sas224dbm

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by sas224dbm 4mo ago
90s Solaris dude here .. Unix Power Tools was the book that had the most borrow rate in our office ..
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by sas224dbm 5mo ago
Oooh, saw Andrei's name pop up and remember his books on C++ back in the day .. ran into a systems engineer a while ago that asked why during a tech review asked why some data size wasn't 1000 instead of 1024.. like err ??
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by sas224dbm 7mo ago
"shall" and "must"
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by sas224dbm 1y ago
A favorite past-time back in the day was driving at night from pub to pub along the 'back roads' (B-roads specifically in the UK) as fast as 'possible'. There were typically no street lights, however lights from other ve
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by sas224dbm 1y ago
of course it's re-usable .. most passionate excel jockeys would agree, as long it's their VBA that gets reused
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by sas224dbm 1y ago
Tony Wheeler has a lot to answer for
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by sas224dbm 1y ago
This is not unique to SV. This is happening world over. The wealthier are buying more assets, the middle and lower classes are left paying rent to the wealthy landowners. "Gary's Economics" has tons of material on wealth ineq
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by sas224dbm 1y ago
Grandpa can help with that too
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by sas224dbm 1y ago
A Gattaca moment ?
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Kona Blue Unclassified [pdf](aaro.mil)
3 points by sas224dbm 2y ago|0 comments
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by sas224dbm 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240330173821/https://www.forbe...
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by sas224dbm 3y ago
I went as a contractor (fixing a port from PDP 11/44 -> SUN 5/110) on-board a UK nuclear sub back in the 90s, and had a contractor berth in the 'bomb shop'. I slept underneath the Tigerfish MK24 torpedoes, smelly and
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by sas224dbm 4y ago
Some good stuff in there, but heard most of it in earlier publications. Reading Steve McConnell's "Software Estimation" covers a bunch of it, Cone of Uncertainty etc etc. Here's where i've seen estimation become acc
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by sas224dbm 4y ago
I have been involved in 2 medium sized-ish (~300) software support projects for western-nation's land forces project that brought in SAFe with a fanfare. Lots of ($$) training, everybody gulping down the coolade etc etc. It started off
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by sas224dbm 4y ago
I was backpacking around Asia in '94 .. my connection to the rest of the world was my trusty Sony shortwave radio (ICF-SW1) .. anyone else remember those glorious days ? :)
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by sas224dbm 5y ago
Why are they still called phones though ? that's my point .. essentially you have a computer in your hands that happens to have an ability to make voice calls .. I was looking for stats on how people use their devices but can't
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iPhone is a terrible Product Name
2 points by sas224dbm 5y ago|11 comments
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by sas224dbm 5y ago
Yeah, good call.. feel free to remove "Zoom" as you're reading. I agree, it's irrelevant in some aspects, however, i would posit he likened to the idea of Zoom for dismissing his staff, as he could do this without actual
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by sas224dbm 5y ago
that's exactly what the remaining employees are discussing over their Wednesday evening drinkies too !
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by sas224dbm 5y ago
As in so many other domains, i'm disappointed but not surprised. The corporation let this douche-bag 'cool-off' and is now bringing him back to invigorate the company .. awesome .. can't wait to see how that pans out
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Wait, what –. Mass Zoom Firing Boss back at the helm?(bbc.com)
19 points by sas224dbm 5y ago|12 comments
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by sas224dbm 5y ago
I've worked on reasonably large >$100M defense programs for the last 25 years. Nearly all of them overran both time and budget constraints. They have mostly been firm-fixed price, except for the last 5ish years, that being incentivi
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by sas224dbm 5y ago
A.R.S.E. Automated Remote Start Enrollment
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by sas224dbm 5y ago
My Sony ICF SW-1 shortwave radio. Perfect backpacking travel companion in Asia in the 90s. It just worked.
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by sas224dbm 5y ago
The article says that this is an "unusual architectural choice". I strongly disagree. A reference is made to an RTI publication many years ago. Realtime Innovations have been key players in the development of DDS publish-subscribe
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Hazing or 'Paying Dues'?(bbc.com)
1 points by sas224dbm 5y ago|1 comments
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by sas224dbm 5y ago
Learned: software that you write will ALWAYS be for other people to pick-up, and that is hard. Keeping things simple is a tool to that end.
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by sas224dbm 5y ago
I worked on Target Motion Analysis (TMA) software that was live on S&T class UK submarines in the 90s. There were only a few types of data that were highly classified and which we never saw, Electronic Surveillance Measures (ESM) databa
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by sas224dbm 5y ago
I moved to Ottawa in 2000 to one of the few defense companies there. The boom was happening and folks were being given 10-15% pay rises, just to try and stop the bleeding to Nortel, as they were paying huge salaries for software engineers b
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by sas224dbm 5y ago
When i hear the term "Manic Miner" i think of endless weekend sleepovers at my pal's place trying to solve those goddamn levels .. we would take it in turns on that crazy rubber keyboard of his Spectrum .. what a machine of t

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