MichaelCrawford

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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I feel that continuous and frequest releases do not serve the end user. It can take time to find and fix subtle bugs. Adding new features introduces new subtle bugs. Even as a developer, for me to grow happy with a tool often means that Ap
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Yes but he is more concerned with ransacking its employee pensions.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
More than once, my employer issued a press release for a product I wrote then a reporter published it verbatim with their own byline. There is a market opportunity for someone who can find two journalists doing thatnat the same time with th
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
It is more important to sell software than it is to write it.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Perhaps he sold short on tech stocks.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
reverse a C string in place.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Black and white thinking is unproductive. There are good cops and bad cops. I have many good reasons to hate and fear the police - but I dont, because I judge them as individuals rather than as a group. If a law enforcement officer commits
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I know a veteran of the US Navy who was ordered by his captain to throw quarter million dollar flight computers overboard. Had he not done so his aircraft carrier would not have used up its budget.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I understand that when IBM visited Digital Research the head guy was out flying his airplane. This left them with no operating system for the IBM-PC, so Bill Gates licensed QDOS from a friend then licensed "Quick and Dirty Operating S
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
When I worked at Apple we spent more time designing our t-shirts than writing code. Many companies retain "efficiency experts" for the stated purpose of improving productivity. One such observed that some factory workers did not
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Not mine. I often keep my iPhone powered off so I wont be bothered. A couple days ago I read that the iWatch is selling poorly because it is only really useful for notifications. There are some occupations where one needs that but there ar
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I design my programs by writing the header files first.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
The term "C/C++" is a Tool of the Devil. Each has its many endearing qualities but it is inappropriate to put them together like that. I often see job board posts and get mail from recruiters seeking coders with experience i
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
"Hardware has permanance" That automobiles are recalled for reasons other than hardware replacement is a recent phenomenon. However a software patch would keep Def Con busy while replacement hardware is developed.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Your link may be on-topic but it's awfully pink and salty. -- J. Random Kuron Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads http://www.warplife.com/tips/law/copyright/music/legal-do
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
My father once complained about the hot weather making his work at the naval shipyard unbearable. But dont you have air conditioning my mother asked. The federal regulations specify the temperature in which AC is permitted he replied. Wash
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Without Obamacare I would have no coverage other than the legal requirement that emergency rooms treat me. Thats not an efficient allocation of money, that is its a lot cheaper for everyone if I can use my insurance. Its not that I have a
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
That's the case with Microsoft and Apple too, I expect many companies. When I was a contract programmer at Apple In 1990 I was told that it hired so many contractors so it could inflate the ratio of revenue to employees, which would in
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
So I can make my Mama proud. She and Dad were heavily into that I did some of the work on the Mac I gave them for Christmas back in the day.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I regard mobile and web analytics as unethical when they are used to correlate my activities between two different apps or websites, however I am cool with webmasters analyzing their own server logs, as well as for mobile developers to trac
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Digidesign and Atimi Software tried to steal mine. Dont sign a contract you dont understand. Atimi in the endnwas cool withma simple nondisclosure. Digidesign got their panties in a bunch when they clued into that I crossed out their claus
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Android and iOS have /etc/hosts, which you can edit if you jailbreak. I dont know about Windows phone, they run something from Nokia. Some but not all Android devices permit you to install firmware you build yourself. Drivers fo
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
"They sunk my submarine!" -- a friend of my father's, when Mom came to take me home from his son's birthday party. The Sinking of the USS Gitarro http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/16.52.html#subj2.1 I
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
The United States Navy still has at least one wind- powered wooden ship. It's used for training.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I only use LinkedIn to find former coworkers and classmates. After that I email them directly. However I get lots of connection requests from recruiters. I always accept them. I figure that greatly dilutes whatever value linkedin might h
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
"The rich are different from you and me." -- F. Scott Fitzgeral, "The Great Gatsby"
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
The very first time I wrote an interrupt handler, it was in octal, entered by a numeric keypad into an LSI-11 with DEC's ODT - "Octal Debugging Technique". I wish I could say I was paid to do that but it was for UC Davis&#x27
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
EEACS Eighty Exabytes And Constantly Swapping
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
"Those who block all cookies, will not be tracked by Google Analytics, because all data is transmitted to the Google Analytics server via the basic (first party) cookie. Those who delete cookies, will still be tracked, but they will be
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
While I mostly agree it is hard to determine what to write about until you have written something and it has been posted long enough that it yields some search engine referrals. To take a wild guess is better than not posting anything at al

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