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Yes, video cards and hardware drivers generally is the difficult area.

I was posting my suggestion for others in the same boat. I detect a 'blind spot' sometimes in some replies to discussions like this about the fact that the operating system is GNU/Linux, and a distribution is just that, a convenient collection of packages and an update system/policy. If someone else finds (say) Ubuntu 10.04 works really well on their hardware, they are likely (but not certain) to find that CentOS 6 will do just as well.

I use a recycled Thinkpad with Intel graphics, so any major Linux distro is a half hour install, with most things working out of the box. Debian is strict about proprietary binary blobs, and so needs a wired connection to install and add the firmware appropriate to the wifi card. CentOS I recollect 'just worked'.

My reason for using CentOS on the laptop is that there is a definite update life published. Debian release their new version 'when it is ready' and the current stable then drops to old-stable with a year of updates. This approach admirable, but I find it easier to slap CentOS on and forget about it until the laptop dies! Sort of the XP of the Linux world.
I don't think these are about learning to code or design. They're about learning to care or take pride in all aspects of the work you do.

Sane organisation, attention to detail, and knowing what looks good and bad all come under this, I think.
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How does the colour in these work? And on that subject, what do the colours mean on airport screening x-rays?
Is it some kind of lame thing where colours change in relation to density (when a grey scale works just fine for medical x-rays)?
"They pick their computer." Love this point.

Not long ago, I worked at a large investment bank (which shall remain unnamed). Not only were we forced to use horrible networked computers running on XP with Excel 2002, but were also forced to use IE8.

However, one can only tolerate so many browser crashes before he begs permission from IT to install Chrome. That was a glorious day.
It's my blog! Do you really want me to prefix every single sentence with "it is my opinion that…"?

Feel free to do that in your mind if you want to, this way it won't bother other people.
Sure it can.

Do you have any examples of security features which are theoretically uncircumventable?
The real CTA would be for them to find a way to make guys like me _want_ to exercise (or find a way to get the benefits of exercise without exercise, which would be the real solution).
Most evidence, including recent data, points to Saddam shipping them to Syria before the invasion began.

Nobody has yet 'officially' explained what Saddam did with the WMD we know for a fact he had. Shipping the weapons to Syria is the only logical explanation for their sudden disappearance.
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Re: the second question, the problem with NX is that it only protects you from overflows where the attacker jumps into the buffer.

Overflows are still exploitable with NX. The attacker instead jumps to a series of fragments of library code[1]. Since libraries will always be executable, there's no problem (aside from the difficulty of finding the right chain of "gadgets").

ASLR goes some way into preventing return oriented programming (ROP) attacks, but it isn't bulletproof.

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming
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No one can remember that long ago. Those were Macintosh, now they are Macs. Like how 'Application' or 'Program' was too difficult for people to say, so it became 'apps'. When is 'progs' getting popular I ask?!

English should only have one syllable words!
I actually got an advertisement in my mail for Nextdoor. I followed the instructions and plugged in my zipcode on their website. It told me that nobody had organized a group for my neighborhood, and that I could either start one myself, or sign up to be notified when someone else did.

Maybe I should have put my email address on the "waiting list", but at that point I just closed my browser and moved on.
If the US technology sector ever falls behind other countries, one could look back and see that a fundamentally broken patent system played a significant role. Pitting companies against each other in courtroom battles with no net productive output.
Sounds like something I'd monitor if I were going to rob a neighborhood.
Scientific Linux really isn't a special-purpose distribution. It's just another Red Hat clone like CentOS. (Some people claim that it's actually a superior alternative to CentOS.)
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What happens when you are the doctor on the airplane?
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The most valuable patents are the worst patents: the ideas that everyone else will come up with on their own and only later discover that they infringe when it's too late to do anything about it.

Oddly enough, the fact that something is repeatedly reinvented independently does not appear to have any bearing on whether a patent fails the legal 'obviousness' test, because everyone is assumed to know about every patent (in the sense that they won't believe that you came up with it on your own even if you did), in spite of the fact that you get punished for having any knowledge thereof.
There's a hell of a lot of difference between presenting an opinion and presenting something as fact, without backing it up.

"citation needed" is an apt response if something is presented as fact, without backing it up it's not relevant for arguments, which are clearly presented as opinion.

