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by ayuvar 12y ago
Even though I've worked for some total jerks over the years, I could never be tempted to insert a logic bomb. I did get blamed for one once after I left a particularly bad gig - they deleted "some old files" - the SVN repo -
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by ayuvar 12y ago
For C++, I'm a long-held adherent of SCons. You can make some horrendous messes but it's nice to have Python around instead of having to learn another intermediate language as in CMake's case.
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by ayuvar 12y ago
And I thought it was hard to find my phone now. But seriously, ambient light harvesting and (eventually) a 20 meter communication range are the coolest parts of all this. Ignoring the "smart swarm" applications I could see these b
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Google ads reseller possibly compromised; pushing malware(blog.fox-it.com)
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by ayuvar 12y ago
It's pretty fun to work on this kind of stuff. I wrote an OperaFS (3DO CD filesystem) extractor in Go to get at a video file that was contained in an old game. Admittedly, I should get back to work - because I still don't know how
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by ayuvar 12y ago
I liken it to the same concept as a crown corporation - with mincome, you'd see people who would otherwise not be entrepreneurs taking a chance on things that aren't obviously immediately profitable according to traditional MBA-lo
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by ayuvar 12y ago
Speaking as someone who spent too much time on a farm as a kid, you can do a lot with a tractor. The only thing you really have to watch out for is popping a wheelie and crushing yourself under it. Imagine my surprise when I found out that
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by ayuvar 12y ago
In Open and Save dialogue boxes, you can also start typing with a / to open up a "go to path" dialogue box that lets you enter the unix path (with tab completion).
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by ayuvar 12y ago
I'd love to see a followup article of this with the box art of old applications. SuperPaint in particular had some really strange collages of art as their graphic designer tried to figure out how to represent "paint program"
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by ayuvar 12y ago
It is a small town, but yeah, even in my larger city this is my primary fear of a pure-remote position.
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by ayuvar 12y ago
According to the provider, the setup fee is $100. http://o-net.ca/about-us/o-net-myth-busting/
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by ayuvar 12y ago
Municipal broadband is a great idea. A town near me, Olds, just rolled out gigabit fiber to the curb for $57/mo. Considering most of the other nearby municipalities have to live with dialup or (agonizingly slow) satellite internet, it&
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by ayuvar 12y ago
What do you do for a living that involves strategizing around a 'fleet' of goats? Do you lease them out to a client or are you some kind of environmental planner? I've made jokes about getting a goat so I don't have to m
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by ayuvar 12y ago
That makes me wonder if a business-analyst or product-manager role should involve a technical interview where you spec out a mock product to see how well you gather requirements.
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by ayuvar 14y ago
No, the "hero" should have run the test suite beforehand. He'd see it's well covered. Hollywood movies are a fantasy, right?
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by ayuvar 14y ago
The last new car with one was the 2010 Lexus SC430. I thought it was bad when I was driving an '05 Subaru with one.
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by ayuvar 14y ago
I'm surprised I haven't seen this site before. As someone who cut his teeth on the early Mac it sure explains a lot. Not many people would write an entire blog entry about how the Mac's dynamic memory allocation worked: http://basalgangste
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by ayuvar 14y ago
It's not like it's never occurred to them. In fact, Apple had a 3G MacBook Pro prototype a few years ago that someone snapped up on Craigslist: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20099494-248/apple-wants-i... A magnetically attached antenn
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by ayuvar 14y ago
It seems like it would be a nice feature on multiple monitors to use stereo/3D sound to locate an alert sound coming out of a window. For instance, if it's on the extreme side of the right monitor, play a sound in the right speaker.
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by ayuvar 14y ago
My previous workplace had someone attempt to cook a ribeye steak in the toaster oven. It actually worked, but management was angry the third time he pulled it and set a flat no-meat-cooking policy on the toaster oven (enforced via clipart s
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by ayuvar 14y ago
As the save file indicates, you can indeed go on a 'date' with him in the Golden Saucer but it's fairly involved: http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/ff7/dating.php
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by ayuvar 14y ago
This reminds me of the bird habit of "anting" which consists of a bird applying ants (often with the intent of taking advantage of their formic acid) to their plumage to help eliminate parasites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anting_(bird_a
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by ayuvar 14y ago
There's a lot of less credible journals out there, it seems, that exist mostly to sell tickets to expensive conferences. Published is published, I guess. Their (often volunteer) subject matter boards basically rubber stamp whatever goes thr
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by ayuvar 14y ago
Microsoft actually recommends doing so in the documentation for these images (except using Virtual PC, natch).
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by ayuvar 14y ago
This is the first time I've heard anything about Out Of This World's scripting - can you provide any more info on it? I always just assumed it was hardcoded.
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by ayuvar 14y ago
Do you know what happened with the battery explosion a few weeks ago? I assume it was some kind of extreme load testing that went awry.
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by ayuvar 14y ago
Every building should have a secret room or two. There must be square miles worth of "wasted" interior room just like this in your average city. Find it before the urbex/hobos do!
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by ayuvar 14y ago
My high school guidance counsellor tried to dissuade me from taking a computer science undergraduate degree, stating that all the programs that are useful had already been written. I can only imagine what he told the kids who wanted to beco
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by ayuvar 15y ago
There's a ridiculous amount of potential for episodes about a sentient swarm of bees. How will they reconcile many humans' fear of them with their need to be loved and understood as intellectual equals?
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by ayuvar 15y ago
GoldenEye has a surprising amount of stuff "left over" on the cartridge (levels, meshes, weapons, scripts) which people have been digging out for years: http://tcrf.net/Goldeneye_007 It would be really interesting to know about the enviro

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