Bo102010

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by Bo102010 15y ago
After reading Ridiculous Fish's version of this ( http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/The-app-that-was-fixed-... ), I use a mental version of Dr. House. It's worked out a couple of times... "How can the process have failed when the logs in
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by Bo102010 15y ago
I don't know whether one should move one's company to STL, but it is neither culturally nor socially barren. I moved to town in 2009 and my experience is quite different from palish's.
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by Bo102010 15y ago
Glad to help inform! It's generally accurate to say that basic cable isn't _switched_ digital, which isn't the same as saying it's analog. It's not accurate to say that basic cable is analog - that is, a single channel can fit into a 6 MHz
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by Bo102010 15y ago
FWIW, basic cable isn't analog (well, some channels can be delivered in analog), so your points based on that line of thinking don't follow. It's typically not switched-digital because the basic services (such as the major broadcasters) are
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by Bo102010 15y ago
Your edit isn't quite correct - if 100 people in the same building (service group) are watching the same TV channel, there's no bandwidth savings if they're all getting an individual stream. See ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_digit
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by Bo102010 15y ago
They do eventually pay for themselves ($13 per month! Geez.), but they (a) cost more than you might think to begin with, (b) require a lengthy setup and provisioning process that is quite labor intensive, (c) lock you in to old technology -
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by Bo102010 15y ago
Yeah - the idea is that the cablecos could avoid sending a truck to activate or remove services. But this isn't mentioned in the article, and the article is actively wrong in the ways I mentioned above, plus others (e.g. "There is no reason
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by Bo102010 15y ago
I work in the industry, and this article is quite... misinforming. For one, the sentence "Getting rid of QAM isn't a bad idea in the long run" is crazy. QAM is a general-purpose modulation technique used in numerous technologies. It has not
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by Bo102010 15y ago
I am an electrical engineer. I used this site as a reference all throughout my schooling. Yes, it's incomplete, but it's a great resource nonetheless.
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by Bo102010 15y ago
Interesting - I had an original Pre, and could go weeks without having to reboot it. Contrast with my new Nexus S, which I find I need to give a kick every few days. I did have few apps installed on my Pre compared to my Nexus, which is lik
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by Bo102010 15y ago
I really like Google+ also, but without all my Facebook friends (I deactivated Facebook after they overwrote my privacy settings) it's not nearly as useful or fun. I'm trying a new technique - rather than saying "Hey, join Google+! It's rea
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by Bo102010 15y ago
http://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/urge-congress-stop-sopa
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by Bo102010 15y ago
Likewise. I side with the ACLU on Citizens United - i.e. that the Supreme Court decided it correctly. You can rationally be displeased what you expect the outcome of the case to be (e.g. increased ability for corporate financing of election
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by Bo102010 15y ago
I used to work for Sprint. I never got that Dan Hesse had strong empathy for customers, but that he knew that good customer service was going to be good for investors in the medium run. The guidance in engineering was always to make sure cu
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by Bo102010 15y ago
I would guess that lots of FiOS customers also subscribe to Netflix (and maybe don't understand the FiOS streaming interface). So why not give in and try to capture that?
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by Bo102010 15y ago
The graphic brought up these same kind of questions for me. If you're a band with a new album out, how much from that album should you play? Would you rather boost demand for it, or keep long-time fans happy so they come back to the show ne
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by Bo102010 15y ago
Firefox isn't doomed. Not only is it still a good web browser that many (myself included) continue to use daily, inertia will keep it installed on millions of PCs. As far as I know, Mozilla and Google maintain good relations. Even if the de
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by Bo102010 15y ago
I don't doubt that the skills that make a good system admin are distinct from those that make a good engineer. I do doubt that the people making and enforcing IT policies that, e.g. lead to insecure versions of Java being installed on thous
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by Bo102010 15y ago
A lot of my problems with IT departments would be solved if the IT folks recognized that people with degrees in computer engineering and computer science tend to be able to take care of their own machines. Also, if they would quit telling m
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by Bo102010 15y ago
In my experience, having an e-mail hit your inbox doesn't necessarily mean that you're the most important recipient. At work I may be on the CC list for a number of ongoing e-mail threads - usually they don't require any input from me, but
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by Bo102010 15y ago
In 2005, Reason magazine had an excellent discussion with Milton Friedman, John Mackey (Whole Foods), and T.J. Rodgers (Cypress Semiconductors) that is relevant to this discussion ( http://reason.com/archives/2005/10/01/rethinking-the-socia
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by Bo102010 15y ago
othermaciej likely read Megan McArdle's article at ( http://www.theatlantic.com/business/print/2011/10/if-you-fav... ). It's a good article. Although RyanMcGreal didn't refer specifically to Glass-Steagall, it's a good bet that "re-regulati
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by Bo102010 15y ago
I'm not a big fan of Unity, but I'm sympathetic to Shuttleworth in this matter. After following open source projects for some years, it seems they're all eventually accused of some dark corruption - usually after making some UI change. "You
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by Bo102010 15y ago
My sister complained to me about the "hanging" Firefox problem, and disabling stupid extensions fixed it right up. Firefox really needs to have a profile-cleaning mechanism. These problems people report must be very system-dependent. I've b
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by Bo102010 15y ago
I'm saying the engineers may know it, but their bosses _do not_.
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by Bo102010 15y ago
"That said, any major ISP who claims it costs them more than a few pennies per gigabyte to move traffic is flat out lying" Not lying, but confused (see my comment below) and measuring at the wrong margin.
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by Bo102010 15y ago
Cost per GB isn't really even what you want to measure, and doing so is what causes so much confusion. Let's say you're an ISP and you have a 10Gbps connection to the outside world, and the routers etc. that can keep up with that speed. To
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by Bo102010 15y ago
Probably quite a while. Phone companies have done and continue to do this, but are moving more and more away from it. I'd be thrilled if someone tried it, though. It's more honest and more likely to address bad user experiences than arbitra
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by Bo102010 15y ago
I have worked for ISPs where people who are making decisions about "bandwidth" _do not understand_ the difference between "bits" and "bits per second." These decision-makers would say that "Our costs for providing backhaul / transport / wha
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by Bo102010 15y ago
His github account is gone as well ( http://github.com/diveintomark ). This is troubling. I'm glad I downloaded Dive Into Python 3, at least.

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