excitom

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by excitom 10y ago
Seriously? I laughed out loud at the "tabs vs spaces" scene since I have seen it played out exactly like that at several jobs.
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by excitom 10y ago
If you're using Windows 10 or MacOS, people know how to find their way around in the absence of documentation. How many people could figure out the command line interface to a 1970s era IBM Series/1 without docs?
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by excitom 10y ago
I like to give candidates a word problem. It doesn't need to be complicated, but I want to see the candidate turn it into code. Doesn't matter what language. Just show me you can read and understand a problem and write down the so
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by excitom 10y ago
This was news yesterday on Reddit, and was debunked. https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/4iib55/you_prob...
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by excitom 10y ago
The practice of adding "gate" to the end of every scandal should have ended in the last century.
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by excitom 11y ago
Similarly you would think that PHP doesn't exist. Whatever one may think of it, PHP runs the majority of websites (I've seen various estimates in the 80% range).
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by excitom 11y ago
I dislike www simply because it is the world's worst acronym; having three times as many syllables as the words it replaces.
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by excitom 11y ago
Annoying anecdote: I was thrilled when I installed the iPhone remote app but I couldn't sign in to Netflix. It said my password was wrong. But it works when I sign in to the web page ... After a little searching I find the solution: En
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by excitom 11y ago
This is a classic example of a DOS attack, the kind of thing 4chan'ers take delight in unleashing on unsuspecting visitors to a web page. Why do it? For the simple joy of screwing with people.
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by excitom 11y ago
Don't you have this backwards? Fusion is the fusing of two hydrogen atoms into a helium atom - the process of the H-bomb. Fission is the splitting of a uranium atom which releases neutrons and energy. The latter reaction produces the e
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by excitom 11y ago
My first thought on seeing this post was "Oh wow, people are still using the elm email client". I guess I'm getting old.
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by excitom 11y ago
Haha, came here to say that, you beat me to it.
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by excitom 11y ago
My vote for most over-the-top: The Goatse.
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by excitom 11y ago
I feel like if the author had been black he wouldn't be around now to write that article.
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by excitom 11y ago
Yeah but they didn't change the logo to Kfc.
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by excitom 11y ago
Really? And you downvoted me? My opinion stands: It's a stupid name.
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by excitom 11y ago
Kind of off topic, but the "Aol" branding has always grated on me. It's an acronym, AOL, not a word.
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by excitom 11y ago
Funny how memories of the same event can vary among people. When thinking back to the original iPhone I remember my business partner saying how it was the first thing that made her excited about new technology in a long time. I was skeptica
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by excitom 12y ago
I'd like to see some statistics that corroborate the effectiveness of this technique.
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by excitom 12y ago
I'd be more inclined to appreciate this art if I didn't think the "war on drugs" was such a misguided failure.
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by excitom 12y ago
As someone who has spent almost 40 years in high tech, and who has founded 3 companies after 30 (one after 40), I just don't buy the B.S. that you've over the hill after your 20's. I think any V.C. that buys that hype is goin
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by excitom 12y ago
I like the comparison to COBOL. Another IBM language of similar vintage is RPG (Report Generator) and it also uses packed decimals. The control flow is: - Run a set of zero or more statements once at the beginning - Run a set of statements
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by excitom 12y ago
> Still, he concluded his statement to Swedish media by observing the “good news that through our reconnaissance we could not find any preparation for terrorist activities.” Well played, sir.
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by excitom 12y ago
No. A company's most important duty is to its customers; without them there is no income or profit. Its second most important duty is to its employees; without them there are no products or services to sell to the customers. Coming in
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by excitom 12y ago
Citing Yahoo Answers as a source? Whoa.
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by excitom 12y ago
It seems to me that if you're this worried about performance you should be looking at something like HipHop.
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by excitom 12y ago
The drawback to services like this is that they are great at hindsight (Aha! Based on the signals we should have known!) but bad at prediction. Take the example of Doral, FL that they offer; it has 8X higher fraud. But, should you avoid Dor
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by excitom 12y ago
I dislike www since it is the world's worst acronym, having three times as many syllables as the words it replaces.
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by excitom 12y ago
I have almost experienced a disaster like this with a script containing something like - rm -rf "$foo/$bar" - when the variables were undefined due to a bug in the script. Fortunately I was not running it as root.
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by excitom 12y ago
Back in the day, I used punch cards in college computer courses. Languages like FORTRAN, COBOL, and assembler were column dependent, e.g. Col. 1 : Blank, or a "C" or "*" for comments Col. 1-5 : Statement label (opti

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