mcmatterson

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by mcmatterson 12y ago
Amen to this. I did quite a bit of digging last year to find a dumb TV that did the basics (high panel quality, input switching, HDMI-CEC) well and otherwise just stayed out of the way, and I gave up. A couple of companies have a 'comm
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by mcmatterson 13y ago
I always took his statement to mean that if something is essential to your business, you should think very carefully about the risks inherent in outsourcing it. The two major exceptions to this are 1. Things which aren't essential to y
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by mcmatterson 13y ago
Or as an old boss of mine used to say: "Never outsource something hard to replace".
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by mcmatterson 13y ago
Concerning Niagara Falls, from footnote 9: "The Niagara Peninsula became free of the ice about 12,500 years ago. As the ice retreated northward, its melt waters began to flow down through what became Lake Erie, the Niagara River and La
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by mcmatterson 13y ago
Does Poe's Law apply here? (Picture Fry meme:) Can't tell if sarcasm, or sincerity.
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by mcmatterson 13y ago
I've been a loyal oScope users for ages; I once used it as my front panel in a Halloween robot costume, and it blew people's minds that they could talk to me and have it show up on my 'belly screen'. A very useful tool i
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by mcmatterson 13y ago
Minor error in this post: 'IN' doesn't refer to the answer's inclusion in the given DNS type -- it's a short form of Internet, and is meant to denote the address family being returned (the field is called 'CLAS
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by mcmatterson 13y ago
> How is Uber not in everybody's best interests? Poor and elderly people, for a start. Spend a bit of time by the entrance to a major hospital and observe how the other half uses taxis as a lifeline; you might just change your tune.
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by mcmatterson 13y ago
I know that here in Toronto there are additional restrictions on what cabbies can and cannot do (they must take the most direct route to your destination, are restricted from offering unsolicited hotel and restaurant recommendations, &c
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by mcmatterson 13y ago
Shameless plug to add to the list: I built and currently use a tool called 'hawk' for handling ad-hoc deployments to testers. It's (in my opinion, anyway) simpler than the alternatives, is command line driven and configured from within your
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
I lost my dad last week to this exact same event. My parents live in the country, and my elderly mother didn't have the training (or lack of panic) to attempt CPR. Although members of the local volunteer fire department were on site within
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
Back in the (2.1.x) day it seemed like I was running ac kernels more often than not. Nowadays though, I've been away from the kernel world for so long that I don't even know how big of a deal this is. Anyone care to chime in?
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
I'd love to hear more about the 'Dropbox clone' you're using here. The idea of keeping a VPS around as my own private cloud is something I've been thinking about for a while; I'm very interested to learn from someone who's already done it.
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
Also, I'm interested in what you mean by the correspondence with cache hierarchies. Could you elaborate?
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
Of course -- the reality of even the simplest CPU is obviously much, much more complex than what I described above. The analogy is really only helpful as a bridge between the world of theory, and the CPU as it exists in the world.
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
Honestly, my answer to this came about many years after living through a very theoretical CS undergrad, by way of a chapter in Charles Petzold's book, 'Code' (of all things. I originally bought the book for my dad to help him understand 'wh
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
You can grow your own food, whereas you can't grow your own health (although you can certainly choose to live healthier, and indeed the disincentive to do this is one of the weaknesses I see in a universal health care model). Something like
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
The nobility / motivation for this act aside, I can't believe this is still even a thing. Honestly, I find it incredible that there's even debate about this. Nobody thinks twice about things like transportation infrastructure or monetary po
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
'Park facing downhill'. I love it. I've read before that Hemingway used to leave his writing for the day in mid sentence, so when he sat down the next morning, he had somewhere concrete to start. I'm not sure how true the legend is, but it'
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Tom Lowe, Creator of 'TimeScapes', Responds to the Piracy of His DRM-Free Film(nofilmschool.com)
2 points by mcmatterson 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
I have to agree. I used Square in the US and loved it; since coming back to Canada I've been singing its praises to anyone who'll listen. However, now that it's launched and we've had time to think through what it looks like on the ground,
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Italian scientists guilty of manslaughter in 2009 earthquake(cbc.ca)
3 points by mcmatterson 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
Heh, I never actually noticed there wasn't anything there (I don't think I've been back to my profile page since I filled it out 866 days ago). Updated; feel free to follow-up as desired :)
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
This hits close to home. I came within a hair's breadth of losing my infant daughter to cancer just over a year ago, and a few things come up in my thoughts: - Not all medical systems are the disaster described here. We elected to move back
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Ask HN: Interest in a shared workspace in East Toronto?
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
That's a stretch :) taking the N back into the city is an exercise in rage suppression more often than not.
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
A thousand times this. I moved away from San Francisco (not by choice) last year, and miss it terribly. This summarizes everything I love about SF.
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
CL procedure auditing: The work I did was as an oversight tool internal to UHN -- we implemented a handheld tool to allow roaming nurses to audit practice adherence for many high infection risk procedures, including those related to central
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
Actually, it is. This is a classic example of blaming the offender and not the process. Many hospitals (and this is borne out by research conducted by colleagues of mine; I'm not making this up) don't even have soap dispensers near sinks. S
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by mcmatterson 14y ago
I've worked in the healthcare field for many years, and have written protocols and supporting applications to measure practise standards around central line procedures (both in and out of ICU environments), and I can say quite definitively

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