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by mdip 10y ago
No doubt! Yup, I've done the oven thing, too (several PS3 motherboards as well -- used to buy 'em broken on Craigslist when there was a chance they'd be running older firmware and resell them). Trick with the freezer hard dri
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by mdip 10y ago
He's incredible - some people complain that he's a little bit of a slow reader, but audio book apps usually have a speed option. He enunciates well and adds a depth of feeling to the work that can take a book that's average
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by mdip 10y ago
Reminds me of the maximum PATH length issue still present in most versions of Windows (I think Windows 10 Anniversary resolves it). It was particularly painful because when you'd hit it (by, say, installing Sybase drivers or some other
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by mdip 10y ago
I always wondered why the Unit/Record/Group separator characters were virtually never used. In the case of human editable files, I get it (a comma is actually on the keyboard, after all). But I'm curious, in your case, wh
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Teen Makes ‘Sit with Us’ App That Helps Students Find Lunch Buddies(huffingtonpost.com)
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by mdip 10y ago
Too funny, though, I'd be willing to bet "the same time every afternoon" was more that it happened at the same time in the afternoon when it failed which probably made it even more painful to isolate since it was reliant
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by mdip 10y ago
That's awesome and the solution is not as uncommon as you'd imagine. At "a large telecom" I used to work at, we had a specific process that handled billing that relied on a DOS application which was written targeting a s
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by mdip 10y ago
This isn't a software bug, but since a lot of these aren't, I thought I'd share because it was a fun one with an unexpected cause. I worked on a floor with about 10 people that was entirely occupied by phone switch equipment
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by mdip 10y ago
The most painful bug I encountered had to do with a visitor access kiosk I had designed and written the software for at my previous company. The workaround was to block access to a set of sites for the entire company to keep the two kios
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by mdip 10y ago
I'm an audiobook junkie and as far as professional narrators go, I think it'd be hard to replace a high-end performance with something computer generated and end up with the level of quality offered by the likes of a great narra
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by mdip 10y ago
The cynic in me sees this as a further attempt at lock-in. As you mentioned, when the other technologies were abandoned, a suitable replacement existed that was widely in use regardless of platform. With the headphones, buying a set for an
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by mdip 10y ago
That's how I've always done it - frankly, it never occurred to me to clean it beforehand. The grill is already hot so I just turn it up, close the lid for a few seconds, open it back up and scrape it to death. I've never had
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by mdip 10y ago
Ah, ya beat me to that quote! Growing up, we flew in my dad's 4-seat (and later 7-seat) Cherokee very frequently and he'd always comment on his landing. He judged his entire flight by how easy it was to identify when the tire mad
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by mdip 10y ago
Actually, a nose-dive landing occurred at LaGuardia in 2013 - Southwest Airlines - I believe the incident had something to do with the front landing gear failing. There was a small fire (as you mention, jet fuel is quite flammable and if t
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by mdip 10y ago
I really wish that would do it. As part of a request from a doctor, I kept a food diary for a month. I was supposed to eat like I typically do, but once you start writing things down, you tend to alter things slightly -- I tried really
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by mdip 10y ago
Complete and total lack of motivation here. The main problem for me is that my only motivation for working out would be to gain muscle for the purpose of looking more attractive to the opposite sex. I'm married and my wife is happy an
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by mdip 10y ago
Is it possible to buy a reference board like the one described in http://www.openssd-project.org/wiki/Jasmine_OpenSSD_Platform
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by mdip 10y ago
The observations being made are correct in that what he's describing is actually and actively happening. The spot where things stop working is in the very last paragraph in that it very neatly wrecks the argument: Slapping unbreakabl
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by mdip 10y ago
I only listen to fiction audiobooks, preferring text for non-fiction since I read that sort of book differently. Might not fit with what you're asking for but I have to recommend the original five books in "The Hitchhiker's G
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by mdip 10y ago
While I'm with you and won't be buying one for reasons beyond the 3.5mm jack (but that would be a deal breaker if I was on the fence), I'll be more surprised if the removal of that feature stops scores of people lining up t
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by mdip 10y ago
Interesting. I had a boss about a decade ago that, during a really tense situation at my last job involving a false report of an application of mine suffering from a serious security vulnerability[0], said to me: "Where there are gaps
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by mdip 10y ago
I think one of the things Yelp has caused (or, perhaps, needs to cause) is a change in consumer behavior related to bad reviews. I've learned, over the years, to disregard certain kinds of bad reviews[0] or not choose to avoid a compa
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by mdip 10y ago
Interesting discussion and I wanted to call out a particular part: The CEO's willingness and constancy in responding to employees. I worked at Global Crossing during the entire time that John Legere (of T-Mobile fame) was CEO and he ha
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by mdip 10y ago
That's assuming quite a bit about the OP and myself, so I'll speak for myself: I'm married with four children. I love what I do and directly sought a partner that would fit with my life and a job that is flexible. I work fro
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by mdip 10y ago
You're correct but you're missing one large expense: Health/Wellness (at least, in the US, where it's partially paid for by one's employer). I'm assuming the OP was expecting to keep this benefit since it'
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by mdip 10y ago
This is precisely the thing I was thinking because I'd be that guy. I've been writing software since I was 13 years old and have been lucky to be writing software in the language I want to write in, and with code that is challengi
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by mdip 10y ago
Bear in mind that Sprint is one of the options. Fi uses both T-Mobile and Sprint and intelligently selects between the two based on network reception and performance (the latter being the coolest feature -- my 4G speeds are consistently fa
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by mdip 10y ago
Very interesting read, particularly in where the service providers are expanding their network. It speaks a lot to the each company's priorities and confirms a bit of my personal thoughts on each of the companies. Verizon - I had Veri
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by mdip 10y ago
I'm certainly not a professional designer but I worked doing quite a bit of graphics work in a previous life and relied heavily on Photoshop to the point that I've, personally, purchased several licenses since version 3.0, though
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by mdip 10y ago
Nearly sent milk out my nose with your quote, though it got me thinking. Planned obsolescence, as highlighted by the article, is certainly nothing new but it seems to be an ever growing trend in parts of the CE space that once valued reliab

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