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by ci5er 7y ago
Yes, they do. And they make the news. I was always amazed about the stories of resonant frequency issues, not just from walking but also from wind! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)
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by ci5er 7y ago
Ha! No women - what did they care? :-)
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by ci5er 7y ago
Over time, I think I am coming to agree with you. I went to an engineering school. People who designed bridges had a wide, but constrained parameter space, and well-accepted design patterns. I started out in semiconductor (MCU) systems and
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by ci5er 7y ago
They do? I may or may not be using a Mac at some point during the day (because Apple forces me to, to do iOS development), but usually whether my host is Windows or Mac, I have 3~8 Linux VMs running at any particular time. Now, I will use S
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by ci5er 7y ago
Well, it used to be. Before they discovered headers...
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by ci5er 7y ago
Sounds like Bandler channeling Heller.
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by ci5er 7y ago
> That's just ridiculous. Depends on your definition of 'hypnosis'. There are some pretty prosaic definitions that are clearly and repeatably demonstrable. There are also, at the other end of the spectrum, some pretty extr
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by ci5er 7y ago
BTW: I do get your point (I think - it's hard to brain-meld, but I think I do), but I believe that I have made my point badly. Which is simply: Managers are made out of people. People are made out of monkeys. Monkeys don't know ho
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by ci5er 7y ago
I'm not here to get people "on my side". Or even to make a particular argument (which would require actually having a "side") I am here to understand the thinking of people who thought management should have "d
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by ci5er 7y ago
That sounds awful! On such an otherwise lovely morning, too. What do you think the correct response by management should have been? 15 minutes after the 1st plane hit, everyone shut down, go home, leave the files and binders?
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by ci5er 7y ago
I was asking because of their 3rd paragraph, not their 2nd.
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by ci5er 7y ago
This is shocking because, ... why? Because you didn't have appropriate computer network-wide off-site data back-ups to the contents of your binders?
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by ci5er 7y ago
Health IT. Less about fixing broken humans and more about selling technology. But, your point stands.
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by ci5er 7y ago
I don't understand why? They're just twin siblings of the DNA donor...
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by ci5er 7y ago
The haptics on CAVE were pretty clumsy, but boy howdy! I was pretty damn impressed when I got to interact with it at SIGGRAPH that following year. I've got to say that the NC (Chapel Hill) pixel machine may have been a more supreme tec
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by ci5er 7y ago
Given that Python belches stack traces anytime you look at it funny, I can't understand how that could be...
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by ci5er 7y ago
The first time I was arrested, after about 3 days, one of the inmates said to me: "You don't know how to get out of here, do you?" I did not. He told me that he would be released in a couple of hours, and if I had the money f
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by ci5er 7y ago
I did a EE CS double major a LONG time ago. Senior year included a real summonavitch VLSI course, where in Q1 we had to design a 16- or 32- bit CPU. Over Thanksgiving break, TI manufactured them for us. Q2, we built a computer. Q3, we made
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by ci5er 7y ago
Of course they can't. Most Americans believe in some junk or another.
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by ci5er 7y ago
ING has always been a pretty open/modern/progressive business on a number of fronts. I wouldn't take this as typical. (In other words - they aren't Chase and vice-versa, not anything against Chase in this claim)
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by ci5er 7y ago
Well, surely you are allowed! :-) In my case, for one, the engineering orgs were generally not much larger than 200 people. For another, the "To:" person(s) usually responded, but everyone else got cc'd with the list and then
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by ci5er 7y ago
Email. With per-topic mailing list server (that is: send a message to whoever you like and cc the list). Self-subscribe (with approval for sensitive topics) for any email list. Archive to a threaded web-based archiver. Search-index it. Ever
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by ci5er 7y ago
I hear that the post office is in the running...
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by ci5er 7y ago
Over time, over multiple iterations on multiple versions on various platforms (maybe excluding tests), this seems about right. I remember when I was prototyping an OpenGL thing on SunOS or a Renderman on same (maybe Solaris?), I was working
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by ci5er 7y ago
Maybe. I'm not in that geo these days, so I have no way to gauge relative percentages. Do you think that is right? I've raised large rounds in the past, both corporate and VC, and I've learned to be wary about misaligned ince
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by ci5er 7y ago
Both ComputerLand and Radio Shack sponsored computer and robotics groups in Gillette Wyoming from 1979-or-so, but I lived far from town so wasn't able to attend much of it. I did hijack the local 4-H club with Popular Electronics proje
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by ci5er 7y ago
Thanks for that. I guess I've been fortunate in that, all of the people being excluded were truly not pulling their own (traditional) weight because they were going through family trauma and on anti-depressants or something. (Divorce,
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by ci5er 7y ago
As a sometimes engineering manager (I generally prefer to be a staffy, you know, doing analyst functions for the CEO, etc.), this is interesting to me. Can you give me any ideas on what I should be on the look-out for, in terms of behavior,
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by ci5er 7y ago
I think I probably mostly agree with you. For one - I haven't thought through the ins-and-outs of this very well yet. But in this new world, I may need to. I may come back with some questions, as you seem to be quite sensible! :-) (BTW
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by ci5er 7y ago
Often the drug-testing things are related to contracts with either the (US Federal) government or contracts with companies that have contracts with the (US Federal)government, such as O&G, Healthcare and Banking. That is to say: Sometim

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