formerly_ta

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by formerly_ta 10y ago
CMU being there doesn't hurt, either
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by formerly_ta 10y ago
I'd go even further than that. They're not independent variables, but instead are highly correlated. High achievement in one area means you're more than likely to be above average in another.
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by formerly_ta 10y ago
If you're serious about security, every computer outside your control should be considered compromised, regardless of what you think about the owning company. With Signal, I have an E2E connection where if I trust both clients, I can t
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by formerly_ta 10y ago
And if you're shooting your resume off to such different positions that you can't cover them with the same (or one of a few) intro paragraphs, you're probably not that great a candidate for this specific role anyway.
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by formerly_ta 10y ago
That was the way I read it initially to. I think the intended meaning was that we don't know anything about it, up to and including this ridiculous claim. It's more to highlight the lack of transparency than actually put forth a
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by formerly_ta 10y ago
There are lots of things you can do to make a car not street legal. And people have access to them. And it's their responsibility to make sure they only drive a street legal car on the street.
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An allegory on bad A/B testing(technology.jana.com)
2 points by formerly_ta 11y ago|0 comments
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Exploring refactoring with color(technology.jana.com)
1 points by formerly_ta 11y ago|0 comments
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by formerly_ta 11y ago
Very handy. Thanks for throwing that together. At first glance I was thinking of the hell that it would be to run a current IDE on a 640x480 14" monitor. But at 1280x960 on a 28" monitor, it may work pretty well.
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by formerly_ta 12y ago
Ex-employee here. It's got its up-and-downs. It's a highly profitable company that still wants to hire smart people, so it bills itself as a "startup culture." Then you join and you're in a multi-level org chart w