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by shubb 13y ago
Haha, I don't think this script does much on a machine. It is designed to be interpreted by humans though.
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by shubb 13y ago
As an aside, it scares me a little that Windows for Warships is a thing. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/windows_for_w...
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by shubb 13y ago
I loved my pocket PC. The stylus and palm style glyth input gave data entry a practicality Android tablets can't match today. What the IPad had was style, a lot of style. The UI was beautiful. In terms of functionality didn't carr
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by shubb 13y ago
Heh, I use 32bit linux on very memory constrained VM instances. Because 64bit pointers are twice as big, software compiled for 64bit uses ~5% more memory (I should test this quantitatively, but sometimes I've noted more than this). On
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by shubb 13y ago
Other cloud providers may not read your mail to serve you ads, but they still put your data on an easy path to a government data funnel. If you want to avoid that, but the creepiness isn't enough to scare you off email all together you
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by shubb 13y ago
I don't know if you ever find yourself in a situation where you can't avoid eclipse. The tabbarmenuwindow problem is truly horrible.
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by shubb 13y ago
I usually code around 10pt - more would mean I couldn't fit enough code on the screen... Are you talking about coding at 24pt? I'm interested why you'd do that?
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by shubb 13y ago
Well CALO yielded SIRI, as in on the iphone. That project had a number of parts, one was an AI personal assistant, another was meetings, and another was some kind of integrated battle control center. Anyway, it yielded a lot of high grade s
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by shubb 13y ago
I have a startup idea that I'm not going to execute. I currently live with a senior social worker, and my mother was a social worker. Over the years have been deeply troubled by what I've heard. I think this tool could help them,
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by shubb 13y ago
Thanks. I stand by case, addressed at the author not Schumpeter. But feel rather silly.
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by shubb 13y ago
I don't... like the author of this piece. He writes like he doesn't really understand what he is discussing. For instance, he conflates the move to open plan offices, which is seen as increasing communication within teams, but als
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by shubb 13y ago
I find your comparison with engineers interesting. There is rigorous work on 'which agile methodology delivers most benefit' or 'what is the best way to architect a system', but largely that stays in academia. I don&#x27
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by shubb 13y ago
Chip vendors often give you a way to instantiate on chip hardware (memories, latches, etc). I found the path of least resistance (and highest performance) was to figure out what circuit I wanted, then basically use Verilog to wire these pri
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by shubb 13y ago
That is true, but the situation I was addressing, as in the article, is where you have a short list of candidates that are suitable, but can only recruit say 1. In that case, you can't tell the rest they don't have the job until a
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by shubb 13y ago
The problem for the HR is that there is no nice way to say "You are perfectly good for this job, but we think someone else is better, so they get first refusal". That is why they didn't send anything - because there is no nic
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by shubb 13y ago
In enterprise software land, now everyone brings their own device, web applications are more important than ever. A company selling SaaS might hope to support HTML, Android, and IOS, but not Windows Phone / 8 / 8 RT, nor Mozilla P
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by shubb 13y ago
Advertising has a real social usefulness sure - when a new company or product needs to break into an existing market, good advertising and marketing are the only way it will succeed against the current, possibly inferior products. That said
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by shubb 13y ago
Linkedin, to me, is the most honest social network. Social networks, Facebook or Google Plus, exist to create a base of knowledge about people, and then sell use of it, usually to advertisers. Users don't use Facebook in order to be ad
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by shubb 13y ago
In oldschool firefox, maybe in navigator too, pre-loading was implemented as a tray icon. The tray icon would load at startup, and could be used to launch the browser. It still felt overly heavy.
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by shubb 13y ago
This is an interesting article because though the rewrite killed Netscape, the rewrite became Firefox, possibly the most popular browser in the world. It became that way because developers were able to run laps round Microsoft (who clung to
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by shubb 13y ago
>>It's not as if these companies couldn't just move their headquarters off-shore to avoid the issue altogether. Which is always the risk when you call for something like the parent wants. Huge companies, like Microsoft, have
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by shubb 13y ago
Money from work and sales outside the US should be repatriated and invested domestically, just because the company is notionally based in the US? Sounds a tad imperialistic? I think getting companies pay tax in the US for sales in the US wo
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by shubb 13y ago
Heh, programming is very much about living in your imagination. I love reading, especially long series of novels. When the last book is finished, and that world vanishes before my eyes, it leaves an emptiness for days. Like reading a book t
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by shubb 13y ago
No, thank you for the reply. I hope I didn't come across as mr gloom. Concrete answers - * The 150 - 250 is the rate a junior is charged out at. Seniors are 500-1000. Usually the customer actually gets a quote for 1 senior : 2 junior,
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by shubb 13y ago
I'm not sure I recognize this privileged world you describe. Maybe you won't recognize mine. It's 7pm. About half the team is in the office with me (although all the people managers have gone home). We will be here a while. N
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by shubb 13y ago
The thesis of the audio clip appears to be that an unsolved problem with automation is what becomes of the automated workers. My girlfriend works in a government job, at a regulator. Most jobs there exist because they insist in dealing with
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by shubb 13y ago
You are in the wrong country for me. But I want to say that like a lot of people, I am hugely excited by your company and hope you do well!
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by shubb 13y ago
I'd draw a distinction between outsourcing, where you buy programming as a service from a third company, and relocation of a department, which is common in large companies. So for instance, in Basingstoke, an area where land is cheap j
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by shubb 13y ago
Nice counterpoint, but you are making a some assertions here that don't seem to follow - So you say there are developers who are good at putting lego bricks together to solve business problems, but introduce bad, unmaintainable code be
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by shubb 13y ago
In a world where most people eat meat, I think it is premature to campaign against animal testing. It seems like it aught to be the second problem on the list. Sure, as seen in Unnecessary Fuss, these experiments can be pretty horrific, and

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