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by kpil 10y ago
I know a few software developers that have diabetes, and they seem to be reluctant to automatic pumps. Monitoring might be fine, but installing something in the body that can kill you and then running it on node.js doesn't seem like a
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by kpil 10y ago
My colleguages says it's 'homely' but I get some comments when I write angry emails sometimes... I But I have 'flossed' it and added some dampening material in the cover, just to avoid unnecessary complaints.
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by kpil 10y ago
A colleague snapped once at the recently delivered $5 keyboard attached to a really expensive workstation, and ripped out the cheap rattling keyboard with keys that twist and hooks into others, and smashed it into a pillar and then broke it
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by kpil 10y ago
I also remember Driller - almost a surreal experience, with seconds long lags but with a good atmosphere - possibly because of the good music too.I think the game was trivial in itself, but getting there was both hard and required some pat
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by kpil 10y ago
I don't remember what car it was, it was somewhere between 7-10 years ago. Possibly a small Toyota, or another asian car. I remember that I had to look it up at the time - and apparently a spontaneous deployment is not unheard of, but
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by kpil 10y ago
Once when I was on a walk, a car activated all airbags just before it passed me while being driven in the opposite direction. I was more or less looking at it all the time, so there was no external factors - just a very loud thud. The speed
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by kpil 10y ago
A [crappy] religion teacher once tried to convince me; Everyone longs for salvation - only some does it unconsciously, without knowing it. Maybe he was right all along, but was actually talking about scheme. (I can't just let go that i
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by kpil 10y ago
[There are] standards-compliant ECMAScript runtimes everywhere and we all dream that it had been scheme instead. Fixed that for you.
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by kpil 10y ago
Until Google starts serving pages from our phones...
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by kpil 10y ago
Also, "Nokia" is not a camera. But anyway, there is probably a customer segment, but it might not be that large. But the camera design language make sense, i think, especially the leather and larger knobs - even on a phone. Functi
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by kpil 10y ago
I saw a demo by IBM perhaps 8 years ago, where all customers in a bank office where automatically tagged and tracked, and identified if they had previous photos. It's actually of more value to super markets than banks, as the browsing
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by kpil 10y ago
They don't type hard enough :-) Joke aside, I was mainly thinking about wrist problems. I think any normal sized, model-m layout or possibly split-layout keyboard with non-linear quality switches is ok. If the finger joints hurts, I su
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by kpil 10y ago
Buy a Model M or at least avoid laptop keyboards that are extra small. Do some heavy lifting now and again, so that the hands are used for real stuff.
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by kpil 10y ago
... and we use WebSphere 7 because we like to read hackernews while publishing our code ...
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by kpil 10y ago
Per core? Numbers please. The zLinux CPUs are slower than my laptop.
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by kpil 10y ago
And besides, I think you get at least 500x CPU. It's hard to beat Intel's CPUs.
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by kpil 10y ago
I have 1 mainframe, and which I had 500 PCs... It's solid engineering, but it's also a lot of branding. If you have a "golden egg" application that have a lot of internal state so you can't run it on 10 servers, the
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by kpil 10y ago
There is an angle on every Trump story, because there have to be an angle - journalism is about angles. There is no reporting of mere facts. The current angle is that Trump is a bad guy, and you just have to look at the photos of him to get
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by kpil 10y ago
I guess you could try to make a composite steel-aluminium material, as the steel has a yield point and will take the load when stretched. But I doubt it will work good for compression.
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by kpil 10y ago
Literacy and education, starting to be seen as useful for all classes in the 19th century, following a long period of scientific progress among the higher classes during the 17th and 18th century. Cheap manufacturing of more or less everyth
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by kpil 10y ago
Not really - Linux package management systems do exactly that. The magic - if there is any - is to combine it all together; separation, discovery, relatively easy packaging and dependencies.
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by kpil 10y ago
Define later. I'm 42 and I still work too much. If you're like me and not starting your own extremely successful company, or possibly seriously working on your career in the true sense - in order to get economically independent,
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by kpil 10y ago
No need, they probably just have to call their friendly neighbour.
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by kpil 10y ago
True. I should not have said 'beyond repair'. But the comparison to my front door is adequate. It is mostly of symbolic value. It is possible to gain entry to the house in 30 seconds. It is at least not possible to just walk in wi
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by kpil 10y ago
Irrelevant - it's way beyond repair. There is virtually nil chance that none of the root CAs are compromised or influenced, or at least influenceable by a criminal organisation or group. I also doubt that all governmental organisations
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by kpil 10y ago
Or do as the old dictum says; If you owe your bank a million, you have a problem. If you owe your bank a billion, it has. (Kenyes?) The essence is that you have to be big enough and have borrowed enough so that the credit losses hurts the b
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by kpil 10y ago
It seems to me that there is a higher risk that a large complex molecule synthesised by a microbe is biologically active, and that the risk for contamination is higher. Anyway, I could probably live a full life without blue smarties actuall
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by kpil 10y ago
The author is a bad writer.
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by kpil 10y ago
That sentence's ending crashed my reading process - after thinking about the correlations related to small towns, bartenders and googly eyed girls for a while I had to reset and restart...
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by kpil 10y ago
Yes, but it's based on the invalid assumption that everyone follows the same pattern. Nothing feels as faked as a "Hey [incorrect name]!" letter, so it's probably better to avoid it.

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