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by niccl 11y ago
Curious that it spikes at the weekends: approx 15% more ipv6 at weekends than during the week.
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by niccl 11y ago
slightly relevant: I've just built a lighting desk that uses motorised faders for some of the control input. To get the PID values for the faders I built a genetic algorithm tool that would evolve the right numbers. Worked a treat but
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by niccl 12y ago
I know it's slightly off topic but I've been fascinated with the idea of blind people having 'optical' illusions. Eg does the cafe wall illusion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Café_wall_illusion ) wor
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by niccl 12y ago
Luxury. We used to _dream_ of printf debugging when we're doing embedded microcontroller systems! (at least the ones I work on). There the debugging is toggling a port pin and examining with an oscilloscope. I typically toggle it diffe
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by niccl 12y ago
> suddenly sets look like sets This really puzzle me. I was an extra in LOTR 3, and was on some of these sets. They _don't_ look like sets. The Weta people put insane energy and time into making them look and feel realistic: dirt on
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by niccl 12y ago
A company I occasionally do support for has a profitable legacy system that runs on 486 or lower PCs. Supplier of product out of busiess. One PC died and they couldn't get any more. I found a manufacturer of current PC104 boards with a
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by niccl 12y ago
Not sure if this is the sort of thing you mean, since it was only a fault-finding thing, but the constraints were _very_ tight... A long time ago I was Mister Fix-it for a company that made top-of-the-line lighting desks for touring rock b
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by niccl 13y ago
I did a week's contract at ZyXel in Taiwan. Same thing. Once I'd got in to the swing of it, it really helped me to keep focused during some long days
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by niccl 13y ago
Wouldn't be allowed in New Zealand (anywhere else?)
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by niccl 13y ago
So what if it's not absolutely new? It's new to the people in their specific context and _appears_ to be producing results, again, in that specific context. Very little of what we do is new, but still has merit when applied in a n
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by niccl 13y ago
This is scary. I go out of my way to remove gender hints from my CV. In particular I use a shortened version of my first name which is slightly more commonly associated with women. And I have had problems finding work recently. Now, do I ch
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by niccl 13y ago
I remember doing the maths for this at uni. Then going in to the library to see if it worked in practice. I don't know what the librarians did when they saw the pile of carefully stacked books on the floor, but we had fun!
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by niccl 13y ago
I think Jefferson's comment is relevant here: the price of freedom is eternal vigilance It seems that different groups are constantly picking away at your rights (in all sorts of areas). fight (as much as practical) _all_ the small steps
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by niccl 14y ago
For lots of stuff along these lines, Donald Norman's Design of Everyday Things is highly recommended.
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by niccl 14y ago
There have been rules for this for centuries in the UK. Pre-hyphenated names wre combined on marriage as <woman's_family_name>-<man's_family_name> On two people with such names marrying the final married name is &#60
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by niccl 14y ago
Is there another way of looking at this? Do you need to own the car? I hire a car when I need one, and use feet, push-bike and public transport the rest of the time. I _know_ I save money this way, compared with owning: I used to own a car,
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by niccl 14y ago
About 10 years ago I was living in the UK a few miles from Heathrow and near a motorway. I was working late shifts so I'd be walking home anywhere between 3 and 5 am. Once or twice in that couple of years I noticed it was totally quiet for
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by niccl 14y ago
and stay away from SugarCRM if you ever want to do any customisation. The code base is horrific (at least, to be fair it was around version 5.x. I haven't looked since, because those versions burnt so much
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by niccl 15y ago
That's all fine unless you're exploring a solution space. Then the overhead of writing tests which are thrown away _in entirety_ is outrageous. AFAIK TDD really only works if you're either a) prepared to waste a huge amount of time writing
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by niccl 15y ago
How do contract developers like me (working alone on projects) get code reviewed? Is this an opening for a general 'I'll review your code if you'll review mine' site? There are lots of issues like the 'who can review code' one that affect d
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by niccl 15y ago
There's an aspect of this that I haven't seen mentioned. It seems trivial but I think it's got to be solved before pooled vehicles like this can work: cleaning the vehicles. There's no incentive for the individual user to keep a shared veh
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by niccl 15y ago
I have a greta use for this, although it's _very_ niche. My spare time hobby is stage lighting for rock bands. I've been working on a new lighting controller and looking for exactly this sort of thing. The problem with almost all current li
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by niccl 15y ago
I saw a 'this' yesterday on HN (can't recall what it was about, unfortunately) and it had me totally puzzled. I had no idea what it was there for. I may be curmudgeonly and dumb, but I can't see where 'This' has any real advantage over 'I a
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by niccl 15y ago
Doh! I must be one of the SQL bunnies everyone else is superior to... I didn't know about the WITH statement. Thanks for enlightening me.
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by niccl 15y ago
This is really interesting in the context of the whingeing about Ubuntu 11.10 and Unity. One part of me absolutely agrees with the OP, but another part of me thinks that in a specific case like Ubuntu 11.10, Canonical, with their Ubuntu gif
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by niccl 15y ago
This article perpetuates a dichotomy that I have only just (at 50+) realised is false: creative versus technical. Technical people create: software and hardware often come out of nothing more than an idea. The real dichotomy that this artic
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by niccl 16y ago
In the second example, I find it depends on the language. In general I prefer the top version, but in SQL and some other languages I will usually use the second. That's because I might well want to comment out part of the statement. For exa
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by niccl 16y ago
Most of the time I work as a contract software and hardware engineer. I usually wear Jeans and a T-shirt for that. Sometimes I take a short contract doing my old job of management consultant. Then I tell the client I'll wear a suit if they
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by niccl 16y ago
As I was growing up I vowed I would have nothing to do with computers. My father was a programmer, and I did not want to be like him. I wanted to do stage lighting. I did a bit of electronics though, and one of my first jobs was helping a
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by niccl 17y ago
+1 for UTC+12

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