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by heelix 7y ago
My first bit of production Java code was an applet that used cobra to talk with COBOL in the Java 1.0 days. When I'm bridging new languages to Java codebases, I always wonder if this is the 'new hotness' I'll be driving
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by heelix 8y ago
8000' is pretty comfortable from an air pressure perspective. In practice, I'll do 9,500' or so for longer durations in an unpressurized plane in the daytime. Lower at night unpressurized. Wonder if the event was at night
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by heelix 8y ago
Helped on a ferry flight of an aerobatics plane from Denver area to Chicago area. The front half I was in had a ball compass, altimeter, and airspeed indicator. It has been a long time since I've been in something without any electro
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by heelix 8y ago
I thought the missing escape would be the thing that drove me nuts since I spend a reasonable chunk of my day in VI. Turns out, it is the damn siri button above the delete. Not quite sure how I keep hitting it.
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by heelix 8y ago
Good times in Jr High. Disks were expensive, but we found we could punch the 5.25" floppies in the school library to store copies of games on the back side. There were quite a few unremarkable software titles that got heavy usage.
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by heelix 8y ago
We are rolling out Adopt OpenJDK 11 (and 8, for those who can't make the jump to 9+) LTS to a few hundred thousand folks in our org. Free as in beer. Passed the internal audits.
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by heelix 8y ago
I remember when google staged previews on a web page, then asked if I wanted to sync 'that' folder. Near panic until I realized it was not shared.
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by heelix 8y ago
Oh man - we had one of those tadpoles back in the dot com days! We got our Sparc Oracle/Weblogic stack loaded up on it just like our 'real' servers. Our CEO took it to a very important conference to do a live demo, took to
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by heelix 8y ago
I worked for a company that required me to tell them about all personal software developed for a period after I left the company. I suspect the intent was to make sure I did not create competing software... but the terms were clear and had
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by heelix 8y ago
I misspelled pharmaceutical, which was part of the company name, and also appeared on the splash screen of the power builder application. Was not noticed by anyone before several cases of floppy disks were delivered to us. The App require
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by heelix 8y ago
No kidding. We were a 500 person shop that was gobbled up by Oracle. First meeting with Larry - we were all suited out. Walk in, he is in jeans and a teeshirt. He asked, 'why you all dressed up?' A very, very technical discus
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by heelix 8y ago
The HSA is interesting in that the money you put into it does not go away. For those close to retiring, the funds stashed in one are still very usable after.
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by heelix 8y ago
I wanted to play games! Back then, you would get a magazine, peek and poke hundred of lines, and then save it to a cassette tape. It was heaven when I got my first cartridge. My kid got a kick out of https://robocode.sourceforg
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by heelix 8y ago
I was amazed at how quickly they processed my FOIA requests. Asked customs for my travel so I could match up some dates on my heavily stamped passport. Within a month or so, they sent me a decade of travel all cleanly printed out. I&#x27
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by heelix 8y ago
I've got an old Porsche 996 S4, and I can't say it is a fast car. (fun around the corners, but not fast). I had V rated tires which were rated for 150mph. Not silly expensive either for that matter. I've never driven fast e
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by heelix 8y ago
It is scary how fast people can go down hill without water. We regularly go camping up on the MN/Canadian boarder in the BWCA - going lake to lake in canoes. Usually we pack in a filter (or chemical purifiers, way back) to make sure
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by heelix 8y ago
I find boiling the water does wonders too. Left overs from the kettle, room temp, make for clear ice cubes.
528.
by heelix 8y ago
Being able to order dogfood, delivered, for less than I could buy it for locally.
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by heelix 8y ago
True 24/7 can be really disruptive. I've had consulting gigs where some people would rather call me at 3AM then talk with the person next to them in the Ops room. Irritating as all can be, having a sleep schedule disrupted. Sam
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by heelix 8y ago
Delta did lifetime silver for 1M miles, which was their lowest level. They did give a nice Tumi suitcase at the 1M (or was it 2M?) actual miles mark, but I don't think it does much outside of a normal high status... probably zone one
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by heelix 8y ago
I gave several early gen i7 new life with SteamOS. More or less sets up nicely and could play a surprising number games in my library. One of the problems with giving away boxes to family/friends is the OS was worth more than the har
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by heelix 8y ago
As a pilot, I would. Most of the bug smashers I rent will be flying around 90-120 nautical miles per hour, so 5 miles out puts you 2-3 minutes from the field. Within one minute or so you better be setting up for landings, usually dropping
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by heelix 8y ago
I'm a pilot - the bug masher kind flying general aviation. I use a pi with a couple USB digital radios and wifi to read adsb weather and other aircraft locations when flying, adding it to the moving maps on a tablet. The stratux proj
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by heelix 8y ago
On a personal note - I know the developers I poach for a 'next' gig. You lose those types people, there is a very good chance they will rebuild a team elsewhere taking the folks who can actually execute with them. People love to
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by heelix 8y ago
For those who want to mess with SteamOS - one of the gotchas I hit was getting a terminal in desktop mode. # localectl set-locale LANG=”en_US.UTF-8”
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by heelix 8y ago
Day 0, when it went live, ACA successfully processed six people. :P Will give a few more tomorrow, when I have something more than a phone.
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by heelix 8y ago
At the core, they sort of missed the problem. With the advent of ACA, you could no longer use medical history to set rates. You had age, sex, smoker -- and the killer location. What they were actually after is a bit of a rules engine, as
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by heelix 8y ago
I was one of the poor souls sent in as part of the tech surge to fix it. Ah, what a cluster fuck that was. CGI spent most of the time making UML diagrams, with the hopes that a UML > Java > XML generator would do the job... only to
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by heelix 8y ago
Can you talk a bit about your password management bits? One of the other programs within our shop said they were going to use (or were doing a pilot) of password management with your kit.
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by heelix 8y ago
OpenJDK is on the Linux servers and workstations. The options for OSX, for example, are less clear. Folks are trying to see what non-Oracle option might work on desktops/laptops.

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