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by dmh2000 10y ago
competition based on price enabled by online price comparison. consumers buy lots of things based on who is the cheapest. even being $1 cheaper will win a sale. so it becomes a race to the bottom.
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by dmh2000 10y ago
for me, its that the hardware doesn't always work or at least not as you expect. if you write workstation or server code, 99.99999% of your problems will be software bugs. But on an embedded system, especially something custom, you can
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by dmh2000 10y ago
but not for $15K. maybe 2400 if you finish in a year doing it part time.
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by dmh2000 10y ago
maybe a place you have to show up and be present for the training and there is someone there with expectations that you have to fulfill. Vs being self-motivated to work independently. In my case I have some personal projects and a couple of
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by dmh2000 10y ago
most of this thread is concerned with the desktop. but powerpc is widely used in the automotive systems. Those systems are running either some form of Linux, an RTOS or a bareboard exec. The modern powerpc SOC's are available in very w
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by dmh2000 10y ago
no one was killed but the outcome was pretty expensive. Was it worth it?
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by dmh2000 10y ago
dang it i just installed 6.5 this morning
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by dmh2000 10y ago
Whenever I encounter the Chomsky Language Hierarchy in programming or Noam Chomsky talking politics on TV, radio, or print, I always ask myself 'is it the same guy?'. Only because the topics are usually so disparate.
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by dmh2000 10y ago
House prices are like bond prices. When interest rates are low, prices go up. When rates rise, prices will fall. People buy houses based on the monthly payment they can qualify for. Right now, prices are high because the low interest rates
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by dmh2000 10y ago
sounds like a good idea to have some future use for olympic infrastructure instead of ending up with rotting hulks. http://www.indiatimes.com/culture/who-we-are/24-abandoned-ol...
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by dmh2000 10y ago
thanks
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by dmh2000 10y ago
as an ignorant user, I would just like to have a browser setting such as 'only talk to sites using TLS'. I would be happy to deal with the fallout. does chrome or other browser have that?
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by dmh2000 10y ago
i'm old, and i still feel that way and unconsciously hesitate to take multiple shots. Along those lines I get a brief flash of worry when someone calls me on the phone, 'long distance', because its so expense.
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by dmh2000 10y ago
one-off projects for 'special' customers can turn into support nightmares and drain your personnel resources. So besides taking some big $ for NRE, it would be smart to require, for example, a 5 year support contract with a hefty
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by dmh2000 10y ago
This was predicted in Atlas Shrugged, it just turned out to be Venezuela instead of the US. well, minus the sci-fi part.
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by dmh2000 10y ago
i remember back in the day when you had to order paper reference books and it took days to weeks to get them, or for the supposedly free ones you were denied because your need/qualifications were somehow not right. And you simply could
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by dmh2000 10y ago
when working physical security, you occasionally hear 'do you know who I am?'. this attitude completely undermines the security of the asset being protected.
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by dmh2000 10y ago
Joel wrote this same post about 10 years ago. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
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by dmh2000 10y ago
i expect it would be illegal in the US. no sure since its private.
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by dmh2000 10y ago
i was born and grew up in Texas, moved away 25 years ago and still have a couple of Texas quirks. I simply cannot live in a state that has an income tax, and I still worship the Alamo.
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by dmh2000 10y ago
nice contrast to this article at the same site. http://nautil.us/issue/36/aging/physics-makes-aging-inevitab... I'll go with physics in this case
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by dmh2000 10y ago
"Americans find it jarring when they are sitting at a European café or restaurant and someone takes the empty seat at their table" I've experienced this and I had to exert will power not to get up and move. It was very unnerv
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by dmh2000 10y ago
so if my brain made me think i chose to pick up a box of cereal, after the fact, what made me pick it up?
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by dmh2000 10y ago
the more complex a software system is, the more the people not involved in its creation will criticize the colors and placement of buttons on the UI.
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by dmh2000 11y ago
that's pretty much the approach on all crypto. crack the implementation, not the algorithm.
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by dmh2000 11y ago
i heard a discussion once on time machines that had an interesting slant. (on the Art Bell show). The guest proposed 'what if you could be frozen in a capsule, then woken up 1000 years later, with no ill affects. Isn't that effect
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by dmh2000 11y ago
Myabe i was just paranoid, but i quit flying private after about 1000 hours because of the ever present opportunity to make a mistake and have the FAA come down on me. A private pilot is under the bloodshot eye of the FAA from the time he
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by dmh2000 17y ago
'Sony Guts!'
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by dmh2000 17y ago
economics as a science is generally neutral on redistribution as to whether it is 'good' or 'bad'.
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by dmh2000 17y ago
it has nothing to do with that, its a supply/demand effect. its because at either end, people will work for a given effective wage. if taxes on low income (or high income) fall, their effective wage goes up so employers can pay less and sti

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