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by viae 15y ago
I must h/t Matt Simons for bringing my attention to this act, which would significantly curtail the salaries of many IT professionals. His blog post asking for additional input can be found here: http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/20
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Text of S. 1747: Computer Professionals Update Act(govtrack.us)
2 points by viae 15y ago|1 comments
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The Astounding Curta Mechanical Calculator [video](youtube.com)
2 points by viae 15y ago|0 comments
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by viae 15y ago
> Why do you assume Americans are more deserving of Apple's manufacturing jobs than the Chinese? Because the consumers of every nation on earth, deep-down, are superficially patriotic. We don't want to recognize that the global economy
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by viae 15y ago
I have seen the light and been converted to the Church of SSD. The expense /is/ worth it. I routinely run Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 (running Windows Deployment Server to reimage computers at different physical locations) on my Mac
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Background on the role of special forces in U.S. military strategy(gwu.edu)
2 points by viae 15y ago|1 comments
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by viae 16y ago
Could enterprise software development become "fun" if WebOS fulfills it's potential? Funny to think of BeOS and BeIA becoming HP's NextStep. There's a lot riding on this at HP. I'm not familiar with their executive leadership, other than
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by viae 16y ago
Edit: I mean, it's 403'd, not 404'd...
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Ask HN: What happened to Serendipity, the fare tracker?
3 points by viae 16y ago|4 comments
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by viae 16y ago
Thanks for the leads. I'm in the Washington, DC area so I'll be looking into ShmooCon. I had never heard of it. The other's are on my "too investigate" list, too.
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Ask HN: What (tech)conferences are you going to in 2011 and why?
2 points by viae 16y ago|2 comments
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by viae 16y ago
The back-and-forth potshots that faculty members take at each other in the Chronicles comments are even more insightful than the original article. The Chronicle moderators had to go so far as to delete follow-up comments. That's... eye op
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by viae 16y ago
Every time I read what comes out of Steve Ballmer's mouth I wonder if that guy has ever touched a computer. Microsoft's employees need to acquire some parrots and eye patches. It's mutiny time.
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by viae 16y ago
It's not that non-university students are immoral or stupid. The article says nothing of the sort. Plagiarism is a basic lesson of university students on day one. You're being too sensitive. The unsaid connection the author is making is
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by viae 16y ago
Chrome, so far, is the only browser I can keep open with a bazillion tabs for days, weeks, MONTHS without seeing my system take a slow, deadly, performance hit. I'm sorry I didn't start using it sooner.
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by viae 16y ago
Every time I hear about this game I'm intrigued. I read a year-or-so-ago about one of the most powerful guilds in the game being infiltrated, it's armories ransacked, and then decimated in a surprise attack/trap.
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by viae 16y ago
If the attack vector is petty theft the following would be more than sufficient: * Encrypt the user data portion of the hd. * Password protect the bios, hard drive (if it has that capability in the bios.), and the OS accounts. * Keep accoun
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by viae 16y ago
I disagree that search is the only answer and that Google with get AppStores right first because that is their expertise. Everyone is on the "better search" bandwagon because we want to find quality products faster in an ecosystem of far t
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by viae 16y ago
While I do think it's a bad idea for the military to outsource computer networks this article uses terrible evidence to back up it's critique and complaints. * "Worse, HP — which acquired Electronic Data Systems and its Navy contract in 200
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by viae 16y ago
This is the part of the obituary that I found the most powerful: Though inventing filled his working hours, Mr. Gundlach was enthralled with canoeing, hiking, skiing — activities he pursued avidly most of his lifetime. When he was in his 50
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Robert W. Gundlach, Leading Xerox Inventor, Dies at 84(nytimes.com)
3 points by viae 16y ago|1 comments
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by viae 16y ago
Ohlife reminds me of a prettier, and less clever version of 100words. http://www.100words.com/ There's some really interesting creative work coming out of 100words based on folk's every day experiences. I'd recommend that HN folk check i
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by viae 16y ago
Note that the course's textbook, which is also called Street Fighting Mathematics, is available via Creative Commons Noncommercial Share Alike: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&#38... Its a link on the left side un
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by viae 17y ago
Anyone have a verifiable citation on this credit to Dyson? Initially my spider sense tingled when something so perfunctory was attributed to a CEO of Coca Cola (a common theme to chain emails). Some quick Googling credits a 1996 Commenceme
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by viae 17y ago
O'Sensei's thought and style evolved throughout his life. In his younger days, pre-WWII, yes, he was rough and tumble. Movements were sharper and more direct. Break bones, crush your enemy. He did this frequently while in the Japanese m
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by viae 17y ago
They did, in fact, destroy the missile. The articles about this event are badly worded. From the original MDA Press Release: At 8:44 p.m. (PST), February 11, 2010, a short-range threat-representative ballistic missile was launched from an
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by viae 17y ago
I understand your frustration, but from a different perspective, I think this helps bolster the case for moving on. Since iPhone apps store data locally, making it easy to steal, your iPhone secret sauce can't be the database or database s
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by viae 17y ago
Don't waste your time on legal action on this iphone app. Yes, notify Apple and publicize it. But, your energy is better spent innovating and hacking. While screen-scraping is hard work it doesn't bring success and other good programmers
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by viae 18y ago
The biggest problem I've encountered with Apple in a business setting is Open Directory. You give it the evil eye and it gets corrupted; requiring restoration from backup (You have a backup, right?). BerkleyDB just doesn't cut it. Apple'
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by viae 18y ago
I agree with your assessment of the value, but disagree with your conjecture of the solution. It'll take too long to create products that leverage the network and are profitable. A better short term solution is to sell the data on the user

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