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931.
by wott 10y ago
I had no idea they were "famous" on English Wikipedia.
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by wott 10y ago
I don't see it as an exception, but rather as a matter of priorities. It means "(more) than (one TEDx talk)" and not "(more than one) (TEDx talk)s". And it works the same way in one of the author's native langu
933.
by wott 10y ago
My folks are like that too. They never experienced any psychic or physic trouble at any point in their 70 years long life, so they cannot fathom that people may strongly suffer from any of these problems, which are in their opinion not real
934.
by wott 10y ago
During DOS days, standards or more often de-facto standards had appeared. So chip makers or board makers would make their chip or board compatible with another existing model, and you would just need one driver per kind of device to get mos
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by wott 10y ago
I have no smartphone, I don't use mobile Internet. Fixed Internet is enough of a problem for me. What I would love is to go back to dial-up times. I mean, paying by the minute/hour, or a limited plan + by the minute/hour afte
936.
by wott 10y ago
Because this has been said and done already, too...
937.
by wott 10y ago
> Also, autopilots even in a commercial jet keep the plane steady along a route, they don't deal with collisions at all... Yes, they do. Then the problem is when the 2 autopilots of the 2 planes take the same evasive manœuvre...
938.
by wott 10y ago
> From the point of view of a buyer who spent $100M and got 10 engineers out of the deal, the cost was $10M/engineer That's not even so: he didn't buy the engineers, they are not his property and they are free to walk
939.
by wott 10y ago
The how much do you wish to pay the hundreds of thousands of people working for example, in aeronautics or railway, just to stay in the domain of transports? 200 times more?
940.
by wott 10y ago
> Japan's population has been in decline for forty years Uh? Japans's population has stabilised during the last 15 years, and it was growing for the previous 25 years (like +15 millions).
941.
by wott 10y ago
You obviously didn't grow up with a 1200 bit/s modem.
942.
by wott 10y ago
Résumé is like raising children: they are plenty of people with definitive advices about the perfect way to do it, all of them being contradictory.
943.
by wott 10y ago
> Working all the time is practically essential for most startups. No wonder why almost all of them go straight into the wall, head down.
944.
by wott 10y ago
> I see it as news distribution + a little chatter with friends. It looks much more like "a little chatter with foes", IMO.
945.
by wott 10y ago
> I'd say the tech has been there a lot longer than you think, I've known people who've worked in distributed teams 20 years ago. Yes, the tech was a little different, but it was still good enough. E-mail, chat system, tel
946.
by wott 10y ago
Having to take the time to write them down in a clear manner is a major benefit of text media (e-mail). Half of the time, you end up not sending the e-mail because you found the answer while organising your question.
947.
by wott 10y ago
I guess it is normal in that the people (especially the youngsters) who run or practice other sports have a much higher injury rate than people who just walk or basically do nothing. Also, in my experience, a vast majority of pupils and stu
948.
by wott 10y ago
The millionth edition of the "if you keep up with tech you can't have a problem, if you have a problem, that's because you stick with Fortran". It is still not true. People who share complaints here, on Reddit or on more
949.
by wott 10y ago
How to build reliable stuff on time? But the answer might be shorter.
950.
by wott 10y ago
But you don't need to keep the same pace: you don't spend half as much time in making mistakes, discovering new techniques, new paradigms, new domain-specific knowledge, new side skills, new whatever, when you are over 40.
951.
by wott 10y ago
> And no, I'm not expensive. I usually don't get to the point where they ask me for the money. Same (a bit older now but it started at the same age). I don't care about the salary: it is always more money that I can spen
952.
by wott 10y ago
> because they/we are more likely to have worked at one, and see how it actually works, or doesn't work. They were talking about building a startup right after a PhD.
953.
by wott 10y ago
> I just wonder what makes us (in the broad use of "us" here, to mean anyone who builds technology for a living) that we get tasked with fixing the world? Because: -- we are the ones who have the intellectual abilities to do
954.
by wott 10y ago
A good part of the 'solutions' offered are in fact new time-wasters (and money-wasters, of course). And honestly, that concerns almost everything around me, except a fridge, a stove and a washing machine.
955.
by wott 10y ago
One thing they can always teach us is about the new trendy narcotics of the year. Apart from that...
956.
by wott 10y ago
It's funny you mention that, because I have developed the same feeling, although I have no idea if it holds true or not.
957.
by wott 10y ago
When browsing code posted or advertised on various forums, I noticed a dramatic increase in the use of uint8_t and such. In places where they really were not useful, and a basic standard type would suffice, and be more portable, and be as
958.
by wott 10y ago
You shouldn't have worried: his points are not valid at all. Using fixed-width types across various embedded (as in "small and exotic") platforms is a nightmare for portability. There is no reason not to use standard intege
959.
by wott 10y ago
And the state could just buy this information from Facebook and Google. Modern!
960.
by wott 10y ago
Even if a few of this kind of tricks sometimes work, my experience is that their effect vanishes after a few days and you're back to square one. I guess it is because they are just tricks: your mind (well, mine, at least) can only be a

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