mclovinit

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by mclovinit 6y ago
I've always been a fairly private person. My kids see me every other week and we communicate via Telegram with random memes or silliness. My personal projects are sort of stagnant but I'll occassionally try to tinker with Rust, ho
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by mclovinit 6y ago
Making a ton of mistakes early in your career, being lucky to work with those that took the time to have constructive discussions/arguments with you (i.e. they're passionate and actually give a crap about budding talent), and payi
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by mclovinit 10y ago
I think it might be useful to cycle in new sold/unsold sets of logos to give the effect that sales are taking place and business is moving ahead. otherwise, it looks like no business is being done. also, maybe instead of "sold&quo
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by mclovinit 10y ago
So correlating packet sizes between the Wifi and destination network's logs is really the problem here. That is crazy. What stops them from collaborating with any other company like this? So if someone has malware installed that sends
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by mclovinit 10y ago
I agree and I use Linux everyday (and Windows). For the typical desktop user, we have to ask what the intent of usage is. Running a business with proprietary software and licensing, typing up documents for personal financial planning, playi
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by mclovinit 10y ago
Oh how I love this.
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by mclovinit 10y ago
One of the interesting side effects of social media is the social "guilt" of "unfriending". I suppose this is another form of the inconvenience associated with using a technology. Individuals feel briefly butthurt by som
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by mclovinit 10y ago
This. Adversity makes or breaks. Even if it breaks, you can still rise from the ashes. It's best to not let unhealthy thoughts drive you forward. Small pet projects are great. Who cares if they take months to complete. Setup reminders
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by mclovinit 10y ago
I am thinking that announcing this feature may be a tactic to win back consumer trust or in the least attract new customers who are not familiar with the potential buyout.
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by mclovinit 10y ago
Somewhat related to this, I am amazed by the analysis done by bionerd23. Her study of cesium 137 levels in vegetation is interesting. She measured the levels in mushrooms found in Bavaria and apples found just 4km away from Chernobyl and sa
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by mclovinit 10y ago
This is absolutely fantastic. Great method for teaching new concepts to those new to the subject matter. I have an engineering background and have to say that this approach is refreshing to read. It's like a bag of chocolate chip cooki
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by mclovinit 10y ago
It's great that you are staying in the groove. Resetting by taking time off is definitely easier with a supportive spouse/partner. I had to voluntarily take time off when I got sick about 2 years ago. My spouse is a CPA so she was
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by mclovinit 10y ago
Very good points.
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by mclovinit 10y ago
That last point is interesting. Even with an RF detector, an accelerometer may act as a cheap room bug. Heck, if automobiles use them to detect when an airbag should be deployed, why not just use them as bugs in cars? Now I'm scaring m
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by mclovinit 10y ago
At my current employer, I had no idea that current employees/senior staff would be pulling in former collegues from a direct competitor. It's hard to see what mindset they are dragging in with them, such as failed processes, that
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by mclovinit 10y ago
I think even slang terms have a place here. Not sure if the goal is to really improve language skills. If not, any new widely accepted terms could be defined and optionally rated by a community for wider acceptance. If the word is fairly ne
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by mclovinit 10y ago
I agree. In my mind, I felt a lot of self-doubt at first, but after digging in, that fear helped propelled me. I suppose if it wasn't for that fear of not being good enough and side projects, I would not have transitioned easily. I als
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by mclovinit 10y ago
I secretly stayed active during that role. It takes dedication. Some of this comes from work ethic. I had that drilled into me with the family biz growing up. My tolerance for abuse and failure is high. I focus on looking at myself as a bus
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by mclovinit 10y ago
I took a management path at first, thinking it was a natural progression upon obtaining over a decade and a half of experience and being enouraged by my peers over the years. I was never unhappier. I gave it everything I could. My team love
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by mclovinit 10y ago
geez. i hadn't seen that tweet. crazy. i would love to consider gitlab as an alternative. need to plan on migrating my repos and gists over first. i can't support that type of culture. not today. not ever.
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by mclovinit 10y ago
I completely agree. There is no guarantee that they will invest wisely. Adversity is a great teacher and wisdom is the fruit of that labor if not somewhat liberating. I think through that wisdom, the phrase "never enough" has much
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by mclovinit 10y ago
We were a development team years ago (90s) working late on the production Oracle database writing some SQL (cringe). One junior dev deleted all records from one of the core tables and sat expressionless in total fright for a good 5 minutes.
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by mclovinit 11y ago
I have been active in high tech for many moons and like to look at this place as just another alternative feed for a old man ;) I would much rather HN than other sources, but my time is limited like many. So I just hop on occassionally and
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by mclovinit 11y ago
I haven't been on for that long, but I am starting to see examples of what you mean. I tend to weed out what doesn't apply to me which I think many do.
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by mclovinit 11y ago
For those I know, including myself and my partner, the habit to strive for is spending less, and I agree that credit can be a useful tool if used wisely, but never really know when life can throw a curve ball. For now, we use credit cards,
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by mclovinit 11y ago
I totally agree. One of the reasons I like HN: high signal to noise ratio.
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by mclovinit 11y ago
I have used tcpdump in the past to capture traffic when I had physical access and ability to implement a hardware tap and analyze packets after feeding in packets with tcpreplay from another network's pcap file (IIRC). The point was to
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by mclovinit 11y ago
Hmm. I wouldn't say it's backwards. It's nothing more than another art form (sounds so cliche, but true nonetheless). If it is backwards, what is considered the defacto standard? The same could be said for Jazz, Pop, Classica
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by mclovinit 11y ago
What worked for me was basic yoga asanas to loosen up and then closing my eyes and focusing on relaxing every area of my body from my forehead, eyes, jaw and so on. I would do this thing where I wouls stretch my arms up as high as possible
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by mclovinit 11y ago
It's good to see you have a teammate going forward. I may try something similar if my spouse is in agreement. Sailing definitely requires a solid partner. It's hard work. My spouse and I (in our 40s) live in a fairly old and small

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