Ologn

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by Ologn 5y ago
I have used Ubuntu on desktop and laptop for years. My main advice is consider when to upgrade. I never upgrade to the latest release on release day. Usually I try to wait two months. Safer would be three months. By then most of the maj
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by Ologn 5y ago
In 2011 I released an app which was an education in MVP for me. I knew there was an free open source Java library that parsed Microsoft Access Library, so one day I had the idea to write an Android app for it. As there was no competition
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by Ologn 5y ago
> And ARM compatibility issues not really helping There were two things I wanted to try on my MBP w/ M1 - compiling an Android app that has some C code, and also to run Fidelity's Active Trader Pro program (not that I would use
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by Ologn 5y ago
I got a System76 Serval WS laptop running Ubuntu 2 1/2 years ago and have been happy with it. I used it a lot pre-Covid when I was traveling more. It also updated well, although I always wait two months post-release before upgrading
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by Ologn 5y ago
Yes, for their own purposes
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> A popular sentiment on HN is "don't make an app when you can just have a web page". I have yet to hear a user data analytics team say that.
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by Ologn 5y ago
I bought an MBP with an M1 two weeks ago. Never owned a Macbook before, although I use a company MBP, which is older and Intel based. Actually I wanted to compile an Android app on it, which uses some C code. On an MPB with an M1, Android
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by Ologn 5y ago
Code Complete has chapters on classes, functions, then several chapters on statements and several on variables. McConnell also refers to studies throughout - for example, he says studies show it is not necessarily that long functions are b
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by Ologn 5y ago
Traditionally, and depending on the commodity, marginal cost can on rare occasions rise, sometimes stays flat, and often falls. With this more modern phenomena for digital products, almost all the costs go into creating the very first produ
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by Ologn 5y ago
I think this is slightly askew. A network of a sort is important, but slightly different. In Detroit, cars made a lot of money in the mid 20th century. Cars would roll through an assembly line, the parts of which might be $1500 or so in 1
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by Ologn 5y ago
I have run my own private mail server off and on for over 25 years, so it is just something I am used to. I just had an invoice from someone using bill.com blocked by spamassassin, since I set 4.7 as my spam level (it was 4.8) 2.5 FREEMAIL_
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> Eg is gold a ponzi scheme? "Dug up, refined, buried again somewhere like fort knox with a very small use other than as a store of value. (eg some electronics). Whether you decide yes it's ponzi or no it's not, then look
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by Ologn 5y ago
I would say after a class, apply what you learned in class. If you learn Java, write a Java program you want to write. If you learn computer graphics and how to do OpenGL transformations and rotations in C/C++, write (or help port) a
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by Ologn 5y ago
In March 2016 I started writing an Android app ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unwrappeda... ). In May 2016 I released it. You can set wallpapers on Android with it. The last new wallpaper I
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by Ologn 5y ago
I had my machines on wireless ethernet, but it was too flaky in my circumstances, so my desktops and laptops use wired ethernet now. I still use wireless ethernet for my tablet.
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by Ologn 5y ago
I would suggest you do a test by scanning a few of the newer prints and some of the older prints on any available scanner. See how much dust is on the existing pictures. When looking at a print physically, a little dust is not distracting.
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by Ologn 5y ago
Well you're right, $2 is better than $20 Still skeptical about Bitcoin myself
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by Ologn 5y ago
> network will continue to function What are transaction fees, still $20 USD average like they were in April? Also, there is a backlog of transactions, so it can be days to get a transaction done. Some currency.
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by Ologn 5y ago
I started running DNS servers 25 years ago so it doesn't take much mental effort for me. It is easy for me to do, and I have full control over it. I can do it in my sleep. The biggest effort for me was about 24 years ago, when BIND 8
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by Ologn 5y ago
The movie industry in the US was originally based around New York City. Various studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey and Kaufman Astoria studios in Queens were where a lot of motion pictures were made (some still are in Kaufman Astoria). Intell
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by Ologn 5y ago
I have not had time to read a lot of books, one (475 page) book I read is "Androids" by Chet Haase. Haase was on the Android team and interviewed most of the programmers who wrote the initial Android versions. I program Android
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by Ologn 5y ago
I have worked in IT for a long time, but have taken night and weekend college classes over the years. I took a CS 3xx class with mostly college seniors a few years ago. Most were CS majors. Once a bunch of us were outside talking, and I
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by Ologn 5y ago
> The company that created Java went out of business and was sold to Oracle for a fraction of its original worth. So Java was a business failure -- or at least I'd be interested to see someone defend Java as a business success. The
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Also, backups are kind of thankless - no one ever puts backup maintenance on your schedule, but if a machine goes down everyone expects you have a backup from three weeks ago and that they can retrieve all the data from it. You also have t
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by Ologn 5y ago
> Establish some sort of monitoring for the most important assets. You need this to know if your web sites, servers and services are running, and to be emailed or contacted when not. I am used to Nagios. I understand there is a Nagios
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by Ologn 5y ago
> There is immediate and obvious utility in being able to send value instantly with no fees, with no dependence on a centralized authority. There is, the problem is you are not sending value, you are sending the modern equivalent of Char
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> You should have picked a side by now as this is not complicated or ambiguous. There is only furthering crypto by any means necessary, or opposing it (increasingly, by any means necessary). I think crypto coins are as worthless as subpr
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> I was thinking maybe we could offload non-critical systems to our own colocated servers onsite Definitely have a strategy for cooling the servers in place. If you put two dozen servers of a certain type in a room, how much are they g
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by Ologn 5y ago
Look at schools you want to go to, look at their schedules for a CS degree, and how much is doable at nights and on weekends, if they have special programs for adults, then start by taking one class at night or on weekends while working. I
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by Ologn 5y ago
> claiming that Emacs is obsolete/outdated/dying > run of the mill, mundane, forgotten-in-a-few-years, CRUD web apps, a normal _average_ car (M$ vscode) With regards to obsolete and outdated - I started using vi and emacs ba

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