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by ant5 16y ago
Am I the only "founder" / "entrepreneur" that doesn't really appreciate these special labels? They're generally something I only hear from the VC tech startup crowd, and usually in the context of breathless veneration. I'm running a busines
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by ant5 16y ago
I can kind of see the cost point - though most would argue that the lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree far outweigh a $100K investment. Do those studies on lifetime earnings really isolate for other factors? If dropping ou
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by ant5 16y ago
No, most people are taught not to pursue their own individual goals during the first two decades of institutionalized education.
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by ant5 16y ago
The problem here is that good UX isn't borne of qualitative analysis -- you have to build something worth analyzing to begin with. Once you do start analyzing, what do you do with the results? You can try to make small tweaks -- it can be w
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by ant5 16y ago
we don't apologize for working hard. we're a startup trying to make it in a competitive business. Past a certain amount of time, you're spinning your wheels, doing bad work you'll have to clean up later, and pushing yourself towards an ea
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by ant5 16y ago
The majority of recent graduates just spent 4 years in college instead of gaining relevant experience, so, yes. The economy is tough, they don't stack up to the competition, and adding more schooling wouldn't improve matters. Their competit
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by ant5 16y ago
We also know that the gap in income between those with a higher education and those without is increasing significantly. There's an unaccounted for correlation between the accessibility of higher education and general life opportunities.
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by ant5 16y ago
I don't see any economic forces that would trigger a burst. In fact, I see most entry-level jobs demanding more education now than ever before. A college degree, if required, has always been a -soft- requirement for most professional jo
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by ant5 16y ago
The point I'm making, though, is that every instance of someone running a dictionary attack against one of my servers was a script kiddie running a tool against a range of IP addresses. Changing the port ssh runs on to something high elimi
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by ant5 16y ago
In general, BSD assembler tends to be pretty stack heavy for cultural/engineering reasons. I don't think it ultimately matters all that much if you're fiddling around on your personal machine. I'm not sure I follow?
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by ant5 16y ago
It's depressing that your post hasn't received more attention. Your control systems should be on a private control network, not exposed to the wide internet. OpenVPN is capable of providing a much, much smaller attack surface than OpenSSH (
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by ant5 16y ago
Using a non-standard port for ssh eliminates the need for this altogether. This is almost a no-brainer, and it's the first thing I do when standing up a server. No, it doesn't. Running a port scan and finding your "hidden" SSH port takes
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by ant5 16y ago
What possible benefit justifies writing the code to be little-endian only? Why on earth would anyone do that? It's not a trade-off if there's no upside.
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by ant5 16y ago
If you're dominated by function calls, you're already wrong. Function calls are way expensive, because you're resetting like 4 registers and screwing over the instruction cache. Give me a non-contrived example where this tiny amount of f
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by ant5 16y ago
I wish I could win at the lottery and start something on my own.. ... maybe if you stopped wasting time and money on domain squatting
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by ant5 16y ago
Unless you are eating 1,000 tic-tacs a minute, in which case they really start to add up. We're talking about the potential to slow down every single function by inserting unnecessary register save/restores. The compiler is operating at a
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by ant5 16y ago
You're awesome (and the update looks great).
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by ant5 16y ago
If my goal is to get to my house, and I am standing 10 meters from it in the diagonal, I must traverse ground both in the x and y directions. If the goal is long term recollection, a combination of memorization and understanding is necessa
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by ant5 16y ago
The main point I'm trying to make is that one _can_ memorize something and not understand what it means. And one can understand something without having memorized it verbatim. If you accept this, then it follows that memorization and under
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by ant5 16y ago
I know this was a joke, but adding condoms would be fantastic. I find it mildly embarrassing and equally annoying to buy condoms, and yet I definitely do not want to run out.
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by ant5 16y ago
Having memorized X lines from anything is a 'cool' feat to some people, but it's an entirely orthogonal endeavor from understanding what the text means. I hold that there's an understanding to be found in Shakespeare in both memorizing an
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by ant5 16y ago
I too, hate shopping. I selected my daily man-uniform years ago, and know exactly what I like to wear -- I haven't changed my basic outfit in almost 5 years. Yes, I am that manly. If manpacks added different colors of american apparel man
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by ant5 16y ago
As addicted to programming as I am, I can't sustain the same levels of intelligent programming as I can the consumption of media, be it playing a game or reading a book. When programming, I can stay on-task for 12 consecutive hours a day wi
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by ant5 16y ago
It's pretty difficult to commit that much text to memory without reading it inside and out. Comprehending it also makes it considerably easier to remember it. Seems like you just want to be contrary here, but have never actually spent time
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by ant5 16y ago
Strange. I don't get anything out of memorizing data and just find it to be an extremely difficult chore. It's not "data", it's Shakespeare. Memorizing and reciting Shakespeare is quite a bit different than doing the same with an arbitrar
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by ant5 16y ago
I read and understood the Queen Mab speech more thoroughly than any other passage in Shakespeare when memorizing it. I didn't find it pointless. Even so, as merely a mental exercise it was perfectly valid. When is the last time you exercise
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by ant5 16y ago
I don't disagree that standard language is dynamic and a representation of culture (and those who control it). However -- while I have heard plenty of suggestions for resolving the issue from college english professors, none of them have ma
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by ant5 16y ago
"He" as gender-neutral singular pronoun is not even vernacular -- it is standard English.
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by ant5 16y ago
It reads like a justification for arrogant cowboy programming, eg: Developers that have to spend a long time cleaning up after you are just the mediocre ones that can't keep up.
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by ant5 16y ago
Even more so because he doesn't mention the major danger zone of signals -- your code needs to be async-safe: https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode... Signal handlers will be called in the middle of execution of ano

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