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by fallous 14y ago
Sorta off-topic, but the F-16 was flying long before 1981. I presume he was working on software re-writes or modifications of the existing systems.
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by fallous 14y ago
In the US a model akin to this exists in certain trades, such as sheet metal workers, plumbers, etc. The trade unions essentially act as guilds (rather than the more worker vs company model of UAW and the like) that sponsor apprentice prog
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by fallous 14y ago
Obviously the solution is to cut off an appendage and count the growth rings.
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by fallous 14y ago
Languages exist to convey complex information, nothing else comes close to them in that ability. As an exercise, try to convey the idea "I'm diabetic and I need some insulin" via !language. Charades? Interpretive dance? Drawing? And yes,
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by fallous 14y ago
I can assure you that there were drives larger than 20G in 2000. I had a server with 4 23G Seagate Elites at that time, and the Elite was an _old_ 5 1/4 FH SCSI drive. 18G Seagate Barracudas were certainly alive and kicking since 1997 at
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by fallous 14y ago
This is an apology? "I screwed up, and I will focus on my mistakes by only discussing the FBI and forensic scientists."
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by fallous 14y ago
Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last"
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by fallous 14y ago
This is what I often refer to as "the curse of the competent." Future me will always have more complete information than current me with regards to what current me is doing at this time, and that will always cause me to evaluate past perfo
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by fallous 14y ago
Worse, it required that mode. It was memory-saving by using single character codes for the commands rather than 3 bytes for DIM or 4 bytes to store LIST as ASCII.
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by fallous 14y ago
Most of the time my bouts of "screw this, I hate programming" has more to do with myself and losing sight of what value I'm providing than anything else. Sure, I'd love to have a job where I am constantly in a state of intellectually-stimu
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by fallous 14y ago
A comment about his audience rather than himself.
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by fallous 14y ago
The Roman "internet" was "roads." The extensive network of roads allowed for much faster communication along with the ability to actually act on it with speed. Maybe Rome was the first Amazon.com ;)
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by fallous 14y ago
Actually, "fetishes" would most assuredly come up in the same kinds of meaningless conversations in everyday life. "Oh, it's your anniversary? So you're going to go out for a nice romantic meal?" The assumption being that's what "normal"
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by fallous 14y ago
I can only imagine this kind of excellent visualization combined with this book: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Birth-Numbers-Jan-Gullberg... I'm pretty sure the result would be the utter destruction of my productivity for a few years.
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by fallous 14y ago
Why would my "sexuality" be a topic for anyone other than those close to me? If my wife and I like to dress up as robotic ninjas in order to get satisfaction, well then that's between my wife and I despite how "out of mainstream" it is and
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by fallous 14y ago
Seems to me this suffers from the lack of defining "lie", be it of omission, commission, or in the case of simply remaining silent whether one has committed any act at all. If I say "the product is GREAT!" when I believe it to be otherwise,
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by fallous 14y ago
In the case of my sister-in-law, she most assuredly knew since the paralytics still worked but she was awake and could feel pain through the entire procedure (gall bladder removal).
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by fallous 14y ago
"Too technical to manage" would depend on the skillset of the engineer. If they're one-dimensional in passion or ability (code is ALL!) then I'd say that's true, but it's no less true for a guy with 5 years in chair. "Too senior to be mana
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by fallous 14y ago
You may be right with regards to the next big app idea, but I'd disagree with the idea that 10 year-olds are no more creative than adults. Over time people tend to get less creative with regards to big ideas due to self-limiting based on o
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by fallous 14y ago
I hope this gets released. I worked for Eugene Jarvis (indirectly) and certainly knew and appreciated a lot of the others in these snippets. These were titans that saw an entire industry as it could be as opposed to the "entrepreneurs" we
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by fallous 14y ago
In my own experience the focus on worst-case is a matter of intellectual preparation. My mind is running through as many of the possible failures as can be imagined along with responses. When I later encounter a situation that is a close-
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by fallous 14y ago
A game from that era that I wish would inspire some clones is Robosport. I believe it was a Maxis title and was turn-based, but was really clever in that it didn't just feel like a board game that got ported to a computer with some animati
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by fallous 14y ago
I don't know that I have a big bag of "big concepts that emerge from experience in actual production", but I can think of a few things that I still encounter with inexperienced coders I work with. The mistake of coding as if a back-end web
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by fallous 14y ago
3 things the author assumes self-taught programmers missed because either a) he "self-taught" via cargo-cult or b) his lack of experience in actual production makes him think these are big ideas. In either case, yawn .
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by fallous 14y ago
"Hard work" is worth exactly nothing if it doesn't provide value to someone else. I can assure you that walking out into my side yard and digging holes all day in the summer is much harder work than sitting in my air-conditioned home offic
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by fallous 14y ago
As an AWS user since 2009, I can only imagine the tremendous difficulties of running such a service but given the stability of my long-running instances in US West vs East, I really do sometimes wonder if Mr Bean is on staff in Virginia.
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by fallous 14y ago
Um, they might want to read up on a little machine that came out within a year of the Grid... namely, the TRS-80 Model 100.
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by fallous 14y ago
Sorry, but my son was actually an ugly baby... at least for the first few weeks after birth. People who think their babies are always beautiful are the same empty people that demand that everyone be a winner, because they can't stand the o
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by fallous 14y ago
I'm not sure that was so much the attraction when PHP first started gaining traction given the existence of CGI.pm From my experience in the 90s, most of the early adopters of PHP were more smitten with included PHP code in otherwise static
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by fallous 14y ago
Purely a semantic aside but how do you characterize PETA as "ultra right wing" in any meaningful definition of that political term?

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