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by mrlyc 10y ago
Good grief, not that again. One of Edison's contemporaries said that Edison would have found a working lightbulb faster if he had put more thought into his investigations. What works for me is a series of plan -> do -> review se
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by mrlyc 10y ago
>> We've already lost when an arrest is equivalent to a conviction. > It's not, under the law, of course. It is under some circumstances. For example, the US visa waiver program: > We do not recommend that travelers w
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by mrlyc 10y ago
My favourite ones from my own family history were the plugs to put into wall sockets to stop the electricity leaking out.
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by mrlyc 10y ago
Thank you. Stephen was quite deaf (60dB loss) so we emailed each other all day, even though we were sitting together. When I noticed he was straining to hear during a conference call, I started summarising what each speaker had said. He
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by mrlyc 10y ago
I did most of an electronic engineering course and discovered that I like software more than hardware. After programming portable barcode readers and interactive voice response systems, I wrote a Windows device driver at one company then a
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by mrlyc 10y ago
It depends on where you live. Embedded and device driver jobs disappeared after Australia's electronics industry died and went to China. Six of my friends working in that area moved overseas, four to the States and two to England. I
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by mrlyc 10y ago
When the tech world moved away from me (doing mainly embedded C for the last thirty years might not have been the best idea for my career), I became an aged carer for my disabled mum. I learned a lot about cleaning, gardening and adding su
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by mrlyc 10y ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: no Willing to relocate: no Technologies: embedded Linux/C for EFTPOS terminals and networks, medical equipment and an air traffic control system. Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/2iC4
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by mrlyc 10y ago
I learned that putting more pressure on myself wasn't working, that there isn't a linear relationship between pressure and results. Instead, there is what I call a sweet spot, beyond which more pressure decreases results instead
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by mrlyc 10y ago
I see the actual goal as showing the populace who is in charge as well as getting them used to searches and interrogation. Combined with the newly militarized police, it decreases the probability of another revolution.
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by mrlyc 10y ago
The Psychology of Computer Programming by Gerald Weinberg. It considers programming as a human activity and introduces the concept of egoless programming.
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by mrlyc 10y ago
When my contract was up for renewal, what worked for me was to mention to my manager that people doing my job in other companies were being paid $20 more per hour than I was. I was hoping for a $5 increase or maybe even a $10 one but he ga
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by mrlyc 10y ago
When I was writing safety-critical embedded programs for medical equipment and an air traffic control system, I found MISRA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C ) and Lutz's "Targeting Safety-Related Errors
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by mrlyc 10y ago
Extending the list, 9) New technology can be very expensive. For example, a colleague's father purchased a DVD player in 1998 that cost $3,000 in today's dollar. 10) New technology often has bugs. After Microsoft releases update
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by mrlyc 10y ago
It's much sooner than 18.10. From the article, "Starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak release, there shouldn't be any 32-bit Desktop and Server ISO images available for download."
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by mrlyc 10y ago
It depends on what I'm writing. For portable data terminal programs, it was 90% coding, 10% testing and debugging. For the air traffic control software, it was 10% coding and 90% inspection, testing and debugging.
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by mrlyc 10y ago
PC Outline. It's a DOS-based outliner. In 1986, my manager said "Here, you're organised. You'll like this" and he was right - I did. So much so that I bought my own copy. I still use it every day in a DOSBox DO
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by mrlyc 10y ago
I've done a few safety-critical embedded devices for medical equipment and an air traffic control system. We used Linux/C so we didn't kill people. The combination of "medical device" and "touch-based user int
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by mrlyc 11y ago
Anecdata: my Internet drops out for about fifteen seconds three or four times a day. That's not a problem when I'm reading web pages or even downloading files but it would cause problems during a phone call. My ISP offered me a b
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by mrlyc 11y ago
I've found that it's important to do my own backups and not rely on IT to do them. I once returned from my holiday to find that the sysadmin had wiped my hard drive. He said he thought I had left the company. Fortunately, I had
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by mrlyc 11y ago
I've found LinkedIn to be very useful for keeping track of former teachers and managers. For example, a tutor who helped me a great deal in 1980 is now the head of his department and I have watched the slow but steady decline of a for
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by mrlyc 11y ago
I look for three things at a new job: interesting work, nice people to work with and a financially stable company. I often have to pick two out of three.
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by mrlyc 11y ago
I have two modes of thinking when I use a computer program: text mode and graphics mode. I am in text mode while I am reading or writing. I find icons confusing as I have to change from text mode to graphics mode to figure out what the ic
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by mrlyc 11y ago
I don't have much time to read but I do have a lot of time to listen, usually while I'm doing housework or travelling, so I'm subscribed to a lot of podcasts and YouTube channels. When a YouTube channel has something new tha
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by mrlyc 11y ago
My best period was when I got my first job as a programmer. My worst period is now. I am 61, have been unemployed for two years and I sometimes wonder if I've retired and just don't know it yet.
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by mrlyc 11y ago
I'm annoyed that I had to spend quite some time tracking down and removing gwx.exe as well as reconfiguring the registry and Windows Update of our Windows 7 PCs so we wouldn't be surprised by Windows 10 or multiple 3 GB dents in o
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by mrlyc 11y ago
My Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 can be set to WCDMA only.
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by mrlyc 11y ago
What worked for me was to learn to listen to people, to let them explain the problem and sometimes find an answer as they were talking. What helped was to do lots of peer reviews of both code and documentation so the the young ones could l
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by mrlyc 11y ago
The price difference can be a lot more than three times. For example, the cheapest U.S. price of Ventolin is $36.99. It costs us $4.45 in Australia.
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by mrlyc 11y ago
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