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Quite interesting is the bit about hiring the "former lead of GNU Radio" who had experienced pain in getting closed/proprietary hardware things to be useful. I wonder if this will …

On Mac: vi On Windows: Ubuntu environment and vi On Linux and BSD: vi On phones and tablets: email client Alternate for all platforms: email client

William Gibson's Neuromancer continues to hold up well both for adults and teens. Worth a read or re-read. Travel books can be a good fit for the summer, and Keri Smith's Wander So…

This video of "Inside the RFID Stickers from a Chinese Cashier-less Store" (around 9:20 and again at 12:20) was a real eye-opener to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QKrHi-G9WQ…

The courts exist to provide relief to the people and regardless of whether a solution like this were applied, the courts could continue to provide relief. It would be interesting t…

Have you also given yourself a mobile equivalent for those times when you are traveling, or when your primary environment is unsuitable and you must work at a place with public WiF…

Though your job may be one thing, the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) community provides endless opportunity to do meaningful work on another thing.

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Working remote causes you to trust people based on results not on spec. This can impact your interactions when you expect things like followthrough, consistency, demonstration of c…

Why don't CentOS/Fedora/Ubuntu deliver all package updates over https, and encourage third-party package providers to do the same? I understand SSL/TLS reduces the risk of data tam…

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, What Color is Your Parachute are both absent. Also, science fiction.

The lack of vehicles for SF delivery have at times impeded literary acceptance and broader adoption -- take H.P. Lovecraft for instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecra…

I have understood some drop in fiction book sales to be caused by the wind-up of the Harry Potter series in 2007. A 2011 article from The Guardian (Datablog section, author uncredi…

Having technical knowledge and entering a room of less technical policy-makers, it can be particularly important to leverage existing industry messaging rather than winging-it. I w…

I've always understood abstract thinking to be of broad nature, generalities, non-specific, a vastness. The idea that abstract thinking is devoid of specifics has never struck me a…

Season 30, Episode 7 (and repeated as Season 37, Episode 1) is "Who wrote the book of Sloyd?" Available at http://www.pbs.org/video/the-woodwrights-shop-who-wrote-the-... Also wort…

Many database platforms support column-level privileges or permissions which could be used to prevent that sort of backfill, by preventing UPDATE on the column that holds the creat…

Two big pitfalls seem to hit almost all of these "low-level optimization of how the database handles..." type posts: the importance in optimizing the system, and the use of other t…

In my experience, the data points most accurate in Glassdoor are those related to tone from the top and the CEO or owner. I've not seen one that didn't match my experience either a…

While the concept of peer review of intellectual property work products may be relatively new, there is long history of craft guilds applying peer quality controls on physical work…

When no other action has driven change, financial factors seem to often spur movement. Autopsies in NH are paid for by the state, so a surge will surely trigger a deeper awareness …

Similar detail, itemized, and with hardware specs appears to be at https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10369/which-tools-a...

I agree that the number of data points needed for study and the number of variables involved are both key factors. The one area that comes to mind where a approach might be easiest…

In my experience, factors include whether there are planned hiring freezes or organization structure changes, the critical experience of the developer for critical projects, and th…