I recently interviewed a very intelligent, capable programmer who was near the start of his career. I decided not to make him an offer, and he sent a very nice follow-up e-mail asking for tips on how to present himself better. I figured my reply might be very useful to …
This is from a "Fresh Air from WHYY" Terry Gross interview with Dr. Richard Shannon, Chairman of the Dept. of Medicine of the University of PA Health System.
@ 43:48
"We learned early on that much of the focus in infection prevention was on how you place the catheter. What …
First, the epiphany -- despite all the fires, and multiple top priorities, and projects, and all the other fireballs of stress that scream over my desk -- there is nothing I can do for Dakim that's more important than hiring. Over the next two years, I'm probably going to add significant headcount …
Dakim just got a $10.6 million shot in the arm. Many of you know I've been stressed lately but didn't know why; this is why. {grin}
We're now going to be able to focus on growth and moving forward; this will remove a huge number of the roadblocks that …
I lived with it for ages. I tried to fix it on my own, by selecting different emulation types. Finally I Googled for it. And pretty much instantly found the answer:
python `python -c "import pimp; print pimp.__file__"` -i readline
Moral? If at first you don't succeed, Google. If …
Summary: Visitors to Canada.com (not hyperlinked for obvious reasons) will have their browsers hijacked, and a series of prompts will download and attempt to install malicious software. This will happen ONLY on the first visit from an IP address. Subsequent visits to Canada.com will not experience the browser …
I follow the Ubuntu Geek blog, and have found some very useful tips there. However, there's a problem with their latest tip, "Howto Check you (sic) external IP Address from the command line."
Some background: There's a very useful website located at whatismyip.com, which reports the IP you used …
Here's a reason to think twice about your colocation provider: CIHost.com has been broken into four times over the past two years, and had servers and equipment stolen. Their Chief Corporate Counsel, James Eckels, says the robbers "Knew what they're doing," and that their facility is "in a bad …
K. and I broke up a few months ago, and I've been doing the online dating thing recently, with mixed success. Here's some brief notes on the online dating sites I've tried, to hopefully speed other people through this process. I'm 35, male, straight, and live in Los Angeles -- if …
I'm putting together a postinst (post installation) script for a Debian package I created for work. And there's a little C program in there that needs to run as root, but be called by a regular user.
Well, there's a standard way of doing that in Linux/Unix, called setuid …