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by bdunbar 14y ago
Point taken. But I didn't have in mind 'hippie hair' but even moderate length hair. For me, any hair that hangs down below the level of the hat brim makes a hat unwearable. But I was brainwashed by the Marines, so my mileage may vary.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
My half-baked theory: it's hair. Lots of hair and hats don't go - the hat feels wrong, wears wrong. If your hair length fluctuates your hat size changes. A hat that fit you last month no longer fits right. Keep your hair habitually short,
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by bdunbar 14y ago
If you want fast, fly a plane.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I don't believe criminals will be any smarter than the average citizen.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
why would anyone doing serious crime use Skype? I don't agree with this at all but ... I'd venture that most criminals are not exactly tech savvy. We've all seen those stories about guys caught because they posted pictures of their deeds
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Expense. Every method of boarding will require training the flight crew, ground crews at the airport. A non-trivial expense to change over from A to B. And then back. Departure times are measured down to the minute. Miss your time and mu
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by bdunbar 14y ago
In my opinion the carry-on luggage thing is a people problem, and so not easily hacked with technology.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
More impractical than dumb, I think. The machinery to get the seats in/out will be heavy, mechanically complex. This eats into revenue. Might not even work with existing airplanes. You'd need to have machinery in the boarding lounge - at
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Customer does not equal user.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
1. Stick with college, get the degree. It proves to employers you can stick with something, which is valuable and will get you places. 2. I've worked for the big companies, small ones, medium. 3. There is no 'usual' about any of them. The
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by bdunbar 14y ago
They probably use many outside services We experimented with out-sourcing a few years ago. It was a disaster: the out-sourcing company was 'fair-to-excellent' with standard products and services. But we're a manufacturing company. The m
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Limit the app to only reading and/or writing to certain directories? Not a chance. Create a non-privleged user. Restrict the account r/w to certain directories. Run the app as that user. Want to only allow access to a whitelist of host
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Related 1. How do you handle jobs that suck, but must be done. Like backups ... nobody really likes the job of 'backup guy'. It's boring. Tedious. A backwater of a role with no meaningful career progression. Also - the software typically
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Some of the best coffee I've had was Navy coffee. The secret (iirc) was a wee bit of salt in the grounds, and regularly cleaning out the works with vinegar.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Sun support was remarkable. About five years ago I had a critical problem ... There I was in the data center at 3 a.m., trying to figure out why my mirrored drive server wasn't booting on it's surviving disk. I was groggy as heck, and even
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by bdunbar 14y ago
work in an Oracle-free workplace .... this is the secret to happiness! In Big Enterprise the alternative [1] to Oracle is Microsoft. You're darned if you do and darned if you don't. [1] Don't even mention open source. Not going to fly at
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by bdunbar 14y ago
See also the coffee pot at 10:00. If you can reliably find fresh coffee, morale is good. Low or now coffee, things are amiss.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
At times like this I think of Lily Tomlin's Ernestine character: "We don't care. We don't have to. We're Oracle!" (I've been dealing with Oracle for a few years. It started with just database stuff, but they kept buying applications I s
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Because if it's cheaper to get iron from an asteroid than Minnesota, we can stop tearing up Minnesota for iron.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Weight. An MP5A2 [1] weighs 2.5 kilos. 100 rounds of 10mm weighs 2.3 kilos. Add the weight of a drum magazine. Can the model used carry 4.8 (+) kilograms? 10 and 1/2 pounds seems like a load. [1] Going with the first SMG model that came
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I'm not sure why you would want something that big. Heh. I remember the same argument against the added expense of a 15 inch monitor. Twice I lobbied my boss for a 17-inch mac, was turned down due to reasons of cost. Why? Because 'more
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Stupid bloggers who don't know their weapons. I can't play the video. From the still it doesn't look like a machine gun, but a rifle.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Improved missiles are now able to shoot down the U2 This has probably been true since at least 1960. I wouldn't be surprised if the x37 mini-spaceplane was primarily useful as a surveillance platform. Eh. It takes an Atlas V to launch
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It's possible that Concorde was given a mission, for political reasons, that made no sense. Cut the flight time NYC > London in half. Big deal: it's only seven hours. Three or seven the day is pretty much spent in travel. Where they -
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Disagree: the reasons why the SR-71 was retired, and the U-2 is scheduled for retirement, are not technical but political and fiscal.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Clipper the dBase III extension language? People still use that? Dang - should have held onto those manuals.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
what have you done, and how did things turn out? Agency got my resume, sent it to a company un-authorized. At at about the same time a peer was sending that manager my resume. I lost out on what may have been a pretty good position, forev
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by bdunbar 15y ago
This kind of thing can bounce back. Years ago, a friend called, said they had an opening and would I like to send him my resume. I did. He sent it to his manager. A week later his manager told him that their contracting agency had already
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by bdunbar 15y ago
replaced by software See also Marshall Brain 'Manna'. Conceivably, yes. But I don't see it, or not real soon. Automation even in a controlled environment is tricky, and random customers are _random_. You have people there to handle exce
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It can be very convincing. Point taken. So .. I thought about it. If Valve were to hire me [1] I can see myself attaching to the systems admin role and liking it a great deal. It's what I do, what I like. I do wonder how they make it ha

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