MrFoof

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by MrFoof 17y ago
I'll concede that... to a limited extent. Not every job makes that possible. Even the ones that have the possibility, the number of employers that would allow that is also limited. VPN access, in my experience, is in the hope that people
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by MrFoof 17y ago
"Such is the march of progress. 40 years ago you could open the hood of your car and see and touch just about every component in there. And you had to, because many of those components required frequent maintenance. To properly own a car r
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by MrFoof 17y ago
I have a few photos, though the place is still VERY sparse. There are still huge chunks of empty space (we're talking 60 to 100 square feet per chunk). The place has 4 closets and an alcove -- I only use 1 1/2 now. The others are complet
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by MrFoof 17y ago
“Do not have anything in your home that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful” -- William Morris As of a few years ago those became the words I lived by. I threw out anything that had no sentimental or significant mon
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by MrFoof 17y ago
That would explain the RS-232 serial ports, parallel port and PS/2 ports. I remember seeing some other stock photos and was wondering why it had what appeared to be a Track2/Track3 Magnetic Stripe Reader. I last had worked with developing
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by MrFoof 17y ago
Not sure about kids today, but if my sister and I ever did that growing up we'd be grounded for at least 2 weeks. Granted my mom stood at home, but we'd still be liable for a whoopin' if we pulled such a stunt. Grades lower than a B? Not
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by MrFoof 17y ago
Some of us have been there. I was a 1-man show for a fiber optic distributor. I was IT. Help desk. Network administrator. Training. Developing internal apps and processes. Website development (including working with marketing and grap
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by MrFoof 17y ago
Ah, Japan. Honestly, in my experience the US hasn't been much better. There's still no federal law that mandates holiday time, although may employers offer some to appear more competitive in the labor pool. I'm not speaking of unskilled p
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by MrFoof 17y ago
Modern automatic transmissions will not switch from forward gears to reverse abruptly. They even won't engage a lower gear until your speed is low enough so the engine doesn't over-rev. Even virtually all manual transmissions have interlo
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by MrFoof 17y ago
The California case is currently being subjected to intense scrutiny. Here's the full, 24-minute 911 call audio. Does that sound like genuine panic to you? How would someone who doesn't know how to stop a car have any idea if their "brake
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by MrFoof 17y ago
Yes. Isn't this what Spolsky and Atwood are trying to improve for computer professionals? Granted it's a specific niche of the market. Matching these sorts of unique demands with a wildly varying supply is a devilishly hard problem. It's
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by MrFoof 17y ago
Joel received a question regarding this sort of feedback in an SO podcast. He brought up a case where someone made it to an on-site interview, and it was noted that the guy repeatedly belittled the office assistant and sort of thumbed his n
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by MrFoof 17y ago
The worst for me are scalability issues for database driven applications. I just had a conversation go like this. "So your application produces 60MB of output. The LUNs on the SAN the database server has available is capable of easily sus
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by MrFoof 17y ago
What are the chances of getting this SQL injection attack vector served on a silver plate right when he needed it? In my experience? Frighteningly real. You could also ask, "What are the chances of finding an application that has quadra
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by MrFoof 17y ago
"In any sufficiently large group of people, most are idiots". Take the subway in Boston. You'd be baffled at the ingress/egress difficulties encountered. People block the doors. Passengers boarding don't wait for passengers departing t
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by MrFoof 17y ago
>I even tell my dealer to change my tires twice a year >What?! Is this guy completely oblivious to the way he spends his money? Being a car guy, I can say that properly maintaining sports cars is not cheap. To the average person who
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by MrFoof 17y ago
Actually, childhood was a blast. The first 8 to 10 years of schoolwork being completely trivialized meant I could be over at some friend's house every day, futzing around in the backyard, or playing with action figures and legos. All the
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by MrFoof 17y ago
> agree, and will add that kids are expensive, especially if you want good education. These factors aren't linked if you're willing to put in the effort. When growing up we lived in one of the worst parts of the state regarding school d
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by MrFoof 17y ago
This is/was more popular in eastern Asia, particularly in China when Confucian culture was in its heyday. I remember growing up a Chinese family bought a house in our neighborhood with cash. He was a garbage man, they had two kids, and hi
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by MrFoof 17y ago
>If my car speeds up to 100MPH and I can't stop it, I can die. Is it just me, or is this a design problem just waiting to be solved. Not the accelerator design, but to counter the fact that although there are numerous ways to either slo
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by MrFoof 17y ago
That all depends on the consumer. I owned a Roomba and set it to run while I was at work. I would never see it operate. I just emptied it every day. However the chaotic way in which it patrols does mean it cannot replace a conventional
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by MrFoof 17y ago
I don't believe this is alone because of location. Building codes in cities are usually considerably stricter than those in the suburbs and ex-urbs, and meeting code itself requires more expensive design choices. Additionally, you're not g
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by MrFoof 17y ago
It reminds me of the aftermath of 9/11, all of the soccer moms in my rural home town, running around and buying up all the bottled water and duct tape in town, like they expected The Terr'ists to be interested in bombing Middelofnowheresbu
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by MrFoof 17y ago
ding Even for the non-technophiles, there's a tremendous amount of value in such a device. Last year my parents were moving out of their home into a smaller, elderly apartment. They found an old HP iPaq I apparently left behind in a box
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by MrFoof 17y ago
Actually, you don't. You can sign up for 3G on the device. You can buy and manage content from the iTunes or App stores right from the device - just like the iPhone.
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by MrFoof 17y ago
>The iPad is barely more portable than a laptop, and much less functional. How many users actually use all the functionality? My sister bought a 15" MacBook Pro for Xmas. She checks work e-mail via Outlook Web Access, occasionally work
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by MrFoof 17y ago
Back in 2000 when ATI leaked information about a product, Apple promptly switched from ATI to nVidia GPUs for iMacs and Power Macs. Jobs is not one to scorn. I can't imagine the reaction.
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by MrFoof 17y ago
Right. Initially you're trying to optimize the path for X people. So to get X items which are distributed in a given way, you're trying to have each person take the shortest path possible. However, based on orders, you want to optimize the
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by MrFoof 17y ago
>Have you used OkCupid? Yes. I'd consider it more of a machine-gun approach than a sawed-off shotgun. Potentially more accurate, but by and large you're still using more ammo than should be necessary. >which is why surveys and "sh
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by MrFoof 17y ago
Online dating has two problems. 1. Limited corpus. This is usually the result of sites going after very specific verticals (i.e. race, religious, <some-other-facet> specific). 2. Terrible search. Granted, determining compatibility

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