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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Funny story: Back in the 90's , there was "Fisher" who made bikes, and a much older company "Fischer" that made skis. Fischer complained that Fisher was being confused with their company and wanted them to stop. G
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
I am guessing the design intent here is that the Average Driver is has been cultured to look at the "range remaining" number and not the fuel gauge. Fewer automotive companies are using actual analog gauges for 2 reasons... they
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
I once met P&W military engine designer (he was an expert on heat issues with turbines) who explained to me that fancy machines like this would never work. They will not fly reliably in anything but clear air (no precip). Although he
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
It is really an 8-bit CPU from a bus (external connections) perspective...but internally, there were 16 bit registers (sort of...) Perhaps this was why he made the distinction.
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
Perception of almost anything can be influenced in many subtle and not-so-subtle ways. For most people, wine is considered a challenging topic to understand in depth, and so most feel they are initially at serious disadvantage before takin
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
I completely agree. In every "dead" LED bulb I have opened up (because I like to take stuff apart) the actual emitter still worked when I applied power directly. Seems to me the power supplies are all junk.
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
Enjoyed the PIN .svg, but those old Turbo IDE screens got me right in the feels. Never used Turbo 7...Turbo 3 was the bomb back in the day. And yes, WordPerfect... those old enough remember "Reveal Codes" Why did we like this?
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
If you are interested in the idea of recreation of Wootz steel, here is another reference authored by Greg Orbach, 2003. Plenty of detail. http://users.unitz.ca/gthomas/myweb4/replication_of_wootz.ht...
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
Sometimes, it can be the same person. In a largish endeavor, there may be few SAs, many SEs and even more devs. In my experience, it depends on the diversity of tech that the solution entails. To address your point (perhaps semantically)
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
Completely agree. I try not to let people cherry-pick metrics though. Things always change, and it is a good thing to question everything to test for relevancy...at least as far as a "smell test".
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
I love this list. In fact, I think my list has most of these, perhaps worded differently. I would very humbly add one of mine: "Statistics beat opinions". I suppose this is a condensation/generalization of "if you can&
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
In Canada, "Engineer" is a protected term...you legally can't use it unless you are a p.Eng. The idea is that Engineers are bound by a series of standards and assume responsibility of their efforts...especially around desig
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
LISP: We were told Lots (of) Insignificant Stupid Parentheses.
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
Smalltalk almost killed me in '89. I was in school.. Carleton U, where there was almost a religious zeal for Smalltalk. They had it running on a collection of Apple Lisas which were running some sort of Mac emulation. Slow? Brutal.
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
I love these guys. My team adopted IntelliJ when it was still 1.0... 2000, 2001 maybe? Far and away the best Java IDE. I even got to talk them at their Booth at JavaOne in 2008... wonderful people. Very happy to see they have stuck it o
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
Came here looking for a different sort of monolith. Am disappoint.
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
I am a life-time fixer of things. And I support right-to-repair. However, I agree with everything you are saying. Your cellphone example is excellent. I grew up in the 70's and recall how HUGE anything electronic was. Sure, they ha
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
Our most important users (read: $$$) were also the most sophisticated. They also appeared to like numbers... as numbers helped them when they complained back to us that our system sucked. If we took information (as bullshitty as it was) a
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
Well... story time. I had to implement a lying progress bar at the behest of my client. We could not reliably predict much...network speed, file size, moon phases, sock colour, etc would change things all the time. The client wanted to
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
Progress bars that lie are seldom better than spinners. I suppose what is needed is an informed spinner. It would have to be visually different than a bog-standard spinner. I have seen many cases where the numbers on the bar were entirely
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
Progress bars are great when they convey meaningful information... sometimes it's nice to know if you have time to grab a coffee, or actually eat lunch. In my experience (when having to supply said bars) is that they serve primarily
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
Also have the 477. Print quality and speed is great for my use. Scanning-to-file over the network... refuses to work. I'm forced to use the USB thumb drive for that. It also seems to forget it's network connection if it sleeps f
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
What I want to know is, did they blow his ashes in Uri Geller's face?
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
This brings back a lot of mostly horrible memories. "Debugging by cable wiggling" was quite common.
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
If you prefer a book, take a gander at "The Perfectionists" by Simon Winchester. If you enjoy the pedantry of accuracy vs precision (or wish you did), this book is for you.
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
I agree with your list, but maybe he meant more high-level use cases. For example, "DNS-as-load-balancer". I've seen people mess with DNS entries to produce the behaviour they want, versus doing it the "right way"
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
In Ontario Canada. It's available.
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
Nostalgia: Reveal Codes!
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
This is brilliant. In some ways, it reminds me of the musings about "Voice of Fire". Mostly over my head, but somehow made me smile. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Fire
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by canadian_tired 6y ago
FWIW, I used primary/secondary for years too. Once BIND 8 showed up, I think they switched to master/slave as it better described the process... to the uninitiated, "secondary" was probably viewed as a "backup&quot

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