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Thanks for sharing that. I was never aware of Sega v Accolade and the impact it had on reverse engineering under fair use.

Yeah the one's I have seen were like that.

The course description seemed vague to me that's why I asked if anyone knew specifics. "This course explores the various tools and techniques commonly used by Linux programmers, system administrators and end users to achieve their day-to-day work in a Linux environment." Various tools and techniques could be bash, sed, awk or it could be anything else in the vast capabilities of a linux system.

Has anyone already taken this course or know specifically what it covers?

I have two questions: What was your motivation for applying to the masters program and what will be your specialization?

I didn't get my undergrad in CS (instead it was Information Systems) and I feel as if there's a whole body of knowledge regarding programming that I'm totally ignorant of. I've started to think about attending some undergrad CS courses at the local University here and applying to the Georgia Tech program when I'm ready.

Thanks for sharing that extension I'm using it right now on my Chromebook. I do wish HN was responsive so I could view it easily on my iPhone.

The $5 sign-up-fee isn't as cheap as it would seem in developing countries.

I'm curious as to what others got out of a masters in Comp Sci. I didn't study comp sci as an undergrad and sometimes feel like there are concepts I'm completely ignorant of. I wonder if a masters in Comp Sci leads toward being able to handle complicated application development.

I don't think you suck for relying on StackOverflow/reference when writing code. You just haven't completely understood or remembered what you're doing. After a few time you'll remember and understand and move on to using SO/reference for the next more complicated thing.

If you have detailed requirements the people at http://www.reddit.com/r/suggestalaptop can provide you with some suitable laptops.

In Arizona where I live one of the biggest campaign contributors for any party is a family that owns dealerships across the state. According to this article [1] in 2010 this same family/company contributed more to political campaigns than did General Motors (see #6 on the list). Yes it's crazy that a corporation can donate - but that's another issue altogether.

I don't think a politician is concerned about jobs as much as they are concerned with campaign contributions.

I've seen first hand how campaign contributions work between the wealthy and politicians. It's unreal. In 2004 my uncle (founder of a big time HMO) contributed to the Bush campaign. In return he was granted exclusive time to the President to address whatever concerns he had. The White House would call him to guide the President on policy decisions. The White House will never call you or me for our opinion because we didn't pay for that privilege.

[1]:http://threesonorans.com/2010/11/11/jim-click-gives-more-pol...

Have you tried searching on https://weworkremotely.com/ ?

The only distraction I have is HN which is efficiently managed with the maxvist and minaway options. I don't read my work email constantly since it's not that busy of a communication medium.

At work I have two 30" monitors and they are awesome. I spend almost no time managing windows or having to switch between 'virtual desktops'. There's always a comfortable amount of space to keep a browser and it's dev tools open without comprising on what I need to see.

May I ask why you would want to speed read a technical book?

Have you been writing anywhere about the things you've learnt so far? The challenges with the framework you've used or anything you started to do to speed up development?

One thing I started to use in Express is Helmet[1] (written by the author of the article).

Also I started going through Troy Hunt's course on Pluralsight which is a real eye-opener.[2]

[1]: https://github.com/evilpacket/helmet [2]: http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/08/its-time-to-hack-yourself-fi...

Another way to think about it is if you were to deliver the application to someone else. They shouldn't need Grunt to run your app. Providing an easy way to run the app with npm start is nice to have. Maybe add the npm install part to the process so they can just run one command to do two things. Going further you could set environment variables so production and development variables can be enabled easily. Just like you I'm still fairly new to the node way of doing things and just do whatever makes sense to me.

One thing I learned recently was that dependencies can be locked with npm shrinkwrap [1]. In the event that you don't want a deployment to be impacted by a newer version of a dependency.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.org/doc/cli/npm-shrinkwrap.html

And I like Source Code Pro.

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro....

I work between Windows and OSX machines (and between Visual Studio and Sublime Text) and I just find it comforting to see the same typeface everywhere.

This reminds me of a case study sponsored by DARPA where a plane that suffered significant damage to a wing could still land when autonomous systems took over.

Here's a link explaining the project: https://www.rockwellcollins.com/sitecore/content/Data/Succes...

And here's a youtube clip showing a demonstration of the system. A UAV has part of it's wing removed mid-air and the plane manages to land. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiPNV1TR5k

I know of three different people (late 20s to early 30s) who had pains in their joints and were all diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency. All three live in Southern Arizona where most people prefer not to stay out too long in the sun.

Is this just a signup page or am I not understanding how to interact with the site?

The most I know about securing a Linux vps I picked up from this: http://feross.org/how-to-setup-your-linode/ . If there is an ultimate resource on how to start securing a *nix vps then please do let me know. If I knew what to search for I could but a lot of this is unknown unknowns to me.

Do you mind elaborating what your total backup solution is? I've been looking at Arq but am not aware of what it does not do and what I would need to fill in the gaps. Currently I rely on time machine backing up to three different drives and keeping one of those drives in the office.

Before anyone buys the ZTE do be aware that the touch interaction with the device can be a little annoying. I have one of these phones and quite often I have a hard time getting it to correctly register anything.

I have a credit card with Citibank which allows me to generate virtual card numbers, with an option to set the expiration and spending limit.

I see it differently. The languages aren't that far apart where native speakers couldn't easily converse with one another. I'm American but lived in Peshawar Pakistan as a kid and learned Urdu (in school) and Pashto (at home). I don't have any problems understanding most of the Hindi I've heard in Bollywood movies or from my Indian friends.

Has anyone been able to accurately figure out how much Glacier will costs once storage is retrieved from it?

I'm still confused by this part “in order to meet the bell curve”. Sounds like they are forcefully ranking people poorly regardless of their performance. That doesn't make sense to me.

Whoa what? “Mayer, in fact, tried to address the issue yesterday morning in a Q&A, which she began by quoting her favorite children’s book about the value of experience.”

How do you start addressing concerns of working professionals by quoting a children's book?