duncanj

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   by duncanj 16y ago

   You're essentially saying that anyone who gets hammered by the "correction" necessarily morally deserved it because they must have "played in this mess". Because otherwise, you are arguing that some of the people who didn't play in the mes
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   by duncanj 16y ago

   Once, we had an issue with a single board computer that seemed like a hardware issue so we called support, and they wanted the output of a logical analyzer. Unfortunately, we didn't have an interface for our old analyzer, and so we set up a
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   by duncanj 16y ago

   I was hoping that it would give some examples of how to make sure that your employer knew your value.
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   by duncanj 16y ago

   I'm not sure what context this one is in: 10. Bad is stronger than good. It is more important to eliminate the negative than to accentuate the positive. Does it mean that people don't care whether there is an exercise room if they are not b
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   by duncanj 16y ago

   I find the Xerox (formerly Tektronix) Phaser solid ink color printers to be pretty awesome in this regard. They print fast and produce a glossy, professional-looking color print. I think the main problem is that they require more energy o
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   by duncanj 16y ago

   1. How bizarre to consider Javascript not object-oriented programming. The entire page is represented in objects. 2. I think the worst thing that happened in OOP was the development of ER-like methods (Rumbaugh, Booch) to "model" the syste
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   by duncanj 16y ago

   The most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable,... but successful management must nevertheless take account of them. (W. Edwards Deming quoting Lloyd Nelson)
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   by duncanj 16y ago

   I think he's saying that certain topics allow everyone to participate because no one knows anything. If specialists were in the conversation, it would become shop talk.
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   by duncanj 16y ago

   Don't you understand? We're not really learning how to critique The Bell Jar from a absurdorealist point of view, we're learning how to use our minds!
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    by duncanj 16y ago

    My iMac routinely locks up when it gets overly confused while playing a DVD. This is probably the only major annoyance the computer gives me, but it is annoying. Perhaps if I used VLC I'd have better luck, but DVD Player and Front Row bot
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    by duncanj 16y ago

    No, that's not what was said. It's about RMS not wanting to replicate his miserable experience for someone else.
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    USBoot: Boot Windows XP from NTFS USB Drive(usboot.org)

    5 points by duncanj 17y ago|0 comments
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    So, should Steve Jobs respond, "Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition..."? I think the author ruined his letter at that point.
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    Cuban's title is wrong for his post. Obviously, if your customers think a new product sucks, you should listen, right? Apple didn't sink billions of dollars into AppleTV.
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    I think it's a pseudo-explanation for why someone doesn't live up to his public morality. "Honestly, I really wanted not to close this plant, but we have a responsibility to our shareholders." Sometimes even that play fails, such as when
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    Ask HN: What's with these website surveys?

    1 points by duncanj 17y ago|0 comments
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    You can write using Winelib ( http://www.winehq.org/winelib ), using the windows API and mingw ( http://www.mingw.org/wiki/LinuxCrossMinGW ). It's not really the cheapest option in terms of development investment, but it works. You will be
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    I hate to google things for people, but is none of these vendors good for you? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mi...
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    Hear hear
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    Try another bike shop. Mine (in USA) will fix spokes and true a wheel for $20.
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    Thanks. I guess I have a problem reading closely.
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    Why do the graphs change the name of the line between point 2 and point 4?
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    There are a couple of factual errors in the story. The worms live in the small intestine. (Think about the name, Ancylostoma duodenale ) The third-stage larva is infective, not the first or second. Hookworm infestation causes anemia, le
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    Find a poor e-mail buddy in a country with endemic hookworm and ask them for some poo. Then, grow the larvae out like the guy said in his story.
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    ?
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    XulRunner? It's pretty standard and can be used to make something not look like Windows. Squeak? You'd get a lot of control and ease of use at the cost of a learning curve, perhaps. I also like the idea of Flash, Air, or any of those things
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    Ada does have useful things like a formal "denotational" semantics that make it easier than certain other languages. http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=... Years ago, when I looked into it, an "operational" semant
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    In Biology, most of the paper seems to be spent explaining why the new result is relevant and how it differs from previous work. It's usually dry as a bone but I wouldn't call it obfuscated. Readers should probably have Wikipedia handy fo
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    I wonder if she's holding an real prototype or if it is just a nice high-density lcd.
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    by duncanj 17y ago

    I always felt that Java's design resembled Modula-3.