Most of my work is in either embedded systems or Linux device drivers. In both cases recursion is a Really Bad Thing (tm) if you can't promise not to wipe out your stack.
Plug it into my TV, then let me stream music/video from my laptop. My laptop is harder to lose than a small remote (hello Roku, lost your @!#$$ remote over the holidays), usually within arms reach, can access my 3 TB NAS, and is easy to get content onto. My TV is plugged into my stereo, and the stereo remote is not only nice and big, but gets used several times a day. Currently the only way to play my music on my stereo is to burn a CD.
/ not picking on you Roku// I seem to have issues with small, seldom used remotes
I run Thunderbird on my laptop. It connects to gmail, downloads my mail, and lets me sort the mail into folders. Not to mention always having a local copy of my mail. Couldn't tell you the last time I went to gmail.com from a browser.
Don't even get me started on tags. I hate tags, don't understand why anyone would like them. Put my mail into folders and leave me be.
It's a no-brainer. We just need to take it to the next level to turn this into a win-win situation. The best practice is to get rid of the low-hanging fruit first. Ping me with an agenda so we can go flag up on this thing
About a year ago I had a craftsman socket driver I bought in the 70's crap out on me. Took it to Sears, showed the clerk the ratchet mechanism no longer worked, he gave me a brand spankin new one.
Yeah, a month or so ago I picked up a few USB and HDMI cables from the 99 cent store. Not because I needed them, but because I saw them there and those things are handy to have around.
Some 20 years ago I worked for a small company who's lead programmer was legally blind. He wasn't 100% blind, but had very little vision. He worked on a Linux box that had one of the biggest screens available at the time, and his font size was huge. I could easily read his screen from across the room.
Guy was a phenomenal programmer. His code seldom had bugs. He knew the entire code-base inside out. Basically, as it was so hard for him to read code, he memorized it when he did read it.
We figured out the Atari cartridge was nothing more than a popular PROM (2716?) with one of the control signals reversed. We made our own cartridges that used an EEPROM, then used our EEPROM burner to read cartridges and store the contents on a floppy. We'd then burn EEPROMs of the games we wanted, and pop them into the ZIF socket on our home made cartridges.
I remember 7-8 years ago I was lead on a new project and we were deciding on a scripting language. I wanted Python over Perl. It was clearly easier to both read and write, and had object orientation.
What shot it down? My boss telling me "we have a thousand engineers world-wide who know perl, and you 6 will be the Python experts. You really wanna support a thousand engineers learning Python over the next 5 years?"
Wanna simplify the tax system? Declare anyone in Congress must do their own taxes. No CPAs, no accountants, no advisers. I'd be tempted to say no tax software, but that might be going to far.
Guarantee, within 1 year taxes will be greatly simplified.
I have found that paying a CPA to do my taxes is a waste of money.
Get yourself a better CPA. Mine is a tax expert. First few years I used him I did my taxes in TurboTax to compare, he always found enough magic such that he paid for himself in taxes I saved. Not to mention I just had to shovel data to him, instead of spending a few hours in TT myself.
Gotta find a new guy though, last year he told me he was getting married and moving out of state:(
I switched to ddg a year or two back because I thought google had too much information on me. Maybe 2-3 times a week I need to revert to a google search, but ddg is fine for 99% of my searches.
Take a bunch of overly bureaucratic organizations that have needed weeding out for decades, create a huge new bureaucracy to oversee them all, and WTF can you expect?
/ Bush was the worst president in my 50+ year lifetime // Homeland security never made any sense to me /// I vote Republican prolly 70% of the time
In the living room I've got the windows closed, no heater yet, and it's 65. In the bedroom the window is open and it's in the 40s. I love snuggling under my pile of blankets, and sleep much better that way than I do in the summer when it's 80 in the bedroom.
This is also how Uverse works. Lose your cable/internet, you can't even watch shows already recorded. When I move in a few months I'll be getting another Tivo.
In San Diego PSN was fine for me Christmas day (when I only logged on to see if I could), down all day the 26th (which was the 1 day of the week I'd planned to play CoD all day), and back up yesterday (27th). Haven't tried it today.
Decided to see if my Fallout New Vegas DLC I'd purchased a few years ago was bugfixed. It was not. The goal is 60 fps? Try 1 frame per minute, or less. grrr
/ Seems if your save file is >10 meg you lose // forgive me for enjoying the game, completing all side quests and the game before the DLC came out /// Game is on craigslist, I'll never even start 2 of the 4 DLC I bought //// Be a long time before Bethesda gets any money from me for anything ///// I'm on a PS3 YMMV
I'd be in a cube farm with maybe 15 linear feet of shelf space, not counting deskspace. In addition I had a bookcase. All were filled with tech manuals. You had to play games with the reps, convince them you needed their book of datasheets to do your job. Back then my shelves were full of books of datasheets, maybe 3-4 books like Code Complete, or Programming and Principles of C++.
I've still got my Mick and Brick book on bit slice programming, and wish I'd hung on to my TI book on the 74xx chips.
Everything now is google and download a PDF, or the vendor sends me an email attachment with the caveat I don't share it with anyone under penalty of 6 years of bad breath.
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Most of my work is in either embedded systems or Linux device drivers. In both cases recursion is a Really Bad Thing (tm) if you can't promise not to wipe out your stack.
