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by mmcgaha 5y ago
The last few years have caused me to be a skeptic. I cannot take anyone at face value any more because the world has become so polarized that it is like people are willing to type anything to make their point stronger. At this point if I do
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
So really it is hard not to be snarky about your comment on the terribly harming side effects on the guy that is about to be dead.
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
The mention of Q is what makes me think it is fake. My whole family is conservative; I have a German friend who is way out in right field (I love her but she is coo coo for coco pops), and I work with folks who most would consider fringe ri
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
Lovely example! Beautiful postscript makes me warm and fuzzy inside.
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
For simple image generation, nothing beats SVG or EPS. For years, these two technologies have let me add cool stuff to PDFs and web pages without the need for expensive/complex/insecure libraries. It is going to be pretty hard to
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
Nope, unix people like the fact that thirty-year-old shell scripts still work just fine. In ten years, powershell will be be replaced and it will be the new vbscript. No thanks.
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
Please do not protect me from the truth even if it leads me to inconvenient conclusions.
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
Around 20 years ago, I registered my account on a web based simulation game by putting a check in the mail. Around 7 years ago I verified an account by putting a dollar in an envelope and putting it in the mail. I am not sure why no one is
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
rsync and a dedicated server at OVH is starting to sound about right.
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
It has been many years since After The Gold Rush was published and we are no closer today than we were then. At some point software engineering will be a real profession but I doubt anyone will take action before some huge catastrophe pushe
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
I see you follow the Tao -- beyond all techniques!
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
I am pretty much shit at using CSS correctly. I am working on a 38 page site and looking at the CSS is disgusting. The html is clean, the back end is simple and easy to understand, and the database is something to be proud of (well except w
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
I haven't had a phone with built in radio, but back in the late 0s I had an ipod with a built in FM radio, and it was the coolest radio I ever had. You could pause and rewind it like a tivo. I assume the radio on a smart phone would be
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
With a unixy design, powerpoint would only edit powerpoint documents and it would send the data to other programs for printing or PDF creation. In your case, the powerpoint program would never be called. You would simply send the powerpoint
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
I took the competitive advantage comment as the short story to a much longer reason.
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
This isn't any different than keeping a bunch of text snippets that you use as a starting point for creating things. Text snippets may seem trivial in comparison to some tool that writes code or checks for your common errors, but when
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
This is not an example of windows doing anything unix like. We simply have to take a different mindset when using Windows vs unix. Windows has always had a way to communicate between components and that it does better than anything else.
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
So we all have choices to make, and some people choose to become teachers. Now there are a lot of reasons that people make that choice, but I am sure that money is not one of them. So what happens once they get there that makes them decide
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
Looking at the site in the Wayback machine, it was flash in 2008. I would love to see what they were doing in 1995.
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
Yes the business team will often ask for things they don't need but I can justify that cost. It can still impede other development but we tackle that when it becomes a problem not before. I agree completely on pushing off features that
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
Feature wise, when the business asks for it, it is not over engineering, but when the dev team tries to out think the business team then it is. Design wise, I know it when I see it but other people may see different things.
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
If you don't have trees blocking the sun, something will grow in your yard and it will look a lot like a lawn.
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
The accomplishments of others do not in any way diminish your value. Enjoy the people in your life, give back what you can, and know that your accomplishments stand on their own and don't need to be measured against anything else.
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
Back in the 90s, my girlfriend and I would go out drinking and end the night in the back of her van listening to Art Bell and sobering up. The show I remember most was when a guy called saying he was flying into area 51 and Art was trying t
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
So you think hunters and people tend livestock eat less meat?
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
These guys have a job that requires professional tools. They are not piddling around in the yard for a few hours on Saturday morning.
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
I can see it now. Some dude sitting around drinking coffee waiting for his gear to charge plugged into a gas powered generator.
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
Because everyone would rather listen to an exciting and engaging speaker. Of course, a calm and reserved voice is interesting today because it is exceptional in the current environment. I think Lester Holt's delivery is a good compromi
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
I hated the change to CUPS. I liked both the simplicity and complexity that I had going with lpd. The system itself was simple and my filters were a beautiful mix of AWK and Ghostscript. I even had a queue to email PDFs. I guess CUPS works
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by mmcgaha 5y ago
I think it is something like the old joke where you tell the doctor that it hurts when you do something and the doctor says stop doing it. Often, we can eliminate the problem by factoring it out altogether. In this case people observed the

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