mdholloway

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by mdholloway 7y ago
A little over a month into my first engineering job, I decided to go for a weekend stroll. I threw my work laptop into my messenger bag on the off chance I'd wind up in a cafe and feel like checking email or poking at some code. Starte
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by mdholloway 7y ago
If I may, I get the strong sense that your hesitation isn't really about the unvested $$. Can you tell us more about the nonprofit you'd like to start?
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by mdholloway 9y ago
D'oh, I had not seen that. Sorry!
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by mdholloway 9y ago
You might give OpenHatch a look: https://openhatch.org/search/?language=Python&q=
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by mdholloway 9y ago
You can avoid the marginal libraries written by inexperienced developers, you know.
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by mdholloway 9y ago
"The landscape favors autos but not in the same way as a city like Atlanta, favoring a regular grid with sidewalks over cul-de-sac deadends." Lots of people miss this distinction. (I did, too, before you articulated it.) It&#x27
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by mdholloway 10y ago
I was hoping this would look something more like, given a scenario and a question about it, being able to clearly identify the pieces of information without which the question is unanswerable. That said, time saving and BS reduction are als
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by mdholloway 10y ago
Agreed in principle. Limited liability is created by statute, and can and should be rolled back as needed to prevent pathological outcomes.
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by mdholloway 10y ago
Crazy indeed, but it happens to be the case. http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/05/how-to-fix-cfaa.html
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by mdholloway 10y ago
PHP won't win you any cool points, but there's still a whole lot of it running in production.
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by mdholloway 10y ago
{{citation needed}}
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by mdholloway 10y ago
NPOV applies to content, not the editor's motives. People have all kinds of reasons for editing Wikipedia. Trying to police those reasons would be neither possible nor desirable.
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by mdholloway 10y ago
Bear in mind that the tech job market is a lot different than much of the U.S. economy right now. There are fields where experienced candidates with strong resumes can go job hunting and hear crickets. To go from that to not really need
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by mdholloway 10y ago
Thank god.
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by mdholloway 11y ago
By the same token, my layman's understanding is that you can kill demand for a very good product or service by pricing it too low (and thereby signaling inferior quality to the customer).
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by mdholloway 11y ago
This section was 100% written by a lawyer, and is intended to sound obvious without in fact being obvious at all.
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by mdholloway 11y ago
Without defending the researcher here, I thought that was the weakest point in Facebook's response. Was he interacting with Facebook using his synack.com email address during this exchange rather than at some point in the past? Was
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by mdholloway 11y ago
Yep. Definitely time for this tiresome exercise to die.
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by mdholloway 12y ago
I had a boss who grew up in the neighborhood and held that Di Fara's was a touch overrated (if memory serves, he favored Totonno's or L&B). Still, incredible pizza to this midwestern boy. Yeah, definitely prepare to wait...
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by mdholloway 12y ago
I did a few exercises a while back in the Python, Ruby, and JS modules. Feedback from other users seems minimal; I only received one comment from another user and one automated comment. I haven't commented on others' code, eithe
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by mdholloway 12y ago
Passing it through Congress, you mean? I'm optimistic. Reasonable people can differ philosophically on IP issues, but even someone in favor of long patent terms and broad patentability can recognize that patent trolling is a classic
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by mdholloway 12y ago
Well... it doesn't. This strikes me as a pretty unconvincing definition of "commercial activity" and obviously implicates free speech rights. (That said, if the operators facing trouble are most often getting ratted out to
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by mdholloway 12y ago
This is true, but only to a point. In principle, if the reasoning is flawed in some obvious way (say, writing a memo on executive power during wartime without citing Youngstown Steel, the leading case on the subject), other people with req
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by mdholloway 12y ago
I'm thinking of buying Liquid Intelligence for my sister and brother-in-law, but I'm half-worried they'll think I'm subtly trying to kill them.
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by mdholloway 12y ago
Thanks. And just to be clear, I wasn't saying 50K is anything but entirely reasonable for someone in my position, just that 100K coming out of a bootcamp seems unlikely. And that's OK! Money is nice, but my main motivation is t
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by mdholloway 12y ago
I just finished such a bootcamp and I'm looking for a job. I'm in an geographic area where there's somewhat of a shortage of tech talent. My plan was to save up for Hack Reactor or similar (I have some experience, but not p