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Do you expect video of the presentation to be available any time in the near future?

For anyone interested, DuckDuckGo is hiring Perl engineers... https://duck.co/help/company/hiring

In regards to his prediction that a machine will pass the Turing test by 2029 Ray writes: "Today, my prediction appears to be median view. So, I am gratified that a growing group of people now think that I am being too conservative."

Great stuff!

You can change the default theme using the menu icon in the right hand corner. We have a couple of themes preset, you can try implementing your own color scheme by selecting the "Settings" option.

The link to the PDF of the original book is broken on the site linked (washington.edu). I found it here: http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

Looks like a good opportunity for an open source tool that scans a git repository for interesting/private information. Obviously it could be used for nefarious purposes, but it would be helpful for anyone looking to open source an existing repo.

Another alternative is to store credentials in environment variables :)

I still play on http://new.vampire-wars.com :)

Thanks! It's odd that it's not showing up with their other releases on this page: http://releases.ubuntu.com/

Confused--can anyone clarify if this is a stable release or a beta release?

Thanks in advance

As an additional data point, I was into systems/programming as a kid and so when I went to college I studied English hoping it would make me a more rounded person.

I currently do sysops professionally.

All systems are go over here. Was the site not loading at all, or just loading slowly for you?

I'm giving mapswithme a try right now. I love that I can download all of the maps that are relevant to me, and then use it without an internet connection.

Does anyone use OpenStreetMap on Android with any success? I'd be grateful to hear of any maps/directions apps that I can use as a replacement in this category.

Don't forget ServerDensity :)

http://www.psc.edu/index.php/hpn-ssh (for the uninitiated)

The following two things are highlights for me:

  * ssh(1): Add a ssh_config(5) "Match" keyword that allows
   conditional configuration to be applied by matching on hostname,
   user and result of arbitrary commands.

 * ssh(1): Add support for client-side hostname canonicalisation
   using a set of DNS suffixes and rules in ssh_config(5). This
   allows unqualified names to be canonicalised to fully-qualified
   domain names to eliminate ambiguity when looking up keys in
   known_hosts or checking host certificate names.

Sensitive Comparmented Information Facility: In United States security and intelligence parlance, a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF; pronounced "skiff") is an enclosed area within a building that is used to process Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) types of classified information.

https://duckduckgo.com/Sensitive_Compartmented_Information_F...

This highlights the importance of having a visible bug bounty program (or at least something very basic) that clearly states that you take security seriously and appreciate/reward (whatever you prefer) bug reports from security researchers.

You might find this interesting: http://www.slideshare.net/opscode/chef-vmwarewebinarslidesse...

I personally haven't tried building environments on VMWare as I run pretty much everything in AWS. However, this presentation looks promising.

Yeah that's a huge bonus that I didn't anticipate before beginning. My cookbooks are essentially dynamic documentation that morph with my changes in system requirements.

short answer: `/bin/ip` replaces `ifconfig` -- it's newer and more powerful

more info: http://www.tty1.net/blog/2010/ifconfig-ip-comparison_en.html

I'd also recommend any sysadmin to start looking into an automation framework like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or any other of the myriad options.

For starters, it's open source!

https://github.com/tryghost/Ghost

Might be interested in this project... http://eternity.obsidian.net (Pillars of Eternity)

EDIT: More info...

This game was kickstarted and is being developed by some of the same people that worked on Planescape: Torment. They recently did Fallout: New Vegas, and are currently also working on South Park: Stick of Truth. Here's a link to the gameplay promo for Pillars of Eternity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKoDTzea79Y

Disclosure: My buddy works for this game studio

Did you read all parts? Yeah her story is sad, but there is a lot of hope for Dasani...

I wonder if this is just a case of "bad press" for them, or if the broader implications of widespread domestic spying has actually sunk in.

Interesting to read this in light of the recent flurry of engineer code-of-ethics style submissions that we've seen lately.

The embedded gameplay clip has been removed from YouTube so here's an alternative post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2FXIf9N-yA

That prospective schedule is ambitious (as I'm sure it has to be with the goal of taking novices to junior dev), I'd strive to build in some time for exercise. Three months of intensive coding without a physical outlet could easily lend itself to some unhealthy lifestyle choices. Might as well try to instill balance at the same as good coding habits.

Did anyone else notice that this site is allowing for passthru commands to be executed on the server? The following code:

<?php passthru("/bin/uname -a") ?>

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