There's definitely a deal involved. Windows is the only OS that really needs Intel. And MS has shown with the (failed) Windows RT that in a pinch, they could do without.
Just last week, a friend gave me an old PC which he had used as a BSD file server. It has a Celeron 430, 1.8 GHz. I threw in 4 gigs of DDR2 and an old 128 gigs Kingston SSD.
Could anyone tell me how this stick compares to the above machine?
Well, let's see how Google fixes this... Although Lollipop (5.0) has been out since june 2014, I can still order for example the HTC Desire 310 which comes with Jellybean (4.2).
How are all of these Android versions in the wild going to get fixed?
Working away from the office or part-time can isolate employees from social networks and career opportunities while fostering a “grazing” instinct that keeps dangerous stress hormones at persistently high levels, they said.
I don't see part-time work as a problem, as long as you are free to say that you don't work during those hours/days. On Wednesdays, I'm off. That means I don't respond to emails and of course don't come in to meetings or some such.
As for working away from the office, it's fine as long as I'm not actually working at home. Often, I'll just go to the local university library and work there for a day. Excellent wifi and absolute silence.
For this reason, your editor should have a setting that visually displays tabs. Put the following line in your ~/.vimrc if you use that. It also shows trailing spaces.
set listchars=tab:.\,trail:-
Just posting to add this tip. I totally agree with you, that the above situation should be an error condition.
The attacker went way beyond responsible disclosure, offering the data directly to a reporter, but the ensuing publicity got VTech to clean up their act
Yes, let's fight fire with fire. See how far that gets you.
Except that's not exactly a panacea, either. When your email is on GMail, you'll encounter multiple problems. Undo delete often doesn't work for me, and drafts get saved multiple times. And that's after three major OS releases.
Running all of that stuff is fun when you have the time, but frankly is a huge pain in the ass in the long run
Well, it depends a bit on what your needs are. I too have a family and not a lot of spare time. For email, I use Google Apps. It's not worth it to me to spend the time on configuring spam protection on the level of Google. But file syncing is very, very easy. I got an ownCloud instance running in 30 minutes or so, plus another 30 minutes getting it to run over HTTPS. That's more than a year ago; haven't touched it since then, except for the occasional update.
“We are strong advocates of the security researcher community and have built positive relationships with thousands of people through our bug bounty program. These interactions must include trust, however, and that includes reporting the details of bugs that are found and not using them to access private information in an unauthorized manner"
They forgot to end that with "...because we're the only ones that are allowed to do that, while shoveling truckloads of money into our bank accounts".
I've moved from Python/C++ development on Linux to iOS development on a MacBook, but I've got the same setup as the Submitter.
However one thing I haven't found a replacement for, is online backup. I currently use BackBlaze, and it's soooooo damned stable, light-weight and easy to use... I wonder if there's self hosted alternative?
Why do you dumbass dog owners all think that laws shouldn't apply to you?
I like dogs, until I moved out, my family always had one. But that was on the countryside. In the city, a lot of dog owners let their dogs poop everywhere in parks, where kids play and people take a walk. To be honest, it's sometimes a problem with cats as well, although it's much smaller.
Yeah, it's a weird situation we're in. I got a MacBook Air with Haswell in 2013, and that was a biiig jump power-wise. But Intel has had so much trouble with Broadwell and Skylake:-/
Skylake launched this year with the rumor of strong non-K processor overclocking
Within the Skylake generation, these CPUs might be relatively strong. But from the first AnandTech reviews in Q3 this year, I gathered Skylake itself wasn't all that special. 5-7% improvements compared to Broadwell, including a couple of regressions in certain circumstances.
And we're still waiting for the equivalent of the Haswell with Iris Pro, for high end laptops, IIRC.
Yes, that is one of m fears; the economy going downhill in a big way. Before starting contracting, I worked for 8 years at a scientific institute, which offered a very solid position. In any case, my SO will still earn a bit of money as a teacher, that's a bit of an insurance.
You say this as though freelancers don't have a steady paycheck and don't have a family. When in fact, I am a freelancer (in the sense of a contractor), have a family and a nice house.
