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by phugoid 17y ago
I don't like being lied to. What's going on in my mind, within two seconds of the page load, is that you've used a stock image on your front page, and you've generated "These people both read Hacker News." using my HTTP referrer. So in fac
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by phugoid 17y ago
The second of three PDF files (cardiacmemory.pdf) seems to be corrupted here: http://kylewiki.mine.nu/wiki/Cardiac_Computer
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by phugoid 17y ago
One two-year-old, and another one on the way for November. Losing sleep, changing diapers and cleaning throw-up seems to have injected a dose of realism in my life. I also feel like I'm doing reasonably well with a really big project, and
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by phugoid 17y ago
Free as in Freedom, a story about Stallman. I liked the unusual story of rms driving a car and freaking out as he had to follow someone taking the "scenic route". My least favorite was The Google Story - I couldn't stomach more than a chap
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by phugoid 17y ago
I have reached an enlightenment recently. Pretty much all the technology around me is an instance of a gadget, that has-a microprocessor, and has-a bunch of I/O ports to connect to some breakout circuitry. In my 10 years of work since scho
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by phugoid 17y ago
Between work and home I interact directly with more than one hundred machines, from IBM Risc 6000 running AIX to Ubuntu laptops to WinXP drones under corporate lock-down. These machines are not even speaking to each other. My most importa
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by phugoid 17y ago
You're complaining about having two sets of friends? I think I'd settle for one. But I won't dumb down.
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by phugoid 17y ago
I love food, probably too much. My favorite things to prepare are: - shrimp and asparagus gnocchi with basil - pancetta-covered roasted beef tenderloin with wild mushrooms - seafood and chicken paella - mushroom, garlic and parmesan home-m
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by phugoid 17y ago
She beautifully explained what draws people like myself to GNU/Linux. I have tried to convey some of these ideas to colleagues who are serious about Windows programming, to no avail. It's not about Microsoft either. In my industry (flight
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by phugoid 17y ago
Whether it fits HN or not, thanks for this. The photo where Les Paul is holding his guitar fresh off the assembly line brought a tear to my eye. It just captures the pride and excitement. Glad to hear the old man is still rocking.
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by phugoid 17y ago
At any point in time, there were always skilled technical people pushing the edge of their trade. I had the privilege of visiting a Viking museum in Oslo, where I had an epiphany. Did you know that 1000 years ago, viking smiths were smelti
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by phugoid 17y ago
That's what I was going to suggest as well. From your posts, it seems that the University's IT people like your app, and there's really no technical problem anymore. So randomize your IP number, and if anyone wants an explanation you can t
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by phugoid 17y ago
Let's say that you applied a 50% open source quota to the atomic energy agency. What if the open source solutions for their specialized needs are quite poor? Would you still insist that they follow the quota? In that situation, I'd prefer
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by phugoid 17y ago
This is not just about following EU recommendations about letting open source solutions compete for procurement contracts. This is about introducing a quota system that is anti-competitive and that may ultimately harm the open source cause
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by phugoid 17y ago
There are discussions on the same topic going on in many governments right now, examining the rules to make sure that open source software can compete on equal footing. That's fair. Let the best solution win. I'm surprised that a member o
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by phugoid 17y ago
I think enthusiasm is more important than structure and curriculum both for 8 and 80 year-olds. Just plant the seed - if he takes an interest, he'll start learning on his own. When he comes up with interesting questions, you can start fil
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by phugoid 17y ago
I wasn't going to reply to this, because I don't want to be a censor. But you're calling babies stupid, and I have a baby, and he's a bona fide genius, and I suspect he's no smarter than your baby. A newborn baby's brain is like a computer
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by phugoid 17y ago
It saddens me that many people I've met would mistake your humility for weakness. I see it as a great strength.
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by phugoid 17y ago
A very basic embedded operating system for an ARM7-based microcontroller. I'm still in the early stages. I have no illusions that I'm going to write anything better than the other RTOSs out there; it's just for the kicks of working on the
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by phugoid 17y ago
Simitar! A cutting new technology.
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by phugoid 17y ago
Thanks for the crash course.
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by phugoid 17y ago
In all sincerity, I'd like to understand how and why you would use libevent instead of the approach outlined by Beej, Is there any link or other reference you could recommend for further study? The documentation on libevent's home page is
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by phugoid 17y ago
Then why don't we have/create a free version of "Software As A Service"? How could that be applied to the various cloud computing services that RMS has an issue with? Like Google Docs, Gmail, cloud computing power (like Amazon, Google). In
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by phugoid 17y ago
Sure life is risky. But most of the scenarios you mention have nothing to do with software freedom. Say you rent rackspace. You can run free software on that server, and have complete control over all of your data. If the datacenter does
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by phugoid 17y ago
To me it also depends on the task at hand. 20 minutes will get me through a chapter from Learning Pything (even if I'm not entirely sober), while 3 hours doesn't feel like enough to work on my ARM7 development board in Assembler (something
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by phugoid 17y ago
I don't mind a _handful_ of non-tech articles. I'm more interested in the comments: what do smart tech people think about this or that? Then I add my own comment, and the smart bit gets cleared. Ah well. In any case, I assume the point-ba
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by phugoid 17y ago
Totally agree. In fact, it would be interesting for someone to measure the difference in a room's acoustics from having your body in it. Then measure the difference due to swapping cables.
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by phugoid 17y ago
I'm don't agree with the article's premise, that "the world needs better data manipulation tools than Excel and Access". Most of my present colleagues are not programmers, and they manage to create relatively complex applications with Excel
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by phugoid 17y ago
You mean that real programmers have coded an Account class with a Withdraw method and a Balance property, like in OO for Dummies? Sure glad I'm not a real programmer then. I wrote my first object oriented program a few years ago, and it se
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File sharing sites amplify the market control of big music business(entertainment.slashdot.org)
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