HCIdivision17

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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I've been surprised by my attitude over this. Either I want a honking 10 pound brick of capability or my Surface Pro 4 with dock. I really appreciate the convenience of being able to just grab the computer and go (nowithstanding the id
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
What is the sort of mayhem we can expect to see on the IT side of this transistion? It seems like there is already a ton of infrastructure in place for them to deal with the dynamic nature of their current calendar, so how do they move to t
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I really like the term "friendly pita". When people complain about tech support being unhelpful, I've often found the opposite. Be genuinely friendly and relentless and I've found even incompentent people will fix things
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
My friend would always talk about old war stories. And he'd repeat too :) But his son said jokingly over lunch with him, "Always suffer an old geek." And I've never regretted it. Keep trying to share what you know. He co
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Elsewhere in the threads here someone noted that a lot of young teams don't have upper managers. And frankly, I'd believe many simply don't have any proper management. Where "proper" is critical. I've had a l
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time. I love that line. It's featured in a neat writeup by ridiculousfish: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.h...
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
It's a weird experience if you're a clever youngster. I liken it to speed vs torque. I have to rely on being fast and being able to scan a problem as fast as I can to understand it. But an older engineer will just know the lay o
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Right? It really violates the Law of Least Astonishment. I think part of the idea is that the phone serves as a close hub to get push notifications from, since it doesn't retrieve my mail without the phone. Which honestly I'm star
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Nope, I just live under a rock apparently. The S3 nails the sweet spot of functionality and form for me, but from the looks of it I apparently could have gone all-in much sooner.
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I'm gonna shill here and say check the S3 (or S2 classic). The spinning bevel is really slick, and the OS feels really natural. Partly because it seems to understand there's approximately enough space on a watch to put like 4 icon
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
To be sure. I really don't like the style, but I can't deny that they boomed the market for smartwatches. You could by a cell phone watch decades ago, but it wasn't particularly awesome. But now, with the amount of tech that
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
No, that's the cool bit: it's like a cell phone on your wrist! The 4g connection is pretty good, and I think the call quality is pretty decent. Battery can only handle maybe an hour and a half of call per day (between charges), bu
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I can't buy into this analysis. I just got a Gear S3 Frontier. It's a literal cell phone, but it looks like a watch. It's fairly comfortable (after the absurdly bad band is replaced), and its interface feels natural. It&#x2
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I've been out of the field for a while, so I don't really know the state of the art anymore. But I had the pleasure of visiting what was then called the Texas Microfactory. It's basically a sort of microvoxel printer, capable
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Robustness really depends on the computer these days, I think. Flash drives already route around bad sectors, and most computer chips are capable of gracefully degrading performance as sections fail (one of the ways chip yields go up: over
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
There's definitely an effect, but from my intuition I'd guess it'd have to be fairly strong. But maybe if they're cheap enough to produce and easy enough to mass up, you don't have to even be that effective. Here&#x
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I think the main problem is of scale. The Earth's field isn't too strong, but it is huge in expanse. That's a lot of distance to deflect and decelerate. Going from a million meter diameter to a billionth likely requires a h
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
It does, doesn't it? I used to use Ventrillo, but then they screwed our small group out of our server connection. And we happily used Dolby Axon for a while. We tried Google Hangouts... for a while; until it just really didn't wor
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
They're targetting the Twitch model a bit with customizable bits for a charge. Basically allowing some chat branding for guilds and the like.
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
It seems Reddit admins don't have that ability, if I read the thread correctly. Rather, Spez helped build the system and just knew how to manage the prank. It wasn't even really a backdoor thing, he just had the know-how to do i
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I'll see if I can find it, but there was a comment in an AMA on the topic where someone asked if they have a test server and they said no. Not because they're goofy noobs at the business, either, but apparently it's just too
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
To be sure, and you've done a masterful job encouraging it! I usually see you there to prop up the cool stuff, and I certainly appreciate it. And in full fairness, when I made that comment, a whole bunch of stories were non-tech relate
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
And not even all tech! I've actually started spending more time on Reddit because it's more interesting in general. When a post percolates up here about motorcycles or manufacturing or some cool analytics on an obscure topic, I
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
The post where they describe what they're doing sure makes it look like that. From what was described, this is a massive refactoring and recalculation effort to pay down years of accumulated technical debt. Occam's Razor is probab
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
As you'll find is often the case, many simply can't avoid it. I can't. The systems I work on are backed by the JVM and run Java, but with Python on top. (Jython - Python 2.5 implemented in Java - if you're looking for t
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Aww. That's not terribly interesting at all. I mean, I get it, and I don't doubt it's validity. It's just so... mundane. I would have thought there'd be utility in having a very small last-resort utility like ed by
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I'll be honest, I didn't read the full feature list. I looked at some of the quick queries and was really happy to see some of them. Yeah, the amount of intellectual violence I'll be able to perpetrate against my data is just
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
> Well, unless you’re using Arch Linux. I would love to know if you're using Arch Linux? There's got to be a good story about why it's not there, if not. Might be fun to hunt down if so (I like historical stories about tha
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
With the coupon code in this thread, I was willing to go in on it, because it's comparable to what I pay for SSMS Tools. It's really really handy to be able to query an Excel table; a raw query window in SSMS is just about my fa
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I can't help but interpret that as saying what humanity came from . And by golly dammit, we haven't gotten too far from that, have we :)

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