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_e··on Chef cofounder on CentOS: It’s time to open source everything
That is what I thought as well then I immediately thought about how the people who make custom Android ROMs (and Windows PPC roms before that) are known as 'Chefs' because they are cooking together all of the different pieces that make their ROM unique. No different than someone cobbling together a linux distribution but Jonathan Carter, of Debian, isn't referred to as a Chef.

The title should read though, "Cofounder of Chef on Centos being open source."

Chef, like Puppet, is used to manage server configurations.

_e··on Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
Yes, but it is microseconds.... not milliseconds.
_e··on Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
Yes, there are methods that apps can implement to detect anti-spoofing but as long as you have physical control of the computer/smartphone then it is just a matter of time before the anti-features are defeated if there are incentives to do so -- especially a monetary incentive.

Case in point... I found a whole community dedicated to spoofing Pokemon Go -- https://old.reddit.com/r/PokemonGoSpoofing/

_e··on Building AI Trading Systems
If your algorithm stops working or doesn't work... do you have the experience to know why? wavepruner is saying that models can't capture everything like intuition and experience which comes with time.
_e··on Show HN: Python lib for rich text, markdown, tables, etc. in the terminal
Perfect timing.

I was looking at Urwid (http://urwid.org/) last night for a new project. Urwid is a console user interface library for python.

_e··on Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
irc.mtv.com isn't on the list
_e··on I almost sold Baremetrics for $5M
Great point. This is what happens in a real estate. A letter of intent should have earnest money deposited into an escrow (because the offer is being made in "earnest") and each contingency should have an expiration date. Upon expiration of the due diligence contingency, for example, the earnest money deposit becomes non-refundable and credited towards the purchase price. If the buyer defaults after the due diligence contingency then the earnest money goes to the seller.

Does anyone have a link to a sample LOI for selling startups or M&A in general?

_e··on PinePhone Review
Here is a possible way to call from the native dialer in the event that data is not available...

One can prepend a calling card-like sequence, using hard and soft pauses, before the actual telephone number gets called so all calls get routed through twilio (or any VoIP carrier) for managing the caller id.

In other words, you are calling your personal calling card telephone number for every call so you will enter in your code and then enter the telephone number that you would like to call.

_e··on The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf]
Prevents a bottleneck with access to information.
_e··on PinePhone Review
I use Google Voice for just voicemail.

Similar to what the parents does, I use "conditional call forwarding" to send all non-answered calls to Google Voice. When I get a voicemail, GVoice then sends me a transcription of the message.

_e··on The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf]
In Chicago, there are many many very talented Chinese engineering students. Having two hard copies of this guide in the office has helped me recover from some miscommunications very quickly.
_e··on Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents
rsync - https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync

I am having trouble finding the original "Show HN" for Dropbox but I recall people just calling it, more or less, "rsync with a web GUI."

Taking it one step further, you could use rclone (https://rclone.org/) which is like rsync but adds the functionality of syncing files with different cloud storage providers.

It has been on my TODO list to setup rclone with Nuage as the front end (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nuage) so I can have a Dropbox-like interface with org-mode text file rendering on the go.

_e··on Apple Factory Thefts: Secret Tunnels, Hidden Crawl Spaces
Very nostalgic! The article gets most of the history right. I believe kali formed HNA which merged into RNS. Being a computer nerd, I think having pre-released albums in school was the only time I felt cool.

UPDATE: found a site that has more background on RNS and the mp3 scene history -- https://www.mp3scene.info/groups/22/rns/

_e··on Ask HN: Non-VC backed founders, any tips on growth?
Most lenders require a personal guarantee even if it is a business loan.
_e··on Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
_e··on Linux Desktop Setup
The author mentions the loss of vim-like web browser controls when the Pentadactyl extension didn't convert over to the webextensions api.

You get the vim functionality back with the following extensions:

Firefox -- Vim Vixen (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vim-vixen/)

Chrome -- cVim (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cvim/ihlenndgcmojh...)

_e··on Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
G Suite is very appealing over MS Office with the collaboration and version history features until you experience waiting MINUTES for spreadsheets to update. If Google moved some of the processing from the user's browser to their servers then, I believe, more people would make the switch.
_e··on Beleaguered Didi Is Said to Lose $585M in Just Six Months
Yes, aesthesia makes a very important point. Uber/Lyft & Co. standardized the UX just like you can expect what a Big Mac tastes like at any McDonalds in the world.
_e··on Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
Not sure what your exact role is but is there a possibility to move this client from insync to rclone?

rclone is rsync for cloud storage services -- https://rclone.org/

_e··on Updated Request for Startups
Would an applicant come off as unfocused if their bootstrapped startup actually hit a few of the items on the RFS list?
_e··on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin
...or maybe he is just tired of trying to get people to understand.
_e··on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin
Nassim Taleb wrote in one of his books that he intentionally articulates his beliefs in a somewhat difficult to understand fashion otherwise people wouldn't take him seriously.

Malcolm Gladwell and Daniel Kahneman (author of Thinking, Fast and Slow) both credit Nassim Taleb for a lot of inspiration in their books.

Someone mentioned to me that Benoit Mandelbrot (author of (Mis)behavior of Markets) inspired Nassim Taleb for a lot of his thoughts.

So there... read Mandelbrot, Gladwell and Kahneman to understand Nassim Taleb.

_e··on How to Interview Entry Level Software Engineers
I can't imagine a company spending the time and money marketing a position, going through an interview process, offering a temp-to-hire position and then letting the person go shortly thereafter. That is such a waste of resources.

If it was the company's goal to crank out gig workers then there are some really big problems happening below the surface at that company and it was in the candidate's best interest not to get a full time offer.

_e··on How to Interview Entry Level Software Engineers
We are talking about an entry level position with the understanding the candidate's skill set are not truly refined yet in the real world.
_e··on How to Interview Entry Level Software Engineers
An interview is like dating and sometimes you think you found the one but maybe it doesn't work out in the end. Do you stop interviewing (or dating) people? No, you try again and hopefully take lessons from the last failed hire. A "failed hire" could actually be a failed process in your organization.

Also, every person you are interviewing has the option to interview with other companies. With that in mind, you should always be interviewing even if you aren't actually looking to hire at that moment. Sometimes you might find a really good candidate but, most importantly, you will have options yourself.

Last, I really like your idea of a paid temp position to assess fit. This will benefit everyone tremendously.

_e··on Why you're having trouble hiring developers
Is $30k salary + 30% equity considered good compensation for a recent college grad?
_e··on Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser
To solve this "problem" on android, check this xposed framework module:

http://repo.xposed.info/module/de.defim.apk.unbelovedhosts

_e··on Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback
Dear Excel team,

Take a look at the top three results for "excel python" on bing.com for some great ideas on how to incorporate python into excel.

---

1.) https://www.python-excel.org

2.) https://www.pyxll.com/

3.) https://www.xlwings.org/

_e··on Stateful Multi-Stream Processing in Python with Wallaroo
What needs to be enabled in ublock/umatrix to actually complete the survey? I got to the very bottom but clicking submit does nothing and I didn't feel like debugging anything deeper. I rarely do surveys but the shirt looks cool.
_e··on History of AOL Warez
You could add '^' to the modem string to silence the modem sound.
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