W-Stool

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by W-Stool 5y ago
If you call ask for Christopher.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Geeze, if only there was a way to pay one amount each month and get all these services and content from one aggregator who also provides the inbound pipe. Might this be called - I dunno - "Pipe TV"? Naw, how about "Cable TV
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Poorly worded - this problem applies to SSDs.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
As a kid who grew up around the Great Lakes and lived for many adult years there, a later in life move out to the West gave me an opportunity to simply drive a couple of hours to San Francisco and explore this amazing city. My first stop w
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Way back in the day (late 70's) I worked on VAX systems for a large automaker whose management sincerely believed if you weren't using some monster from IBM you really weren't doing much important and thus there was never eno
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by W-Stool 6y ago
The first machine of any type that I myself booted in real life was a PDP-8 in 1976. Front panel switches to get it up, paper tape punched from an ASR-33 to load a program and get it rolling. Maybe a 5MB drive on the thing. It is amazing
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by W-Stool 6y ago
I don't suppose there's a VAX 11/780 simulator running VMS out there anywhere, is there? Wouldn't that be fun for some of us.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
If UPS is not looking over their shoulder, they should be.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Let me fix this for these guys: "We truly regret getting caught for this egregious behavior and we have committed our entire organization, from the top all the way down, to ensure we don't get caught doing this again." Seriou
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Some years ago I looked at developing a MacOS app and distributing it through the App Store. I came away from that experience with two showstoppers: - Apple does not disclose to you who bought your app. - There is no mechanism to make paid
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Hugh Laurie as the super villain? Hell yes. It was fantastic, and JLC has a cameo in it as well.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
"The Perfect Spy" - both in book form and UK mini series, are both exceptional and Le Carre's most autobiographical work. His father was a real con man, grifting people for a a living, as was the main character's father
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by W-Stool 6y ago
"base your entire life out of the Gartner trade rag magic quadrants." You just described the CIO of a billion dollar revenue NYSE traded company I was with briefly a few years back. The CIO had no degree and thought the Gartner o
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by W-Stool 6y ago
I bought a Pinebook Pro when they were last available and I was really pleasantly surprised at how good the build quality was and the display quality was excellent. Unfortunately they are not currently available - their LCD supplier bailed
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Fixed, and sincere thanks. Not a word I think I've ever referenced, let alone spelled, recently.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Given that the Texas GOP leadership recently mused publicly about seceding from the United States I wonder how many of the people and companies that left California for Texas would be pleased to wake up one morning and discover they now liv
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Some years ago the editor of the New Yorker at the time was interviewed - probably "Fresh Air" on NPR or something like it, maybe a podcast, I don't honestly remember. But I do remember the conversation - the editor was aske
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Dave Cutler for the win. That guy was and still is the real deal.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
An amplifier shouldn't "sound" like anything - the best possible amplifier would be a wire with gain. Tube amps do have their own sound, primarily due to higher harmonic distortion and the use of output transformers in the s
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by W-Stool 6y ago
The soft money vs. tenure track / tenured positions is a huge difference in money, future, and security, and it is supprising to me how many future doctorate students don't understand the difference until it is too late. Next sto
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Anyone here remember the Tech Hi-Fi chain? Amazing gear they sold, they were a chain that started in the MIT neighborhood as I recall. Advent, Crown, all the good stuff way back in the day.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Bob Carver was the real deal back in the day, his designs were based on no-bullshit performance objectives. Audio Science Review (audiosciencereview.com) is an interesting counterpoint to all this huffing and puffing about what sounds &quot
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by W-Stool 6y ago
YES! Me too, I'm developing in Go now and their Goland IDE really reminds me of some of the best of the old days @ Borland.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
The first version wasn't even a box - a paperback book with floppy disks. Imagine that - printed documentation!
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by W-Stool 6y ago
It is hard to emphasize enough now how the original Turbo Pascal was such a breakthrough in development tools for the PC. RIP Borland - for a while there you were really the business.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Great guy your cousin. Would do business again 10/10.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Then why the new proposed budget caps? Seems like all these restricted technology rules would have taken care of this.
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Think about this scenario for a minute: You are top designer at an F1 team. You've got an idea that will (maybe) make the car go faster. Say it is a different profile rear wing. So you get the lads to build one up (you have your own
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by W-Stool 6y ago
Follow the money. Who is helping them monetize this behavior?
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by W-Stool 6y ago
IMHO you are spot on. I'd put money on your third scenario.

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