lylejohnson

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by lylejohnson 1mo ago
I have a .name account and still occasionally run into sites that don't accept it.
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by lylejohnson 2mo ago
I was wondering the same and assuming I'd overlooked something.
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by lylejohnson 2mo ago
I kept it up until the user abruptly left the chat. That was a drag, I felt like we had a productive conversation going.
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by lylejohnson 10mo ago
I also tend to associate "Bloom County" with "Calvin and Hobbes". I think I was reading both of them around the same time.
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by lylejohnson 4y ago
Low cost of living
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by lylejohnson 9y ago
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le...
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by lylejohnson 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by lylejohnson 9y ago
The first I remember reading about the "Blackbird" was in the _The Uncanny X-Men_, during the Claremont & Byrne run in the early 80's. Their jet was modeled on the SR-71, although I don't recall if they explicitly me
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by lylejohnson 9y ago
Not to mention http://riotjs.com/ .
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by lylejohnson 9y ago
The Atlantic article that Uncle Bob was writing in response to lists several specific examples of software failures that did, or could have, resulted in loss of life: a failure of the 911 system; air traffic control systems; medical devices
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by lylejohnson 9y ago
I'm currently taking advantages of SaltStack's GPG renderer to store secrets in our version-controlled Salt code (see https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/renderers/all/salt.... ).
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by lylejohnson 10y ago
Can someone explain how the combat is supposed to work? I suppose that if I had more experience with these kinds of games it might be obvious.
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by lylejohnson 10y ago
Didn't see a link here, so I'll drop one for "Get Lamp", a documentary about text adventures. http://www.getlamp.com
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by lylejohnson 10y ago
"Ditto". Longtime user (of the iOS app) and have never lost a note that I can recall.
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by lylejohnson 10y ago
Looking through the "Classic Quotes" list, it's apparent that MegaHAL was a big They Might Be Giants fan.
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by lylejohnson 11y ago
My interpretation: Assuming the work was outsourced to cheaper laborers (e.g. in India), OP may have felt that his job was at risk. By sabotaging the efforts of those offshore workers and making them appear incapable, he hoped to discourage
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by lylejohnson 11y ago
" If DMCA claims were expensive ... the garage bands and individual artists/musicians would be left out of the game completely, they couldn't use DMCA to take down their music."
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by lylejohnson 11y ago
By the end of the article it had crossed my mind that Boyter and Ducker (the perpetrators of the hoax) were themselves fictitious characters, and that the article itself was part of a larger hoax.
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by lylejohnson 11y ago
This is so over the top that I read it as satire (not good satire, but satire). Is this serious?
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by lylejohnson 12y ago
I have read it, and it's quite good. Was about to post the link myself until I saw that you had.
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by lylejohnson 12y ago
Whoosh.
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by lylejohnson 12y ago
Probably not in her list of "favorite firing" stories.
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by lylejohnson 12y ago
> Try and calculate the enormous waste of both time and money from memory leaks caused by code written in C and C++. Rust solves this... This seems like an unusual language feature to highlight --- don't most modern programming la
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by lylejohnson 12y ago
How is it fundamentally different from other "true crime" shows like "Dateline", "20/20", and "48 Hours"?
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by lylejohnson 12y ago
This is the book that I recommend to colleagues who are learning Git. I still refer back to it on occasion when I get into tricky situations with Git. Looking forward to reading through this new edition.
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by lylejohnson 12y ago
Try the Readability plugin for your browser of choice: https://www.readability.com/addons
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by lylejohnson 12y ago
Am I the only one who's curious why the poster specified an "eBook" instead of just "book"?
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by lylejohnson 12y ago
Are you kidding? With this, I can more easily skip over those applicants with tons of Java and C++ development experience when I'm looking for a C# developer. No more wasting time on reading resumes with completely unrelated experience
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by lylejohnson 12y ago
Even looking at the graphic, I didn't understand --- I thought they wanted me to tilt my iPad along the horizontal axis (pitch). When that didn't work I tried tilting on vertical (roll). It wasn't until the tablet slipped in
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by lylejohnson 12y ago
A U.S. President, maybe, but no, certainly not a plain old CEO.

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