A box arrived in the mail. It was maybe 10 x 6 x 4 or so. Inside that was a manila envelope. Inside that was a small box, slightly larger than a jewlers ring box. Inside that was a clear plastic pill bottle. Inside that was a small ziploc baggie.
Inside that was ONE styrafoam bead, like from a beanbag chair. it was the replacement foam bead for an anemometer.
the most egregious bug I think I ever introduced was due to code cloning. It was awful. I did not bother to properly refactor (hey it was 12 years ago) and as a result we ended up with diverging clones that needed to be separately maintained.
I'm probably going to be shouted down but in my 30 years of coding, I *rarely* reused code. Platforms change, toolchains and libraries change (glibc vs libc6), languages change, system architectures change (heavy client, client/server, n-tier, distributed) and system requirements change.
Example, a lot of what I have done over the past 10 years uses some standard navigation libraries that probably could have been 100% portable. Lat/lon to range bearing, rb2ll, etc. We've never even discussed IF it would help to make a single standard project library, even though I can absolutely tell you we will rewrite these again on the next platform.
I can't even look back on 10 years of coding and say "Oh things would have been so much better if we had shared code". I don't think that is the case. And fwiw, this is teams of 5-20 programmers on significant projects.
I just inherited a "simple" XP Embedded project on a SBC with an allegedly trimmed setup. It is not meeting the maximum 40 SECOND bootup time and I'm trying to figure out how to get it within the very generous 40 second requirement.
There's got to be more to this story. FTA the original contract was $595M for 525K handhelds that were supposed to replace "costly" paper forms and maps?
Does each enumerator REALLY use $1k in paper? I call mega-shennanigans.
Hell they could have just bought every enumerator a macbook!
The interview can be found here I heard it too but have not re-listened to it. I suppose he could have been a little more polished and less cranky but I think the gist of his argument was that it was a nebulous federal requirement that would cost Montana money and there would be no benefit.
Stop telling me it's a conspiracy and tell me how they achieve the magic of the fusion.
I have countless applications that could benefit from this research. I've got old school islands of data in "stovepiped" isolated products. I *might* be able to slap a semantic web layer around them but I really REALLY do not want to reinvent the wheel if my tax dollars paid for a good solution.
"The congressional policy and agency practice of relying on the marketplace instead of regulation to maximize consumer welfare has been proven by experience (including the Comcast customer experience) to be enormously successful," - Cohen
I agree completely and will move my "customer experience" from Comcast to Verizon FioS ASAP.
IANAPA, but coincidentally in another window right now I am writing a patent disclosure application. I am lucky enough to work at an office that has a cadre of patent attorneys and just last week I had a discussion about a topic just like this Amazon patent (or I think it is).
In my case, I've "built" a system using nothing more than a set of other peoples building blocks. Each existing component is already extensively patented and/or in common use with TONS of prior art. The system I created performs a useful function that is also covered by prior art (in my case, it is a medical diagnostic tool).
The patent attorney told me that my idea was very likely patentable because it was a "novel" (new) implementation, even though the pieces exist and a (different) end product already exists.
I'm pretty sure I was 5 (based on where I lived). I played tic tac toe against a computer in the library at the Boston Museum of Science. I think this was on a KSR-33, which 20 years later in the military I was trained to repair!
YMMV of course but I have been using these in many forms for a long time (years). There have been local giveaway programs sponsored by either the state or the power company, I forget which. My gut feeling is that these bulbs have not lived up to their expected or marketed life expectancy in my house. They're supposed to last many times the length of an incandescent. I just threw another one away two days ago.
I'm caveating the hell out of this, it may be just my house, where I'm using them, etc.....but I don't think they last as long as we've been told.
My own trival "hack". I'm using Darwiinremote to read xyz accelerometer data and Octave to make/graph ffts of Parkinson's tremors. It's remarkably sensitive!
One of my very first introductions to enterprise networking and internet was back in about 1988. I was friends with the admin of a Vax cluster at a progressive little company. He had printed out "the host table" that he downloaded each night. It probably wasn't more than 80 or 100 sheets of fanfold greenbar. I remember browsing it a bit and the only two that I can remember were burlingtoncoatfactory.com and lucasarts.com (or was it lucasfilms?)
I'm not speaking for the granparent as to why that quote is there but I'll tell you it's from the classic Dr Seuss ABC book. And if I thought for a little while I could probably recite most of it.
A A A, what beings with A? Aunt Annie's Alligator, A A A!
No absolutely not. I definitely know of the "classic" Dr. Who's but I've never had the chance to see them. I should have qualified what I said as every single modern episode. Working from the wikipedia entry I mean only Dr.s 9 and 10 so I have obviously only barely scratched the surface.
This was the very first Dr. Who that I've ever seen. I was hooked in 10 minutes and ended up watching every single episode. It's amazing how good the whole series is.