It doesn't really matter how outlandish an opinion is, but if you make assertions and present them as fact, then you better be prepared to back them up with evidence.
Still reading, but before I forget to ask:

"It’s a junior engineer mistake to toss insults about a piece of complex technology in 140 characters."

Does everyone agree with that? I have seen many senior engineers, specially in open source world, who aren't afraid to use the 'F word' publicly to insult a technology, or even an organisation (Linus vs. Nvidia?).

Does an engineer really have to be super formal in how he talks online? Isn't it fun to be a bit more open at times than what 'maturity' requires?
I think the NYT has done a great job of becoming a quasi-giffen good. In economics, a Giffen Good is one that consumers will pay a premium price for - in fact, they expect to do so. Brands that fall into this category are Rolls Royce Motorcars, Aston-Martin Mortorcars, Coach bags, and to a comparative degree Vanity Fair Magazine and the NYT. In this way, the NYT is not a standard newspaper - it's an institution; the normal economics of media don't exactly apply to it.
Same here - literally life changing. I tried free weights a few years ago after reading the article - loved them - bought the Rippetoe book and didn't look back.

I'm 46 now, before I began I was overweight and had frequent, severe back problems. I'm now two stone lighter, hell of a lot stronger and my back is just fine.
I'm tempted to suggest Dropbox. Depending on the number of guests, you might need to be careful about the volume of photos at any point (of course, bonus storage for you for inviting a lot of new guests).

It's not ideal because I don't think you can control read / write access but 'it just works' which is an advantage.
When feedback gets personal.
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For a bench press?
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Italy under the fascists still did a pretty good job of shipping Jews off to concentration camps.

Interestingly in Hungary the 'Arrow cross' party was the local fascist party in power and they were pretty horrible as well - the history about how the arrow cross higher-ups switched straight across from fascism to communism after the war is very interesting and well worth a read for anyone into history.. To a certain extent it was the same organisation in different clothing
Will the JVM always likely remain the primary Clojure implementation?
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Motio is a jQuery plugin which allows you to create powerful spirit-based animations quite easily. Using the familiar jQuery syntax, you can animate pictures and create animations very quickly.

The demos from the Motio website show different examples of spirit animation which can be done using Motio. There are background animations, character animation and more. There is also a slightly more advanced example where the author tries to implement a game using Motio.

Motio provides various methods to animate your spirits, such as, play, pause, toggle, set, toStart, toEnd and more.
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I asked if they would offer bonuses to compensate or if they'd consider paying the other guy the same salary, because he seemed smart enough. No to both, and I felt that alone indicated that management there didn't value engineering talent.

That's awesome that you vouched for the other guy. And I wonder what technical experience management or upper-level execs had at that company. I find that when there's very little to none at those levels in the company, they'll tend to be similar to what you described. Ultimately they view engineers as a commodity resource and try to get by with the "cheapest" deal they can.

I've found many of the same companies also suffer from high turnover, and turn a blind eye to the long term drag that imposes on their software. For companies that profit in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars a year (e.g. the company I mentioned previously), I think it's silly they resort to offering market, or below market, wages to save a few bucks (relatively speaking) vs. striving to have happier employees, and retaining them for a longer period of time.
I think everyone misses the real problem: there's a ton of content out there and it's only growing in number, as are the various types of content.

For anyone to expect even the conventional SEO-to-pageview-to-revenue model to work ALONE is just plain unrealistic.

That's why many publications are working with PR people to push their content out... to other media outlets. Trouble is, many PR people don't get social media and wind up failing at the task unless they can get their client TV coverage.
Client vs Designer
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its never too late to apologize for unintentional (as well as intentional) mistakes you do, so its quite welcome.(even though I'm not someone you fired).

On the side note, the post made me think (and how it is the cheerful time of the year) that you are down on your dough? If so, shit happens, and best way is to make up for it in future, so cheer up man, happy holiday season to you.
These are some pretty mild "confessions". In fact, this reads more like a short blog post trying to drum up interest in a 2 mo. old startup than a piece with any genuine insights.
I absolutely agree with your concerns. However there are very high number if success stories indicating that technology is the only solution. Very large scale adoption of services like Google apps for education, Edmodo, BetterLessons and Desire2Learn are the examples.
Re: Vacations, the place I work uses a combination of both, which seems to work out pretty well - everyone gets their yearly (competitive) fixed amount with some rollover (which is mostly for accounting purposes, so the accountants can quantify the liability of outstanding vacation days), and if you want to take more, then...OK.

