photosinensis

If, in 5 years, we're all using node.js, I will leave the industry. JavaScript is an abominable language, I hate that we're stuck with it on the frontend, and I will leave any shop that tries to make it my primary job.

Python has quite a bit of backing, including by every company you listed as backing JavaScript. Admittedly, it's for different reasons, but the support is there. Ruby, well, yeah, that's a totally volunteer job.

Houston and New York are also designed with an expectation that those cities will flood. Most buildings in Houston, for example, forgo a basement and instead have a collecting vault underneath them that the rain drains into and from (and leaves more slowly and sustainably). There are fields set aside to ensure that there's land that can flood with minimal impact. County flood control districts will buy up property just to let it be undeveloped.

There are ways to mitigate the risks of living in a flood plain while still reaping the benefits.

Texas school districts are independent of any other body with one exception: Stafford MSD (southwest of Houston), which is municipal. Some are county-wide. Some cover large territories of low density ranchland. Some don't even cover one city.

It'd be nice if they remembered us. We seem to be the only creative types not being targeted here. And yes, I'd actually consider it for a few purposes..

No, don't ship the SDK by default. Make it so that it only runs locally-compiled binaries. That's okay. But I'd like the ability to use this for real work that I do. Everybody else gets to work on it, after all.

I've found that most servers in business environments are Linux-based, not Windows-based. It's significantly cheaper to spin up CentOS licenses for cost centers.

That's the only period where it wasn't a hassle. Then everything went to shit at the beginning of this year, and there's nobody to approve visas (even if you wanted to visit Yemen now).

I find it distressing that getting to Eastern Europe would be difficult for me. There are many shrines, monasteries, and associated holy sites that I'd love to visit--not out of mere fascination, but out of genuine devotion (I've already checked Mount Athos off the to-do list, but I want to do it again).

But being an American makes that harder than it probably should be.

They might be able to run Irix. But why would you use an operating system that hasn't been updated in 9 years? It's not going to have sufficient crypto support to be useful.

That said, the smartphone market in China has been dominated by ARM chips. The real question is whether there's enough market demand for a MIPS-based architecture right now, or if the Chinese government can drive demand away from ARM and towards MIPS.

Habit from scripting. Remember that users can modify their own paths, possibly to prioritize ~/bin over everything else (which may have unexpected behavior).

I'm so used to X11 remapping it to Ctrl+Shift+C, Ctrl+Shift+V that I didn't know about this.

This is unfortunate, because Chrome will map Ctrl+Shift+C to the developer console, meaning I open the page inspector instead of copying the line, leading to much pain and consternation on my part.

It still comes up quite often. Autoboxing and type erasure are two of the biggest mistakes that have been inflicted upon the Java language after its original release. Not knowing about them will lead to a world of hurt.

They should have killed the primitive/object distinction, turning the primitives into stack-allocated objects and rewritten the collections libraries. But no, syntactic sugar is better than actually fixing the problem for those that want a fix.

There's obsession and then there's workaholism.

The former is something that you're driven to do internally out of great desire for it. The latter is just trying to avoid problems by working.

I worked with RS232 earlier this year, and I hope to return to it in some capacity. Sometimes, the old stuff isn't even all that bad.

I might add pierpoint.com to that list. A few hours ago, I got an email from them asking me if I was interested in a job with my immediate previous employer (which is kind of a mu question to ask, as I'm so interested in that idea that I've actually secured a start date there in less than 2 weeks--let's just say that I really liked it there and regret leaving).

If the guy there had done anything more than scrape LinkedIn for .NET stuff (which I can do and have done), he'd know that I would not need assistance in returning to $FORMER_EMPLOYER.

If you're seeing a demand for it in Word format, they're a recruiter and a lazy one at that.

Most in-house guys accept PDF. I explicitly tell recruiters that my resume is typset, so they have a choice: a PDF or a LaTeX file that nobody will ever make heads or tails out of. I do not even know if LaTeX has a .doc plugin.

If you're seeing a demand for it in Word format, they're a recruiter and a lazy one at that.

Most in-house guys accept PDF. I explicitly tell recruiters that my resume is typset, so they have a choice: a PDF or a LaTeX file that nobody will ever make heads or tails out of.

Basically, it allows you to requisition servers more quickly by providing a baseline system. If you're not doing scalable-on-demand work (and most of us aren't), it's not that useful.

And I know for a fact that they still haven't managed to kill it, despite actual internal will to do so.

If it is Raytheon's STAR program, the consultancy is probably CSC.

If you support Ubuntu, it's trivial to extend that to Debian. Ubuntu is still very tightly pinned to Debian.

At my current company, those using Linux use Ubuntu. One guy is on Xfce, I'm using e17, and I don't know what the others use, as they're on a different team.

I've become known for advocating its use.

波, which is "wave".

They're providing enough of a Mach-style interface that would allow them to use launchd. Basically, they're creating a compatibility layer in the kernel that allows it to pretend to be Mach.

The key there is that every car that passed through that part of town during that hour or so did the same.

You can set up checkpoints as per Federal law (though your state may vary--some states have provisions against it, in which case your recourse is to state, not Federal law). However, these checkpoints must be indiscriminate: they have to stop everybody that passes them while they're active.

A cop cannot just pull a single car over to see what's going on. He has to have reason.

The parts about Theodora are suspect, as there's only one source for them: the Secret History, which was clearly written by a disgruntled former palace insider. Furthermore, the style of writing and the accusations made are typical of smear campaigns of the time.

Given what we know of high-end prostitution of the time, a good chunk of the things described in that account don't make a lot of sense.

Yep. Short selling is usually very bad financial advice, outside of some very specific situations where you have solid reasons to believe that prices will fall. But if you're going to say financial catastrophe is right around the corner, put some skin in the game. Be prepared to go bankrupt if you're wrong.

It's easy to say "I saw it coming!" after it's happened. But if you saw it coming, why didn't you do something to take advantage of the situation (given that doing something about it is pretty much impossible)?

After you get past that, maybe some basic scripting would be in order.

The course needs more content, through and through. You've got a solid beginning, though.

No, it's not intended for me. I'm actually evaluating it for other people (I work with people that are totally lost in Unix shells) and playing with its terminal to see exactly what I've been given.

The biggest problem is that Avid Life Media has done jack squat in response to the data leak. They've not communicated any kind of risk mitigation strategy. They've not allowed users to change their compromised passwords. They've not made any efforts to contact affected users.

This is like a rape victim not only trying to pretend the whole thing didn't happen, but all the while knowing that her attacker had HIV, has good reason to believe she's seroconverted, and is still having unprotected sex with her regular partners without telling them anything.

While the company is a victim here, their actions are themselves criminally wrong.

$ ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 23 2014 /bin/sh -> dash

That's the answer to your question: Debian Almquist. Linux version is 2.6.32, but gcc version is gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) 4.8.2. That's odd.

vim is available, and if you know how to use it, it doesn't seem to know what text editor you're using. At least, that was my experience.

But I'll also agree that the edit bash_profile stuff was repetitive. I might have preferred something in there about symbolic links or ownership and permissions.