mrlyc

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by mrlyc 9y ago
When I was writing device drivers for the middleware people, I found that unit tests were useful for testing the code and making sure the hardware was doing what it was supposed to. Along with the drivers, I released the test code to middle
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by mrlyc 9y ago
This sounds great! I have 680 GB of podcasts recorded at 128 kbps which equates to 1.35 years of constant listening. I could definitely listen at a higher speed while doing housework, gardening or washing the dishes. I'd be concerned a
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by mrlyc 9y ago
When interviewing potential employers, I ask them 1. Do you conduct regular peer reviews of your documentation and code? 2. Do you have a bug tracking system?
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by mrlyc 9y ago
I joined Mensa and wasn't too impressed. Their attitude towards intelligence is like that of a teenage boy who thinks he knows how to drive fast just because he has a car with a big engine. Skill and effort are required, not just raw m
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by mrlyc 9y ago
Librarian here. There is no pleasure of stumbling upon a book in the wrong place.
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by mrlyc 9y ago
At a motorcycle club party, one of the people there revealed that he was a motorcycle mechanic. Big mistake. I like solving puzzles so I'm quite happy to fix computers for free for friends, family and my neighbour who is chronically il
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by mrlyc 9y ago
I kept getting email messages from Facebook after I deleted my account. They stopped after I lodged a complaint with the Australian Communications and Media Authority. It enforces the Spam Act (2003) which prohibits the sending of unsolicit
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by mrlyc 9y ago
> People who park on the street have no realistic way to charge their cars at their homes Perhaps there could be combined parking meters and charging stations. You would pay a certain amount of money if you just wanted to park and you w
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by mrlyc 9y ago
I do this by bringing samples of my code and documentation.
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by mrlyc 9y ago
My favourite is "Targeting Safety-Related Errors During Software Requirements Analysis" by Robyn Lutz at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It's available at https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/20
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by mrlyc 9y ago
I'm still using an outliner called PC Outline 3.34. My manager gave me a copy in 1986, saying "Here, you're organised. You'll like this" and he was right. I bought a copy and have been using it every day since th
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by mrlyc 9y ago
In 1984, I wrote a BBS for the Commodore Vic-20 which had up to 63 public and private rooms (message areas), private email and an online game, all in 9.6K of BASIC. Users could start their own rooms and make them public or private. The to
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by mrlyc 9y ago
Really? I'm 63 and Google in both Mountain View and Sydney are after me.
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by mrlyc 9y ago
Photography and weightlifting. Back in the old days of film with two camera bodies, a motor drive, tripod and five lenses, I could combine the two. Now that I have a more sensitive digital camera with one zoom lens, I have to go to the gy
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by mrlyc 9y ago
https://www.ratemds.com/
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by mrlyc 9y ago
The motor on my mum's Singer Featherweight model 3-120 sewing machine runs on 110-120 volts 25-75 cycles AC and DC. It was made around 1950.
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by mrlyc 9y ago
I've worked for a number of startups and observed that some people are great at collecting money but don't know how to spend it wisely after getting it, just as some politicians are great at getting elected but don't know how
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by mrlyc 9y ago
I have very limited time for reading but lots of time for listening while I'm washing the dishes or travelling. When I find a book that looks interesting, I download an interview with or presentation by its author from YouTube, convert
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by mrlyc 9y ago
It depends on the company. One place I worked at instituted a bonus system with the result that programs were released on time, buggy or not, as releasing them late would have reduced the managers' bonuses. I raised a stink about that
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by mrlyc 9y ago
That article reminds me of The Auditors in Terry Pratchett's "The Thief of Time" who try to analyse a painting by reducing it to its component molecules. There is no mention of tailoring comments and replies to the target aud
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by mrlyc 9y ago
In 1984, I wrote a BBS for the Commodore Vic-20 with up to 64 "rooms" (message areas), email and an online game. Users could create a room and make it public or private. The board was very popular with users spending an average
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by mrlyc 9y ago
I never have enough time to read so I've turned my anti-library into audio files. Whenever I hear of an interesting book, I look up the author's name on YouTube to find out if they've given an interview or a talk about the bo
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by mrlyc 10y ago
Having been burned more than once, the questions I now ask are: "Do you conduct regular peer reviews of code and documentation?" "Do you have a bug tracking system?"
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by mrlyc 10y ago
Oh yes. I used to work with one who wouldn't let the programmers print anything. He once stormed into the programming room after someone called and asked to leave a message for one of the programmers. "In my next company,"
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by mrlyc 10y ago
When I write code, I keep the target audience in mind. That target audience is a maintenance programmer doing their first programming job.
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by mrlyc 10y ago
In addition to MISRA, I've found the safety checklist in Lutz's "Targeting Safety-Related Errors During Software Requirements Analysis" at https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/351
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by mrlyc 10y ago
At one place I worked, programmers weren't allowed to print anything and creative accounting was used to calculate our wages, something I didn't realise until I left as there were no payslips. One time, the CEO came storming into
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by mrlyc 10y ago
Do what you love, what you are good at and what people are willing to pay for.
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by mrlyc 10y ago
> “Give me 48 cents using six coins. Tell me quantity and value of the six coins.” That's easy. 2 x 20c and 4 x 2c. Nobody said the coins had to be American and still in circulation.
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by mrlyc 10y ago
I found that doing endian conversion for a system using both PCI and VME buses was quite a challenge. I also found it a challenge writing Linux device drivers for chips with an external 32 bit bus and an internal 16 bit one. The 32 bit dat

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