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by Toenex 14y ago
Yes I often find myself wishing that, at the user level at least, USENET was still all pervasive. However, that is probably remembering the past a little more fondly that I should. Joel even talks a little about the comparison here [ http
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by Toenex 14y ago
If you want to convey an honest impression of the data then pie charts are regarded as a bad idea as humans are less adept at comparing areas as they are lengths - [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Use.2C_effectiveness_... ]
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by Toenex 14y ago
A really interesting and well written read. Whilst the author admits to being a little sentimental about the company, he appears to have had a long term relationship with Boeing. Thanks for posting.
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by Toenex 14y ago
This made me laugh so much a little bit of wee came out.
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by Toenex 14y ago
Isn't this preciously what Kickstarter [ http://www.kickstarter.com/ ] is for?
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by Toenex 14y ago
Well put.
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by Toenex 14y ago
Yep. In fact you could say "Why I won't be reading posts that start with Why I won't be..."
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by Toenex 14y ago
Yes, Tcl has it's problems but it seems a shame to see it appear to approach end-of-life,especially with the recent 8.6 release - although it is only in 8.6 that an 'official' object system has been added so maybe that says something. Obvio
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by Toenex 14y ago
We shouldn't regret the code we checked in but rather the code we never got around to checking in.
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by Toenex 14y ago
I originally trained as an electronic engineer, but have spent my entire career working in software and specifically medical image analysis. Essentially I'm a fraudulent software developer, statistician and radiologist in one! I'm also ar
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by Toenex 14y ago
Frankly I wasn't expecting the future to look like a French provincial postal delivery vehicle from 1947.
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by Toenex 14y ago
Nothing, web is great. Just wanted to get a feel for the diversity of the readership.
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Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?
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by Toenex 14y ago
I hope I live in the universe where this happens.
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by Toenex 14y ago
Anyone remember Google shell [ http://goosh.org/ ], similar idea. Now what I really want is an xterm that can render HTML/CSS. That way I can interleave my unix dweebry with outputs that use a modern display language.
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by Toenex 14y ago
They also mainly quite old and a little confused, probably keep think that the national anthem is playing and are standing to honour Her Majesty.
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by Toenex 14y ago
Great point. I think a lot of us who still love programming after 20 years or more enjoy the constant change in the industry and the never ending opportunities to learn.
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by Toenex 14y ago
In one sense Jeff is right, I have no problem remembering what I want to do today. My problem is that I need to do things that other people want me to do. Unfortunately my ability to remember is strongly weighted by my give-a-shit lev
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by Toenex 14y ago
Similar here, in my 40's and I must admit I also struggle with the management divide. However, I'm lucky that I work in a small company so I get to do a variety of work. I also have a lot of domain knowledge (medical imaging) which means I
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by Toenex 14y ago
Totally agree. Time is a useful tool, use it wisely.
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by Toenex 14y ago
The best undergraduate project I ever did was one where we had to design and simulate a 4 bit microprocessor (this was 1991). Whilst it pulled together strands of our analogue and digital electronics classes the biggest impact was on my so
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by Toenex 14y ago
In the UK all such novel forms of transport have to first shake off the C5 effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
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by Toenex 14y ago
Great! Now all I need are some products to allow me to get dressed in the dark; quieten opening draws and wardrobes; silence the noise I make as I hop around the bedroom trying to get my left foot in a sock; stop the floorboards from creaki
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by Toenex 14y ago
For years I had several aliases for 'make' and after a while I literally couldn't remember how to spell it correctly without thinking quite hard. mkae, meka both looked equally valid.
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by Toenex 14y ago
Belief is important in science. In science we only disprove a hypothesis (falsifiability). If we repeatedly fail to disprove it we begin to believe it true. Yet we can never rule out that one data the data may exist to disprove our stron
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by Toenex 14y ago
In summary then, using the mean value to summarise data from an unknown distribution can be problematic. Not exactly ground breaking.
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by Toenex 14y ago
Thanks, very enjoyable read.
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by Toenex 14y ago
I'd like to think these things would work because the AI is so smart that they make an intelligent contribution to twitter. Sadly I suspect they might work because it won't take much to improve upon the average tweet.
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by Toenex 14y ago
I'm not suggesting that civ is anyway up to the task but in all seriousness does any government systematically simulate policy decisions? I can't even remember a UK policy decision that even acknowledge the possibility it might not be a co
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by Toenex 14y ago
Good bases for next years Deep Impact/Armageddon movie head-to-head.

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