pg_is_a_butt

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by pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
Account manager and support contract are sold together... $150,000/yr paid up front + 4% of yearly spend. Seems insanely high, especially compared to the next step down which is only $250/mo per user... you could get by with a sep
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by pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
Not true... you just have to pay for it. I worked for A fortune 100 company that was moving some things to Google App Engine, and paid for the highest level of support. We had a list of guys we could get on the phone whenever we needed, i
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by pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
I ran an online multiplayer drug dealing game in the 90s similar to dope wars. The DEA contacted me to let me know they spent a month investigating me, and that it was probably not smart for me to do something like that, but that a lot of
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by pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
Have you ever used desktop solaris? it was terrible. I'll vouch. resize a window in the file manager, and every single item would need to be reprocessed and the entire system would lock until 1 by 1 they re-spawned. It was infuria
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by pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
My first 2 years of university were using Eiffel in a NeXT lab. The professors had built up their own standard libraries. Some of the preconditions and postconditions got a little annoying, but probably staved off a lot of bugs. Junior y
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by pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
Seems like an obvious advantage to have your predator busy enjoying themselves.
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by pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
Driver education doesn't matter when it stops at 16 years old. I've been in cars with these bad drivers doing less than the speed limit in the left lane... I told them they should get over... they said they prefer to drive "
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by pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
We focused on it in undergrad too. If I remember right the entire kernel was like 8 pages in the textbook, including commentary.
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by pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
It's just free advertising. After the public is sold on the fact that a certain NEW! feature represents a fix to the thing everyone hates, the manufacturers will have already embedded something new that will keep you idiots buying
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by pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
> It seems the entire decision of using secp256k1 was made to avoid secp256r1. This is another piece of evidence that Satoshi Nakamoto must have beee active in the 1990-2000 cypherpunk community, so that he was well-aware of those discus
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by pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
I paid for a semester of college at least thanks to that paypal program... I think it started out at $75 referral... then $50 to you and $50 to them, then 50/25, 25/25, 10/25, etc. Within a month everyone on campus had an acc
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by pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
But they aren't black. You really don't get this.
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by pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
seed the whole system with live bitstream of a video feed trained on a wall full of lava lamps
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by pg_is_a_butt 9y ago
i wrote the X12 EDI stuff for a major clearwater distributor... also wrote the ACH stuff that dumped someone a file and their job was to upload it via SFTP to the bank. so many badges.
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by pg_is_a_butt 10y ago
i use let's encrypt on google app engine... it took less than 5 minutes. google could very easily automate it for everyone, but that removes the direct verification between domain owners and certificate authorities. granted, you&#x27
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by pg_is_a_butt 10y ago
uh... isn't the whole point of "States" because a larger controlling body is a bad thing, and many groups want to make deals in their own ways? so then a Company WANTS to make deals their own way "Noncompete Pact"
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by pg_is_a_butt 10y ago
2^n + 1
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by pg_is_a_butt 10y ago
he made the "people in charge" look like fools... (granted, they were idiots acting like fools, and if anything he was trying to help) "people in charge" only stay in charge when they don't look like fools. so any
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by pg_is_a_butt 11y ago
seems the network latency would break the realtime expectations of high data rate USB 3.0 hardware on the USB bus. and using a still image from a webcam seems like the worst use case... there are much better protocols for serving video stre
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by pg_is_a_butt 13y ago
PHP deprecates features all the time... you're an idiot.
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by pg_is_a_butt 13y ago
google app engine now supports PHP and they completely reimplemented the language. it is extremely fast and seems to already do all the things this story eludes might happen.... they already have.
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by pg_is_a_butt 13y ago
served
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by pg_is_a_butt 13y ago
"Dave Engberg knows a lot about security. Before he took the CTO spot at Evernote, he designed and developed credential validation systems for the U.S. government. If anyone in Silicon Valley knows the value of secure access and keepin
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by pg_is_a_butt 13y ago
assembly language is not an extremely concrete representation of a program if the hardware is engineered with backdoors which is exactly what this article suggests is happening. if some specific set of registers is set a certain way followe