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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…

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 vaul…

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 territo…

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 …

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 …

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 me…

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 s…

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, mea…

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 a…

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 …

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 …

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, s…

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, s…

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 usef…

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 …

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 t…

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…

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 st…

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…