EvanAnderson

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   by EvanAnderson 9y ago

   The "IF statement is an expression" functionality is neat. I don't think I've seen another BASIC that does that.
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   by EvanAnderson 9y ago

   That's not a tenable option for "regular people".
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   by EvanAnderson 9y ago

   I am reminded of the two Google Home devices "talking" to each other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv2CiA1taF0
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   by EvanAnderson 9y ago

   The comments are awesome! I love that there's a typedef "Pelvis" (something to do w/ models, I'd assume). In lots of places in the code, then, you can have "Pelvis elvis;". Yay!
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   by EvanAnderson 9y ago

   There was an ISP / hosting provider in Dayton, OH, named "donet.com". For years and years their DNS was available for public zone transfers and they had wonderful computer names like powdered, glazed, chocolate, and my favori
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   by EvanAnderson 9y ago

   Found the logs! Woo-hoo! Monday, July 1, 1996 - We got hits from: polio.yahoo.com, pilsner.yahoo.com, mead.yahoo.com, scabies.yahoo.com, ratbastard.yahoo.com, lambic.yahoo.com, stout.yahoo.com, scorpio.yahoo.com, and srinija.yahoo.com. The
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   by EvanAnderson 9y ago

   An aside re: Yahoo -- Somewhere I have my website logs from the 1995-96 timeframe. I'll have to try to dig 'em up. I remember the day the site got listed on Yahoo, however. I got hits from machines with names like "scabies.ya
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   by EvanAnderson 9y ago

   I'd assume it's for the same reason that that Oracle used a poem in one of their protocols[1]-- to make distributing the key copyright infringement. [1] https://dacut.blogspot.com/2008/03/oracle-poetry.h
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   by EvanAnderson 9y ago

   I immediately thought of the anecdote about World War II British SIGINT operators being able to identify individual German telegraphers by way of their distinctive style of Morse keying. http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipe
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    Came here to say the same thing. Back in the early 90's one of my friends spent time obsessively studying the personal nuance of code attributed to The Dark Avenger. Even in code that had obviously been optimized bits of personal nuanc
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    Unfortunately, yes. I've been lucky enough to be able to get domain renames done in Exchange 2003 environments (which is supported) or in non-Exchange environments. Migrating to a new domain because of a poorly-chosen name is a real pa
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    The ".local" suffix was a terrible idea, to be sure. Active Directory domain rename in small environments is relatively painless.
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    The drama between Commodore and Atari in the 1980s is really interesting. I wonder what kind of computing world we'd be living in today if Atari had gotten the Amiga technology, rather than Commodore. I suppose with Tramiel still at th
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    I immediately thought of Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon The Deep" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep ). Half of the plot is an AI tricking people into freeing it and the subsequent havoc it
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    I wonder if they patented the "business process" of selling insurance against patent trolls.
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    Killed by CO poisoning from a faulty heater. Wow-- that sucks!
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    It got me interested in the backstory. InfoWorld covered it in 1981: https://archive.org/stream/Infoworld-1981-01-19#page/n2/mode... https://archive.org/stream/Infoworld-1981-06-22#page&#
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    I simply can't imagine how one can use the web today w/o this strategy. Frustratingly, I also can't figure out how to instruct my non-technical family and friends on doing this themselves.
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    Oh, no. Just vinegar and water. It does wonders for soap scum in grout. My guess is that I'm getting the inflamed mucous membranes from the low PH vapor coming off the vinegar...
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    I just watched a talk this morning about doing high dynamic range photography in Excel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8 ). Looks like now I've got something to watch tomorrow!
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    I really like the results of bathroom cleaning with vinegar but I end up with a very raw-feeling throat and sore eyes afterwards. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong.
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    I've done contract work for a manufacturer of electronic control systems for excavation and mining equipment. They've aggressively implemented DRM in their new products to support renting time-limited and geofenced access to optio
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    WIRED did an article in 2014 that pegs the number at 2.5 seconds. Amusingly, the professor cited in the article has the last name of "Cutting", which makes the article a little jarring to read to me (since I keep seeing the verb &
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    Watching older movies and television shows today I'm struck by how much longer shots are and how there are so many fewer cuts. I'm sure that, to some extent, pacing in movies was dictated by the practicality of technology. Modern-
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    The Linux Router Project ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project ) did that kind of thing in the late 90's and early 2000's. It's long-since dead, however. I doubt there's much of anythin
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    Here's a fun point of applicable biology terminology (by way of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altricial
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    In Nevada the source code for gaming devices is required to be provided to the state gaming commission. (c) In the case of a gaming device, a copy of all executable software, including data and graphic information, and a copy of all source
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    My wife ended up w/ an unplanned C section to deliver our daughter in 2013 in Dayton, Ohio. Both mom and daughter had reasons for two extra days in the hospital. The bill to my wife's insurance company was just under $60,000 for h
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    This American Life had a good episode about the study you're talking about being discredited: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/584/for-your-reconsideratio... There is also a transcript available, too: https:&#x2F
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    by EvanAnderson 9y ago

    They're franchised. You didn't hire "these guys", you hired one of their franchisees. I'm sure the company would love to know about your experience.