.S. The "top schools" have something like 95% graduation rates.
902.
by staunch 10y ago
Yup!
903.
by staunch 10y ago
Bluntness is okay, but aren't you wrong about me being wrong here? I didn't say it was a Slowloris attack. I said Slashdotting was "in effect" the same thing. Which it is, both problems are one of exhausting limited conc
904.
by staunch 10y ago
Read the classics!
905.
by staunch 10y ago
Cloudflare had nothing to do with ending slashdotting. This stopped being a problem years before they existed. Slashdotting was mostly a problem caused by Apache's incredibly inefficient design. It consumed huge amounts of memory per c
906.
by staunch 10y ago
You may want to specialize. Not many companies hire "Programmers". They mostly hire "$LANG Programmers" but that's fine because you can learn many values of $LANG. So if you want an ASP.NET, NodeJS, or C# job then l
907.
by staunch 10y ago
I used to worry about being "on a list" and then realized I wasn't okay with worrying about while considering myself a free person. Every time I wonder if I might get in trouble for reading, clicking, or watching something I
908.
by staunch 10y ago
Nice interview in all respects, except I think they should be much longer. My favorite podcasts are all very long and unedited. You can really get into the mind of a person after a couple hours of listening to their brain work. Nitpick: It&
909.
by staunch 10y ago
Cell phones often have 4G connections but if they're on wifi or laptops on wifi, we could collect the IPs of all airports and present the travel mode by default. Phones could use GPS to detect when their in/near airports and injec
910.
by staunch 10y ago
Email is pretty good for this and it's easier to backup and it's easier to BCC multiple addresses hosted on separate servers.
911.
by staunch 10y ago
Have you been poor in the US? Have you lived your entire life in the constant stress of not being able to pay for food, housing, or medical care? Have you had your house repeatedly robbed? Have you been assaulted and mugged walking home? Re
912.
by staunch 10y ago
You're competing with what's possible rather than merely what exists today. DistroKid is better technology and a hint at the great future of the cloud. Congrats!
913.
by staunch 10y ago
Not if we all do it.
914.
by staunch 10y ago
Anyone valuing technical opinions of VCs is barking up the wrong tree.
915.
by staunch 10y ago
Yeah but unless you tunnel your DNS traffic they can modify responses very easily. Not that this is super common yet.
916.
by staunch 10y ago
Europes golden month does sound more likely to cause problems than Japan's golden week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_(Japan)
917.
by staunch 10y ago
> However, in reality many ISPs and company networks de-prioritize UDP traffic so the quality of connection is unpredictable. What makes you think this? I play a UDP-based FPS game where "ping" times are critically important
918.
by staunch 10y ago
He violated policy and broke the law, but that doesn't mean he's done wrong.
919.
by staunch 10y ago
Name a single way that municipal police in the U.S. are not civilians. Is there any any legal or technical basis for referring to police as anything other than civilians? If not, then of course the word is being misused. Dictionaries simply
920.
by staunch 10y ago
If it's a good enough name for airplanes, it's a good enough names for cars. Both require users to be ready to take control at any moment.
921.
by staunch 10y ago
And if it's innovative in a technical sense, then choose innovative technology. If it's merely innovative in a business sense, then it doesn't matter what you choose.
922.
by staunch 10y ago
Work on something you would be really excited to work on even if you were a retired billionaire. Great projects pull work out of you. The important thing is not to fool yourself into working on something you think you're excited about
923.
by staunch 10y ago
It's not a matter of context. You're referring to the slang usage. Some programmers also call non-technical people "civilians" too. It's a way to refer to "other" people than those of your group. Irregardl
924.
by staunch 10y ago
From the article: > Five officers were killed and seven others were injured, as well as two civilians. Even NBC is referring to non-police as "civilians" here which really drives the point home.
925.
by staunch 10y ago
Yay. Well done. Now please don't let this rocky start ruin such a uniquely promising idea. This is YC's chance to implement the first true diversity program in SV. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11634217
926.
by staunch 10y ago
This is the Achilles's Heal of YC's application process. The human "culture fit" test, where in (literally) just a few minutes they evaluate the founders as people. The reason this experiment was so interesting was that
927.
by staunch 11y ago
There are numerous third-party software applications for iptables that try to facilitate setting up rules. Front-ends in textual or graphical fashion allow users to click-generate simple rulesets; scripts usually refer to shell scripts (but
928.
by staunch 11y ago
iptables is a user-space application program that allows a system administrator to configure the tables provided by the Linux kernel firewall (implemented as different Netfilter modules) and the chains and rules it stores. Different kernel
929.
by staunch 11y ago
iptables requires elevated privileges to operate and must be executed by user root, otherwise it fails to function. On most Linux systems, iptables is installed as /usr/sbin/iptables and documented in its man pages, which can
930.
by staunch 11y ago
The term iptables is also commonly used to inclusively refer to the kernel-level components. x_tables is the name of the kernel module carrying the shared code portion used by all four modules that also provides the API used for extensions;

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