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Comment · 5 years ago
To make matters worst, what you see with your open eyes, is not one image, is a collection of images with all kind of distortions, blur and other smudges that your brain "photoshop" away to produce an image that conforms to the flawed/bias criteria that your brains considers to be a good image. The same happens with your ears and your taste buds. Reality in our brains is pure poetry.
Comment · 5 years ago
Asm 56 GB/s (you are reading Sanskrit) C 41 GB/s (you are reading US Tax Code) Rust 30 GB/s (you are reading English) Python (why bother) (you are speed reading ) So many tools, so many languages, life is great.
Comment · 5 years ago
What brought me into the coding world was its novelty. In those days an electronic games were: Merlin, Simon and Mattel Football. Today, there is nothing novel about coding and its crushing and relentless.
Comment · 5 years ago
It might read unrelated yet, term limits is the only concrete way to limit the damage of a corrupt lawmaker.
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Comment · 5 years ago
CNN: Amuse yourself. NYT: Me and my money. WAPO: Them and what used to be my money. LAT: The news, with looks and style that will dazzle.
Comment · 5 years ago
At one point the mobile phone turns into a Skinner Box? It is my claim that the amount of hours vested on Internet consumption is directly proportional to the inability to interpret in person body language, verbal cues and in person room reading...among other things.
Comment · 5 years ago
Not to be thrown into semantics but... Scope vs. Goal The goal defines the scope. If the goal does not change, neither the scope. When the goal includes a date...the scope has no way to adjust because scope refers, simply put, to a to-do list. A poorly conceived date does not change the scope, it cuts short the to-do list. How long does it take to a Nascar Team to win the Indy 500? 500 miles as fast as humanly possible.
Comment · 5 years ago
Containers add a substantial level of indirection for us, developers. Now we have to grow a seventh arm to juggle to manage/fold into our workflow. For production? Hands down the right solution. For development, I wish, only wish, We could live without.
Comment · 5 years ago
One well written document can spin out many programs. One well written program cannot spin out a well written document. Is up to savvy developers and ultimately a computer to give thumbs up to a program. A document on the other hand has a subjective bar for approval. When documents and programs clash (the program not doing exactly what the document asks), to people's chagrin, the program wins.
Comment · 5 years ago
he he. DLLS is short for DOLLAR$ :)
Comment · 5 years ago
I worked in the DELL Manufacturing plant in north Austin (Metric Blvd) on the 386->486 heydays. The DELL Optiplex 386SX will run around 800 to 1200 DLLS and came pre-installed with MD DOS 6.1 and Windows 3.1. When the 486 machines started churning out of the factory Windows 95 came to be and the PCs came pre loaded preloaded with a short action snippet of TOP-GUN and MS Encarta Encyclopedia so you could test your optional and expensive Sound Blaster 16 card. Our competition were Compaq and Packard Bell.
Comment · 5 years ago
Reminds me of Kodak Eastman Business Park. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Business_Park

Just visiting Wikipedia found out that they weapon grade Uranium in an underground lab... yikes!

Comment · 5 years ago
No mention of Terminus?? https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/

Those were the days.

Today I stick with whatever the IDE or distro system font has. Meh.

Comment · 5 years ago
Ah! Another case of who police the police. The police police the police. Good news that the spare PCU took over and it was good. We all hope that the spare PCU was not part of an unlucky manufacturing batch. Great article.

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