teambob

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by teambob 3y ago
My experience exactly
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by teambob 3y ago
Fun fact: the awa building is clearly visible in the helicopter scene in The Matrix
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by teambob 4y ago
Also when driving but Siri / Google assistant are more applicable for that use case
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by teambob 4y ago
Now if only updates wouldn't brick the device
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by teambob 4y ago
I have had chronic dizziness for three years. One or two drinks makes me feel hung over for days
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by teambob 5y ago
I ended up finding "architect" is the role I enjoy. Still very technical but involves talking to people (I have always been a slight expert). It also suits my "management" style which I learned with volunteers, instead o
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by teambob 5y ago
Some collections are little more than hoarding. Bring on digital
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by teambob 5y ago
When I worked for Avaya labs in the early 2000s, it was also well known internally that the split made more money. Hence the subsequent voluntary splits
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by teambob 5y ago
I learned this long ago. Along with: you will never be thanked for getting a garbage project across the line. You will be thanked more for having a small part in a good project than being the hero on a garbage project.
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by teambob 5y ago
How applicable is this to eastern musical scales?
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by teambob 7y ago
Being an architect is like training a bag of cats. You are also in the bag
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by teambob 7y ago
If the president of the college can't even remember what a Van De Graff generator is... you're going to have a bad time
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by teambob 7y ago
You need to use the timer to bit bang - which may require writing a device driver Source: wrote a software UART for an embedded project
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by teambob 7y ago
Strayan here. These nets are used quite widely by a number of local councils including Greater Sydney. They are not universally used though. Larger waterways may have a boom, a number have these nets, some have something like a metal sieve
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by teambob 8y ago
Generate AC then use diodes to turn it into DC
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by teambob 8y ago
10 tons of boiling hot water? What could possible go wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
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by teambob 11y ago
I thought it was an alleged terrorist's phone? Or has innocent until proven guilty gone out the window?
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by teambob 11y ago
Does Stack Overflow have ads? I have been running ad blockers since they started
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by teambob 11y ago
Not to mention the top reason I dropped Dropbox: with Condolezza Rice on the board I feel they are a bit too chummy with the government and the NSA.
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by teambob 11y ago
The 'how' of encryption is often quite simple - it is 'why' that is difficult
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by teambob 11y ago
Programming languages are the interface between the computer and fallible humans. Thus it is in fact very difficult to prove that a particular paradigm is better or worse. Civil engineering has been around for centuries. Yet the Tacoma Narr
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by teambob 11y ago
That's not really true. Back in the 1980s most small and medium businesses still used paper based journals. All the people who were employed to do that are gone - one person now can do the job of about 6 people in the 1980s. Before the
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by teambob 11y ago
AI may not replace lawyers themselves. But in my dealings with lawyers basic technology will mean that 1 lawyer can do the work of three. For example: nothing is OCRed. So if a lawyer needs to get a section of a document they have to rememb
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by teambob 11y ago
I am not sure about this article. Mobile and tablet have had massive rates of adoption but even they are getting saturated now. There are still large numbers of businesses that use desktops. Everywhere I look there are desktops. Tablets are
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by teambob 11y ago
"...like a high-tech vending machine." Well there's your problem
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by teambob 11y ago
If you commit a crime on witness protection you would be cut loose. Then the mob can come and tidy up. Being killed by a mobster is probably pretty good motivation to not commit crimes.
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by teambob 11y ago
The fact is that HUMANS will build the new reactors; interfere with engineering plans and systems; and not be trained properly. If a reactor can't be safely designed, built and run by fallible humans then it shouldn't be built. I
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by teambob 11y ago
That is basically what the article said. In addition skills that would help to get those jobs independently are also taught within the family. Students from a poor background (like me back in the day) may still be better of studying because
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by teambob 11y ago
Aside from the security - Apple made much of write once run anywhere being a terrible idea (e.g. Java, Flash and iOS/Android frameworks) yet now it is a fabulous idea that Apple just thought of
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by teambob 11y ago
Or they can only communicate through carefully modulated gastric emissions. Then discovered fire. https://youtu.be/Do-wDPoC6GM?t=2m3s

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