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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"Most of the employees I come into contact with have jobs that could be automated with a few days or weeks of programmer effort." After looking at some of the business processes at my company I am not so sure about this anymore. T
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
" any admission of guilt is only to be considered as part of evidence in a case." This makes sense to me. Someone confessing to a crime is certainly a strong indicator they did it but it's not 100%.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
If everything is operated through the touch screen you lose a lot when the screen fails. With knobs only the function of the knob fails.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That knowledge is still valuable for example in figuring out why a WPF app doesn’t update its Ui. We have more abstractions today but under the hood it’s still the same.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That's exciting stuff. Let's hope they'll do it.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I agree. I am a little worried that if something like 9/11 happened again he may do something impulsive that may spiral out of control.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I remember when I was contractor I had to get some screens from another building to kick off the project. They didn't have badges, just somebody at reception. I walked in, took screens almost $30000 worth, carted them out and left. Thi
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
My impression was that Powell let himself being bullied into it. Which is not good either.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"War or give us what we want," I always wonder what he really wants from them (Total surrender is probably not going to happen and he rejects the nuclear treaty so what's the endgame?). I also don't understand how nice h
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Pompeo seems pretty sane to me. Bolton is another question. very true.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
We definitely don't want to get into another situation like after 9/11 when some people did everything they could to connect Iraq to 9/11 so they could invade. Not sure if there are people right now who are hellbent to go to
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That’s my impression too. I would expect more handcrafted code on embedded systems and you need more awareness of computational complexity and memory needs.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Germany has a police union that sometimes makes public statements but overall they don’t seem to have much power. I think the US is suffering from the disadvantages of decentralization. Local police forces have much more freedom and get awa
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"VB6 to VB.NET is not a successive version of a .NET tool, front-end or otherwise." Correct. But VB6 was the main tool for quick UI development before Winforms took that place. Things that would have been written with VB6 would be
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
VB.NET has only superficial similarity with VB6. If you move from VB6 to VB.NET you have to rewrite the whole thing so you may as well go to C#. that's the problem with the .NET front-end tools in general. They have no transition path
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
A Tesla is way too heavy and soft to produce a decent lap time. They accelerate really well but fast cornering is not their forte. The Nurburgring has some very fast sections where you go top speed or near top speed for a long time. I also
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think steam engines prototyped a lot of the needed technology like lubrication, manufacturing of precision shafts and heat resistance which then could be applied to the gas engine.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
UWP is getting better but last time I looked it still had some weird restrictions. For many things WPF is still your best bet because you can be pretty confident that you will be able to do what you need to do.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
They use the same procedure for billing. First do the procedure and then find out how much it costs. No information upfront.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think it's important to distinguish between journalists who work in dangerous zones and get killed by accident vs intentional killings, usually to suppress the press. There isn't much you can do about the former but the latter i
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"improving our lifestyles and environments would be more realistic in the short term" Unfortunately not realistic but it would be very desirable. For some reason it's accepted that people live very unhealthy lives and have bi
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Seems this is common with a lot of processes that require review by others. On the surface this sounds great and thorough but the reviewers actually need the qualifications and time to review things properly. I have done plenty of code and
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
“Therefore decision making should be as decentral and computationally parallel as we can make ” This may work if the decentralized decisions were made based on results. But they are often made based on profits and there is a lot of money to
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I interviewed with such a place and started questioning them about what this really means. How much do people take on average? What would be unacceptable? The response was pretty much something like "You can take off when the workload
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
On Windows you often can't even predict if you need admin rights for something. I have had plenty of cases when I tried something and couldn't get the f...ing thing to work. Then try with admin and suddenly it works.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
“Being a good software developer doesn't mean you're a good network administrator or good at desktop support.” Working in IT doesn't mean you're a good network administrator or good at desktop support either :)
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"The primary reason we care about Saudi is oil. " There is also the Israel question which makes the US position pretty complex.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"The K&R book is worth a read if anyone missed it. It's beautifully written." Agreed. I read the whole thing in a weekend and had a pretty good idea about pointers and stuff afterwards. I feel a lot of people have trouble
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Or try LabView. It’s not doable.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
“Whereas your account on the host is available and automatically granted access to all machines, fileshares and services on the active directory network. If it got admin rights, then you've got admin pretty much everywhere.” Nonsense.

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