drac

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by drac 10y ago
they certainly ban people who do GPS spoofing although I can't speak to how rigorously enforced those checks might be
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by drac 11y ago
Before I authorized the browser to send geolocation information, it dropped me in Russia. Maybe it's the default?
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by drac 12y ago
it feels more like Python 3 is similar to the transition between PHP 4 and 5. Painful, sure but ultimately not a deterrent to language adoption. I'm sad about this, I loved programming Perl a decade ago but the last side project I wrot
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by drac 13y ago
everyone with any interest in the AK-47 should read http://cjchivers.com/aboutthegun (The Gun, by CJ Chivers). Although it spends a lot of time examining historical contexts for machine guns, and assault rifles in general -
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by drac 14y ago
I'm seeing the same error, trying to visit http://www.flipmeme.com/image/VR3oq from http://www.flipmeme.com/image/XWkG2 Great site, I can see myself hitting the right arrow key for hours on end :)
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by drac 14y ago
For people who's departure causes significant external ripples, it's never really couched as firing though, is it? There is a carefully coded message (perhaps even internally) about departing for other startups as yet unspecified, or of pur
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by drac 14y ago
mail sent, thanks for taking a look. Same username as here.
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by drac 14y ago
import isn't instantaneous - I uploaded my delicious links, and was promised an email when import finished. Still no email (an hour or so later) :) - tbf, there's about 3000 links
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by drac 14y ago
they need constant care and monitoring - especially after heavy storms or bad weather of any sort, really. The tree lined boulevards in my city routinely disrupt traffic after monsoon rains - most are close to 40 years old, and every so oft
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by drac 15y ago
Did you mean Robert Heinlein? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers
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by drac 15y ago
I really like the idea and UI, thanks for sharing. Minor typo: Let it be investors, founders, owners or just jourself should be "yourself".
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by drac 16y ago
By and large, I've had the opposite problem making a lasting switch from Perl to Ruby. I know Perl better than most other languages in my toolbox, and it's my default prototyping and one-off utility language. I don't find a lot of niches (f
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by drac 16y ago
I agree completely with everything that you say. Yet the problem now is if you spend all that time communicating, you still can't know for sure if everyone was listening or tuning you out half the time. More so if other people around you
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by drac 16y ago
Having out of state plates seems to help. My rental car has NY plates, that seems to reduce expectations that I'll run a yellow anywhere in Boston. Which basically means, I only experience honked annoyance about 2-3 times a week on average.
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by drac 16y ago
Despite the last paragraph in the article, another reason for refusing to upgrade is the costs involved in service pack upgrades. IE 7 is only available for Windows XP SP2 and higher. Upgrading to SP2 was traumatic for many organizations, s
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by drac 16y ago
At least one of the problems, IME, is that salary ranges are rigidly determined by the employee tier. The tiering system goes something like this: Software Engineer -> Lead -> Architect Without advancing through the ranks, it is we
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by drac 16y ago
even when everyone dials in, the people using a cellphone or joining conference calls while travelling are at a distinct disadvantage. Any number of calls I join have at least one guy having to drop out and come back in because the signal k
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by drac 17y ago
actually, I feel you may have made the case for outsourcing. In your example - it was a single task. Working with the assumption that domain expertise can be acquired on the job, the costs of doing subsequent jobs will be lower for the outs