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by watmough 10y ago
I rather thought that Google advertised to the person using YouTube, and the video is just the vehicle. Thus, you'd expect ads targeted at you to appear on any video you watch, even extremist ones. This may be quite difficult for Googl
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by watmough 10y ago
There's no mention of the bare fact that: * Cubicles are 'furniture' and therefore receive advantageous tax treatment (accelerated depreciation, increasing profits), * Walls, not so much.
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by watmough 10y ago
Haha, I remember that. My maths teacher DM had a mate in the factory who eventually got me a speccy out the factory door, but it was a longgg wait. Spectrum was a fun machine. Basic was ok for very simple games. I never did learn z80 assem
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by watmough 10y ago
I really wanted a ZX-81, and my dad ordered one not long after they came out. But typical for Sinclair, the delivery lead time was on the order of months! Not even weeks or days, and my dad gave up and brought home an assembled Acorn ATOM t
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by watmough 10y ago
Try looking at the consultancy end of tech. Typically, if they like your face and grades, they'll put you though an internal bootcamp, or send you somewhere, at no cost to you. Starting salary should be maybe $70k+ and up for a new gra
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by watmough 10y ago
Yahoo mail. Good grief, I was supporting a customer over a webex yesterday, and the ad-area was ridiculous. I suggested he download uBlock to Chrome, just so the flashing would go away. I don't know how people put up with it.
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by watmough 10y ago
The worst part of an iPAD is carrying it around. Give me a foldable iPad that still has screen in both halves, but that is usable in landscape, and I will buy. Appropriate haptics could make it work like a tiny laptop in portrait, but like
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by watmough 10y ago
"Locking in the losses."
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by watmough 10y ago
Gosh, that reminds me I really need to make my software more parallel.
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by watmough 10y ago
It comes from cheap 1080 panels being used for HDTVs. Example [1]. I bet Walmart sell a ton of these, though likely not to the HN commentariat. And yes it does suck, but nice 16:10 aspect panels are still around, just a bit pricey. [1] htt
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by watmough 10y ago
Yes, I've not seen a Napier reference in years. Really impressed to have seen that.
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by watmough 10y ago
Mine are gone now, but these Xircom / 3COM PCMCIA cards were totally awesome. If I remember, Linux used supplicant to wrap the Windows drivers, so assuming you had everything setup right, they worked pretty well on Linux.
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by watmough 10y ago
Have to put in a quick mention that the Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro is probably the worst piece of hardware ever made. Or at least my copy was. Never worked right, and one of the few pieces of hardware I've ever taken out to the dumpst
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by watmough 10y ago
People, including Mike have been looking into whether it would be viable to clone him. https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/45
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by watmough 10y ago
I'm not sure what HN will make of these texts, but I'm enjoying skimming through, and certainly learning a few things. Simon Brown communicates some of the expectations for the architect role, and why it should be a role, and not
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Software Architecture for Developers Books 1 and 2 Free(twitter.com)
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by watmough 10y ago
Yes, this is key. For some people, it's not really surprising that they're depressed. Low opportunity, low-income, poor surroundings, poor education, stressful paycheck to paycheck existence. Of course they're miserable. Of c
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by watmough 10y ago
Ok, I'll put in a word for the HP ZBook Studio. You can have i7 quad-core, dual 1 TB SSD, 32 GBytes RAM (maybe more), backlit keyboard, thin(ish) form factor, and a fantastic 3840 x 2160 screen. Graphics are NVidia M1000M which is desk
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by watmough 10y ago
I can think of examples of all of these. But I did have siblings, burn myself bbq'ing, know people who worked in the local slaughterhouse (knife in the arm to get off work), know of a surgeon who made this terribly sad mistake, live in
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by watmough 10y ago
I'll dig 'em and out and see what I have.
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by watmough 10y ago
I still have a couple boxes of Amiga floppies. Including the source to NewTek DigiView capture software in 68000 assembler hilariously enough. Anyone know if there's a way to read them?
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by watmough 10y ago
C++ Weekly ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3WWsKFePiM ) Jason Turner Just discovered it and watching right now.
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by watmough 10y ago
In a nutshell, it feels like they continue to exert force on the stick / yoke without ever getting to a balance point where the aircraft settles to a desired speed / AoA. This applies even with various FF sticks that I have tried
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by watmough 10y ago
Yes, absolutely, the ground effect, so named from the reduction in drag when within a half wingspan or so from the ground is about as pronounced as the real thing. It feels very very real, compared with say MS Flight Sim where the effect ma
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by watmough 10y ago
This looks excellent, a no-brainer purchase, but the one thing that really bugs me about all sims is that they just will never sort out the correct AoA when trimmed. I know Austin flies, so the following is more aimed at him if he's re
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by watmough 10y ago
I'm watching that Scottish guy reviewing the data sheets, and I'm just laughing. Absolutely hilarious.
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by watmough 10y ago
Yes, I would spring the $70 in a moment for this ability. Of course I may do anyway. I like to support small software producers.
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by watmough 10y ago
Try a yoga 110e .... Full metal edu chrome book.
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by watmough 10y ago
This may be of value to you if you have not done it already, but I came in from -8ish to -6ish just by doing these exercises. http://www.seeing.org/techniques/
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Good point, but the sort of utilities, data munging code I typically write, can be hammered out in C, or C++ pretty fast. I've been easing into the C++ standard library, lambdas etc., and familiarity makes it easy to write code that us

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