MrTonyD

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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I appreciate the effort - but this document is full of misunderstanding. Page faults are a memory management event triggered by virtual memory misses of the Operating System. That is completely separate from how to find a piece of data with
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I'm confused about what you offer - are you creating extensions to XML & JSON for different types of documents? And adding an embedded programming API? And then I'm supposed to build those documents and submit them with REST?
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
Hey, I remember those days. Wasn't there a 2K basic before that - and an "unlabeled" one before that? I remember an article at the time - with "Palo Alto Tiny Basic" actually listed in source format. It was generall
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
Honestly, I never know what to believe when I read these articles. A good friend of mine was on the board of a major oil company - and he told me stories about the backroom deals involving huge investments. Huge projects were really pay-off
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
The 10% was who visited once or twice a year. Another 10% were never seen over the several years I lived there, and another 10% I saw several times per year. I didn't mean for the number itself to distract from the overall gist - my ap
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
Markets are not created by God. They are the result of laws and policies - as is also true of the distribution of income. We, as a society, can decide how we want our economy to work. (There is plenty of literature describing how free marke
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
This is a real problem. For a while I was running my own company and making more than I could spend - so I bought a house in a nice older neighborhood - walking distance to the beach, restaurants, and a pier, and very pleasant. But I soon d
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I'm a very old timer...and I think people have forgotten that there was a time here in Silicon Valley when it was enough to be someone with programming experience. The interviews - such as they were - were mostly just to see if you wer
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I'm the product of a Jesuit Education - too many readings, papers, and discussions about good, evil, and morality. At some point, a tension between community-values and individual-values can be recognized to exist. Laws reflect those v
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
Wish I were a government employee - so I could leak information about Trump. It would be the moral thing to do.
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I would say that one of the most common problems is unrealistic expectations placed on Marketers for highly technical products. Successful technical companies realized long ago that they must use teams which combine skills to tackle individ
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
Sounds like over-the-top testing to me. I know that there are sometimes things which must be tested (I've delivered and created many tests), but is there really anyone who can't figure out how to run Office? I've literally ta
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I've struggled with sharpening pencils. I enjoy a good pencil - but I've never found a sharpener that works consistently. Any advice?
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I really miss simple old thermostats. For a few years, they used a simple combination of two manual controls - one for temperature and a couple more for start and end times for maintaining that temperature. Made it easy to turn off at night
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I've consistently found that strategy had far more impact on schedules and success than the frenetic approach I've seen at companies in the past decade. Over and over again, I see companies with poor product or poor marketing or p
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I'm convinced that we are taxing completely wrong. Money is earned using the shared resources of our society -- education, roads, communication, military, fire, police -- all paid for by taxes. On top of that, we need to recognize tha
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
Glancing at the article I think it misses an important aspect. I lived through the creation of the POSIX spec and reported to a CEO involved. POSIX is a political spec. Customers were complaining to DEC, SUN, IBM, etc about how confused the
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
One time when I worked at NeXT I accidentally kicked my cube with my tennis shoe - it was under my desk. Sparks flew. I told the fellow sitting in the next office what had happened - and he wanted to see it too. We both laughed as we watche
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I would like to see Big Data used to improve everyone's lives. I think of McDonalds in Denmark - Government supported Union actions forced them to pay a living wage ($20/hr), offer decent shifts, have 6 weeks vacation, and confirm
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
My skills have always centered around OS and Database. I've mostly worked on UNIX then Linux at command line. Lots of vi and compiling over the years. I'll use whatever desktop is around...and, practically speaking, that has usual
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
Yeah. I guess I still think of Apple's OS as being essentially NeXTStep. Hard for me not to feel like I'm still looking at the same software - just with some superficial evolution.
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
Funny. I recently got a new position and I couldn't find the terminal on the company mac - and a fellow came by and said "you obviously aren't an Apple person". I didn't tell him that I was a Mach kernel engineer at
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
Years ago I worked at FMC. I remember being told that Atari had designed a game based on the M113/Bradley. I was also told that it didn't work well - and the tank drivers found it to be unrealistic - so they didn't use it. (W
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
Some years ago I had a Bank of America credit card. My new card never arrived in the mail, and I discovered 3,000 in charges. When I reported it, Bank of America insisted that they had mailed me the card and that I was responsible for its u
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I'd really like to see problems like this addressed in another way. I'd like to see that people have other alternatives - so that being turned down for a job isn't a life destroying experience. I think of "corporativism&
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
This article completely missed the technique which worked for me - adding a notation to every invoice. I would put (2/10 1/20) which means to accounts payable that I will give a 2% discount if they pay within 10 days, and a 1% dis
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I'm in Silicon Valley and I know someone working in their outsourcing group. HP has a "secret" office where they try to get all their development offshore. They will arrange travel visas to rotate people from other countries
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
Same experience here. I smiled as I threw out my HP color laser which had probably cost me over ten thousand dollars over its life. I've saved time, money, and customers by throwing all my HP printers away. (I didn't even sell the
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
+1 for the Brother monochrome lasers. I have two of their 2270dw printers that I bought after throwing away my three HP printers (after I couldn't make an important print out due to cartridge time-outs). Best thing I ever did. Now I&#x
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I think each country should have a first responsibility to its own citizens - getting all of them to some standard of living before allowing immigration or offshoring or importing. This would work for all except a few countries (and then im

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