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by phugoid 18y ago
I think it's a great idea, but too many people have beaten you to the punch. I googled "email yourself reminder future", and just from the first page of results I come up with: http://www.futureme.org/ http://futuremail.bensinclair.com/
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by phugoid 18y ago
My humble experience is that gadgets are ultimately counter-productive, and a distraction. In a previous life I've blown painful amounts of money on music equipment, only to realize that I might have been a decent guitar player if I had jus
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by phugoid 18y ago
Actually, I agree with you. I enjoy the process too. I was just trying to make sense of sho's post. Why would (s)he be coding in his spare time if (s)he so doesn't take some pleasure in the mechanics of it?
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by phugoid 18y ago
Any chance you worked on an MD-82 for Alitalia a long time ago? I think they have two over there, and I worked on relocating one of them to CAE Madrid. My first taste of a Rediffusion machine - similar architecture, nicer code.
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by phugoid 18y ago
By that token, what _is_ fun? Let's say you ask a painter if he enjoys painting. Do they really enjoy the act of dragging a brush over a surface, of cleaning brushes, mixing colours? These are just the low-level, mechanical parts of the a
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by phugoid 18y ago
(blush) thanks. We use these simulators for training - it's cheaper/safer than the real aircraft. - The pilots and instructor inside the cabin manipulate controls/switches/CBs/panels, sending signals to an bunch of interface cards. - The i
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by phugoid 18y ago
Well, I nearly killed myself with a line of bad code. I made a silly change to a flight simulator's "unusual attitude" logic. Unusual attitude training consists of putting the aircraft in a very difficult orientation (45 deg nose down, 60
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by phugoid 18y ago
Really? I disagree. The original article was written in tones of anger and disgust. Most of what he said there is accurate by my reckoning, and these facts stand on their own without the need of his London-tabloidesque prose. Yep, I jus
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by phugoid 18y ago
Yes, it's very cultural. I have observed first-hand how people here go ballistic at the slightest perceived slight. This spirit of vengefulness has gotten worse as the city has mushroomed with foreigners who now outnumber locals 20 to 1, m
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by phugoid 18y ago
People here are not used to hearing open criticism of their country or their rulers. The "Dark Side of Dubai" article really didn't spare anyone's feelings, to say the least. That kind of disrespect beckons retaliation of some kind. Since
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by phugoid 18y ago
Not all all. In both cases, your "what about" stayed on topic.
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by phugoid 18y ago
With all due respect, this seems pretty naive to me. I've met dozens of people trying to gain entry to Canada and the US, and it's common knowledge that you can game the system with money. This would just provide another entry point. You w
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by phugoid 18y ago
What I find more interesting than nature and nurture here is the censorship of scientific research. Many of us would like to base our cultural views, morals and laws on the findings of scientific research. It seems more reasonable than the
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by phugoid 18y ago
A number of articles I've read, but sorry I haven't recorded any specific links. I've also read about some very patriotic Chinese surfers that go around flaming anything that doesn't conform to the Party line. Same happens here in UAE. Fro
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by phugoid 18y ago
I usually wait a little while for the water temperature to stabilize, before getting in. That transient period will be much longer with this gadget. - time it takes for the heat exchanger (gadget) to warm up due to shower drain water. - no
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by phugoid 18y ago
The hard thing to bend my mind around is the fact that many people in China are in favour of Internet censorship. I have witnessed the same thing here in the UAE - even from young Western-educated locals. I suppose that if you grow up in a
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by phugoid 18y ago
If I understand his argument correctly, esr is claiming that companies can't profit from grabbing a handful of open source software and building their own product around it. The open source development model is so superior that said compan
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by phugoid 18y ago
I don't really understand esr. I can't reconcile the elevated discourse of The Cathedral & the Bazaar and The Art of UNIX Programming with the constant self-praise and trolling in his blog and elsewhere. He's just too smart to be that
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by phugoid 18y ago
Dubai, United Arab Emirates