kindall

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by kindall 5y ago
If you don't already know what CORS is, you're probably not a Web developer and don't need to know.
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by kindall 5y ago
Me too. Imaginos is a brilliant album
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by kindall 5y ago
the tape relay was one of the TRS-80s IIRC. You could toggle it back and forth fast enough to overheat it and get it stuck.
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by kindall 5y ago
Imagine how much a really big cube of tungsten would weigh. Installing it at MOMA would itself be the art.
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by kindall 5y ago
I started writing my own WinCompose-like utility in AutoHotkey, before I learned about WinCompose. Gave up on that immediately, obviously. AutoHotkey is really an amazing tool. The actual programming language is awkward, but it has capabili
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by kindall 5y ago
Proprietary, not PCI, but expansion slots, yes. On HPs it was called the MIO slot and later the EIO slot. If your printer came with a MIO card that only did serial and parallel, you could swap it for one that added networking.
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by kindall 5y ago
Gil was brought in to swing the axe, and he did exactly what he was brought in to do. He cancelled a bunch of stuff that was draining Apple's resources. He was never going to be popular but the point was that the next guy could come in
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by kindall 5y ago
If your manager is telling you that your performance is lacking and that you need to improve in specific areas, how is that really any different from being told you are on a PIP, and the rest of that? That is, what would you, as an employ
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by kindall 5y ago
The leadership principles are an important part of Amazon's solution to the problem of getting hundreds of thousands of employees pulling in the same general direction. They are easy to get people to sign on to because they are, for th
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by kindall 5y ago
And the Internet is only one particular internet, and the World Wide Web is a specific web
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by kindall 5y ago
"Loud pipes save lives," they say, while putting their own lives in danger from ordinary motorists who must constantly repress the urge to destroy the insufferable noise machine.
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by kindall 5y ago
I think McD's uses liquid oil, so not hydrogenated (trans fat). You hydrogenate oil to make it solid at room temperature, as a substitute for animal fats. If you're going to fry in it there's no point in not starting with an
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by kindall 5y ago
People always say that, but only one of the full-time jobs I've had in my thirty-year career has come from networking. In one other situation I was the guy who got several former co-workers hired, all at once, a frankly freak occurrenc
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by kindall 5y ago
The purpose of the patent system is to incentivize people to publish the details of their inventions instead of keeping them secret, thereby advancing the state of the art. The limited-time monopoly is the incentive.
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by kindall 5y ago
I think that's what the "optimize for Web" checkbox does
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by kindall 5y ago
They really missed an opportunity by not calling it the Great Vowel Movement
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by kindall 6y ago
PHI means protected health information. Protected means protected by HIPAA. By definition, there is no PHI not protected by HIPAA. HIPAA is concerned with what health information must be protected and defining that defines PHI.
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by kindall 6y ago
Shades of the 6502, where 0 was BRK
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by kindall 6y ago
resizable arrays of pointers to objects stored elsewhere, which is going to blow through your cache anyway, especially when you start accessing those objects' attributes. so it's more a memory management strategy than a performanc
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by kindall 6y ago
Or you just hit Ctrl-Enter
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by kindall 6y ago
Subaru CVTs already have essentially this feature. The transmission doesn't have gears (duh, it's continuously variable) but it still has the ability to manually shift to predefined ratios.
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by kindall 6y ago
Acura RL was one of the first to have active nose cancellation, in 2005.
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by kindall 6y ago
I saw that too if it's the one that was at the Ohio State University in 1986 or 1987. I was just a kid who had never heard of either of those guys, but I still remember it thirty-some years later.
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by kindall 6y ago
Expected Snoot Booper; found it
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by kindall 6y ago
I think you're underestimating just how dominant the Apple II was in the late seventies to mid eighties, at least in the US.. Apple made the machine until 1993 (and the model I'm talking about isn't even the 16-bit IIgs, but
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by kindall 6y ago
The book The Goal is a fun read if you're interested in constraints.
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by kindall 6y ago
Hinting is what that's called.
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by kindall 6y ago
US patent laws sensibly state that only individuals, not corporations, may be awarded patents. Unfortunately, most companies require that any patent awarded to an engineer in their employ is automatically assigned to the company. Get rid of
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by kindall 9y ago
A good man, if he does bad things when he's drunk, makes sure he's never drunk again. That's how you can tell he's a good man. Being drunk is an excuse for bad behavior exactly once.