mrlyc

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by mrlyc 13y ago
What works for me is to write the code with a target audience in mind. That target audience is someone who learned the language for one term in college and doesn't know it all that well. The maintenance programmers have met those cri
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by mrlyc 13y ago
I read everything on my Tungsten E Palm Pilot. I have three of the buttons programmed for different reading programs. One is for hard non-fiction, such as Harvard Business Review and other management articles, one is for soft non-fiction
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by mrlyc 14y ago
It depends on what I'm doing. I'd say I'm better than average with general programming, I'm about average when it comes to safety-critical work and I'm below the average of people who do operating systems.
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by mrlyc 14y ago
How to convince people that their design could be improved. Say "How about if we..." instead of "You should...". What to do when other team leaders keep asking you for help. Tell them to ask your manager so he can set the priority of the
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by mrlyc 14y ago
I'm porting a game I wrote in 1981 for the HP 41CV calculator to Android.
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by mrlyc 14y ago
Nokia 3315. Twelve years old. I recharge it every three weeks and access to the phone network costs me $10 per month. I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Ace to play MP3s. When I used it as a phone, it had to be recharged every two days a
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by mrlyc 14y ago
Almost thirty years ago, I wrote a bulletin board for my Commodore Vic-20. It had public and private rooms (message areas), private mail and an online game. Users could create a room and make it public or private. The room topics ranged
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by mrlyc 14y ago
> the golden rule of “manage how you’d like to [be] managed” still applies I tried that. It lasted about ten minutes. I then changed to managing people how they would like to be managed. That was much more successful.
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by mrlyc 14y ago
It's annoying to the customer, not the manufacturer. The more product is left in the bottle, the sooner the customer will have to buy more.
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by mrlyc 14y ago
Management: HBR (Harvard Business Review) Podcast http://hbsp2.libsyn.com/rss Interviews: Conversations with Richard Fidler http://abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/conversationspodc...
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by mrlyc 14y ago
The U.S. government already knows everything about me. My friends and future employers don't.
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by mrlyc 14y ago
The award prizes seem odd with first place winning $25,000 while the other finalists win only $1,000 each. I feel uncomfortable about that "winner takes all" approach as it increases the importance of luck and decreases that of effort. Is
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by mrlyc 14y ago
I joined Mensa and left after three meetings. It seemed to me that they mistook being able to think quickly for being able to think clearly, much the same as a teenager who thinks he knows how to drive fast just because he has a car with a
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by mrlyc 14y ago
The middle of the afternoon is the worst time for me. I wake myself up with an apple or some celery and a quick walk around the block.
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by mrlyc 14y ago
> Search is nice but a lot of people like to browse. Could you categorise an item under the search term that people used to look for it? For example, let's say they enter a search term which brings up a range of items and they click on
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by mrlyc 14y ago
I'm stuck with Windows as my favourite image manager, ACDSee, doesn't work all that well under Wine. When I want to do online banking, I boot into Linux.
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by mrlyc 14y ago
Let's just see how it plays out in the field when alpha male cops of both sexes are high on self importance and adrenalin.
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by mrlyc 14y ago
Would it be wrong to put the LA Times' own phone number there?
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by mrlyc 14y ago
Windows 7 leaves drives powered up too whereas Windows XP didn't. I suspect the change was made for people who want to keep charging their devices.
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by mrlyc 15y ago
It depends on the company. I'm 57 and I've been programming for 35 years. I was hired to write air traffic control software for a contractor to Lockheed Martin because I had "a lot of experience" which I figure is what you need when you'r
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by mrlyc 15y ago
I'm 56 and I've had trouble finding a job. Part of it is because of my age - employers aren't allowed to say that so they say there are "too many jobs" on my résumé - and part of it is that I haven't kept up to date. I stuck with C, refus
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by mrlyc 15y ago
Weightlifting six days a week.
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by mrlyc 16y ago
Wasn't Qt originally from Trolltech? I think Nokia's problem with software quality was company wide. After I left to work somewhere else, the CEO of Korea Telecom told our sales team that "Nokia is finished in Asia" and went on to complain
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by mrlyc 16y ago
I'm astonished that Nokia made the list as it was by far the worst company I've ever worked at. They did no code reviews at all and buggy software was released so managers' bonuses would not be affected.
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by mrlyc 16y ago
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. It turned out to be a complete dud. I went there to do Communications and Electronic Engineering in 1981 because it was famous (our own MIT) and hard to get into and I w
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by mrlyc 16y ago
I'm in Melbourne, Australia. I've emailed your complaint to Australian Customs with a copy to my local Member of Parliament (Congressperson).
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by mrlyc 16y ago
Ventolin inhaler
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by mrlyc 16y ago
"When I dump a flash card to the computer (using Aperture), I then remove the card, and delete it manually on the camera." A safer way would be to keep at least two copies of your photos at all times. I delete mine from the card only after
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by mrlyc 16y ago
Groundhog Day, Little Miss Sunshine, Pleasantville
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by mrlyc 16y ago
I wasn't gifted but I was quite bright, having the third highest IQ out of the fifty or so pupils in the two fifth grade classes. I was doing very well at school but my teacher didn't like me for some reason so he kept accusing me of cheat

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