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by wernsey 6y ago
He also recently had a series of articles about the various ports of Out of this World/Another World to various systems which are well worth reading if you're into this sort of thing
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by wernsey 6y ago
Thanks for that. I have often thought that boy, I would really have suffered had I been born in medieval or Roman times because I don't know what I would've done if I didn't work in IT. I would describe the feeling as guilt,
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Writing Music in Plain Text(pellejuul.github.io)
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by wernsey 7y ago
I'm a sucker for these old bitmap fonts. Here's a collection of links I've bookmarked over the years: * https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-sys... and https:/&#x
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by wernsey 7y ago
I ran it on my employer's website, and some words it didn't catch were: "passion", "diversity", "proven", "mission", "high performance" and "high availability"
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by wernsey 7y ago
This video "A Brief History of: The Demon Core" on the Plainly Difficult channel showed up in my YouTube recommendations just the other day: https://youtu.be/VE8FnsnWz48
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by wernsey 7y ago
It is now on GitHub: https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa I've recently used this for a diagram of a FSM in software I'm developing at work. I drew the diagrams on http://www.asciidraw.com . The
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by wernsey 7y ago
filfre does have a history of the IBM PC that tells the story of how it came to be and the dealings between IBM and MicroSoft and (with Kildall of Digital). It is worth a read. https://www.filfre.net/2012/05/the-ib
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by wernsey 7y ago
Jeff Atwood had an article titled "The Organism Will Do Whatever It Damn Well Pleases". He summarized how some of the lessons learned from Habitat applied to StackOverflow/StackExchange, or had to be relearned. https:/&
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by wernsey 7y ago
Like the concept, but I'm on Windows so I'll try out some of the alternatives mentioned in these comments. My solution for Windows has been the NppCalc plugin for Notepad++. It is not quite as advanced, but does have a lot of func
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by wernsey 7y ago
The PC version of Prince of Persia will always have a special place in my heart. The first time I saw it was when me and my brother were in a store with my mom and saw this game running on a PC in the computer section. It must've been
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by wernsey 7y ago
My dad once told me a story how in the 80's he was a manager in an engineering division and wrote up a big spec for a computer system that he wanted IT to develop that would 'solve all their problems' on these newfangled pers
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by wernsey 7y ago
Seconded. Just the other day I helped some colleagues clean up a text file using an awk one-liner. It seemed like magic to them. (Even though the one-liner turned out to be a bit more difficult to write than I thought at first due to '
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by wernsey 7y ago
A problem is that when you topple a dictator you need to first secure the levers of power lest you be toppled yourself. Suppose your new country has a $1bil in its budget, then spending that billion on schools and hospitals and infrastructu
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by wernsey 8y ago
I've used asciidraw.com [1] in the past for diagrams like these. I like its simplicity. Then for fun, if you have to email the diagram, use the shaky tool [2] to convert it to an image. [1] http://www.asciidraw.com/#Dra
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by wernsey 8y ago
Nicely put. I'm reminded of the Jargon file that says "Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."
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by wernsey 8y ago
Jimmy Maher, aka the Digital Antiquarian, wrote a fascinating series of articles about the history of Tetris last year. A lot of it sounds like a cold war spy story, and I highly recommend it. I link to part [3], because parts 1 and 2 has a
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by wernsey 8y ago
I feel the same way. I took a stab at reimplementing it in C https://github.com/wernsey/robinson-c My Readme.md contains a lot of TODOs, which I thought I'd be able to tackle on my own, but sadly never got around
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by wernsey 8y ago
My first job out of university was to program IVR systems for a telecom company using an in-house developed framework. An IVR application would typically play a recording to the user, then wait for the DTMF signal, then maybe take the user
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by wernsey 8y ago
This is very cool and I'd like to try it. I participate in an outreach program that help under privileged children. We use project based learning methods to for topics that aren't covered in the normal curriculum. We also don&#x27
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by wernsey 8y ago
Basically, I decided that it was okay to be just a developer. I realized that I didn't have to be promoted into management. In fact, I think I wouldn't be as happy in my job if I had to do management instead of coding. I also re
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by wernsey 8y ago
@FranzFerdiNaN, who I can't seem to reply to directly, yes, you are right. I might've missed the point of the article I was referring to. People today has more free time to ponder things like the meaning of life and has potentiall
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by wernsey 8y ago
Like others have said, the purpose is to make money to enjoy the other 1/3. Bear in mind that different people will find meaning in different ways. If you find meaning in participating in the rat race, then by all means go for it. For
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by wernsey 8y ago
I won't know where to find it again, but I came across an article the other day that mentioned that a big reason why modern people have midlife crises is because we live longer. Our ancestors worked themselves to death (in the sense th
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by wernsey 8y ago
A "human resource". I always found that term to imply that we're just meat for the meat grinder.
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by wernsey 8y ago
Funny, round about the time I turned 35 I stumbled upon Erik Dietrich's Defining The Corporate Hierarchy [1] blog. It cynically divides corporate workers into sociopaths at the top who step on other people to get where they are, ideali
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by wernsey 8y ago
This is outrageous. I also read those rules as 10.8.5 would only apply if you have in-app purchases and so on. I agree with other posters that it is probably a low level employee that made a poor judgement call, but what always irks me abou
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by wernsey 8y ago
Agreed. I'm currently working on someone else's idea but all the technical decisions are up to me. There is a nice trade-off in that I don't have to worry about negotiating with customers and other aspects of a project that d
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by wernsey 8y ago
I fell for that. Is this the JWZ of "no you have two problems" regex quote? What does he have against HN?
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by wernsey 8y ago
The allegations are more that McKinsey specifically chose a partner that they knew was well connected with the political elite in order to have government business sent their way. Yes, it is true that the South African law forced them to ge

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