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by zerkten 8y ago
That's only one way to look at it. There are lots of weird integrations and third-party products that OS vendors have to account for in a decision like this. I don't know how they set dates for end-of-life on their products, but m
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> Then there were about 30% of students that actively chose to pursue an MBA. These students almost all had actual, real-world experience and actively chose to get an MBA because of specific needs or circumstances they had. Coming from t
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> I think it looks way worse to just let it limp along and slowly die. Fail fast, learn your lesson, and move on. I'm sure Apple are well aware of the lesson and are simply doing the right thing for the folks who did invest in macOS
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There is a full course on the subject at http://www.pgbovine.net/cpython-internals.htm .
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Both of the points you have made are very similar to the issues with ExpertsExchange which SO set out to replace. The reason idiotic questions and answers remain is that they are fodder for people arriving from search engines. If you cleane
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Why is the no photographs policy a problem when you can get reproductions online? That piques my interest as a photographer. Off the top of my head, the layout and design of War Photos Limited in Dubrovnik ( http://www.warphotoltd
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by zerkten 8y ago
In the early days of StackOverflow (mostly during the beta) there was encouragement to ask intelligent questions which hadn't been asked yet. This was a way to seed the site with better content. I can see the same strategy being useful
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I'm amazed that this is online, but the Van Gogh museum experience was really fantastic. I got back from Amsterdam a little over a week ago and was impressed at how innovative it felt compared to US art museums I've visited. We ha
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It'll help if you learn to network with alumni and pull together a good portfolio for you resume. Consider how balanced your resume looks today and what it's going to look like with only that MS CS program. As you go, investigate
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I'm British (Northern Irish) and I moved to the US in 2004 on an H1B visa. You are unlikely to have much success applying for roles where you may be competing with folks who may not need visas. It's a challenge for companies to ev
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There are also a ton of employers here in Philadelphia who are outside the traditional tech scene, but need tech skills and are possibly able to facilitate visas. The OP jumps from entry-level job to engineering degree which is possibly an
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What would you propose as an alternative strategy? The billing rates tend to be high to compensate based on my experience with consulting. There is no city in the world like NYC, and it has so much to offer. That's not to say there are
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> How many engineers are doing things like using real numbers from previous work to build models before estimating? Fogbugz created a feature called Evidence-based Scheduling ( http://help.fogcreek.com/7676/evidence-b
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by zerkten 8y ago
> The author is apparently unaware of the options they have. Do they really have the options you outlined? The author appears to dealing with a situation involving students in rural Uganda. It might not be as simple in that context as yo
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by zerkten 8y ago
Rejecting harmful traffic is only one of the threats. There are many other attacks that can be conducted when you control the network and DNS. Only security-conscious users think of ways to counter those threats.
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Yes. It's not limited to airports. There are many reason why a hotspot provider in the US wouldn't want the liability of anyone other than a know user accessing their service. These issues are probably more limited elsewhere in th
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> wouldn't it be sweet if businesses just let anyone join their WiFi? Bike repair shops always leave a pump outside for anyone to use, not just customers. That's a flawed analogy. It'd be sweet if I could do any prohibited
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They might just be missing basic features and blocking access was easier than adding those features. If the product isn't working out inside Pinterest then they don't have much motivation in fixing those issues, even if they lose
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by zerkten 8y ago
When I was working on e-detailing apps for pharmaceutical sales reps in 2007-2010 we did this. Originally the UI for was based on Flash and intended for Windows Tablet PC usage. I think the server security was pretty rudimentary.
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by zerkten 8y ago
I've heard that the Lightroom and Photoshop experience is better overall on Windows now than Mac. I'm sticking with my 2015 MBP for now, but was wondering if anyone could comment on this? I've seen comments elsewhere about Ad
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> "pretty open" "as long as you sign an NDA" is borderline oxymoronic. > "enterprise focused" speaks for itself. GAE is a business and has a niche. Perhaps they'd really be dead if they didn't f
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Completely agree on "no surprises", but the annual review process provides a way to frame progress that the manager and employee can work within. When folks stayed at one company for their whole career it was a permanent record of
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Where are your former startup colleagues these days? If they are still working close to the startup field, it'd be good to talk with them, even if you you aren't looking for a direct referral. If you can get candid feedback from t
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"Once a bin is locked, it cannot be deleted and none of its data can ever be changed." I can understand why there is good reason for the data to never change, but if your product gets popular, or you are unlucky, then this could t
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> That doesn't make them wrong. What if you are downstream from these changes, relying on a product that uses these APIs, and now you are negatively affected? You wouldn't be thinking that that their lack of planning or caution
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This is designed to be run inside an organisation with some degree more trust than what you have in your situation. You should submit some feature requests ( https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues ) for these things
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There seems to be a lot more information within the section of docs focused on developers like https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/development/setup-adv... .
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How frequent and painful are Zulip upgrades? This is one of the reasons folks like SaaS for communications tools which always seem to be changing.
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They can be.
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How often do the majority of people need to make these changes? With a well designed "self-contained black box" it should be possible to make the changes you suggested (web server and Python interpreter) pluggable, to some degree.

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