stephengillie

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   by stephengillie 12y ago

   I'm going thru the process as we speak. :)
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   by stephengillie 12y ago

   One of the core issues with breaking this pattern is that you're installing a new feature on this reboot, then installing all of its patches on the next reboot. So you install 186 updates on a fresh install. This includes .NET 4.5
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   by stephengillie 12y ago

   I actually had a paragraph mentioning them, but I removed it because I thought someone would downvote me for being off topic, and not mentioning retail workers, which is what the article is really about. The game can't be won either wa
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   by stephengillie 12y ago

   When I saw companies like Walmart raising their wages: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/why-walm... And closing stores in response: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2
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   by stephengillie 12y ago

   A major reason for a lack of WFH is due to a manager's inability to manage WFH - these are people that have only been taught how to keep people on task, and have to physically view your body in order to know what you are thinking and d
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   by stephengillie 12y ago

   I work at what the owners call a "15-year old startup" and they're very strict about being on time for the office hours. And the reasons you cite (in the shower, while commuting) are among the reasons they pay us salary. We&#
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   by stephengillie 12y ago

   The reasons for not calling Computer Science a science vary mostly based on the background of the beholder. Some object because "we only compute man-made objects", while others argue that "Computer Science is not a science, a
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   by stephengillie 12y ago

   The engineering failure (as told to me by a college case study) was that there were exposed bolts directly in front of the gas tank, so a collision would almost always lead to a puncture, especially in a rear-end collision. The fix was a 2-
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   by stephengillie 12y ago

   Cool! How soon until you can tap into a calorie app/database (MyFitness?) and start to guesstimate the user's caloric burn rate each minute?
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    You had one professor who had a system worked out. How did the rest of your professors handle their workload? I too had a few professors that had it all figured out, a lot that were hard-working professionals, and a few that struggled to be
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    You're leaving out most of what the instructor does: -Prepare lessons -Answer student questions (during and) after class -Grade homework -Prepare, proctor, and grade examinations And instructors rarely spend their entire
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    You're assuming that teaching ability scales without scaling the workforce. Having an instructor provide for more students means each student gets less instructor-time. More instructor-time increases the learning ability of most studen
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    I would imagine there's already a system like this for the Amazon Locker.
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    In the USA the service would probably be called Amazon Trunk or something like that. (I can already see the Elephant-delivery-logo.png)
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    It's not too far from having similar to a mobile Locker service. What if you didn't have a key to your trunk, but Amazon paid you $50 a month (or a more appropriate value)? They could have a delivery carrier put goods into your tr
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    6 billion people, each burning 2000 calories per day equals 12 trillion calories. 6,000,000,000 * 2,000 = 12,000,000,000,000 But wait, those are Kcals. 6,000,000,000 * 2,000,000 = 12,000,000,000,000,000 1 calorie is the energy required to r
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    We all dodged a bullet there.
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    Main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9380468
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    We just patched our webservers last night. This morning, I see 9 more patches available, including this one.
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    HTTP.sys feeds directly into the IIS Request Queue. When that queue overruns, (i.e. too many pending requests that are waiting on a backend NAS or other resource) it's HTTP.sys providing the 503 error, not IIS.
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    The part that makes this really nasty is it doesn't just impact webservers. IIS is highly leveraged by other Microsoft technologies, everything from WSUS to SMTP to Exchange to Sharepoint are affected. In my environment, I estimate tha
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    Thanks for this. Is it irony that sending a full-pixel render of markup is the opposite of the HTML idea? :p
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    The crux of the problem with Mars is that its magnetic field is smaller than its atmosphere. All water gets blown away by the solar wind. Venus has a similar situation, and it's reacting somewhat similarly, having lightweight particles
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    Chicken, meet egg.
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    Plot twist: Elected officials are realistically unable to exert power or influence over our federal agencies. These quasi-judicial, quasi-executive governmental machines are largely autonomous, developing their own policies to execute their
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    Off-topic, running this URL thru Get-Webcontent (aka curl for Powershell) produces an interesting pattern: http://i.imgur.com/2vjxq8G.png
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    I'm curious about what this is, but I dare not click the link at work.
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    Is this related to the old lifehack about smearing toothpaste on your watch's sapphire crystal screen?
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    In the version told in the Star Trek: Voyager episode Scorpion , the girl is a fox and the snake is a scorpion (hence the show's title) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708968/quotes?item=qt0492714
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    by stephengillie 12y ago

    And this means that soon, many of us will be eating food grown with 20,000 year old water.