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by xenophonf 14y ago
Wasn't there a rebuttal of /Sex at Dawn/ mentioned recently here on Hacker News?
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by xenophonf 14y ago
I'm reminded of Kent Pitman's essay "Condition Handling in the Lisp Language Family" ( http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Condition-Handling-2001.h... ): To properly understand condition handling, it is critical to understand that it is pr
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by xenophonf 14y ago
I don't think it's arrogant - it's direct. I would think a recruiter would want to know about these kinds of preferences, if only to save them the time spent contacting someone who wouldn't be a fit for an opening.
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by xenophonf 14y ago
Crypto is probably one of the few types of software patents that I'd support. It's non-obvious in the extreme, and patenting a cryptosystem might be a good way to open it for public review.
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by xenophonf 14y ago
Absent from the story is any mention of cost-benefit analysis. I'd agree with the unnamed director's decision to eliminate every other toilet if there was evidence that, in the long run, it actually did cost the railroad less.
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by xenophonf 14y ago
That "you need to think the whole process through" is exactly my point. In my experience, administrative overhead is rarely given this kind of consideration, and it results in a lot of wasted effort and upset users - like shunting a bunch
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by xenophonf 14y ago
And that's ignoring the repeated customer service issues, which more than likely drove business to this railroad's customers.
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by xenophonf 14y ago
I'm in IT ops, and I will bet you dollars to donuts that the money saved by putting toilets in every other car was more than wasted by the shunting yard switching cars every which way.
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by xenophonf 14y ago
This. I'm so sick of receiving marketing emails from companies to whom I sent a one-time informational query, not to mention the marketing emails sent to addresses gleaned from public directories like Jigsaw (of which I am _not_ a member).
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by xenophonf 14y ago
I moved everything off Dotster to Gandi this summer. While good business practices were a major factor in my vendor selection process, I also had important technical reasons for choosing Gandi - namely, they supported IPv6 and DNSSEC as we
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by xenophonf 14y ago
Without watching the video or looking at any of the other content on the http://www.whatistheitu.org/ web site, I'm not willing to sign the petition, and here's why: "Fight for the Future and Center for Rights (our 501c3) may contact you
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by xenophonf 14y ago
You'd allow external media because you need the data off the device somehow. Unfortunately, if the monitor uses a COTS operating system (doesn't matter which), that's one way in for malware. Unlike their military applications, air gaps in