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by jcmhn 14y ago
I hope that the author was taking liberties with technical details to make it read like a detective story. If that is how computer forensics really work, then the field is snake oil of the worst sort. I can understand how foolishness like t
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by jcmhn 14y ago
> Programming is an information technology, and being a technology facilitates greater efficiency. Which is not always a good thing. Sometimes the fact that a task is tedious or confusing should cause us to re-think the necessity of doi
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by jcmhn 14y ago
I tried it several times, but IMO it is barely functional and ridiculous to configure. I know the developer does what they can, but Chrome seems to intentionally make it difficult for extensions to block ads.
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by jcmhn 14y ago
I recently switched back to FF after a year or more using Chrome. I don't care all that much about performance, what drove me back to firefox was intolerable levels of ads.
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by jcmhn 14y ago
> And it isn't hard to see the author's torment at being forced to do this to her father. That guilt, torment, and second guessing of yourself is one of the terrible things that result when trying to take care of a mentally ill person.
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by jcmhn 14y ago
> Oh, and she refuses to take her medication because she’s convinced that they will ruin her liver. Until fairly recently doctors had no idea how to measure minimum effective doses of lithium, so many older people with bipolar disorder
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by jcmhn 14y ago
Allow a shell variable to control output record and field separators. Default to space and newline if nothing is specified. ORS=: OFS=, ls -l # rw-r--r--:1:uname:gname:1025:Jun 1:somefile.txt,...,... Add a specifier for dates, usernames, gr
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by jcmhn 14y ago
bash, ssh, screen, rsync, cron, gcc, perl/python/ruby, X, and excellent terminal emulation. Treat cygwin as just another unix variant and it will go pretty far. Windows native apps and virtualbox are guaranteed to cover any missed requireme
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by jcmhn 14y ago
There was a short window about 10 years ago where OSX was the best unix workstation, no contest. But cygwin is really good these days, so good that the Apple premium cost and batshit insane vendor make it a non-starter.
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by jcmhn 14y ago
I dislike advertising itself as much as the next engineer. I won't even attempt to defend that position with logic, it's a visceral preference. But I especially wouldn't want to work for advertisers. It seems natural that such companies wou
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by jcmhn 14y ago
> Google Wallet isn't doing too great. Why? No support. You NEED to be able to reach a human being to clear up problems with credit cards. I used google wallet to pay for a google apps yearly account. I also used a different card to pay
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by jcmhn 14y ago
> We need a structured approach to the serious acquisition of relevant skills, not tinkering Because if anything is proven to get kids enthused about learning, it's a structured approach to learning serious skills. We can teach the kids
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by jcmhn 14y ago
The thing that is really awesome about the testing environment is that is makes it immediately obvious when a module on cpan has been abandoned. That makes it easy to use a cpan module with confidence, which imo is not valued highly enough
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by jcmhn 14y ago
I was annoyed by the page turn buttons the first time I used them. But the button placement works really well for reading while lolling around, it's actually one of the ways in which reading a kindle is more pleasant than reading a paperbac
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by jcmhn 14y ago
I figured that second one was mocking the papal bull laying out the rules for leap years. In your face, 16th century papacy!
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by jcmhn 14y ago
I think we can safely say Apple has dropped their party manners and shown the knives. Unfortunately android is the only possible competitor I see, and the carriers have pretty much guaranteed that android won't be any freer for users or dev
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by jcmhn 14y ago
> "far too many people are confident in their ability to die gallantly" Ain't you heard? Dying is easy, comedy is hard. :D But overconfidence aside, I have a harder time gauging acceptable competence levels in a test like this. Anyone w
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by jcmhn 14y ago
Men are the oppressor gender and therefore cannot be the victims of discrimination. Nice try, you dirty misogynist.
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by jcmhn 14y ago
I often try the trendy languages and tools, just to see what the fuss is about. It's astonishing how fast these things seem to flame out and cycle. Like "people" magazine for technology or something. Programming fads do occasionally provide
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by jcmhn 14y ago
You can treat it like an anthropological exercise, and try to really figure out the values, interests, and motivations of someone who bores you to tears. Just don't do it with a sneer on your face or contempt in your voice.
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by jcmhn 14y ago
yy 100 p or map { print "hello, world\n" } (1..100); or a goto or maybe even disgusting abuse of try/catch Depending on how far I wanted to tweak the interviewer's nose. :D
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by jcmhn 14y ago
A line oriented xargs could have been built in from day one. A pair of shell variables honored by commands that let you specify output wrappers or separators would have been nice too. Think "-Q" in gnu ls, but universally supported and user
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by jcmhn 14y ago
smalltalk is the Anglican Church. Historically important, but nobody really believes in it anymore. If javascript is lisp with C's trappings, then the religious equivalent of javascript is obviously Bahai.
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by jcmhn 14y ago
Second on that. I find that pythonbrew fits the way I actually work with multiple installs much better than virtualenv (even with virtualenvwrapper) does.
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by jcmhn 14y ago
I'm astonished at the finding showing baldness having no significance for men.
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by jcmhn 14y ago
I find his work unreadable, but I suppose that is a minority opinion among SF fans.
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by jcmhn 14y ago
That's why as part of setting up 2F they suggest you generate and print a list of backup verification codes. 2F wouldn't even be an option if they didn't provide an emergency out.
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by jcmhn 15y ago
This is the same sort of thinking that is trying to add a registry to linux as a replacement for /etc
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by jcmhn 15y ago
Of course they can have an opinion, but celebrity involvement threatens to turn the protests into the fashionable left wing cause of the second. There's something artificial and glib about rich entertainer's politics - even when I agree wit
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by jcmhn 15y ago
I suggest brogue [ http://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/ ] as a better starter roguelike. It looks nice and plays like a dream.

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