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by rcurry 11y ago
This is a great idea, but you need to fix the navigation on that page - having to click on those tiny numbers off to the left is really frustrating. Also, as 'gus_massa' points out in his comment, having the summaries trail off wi
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by rcurry 11y ago
I felt the same about that sample text - I'm used to writing in cursive, and that sample was actually pretty easy on the eyes for me. I think we're well on our way to a day when nobody writes by hand at all. It's a shame, but
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by rcurry 11y ago
I can't believe how many legendary people have died in the last few months. I still remember reading Foucault's Pendulum when it came out in English - I was too young to really dig the story at the time, but I can recall strugglin
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by rcurry 11y ago
When I was a kid, my dad didn't want to spend money on an alarm system so he just added that magnetic glass breakage tape around all the first floor windows and installed a metal panel with a locking cover plate and a series of blinkin
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by rcurry 11y ago
Is it just me, or does anyone else think those two icons look like toilet seats?
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by rcurry 11y ago
"There are two things I am sure of after all these years: there is a growing societal need for high assurance software, and market forces are never going to provide it." - Earl Boebert
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by rcurry 11y ago
I wonder if they just bungled the translation from French to English? The marketing blurbs under "Easy", "Scalable", and "Powerful" are pretty hard to read, almost like they were output from one of those online
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by rcurry 11y ago
I haven't used Detours in years, so was surprised to see that they have a "professional" version now - it's like $10K in the Windows Store. I only used the free version, but it was awesome to work with and made trampolin
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by rcurry 11y ago
Oh, you mean like all the personal information I had to submit to the Defense Investigative Service when they did my background check for a security clearance? Why, it's funny you should ask! I just got a letter from the Office or Pers
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by rcurry 11y ago
This reminds me of a great documentary I watched a few months ago, about this guy named Frédéric Bourdin who managed to impersonate (from a jail cell in Spain) a boy who had gone missing in Texas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by rcurry 11y ago
I don't know much about the geographic distribution of hybrids, but I've never seen anything other than the scraggly little western ones around San Diego; they're about 30 lbs soaking wet, nowhere near as big as the ones you
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by rcurry 11y ago
"For example, in southern California where coyotes are absent," I'm sorry, but this guy needs to get his facts straight. Southern California is home to some of the highest density coyote populations in the state.
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by rcurry 11y ago
I remember Softimage XSI, that was a beautiful system and I loved working with it back when I was playing around with some 3D stuff. They used to have great deals on pricing so it was also much more affordable than a lot of the other profes
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by rcurry 11y ago
That's awesome - nice work, and thanks for sharing it.
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by rcurry 11y ago
I think that, regardless of which side of the political spectrum most of us are on, we all want things to work better than they do. The problem is that taking the steps to make things work better reduces the opportunities for graft and corr
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by rcurry 11y ago
"Please tax the wealthy, but first, it's a better idea to run government in the most efficient way possible." Yeah, if someone tells me that they can spend Elon Musk's money more productively than he can, I'd kind o
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by rcurry 11y ago
Startup: We need an experienced Foo programmer. Me: Those are easy to find. Startup: Our lead developer keeps shooting them down because they don't know (obscure keyword). Me: How long would it take an experienced programmer to learn (
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by rcurry 11y ago
I thought that was the whole point/comedy of Winston Wolf - that the criminals were so stupid, a guy with an average IQ was revered as a mastermind.
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by rcurry 11y ago
I'm with you, I drink about 15 cups of coffee a day but I do switch to decaf around noon.
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by rcurry 11y ago
Also, one of the real advantages of a bespoke suit, shirt, whatever, is that the tailor now has your pattern and can knock out a new suit or shirt for you with nothing more than a phone call (provided you haven't been hitting the all-y
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by rcurry 11y ago
Oh definitely - if you're not in a rush you can find some great deals like that. I have a couple of Hickey-Freeman suits that I got a great deal on (not as good as you though) and they have held up really nicely. I was actually surpris
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by rcurry 11y ago
I had to wear a suit every day at one of the Wall Street firms that I worked for. The reality is that a "good" suit is going to be expensive - there is no way around that. If you don't want to shell out for a bespoke suit, yo
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by rcurry 11y ago
The thing that always kills me on new Java projects is wading through these enormous hierarchies of folders full of interface classes just to find one actual line of implementation code. Of course, right after that one line of implementatio
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by rcurry 11y ago
I developed a great interest in Eiffel after I read Bertrand Meyer's book "Object Oriented Software Construction" (which I still think is one of the all time great books on object-oriented programming), but I never found anyo
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by rcurry 11y ago
I'm a huge fan of personal freedom (don't care what people smoke), but yeah I have to agree with you here. I did some work for a firm where the system administrator walked around puffing huge clouds of this foul-smelling vapor tha
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by rcurry 11y ago
"She was sent through a train’s mail compartment with 53 cents of stamps attached to her jacket." How awesome is that. I bet the kids thought it was cool too - they probably still would today, "Hey kid, you want to ride with
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by rcurry 11y ago
Oh, I misread the totals - ha ha.
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by rcurry 11y ago
Okay, in all fairness - I'm a bit fluthered right now, but I'm not understanding this: "Altogether, Dr Decety and his colleagues recruited 1,170 families for their project, and focused on one child per family. Five hundred an
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by rcurry 11y ago
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation To call upon a neighbour and to say: -- "We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight, Unless you pay us cash to go away." And that is called asking for Dane-
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by rcurry 11y ago
To be fair, as long as you are building systems on top of general purpose operating systems and exposing them to the internet, you're going to be vulnerable to one hack or another. No matter how much money you throw at the problem, thi

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