jimohalloranau

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by jimohalloranau 5mo ago
Most of the Growler "magic" is in pods carried on external hardpoints, but you couldn't just upload the EW pods onto a FA-18F Super Hornet and have a Growler. The cannon in the nose of a regular Hornet is replaced with comput
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by jimohalloranau 2y ago
"Isn't this just LapLink with a Thunderbolt cable" was my immediate thought when I read this. If you're around long enough everything is shiny and new, even the things that you thought were long ago killed by better sol
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by jimohalloranau 4y ago
My first IT job was supporting Point of Sale systems for service stations and other retail outlets. The company had some clients in really remote areas, and we provided 24 hour phone support. The software we supported was DOS based, and t
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by jimohalloranau 5y ago
Am I the only one struggling with the "Controllers" folder not being an 8.3 filename, and therefore couldn't actually exist on MSDOS? To use "Controllers" you'd need a file system with support for Long File Nam
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by jimohalloranau 5y ago
Yeah a "why didn't I" thought occurred to me while I was writing the comment above. All I can say is that it was a long time ago now (15 years), and the notion of leaving notes in the code for future versions of myself (and
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by jimohalloranau 5y ago
I had this happen _several times_ at an agency I used to work at. I stumbled across some really bad code in their main product, got irate and asked "who wrote this shit?". Ran git blame and discovered it was me. Ok, but this is
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by jimohalloranau 5y ago
If there's no stack size limit, there's no stack overflow. And if there's no Stack Overflow where do we get our codez?
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by jimohalloranau 5y ago
Dark modes for me help fight the "staring into the sun" effect I get from predominantly white screens, but obviously it's not a fix for everyone. Matte displays, definitely want to cut down on glare. If you can avoid white d
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by jimohalloranau 5y ago
I’ve lived with Kerotoconus for the last 20 years, and professional developer for 25+ years. I’ve worn hard contact lenses for most of that time (various types), and had a corneal graft (transplant) in one eye about 4 years ago. I’m prima
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by jimohalloranau 6y ago
A couple of years ago I was staring down the barrel of giving up a 20 year career in software development due to a degenerative eye condition. I can't tell you how many hours I wasted chasing parse errors in PHP code because I literall
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by jimohalloranau 7y ago
I've been using Pin since very early days. Dev experience is great, the API is well thought out and documented. Your fear about Pin being bought by an Australian financial institution may be unfounded (or it's already happened de