The trick is to save a couple of months of expenses, start freelancing and then continue to save in your business account. From the business account, pay yourself a regular salary. I've continued saving into the business account until I had a year of living expenses. And I'll probably continue saving.
Another form of contracting is a traditional contract - you have to do X and produce Y deliverables in preferably a Z timeframe, which is more project oriented
I've done these on a much smaller scale, moonlighting during my previous (regular) day job. But I found it's pretty easy to sign yourself into bankruptcy. Just make a faulty estimate, then let the client sue you. And there are always surprises. So personally, I wouldn't want to do fixed price projects as a one-man shop.
Yes, it's app development. But I don't do fixed-price projects, I just join/extend their team. I've just started, so my current rate is at the local bottom at 65 euros. However, that translates into a decent salary for me.
Couldn't find it on the list: time for getting new client.
I've been doing the contracting thing, where the client hires me to extend their on-site team. Recruitment agencies call me, I have an intake over the phone with the client and then meet them face-to-face. So I don't recognize the things mentioned like "fixed-price contract", I just have an hourly rate. You can spend anything from a couple of months to a couple of years working for the same client.
I very much like it, but I work 4 days a week. That one day a week is really useful when the contract ends, because then you'll have to start emailing recruiters, looking for the next project. The phone and face-to-face interviews take hours, and it's hard to stuff that away in the usual 9-5 business hours.
The iOS job market is great currently, so it's not hard finding a project.
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There's definitely a deal involved. Windows is the only OS that really needs Intel. And MS has shown with the (failed) Windows RT that in a pinch, they could do without.
Just last week, a friend gave me an old PC which he had used as a BSD file server. It has a Celeron 430, 1.8 GHz. I threw in 4 gigs of DDR2 and an old 128 gigs Kingston SSD.
Could anyone tell me how this stick compares to the above machine?
Well, let's see how Google fixes this... Although Lollipop (5.0) has been out since june 2014, I can still order for example the HTC Desire 310 which comes with Jellybean (4.2).
How are all of these Android versions in the wild going to get fixed?
For the love of FSM, someone mod this up, this is extremely informative.
I work from home 100%.. 5x8. Problem is I'm also on call, which can add another day to my week without notice
But what if you had an appointment with a friend or somesuch?
FTFA:
Working away from the office or part-time can isolate employees from social networks and career opportunities while fostering a “grazing” instinct that keeps dangerous stress hormones at persistently high levels, they said.
I don't see part-time work as a problem, as long as you are free to say that you don't work during those hours/days. On Wednesdays, I'm off. That means I don't respond to emails and of course don't come in to meetings or some such.
As for working away from the office, it's fine as long as I'm not actually working at home. Often, I'll just go to the local university library and work there for a day. Excellent wifi and absolute silence.
For this reason, your editor should have a setting that visually displays tabs. Put the following line in your ~/.vimrc if you use that. It also shows trailing spaces.
set listchars=tab:.\ ,trail:-
Just posting to add this tip. I totally agree with you, that the above situation should be an error condition.
The attacker went way beyond responsible disclosure, offering the data directly to a reporter, but the ensuing publicity got VTech to clean up their act
Yes, let's fight fire with fire. See how far that gets you.
and use Mail.app
Except that's not exactly a panacea, either. When your email is on GMail, you'll encounter multiple problems. Undo delete often doesn't work for me, and drafts get saved multiple times. And that's after three major OS releases.
Running all of that stuff is fun when you have the time, but frankly is a huge pain in the ass in the long run
Well, it depends a bit on what your needs are. I too have a family and not a lot of spare time. For email, I use Google Apps. It's not worth it to me to spend the time on configuring spam protection on the level of Google. But file syncing is very, very easy. I got an ownCloud instance running in 30 minutes or so, plus another 30 minutes getting it to run over HTTPS. That's more than a year ago; haven't touched it since then, except for the occasional update.
I don't really like Crashplan. It's this humongous Java app which sucks CPU. But I agree it's probably the only practical and easy way to go about it.
