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by gHosts 7y ago
It's all still down there somewhere.... "We build our computers the way we build our cities -- over time, without a plan, on top of ruins." Ellen Ullman
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by gHosts 7y ago
And most .rhosts or /etc/hosts.equiv just had a single lonely '+' in them and nothing went wrong...
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by gHosts 7y ago
And every damn licence since then has been a frustration and tragic disappointment. I was pro-closed source in Turbo Pascal days.... once the licences turned to complete shit I went pure opensource.
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by gHosts 7y ago
The Scrum bullshit didn't exist. XP was a sane and useful thing before the sc(r)?umbags came along and shat in the Agile pool. You could ctrl-u any web page, understand it, and do all the cool things you actually cared about yourself.
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by gHosts 7y ago
Yes, but this at least tells you how to draw the rest of the fking owl. https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3649/3523029611_12c3a0c9f2_m...
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by gHosts 7y ago
...easily. Their funding has been cut to within an inch of their lives.... Promise 'em pizza and they'll ban the UK too.
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by gHosts 7y ago
The Jacky Verandas are still bare... Get your butt behind a desk and start studying while theres time!
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by gHosts 7y ago
Wellllll, HCI is your API as far as bluetooth.org is concerned...
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by gHosts 7y ago
> Bluetooth chips come with SDKs and depending on your solution another API Yup and a simple embedded version of a useful subset of that is (just counted) about 4000 non-comment non-blank lines _just_ for the header files. And assumes yo
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by gHosts 7y ago
> Is there something about wireless in particular that lends itself to this proliferation of complexity? A tiny (but still HUGE) part of this VAST spec is the fact that these bluetooth chips are ruddy frequency hopping radios. Something
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by gHosts 7y ago
True. The likes of broadcom are hugely sophisticated and really really understand the spec. But _none_ of your consumer level gadgets are made by broadcom. Broadcom will sell millions of these cheap as chips chips to second tier players. Wh
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by gHosts 7y ago
Become? Become!? That's funny. That's Rich. Do you have any idea how bloody insanely complex bluetooth is? Just the the core stuff, https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/bluetooth-core-spec... without the
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by gHosts 7y ago
If you want Jacaranda trees galore..... Try Pretoria or Johannesburg when it is too late to start studying for end of year exams....
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by gHosts 7y ago
> Misner Thorne and Wheeler I always got a wee chuckle out of the fact that, probably the most massive book in the entire library, was entitled, "Gravitation".
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by gHosts 8y ago
Just had a look at the available scholarships at the local uni and most would barely cover the fees and as for buying a house, hah, not even if the fees were free.
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by gHosts 8y ago
Which corner of the world are you're in? Admittedly I'm not exactly in the center of the known world.
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by gHosts 8y ago
I'm in a position where at one time in history it would have been a Grand Good Idea to go off and do a Phd in Computer Science. (When I was a student, I remember a bunch of guys who were at my age / stage that did.) In that past a
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by gHosts 8y ago
Somehow incredibly road rage inducing that you get squanch points forming on completely steady state unimpeded circuit and everyway I tried altering the parameters made it worse.
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by gHosts 8y ago
So tell which companies _aren't_ run by shit heads and I'll vote with my dollars.
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by gHosts 8y ago
No "buy now" button... ie. still vapourware
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by gHosts 8y ago
> Health officials know next to nothing about the flavorings or about other chemicals generated by the heating of e-liquids. Even the officials knew anything about the flavourings today, they will spin another five flavours by tomorrow.
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by gHosts 8y ago
Sanity check for any whitespace style guides.... If you're not prepare to wire an auto-indent into every ones commit hooks.... ....you're just not serious are you? Bottom Line on White space.... Have some. Be mostly consistent.
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by gHosts 8y ago
Wellll..... it seemed to be a long list of .... 1. Tried this incredibly cunning and creative trick... 2. It didn't work. 3. Try another incredibly cunning and creative trick... 4. goto 2. And then just before the end, Get Very Very Lu
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by gHosts 8y ago
When I first heard about global warming, the physicist in me said, hmm, the major effect of this will be energetic weather systems will become more energetic. Now put that together with my personal experience of extreme weather events both
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by gHosts 8y ago
Google for Clear Air Turbulence.
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by gHosts 8y ago
Careful, you're in danger of swallowing uncritically propaganda aimed at halting progress. Yes, in any period of turmoil sociopaths will attempt to abuse all and every lever of power. But over the centuries we have made a lot of progre
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by gHosts 8y ago
Sci fi is a vision of possible futures... ..our present is locking us into a narrow range of dystopian futures.
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by gHosts 8y ago
Kent Beck and Andrei Alexandrescu. Andrei is quite amazing to me... Clearly capable of writing code that is wonderful... and incomprehensible to mortal man.... but wonderfully focused on not doing that. On making it comprehensible, and prod
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by gHosts 8y ago
> Selling recruiting solutions Sadly the "Jobs you might be interested in..." from linkedin are, despite knowing quite a bit about what my skills are.... almost always completely irrelevant. ie. They have the data... they are m
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by gHosts 8y ago
http://www.ico.org/promotion_e.asp Hmm. This is why climate change deniers can get a foot in the door.... ....the door has been jammed open by skewed commercial interests for decades.

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