Plug it into my TV, then let me stream music/video from my laptop. My laptop is harder to lose than a small remote (hello Roku, lost your @!#$$ remote over the holidays), usually within arms reach, can access my 3 TB NAS, and is easy to get content onto. My TV is plugged into my stereo, and the stereo remote is not only nice and big, but gets used several times a day. Currently the only way to play my music on my stereo is to burn a CD.
// I seem to have issues with small, seldom used remotes
/ not picking on you Roku
I run Thunderbird on my laptop. It connects to gmail, downloads my mail, and lets me sort the mail into folders. Not to mention always having a local copy of my mail. Couldn't tell you the last time I went to gmail.com from a browser.
Don't even get me started on tags. I hate tags, don't understand why anyone would like them. Put my mail into folders and leave me be.
It's a no-brainer. We just need to take it to the next level to turn this into a win-win situation. The best practice is to get rid of the low-hanging fruit first. Ping me with an agenda so we can go flag up on this thing
to "finger", cuz someone put a ring on it.
About a year ago I had a craftsman socket driver I bought in the 70's crap out on me. Took it to Sears, showed the clerk the ratchet mechanism no longer worked, he gave me a brand spankin new one.
Yeah, a month or so ago I picked up a few USB and HDMI cables from the 99 cent store. Not because I needed them, but because I saw them there and those things are handy to have around.
Some 20 years ago I worked for a small company who's lead programmer was legally blind. He wasn't 100% blind, but had very little vision. He worked on a Linux box that had one of the biggest screens available at the time, and his font size was huge. I could easily read his screen from across the room.
Guy was a phenomenal programmer. His code seldom had bugs. He knew the entire code-base inside out. Basically, as it was so hard for him to read code, he memorized it when he did read it.
My top priority is being able to have Thunderbird connect to the mail server. I much prefer having my email local, rather than in "the cloud".
We figured out the Atari cartridge was nothing more than a popular PROM (2716?) with one of the control signals reversed. We made our own cartridges that used an EEPROM, then used our EEPROM burner to read cartridges and store the contents on a floppy. We'd then burn EEPROMs of the games we wanted, and pop them into the ZIF socket on our home made cartridges.
I remember 7-8 years ago I was lead on a new project and we were deciding on a scripting language. I wanted Python over Perl. It was clearly easier to both read and write, and had object orientation.
What shot it down? My boss telling me "we have a thousand engineers world-wide who know perl, and you 6 will be the Python experts. You really wanna support a thousand engineers learning Python over the next 5 years?"
Wanna simplify the tax system? Declare anyone in Congress must do their own taxes. No CPAs, no accountants, no advisers. I'd be tempted to say no tax software, but that might be going to far.
Guarantee, within 1 year taxes will be greatly simplified.
I have found that paying a CPA to do my taxes is a waste of money.
Get yourself a better CPA. Mine is a tax expert. First few years I used him I did my taxes in TurboTax to compare, he always found enough magic such that he paid for himself in taxes I saved. Not to mention I just had to shovel data to him, instead of spending a few hours in TT myself. :(
Gotta find a new guy though, last year he told me he was getting married and moving out of state
My dad used to go to church Saturday to mimeograph the Sunday bulletin. I still remember the smell and sound of that thing.
Let's try two hours of exposure to pornhub and see what sorts of jeans expression changes are detected.
Doing my taxes
// how to fix?
/// all congresscritters are required to do their own taxes
/ way too complex
I switched to ddg a year or two back because I thought google had too much information on me. Maybe 2-3 times a week I need to revert to a google search, but ddg is fine for 99% of my searches.
Take a bunch of overly bureaucratic organizations that have needed weeding out for decades, create a huge new bureaucracy to oversee them all, and WTF can you expect?
// Homeland security never made any sense to me
/// I vote Republican prolly 70% of the time
/ Bush was the worst president in my 50+ year lifetime
In the living room I've got the windows closed, no heater yet, and it's 65. In the bedroom the window is open and it's in the 40s. I love snuggling under my pile of blankets, and sleep much better that way than I do in the summer when it's 80 in the bedroom.
Then again, I beat a computer at kick boxing once.
Not original, I read that somewhere not 30 minutes ago.
This is also how Uverse works. Lose your cable/internet, you can't even watch shows already recorded. When I move in a few months I'll be getting another Tivo.
In San Diego PSN was fine for me Christmas day (when I only logged on to see if I could), down all day the 26th (which was the 1 day of the week I'd planned to play CoD all day), and back up yesterday (27th). Haven't tried it today.
Decided to see if my Fallout New Vegas DLC I'd purchased a few years ago was bugfixed. It was not. The goal is 60 fps? Try 1 frame per minute, or less. grrr
// forgive me for enjoying the game, completing all side quests and the game before the DLC came out
/// Game is on craigslist, I'll never even start 2 of the 4 DLC I bought
//// Be a long time before Bethesda gets any money from me for anything
///// I'm on a PS3 YMMV
/ Seems if your save file is >10 meg you lose
I'd be in a cube farm with maybe 15 linear feet of shelf space, not counting deskspace. In addition I had a bookcase. All were filled with tech manuals. You had to play games with the reps, convince them you needed their book of datasheets to do your job. Back then my shelves were full of books of datasheets, maybe 3-4 books like Code Complete, or Programming and Principles of C++.
I've still got my Mick and Brick book on bit slice programming, and wish I'd hung on to my TI book on the 74xx chips.
Everything now is google and download a PDF, or the vendor sends me an email attachment with the caveat I don't share it with anyone under penalty of 6 years of bad breath.
the institute of No Shiat Sherlock. It was always about the revenue, safety was a smokescreen swallowed by the gullible.