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by velshin 14y ago
Proxies like unotelly may send more of your traffic through their service than you would like. You can protect your traffic but still use the tunnel if you only send bbc.co.uk DNS lookups to unotelly. Here's how to do this in Ubuntu 12.04.
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by velshin 14y ago
Great if stern response. Thanks for taking the time to write it up.
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by velshin 14y ago
None of us want to work for 60 years, particularly not for someone else. Also, our Bay Area apartments cost $2M.
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by velshin 14y ago
I lived abroad for years and was double taxed on part of my income. The tax treaties and exclusions are limited to certain dollar amounts. He's likely well above those limits.
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by velshin 14y ago
@Michaelochurch great response! Where do you work? @HN I've been a hiring manage for years. Take the advice about what to avoid with a grain of salt, and be sure to read some of the other excellent comments in this thread.
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by velshin 14y ago
Anecdotal, but a few of the best software engineers I've known did not have CS degrees. You certainly do not need one to write a CRUD app in Rails/Django.
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by velshin 14y ago
The same thing happened during one of my upgrades to 12.04. Grub was hosed. Here's the fix: http://askubuntu.com/questions/125428/grub-complains-of-no-s... It's ironic that the top voted comment in this thread is about how wonderful Ubunt
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by velshin 14y ago
The Fed economist Kevin J. Lansing has an excellent paper on asset price bubbles, written in 2007. http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2007/el20... "The market's meteoric rise is typically justified in the popular culture b
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by velshin 14y ago
Hopefully you change your employer more frequently than your spouse, hobbies, family, or friends. :) The vast majority of people in the world do not have the luxury of loving their work. For those, 25% of their lives working for someone els
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by velshin 14y ago
Is it really that easy to hack someones gmail account? I realize phishing and key loggers are easy ways to grab a password, but if you avoid typing your gmail password at public internet kiosks and the like, is it really that easy for someo
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by velshin 14y ago
I've lived in SF and Tokyo and spent time in NYC. @potatolicious is spot on with this post. NYC streets and subway cars are, generally, cleaner than the equivalent in SF. Crime's lower (per capita, not totals) in NYC than SF too. You also d
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by velshin 14y ago
Did Google open a Milwaukee dev office? It's irrelevant if the midwest is cheaper. The tech centers have the jobs and the higher rents. (SF, Boston, NYC, Seattle, Austin, NC)
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by velshin 15y ago
That's hysterically funny. Only slightly off topic.
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by velshin 15y ago
Sign of the tech bubble? Financiers jumping to tech companies? The chemists and high school teachers turned ninja hax0r can't be far off. Someone please warn me so I can short XLK.
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by velshin 15y ago
@Jon Seriously awesome work. Thank you! People like yourself raising everyone's awareness are one of the few hopes we have of avoiding the dystopian world that @ck2 and others have already resigned themselves to.
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by velshin 15y ago
Exercise in the morning, or at least before noon, for 30 minutes or more, and eat a decent meal just after. You'll find that'll give you energy throughout the day, including after a long day at work. Then, pick one thing, focus on it, and a
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by velshin 15y ago
As an interviewer, to indicate things are going well, you can smile, nod, give happy words of encouragement, get excited, etc. When things are going poorly, you can frown, say "not quite", give sour words of encouragement, linger on the sam
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by velshin 15y ago
It's tragic that engineering interviewers extrapolate a candidate's mistakes on a whiteboard during a tense, time pressured interview situation to the calm day coding at a keyboard during a real day at work. It's almost as if we forget
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by velshin 15y ago
Am I off in thinking it's horrible for the interviewers to not provide feedback during the interview? I'd also be curious how much throwawayttt probed for feedback during the interview process. It always hurts to not get something you w
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by velshin 15y ago
There's often a distinction between APIs intended for general consumption (platform APIs) and APIs optimized for JavaScript and/or mobile clients ("private" APIs). A platform API tends to be stable, versioned, well documented, and "unoptimi
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by velshin 15y ago
Googling it says limit user processes via /etc/security/limits.conf http://goo.gl/RJJhN Is it not that simple?
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by velshin 15y ago
You've described exactly what happens at Google.
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by velshin 15y ago
Deep corporate hierarchies encourage politics and associated power struggles. Part of moving up in that environment is to have others perceive you as an "air-traffic controller" of a segment of the company, a master of your domain. This som
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by velshin 15y ago
> PROCESS IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP. Choice quote, though you're quoting yourself. :) Your original write up "enough with the meetings are toxic" was a nice read from 2006 too! http://goo.gl/U9Ysi
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by velshin 15y ago
It would be amazing to have members of Congress who understood forks and pull requests. Given the recent SOPA/DNS fiasco, I'd say we have another 30 - 50 years.
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by velshin 15y ago
That's good of you to be open minded and even better that your older devs rock. The unfortunate reality is that there's age discrimination against elders, especially in tech, even if you're bucking the trend.
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by velshin 15y ago
Dealing with people as your primary responsibility is inherently political in a company of any size. (Politics as the "competition between competing interest groups or individuals for power and leadership.") In that sense, management is oft
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by velshin 15y ago
Well said.
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by velshin 15y ago
We're professionals paid 6 figures or more. It's reasonable to expect we 'work' (study, learn) outside of the office. The extra time, 10 - 15 hours a week, keeps you current. Would you want to visit a doctor that only put in 40 hours a week
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by velshin 15y ago
Try 0.1% to 3% for employee # < 10.

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