tallpapab

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by tallpapab 9y ago
Interesting article. One can easily notice that most folks seem to treat the speed limit as a minimum speed rather than a maximum speed. It's not just designers designing for speed. They do so because of market demand. That demand is b
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by tallpapab 9y ago
I feel for your brother and understand your fatherly fears. I have three sons. They are all fine now, but ... One got hit by a drunken driver, one broke his neck, and the other fell onto a wrought iron fence which stabbed through his skull
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by tallpapab 9y ago
I still have one of these from the 1964 World's Fair. I figure it's worth at least - oh - ten cents.
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by tallpapab 13y ago
So I had this clever little comment worked out. I was going to say that a formula for designing a unique building - and, hence, gaining a star reputation - would be to pick a design that everyone else knows has a fatal flaw. That way no oth
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by tallpapab 13y ago
Ha! Great story. My favorite line: "It's hard nowadays to find an honest man who stays bought."
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by tallpapab 13y ago
Strong position? Do you mean the Post Office thing? Or the "Balderdash" comment warning about getting distracted by generalizing people? Or did you mean the joke about getting ads for stuff I already bought? Sorry if I came on too
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by tallpapab 13y ago
Thanks. Now stop being distracted.
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by tallpapab 13y ago
This is all very interesting. So far it seems to be used to show me adverts for stuff I have already bought.
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by tallpapab 13y ago
Balderdash! How many people are in the baby boom generation? And you paint them all with one bush? Do you do the same for people of a particular race? Upon closer inspection you will find that few boomers are responsible for your woes. Your
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by tallpapab 13y ago
All this increased digital surveillance comes at a time when the US Post Office is under artificial financial pressure. Just last night the news reported a plan to eliminate direct delivery to the door in favor of some sort of community mai
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by tallpapab 13y ago
Please forgive my rudimentary (and possible erroneous understanding. There are three things important to public-key encryption. The public key, the private key (together called the key pair) and a certificate. If I understand it the cert is
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by tallpapab 14y ago
What I'd like to see (Monty Python Gumby) is some dates on his web page. Maybe a GitHub page. I got Incosolata a few years ago and have been using it since, but he says he's working on it. When was the last update?
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by tallpapab 14y ago
For my 86 year old mother Facebook has been a boon and a great confusion. She keeps asking me about how people send her messages. There's email. There's Facebook Messages. There's her Facebook "wall". Then other people's statuses show up on
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Thanks. I didn't know that and wondered where they went.
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by tallpapab 14y ago
"Fix the problem, not the blame." - I first heard this in the movie Red October, I think. The other one that come to mind is John Wooden, the famous basketball coach, claiming that he liked players who made mistakes because those were the o
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by tallpapab 14y ago
How does ctags do when a variable name is repeated in a different scope? I do rather wish for a really good vim type replacement for the editor in NetBeans though. I keep inadvertently entering vim motion commands in my java text - sigh.
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by tallpapab 14y ago
As quickly as you can turn your back on Visual Studio. (Sorry, just kidding ... sort of.) Eclipse and NetBeans are a couple IDEs (there are others) that use a module system to build what can appear to be a monolith. Look into OSGi which is
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Uh oh. After a few decades of Unix I _still_ have a poor understanding, sniff. I have in years past used sed and awk and perl -e and other such to rename as well other things. However, the regular expressions to ensure you're not including
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Thanks for the reply. ctags is a great tool, but it is not as easy as an IDE. IDEs keep track without my having to explicitly rebuild the tag data base. IDEs have plugins for different languages. The dynamic flagging of errors and warnings
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by tallpapab 14y ago
I agree that many underestimate the power of bash for development. Make, in particular, is much more widely usable. However, there are some things that I find very convenient in an IDE that are harder to do at the command line. Finding usag
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by tallpapab 14y ago
You sound angry. Not sure why. Some feel that his tax evasion efforts are unseemly. Not sure why you're focused on his lucky strike.
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Et toi! Laissez les bon temps rouler!
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by tallpapab 14y ago
I've had a better time learning German than other languages just because my grandparents were German speakers. So as a small child I heard sounds which help my accent today. So just another of the many things to consider when making this ch
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Let's see, Eduardo invested $30,000 in Facebook? And he's perceived (so he can borrow) to be worth over three billion now. So he can afford to invest $30,000 again about 100,000 times. Maybe he'll hit again. I'm not sure his investment is s
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by tallpapab 14y ago
tl;dr; Unpolished speaker is right.
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Sorry. That was one of the worst things I've read this week. The jumping to conclusions, the unstated assumptions. The gross misuse of statistics. I love the one about 44% of pedestrian accidents happen at traffic lights. I think it was Wil
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by tallpapab 14y ago
I think of myself as a computer programmer. I try to be a software writer. I market myself as a Consulting Software Engineer.
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Ironic that you refer to an RFC. CC was used in correspondence long before internets and RFCs (as was BCC). It meant "carbon copy" just as you said originally. This is a bit like updating an icon. The icon (actually acronym) was left unchan
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Yes, carbon copy. I used them and still have some from ancient correspondence. I think "Courtesy Copy" was an attempt to update the acronym which is amusing and much in line with folks wanting to update icons. Not necessarily a bad thing, j
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Wow! This really should be known more widely.

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