mikehoward

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Amazing infrastructure resilience in NYC(nytimes.com)
1 points by mikehoward 14y ago|0 comments
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by mikehoward 14y ago
I believe that doublely linked lists are described by Knuth in the Art of Computer Programming volume (something). My recollection is that it may have been in a problem or note. They are definitely used in UNIX for the run queue where rapid
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OS X update 10.7.5 trashes Time Machine(latimes.com)
2 points by mikehoward 14y ago|0 comments
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Need 3,000 more Sigs Now for Force TSA to Follow Law(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
6 points by mikehoward 14y ago|2 comments
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C Programming Language Part 3 - Scope(yacodeblog.wordpress.com)
1 points by mikehoward 14y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts about violence & motivation(mikehoward-musing.posterous.com)
2 points by mikehoward 14y ago|0 comments
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by mikehoward 14y ago
nailed it. period
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More intro to K&R's ANSI C(oncoding.posterous.com)
2 points by mikehoward 14y ago|0 comments
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by mikehoward 14y ago
You guys seem to be missing the real point I was trying to make here. We are in a Not Enough Programmers Boom and it will be followed by a deflations in about 4 or 5 years. I taught CS during the mid 1980's during one of these. Most of the
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by mikehoward 14y ago
Every field has stars and 'everybody else'. Physicians know who to send send their family members to. Quality chef's command more respect and make higher quality food. etc. I speak from experience. The same is true in programming.
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So you want to learn to code(oncoding.posterous.com)
5 points by mikehoward 14y ago|11 comments
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by mikehoward 14y ago
Try to find out what the licensing is for Creative Cloud. I spent a couple of hours on their help forum - which is manned (and womanned) by frustrated users and some adobe employees (probably contractors) who don't seem to understand the qu
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by mikehoward 14y ago
This should shift the s/w outsourcing edge away from India. I think the rest of the world should consider this good news and encourage them to find more creative ways to 'protect' against imaginary criminal activity.
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by mikehoward 14y ago
This is a new iTunes app store requirement. Gmail won't help
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by mikehoward 14y ago
just the 'obvious' - look into stripe.com & moneybookers. Don't really know if either will help but stripe is aimed at developers & moneybookers is in Europe, so they probably actually know how to manage exchange rates etc
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Stupid Security Questions
4 points by mikehoward 14y ago|6 comments
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by mikehoward 14y ago
Fortran in '70 - so 40+. It's been continuous since then
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by mikehoward 15y ago
I use TexMate for Rails; emacs for Lisp & other stuff; and vi for quick git edits and things like that (also remote edits)
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by mikehoward 15y ago
These are strange ideas. Apple was a computer company until they brought out the iPod. I believe that about 80% of their income now comes from non-computer products - with an emphasis on entertainment. Running windows was critical to Apple'
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by mikehoward 15y ago
my main machine is an mbp - which is maxed at 8 Gig. Every day it starts paging under at most a modest load. This is an artifact of the operating system and Safari (which leaks memory) I had the same issues with uSoft windows which led me t
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Apple Says there are Only Two OS's - OS X and Windows 7
2 points by mikehoward 15y ago|7 comments
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by mikehoward 15y ago
look up doc - edit - compile - test - repeat is pretty close to interpreted language repl cycles. But then I started on punch cards, so maybe my perspective is different. [one to three compile & test cycles/day makes anything interactiv
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Re: White House response to anti-SOPA Petition
2 points by mikehoward 15y ago|0 comments
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by mikehoward 15y ago
Problems on a whiteboard don't test programming skills simply because the whiteboard isn't executable. You don't get the feedback that REPL gives you, so you can't build up your solution - and understanding of the problem - iteratively. See
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by mikehoward 15y ago
good to know - thanks
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by mikehoward 15y ago
You're selling red herring. I pay for DNS and hosting - it's 'just another bill'
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by mikehoward 15y ago
Plug a 1T LaCie all terrain HD into the FW 800 port. Works a lot faster than the wireless and it's easy to back up the backup (portably)
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by mikehoward 15y ago
It's a FUD piece. Says nothing.