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by _JamesA_ 10y ago
Speaking of 99 Percent Invisible - that podcast makes the entertainment system in my car reboot when played. It ends up in a cycle of play a few seconds, reboot, play, etc, until I change to another podcast. No other podcast or any other s
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by _JamesA_ 10y ago
That's probably because phones and tablets usually have oleophobic[1] surfaces. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipophobicity
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The most frustrating part is the isolation of the different fitness social networks. I have family and friends using Runkeeper, Strava, etc whereas I have to use Garmin Connect with my Garmin device(s). I have found Tapiriik[1] to be inval
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by _JamesA_ 10y ago
Yes, I have the 1st gen MacBook retina with 512GB 'flash storage' and the 1.3GHz CPU upgrade.
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by _JamesA_ 10y ago
This current Mac laptop user bought a toy 'macbook' for portable development. It's replacing an aging MacBook Pro 17. I am running IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise (in a Windows 10 Fusion VM) without
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by _JamesA_ 10y ago
I have never ordered a product from Amazon that didn't ship on time or wasn't what I expected. I'm not trying to be negative but I don't see what value the type of review you say you are writing adds.
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> The container utilises Supervisor to start and manage the different services. That violates the one container, one process design principle, if that's a concern. Caddy[1] is an interesting single binary cross-platform web server a
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by _JamesA_ 10y ago
Having built countless similar conversions, EBCDIC[1] to ASCII can be as simple as a lookup table and "packed string data" is just binary coded decimal [2] with a sign. What is a fixed delimited file? A 'mainframe' file
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by _JamesA_ 10y ago
That garage door solution sounds interesting if not overly complex. I automated the garage door using a MIMOLite[1] Z-Wave dry contact bridge wired to an extra remote control. [1]: http://amzn.com/B00B6RZ7MM
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by _JamesA_ 10y ago
Hard/expensive is relative. The Samsung SmartThings hub[1] is $99. GE Link[2] and Phillips Hue[3] Zigbee light bulbs are $15 at Home Depot. Z-Wave replacement outlets[4] and switches[5] are less than $50. And there are a ton of othe
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by _JamesA_ 10y ago
Confusing title. For a second I thought IBM was discontinuing the AS/400 / iSeries / IBM i midrange[1] systems. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midrange_computer
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by _JamesA_ 10y ago
I was able to place an order for the Dot using the Amazon iOS app yesterday. I just tried again and it says "Available Exclusively from Alexa".
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by _JamesA_ 11y ago
The Echo and Tap are on sale today for 15% off. That brings the Echo to $153.71 or 5 payments of $30.74. The Tap is $111.01 or 5 monthly payments of $22.20. I just happened to order both yesterday and Amazon refunded the difference withou
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by _JamesA_ 11y ago
It is a cheeky reference to the theme song to the movie Skyfall by Adele. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfall_%28song%29
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by _JamesA_ 11y ago
Go would benefit immensely from the ability to bind to JDBC drivers for database access.
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To put that in context it's in the same range, maybe even less, of a decent contract programmer/consultant billing $150 - $200 USD per hour.
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Why make a new key map when <C-z> is already available? What am I missing?
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So it's a non-starter that you can't remotely control a Nest when the broadband connection to your vacation home is down? If it's that critical maybe you need to design in some network redundancy. That's not really a Ne
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by _JamesA_ 11y ago
Slightly OT but the history of DHL co-founder Larry Hillblom[1] makes for some interesting reading. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Hillblom
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by _JamesA_ 11y ago
My SmartThings supports a smartphone geo-fence to detect presence and an NFC fob if you don't want to link a phone. I don't understand why my Nest can't do that too. I get the feeling that Nest has transitioned from innovati
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by _JamesA_ 11y ago
"This order addresses SCO’s unfair competition claim, granting summary judgment on that claim in favor of IBM."
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SCO ORDER Granting IBM'S Motion for Partial Summary Judgment [pdf](groklaw.net)
5 points by _JamesA_ 11y ago|6 comments
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Wes Craven, Horror Maestro, Dies at 76(hollywoodreporter.com)
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Java's main feature is compile once - run (almost) anywhere. From embedded to mainframe as long as a JVM is available. How does Go stack up for cross-platform development? Does every application and library have to be (re)compiled fo
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by _JamesA_ 11y ago
There's also a Stack Overflow ibm-midrange tag [1] that has some moderate activity. [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ibm-midrange
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Not sure about the S/38 but IBM i (AS/400) documentation for programming MI (machine interface) is available [1]. I once wrote an XMODEM crc16 routine in MI because I didn't have the C compiler available and I couldn't g
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by _JamesA_ 11y ago
Don't forget about RPG/II/III/IV/LE/... [1][2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ibm-midrange
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by _JamesA_ 11y ago
A free CloudFlare account allows unlimited domain DNS services and their 'control panel' is clean and straight forward. Unlike GoDaddy their only upsell is for their paid CDN services.
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by _JamesA_ 11y ago
I have found DbVisualizer [1] to be a superior tool and it supports almost every database in existence, Postgres and SQL Server included. Plus it's completely cross-platform and runs on Linux, Windows and OS X. [1]: http://w
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Comcast will reportedly abandon Time Warner Cable acquisition(arstechnica.com)
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