dmcdm

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by dmcdm 7y ago
I've been an avid backpacker for about 20 years now, and my go to for paper maps has always been USGS 7.5 minute quadrangles. As the article mentions, they are the "gold standard" for many. Recently I've had some fun pla
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by dmcdm 7y ago
I have a friend whose wife is from the Netherlands, and she confirms this nearly has in-joke status among the Dutch - "we speak English better than the rest of Europe because we're in love with American TV and we can only get it w
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by dmcdm 7y ago
Really? I take this as evidence indicating basically the opposite - fundamental human nature, as reflected through our communications and business practices, hasn't changed significantly in thousands of years. Some folks might be court
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by dmcdm 7y ago
Not gonna lie, pretty much the only reason I clicked the article was to see a video of rats driving tiny cars.
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by dmcdm 7y ago
I also teach computer science (part-time adjunct, I have a regular industry job too), so the quality of computer literacy in the incoming student body is on my mind pretty regularly. This has been especially troublesome when teaching operat
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by dmcdm 7y ago
A much repeated myth regarding the Gros Michel is the reason that artificial banana flavoring tastes so "strong" to the point of being "obviously fake" to modern consumers is its basis on the flavor of Gros Michel, vs th
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by dmcdm 7y ago
There was a 2012 documentary on the subject of dying alone with no next of kin, titled "A Certain Kind of Death": https://youtu.be/ErooOhzE268
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In Praise of Being Washed(gq.com)
1 points by dmcdm 7y ago|0 comments
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by dmcdm 7y ago
>Unless your code is compiled, deployed to a rocket, and fired off the Earth never to return, the question of “what is my platform?” is meaningless in the context of writing good C. While I feel the tone of your comparison was intended t
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by dmcdm 7y ago
I found it an amusing excrcise, if not terribly relevant, even as someone who spends 90% of his dev time in C. What rubs me about these sorts of articles is they make some presumption about the importance and nessecisity of writing truely p
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by dmcdm 7y ago
Ha, so I work in embedded too, and I was definitely one of the oddballs when I explicitly set-out to land a job in systems out of college. Now I'm a bit older, but I still remember my hiring manager's glum face light up when he as
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by dmcdm 7y ago
As someone who's "getting up there in the years", I really want to believe such a shift will come to pass, but somehow doubt it will, at least for my generation. Partially because '80s - '00s generation CS students
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by dmcdm 7y ago
Yeah, this gives me temendous nostalgia. SDF was my first introduction to Unix, must have been 12 or 13 years old at the time. I'm almost giddy when I find these sorts of early internet systems / services are still online.
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by dmcdm 8y ago
He did a talk at Google where he asserted basically the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydMDi3rI Great talk by the way, he's an incredibly charismatic and well spoken story teller, also a consultant for
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by dmcdm 8y ago
This makes a lot of sense and seems obvious, actually. I'm surprised the author didn't make that connection, especially while pointing out that sometimes the fancy motorbike would be owned by an old Grandpa who had no intention of
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by dmcdm 8y ago
Being funded by the military, I imagine this study is predominately towards the goal of keeping soldiers / pilots awake on long-running operations and/or mitigating combat fatigue through the use of caffeine pills or combined stim
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by dmcdm 9y ago
The title of this article, while technically accurate, is a little clickbaity and seems to be appealing to the bandwagon of sentiments about Zuckerberg. Land rights in Hawaii can be less cut-and-dry than they are on the mainland. I'm n
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by dmcdm 9y ago
Yeah, it seems likely the author is just in that majority class of people who cannot conceive of any living arrangement outside the conventional stick-and-mortar dwelling bound to property or rent. That is, after all, what the ``American Dr
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by dmcdm 9y ago
I guess this article just resonates with me as a member of an organization in the process of "transforming" itself by migrating to a containers-and-services architecture with the goal of "continuously delivering" compone
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Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths)(queue.acm.org)
11 points by dmcdm 9y ago|2 comments
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by dmcdm 9y ago
Can someone summarize why one would particularly want a distro which lacks sysyemd? I failed to find thier reasoning in the About / FAQ and don't know enough to understand the rationale on my own. Not to bait a response, but is th
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by dmcdm 9y ago
As would I.