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  1. Re:Take a "peak"? on Astonishing Speedup In Solving Linear SDD Systems · · Score: 1

    How about others watching hard work's relevance evaporate before new algorithms. Might not they show pique?

    I guess the author is too young to have used PEEK and POKE or he'd never made that error.

  2. Testing more interesting on How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? · · Score: 1

    For me the interest is raised if I write a few high level tests BEFORE doing any coding. Then code.

    I suspect the heightened interest is the pleasure of writing to a spec and meeting a goal.

    So often (80% of the time?) I then early on save a good bit of rewriting.

  3. Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Sourc on Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? · · Score: 1

    Refuse the "not allowed to return to your project upon leaving their company". You know that you won't be able to pound out the same code as you do while working for these guys after even 6 weeks of not having the EXACT source code in front of you. It would be different code for sure.

    YOU need to be honest and not work on it for "open source" while working for them.

    Every programmer I ever met has a modicum of trouble reading their own dang code for "important points" after a few months. All you will have is what you can keep in your head.

    Your prospective employer should know this so tell them NO to that provision.

  4. gwgwgw on Keeping Older Drivers Behind the Wheel · · Score: 1

    Antelope freeway 1/16th mile

  5. Re:never use the web for such queries on Domains May Disappear After Search · · Score: 1

    I would suspect your client of trying to avoid paying for your services.

  6. decay time on Mesons Flip Between Matter and Antimatter · · Score: 1

    Following the links I see that the decay time in seconds (clicking on the column header) is:

    1.46Ã-10-12

    How is this number to be read as seconds?

    George Wyche
    gwyche@io.com

  7. USB "short run" gadgets on Outré USB Gadgets · · Score: 1
    Last I looked, USB development kits with any chance of helping you succeed right away were about $2000. If you wanted to make a USB device that supplied some simple information, e.g. temperature probe? the light is on --or not--, how would you go about it?

    Make a device and supply a command line program to retrieve that simple information. It would seem to be expensive and more than a couple weekends of work.

  8. Re:DICOM Part 10 image viewer - in ASCII on ASCII World Cup · · Score: 1

    I'm an active programmer in the field of Industrial Computed Tomography. It'd be fun to add a filter like that to our viewing possibilities.

    Do you have the algorithm in a form I might be able to use?

  9. Re:3D web. on One 3D Format to Rule Them All · · Score: 1

    Advanced Imaging magazine, July 2002's front cover
    has "3D WEB MARKETS: Ready for Liftoff?" as the
    main topic. http://www.advancedimagingmag.com if
    you need further reference.

  10. Re:I feel your pain... on Disconnecting · · Score: 1

    It never occurred to me to try that line of attack. Thanks for the advice.

    I am just too straight forward to think that way, but it is an excellent observation of beauracracy.

  11. My news source on Handling the Loads · · Score: 1

    Normally I seek /. because it leaves out natural disasters, political mishmash and foreign wars.

    I forgive you.

    I take a daily paper and listen to NPR, so I do keep up on "worldly and local" topics.

    With slashdot I feel a community that is not imparted by the 2 traditional news funnels cited above.