Facebook’s statement:
“We are strong advocates of the security researcher community and have built positive relationships with thousands of people through our bug bounty program. These interactions must include trust, however, and that includes reporting the details of bugs that are found and not using them to access private information in an unauthorized manner"
They forgot to end that with "...because we're the only ones that are allowed to do that, while shoveling truckloads of money into our bank accounts".
I've moved from Python/C++ development on Linux to iOS development on a MacBook, but I've got the same setup as the Submitter.
However one thing I haven't found a replacement for, is online backup. I currently use BackBlaze, and it's soooooo damned stable, light-weight and easy to use... I wonder if there's self hosted alternative?
We notice when we see the flashing lights outside...
Next up on Slashdot: "Cost Effective Way To Lightproof My Home"
With a sound proofed house, "getting rid of the neighbor" is even easier.
Submitter may as well have asked us "how can I build the ultimate murder ultra-death violence chamber".
Why do you dumbass dog owners all think that laws shouldn't apply to you?
I like dogs, until I moved out, my family always had one. But that was on the countryside. In the city, a lot of dog owners let their dogs poop everywhere in parks, where kids play and people take a walk. To be honest, it's sometimes a problem with cats as well, although it's much smaller.
Yeah, it's a weird situation we're in. I got a MacBook Air with Haswell in 2013, and that was a biiig jump power-wise. But Intel has had so much trouble with Broadwell and Skylake :-/
Skylake launched this year with the rumor of strong non-K processor overclocking
Within the Skylake generation, these CPUs might be relatively strong. But from the first AnandTech reviews in Q3 this year, I gathered Skylake itself wasn't all that special. 5-7% improvements compared to Broadwell, including a couple of regressions in certain circumstances.
And we're still waiting for the equivalent of the Haswell with Iris Pro, for high end laptops, IIRC.
Yes, that is one of m fears; the economy going downhill in a big way. Before starting contracting, I worked for 8 years at a scientific institute, which offered a very solid position. In any case, my SO will still earn a bit of money as a teacher, that's a bit of an insurance.
You say this as though freelancers don't have a steady paycheck and don't have a family. When in fact, I am a freelancer (in the sense of a contractor), have a family and a nice house.
The trick is to save a couple of months of expenses, start freelancing and then continue to save in your business account. From the business account, pay yourself a regular salary. I've continued saving into the business account until I had a year of living expenses. And I'll probably continue saving.
Today, Brennan Dunn posted a nice related article:
Is becoming a freelancer right for you?
He offers two courses, and as a contractor, I signed up for one of them.
Well, I'm on site and outsourced teams aren't. And the price difference isn't that high; the big outsourcing firms like TCS ask about half of my rate.
That said, my current client is outsourcing more and more. First testing, but now also half of iOS development.
Another form of contracting is a traditional contract - you have to do X and produce Y deliverables in preferably a Z timeframe, which is more project oriented
I've done these on a much smaller scale, moonlighting during my previous (regular) day job. But I found it's pretty easy to sign yourself into bankruptcy. Just make a faulty estimate, then let the client sue you. And there are always surprises. So personally, I wouldn't want to do fixed price projects as a one-man shop.
Yes, it's app development. But I don't do fixed-price projects, I just join/extend their team. I've just started, so my current rate is at the local bottom at 65 euros. However, that translates into a decent salary for me.
Couldn't find it on the list: time for getting new client.
I've been doing the contracting thing, where the client hires me to extend their on-site team. Recruitment agencies call me, I have an intake over the phone with the client and then meet them face-to-face. So I don't recognize the things mentioned like "fixed-price contract", I just have an hourly rate. You can spend anything from a couple of months to a couple of years working for the same client.
I very much like it, but I work 4 days a week. That one day a week is really useful when the contract ends, because then you'll have to start emailing recruiters, looking for the next project. The phone and face-to-face interviews take hours, and it's hard to stuff that away in the usual 9-5 business hours.
The iOS job market is great currently, so it's not hard finding a project.