ewiethoff

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by ewiethoff 18y ago
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the grea
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> My 'enterprise architect' has never even used Java 5 (her excuse: she hasn't had any training for it yet). Training! Twenty-five years ago, the vice president of the engineering consulting firm where I worked got some bee in her bonne
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> HIV isn't transmitted through spitting. I believe you are correct. I have no clue whether vaksel is American, but I do think Americans (I'm one) have absorbed--been fed?--a fair amount of hooey about HIV transmission and how to be "sa
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Speaking of skill level, it occurred to me last year to offer to be "roving guru" (sounds haughty) or "roving consultant" or simply "Rover" (woof!) when we have an odd number of developers. This works out nicely for me anyway, and the oth
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I would love a real explanation. But believe you me, allergy science is just getting started. (So is a heck of a lot of other medical knowledge.) "Allergists" didn't even exist until a few decades ago. "Allergy and immunology" is a pretty n
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
This afternoon I reached the threshold for downvoting! And I have just--now--executed my very first downvote! O frabjous day! Calloo, callay!
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Hooray! Thanks for spotting "denaturation" in the Wikipedia article (an authoritative source, I know). I hadn't bothered to look for anything about allergies there in years. Yes, my three allergists have all called it "oral allergy syndrome
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I apologize for implying that you are an idiot. I was being facetious after taking the news of "denatured proteins" in a happy, light-hearted manner. As for the allergies, shall I come to your home for a demonstration? You can watch my lips
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Tiny pale gray text. My eyes, my eyes!
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Aside from physical, eyesight, accessibility, noise, etc. problems, I pretty much can't stand pair programmming. It's good for social bonding and instructing noobs, but my work is hardly up to snuff. I can't "navigate" someone moderately co
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I'm a hacker and I'm okay I play all night and I sleep all day
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Stallman refers to "exploring the roofs and tunnels of the MIT campus" in the 1960s and 1970s as hacking. FWIW, we used to ride on top of elevators (and sometimes their counterweights) at RPI in the 1970s and call it hacking. So, yes, I can
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
But we do. Today they're called XML. :-)
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I learned from the article that cooking "denatures proteins." I happen to be very allergic to all raw produce except grapes, apples, onions, lettuce, and spinach. Everything else needs to be cooked. No crudités or fresh orange juice for me.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
No, "killer app" is only used in reference to spreadsheets! :-) Learn your history and think VisiCalc. http://hubpages.com/hub/VisiCalc--the-First-Killer-App-of-th...
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I used to be in the same boat and was very frustrated by it as a child and young adult. Playing by ear comes down to training your brain to hear all of a piece of music, including what's not there but would fit nicely. An awful lot of peo
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
An annual favorite of mine: Lake Superior State University Banished Words List ( http://www.lssu.edu/banished/ )
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Video is an effective way to warm the planet, burn nonrenewable fuels, and send more batteries to toxic dump sites.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Continuation because noprocrast locked me out awhile: As pointed out in Jeff's article, McQueen's character knows what questions to ask. And per The Unthinkable [ISBN 0307352897], Rescorla knew what mistakes people were likely to make. An
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Steve McQueen's character is exactly the expert fire chief I want in my towering inferno, and Rick Rescorla ( http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1810315-3,0... ) is exactly the expert security chief I want.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
The researchers could have saved a lot of trouble by just reading John Cheever stories.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Every link to my company site must be red, 18-pt font, and blinking.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
The number of tab hits is a better indicator of how many elements are in the interface. Using a mouse, you can often skip past several steps or options. Once you're familiar with the interface, you don't notice how much you're skipping past
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Thanks for the warning about Ludlum. The sad fact is, Dan Brown's junk is better than a lot of other stuff I borrow from the "New" rack at the library. At least Brown I can laugh at. Bad is bad, but laughably bad is better.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I haven't read any of Fleming's adult fare. But his fudge recipe in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is fabulous. Read Chitty . Make fudge. Yum. And I dare you to spill boiling chocolate on a Kindle!
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> Graceful degradation for noscript > The page-slide animation is eye-candy but IMHO with time it might get annoying, make it optional. The page is utterly useless without JS. I keep JS turned off. It's a good thing I read here abou
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
As Rod Serling would say, "Submitted for your approval": Eraserhead Forbidden Zone Gaslight Invaders from Mars Invasion of the Body Snatchers Laura Minority Report Mirage Rebecca Suddenly, Last Summer The Cabinet of
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> Furthermore, there's a huge gap in local news these days. Local government, schools -- all this stuff that really matters to people has no medium any more. In Minneapolis & St. Paul, Minnesota, neighborhood and specialty newspaper
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
You don't need to register to read NYT. It's a cookie thing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460294
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Dan Brown is the author I love to hate. His Digital Fortress and Deception Point are hilariously bad. But don't bother spending any money on them; just borrow them from the library.

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