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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Well; I think I would actually be considerably worse off if I had behaved myself, made it through high school and gone to university than I am currently; I know it seems counterintuitive but my point was just that it makes no difference h
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Not really. Mostly (when I was pimped out to them) they did almost exclusively "business constantly" work (read: outsourcing blame and repaying favours, greasing the revolving door, putting projects on a project code with an exis
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Yeah I had the same feeling; how could anyone writing something like an air traffic control system design it in such a way that some failure/exception in loading user settings causes the system to die? This is probably a horrible mess
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
I've actually never seen "the system" 'work', in that I never willingly hire grads and almost none of my experienced staff have ever had a formal education. But then again I'm not doing hardcore algorithmic stu
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
So it's their failure and not yours? I have a comparable story; dropped out of school at 15 and didn't touch education since (>15 years ago now), then spent a few years high and drunk: but I'd learnt perl from the camel ev
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Grim right? Wonder how many of these devices there are out there... Can you even update the smmu config via OTA android updates?
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Well fair enough. I don't consider myself better then my team when taken as a whole, however I am the lead for a reason and I'm much closer aligned on how to maximise what we're delivering to the client as I have to actually
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Who is 'they' in that case? They for me is whoever is paying us to help them with their business. If it's the contractors/team members then no. Ive unfortunately had several highly paid (4 figures uk/day) contractor
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Running teams of contractors for years, I disagree it's uncommon. I let my guys do whatever they want as long as the work is being delivered. Sometimes I have to have a standoff with some salaried dragonwoman or other who takes offence
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
I can't remember the last time firefox 'reader view' didn't work for me. Do you really need to go down those roads this often(serious)? I'm really not trying to call you on anything; but would you mind sharing some
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
That's a beast, doesn't it weigh a ton and don't you worry about having spinners knocking around in your bag? Do you need that much in a luggable? I would have that setup on a desktop, having that in my portable machine would
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
I guess unity was the only thing driving Mir then? Is dropping one the same as dropping both? Seems like good news to me, having a significant player like canonical contributing to the community instead of fragmenting without much benefit c
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14043631 Can't find a cached version of the actual ubuntu article though. Edit: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_6qrnN... No mention
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
I don't hear it while audio is playing either since it's drowned out -- never do a build or something and hear it? It really annoys me, I'm surprised you don't hear it. Maybe not all devices are susceptible then?
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
There is no difference. From the top of my head in the last few years I have (and you have also probably) used the following to get software: rpm/yum, deb/apt, pacman, ports, sysvr4(Solaris), ips, homebrew, pkgin, npm, gem, pip, h
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Canonical are ditching Mir? I must have missed this one. Was this discussed here? Page won't load for me but my first thought was this was a poor taste April fools ;)
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Do you not notice a high pitched whining noise whenever doingsomething graphically intense (lots of output steaming by etc)? Its a known problem with these laptops and while I'm used to it now, I find it a bit annoying.
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Do you get the coil whine also? Also 4.10 seems to not work for me? Am I the only one?
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
My workflow is very similar. I think you might get some benefit from a tiling wm. I use DWM personally, but you might want to check them out
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Your laptop has 4 disks?
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
That sounds like a pretty neat setup. I know I can just google all this so please forgive me the inane questions; it depends on virtualbox though? That's a bit of a nonstarter for a few of. We probably aren't the target base for t
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Latest XPS13 running arch. So far the least annoying setup I've had in recent memory, having switched from macs (although I've had to stick to 4.9 as 4.10 causes all kinds of issues for me). Oh, the trackpad is a bit annoying too
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Right so can't I just add one then? Most vm setups I might have a default route to the other VM running tor but I can still talk to e.g 192.168.0.1 even if I'm not putting traffic through it. Is this some kind of 'vm specific
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
I read them all and I'll probably read the next one, question for a fellow reader: am I the only one who absolutely hates Holden? He doesn't really seem to have developerd or grown up al all, he routinely puys whiney personal issu
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
If the workstation vm is pwned what stops it from hitting the usual home router internal network address and/or changing the route? Is there some network isolation going on which prevents that?
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Well, where ever they get it seeing salmon you catch that isn't pale pink but grey is disturbing and not something which would occur naturally. I fly fished wild salmon since I was in my early teens and they were always pink. We stole
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Well I'm just taking about Not being spammed with loads of shite instead of genuine prejudices as you point out. I have a hard time really understand the race thing as a Brit thigh. I think the colour thing is a predominantly American
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Haha me too. I remember a few years ago (or probably more like 15 now) I was visiting my mother and in the car from the airport she was telling me "did you hear its okay to eat eggs again?" >_< (there was a widespread link t
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Nah its not the measure I'm not that shallow, but I have a mentality where I think playing the short game when it comes to consuming whatever makes me happy makes my life better than depriving myself out of fear of an early death. It s
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by houst0n_ 9y ago
Right! How many places did you work that made you vow to never use after seeing behind the curtain? We live in happy ignorance of the horrible shit in most of our food but we have pretty reasonable controls that none of it is complete poiso

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