The yearly fixed amount is good for anchoring/expectations-setting. It's a way of publicly saying the amount that people "should" take, and it means that for people who are worried that taking vacations will come back to haunt them in a review (which is a separate problem), they've got a company-sanctioned minimum.

For people who want to do more ROWE-style and take more vacation, that's OK too. Management is on-board with it, and the culture is there. For some people, this means working their ass off for a few months, and then going to South America for two months and working two days a week remotely. Some people "work from home" every other Friday, when they're really working for two hours on a plane or a train while they go see their significant others in different cities for a full weekend. We have one guy who just doesn't like Wednesdays, never comes on in on them, and gets his shit done in the other four days.

Edit: Mistyped the significant-other example; meant to say that they do that on Fridays so that they can get to wherever they're going for dinner on Friday nights.
What about hours? Should they be vigourously enforced 9-5? Or should people be trusted to get it done?
Gamify it! Make an app!

(Oh, right, there's already a ton of those...)
It's as special as Edubuntu. It may be based on RH (as Edubuntu is based on Ubuntu), but it's prepackaged with lot's of software for scientific usage (the same way Edubuntu is prepackaged with educational software).

It's obvious that some distros are more special-purpose and some of them can easily be configured/converted for everyday usage.
Only if those replaced by automation can provide value to society (employment). Assuming they will find jobs with ever increasing amounts of automation seems naive. Manufacturing and farming employed the VAST majority of people in the past.
I don't think you should expect employers to make pre-emptive strikes. This is a geek rationalisation for passive behaviour. As a talented employee, you should speak to your employer and tell them that you believe you're worth more to them than they're currently valuing you (do not threaten them with leaving though). If they don't understand the significance of you stating this to them, then leave and it will become apparent to them. (But it is better to give them the information before doing so.)

For profitability, it's more important to keep the cost of employees down, than it is to helpfully negotiate value-creators into better positions. (If you were to do so, then how do you defend it to your investors? You can't prove they were about to leave...)

If you are worried about single points of failure leaving, then request that another employee be hired and mentored into understanding of the SPOF. Even better create intrinsic motivations so you can have more confidence this won't happen. Ask employees if they're doing work they love, create a fun company culture, etc.

I kind of see this whole article as feel-good for the non-ownership class.
The aforementioned approach is recommended to avoid spreading flu virus, and other winter time bugs.

If you want to avoid your kids getting sick, I can recommend getting them a flu vaccine. Probably safer than relying on a faucet containing the exact amount of virus you need to develop antibodies.
If you're willing to gamble your imap password on their undocumented process then that's fine.

I posted my warning because I think most users are not even aware that they're sending their password to inky and the implied risk. Also inky does nothing to educate them (a handwavy marketing-blurb buried in the FAQ does not count).

Sorry but comparing inky to LastPass and Google is laughable. Google is trusted because it's Google. LastPass is trusted because their process is extensively documented. If you plan to casually juggle your users crown jewels for a convenience-feature then you'd better fit into one of these two categories.
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This. Free lunches and "unlimited" vacation don't increase job satisfaction when you haven't seen your manager in months, your coworkers are yelling and screaming at each other, and you stop using vacation time because you're still expected to be within arm's reach of an Internet-connected device to answer e-mails when you're not in the office. (Yes, that's experience talking.)
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> I would guess that there are far more who pay because they lack the computer literacy to know how to edit the address bar in their browser.

It's probably a mixture of people that would cheat if they knew how and people who simply choose to be honest. It's hard to ascertain how big each of those categories is.

Compare the NYT with Adobe here. They both have lousy protection against piracy because they see piracy as the lowest tier in a price discrimination scheme. Poor student who can't pay? Sure, go ahead and circumvent whatever barriers we've put up. Can pay? Then do.

