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by kfcm 12y ago
Precisely. My point was don't assume one system is right, the other wrong. Touched upon compiler (internals and flags) in a separate post.
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by kfcm 12y ago
M&S is one of the areas I work in, and there are quite a few things to examine. Hardware floating point implementations are one area. Compiler (internals and/or flags) and assembly language differences (as author alluded to) are
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by kfcm 12y ago
Or both systems are wrong, but just wrong in different ways.
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by kfcm 12y ago
Someone has to say it, so it might as well be me: "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of professional developer voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened
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by kfcm 12y ago
Do you think UBM would be amenable to a "Final Cut" of the Dr. Dobb's Developer's Library to include everything from Dr. Dobb's, C/C++ UJ, Sys Admin, etc?
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by kfcm 12y ago
Second BuckRoger's post, in general. I'm a native rural Iowan, who lived in Des Moines (DSM) part of my career, and am there often for family purposes. My recommendation is simple: Unless you are a CPA, actuary, lawyer or some ot
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by kfcm 12y ago
Name-dropping has been common since the first salesman.
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by kfcm 12y ago
FreeBSD is an excellent production server, and I use it all the time. And for "non-hardened" and "protected" production servers, the performance numbers went solidly to FreeBSD for my use cases. Modifying the kernel fro
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by kfcm 12y ago
The plan now under consideration would separate broadband into two distinct services: a retail one, in which consumers would pay broadband providers for Internet access; and a back-end one, in which broadband providers serve a
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by kfcm 12y ago
How to define the role of CTO is a question which has been asked for many years, and there are some "general" answers. I would recommend two things. First, read these two articles. They're older, but provide some answers in
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by kfcm 12y ago
"Bungee Boss", now over 20 years old: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-09-07/
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by kfcm 12y ago
From 1990 until 2006, almost every one of my colleagues/co-workers (dev, infrastructure, management) was at least 10-15 years older than me. Some were my age. Rarely was anyone younger. When I emerged from a deep stint with a company
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by kfcm 12y ago
I've landed two excellent positions through outside (not in-house) recruiters. Though the first was 20 years ago; the last, 14. They were respectful, didn't waste my time or the company's, knowledgeable, and selected people
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by kfcm 12y ago
Generally true. But I spend some time now and then in a small/mid-sized Midwestern city where going through a recruiter is a requirement. A very high percentage of the businesses are in the same economic sector, and they use the recr
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by kfcm 12y ago
Some thoughts. First, I work with various companies, many of which have remote work options. These options range from a couple days/week remote, to 100% remote. What I'm hearing from employees at the companies which have remote w
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by kfcm 12y ago
(US-based comment.) While a great list, the mistake is being made of assuming disruptive startups (through technology, business processes, or both) will solve problems in several of the sectors. Some being Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Ener
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by kfcm 12y ago
US-centric: Paying bills? Crazy little pieces of paper called checks. Contacting your phone company? Paper bills, or just write it down. Or, wonder of wonders, dial 611. Need a plumber? They still have these wonderful books called The Y
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by kfcm 12y ago
Not crazy or stupid at all. With 27 years of Internet access of one form or another under my belt, the same thought has been entering my mind the past couple of years. The first 11 years weren't bad, with dedicated access only in coll
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by kfcm 12y ago
Companies can have teams of content moderators or reviewers, whether employees or outsourced. Good article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/technology/19screen.html?_...
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by kfcm 12y ago
The problem is, ag data is a commodity. People/organizations can gather, mine, and create new products with it. It's always been that way, except the past few years have seen the types and amount of data being gathered, and the s
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by kfcm 12y ago
The problem with the 15% number is how many are actually using it to manage their farm versus just on checking it out or using the weather/markets features? The guys (dozen or so) I've spoken to about it are just using it for wea
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by kfcm 12y ago
This can't be right: "Looking at the data behind these comments, it’s clear to see that the entire country is passionate against net neutrality." So the entire country wants "pay lanes" and "pay
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FCC Extends Open Internet Comment Period Until Friday, July 18(fcc.gov)
2 points by kfcm 12y ago|0 comments
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by kfcm 12y ago
This problem isn't endemic to Silicon Valley (and SFO). It's spread to almost any given company in any given location in the US.
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by kfcm 12y ago
Possible. But why does the problem only happen on direct Centurylink connections? I've failed on a direct connection, and fired up the VPN for success. There are ways to cause this (routing issues, filtering, etc), but one IP networ
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Is Centurylink "throttling" Youtube ala Netflix/Verizon?
1 points by kfcm 12y ago|3 comments
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by kfcm 12y ago
That said, I do agree with the sentiment expressed here: it is pretty amazing that a site that is really a nexus of high-tech Silicon Valley companies and figures -- quite possibly the most popular one in that segment -- still has down
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The FCC will regulate broadband. VoIP and e911 are why.
1 points by kfcm 12y ago|0 comments
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Des Moines, IA tech firms want slaves as employees(desmoinesregister.com)
4 points by kfcm 12y ago|0 comments
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by kfcm 12y ago
If this is truly the case, then we in technology must take much of the blame. Over the past 30 years--even the past 15--automation of tasks which were once done by people in the lower-to-mid tiers of the middle class. Word processors have

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