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by mdip 10y ago
I'm a bit biased here since I work doing development mostly aimed at a competitor of Cisco in the Unified Communications space, but after seeing a few presentations by Rowan Trollope at Enterprise Connect, I have the feeling all is not
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by mdip 10y ago
Personally, I agree with the author and generally have argued against hard line-length limits. Today's computers have different screen characteristics than even 15 years ago and we're at a much greater loss of vertical length tha
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This to that: Because people have to glue things to other things(thistothat.com)
2 points by mdip 10y ago|0 comments
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by mdip 10y ago
There are two big problems here - as pointed out by the other commentators, this company is very much a patent troll. The label fits. The other problem is that the protections offered by patents were designed at to give a "temporary
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by mdip 10y ago
I've been a huge fan of Douglas Adams since I read the Hitchhiker's series in High School. My personal recommendation is to grab the audiobook version that's read by the Douglas himself. As an American, there's a little
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by mdip 10y ago
This looks fantastic. I've been fascinated with parsers ever since I got into programming in my teens (almost always centered around programming language parsing). Curious - The parsing work I've done with programming languages w
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by mdip 10y ago
Wow, this brings back memories... I was building an IM bot back in 2006 and AIML was something that was suggested to me to "look into". I ended up deciding against it since the project took a turn that required less AI and more &
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by mdip 10y ago
That depends - the cost of a hundred-mile drive (in both time and money) is also very high. $30/half-hour is a lot, but it could quickly be less expensive than some visits. That said, the cost is insane for something that basically
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by mdip 10y ago
I have no doubt that there's a strong desire to reduce or eliminate in-person visitations and the goal of adding video visitations is one of the ways they're trying to do that. I disagree with this for the most part -- elimination
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by mdip 10y ago
Before I start, I'm in favor of in-person visitations and generally agree with this article, but I was frustrated by its one-sided nature. They've presented a case highlighting almost none of the motivations behind video visitati
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by mdip 10y ago
It's nice to see an organization behave like "a decent human being" from time to time. This post is a shining example of exactly what people want to hear when they perceive a company/organization has failed (especially
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by mdip 10y ago
That's a good point and bound to happen. In our area, the township covered the price of the removal of the tree provided you allowed them to take it when they chose to (otherwise you'd have to pay for the removal of a dead tree o
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by mdip 10y ago
Ha - gotta say, I feel a little better knowing someone else had a hard time getting mono targeted code to work properly. I can't remember what I ran into specifically, but I remember the usual StackOverflow/Google route for solvin
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by mdip 10y ago
As a .NET developer, and lover of all things C#, I couldn't be more happy. There's always been that nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I'm pigeonholed with a language I can't easily use on other platforms (Mono
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by mdip 10y ago
Years ago all of the oak trees in my area were cut down due to being killed by the Emerald Ash Borer, a beetle. Fines were imposed for exporting fire wood outside of the affected counties (a common thing to do in my state where people take
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by mdip 11y ago
I'll bite: Let's say you have very limited time to learn ... I think that is probably the case for all of us. Personally, I recommend you apply some time to "optimizing learning". I have been improving my ability as
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by mdip 11y ago
This is the second in articles in the last few months on speed reading and both basically say the same thing: "There's no way to read at a ridiculous speed and retain anything you've read". I'm a speed reader. It
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by mdip 11y ago
The argument that will be made against something like this is "We can't use a product that would let the bad guys see how it works!" I know it sounds ridiculous, but in my limited experience, "Security through Obscuri
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by mdip 11y ago
There's really no good reason for this kind of behavior from Google. They have the infrastructure to continue to support old products and they don't do this every time they do an acqui-hire. I recall years ago when I was a huge
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by mdip 11y ago
Well thought out points but he's suffered from a common mistake when comparing a revolutionary technology with a current, well proliferated, technology. The rules of vehicle ownership have changed and will continue to change as we mov
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by mdip 11y ago
I've wondered about this for a while, particularly with cars designed outside of the US. Much of (western) European[1] road infrastructure is in much better shape than in the US. Since this development started to surface I've th
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Where's the lane? Self-driving cars confused by shabby U.S. roadways(reuters.com)
3 points by mdip 11y ago|1 comments
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by mdip 11y ago
emacs and gcc - Yes - they actually demoed emacs in the keynote and gcc in the later discussion at https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488?ocid=player ). So many tools require compiling/building
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by mdip 11y ago
Many thanks for the info -- actually, the reason I'm looking into Gentoo, again, is specifically because of the "compile from source". I have a particular need where this is the only solution that suits it well so I'm g
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by mdip 11y ago
You're right, they're not really that big. They load extraordinarily slowly. Each load one at a time from upper left to lower right and you can watch them download -- they don't just "appear", they show up like
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by mdip 11y ago
Unfortunately, it doesn't ... I wish it did. You now get a page with images that have checkboxes next to them. When you submit the form, you get a Base64 key to paste into a text box.
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by mdip 11y ago
Imagine what that was like for the technical support and customer success teams who were helping customers with their sites. It sucks. But that's exactly the point. Using the internet is a mission critical thing for many people and
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by mdip 11y ago
Impressive, yes, but I'm going to hazard a guess that they didn't route all of that traffic through Tor to experience the CAPTCHA with the bandwidth constraints imposed by using an exit node. The CAPTCHAs are (mostly) easy to solv
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by mdip 11y ago
I played around with Tor a couple of months ago when it hit the headlines again, just to see what it was all about, and the experience was awful . As an exercise, I decided to fire up Tor browser today just to see if it's gotten any
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Being an expert literally changes how you see things(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by mdip 11y ago|0 comments

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