CurtHagenlocher

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by CurtHagenlocher 5y ago
PS/2s were overpriced and underpowered, and people I knew told me that a surprisingly high percentage of them arrived DoA. That was basically the end of "no one ever got fired for buying IBM".
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by CurtHagenlocher 5y ago
So basically he was deplatformed yet again by Big Tech -- this time by Google when they killed Reader in 2013?
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by CurtHagenlocher 5y ago
While I don't know how manufacturing is distributed today, historically the primary Mercedes production facility has been in Sindelfingen which is adjacent to Böblingen.
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by CurtHagenlocher 5y ago
Cool. When you commuted did you take the Ammertalbahn and S-Bahn, or did you drive? There was no high school in Herrenberg after the war, so my dad took the train to Tübingen every day and had to cross between the French and American zones
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by CurtHagenlocher 5y ago
My father grew up in Herrenberg (on "Auf'm Bildkäppele") and has never driven anything but Mercedes.
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
I don't boil them in lye; just soak them in it for 30-60 seconds and then bake them in the oven.
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
In any event, I bake my own Laugenbrezel now :).
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
My aunt lives in the Rotebühlstraße and one of the highlights of visiting her as a kid in the 1970s was buying pretzels at the bakery two blocks away. Twenty years later, the "bakery" was just a storefront and the actual baking ha
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
FWIW, Paradox was also originally an acquisition by Borland, from a company named "Ansa Software".
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
As per the sibling comment, Borland acquired Ashton-Tate after dBase IV 1.0 shipped in part because it was such a disastrous release. I think 2.0 was the first Borland release.
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
Both dBase III and dBase IV predate the acquisition by Borland. This kind of stuff is super easy to fact-check, so I'm always a bit put off by pieces which make those kinds of factual errors.
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
People are far too quick to look at things through a lens of left/right at times when they really should be looking at them through a lens of institutional/outsider. Of course a successful institution of the status quo is going to
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
Well, their political views and his attempt to overthrow a democratically-elected government by inciting a mob to storm the Capitol building.
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
A direct link to the court filing: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.225699/... Reading it was entertaining.
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
At least for the projects I work with at Microsoft, nearly no user accounts have direct write access to source repos. Checkins are done by a service account only after a pull request has successfully been built and run tests, and has been s
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
It's awesome how easy this kind of experimentation is today. Thirty years ago, I worked with a mathematician at JPL who used fairly specialized equipment to find a frequency notch where he had lost his hearing -- at roughly 8k, IIRC, i
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
If I remember correctly, this was not originally true but type unification happened early in the life of 2.x.
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
Thirty years ago, the exams were all take-home.
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
Everybody does realize that this has no legal significance, right?
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
Sure; it's obvious that they don't have sufficient support to be enacted. But "little support" implies that these goals are outside the mainstream of US politics (as does the prefix "far-") and neither of these
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
The candidate of the party supporting these things is likely to have gotten 3.5 million more votes than the candidate of the party opposing them. In that context, what do you mean by "little support"?
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
I imagine user clicks are an important signal which helps a search engine refine its results. If no one ever clicks on a particular link for they were shown when searching for "foo", then there's something about that link tha
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
I've worked at Microsoft for over twelve years, and I think this radically oversimplifies the story. A lot of the changes that Nadella gets credit for were actually started during the Ballmer years, but it can take a really long time t
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
Ten years ago I found a comment in Excel's code base preceding a function over 1000 lines long that seemed to be parsing dates: // I just cleaned up the code. I have no idea what this fn does. Here is // what
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
This reminds me of Frank Herbert's Bureau of Sabotage ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Sabotage ).
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
This is the distinction between the platform for which the work is being done and the platform the work is being done on. You can develop for Linux servers from other platforms.
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
Fascinating research! I wonder where it was conducted and whether or not the result would vary between countries. I think in the United States there's a pervasive belief that the wealthy deserve their wealth because they earned it thro
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by CurtHagenlocher 6y ago
We are also complicit in our governments' deeds.
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by CurtHagenlocher 7y ago
Whenever I listen to Joy Division I think of Emacs Lisp.
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by CurtHagenlocher 7y ago
One of the best teachers I had at Caltech. Though, given that this apparently happened in May I'm not sure why it's being posted today.

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