watmough

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by watmough 15y ago
Time is so fleeting, and so precious. It's criminal to stuck in cube for a large portion of that lifetime. Every so often, stop, just stop and think about what's important. Best to do it now, rather than regret later.
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by watmough 15y ago
This is likely because you don't have your network setup correctly. You need to be licensed, sorry activated, to run much other than control panel or desktop. I used NAT and had to reboot a few times to get it going in Virtual Box. Eventual
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by watmough 15y ago
Damn! That's the configuration I have, and it hung, then went through once I ran it in compatibility mode. Obviously something broke, or failed because the tools are not fully working. Did you tell VBox it's Windows 7? And what version of V
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by watmough 15y ago
Indeed, and due to various miracles, the source for QuickDraw and MacPaint is at: http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/
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by watmough 15y ago
I have the 64-bit Dev Tools edition running pretty good in VBox. It doesn't like the VBox Tools, though they partial install. No seamless mouse sadly. It does seem to hang up rather a lot, but it clears after a minute or two and keeps going
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by watmough 15y ago
Yes, exactly right. Your ideal strategy is raise the price to what the market will bear, then back-off a little bit, if sales start to drop off. You should also take note of all feedback, since your customers are the people that are willin
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by watmough 15y ago
Ah, interesting, do you have a source on this? I'm very interested to see how much emphasis they are going to place on the new HTML5 / app style of development. I expect Win32 MFC, ATL etc., will live on forever in some form, but Windows 8
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by watmough 15y ago
Plus there was always investing in other companies, spreading capital, creating new sources of wealth. Wrong period, but wasn't Jay Miner financed by some dentists when designing the Amiga, initially? This is the sort of thing I am thinking
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by watmough 15y ago
Totally agree with your point. Look for the stay-at-home dads with working wives and you'll find the people who have more time to spend preparing food and eating together, than money to go to restaurants, or live on take-outs.
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by watmough 15y ago
This really interesting, and somewhat depressing at the same time. I also remember the 'big-bang' in the UK, and the rise of the yuppie, "loads-a-money" types etc., which corresponded with the start of my working life. A few years ago, I ha
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Share of Income Gains by Quintile - Great Depression til Now(nytimes.com)
321 points by watmough 15y ago|285 comments
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by watmough 15y ago
I think there's a move towards home-schooling, at least here in Texas, partly due to the broken-ness of the public school system. Sure, there's some great teachers, but there's also a large number who garner poor results year after year and
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by watmough 15y ago
Thanks, I was hoping to avoid using my sledgehammer though!
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by watmough 15y ago
Thanks, I think I may have been misusing git branch [some name] I'll take a look at some of the suggested tutorials again. Thanks all. That said, I pretty much do straight-ahead main-line development, so this isn't a huge problem r
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Ask HN: Easiest way to ensure a HD is not readable?
1 points by watmough 15y ago|4 comments
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by watmough 15y ago
Thanks, obviously I'm missing some concept somewhere.
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by watmough 15y ago
So if I have branched from master, onto experimental, and made several experimental changes that I want to actually use, then I can simply type: git merge master git branch master from the tip of my experimental branch, and mas
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by watmough 15y ago
I use three spaces. From left to right, browsing space, then Xcode space and finally gimp and inkscape space. Control and an arrow key moves me to either of the other two. Sadly, Lion doesn't seem to wrap around, so this isn't supported. It
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by watmough 15y ago
Thanks for linking that, really neat. I just ran it, and after configuring to use command-arrows to switch spaces, it works really well on my MacBook. In fact, rather than hitting the side of the screen, just a gentle tilt to the left or ri
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by watmough 15y ago
The Dell Precisions are, or at least were, huge and ugly, but very very solid performers with ultra hires screens. Think MacBook Pro made by Dell. I carted one around for ages, and it ran like a tank. Awesome machine. There's at least one o
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by watmough 15y ago
The SQLite code has a stellar reputation. http://www.sqlite.org/download.html
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by watmough 15y ago
Yeah, I feel like that almost all the time. You have to write a LOT of code before it flows perfectly from the fingertips. That's the key, write lots of code and be aware how you can improve. Here's a few points that have been useful to me:
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by watmough 15y ago
I have a 16c as well (I assume you have one), and if you're a Mac user, the OS X calculator is pretty nice and can be configured into horizontal scientific and programmers RPN modes. Someone put a lot of love into it. Kudos.
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by watmough 15y ago
My favorite example of this was some code that would always fail in production, but test out fine for devs. Turned out the developer had used static variables to communicate between runs of dynamically loaded modules, which sadly, you get d
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by watmough 15y ago
YouTube is available on Roku, and works excellently. I have all the users that upload old Formula 1, so I can watch old races whenever I want. Democracy Now also has it's own Roku channel, as do many many other things like Ted that you migh
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by watmough 15y ago
If #1 is pervasive throughout an application, e.g. badly done SQL code, then it can be a pain to get performance up, but with #2, there may be no way to get the codebase back under control, or bring new developers on at a reasonable pace. I
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by watmough 15y ago
I think the language is called 'LockIn', and it's similar to Visual Basic 6, but with Indian keywords. This is highly scurrilous of course!
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by watmough 15y ago
"My thoughts each release as it evolved, long before Jobs resigned, were "I don't think Jobs is around anymore, if he were, he wouldn't let this crap go". LaunchPad, Mission Control -- these things were neat at first, but then they got anno
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by watmough 15y ago
Man, this beggars belief. I've never had a kernel panic, ever, except when playing with bad kexts, and when everyone was all gung-ho getting XP running on the first Intel Macs.
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by watmough 15y ago
Yeah, I'm so happy with Snow Leopard, that this is just not a big deal to me, and let's face it, unless it's mind-blowingly good, like an XP or a Tiger or Leopard, a set of big changes is bound to make a chunk of people unhappy. My Mac Mini

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