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by heironimus 12y ago
Actually, it's quite different. Pacemakers are vital to minute by minute survival. Insulin pumps are convenient for long-term survival. If an insulin pump quits working, it's inconvenient, but you notice it in a few hours after a
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by heironimus 12y ago
If I could have afforded a floppy drive for my C64, I would have been a great Loderunner player rather than a coder.
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by heironimus 12y ago
Very well said. I greatly respect you for what you are doing/have been doing. It's obvious from your comments that you are not just talking nice, but have been there. I'm pretty sure no one has responded because no one knows
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by heironimus 12y ago
Just curious, but what are the "real reasons they are nonetheless made to put up with it"? If your child says "I'm being bullied at school and no one is doing anything about it. My teacher ridicules me because I don&#x27
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by heironimus 12y ago
After reading comments implying that this is Bill's fault, here is how I'm guessing this played out. I could be wrong, but I've seen it before. Bill says "Why isn't Ctrl+F mapped to forward?" Developer hears &
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A Terrifying, Fascinating Timelapse of 30 Years of Human Impact on Earth(m.theatlanticcities.com)
1 points by heironimus 13y ago|0 comments
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by heironimus 13y ago
I want to know this too. When I see thing like "This fixes the DMCA", it makes me question the intentions of the advocating website. It sounds too good to be true.
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by heironimus 13y ago
You haven't worked for an enterprise software firm, have you? ;-)
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by heironimus 13y ago
Yeah. You cannot just buy a $1000 computer and go at it like software. Just think of the work/cost it takes to design stuff like this. Maybe when 3D printers get better...
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by heironimus 13y ago
Everybody thinks this is cool, but nobody (myself included) knows enough about car suspensions to comment!
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by heironimus 13y ago
They test things like Windows crashes, hangs, and BSOD's per week. I assume Macs have much lower occurrences of these because most of the time spent on them is in OSX rather than Windows. My personal Mac is better than any of these. I has
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by heironimus 14y ago
This is really old (2008), but still completely relevant. I'm glad I'm not the only one who is actually happy when someone checks my ID. (Don't get me started on how secure my ID actually is.)
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The Security Mindset (2008)(schneier.com)
2 points by heironimus 14y ago|1 comments
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by heironimus 14y ago
Because people who get stuff done typically use whatever they know and make it work "good enough" while people who don't get things done (like me too often) spend their time thinking about the proper language, statistics, probability, and t
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by heironimus 14y ago
PR. By having Abelson involved, it hopefully throws a bone to all the angry hackers.
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by heironimus 14y ago
Not being in the medical industry, I'm curious what people say about the 4th paragraph here, indicating that many/most physicians would prefer not to have CPR performed on them. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/08/how-doctors-ch.
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Buffett tells Cook to ignore cash complaints, buy back stock(idownloadblog.com)
1 points by heironimus 14y ago|0 comments
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by heironimus 14y ago
And I'm sure it will be impossible to paint over it. ;-)
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by heironimus 14y ago
I think this list would certainly fail a lot of good, smart candidates, but it probably didn't pass many idiots. It's not likely that someone would know all of these facts and not be well-educated and intelligent. If he was truly getting hu
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by heironimus 14y ago
"This one seems pretty amateur and should have been caught as part of a pull request/code review process" I say that about 95% of the bugs I ever see...especially ones written by me.
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by heironimus 14y ago
No references, but in my family's experiences, it never works for some and it works great for others, but only as long as you use it. The day you forget, the stink comes right back.
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by heironimus 14y ago
Is the type of magazine more important than the article content? The subject of male bias in programming, work balance, brogrammers, etc. comes up here all the time. This article fits right in.