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by abridgett 5y ago
Rather interesting! It'd be great to have a quick definition popup so help answer the obvious "what the heck does _that_ mean?" questions.
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by abridgett 5y ago
Things that helped me: - small steps - accept failures, don't let them stop you. My first "solo-traveller" holiday was a disaster, but the next four were great - be open (i.e. say "yes" to things even if you don&#x2
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by abridgett 5y ago
I remember a particularly geeky car trip looking for computer acronyms - e.g. "PDF". You only got full points if you also knew what the acronym stood for (e.g. Portable Document Format).
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by abridgett 5y ago
I'm a firm believer that the onus should be on the current development team to explain this to you. That is unlikely IME to happen without you asking. What happens next will be an iterative process. Do some initial investigation - don&
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by abridgett 5y ago
Such a shame - IBM have some good tech but it's buried beneath a crap-ton of marketing bullshit. I was a huge fan of AIX and POWER processors back in the day and still think that Linux could have benefitted from some of the approaches
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by abridgett 5y ago
A friend was looking and in the end decided not to buy a Thinkpad as both his current Thinkpads mis-order keys when typed quickly and it seems unlikely that it's fixed. (And to be honest, they don't deserve the money with such a b
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by abridgett 5y ago
Superb article: - shows how to debug a kernel oops - show use of extra tools (bpf, scapy, kasan) - dives deep into more esoteric bits of networking explaining from basic to how the kernel implementation works - demonstrates proof of the the
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by abridgett 5y ago
It didn't really seem to have any prioritisation - e.g. around titles, headings or any metadata (view count, edits, last updates). Agree completely it was awful. OTOH I'm also a believer that you should be able to navigate to the
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How fast can we load from tape? (Noel's Retro Lab)(youtube.com)
3 points by abridgett 5y ago|0 comments
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by abridgett 5y ago
If it ain't broke, a product manager will justify their position by making it so.
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The Future of Microprocessors (Sophie Wilson CBE)(youtube.com)
2 points by abridgett 5y ago|0 comments
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by abridgett 6y ago
Atomic Frontier: superbly made science videos, I think I've learnt something in every video (62k): https://www.youtube.com/c/atomicfrontieronline Xyla Foxlin: creative, very enthusiastic crafter, canoe building wa
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by abridgett 6y ago
I'm immensely grateful to the developers involved. I'm sure it wasn't easy but it's one of those features that I've always missed ever since chrome added it. It also shows the value of a decent bug tracking system.
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17 year old Firefox feature request fixed(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
467 points by abridgett 6y ago|274 comments
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by abridgett 6y ago
One of the favourite events we did was "two truths and a lie". Each person makes three statements about themselves (as personal or impersonal as they like) and others ask questions and then vote. We did a little leaderboard. It w
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by abridgett 6y ago
I hate to bring up the "don't be evil" mantra. That seems long in the past, however I do wonder what the impact is on hiring and retention. Many people I know have certain moral beliefs that mean that they would never work fo
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by abridgett 6y ago
This is why (more than anything) I wanted the UK to stay in the EU. The EU seems to be one of the few organisations with the clout and principle to actually make this sort of thing happen - to improve people's lives and raise standard
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by abridgett 6y ago
We shouldn't need to even be discussing the ethics of regulating statements made by those in government (or opposition). It's due to the unbelievable amount of manipulative statements and outright lies (e.g. many of the statements
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by abridgett 6y ago
Sadly the timescales are looking more like 1-2 _years_. That's before we get to anti-vaxers and there'll be a lot (there will also be plenty of side-effect cases - due to the sheer number of people being vaccinated at once, not b
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by abridgett 6y ago
This won't change until companies are fined sufficiently to prevent this. More importantly, those responsible must retrospectively face prosecution and jail time. A CEO will only care when it's their money and their life that&#x2
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by abridgett 6y ago
If only it applied those politicians and media moguls who have been peddling hate against other countries, the EU, the disadvantaged and even scientists and economists for many many years.
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by abridgett 6y ago
But their very own Pixel XL2 is now off support after 3 years. Very disappointing. It's good for another 2-3 years easily.
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by abridgett 6y ago
This can also happen with pumpkins FYI. Once poisoned my friends accidentally (it was a proper eating pumpkin not a carving pumpkin). Just a mouthful or two was enough.
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Illumination via Pickles (1989) [pdf](hpl.hp.com)
1 points by abridgett 6y ago|0 comments
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by abridgett 6y ago
Some companies have "competency matrixes" (or "growth matrixes") which show what's expected at each level. These can be helpful - showing that whilst a Junior person might just be expected to fix a bug, a more senio
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by abridgett 6y ago
The redbooks are hidden gems - what documentation should be. When I used to work with these (very nice) bits of kit, the redbooks were my bible. They'd tell you the gory details, you could learn from the experiences of the authors. Th
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by abridgett 6y ago
Share more. Whilst it might seem appealing to be "the one person" who can do something, it stops you moving on to new things. I've seen so many people go from "the guru" to "the bottleneck" because they&#
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by abridgett 7y ago
I remember when I worked at IBM Hursley research labs 20 years ago. The lab director told us all "patents are very important to IBM". I expected him to tell us that IBM made billions from licensing them. He didn't say that
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by abridgett 7y ago
For IBM owned* 9.0.0.0/8 which has 16,777,214 (and when I worked there twenty years ago there were a few hundred other ranges that they owned/acquired). * Turns out they freed this up a while back (good!): https://en.wi
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by abridgett 7y ago
Agreed, I particularly like the way each chapter dealt with a rank further up. Even if you have _no intention_ of going higher, seeing what they want from you and what they should be doing was immensely helpful and clarifying.

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