dullroar

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by dullroar 6y ago
One that knocked me upside the head once was, upon remarking "That's going to take a long time, like a year" to accomplish something, as if that made it not worth doing, being told, "That time is going to pass anyway.&qu
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by dullroar 6y ago
And this: https://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-whe...
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by dullroar 6y ago
Back in the 1990s, when I was a software engineer at a database company in the Bay Area (rhymed with "PsyBass", if you pronounce "bass" as a musical instrument :), there was a joke among some of the architects along the
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by dullroar 6y ago
dotnet interactive (aka Jupyter notebook with a C# kernel). Been using it along with XPlot.Plotly to chart various CV datasets from JHU, the NYT, etc,
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by dullroar 7y ago
Still love the retro theater design - so fun: http://www.csszengarden.com/202/
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by dullroar 7y ago
Didn't do a great job on this AP News article on coronavirus - only four bullet points, two of them repeated: https://apnews.com/545af824f44a22f7559c74679a4f1f53 .
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by dullroar 7y ago
I worked from home full-time from 1996-2000, part-time from 2000-2005. My main advice would be, "Learn how to go home at night." In other words, if you have an actual home office, close the office door and "commute" home
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by dullroar 7y ago
I am old (I have seen things). I still have my first program from college, in FORTRAN, on a card deck. I also worked as a "computer operator" (an extinct species) while going to college, putting card decks in the readers, running
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by dullroar 7y ago
My ex-wife worked for a legal software firm. One thing to note is they were threatened with lawsuits ALL THE TIME, because, after all, their customers were lawyers. So any bug or whatever else would end up with some nasty email from some cu
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by dullroar 7y ago
AND teaches you all the cool names for facial hair! :)
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by dullroar 7y ago
Nice. One thought I had is it would be cool to be able to click on any (non-zero) point on the graph and see a list of the articles from that day, sort of a drill-down on WHY was that term peaking in popularity then?
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by dullroar 7y ago
Yes. Two teachers (one elementary, one college). A former boss. Each helped me by not just expecting more of me, but mentoring me in ways that allowed a bullied kid with little self-respect recognize and grow into my talents. I think it is
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by dullroar 7y ago
Thanks for the reply. I see my comment got downvoted (I figured it would), but I was still curious as to what your response would be and I appreciate it.
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by dullroar 7y ago
Would be interested in hearing more about your views on this. I use Firefox and Thunderbird almost exclusively, and every time I think about donating money I then remember all the wasted time and effort they've poured into what seem to
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by dullroar 7y ago
OK, if I go bankrupt now because of discovering JetPens, it is your fault!
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by dullroar 7y ago
Here's one from a vendor I currently integrate with - have multiple APIs (in this case, a SOAP one, a REST one returning JSON, and then some language SDKs that wrap the latter for convenience), and have their feature sets be an interes
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by dullroar 7y ago
Space Cadet on the old versions of Windows supported bumping, too. You could avoid tilt by alternating which side you bumped. Two in a row from the same side would tilt, but alternating sides never did (for me).
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by dullroar 7y ago
Back in the day, StorageTek, a company started by ex-IBMers, used something along the lines of "This page left intentionally almost blank." Which is, of course, more accurate. :)
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by dullroar 7y ago
Yup - this was the CA (Computer Associates) working model for decades. And as further commenters in the thread show, sometimes for enterprises reliably staying the same year after year is a GOOD thing.
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by dullroar 7y ago
Yup, Crashplan. I pay for the small biz option, but that let's me back up the machines I need to backup. AND, I have restored a total of three different machines from Crashplan over the years, and it "just works." I am a fan.
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by dullroar 7y ago
I am here to tell you, however, that the spectacle promised by a local county fair of a “combine demo derby” (as in, a demo derby with old combines) did NOT live up to the hype. Crashes there were, but at a lumbering 5MPH (TOPS) they were n
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by dullroar 8y ago
I am a long-time fan, and have owned all three editions of his book (which started out titled "Systemantics"). Back in the day you ordered it from his pediatrics office and he sent it in the mail.
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by dullroar 8y ago
Note he uses both, even in the same paragraph - asterisks typically mean "bold," whereas underscores typically mean "underlined."
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by dullroar 8y ago
Meant to be underline the word between.
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by dullroar 8y ago
I concur - "Systemantics" (now "The Systems Bible") is an excellent book. I had a boss turn me onto it in the 1980s, and to this day I still quote from it, and re-read it about once a decade just to keep the lessons fres
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by dullroar 8y ago
This. I have always said the #1 job of a for-profit company should be extracting money from the customers wallets, and it should be as frictionless as possible. But no - examples abound of companies that seem to hate money, as you say.
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by dullroar 8y ago
Should also change spaces to zero-width spaces, which would then make it less obvious where the word breaks are.
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by dullroar 8y ago
Agree with all points. Here's another - depending on the size of the shop and the population of users it will be delivered to, there are trade-offs that must be made as you go towards zero on both of those axes. For example, if you hav
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by dullroar 8y ago
And this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46055595 ?
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by dullroar 8y ago
Yup, PiHole for the win! :)

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