grobertson | 9 years ago | on: How I Work from Anywhere in the World
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grobertson | 11 years ago | on: Renegades of Junk: The Rise and Fall of the Drexel Empire
A great in-depth read about this era is Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart. http://www.amazon.com/Den-Thieves-James-B-Stewart/dp/0671792...
grobertson | 12 years ago | on: My experience hiring a developer on Elance to build my first iPhone app
I've always dumbed this down to "Fast, right, or cheap."
grobertson | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Books to read for noob to advance level in Javascript?
And when you're done those, JavaScript Patterns is something you'll refer to often.
http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Patterns-Stoyan-Stefanov/dp...
grobertson | 12 years ago | on: Python Generator Hacking (2009)
This is so worth the 150+ slides. It's like a tour of, "Hey, so you know this, right? Well, did you ever think about what if THAT?"
grobertson | 12 years ago | on: Warrant for the account of a Lavabit customer
Exactly. This request specifically asks for protection under 2705(b) which grants a limited gag for up to 90 days if the publication of the warrant execution could lead to destruction of evidence or flight from prosecution. The power granted under 2705(b) last only 90 days and must be reauthorized if it is to be extended.
The scary thing about an NSL is that there is no automatic time limit to the gag order it creates, and due process to request the gag to be lifted is severely limited. In other words, not only don't we know about the NSLs issued, we don't even know when we might get a chance to know about them which makes any oversight of their use practically impossible.
grobertson | 13 years ago | on: Ads and articles from UnixWorld Magazine (1992-1996)
Wow, I never knew that, small world. I have very fond memories of Coherent. I split the license cost (a whopping $99 bucks) with a buddy, both of us making near-minimum wage as bench techs for a used computer shop in Atlanta (which, much to my shock is still in business today). A few months later I scraped together enough money to pick up a used Sun 3/60 running Sun OS (and shortly after that, moved to an early version of Slackware), but Coherent will always be my first Unix.
grobertson | 13 years ago | on: Procrastination is Not Laziness
Another great read on this topic: http://books.google.com/books/about/Your_Own_Worst_Enemy.htm...
I read it about a decade ago and it changed my life. I still struggle, I always will, but understanding the factors that contribute to procrastination and developing healthy coping/management methods has been infinitely helpful.
grobertson | 13 years ago | on: Atlantic Canadian Founders Deserve Better Than FAN (First Angel Network)
This is correct.
grobertson | 13 years ago | on: Atlantic Canadian Founders Deserve Better Than FAN (First Angel Network)
Welcome to the Maritimes.
grobertson | 13 years ago | on: Programs should be Small
I was just about to make the same argument. I completely see why this is tempting, but it quickly makes maintenance into a new layer of hell, and anyone supporting your production environment will hate you. Added to which, knowledge transfer becomes a huge problem, and it takes new developers and production support people a small lifetime to learn all the pieces and their touchpoints.
grobertson | 13 years ago | on: STL Hackathon Canceled After Social Backlash
That's still an incredibly lame excuse. Someone took the time to write that language into the contract, and whether through malice or inaction, no one corrected it. It's unforgivable no matter who you point fingers at internally.
grobertson | 13 years ago | on: S is the dead-simple command line ssh profile manager you've always wanted.
scp & git are definitely in future plans. Still thinking about the best way to implement various commands which rely on ssh, so any feedback is graciously appreciated.
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I'm going to sound like a grumpy old man saying this, and maybe I am. Please, dear god, stop this war on thickness. I want my ports back.