In any case, I don't find "if only people were smarter, they could cheat more" to be a very compelling argument.
No, Scientific Linux is not prepackaged with lots of software for scientific usage. It's extremely close to RHEL. The additions are documented here: http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/features/add...
Congratulations. You got lucky, and got a great trainer. The sad reality is this is the exception. I take my office gym for example - I don't go there, but a colleague does. We've discussed fitness over lunch a few times, he gets it.

Guess what the trainers in the gym think about him? They personally do his workouts. They take his advice. They are happy for him to go up to other gym users and coach them, because he knows more than they do about free weights.

They are professional coaches. He's a parts logistics troubleshooter. See the problem there? (And he said that the trainers we have are actually pretty good compared to those at the many commercial gyms he's used).
For comparison: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...:

"Even more than you are hurting the company, a voice-over intones as animated people do things like accidentally oversleep, you are hurting yourself when you are late because you will be penalized on a point system, and when you get too many points, you're fired—unless you're late at any point during your first week, in which case you are instantly fired"

*There are transition points in the warehouse floor where the footing is uneven, and people trip and sprain ankles. Give forklifts that are raised up several stories to access products a wide berth: "If a pallet falls on you, you won't be working with us anymore." Watch your fingers around the conveyor belts that run waist-high throughout the entire facility. People lose fingers."

10+hour shifts, net $60 a day, in the USA.
I tend to use pdb like this a lot. I write about as much of a piece of code as is obvious and then have it drop into pdb. I can then look around and play around with what I could do next.
A significant number of these things are moot if you let people telecommute.

I telecommute full time, and there is no substitute for the flexibility and accessibility.
How do you know when somebody is an <x> user?

They'll tell you!
How do you handle testdata for automated checks.
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How to turn your trusty Linux box into the world's most flexible router
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Another media center oriented Linux distro is GeeXboX [1]. I've never used it myself but I've herad that it's quite good.

[1] http://www.geexbox.org/
Of the translations, I've read only Robert Fitzgerald's. Might I recommend, as elsewhere in the comments, War and the Iliad, an NYRB collection of essays by Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff, and Herman Broch? The Weil essay, which I first read long ago, strikes me now as saying more about Weil than about the Iliad; Bespaloff's essays I think excellent, and blurb quotes Robert Fitzgerald to that effect. Broch's essay is fascinating, but less focused on the poem.
The "maglia nera" whoever has power
I don't think there should be special cases for certain email addresses. I think the instructions on what to do should just be as clear and detailed as possible.
Pretty pretty automated concept art scrapping
Source? I'm asking because we've had this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4623289 and there doesn't seem to be any strong support for your conclusion.
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> If a bigger title is all that keeps someone working there, you've already failed.

Remember there are a lot of implicit benefits in a bigger title that can really make your job more bearable. For example in large organizations where other people tend to treat you based on your title.

A "Senior Architect" or something is more likely to get a single office, more likely to get his hardware purchases approved, and his opinions are less likely to be dismissed off-hand when discussing integration details with other offices.
An interesting interview. I wonder if he gets upset if people call him Shirley?
Where does this opinion come from? You wouldn't get in a taxi and say "you're making more money from customers than advertisers, stop overcharging me", what makes you think that with digital publishing advertising ought to bring in the most revenue?
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I feel your pain on bathroom faucets, I have a fantastic one-grip faucet that I can operate even with my elbow if I so wish. When things like that exist, why oh WHY would anyone buy two-grip faucets, or worse, BAD two-grip faucets?

Another point of horror is trends in design that cause some feature to just not exist anymore. Ten years ago I bought a combined microwave/kitchen fan, that had a great digital wheel for setting the time. It had the right size, and weight and feel, and it was really easy to set the timer because you developed muscle-memory really fast.

But a few years ago I moved, and had to buy a new microwave, and since a few years had passed, digital wheel were now "out" and almost impossible to find ovens that had them. Because suddenly the shitty +/- buttons where "in" again, and I was just out of luck.
Yes, although only on a specific level of abstraction.
Can anyone explain why the #1 article in Japan is porno actresses?
Client side encryption is only useful when the application is open source. Otherwise, we've no idea if there is a back door in the application and a signal that their servers can send back to the client to inform it to send over all of your login details.

Hushmail were forced by their government to backdoor their system for this purpose. What's stopping the same thing from happening to Inky?
SystemRescueCd is a great one. I always carry a USB drive with it on my keychain.