MrTonyD

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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I was a member for a couple of years back around 1985. It was a complete waste. Even though that was before the Internet took off, I found that they didn't provide any real sharing of information or sense of community. So I'm not
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Wish I could care about this more. But since the "scrapbook" add-on broke I haven't updated. That may be my terminal release for the rest of my life (since that page-saving add-on is my entire justification for using Firefox)
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I use vim routinely - it has gotten a lot of work done through the years. My only real complaint is that it doesn't support more of my work - with support for diagrams and support for more extensive text formatting. Way back in the 80&
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
We need control over those who control our credit. As I read this article I've just arrived in London - my 4th trip here in as many months. And CapitalOne has started declining my charges again - even though I'm staying at the sam
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Not justifying anything...but back when Steve was alive I had a conversation with him on this topic. I was at NeXT writing drivers (NeXTStep) and I had tested a few disk drives on my cube. When I suggested that we might certify them, Steve
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I work for a company that sells software which is often deployed in the cloud. I'd say the ratio is about 30 to 1, with AWS far ahead. I'm always surprised when somebody starts talking about Azure - they usually work for a company
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I think we do forget it. More specifically, we forget the responses to disease which work, and as a result have dismantled our ability to respond. I read Laurie Garret's book "The Coming Plague" where she described the many t
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I've read about it several times now - from several sources, so it seems to be common knowledge is some circles. There is a famous architect who was in charge of the "quality of life" government organization which was establi
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Surprised that this article didn't mention that Copenhagen used to be a car-clogged city with lots of pollution. Over 30 years ago a decision was made to focus on bicycles as a way to improve quality of life. There was even a governmen
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I wish societies would stop telling us about GDP. Over my lifetime I've seen GDP change in one direction, while quality of life in society goes the other way. I remember France hired some Nobel Prize economists to create new and more r
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
You forgot Lost Horizon. Or maybe even some of the "end of the world" books (eg. Alas Babylon where they create a more simple world.) But both those books are severely flawed if trying to think about real possibilities, though I e
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
That is absurd. Anybody who has read about the history of CD bit depth would know just how absurd that is. And I even personally investigated CD accuracy in burning using an electron microscope to understand how the laser burning process wo
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I'm probably the only one with this opinion...but I sure miss the old days of tube amps that weren't able to be highly accurate. They would roll-off the on the high end, distort a bit all over, and gave a very warm and relaxing fe
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
The observation about getting C players to do the work is part of the actual strategy for succeeding in their market. The idea is that there are C players who are supported by B players who are supported by A players at HQ so that when thin
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
It took me a while to figure out that on HN you get downvoted if you aren't agreed with or your opinion is disliked - quite often nothing to do with any actual intellectual argument. I've learned to ignore all the downvotes that I
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I'm pretty much convinced that the greatest threat to true freedom is pervasive monitoring. It is impossible to resist any powerful force when they know everything you say and do. They can simply undermine any activity. I realized thi
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
As a graduate of a Jesuit University...a strong argument can be made that laws are legitimate since they reflect community values. But that same justification means that when laws don't reflect community values (corrupt politicians who
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I guess I was thinking of all those who are in denial about any benefit from government spending, and work to undermine government. Or maybe I was thinking about those who insist that private industry is the only solution to everything. Or
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I attended some lectures by Rodney Brooks - and I similarly had my mind blown. Over a few lectures he covered a wide variety of research, much of it for 3-letter organizations and it included his development of "scurrying" robots
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Yeah, I have some friends working on this for WalMart. They get all the social media info for every customer, and they track across their stores. Of course, there are NSA databases available too, and they are probably using those (many NSA
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Just not enough info in that readme. A simple example would help a lot - showing input file and output file. It can be the most trivial case (10 line files). I'm also concerned about a tool which must get updated in time with compilers
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
It always seemed odd to me that we live on a round planet - perfect for limiting a simulation. And our built-in senses are very limited, considering that they don't go outside the game-area easily. I could go on, but it sure seems like
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
"It is a strange idea that the rich work better if they constantly get richer, while the poor just work better if they get poorer" John Kenneth Galbraith
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Awesome comment. I wish that more people understood the system where we work. But I guess that most people are sheep, and there is less cognitive dissonance when you believe that free market is something good, and leaders are doing good thi
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
When I worked at a Fortune 50 I was in a group reassigning revenues to offshore entities. It was just a matter of assigning a team to an offshore manager (well, any one of the big 3 accounting firms then took our work and did whatever paper
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
While I don't agree with the article 100%, I too am skeptical when I see documentation generated from source. A complex topic requires decomposing the information into different types of information with different approaches to explain
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I don't have references - but I remember reading that the gently sloped roofs of desert buildings would channel breezes, and that would be combined with narrow passages between buildings to create a more shaded and cool environment. I
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Interesting to see how someone experienced evaluates documentation. I've been doing Curriculum Development for several years, and it's easy to identify bad Curriculum. If I flip through a course and don't see a lot of diagra
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I fly a lot - so I listen to a lot of books. A lot of it is just vacuous action to pass the time (Rogue Warrior, Stephen King, etc) But I really appreciated the non-fiction "Adults in the Room" by Yannis Varoufakis. It is one of t
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Well to talk about this more would take the conversation in a completely different direction. Bill met with Steve Jobs and they divided the market by including and removing technical features. Similarly, they met with the various workstatio

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