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by smoyer 7y ago
It took several days but once I realized that the simulation wasn't confined to earth, it ended as I expected. Kind of a sci-fi, dystopian simulations (but I won't spoil all the fun in the middle).
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by smoyer 7y ago
TNDR (Too Narrow - Didn't Read): I have a really wide monitor and this site's code is horrible to read as it's compressed to a very narrow strip (less than 600px) of text down the middle of the browser window. I tried ... I
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by smoyer 7y ago
I'm a little surprised to see that both Java and C# are lower on the list than PHP ... with EE4J/Swing and the .NET framework respectively, these languages are still very likely to be seen in mature enterprises. The wording of th
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by smoyer 7y ago
My uncle bought me a set of limited edition gears for Christmas when I was seven or eight ... both my uncle and my father are engineers and it was several days before I got to touch my new toys. This article debunks the idea that the per-pi
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Ask HN: Is the disappearance of RSS feeds affecting your happiness too?
20 points by smoyer 7y ago|9 comments
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by smoyer 7y ago
Now that's a proper Internet rant! I don't know whether her assertions related to all the listed theories being wrong (or simply dumb) are correct. Would any physicists care to corroborate or refute her points?
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by smoyer 7y ago
I think you can argue the opposite as well ... the world is in fact defined in our minds as perceived by our senses. So the two people in the opening part of the article may both believe they know where MOMA is, but do they really share th
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by smoyer 7y ago
"But that's not going to be database agnostic!" Haha ... I'll admit I used to say that but rarely did an internal system (what I work on most) ever actually have that requirement. Systems that are sold to customers to r
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by smoyer 7y ago
You have to be careful with that ... I would sometimes do the same thing to managers who don't have a clue what our business actually does. They're nodding along to something that's totally meaningless and when I wrap up the
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by smoyer 7y ago
The real problem here is that convoluted UX allowed a smart-tv to be turned into a radio.
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by smoyer 7y ago
My thoughts exactly but I didn't want to offer anything until I'd: a) Verified that it was possible b) Determined that there were enough people to get the "hack" done. c) Ascertained that there would be no legal ramif
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by smoyer 7y ago
The youth sports discontinuity was a problem for me when I became old enough to play little league, but was exploited by me when I should have moved on to Teener League. I was born on the cut-off date for Little League, so I was the younges
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by smoyer 7y ago
The guys on the Grumpy Old Geeks podcast are always laughing because the hacks they envision when looking at new products (software, IoT, SmartAnything) often show up some number of months later. I wonder whether we'll see this in a n
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by smoyer 7y ago
If anyone has a bricked FlyWheel bike, I'd love to poke at the hardware and see whether an open-source control system could be fitted. Honestly, the electronics are NOT the expensive part of this bike and it would be fun to play with
885.
by smoyer 7y ago
Sometimes I wonder if some KickStarter campaigns are simply money laundering efforts. Create something that no one in their right mind would want and have your mules make pledges.
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by smoyer 7y ago
My father and grand-father are from Danville and I had relatives in Bloomsburg, just 9 miles away. Somewhere in my grand-father's family tree, one of my relatives created "Moyer's Oil of Gladness" in a time when snake-o
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by smoyer 7y ago
I almost spit out my coffee because I thought you were about to say: "Yes, but IIRC, the project was cancelled or greatly scaled back after Senior Management discovered that Sauron was also reading their emails and just not the orcs in
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by smoyer 7y ago
Some of these essays (probably including a few of PG's) should be automatically put on the front page every two years or so! It looks like this (excellent) article averages about that.
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by smoyer 7y ago
A quote from the article says "Whilst no-one’s quite proposing a return to the great age of sail" bit it's not really true. No one is planning to build a square-rigged panamax container ship, but there are several groups tha
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by smoyer 7y ago
This is one of my (two) favorite essays regarding software production - it deals with the evolution of software in an uncontrolled environment. I just posted my other favorite "classic" essay which deals with the evolution of a t
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The Wetware Crisis: The Dead Sea Effect(brucefwebster.com)
14 points by smoyer 7y ago|2 comments
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by smoyer 7y ago
I think that the correct answer to this is to A/B test it ... and to dynamically determine which provides more business profit (if you were to experience a spike of publicity-driven sales, selling from your web-site might be a short-te
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by smoyer 7y ago
Wow! - "And, when the president dismisses or otherwise spins the intelligence to pursue his personal, rather than national, interests, our nation is put at risk, as are those on whom its security depends."
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by smoyer 7y ago
I never worked at a company (in the CATV industry) that paid commissions to engineers ... even when the engineer was enlisted to help with the sales process. Leveraging your personal contacts seems like a good way for those "friendshi
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by smoyer 7y ago
Great article ... it articulates the four categories of tasks very well. I've found podcasts and audio books are the same as music with lyrics - I can listen to them during the Trivial and Physical Exercise categories but not during t
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by smoyer 7y ago
Yep ... it's the digital (meaning on-off) version of the slow moving line you see if you point your camera at a TV (or computer) screen - the speed that it happens at is the sum and the difference of the two frequencies (and perhaps at
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by smoyer 7y ago
You're absolutely correct ... it's been a long time since I was designing fiber transceivers but I should have remembered this. Ultimately efficiency is also affected by other layers of the protocol stack too (UDP versus TCP head
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by smoyer 7y ago
The article talks about how the 1500 byte MTU came about but doesn't mention that the problem of clock recovery was solved by using 4b/5b or 8b/10b encoding when sending Ethernet through twisted-pair wiring. This encoding te
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by smoyer 7y ago
I have read through "Engines of Creation" (the book where this phrase was coined) three or four times and learn something new with each reading. I've also bought three copies because I keep giving it away (last time to a fri
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by smoyer 7y ago
The Merriam-Webster dictionary lists the etymology of "defaced" as "Middle English, from Anglo-French desfacer, deffacer, from des- de- + face front, face". This doesn't really explain why the middl english and a

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