octopusRex

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by octopusRex 3y ago
Microsoft and IBM Lines of code clash >In the PBS TV series based on Bob Cringely's Accidental Empires, there is a sequence where Steve Ballmer describes the experience of co-developing OS/2 with IBM, how the whole thing became
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by octopusRex 3y ago
Do you really expect most managers, if any, would do this?
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by octopusRex 3y ago
>Tarr, noting that a more permanent seawall was not an option because hard structures like these are not allowed on Massachusetts beaches, said: “We’re managing a natural resource that protects a lot of interests.” The interests of the w
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by octopusRex 3y ago
I remember spending a lot of time writing comments for the exceptions when automation flagged code with a false positive. A lot of time.
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by octopusRex 3y ago
But, will it matter? :-(
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by octopusRex 3y ago
In my workplace juniors were replaced years ago by a never ending round of offshore. As soon as we train our offshore, they are rotated somewhere else. At least ai will stay put. But most of us will be getting by on basic income. Or bangin
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by octopusRex 3y ago
Years ago we were taught that the brain could not grow. You had what you were born with and after your twenties it degraded. Now of course we are aware that the brain has plasticity. It can rewire itself, grow, learn.
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by octopusRex 3y ago
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/ultra-pro...
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by octopusRex 3y ago
So when does Netflix make a limited series based on this.
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by octopusRex 3y ago
It's no longer about the engineers - it's all about the shareholders.
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by octopusRex 3y ago
Piedmont of NC... When I visited Dallas, I found it very similar.
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by octopusRex 3y ago
We were a small team and loved visual source safe. I also wondered about his claim that he couldn't download a copy - yes, he was unaware you could allow multiple checkouts. We were forced to migrate to SVN which I remember as being a
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by octopusRex 3y ago
I'm in the US. We wanted a commuter train in my city - instead we got a very expensive toll lane built by a Spanish company. The tolls are so expensive by the mile that only the wealthy or those with a business that can write them off
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by octopusRex 3y ago
I think most of us called it "going down a rabbit hole."
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by octopusRex 3y ago
I remember calling up yahoo on the phone and arguing that weddings should get its own category. We had a wedding website and it was lost under "Business". Yes, we called and talked to someone on the PHONE at Yahoo. No, we did not
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by octopusRex 3y ago
I'm tired of people saying "we'll just create NEW jobs." We will not create ENOUGH new jobs. They think this is like going from loss of blacksmith jobs when fewer horseshoes were needed to jobs gained in huge Ford motor
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by octopusRex 3y ago
For someone who has decades of experience but was knocked down by severe seizures that slowed him down, do you think any manager would consider hiring me for a non critical position at lower pay? I've gone through cognitive rehab,but h
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by octopusRex 3y ago
Old internet for me was pre AOL. Pre web browsers with graphics. Lynx browser. FTP, Archie, Veronica... Great Newsgroups. Commercial enterprises were hounded if they dared try to sell a product. Remember when the law firm's fax machine
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by octopusRex 3y ago
I will check this out. My native Japanese wife rolls her eyes at any AI Japanese bot. "We would never say it that way."
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by octopusRex 3y ago
The experiences he longs for - snakes in trees, balloons in the bakery section - are easily obtained through hallucinogenics.
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by octopusRex 3y ago
Overreach - How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise Susan L. Shirk 2022, Oxford University Press
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by octopusRex 3y ago
Overreach - How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise Susan L. Shirk 2022, Oxford University Press