devmonk

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by devmonk 16y ago
I just changed the password to some long random string so I’d never be tempted to log in again. Lack of password recovery isn’t a bug there, it’s a feature. Going to do the same thing. See ya, HN.
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by devmonk 16y ago
How is the TSA political?
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by devmonk 16y ago
First-generation ethanol Ethanol has been produced for ages. It is ridiculous and unwise to call it "first-generation ethanol" or even "first-generation-process ethanol". The fact is that they had no green solution for gasoline production
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South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island hit by North Korean artillery(time.com)
1 points by devmonk 16y ago|0 comments
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by devmonk 16y ago
"Engineers are pretty nice people, and they assume the rest of the world is pretty nice like them," said McAfee. "But that's not the way most people are. And if you build (software) assuming that's the way people are, it will get heavily s
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by devmonk 16y ago
For those interested: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Theanine and there are supplements available if you don't want to give up coffee.
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by devmonk 16y ago
Sure. If someone took the time to write a book about what s/he thinks, and I don't mean teaching some subject (including their experiences in the subject), or writing some other fiction other non-fiction, but rather some semi-informed garba
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by devmonk 16y ago
I'm against the death penalty also, but this is misleading. Just look at Central America, parts of South America and parts of Africa. There are and have been many, many killings by the government in these places for the purpose of keeping i
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by devmonk 16y ago
Self-publishing a mini e-book that shares your perspective with the world This would be a definite "minus" in my book in a potential employee, unless I was hiring an editorialist. Instead, I would want to see results and understanding of
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by devmonk 16y ago
Retry would work for small time differences, but would mean greater delay (and subsequent "I give up"), if the system clock were to be set backwards a substantial amount.
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by devmonk 16y ago
Curious about this in snowflake (mentioned in slides): https://github.com/twitter/snowflake/blob/master/src/main/sc... def nextId(): Long = synchronized { var timestamp = timeGen() if (lastTimestamp > timestamp) {
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by devmonk 16y ago
I'm not sure a kilt would help- they'd just pat you through the kilt. How about some bike pants? That way the TSA can see what they are getting into: http://www.amazon.com/Nike-Echelon-Padded-Bike-Shorts/dp/B00...
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by devmonk 16y ago
Not legal advice for sure and take it with a grain of salt, but first I'd: - Get all of the evidence you can that you distributed it first. If this requires contacting another company to confirm records of when you made it available, do tha
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by devmonk 16y ago
I personally don't think options are usually a good deal unless you believe that you'll be working for the next Google, Facebook, etc. I worked for a company that was hot as pizza cheese on your gums straight from the oven, but I didn't tak
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by devmonk 16y ago
I can't believe that the interviewer is asking the interviewee to implement a sorting algorithm and is making fun of candidates online. That certainly is not a place that I'd want to work.
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by devmonk 16y ago
I'd like to have that for my commute.
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by devmonk 16y ago
In GitHub, that's not the case. People often fork Rails, etc. to make a change that they need locally but will push that (easily) back up to the main project for consideration. Forking allows you and others to easily work with your patched
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by devmonk 16y ago
I'm all for going just what needs to be done, but I think you are not giving good advice about "hiring scrubs". I worked for a successful company that had a younger less experienced developer write the original code. But he was not a "scrub
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China net hijacking may be random mistake(ft.com)
1 points by devmonk 16y ago|1 comments
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Lewin Lecture: "Polarization: Light Waves, Rainbows, and Cheap Sunglasses"(mitworld.mit.edu)
4 points by devmonk 16y ago|0 comments
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by devmonk 16y ago
But before doing that, consider if the community you are trying to build already exists: - Lots here: http://area51.stackexchange.com/ - Programming, etc.: http://stackoverflow.com/ - Jobs: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ - Server A
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by devmonk 16y ago
but your username is notmyname... oh, we could be here for hours, like Abbott and Costello http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M
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Ask Tom "Unique key across tables"(asktom.oracle.com)
1 points by devmonk 16y ago|0 comments
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by devmonk 16y ago
Have you done at least 10-15 years of it and are still a coder and not a manager?
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by devmonk 16y ago
I want to find out whose company name was redacted from the post.
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by devmonk 16y ago
Good point that metrics can often be collected inappropriately. My point was more that you could: - do a survey of customer satisfaction on different points (but make it wide-open so they can express other concerns) and see how well ranking
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by devmonk 16y ago
It's cheating to create an id just to applaud yourself, only when you're not trying to make humor by injecting a yes man into context of apparent disdain of work bureaucracy. (sili889q user created one hour ago by notmyname to coincide with
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by devmonk 16y ago
I love this comment under the post: Software engineers? You mean programming Python? Python is as easy as adding 1 + 1. Something else is going on, illegally, inside Silicon Valley. oh no you didn't.
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by devmonk 16y ago
I'm beginning to think I could cause hackers a lot of headache via long-running find commands caused by directory trees full of tmp-like dirs. But then they'd just use one of them.
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by devmonk 16y ago
Funny, but someone needs to add a "WhatProgrammersCanDoWhenProgrammingIsNotFun" page that talks about entrepreneurial activities, business, etc. that people bored of development can get into. I'm burnt out on programming, mostly because I f

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