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by 13of40 5y ago
I just deployed something worldwide that took about six weeks to develop and our initial guess was about two weeks, so this is fresh in my mind. I was able to lay out a list of work items at the beginning that stayed like 80% the same from
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by 13of40 5y ago
I think it's interesting how much traction the question of whether Neanderthals had body is getting in this discussion. I haven't read into it too deeply, so I'm not confident to say which side is correct, but the fact that
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by 13of40 5y ago
Automated malware detection typically looks for behavior during installation rather than just the payload. (You can use the payload as a hint, though.) If an installer downloads a PNG and injects the last half of it into another process, a
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by 13of40 5y ago
Here's mine - early 90's as well. My rural highschool had three computer labs, one with Macs for doing school newspaper type stuff, one with ancient TRS-80s for doing programming, and one with ancient PCs for learning typing. Th
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by 13of40 5y ago
"The Audimeter (audience meter) was used from 1950 during the early days of television broadcasting. It attached to a television and recorded the channels viewed, onto a 16mm film cartridge that was mailed weekly to company headquarter
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by 13of40 5y ago
CSB: He called me an asshole once. I got a prototype x64 delivered to my office (at Microsoft, circa about 2000), and I politely asked the Win64 distribution list where to get a build to install on it. After a week of silence I wrote back
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by 13of40 5y ago
I always assumed it was so they could stuff some more ads at the bottom. I'm sure someone here knows the real answer, though.
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by 13of40 5y ago
I would have said he looks like a sadder version of Christian IX: https://www.alamy.com/christian-ix-of-denmark-1818-1906-imag...
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by 13of40 5y ago
I worked in Windows Server on admin tools in the late 90s and 2000s, and watched the whole thing happen. I heard it summed up like that from Ballmer himself. I don't know what your alternative idea is - you think Microsoft was jealou
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by 13of40 5y ago
> They have shells, so we should have it also The thought process was more like "You can either hire a dude to do it by mouse in MMC or you can get someone with a masters in CS to do it in DCOM. We need a middle ground." Sourc
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by 13of40 5y ago
I worked at Microsoft back when they were looking at the Itanium as a Win64 platform. We were making a .Net console application and one day I was in the lab while our daily test automation was running, and the Itanium machines had a bunch
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by 13of40 5y ago
Not to be too cynical, but I wonder what the result would look like if they were able to do the math all the way. It seems like they can tell us how many people die early from heart disease due in part to overwork, but we don't know h
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by 13of40 5y ago
IMO, fish sauce (and I'm picturing the red boat one my wife buys) is like manna from heaven when there's just a hint of it. Too much, and it starts to taste a little...poopy.
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by 13of40 5y ago
> why would you take a picture with location data and upload it to facebook You could argue that most people don't know the location data is there. But at the same time, if you're doing something you want to keep secret, you p
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by 13of40 5y ago
Something I've wondered about for a while: If you get on the King County Parcel Viewer site and select the 1936 aerial photo basemap, you can get a good resolution view of the Seattle area from that time. If you look at Fort Lawton (n
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by 13of40 5y ago
I wonder if you could at least do something petty, like swap the +12v and GND pins with the Bus+ and Bus- pins on your OBDII connector so it would fry their fancy tool when they tried to read your data.
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by 13of40 6y ago
About 20 or so years ago, I was working at Microsoft and decided to see if I could find a bug in Notepad. With a bit of playing around I actually got it to crash with an access violation by doing something like scaling the font to a gigant
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by 13of40 6y ago
I had a friend who was a lawyer in South Africa before their political upheaval. Once his career of choice ceased to exist, he ended up becoming a software tester, then an IT guy at a bank.
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by 13of40 6y ago
I don't see why we care about CEO pay vs. worker pay at all. Being a CEO isn't part of the deal you get from the company as a normal person. What you get is a salary, benefits, security, and a growth path in your career. Have t
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by 13of40 6y ago
Z80 is a good choice for this. About 20 years ago I wrote a JAVA disassembler of similar complexity. After a decade and a half more dev experience, about 5 years ago I tried to write an x86 disassembler, couldn't wrap my head around
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by 13of40 6y ago
I have no debt except for one credit card that I pay off every month, and I've been in that state for years, but my credit score won't go past the mid 700s. I actually tried prepaying my credit card one month so that my debt to c
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by 13of40 6y ago
Back in the deep mists of time you used to be able to call a special operator who would look up the number in a phone book for you. They called it "information".
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by 13of40 6y ago
Here's an interesting quirk in Windows: There are two APIs to execute external programs, CreateProcess and ShellExecute. CreateProcess is the older of the two and only runs executables. ShellExecute opens the target with whatever app
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by 13of40 6y ago
I wish I could dig it up now, but years ago I ran a QA team that needed to validate that our equivalent of man pages could be downloaded on the fly with a command. The guy who owned it came up with a test plan that included setting up and
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by 13of40 6y ago
It's not even an urban thing. I used to live in Woodinville, across the lake from Seattle, which for the uninitiated is one of those vast suburban sprawls with a Starbucks and a Mongolian Grill in the middle. Someone broke into my ca
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by 13of40 6y ago
About 15 years ago I worked on a command line shell that was adding a remoting feature which would allow you to execute a shell command on a remote machine. When the first cut of this came out, it seemed like it worked fine, but I decided
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by 13of40 6y ago
I feel like I'm going to be remembering this post every time I click the "Buy Now" button from now on. I wonder if this means it's more humane to buy from third party sellers rather than Prime?
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by 13of40 6y ago
I recall reading something in the 90s where in the 70s, Huffman coding was considered mathematically optimal compression and the whole field stagnated for a while because they thought they'd reached a fundamental limit.
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by 13of40 6y ago
Looks a bit like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaung_language#/media/File...
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by 13of40 6y ago
Maybe it's changed lately, but most of the medium sized gas heaters (thinking fireplace inserts, fake wood stoves, etc.) have a feedback loop where the pilot light heats a thermocouple that opens the pilot light valve, plus a thermopil

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