Adutude

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by Adutude 6y ago
In the real world, in quite a few companies, in order to accomplish X, you must sit through many meetings with others that have nothing to do with accomplishing X. There are also many other logistical hurdles that you must overcome to accom
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by Adutude 6y ago
I've used what I learned in this course more than any learning I've done. IMHO This should be a required course before a student graduates high school (or sooner).
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Empowering Yourself in a Post-Truth World(coursera.org)
1 points by Adutude 6y ago|1 comments
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by Adutude 6y ago
Are we really having this discussion on Hacker News? As Hackers we should all be MATHing and SCIENCEing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8 This article has some good links to studies and articles, some
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by Adutude 6y ago
We should all just be on GMT. In software development on Pacific time, I always feel bad for the guys offshore that have to stay up late at night to make our morning meetings. It sure would make things a lot more easy from a coding perspe
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by Adutude 6y ago
One of my favorite dialogs of his was from an old Bond movie. Girl: Hi I'm Plenty Bond: But of course you are Girl: Plenty O'Toole Bond: Named after your father perhaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CElBVpRFk4Q
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by Adutude 6y ago
So this appears to be, the very old, software that was pushed to production before it was ready story. I have to wonder if there wasn't some Marketing/PR/Mgmt person(s) that pushed the engineers to release the software bef
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by Adutude 6y ago
Someone just needs to create a swiss army knife headless browser streaming file saver/converter and leave out any text about how to download youtube videos with it. Then the community can be like Popcorn time and say, ahem, no copyrigh
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Chris Hedges “The Politics of Cultural Despair”(youtube.com)
8 points by Adutude 6y ago|0 comments
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by Adutude 6y ago
From my perspective it kind of seems like YouTube-dl is like a knife, it can cut your food, but it can also be used to kill someone. In the case of YouTube-dl the knife was included with instructions on how to kill someone, so it was deem
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by Adutude 6y ago
I agree completely. Steve Ballmer put all of Microsoft eggs in the Office Basket that let mobile die on the vine. He pushed licensing and marketing and left developers and new tech to languish. It's why to this day, Microsoft doesn
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by Adutude 6y ago
From a business standpoint, I would have to agree he did turn them around from a business standpoint. As a user of Windows since 3.1 (w/out networking). I do the same as MekaiGS "I honestly have no idea where all the Windows sett
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by Adutude 6y ago
In the article it references a Gallup poll and says, "Nearly two-thirds of employees who have been working remotely would like to continue to do so" So the Majority of people want to continue to work remote, I would put out there
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We have invented brain washing machines
3 points by Adutude 6y ago|0 comments
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by Adutude 6y ago
Here we are again, discussing politics in our tech forum. Why? Because we invented brain washing machines. Social media married w/ Algorithms and AI. The bigger story here is that these brainwashing machines are susceptible to being
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by Adutude 6y ago
I think that title is more fitting.
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by Adutude 6y ago
I am so tired of hearing what CEO's want. As a worker bee, I want to work from home. I want human contact with my family and friends. Co-workers, not so important. Not to mention, I don't have to spend hours every day in traffi
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by Adutude 6y ago
I was just talking w/ someone about the good old days (and farting some dust) and back in the day, if someone was trolling hard, or spamming or running bots that should not be run, they got hacked, and hard. Your servers would be a sm
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by Adutude 6y ago
Oh noes, my beloved hacker news has sunk down into the political morass. I think the bigger picture, and meta topic here is that private companies have become the arbiters of what is and what is not appropriate social discourse. We as a soc
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by Adutude 7y ago
Also the "right" way often changes, in technology, and if you only learned the "right" way, when a better way comes out, you'll miss it because you only ever learned the "right" way and it's all you k
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by Adutude 7y ago
I bought one of their laptops a few year ago. I needed a new power supply as the cable had frayed that came w/ the unit. I wanted to get the original cable, so I called and asked "what was the original manufacturer" so I co
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Empowering Yourself in a Post-Truth World(coursera.org)
1 points by Adutude 7y ago|0 comments
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by Adutude 8y ago
The name.... reminds me of <blink>Annoying Text</blink>
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by Adutude 8y ago
In the US, there are a number of us that wake up every day and feel like our hair is on fire. We read the news, hoping that at some point our elected leaders will do their job and rein in the madness, so we can, for a change, sleep well at
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by Adutude 8y ago
Elegant and Exquisite, Hoo Hoo, Hee Hee, Gufaw!! I was running an ISP at that time. This caused me no end of headaches in getting the FrontPage extensions working on various and sundry web servers. It allowed people to easily create websi
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by Adutude 8y ago
This article is good as far as UX goes. Myself, I love my Yubikey. I use it to store my ssh keys, then tunnel them using ssh-agent/gpg-agent, something along the lines of this article. https://www.bootc.net/archives&#
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by Adutude 8y ago
I couldn't agree more. I don't think U.S. has a real progressive party, the choices are off the rails conservatism, or conservative lite. IMO, a progressive/liberal is concerned someone might go hungry, a conservative is con
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by Adutude 9y ago
I stopped using the slack client because it was causing my desktop to hang, so I started using the IRC interface, which works great for my purposes. Since they are getting rid of how I access slack, I guess I'm done w/ slack.
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by Adutude 9y ago
Tropare|Laguna Beach, CA, US|ONSITE|Full-time|Sysadmin Are you interested in helping to solve today's challenges in managing and utilizing big data for international Fortune 500 companies? We are a small team of developers working on
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by Adutude 9y ago
From the atom FAQ in answer to the question "Atom feels slow or is consuming too much CPU or memory" "Atom isn’t designed to be a tiny native-code editor. If the ultimate in speed is what you’re after, Atom probably isn’t wha

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