woofyman

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by woofyman 12y ago
Back in the day, you could make a person to person collect call knowing they would refuse to accept the charges. You would do this to signal that you safely arrived after a long trip...etc. You could also encode information in the name yo
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by woofyman 12y ago
I remember renting my phone from AT&T. Premium colors and touchtone were extra. They would periodically ring your line to measure the voltage drop to detect unauthorized phones.
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by woofyman 12y ago
Photographs have been retouched and airbrushed for a long, long time. Long before computers and Photoshop.
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by woofyman 12y ago
Which is why I only use credit cards.
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by woofyman 12y ago
Zinc, magnesium and vitamin D are essential for the production of testosterone.
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by woofyman 12y ago
I thought it was an odd adjective to use for a process where bugs equal death. He made a lot of money so that means a lowly developer can't question his choice of words ?
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by woofyman 12y ago
According to Wikipedia, a mashup is a term used to describe web development and combining music. It doesn't denote to me rigorous engineering development. And no, it doesn't inspire confidence in me that they didn't release
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by woofyman 12y ago
Mashup ? That makes me feel so much better.
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by woofyman 12y ago
At launch, the system will only function on a defined subset of Bay Area highways according to the article.
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by woofyman 12y ago
True Christians are wonderful people. Intolerant Christians, not so much.
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by woofyman 12y ago
Replace gay marriage with racial segregation. What should be the social repercussions, if any, when a person advocates racial segregation? At what point does a good faith disagreement become taboo? Edited: A closer analogy would be interra
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by woofyman 12y ago
I worked for Dr. Barnsley at Iterated Fractal Systems. It was aquired by Interwoven which was acquired by Autonomy. And finally HP which led to a huge financial scandal. There's a photoshop plugin, Genuine Fractals, that uses fractal
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by woofyman 12y ago
Good question. Luck and hard work mostly.
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by woofyman 12y ago
<sarcasm> Very handy to have if they have to tweet or something </sarcasm>
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by woofyman 12y ago
Nor does youth guarantee technical competence. As a 55 year old developer, I'm particularly sensitive to this kind of blatant ageism.
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by woofyman 12y ago
Why is the average age of the Supreme Court justices relevant ?
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by woofyman 12y ago
Blood in your stool in tiny amounts is a indicator of colon cancer.
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by woofyman 12y ago
I never bothered with sequence numbers. Boy was it a joy to put your card deck in the reader and wait at the self serve printer, and have your program compile, run, and produce the correct output the very first time !
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by woofyman 13y ago
I was so excited when I got my own vt220 on my desk and didn't have to go into the raised floor computer room. We used a VAX 1170 then a Micro vax to compile C for Motorola 68000 and 68020 processors. Then you'd download the cod
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by woofyman 13y ago
Obama pulled all combat troops out of Iraq after they were told to leave.
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by woofyman 13y ago
She was also famously shopping for shoes and watching Spamalot in manhattan while Katrina was devistating the gulf coast.
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by woofyman 13y ago
In my personal experience as a gay man it's not a choice. It may or not be genetic but it's definitely innate.
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by woofyman 13y ago
The Atlanta metro area has 17 malls. A third are struggling and a third are thriving.
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by woofyman 13y ago
Oh, you mean like this ? http://www.aacn.nche.edu/aacn-publications/issue-bulletin/ef... Effective Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Nursing Programs
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by woofyman 13y ago
Why buy a very expensive, high performance car and use cheap tires ?
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by woofyman 13y ago
I'm 54. I walk 8-10 miles every morning and lift weights 2 times a week for an hour. I use to have high blood pressure and the only (I tried them all) drug that worked for me was causing abnormal gum growth. So getting off the drug
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by woofyman 13y ago
Mike Lynch got really rich. I worked for Autonomy after they purchased my employer, Interwoven. They were horrible people to work for. We always thought they were cooking the books. Their products were shit. I quit that job because I ha
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by woofyman 13y ago
Yeah, sorry for the snark.
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by woofyman 13y ago
Does mother know that you've eaten or have an empty stomach ?
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by woofyman 13y ago
Exactly correct.

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