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by fshaun 15y ago
For me, the joy of engineering is problem solving. If you can solve a problem at hand with skills you have, don't stress over knowledge you don't have -- we are all necessarily ignorant in areas because there isn't enough time to become an
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by fshaun 15y ago
A prefixed tilde is often associated with user content and keeps the URL short: "example.com/~doritos".
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by fshaun 15y ago
Mine is about $60 more, but some of that is for some static IPs. Also nice being able to call Friday night for Saturday tech appointments when modems die...
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by fshaun 15y ago
As with many things, working from home entails tradeoffs whose [dis]advantages will be weighted differently. For me, it's great when I need to concentrate and bang out the code. No distractions, and I can poll IMs instead of needing a cont
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by fshaun 16y ago
Could you elaborate on the fixed costs of the self-build option? I'm curious what tools and experience you have. If I tried to build that I imagine I'd end up paying more in medical bills from banging my head in frustration. It does soun
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by fshaun 16y ago
I don't understand the outrage. Some completed this in 7-8 minutes . That's quite a difference from spending hours without a result. Add a few of these problems up (which I hope are representative of actual skills) and you're looking at
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by fshaun 16y ago
What stops elaborate or clever contraptions getting by and inciting chaos? The fact that 99.99% of people are not terrorists. Airport security checkpoints cannot be considered a last stand against threats. It is one link in a chain includi
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by fshaun 16y ago
A difficult job, yes, but zero margin of error -- or rephrased, 100% security -- is not possible, and attempting to achieve can justify anything that is incrementally effective.
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by fshaun 16y ago
"CS" is broad; targeting specialties within the program may work better. I used tons of C for operating systems and networking lab courses, but I had friends focusing on (for instance) HCI or AI who rarely touched it. Also consider looking
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by fshaun 16y ago
Easily "exporting" the last interesting colors via clicking is nice. A stack of boxes showing the last N chosen colors would help eyeball themes.
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by fshaun 16y ago
Check out DDS (disclosure: my company sells an implementation). It's a pub-sub based middleware, slanted toward a data-centric approach, as contrasted with distributed objects or message-passing. As far as agree-upon messages... there ar
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by fshaun 16y ago
Sunnyvale, CA. Remote is possible. http://www.rti.com We provide middleware. Major customer segments include A&D, unmanned vehicles, medical devices and financial services. Some concrete examples: DDG-1000 Destroyer network, Grand
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by fshaun 16y ago
Did someone say MUD?
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by fshaun 16y ago
I would add "without consequence" before the comma. Most deadlines aren't an all-or-nothing affair: schedules slip, costs rise, customers scream... but life goes on. Sure, as a buyer I could choose not to accept any work past a deadline
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by fshaun 16y ago
I agree that experience will develop an intuition for how C statement map to assembly. But experience is no replacement for standards -- no implementation defines the language. In most cases, it's more useful to reason about the guarantee
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by fshaun 16y ago
Collection of bits are put to truly horrible uses in the name of efficiency.
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by fshaun 16y ago
"hosted by" is a bit misleading. If things are as they were, it's easy for students to request foo.mit.edu. Looking at http://web.mit.edu/maps/networks/mit/mit-topology.pdf , 18.244 is E2 (Senior House).
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by fshaun 16y ago
Are keychain generators common outside the US? I'm curious why physical measures like this aren't more common.
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by fshaun 17y ago
I wouldn't know what to do with the OOMouse's extra buttons, either. 18 buttons is more than I could remember, much less reliably click. For a few years I've been using mice with "only" 2 extra buttons, mapped to CTRL and ALT. Because the