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by bm98 2y ago
That was a great talk! Notice how his entire career got launched from an internship at Tektronix. I love the bit about how he found his own troff macros in use at O'Reilly because a coworker had taken his code there years before -- and
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by bm98 3y ago
Thank you for this article. One of the great frustrations of using Magit for Emacs is the inability to read things because the foreground and background colors for various things end up the same on some platforms. From this article I found
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by bm98 6y ago
1982 Atari 800 here (was 8 years old at the time). I remember thinking the same thing at the time. When we first bought the thing, there just wasn't much I/O beyond the tape drive (and later the disk drive), and therefore the thin
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by bm98 6y ago
>The best memories I have was that probably, this was the first time I had that "feeling" of having built something useful to somebody. And certainly the best moment was when one of his suppliers who also accepted those coupons
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by bm98 6y ago
Software lifetime is an interesting topic. See for example [1], a 1992 paper that surveyed business applications and found an average lifetime of about 9 years, with a maximum of 20 years and a minimum of 2 years. 2 years versus 20 years! T
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by bm98 7y ago
_That_ is the question we should be asking. If not, is it because geofence warrants have a higher legal bar if issued to a phone company? Or is it about the level-of-effort?
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by bm98 7y ago
I always thought the primary driver of the demise of Flash was that Apple simply decided not to support it in iOS Safari. Is that not right?
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by bm98 7y ago
Walmart. I've been Amazon Prime for years, but whenever I need to buy something with a high risk of being counterfeit (printer ink is the most common one for me), I use Walmart - and it's free shipping from them anyway. Really the
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by bm98 7y ago
To me this is the crux of the issue. And it's non uncommon in software development: The developer fails to check for an error condition or raise an exception because doing so would add too much complexity to the system. So instead it i
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by bm98 8y ago
Tracking time is part and parcel of being a consultant, at least if you have multiple clients and overlapping work. After doing it for 15+ years, I've tried it all - everything from the spreadsheet, to the apps, to forgetting and havin
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by bm98 8y ago
Standards like SMART-on-FHIR [1] and CDS Hooks [2] have the potential to allow innovation developed outside of Epic and Cerner inside of those products. Both of those vendors even have "App Stores" [3] [4]. So far, though, there a
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by bm98 8y ago
Most new mice, yes. I use an original Logitech MouseMan 3-button mouse with no scroll-wheel. I realize I'm an outlier, but no mouse has ever come close in terms of comfort for me - so I continue to use it, and life has been just fine
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by bm98 8y ago
Interesting - it's part of the routine childhood schedule in the US but not in the UK. From NHS: "Why isn't the chickenpox vaccination part of the routine childhood immunisation schedule?" https://www.nhs.uk&#
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by bm98 9y ago
Time tracking. No matter how many fancy time tracking apps you use, it's still painfully manual. I want a robot that watches me and quietly makes intelligent decisions about what I'm really doing, and tracks that.
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by bm98 9y ago
> "According to Lee Nackman, Chief Technology Officer of IBM's Rational division (originating in 2003) at that time, the name 'Eclipse' (dating from at least 2001) was not a wordplay on Sun Microsystems, as the produc
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by bm98 9y ago
Interesting to compare this to some of the "old school" solutions for converting web pages to PDF such as htmldoc[0] or html2ps[1]. [0] https://github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc [1] http://user.it.u
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Patient Matching Algorithm Challenge – $75,000 in Prizes(patientmatchingchallenge.com)
1 points by bm98 9y ago|0 comments
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by bm98 9y ago
Glaring omissions: 11. Security vulnerabilities and attacks (and the fear of them) 12. Technical debt
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EHR vendor eClinicalWorks to pay $155M to settle whistleblower suit(healthcareitnews.com)
38 points by bm98 9y ago|19 comments
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by bm98 9y ago
In cases where I need to download and install unsigned software that's not available via package manager, I run hashes (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, etc.) on the downloaded file and the run Google searches on those hashes. As long as the softwar
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by bm98 9y ago
I believe the "hoarding the fix" comment was in reference to the patches for Server 2003, XP, and Windows 8 that were released publicly for the first time over the weekend (but had been distributed previously to customers paying f
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by bm98 9y ago
I'm a little surprised that the majority of the answers here are Yes! I help my parents and my kids work with bookmarks but I have none myself; and I was beginning to think that bookmarks were primarily used by non-technical people. I
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by bm98 10y ago
As a web developer, I wonder if this class of accessibility functionality renders the web accessibility guidelines [1] obsolete? Many of the guidelines have to do with organizing content and following rules that make it easier for older (i
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by bm98 10y ago
It's odd that the status pasted in the parent has disappeared from https://status.cloud.google.com/ , as the page seems to be designed to keep event history - but it's not in the history. I can still find it in G
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Program's failure to properly format currency contributed to a foreclosure case
1 points by bm98 10y ago|0 comments
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by bm98 10y ago
Ugh. A good and scary reminder of what's lurking around the corner for any of us at any time - including holidays and vacations (Linode's holiday attack last December comes to mind). IMHO, the emotional impact of breaches on the s
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by bm98 10y ago
I have a time tracking code called "HN". 33.19 hours logged so far this year. I think it's time well spent...
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by bm98 10y ago
Maybe not favorite but "most memorable": "CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash" [1] The top comment when I first saw it was, "If you are responsible for the security of any system, this is your immediat
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by bm98 10y ago
Running your browser in Red Hat's SELinux sandbox [1] [2] limits the ports you can connect to and thus limits this type of attack to those ports (80, 81, 443, 488, 8008, 8009, 8443, and 9000 in the default configuration). [1] http:&#
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Ask HN: How is it that HN is a success?
30 points by bm98 10y ago|28 comments

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