MrTonyD

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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Just seeing that boot screen brings back memories. I must have installed XENIX more than a hundred times during my 6 years at SCO. It's too bad that Microsoft bribed them out of existence - we had developed a full office suite when Mic
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I have only respect for your idea and approach. The tricky part is figuring out where and how to apply it. I think of the time I spent coding "lunar lander" and how I then read a physicist's description about the algorithms t
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
You're right that I'm highly biased by my Training background. If I wanted to teach "submitting code" and "basic math operations" then I would be doing very specific things (compared to people who haven't
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I've always admired Sweden for committing to robotics (it was back in the 90's I think, at a time when I was doing robotics work for Fanuc and GE). They went from nothing to becoming a major robotics player over decades. In contra
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
While I like the idea of this site, I think it is good to understand how it is fundamentally flawed. I do training. And most outside of training don't stop to think about how there are a variety of approaches to training, and a variety
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Well, we live in a society. In theory, it should be possible to define any law we want in order to improve our society. Of course, the rich control the government in the entire world, so I don't expect anything like this to happen (and
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I've been working in Open Source for a long time now - decades. The problem I see is that so many rich and wealthy companies (and their billionaire owners) are the big beneficiaries of open source. Look at Spark, Hadoop, Linux, gnu too
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I don't have advice - but just to share my own confusion in this area - I'm working more and more with containers and microservices. In the old days I used Eclipse, makefiles, and mostly vi to do my work. I'm not really sure
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
You know, I've noticed that I sometimes laugh when I hear about horrible news. I've never understood why - since there is nothing funny or laughable about those bad things. I wonder if this is related?
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
But he did that study based on the data from many other countries. You are just addressing the small scale test he tried.
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I find Dr. Esselstyn's observations compelling - that the Mediterranean diet is really only a good diet because it is being compared to so many poor diets. In his analysis of many countries, it is oils in the diet which correspond to t
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Yeah, I remember Randy. After we got enough complaints about the classes he was delivering we assigned technical people to sit in every class with him. I'm sorry, but I've developed curriculum and taught technical classes - and th
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
There are massive profits being made by industry all over the world...while the typical worker struggles to survive. It seems reasonable to me for governments to intentionally create jobs (protectionism works, the best time for the middle c
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
This fellow makes Economics seem understandable. Truly gifted. I wish we there were some way to clone him.
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Howard Zinn pointed out that History is always biased. In my own work, I've noticed that Machine Learning is always biased. Basically, any historian picks out which facts to discuss, and is not immune from social pressures when they in
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Anybody have a sense of how other countries have minimized these problems? I've read about Denmark controlling rents by private landlords, and Sweden helping people finance land in exchange for controlling the sales price. But, really,
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I've stopped reading all those "fact check" web sites. They seem to be literalists who can't hear the actual meaning of things being said. Everything is just about measurements while ignoring reality. (Now that I think a
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Over a decade ago I worked on software sold to Cable companies. So I had set up a small cable transmission center, and I had followed with interest the cities providing cable. In short, they were doing a great job providing lots of channels
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
About 20 years ago I read a book of first person accounts of addiction. I was amazed. All the addicts had become addicted when heroin was legal and cheap - and they were leading normal lives with jobs and families. It was when drugs were ma
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I think you're being a bit harsh on the guy. I'd like to see a society that embraces as many people as possible. It should be possible to support both hyper-social and anti-social types - as long as they are willing to encourage a
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
It is a design that means you pass your neighbors more often. But it is like walking down the street in New York, you don't have to be friendly or have long conversations - it is enough to say "good morning". But such design
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I think people have forgotten about all the things learned from cohousing. I once lived in a condo complex originally designed to be cohousing and I knew lots and lots of my neighbors. Shared parking with a common path and kitchens facing t
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Over the years I've sometimes found groups arranging drop-in tennis or drop-in ping-pong. I made friends there, and it was a major part of my life. But none of those ever seem to last for more than a couple of years. Whoever controls t
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I'm not even sure if its possible to tell ownership these days. Here in Silicon Valley I saw some contracts I wasn't supposed to see - all with labels saying "disclosure not required" and "not legally required to pr
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
It's free, though it doesn't really do enough for your use. I use zoomNotes on my iPad with an Apple pencil. It converts hand drawn boxes and shapes, and does exports, but as far as I know doesn't convert arrows. It has a &qu
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I consider downvotes on HN to be a badge of honor. It means you are thinking of things that the small-thinkers don't like, and probably will never take the time to seriously consider. Don't let it stop you - there are still people
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Where in Mexico? I've often thought about moving there, but I hesitate mostly because of crime. I also have a neighbor who lived there for almost a decade, until they were shaken-down by the Federales (with actual gunfights and shallow
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I remember reading about the Japanese area with the highest quality of life - it was an area where the government was the largest employer. That article went on to say that the government essentially managed fishing for the area, coordinati
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
In case it wasn't clear, we don't have pervasive monitoring deployed yet (not for lack of steps in that direction), so catching terrorists is still hard. But I guess you've already determined the limitations of future systems
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Some people wonder why Cloudera (Hadoop and now Spark) had such high stock prices. But the real investors and the real clients were not public. Now, we all know that these systems are limited both in data volume and ability to run all the M

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