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by mrlyc 11y ago
I prefer desktops. It seems to me that laptops are the digital equivalent of the old three-in-ones consisting of turntable, radio and cassette. If you wanted, say, a good turntable, you ended up paying more for the other components too as
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by mrlyc 11y ago
I use Avira on Windows 7. Once a week, I run Spybot. I do weekly backups, alternating between two sets of disks that are kept at opposite ends of my flat in case only one end burns down, as happened to a friend. The really critical must-n
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by mrlyc 11y ago
Australian supermarkets have recycling bins specifically for single-use plastic bags. Don't the U.S. supermarkets have them?
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by mrlyc 11y ago
I'm 60 and my friend is 63. He does COBOL and finds jobs easily. I write Linux device drivers in C and have been looking for work for a long time.
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by mrlyc 12y ago
What worked for me was to do weightlifting every day. I used to run my heating at 20 degrees (68). Now I'm quite comfortable at 17 (62.6).
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by mrlyc 12y ago
Do you think they'll stop at Blogger or will they ban adult content from YouTube too?
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by mrlyc 12y ago
It depends on the product. We didn't have many resources when I was writing code for barcode readers so we had an informal arrangement whereby one person wrote the code and two people reviewed it. For my mobile (cell phone) base stat
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by mrlyc 12y ago
What worked for us was to do two versions of the program at the same time. Version one had simple functionality. Version two had all the bells and whistles dreamt up by the programmers and the customer while we were working on version one.
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by mrlyc 12y ago
I used to run my central heating at 20(68). Then I started working out at the gym every day and now feel comfortable at 17(63).
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by mrlyc 12y ago
Confirmation bias.
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by mrlyc 12y ago
My sister always sang "But I'm only a cross-eyed octopus" instead of cockeyed optimist.
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by mrlyc 12y ago
$79.95 seems rather expensive for a Bluetooth keyboard as you can buy one from Amazon for only $11.57. Am I missing something?
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by mrlyc 12y ago
My first hack was a bulletin board I wrote in 1984 for a Commodore Vic-20. It had multiple message areas ("rooms"), private mail and an online game. Users could start their own rooms and make them public or private. There were
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by mrlyc 12y ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: EFTPOS, Linux device drivers, mainly C, some C++ with PowerPC, Intel and ARM chips. Resume: Electronic engineering background, wrote AS2805 library for EFTPOS t
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by mrlyc 12y ago
Unemployed, about to turn 60, sometimes wondering if I've retired and just don't know it yet. Used to do embedded programming for EFTPOS terminals, medical equipment and air traffic control systems. Currently doing post producti
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by mrlyc 12y ago
I go to the gym every day. I've found that I have to drive to the gym straight from work as, if I go home first, I somehow never make it to the gym.
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by mrlyc 13y ago
The NSA is no longer a credible source.
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by mrlyc 13y ago
Logitech K120. It replaced a Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600 which looked nice but had small function keys that were awkward to use.
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by mrlyc 13y ago
I'd say I was the most productive when it took me eight hours to write a seven line shell script. That replaced 2,650 lines of C. The previous programming team had written a data transfer program with its own implementation of ftp. I
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by mrlyc 13y ago
I classify my files into ordinary, important and vital. Once a week, everything gets backed up onto one of my two external drives. The important and vital stuff gets backed up onto a USB I always carry with me and the vital stuff also get
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by mrlyc 13y ago
I see a software engineer as someone who has a lot of knowledge about the hardware and can write embedded programs, device drivers, board support packages and communciations programs. A programmer writes user interfaces, web pages, databas
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by mrlyc 13y ago
What makes them think that only the police will be able to stop vehicles?
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by mrlyc 13y ago
The questions I ask are: 1. Do you have coding and documentation standards? 2. Do you conduct regular peer reviews? 3. Do you use a bug tracking system? 4. I feel more comfortable working as part of a team, not just a bunch of people workin
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by mrlyc 13y ago
The best optimisation I made was rewriting 2,650 lines of C as a seven line shell script. The previous programming team had written a data transfer program with its own implementation of ftp. I just used the one that was already on the co
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by mrlyc 13y ago
As I explained to someone starting their first programming job, "In college, you get into trouble if you use someone else's code. At work, you get into trouble if you don't." In other words, always search for some code
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by mrlyc 13y ago
http://www.theinquirer.net/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/
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by mrlyc 13y ago
Firefox with NoScript most of the time, Chrome for the very few sites that don't work with that combination even after all the NoScript permissions have been given, Internet Explorer for micosoft.com and applying for jobs when I can&#x
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by mrlyc 13y ago
We did ours with Linux and C.
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by mrlyc 13y ago
Clueless HR. For example, I'd been writing air traffic control software for a contractor of Lockheed Martin. When that contract finished, I applied to do the same at Thales and was turned down on the basis that there were "too m
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by mrlyc 13y ago
Do what you love, what you are good at and what people are willing to pay for. Look for a job with interesting work, nice people to work with and a financially stable company. Sometimes you have to settle for two out of three.

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