Chiba-City

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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Stonebreaker's Ingres Papers revenge. The Berkeley IT crowd was remarkably generative of good and enduring outcomes. Their Free/Open Cathedral efforts still anchor our frothier bazaars. Great read. There are vast real world applic
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The ease of repeating a calculation against a data set or recording such a dataset from instrument readings is not exactly the same repetition of a lab or factory recipe outcome. Science concerns data collected and copied yesterday. Tekne c
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Start with basic observations. Tool acquisition is not tool mastery. Tool mastery does not mean jobs for or at Google. Janitors are not getting IPO payouts for lives of leisure. Cold war coastal higher education, city living and corporate t
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Nonsense. Mass transit is a necessity of city traffic fluid dynamics. That has zero comparison to fed funded roads and mortgage deductions for nasty white flight perpetrators. Let them suffer. Let kids inherit their parent debts. Speak in b
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I'm 51. We PC nerds played with IPC via DDE and even Net DDE in the early 90's Netware days before TCP/IP and HTTP took over with XML or JSON in tow. A script connected "Emacs Lisp" for office automation is still a
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One of the most useful resource saving articles I've read in years.
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That's consensus narrative not subject to "event horizon" nature of the scheduled TV cat pointer. The business press is very different. There they schedule quarterly financial reports, industry metric measures and product roa
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FWIW, the prizes closer to the top are neurotic sons and daughters of legacy post-Colonial industrial screw ups around constant crises manufactured on high. I enjoy "high culture" locally fed city living, but white flight we inher
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I am a real person. I was presuming people read the article. I am 51 and caught the tail end of old TV and newsreel culture. People read more of far less but were mostly denied any access to contextual data. When I arrived in DC tons of peo
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Never forget the nightmare of broadcast "Hogan's Heroes" and "I Dream Of Genie." Imperfection looks good from here. Scale information insecurity will remain a real and costly problem. But 1-way broadcast funnels wer
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Cities are neighborhood places where people walk to work and carry groceries home 4 nights a week. It works great for retirees who ditch their cars entirely. I live near the National Zoo in DC. We have a local Iranian grocer right off Metro
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I wish I had a clear answer. We have to be nice enough to people, but we have a world of needy charlatans transacting for themselves with little concerns for outcomes, responsibilities and reputations. Here are some ideas. IBM's head o
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These are complex consumer taxing drip feeds of information, upgrades, service faults, repair services and so forth. It seems to mostly feed dumps. Slightly industrial grade hardware is often field repairable. I go for new or refurbed durab
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I founded a company that helped many other 90-00's founders along with some legacy industries in crisis. I am a reader so I read many business books. But I missed two specific dynamics I wish I had known earlier. First, executives will
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All this fatalism is wrong, nonsense propaganda. The "wealthy" in plain fact are often killed with survivors exiled en masse. I know tons of bitter Maryland and DC former wealthy who were punished for collusion with our very own s
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Thanks for the book recommendation. That looks like a winner. FWIW, primate biology in big organizations or around family formation have much bigger negative impacts on achievement than I would have realized as a younger man. The odd "
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I have "fight" in me. Fight is good. The trick is applying it. I am trying to write an article, but provisionally we find "contours of adversity." There are tons of examples like "HVAC power consumption" for se
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There are no debates. There are dialogs. Any contest is staged. I avoid all contests. Our education system, media messaging and fictional narratives are all conflict based. Nothing in real life is like that. Anyone SHOUTING-AT someone at Ha
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This looks lovely and near perfect. But what happened to Docbook? I worry about tool longevity and thus ongoing editability of source assets. I imagine groff still might grind old tbl and nroff and docs into Postscript.
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I have no privileged state secret information to disclose. But a former employee of mine (and Orbital Sciences, NSA before that) was in Queen Noor Of Jordan's entourage. WhatsApp was one of the dominant messaging apps in the Arab Sprin
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DC has funny issues likely shared with some other locales. The traffic is so bad people do not want to show up. People move 30 miles away for square foot dreams appropriate to where they grew up and then hate getting to work. Then many dim
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The Web is a failure of cheap tool distribution by attention seekers distracting possibly greater talents wasted on short lived skills or failed projects. We mostly lack use-case qualification, support metrics, documentary weight or program
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Driving and drinking in common forms are wastes of time or dangerous. Commutes specifically are now the #6 cause of full blown clinical depression. The easiest form of "helicopter parenting" was turning off TV's. Now YouTube
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We forget Feds fund American roads and local congressional districts like it that way. Our people grid is a road grid accessing an energy grid. Every single story suburban home is a waste of space and HVAC. Rationalizing costs will penalize
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A private company is NOT A STATE. DC is a right to work state. We fire people for any reasons. I had a pro PWC recruiter as employee #11. We were exemplary in practice. But nobody "gets jobs." That is unskillful thinking. People &
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I don't want to beat a dead horse, but I was playing with words. A method is a protocol defining a group for a project duration together. We call numerical recipes methods but they are more like refined tools we apply selectively. Meth
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Back then educators and technical writers knew about pervasive passive voice writing problems. Brad Cox (Objective-C) ran our library and formalized onboarding. These were dark ages. Blog writing was yet to be. We walked people through &quo
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Smart clever people loved racking up resume win after win with high profile clients. Liking it is not in your job description.
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Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines was absolutely essential to drawing me into the software industry. It's entertaining and inspiring. Everyone should have fun sharing it. That book reached tons of nerds playing with te
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We used (enforced) a writing method for software developers of three categories: So Far, More To Go, Save It For Later. It was something like a personal Kanban board for project members sharing a real schedule in weekly compiled/tested

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