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by ashmud 11y ago
The entire document is written in a pretty informal style.
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by ashmud 11y ago
I find it interesting the transition towards physical sciences and away from computer science in the late 1980s. At that time, my mother, who was educated and worked in chemistry, started working at home as a programmer. It was a very good
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by ashmud 11y ago
> One thing I don't get from this argument is: does he consider programming a profession? If an engineer that programs, probably. But not likely programming by itself. When I worked at an integration company (industry contractor), w
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by ashmud 11y ago
This reminds me of how most people seem to use "hopefully." I very seldom hear people say "I hope this works." Instead, almost every time I hear, "hopefully, this works." It seems to have a "language smell
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by ashmud 11y ago
Would a "master password" (a la Firefox/Thunderbird) be the way to go (as input to an encryption routine)? It seems like any credentials that can be automatically used after a program loads without the user authenticating are
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by ashmud 11y ago
This was previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8207271
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by ashmud 11y ago
When I worked in HMI/PLC land, the only real security I remember being done was network isolation. Web apps were still pretty new at the time. I can only recall one project we did where a web app actually had any input to control (reci
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by ashmud 11y ago
By percentage of household spending, the US spends less on food than anyone else. There are several articles about this. This was the first search result for me: http://www.ibtimes.com/us-spends-less-food-any-other-country..
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by ashmud 11y ago
That's the idea, however this does not automatically make programs actually work with long paths. Command Prompt is a prime example, at least on Windows 7.
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by ashmud 11y ago
The QuickJava add-on for Firefox lets you add toolbar button to toggle CSS (and other features) on and off. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quickjava/
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by ashmud 11y ago
It seems like it. This was also brought up the arstechnica comments. Google still has their WAP transformation tool ("Google Wireless Transcoder"): http://www.google.com/gwt/n edit: It looks like Google more
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by ashmud 11y ago
Is this anything like aerogel?
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by ashmud 11y ago
That's what we (company I work for) have done. 95%+ work we do is on our core product. Made work much more meaningful.
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by ashmud 11y ago
Better: Auto-Type. That way it's never even in the clipboard.
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by ashmud 11y ago
As of Windows 7, Windows still likes to fall back to System font if it is running low on UI resources. I see this on a regular basis in the "Find in Files" results in Visual Studio. Further down the rabbit hole: On Win2k, if you u
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by ashmud 11y ago
If you've worked in industry and/or programming PLCs, you've probably come across PID loops before. Maybe not as accurate, but a simpler explanation: http://plchowto.com/plc-pid/
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by ashmud 11y ago
I used to use Zip disks to sneakernet files to and from computers on an isolated network. This was when USB flash drives were ~8-16MB and we were not guaranteed access to part of the machine were a USB slot was. I also remember using Sysint
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by ashmud 11y ago
Anything like this for IIS that shows client compatibility? The only configuration tool I know of is https://www.nartac.com/Products/IISCrypto/ .
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by ashmud 11y ago
One of my favorite manuals for copy protection was Conquests of the Longbow. http://www.sierrahelp.com/Documents/Manuals/Conquests_of_the... The devs did a good job tying the druid hand code, druid trees, gemstone
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by ashmud 11y ago
The Scream versions are the only ones I find particularly interesting. All the others seem to fall victim to prominent cross-hatch patterns.
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ISS astronaut pictures of Earth used for light pollution studies(astronomynow.com)
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by ashmud 11y ago
VMware supports "parent" vmdk files. The leaf-node "child" vmdk will diff based on the ancestors. VMware Player does support this. The VMware implementation of XPMode uses it. You can use vdiskmanager to convert the root
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by ashmud 11y ago
You can use "netsh advfirewall firewall" commands to view rules. And you can use "netsh exec" to execute a script to modify rules. Unfortunately the "dump" command is not implemented, so there is some work invo
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by ashmud 11y ago
No reaction so far on their Facebook or blog. They do not appear to have a twitter account.
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by ashmud 11y ago
Based on previous discussions on HN, you may receive criticism for the use of the Lenna image. A couple example threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8253676 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704
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by ashmud 11y ago
I confess that I use this same pattern frequently for work emails outside the company. Inside the company, I only sign with my given name. [GivenName], [Body] [Closing], [FullName]
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NuGet 3.1 kills .ps1 support. Also kills content folder?(twitter.com)
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by ashmud 11y ago
By that time, I think I saw more music videos during Beavis and Butt-head than other times of the day.
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by ashmud 11y ago
Without JS enabled on FF39, it looks like a nice WAP-era mobile page.
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by ashmud 11y ago
The closest you could probably get right now is editing cue files. Years ago, I would group together certain series of Pink Floyd songs when I converted to mp3.

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