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peterburkimsher
11y ago
I also did exactly the same thing, and I'm the same age! I now have a small collection of old iPods. I didn't make much money, but I collected a large amount of music, and made friends. In fact, the iPod & iTunes were a major
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11y ago
If it were designed in base 2, the lifetime would be 65536 years.
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11y ago
Two things irritate me. 1. A food bank should never ask for a person's home address. If you need to use a food bank, chances are you're homeless. 2. Homeowners should not worry so much about their property value. It's all go
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11y ago
"I do not want to be your posterboy. I am not found and I do not want to be." Why oh why can't journalists just respect his wishes! "People love my secret identity and hate me." It certainly seems that the Australia
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I started a Ph.D. in electronic engineering at a prestigious Korean university. When the professor refused to pay my scholarship, I took it up with the international office. The international office had a word with the professor. The prof
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11y ago
"Sorry for the long post, here's a potato." That must be one of the earliest examples of that meme!
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11y ago
Titles are important for immigration purposes, e.g. for Canada's work-to-residence Express Entry visa. Software engineer: 3-4 years work experience required, maybe Masters degree, professional certification. http://www5.hrs
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11y ago
Maybe to save VW, the new management will switch to all-electric or hydrogen vehicles. It would be a huge change, but maybe necessary to save their brand. And it would be a huge win for customers, the industry as a whole, and the environmen
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This takes "Look Inside" to a whole new level. It's a neat idea, and a good way to put a public face on their business. The major reason I'd still prefer to shop online is the reviews. I doubt that those are printed alon
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11y ago
The software control SCADA system for the Gotthard Base Tunnel is called WinCC OA, made by ETM Siemens. Full disclosure: I did a summer job for them in Eisenstadt, Austria in 2012, and my dad uses the same software at CERN. ETM made softwa
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11y ago
It needs root privileges to install, though. I wish there were a graphical browser that I could run in an SSH session to Red Hat OpenShift. Installing X11 requires root. I only have standard user privileges. Any suggestions?
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"Freak out", "Drop everything else", "Involve all the /key/ people", "Search maniacally for underlying causes" (scapegoat), "Assume the situation is self-inflicted", "search .
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11y ago
The question removes responsibility from the interviewer, and puts all the pressure on the candidate. Many candidates are in situations when they'd be willing to accept something less than "ideal". This is especially true in
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11y ago
The only winning move is not to play. - WarGames.
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11y ago
Or Title'); DROP TABLE Articles;--
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11y ago
A mobile app platform based on images. Keep a basic JavaScript bookmarklet to decode the images into HTML, so they become browser-based apps. Store everything in the 50MB of cache-manifest. Use the same apps on iOS, Android, etc. Evade pare
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11y ago
The headline made me expect hexadecimal codes for classifying engineers. Read the article, disappointed. 0x48 0x65 0x6C 0x6C 0x6F 0x57 0x6F 0x72 0x6C 0x64.
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12y ago
Pray.
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12y ago
I'm not afraid of computers acting like people (AI). I'm very worried about people acting like computers. Every circuit, every program is based on a principle: comparators (analogue) = NAND (digital) = if statements (software). Ma
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I've actually been working on a side project related to this since about 2006. Currently I have a working email-based proxy server, with Browse (HTML to email), Translate, Base64 Download, and Base64 upload. I send the URL in the email
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Mac Desktop Picture from Leaflet Map
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12y ago
What extra-curricular interests do you have? • Consider visiting a church. • Go to an open language exchange group. • Look on CouchSurfing, and meet someone for coffee. Those are usually free of charge, and will put you in contact with
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RAMDisk Accelerator for Mac. Save faster in a parallel thread.
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I put my Raspberry Pi inside an iPod: http://peterburk.tumblr.com/pipod
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Raspberry Pi inside iPod
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