I DNRTFA but I can tell you that free tuition isn't necessarily the obstacle. I'm an EE, and tuition at my alma mater is $1,417 per semester. Of course it will help if they waive that but that won't touch the $8,600 in fees (annual).
I have comcast and for the past 3 weeks I've been experiencing persistent disconnections during primetime. I've called comcast several times and once I tell them I have a linux firewall they refuse to help me until I connect a windows system directly to the cable modem.
Unrelated to the lack of linux support, what I see via tcpdump is a complete loss of traffic for about 1 to 3 minutes followed by a large amount (sometimes hundreds per second) of only ARP traffic, followed shortly after that by normal traffic. Can anyone shed any light on that?
re: your disclaimer.... I have a friend of a friend (no really!) that works in the toronto office. I mentioned something about the EMC/VM merger and he said "yeah, they come over and steal our bagels"
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Last weekend I made a quick 5 mile drive and found 105 systems in my average residential neighborhood. 46 were unsecured. About 25 were running WEP.
This is the craziest I've ever seen personally.
A box arrived in the mail. It was maybe 10 x 6 x 4 or so. Inside that was a manila envelope. Inside that was a small box, slightly larger than a jewlers ring box. Inside that was a clear plastic pill bottle. Inside that was a small ziploc baggie.
Inside that was ONE styrafoam bead, like from a beanbag chair. it was the replacement foam bead for an anemometer.
the most egregious bug I think I ever introduced was due to code cloning. It was awful. I did not bother to properly refactor (hey it was 12 years ago) and as a result we ended up with diverging clones that needed to be separately maintained.
I'm probably going to be shouted down but in my 30 years of coding, I *rarely* reused code. Platforms change, toolchains and libraries change (glibc vs libc6), languages change, system architectures change (heavy client, client/server, n-tier, distributed) and system requirements change.
Example, a lot of what I have done over the past 10 years uses some standard navigation libraries that probably could have been 100% portable. Lat/lon to range bearing, rb2ll, etc. We've never even discussed IF it would help to make a single standard project library, even though I can absolutely tell you we will rewrite these again on the next platform.
I can't even look back on 10 years of coding and say "Oh things would have been so much better if we had shared code". I don't think that is the case. And fwiw, this is teams of 5-20 programmers on significant projects.
I just inherited a "simple" XP Embedded project on a SBC with an allegedly trimmed setup. It is not meeting the maximum 40 SECOND bootup time and I'm trying to figure out how to get it within the very generous 40 second requirement.
And this is recovering from hibernate!
40 seconds, sheesh
In a perfect world, someone, oh lets call them Angry Alien Productions would produce "SCO vs Everyone, in 30 seconds By Bunnies"
that was a joke,
ha ha
fat chance
There's got to be more to this story. FTA the original contract was $595M for 525K handhelds that were supposed to replace "costly" paper forms and maps?
Does each enumerator REALLY use $1k in paper? I call mega-shennanigans.
Hell they could have just bought every enumerator a macbook!
The interview can be found here I heard it too but have not re-listened to it. I suppose he could have been a little more polished and less cranky but I think the gist of his argument was that it was a nebulous federal requirement that would cost Montana money and there would be no benefit.
I hope he doesn't back down.
Stop telling me it's a conspiracy and tell me how they achieve the magic of the fusion.
I have countless applications that could benefit from this research. I've got old school islands of data in "stovepiped" isolated products. I *might* be able to slap a semantic web layer around them but I really REALLY do not want to reinvent the wheel if my tax dollars paid for a good solution.
"The congressional policy and agency practice of relying on the marketplace instead of regulation to maximize consumer welfare has been proven by experience (including the Comcast customer experience) to be enormously successful," - Cohen
I agree completely and will move my "customer experience" from Comcast to Verizon FioS ASAP.
IANAPA, but coincidentally in another window right now I am writing a patent disclosure application. I am lucky enough to work at an office that has a cadre of patent attorneys and just last week I had a discussion about a topic just like this Amazon patent (or I think it is).
In my case, I've "built" a system using nothing more than a set of other peoples building blocks. Each existing component is already extensively patented and/or in common use with TONS of prior art. The system I created performs a useful function that is also covered by prior art (in my case, it is a medical diagnostic tool).
The patent attorney told me that my idea was very likely patentable because it was a "novel" (new) implementation, even though the pieces exist and a (different) end product already exists.
I call them "co workers"
I'm pretty sure I was 5 (based on where I lived). I played tic tac toe against a computer in the library at the Boston Museum of Science. I think this was on a KSR-33, which 20 years later in the military I was trained to repair!
YMMV of course but I have been using these in many forms for a long time (years). There have been local giveaway programs sponsored by either the state or the power company, I forget which. My gut feeling is that these bulbs have not lived up to their expected or marketed life expectancy in my house. They're supposed to last many times the length of an incandescent. I just threw another one away two days ago.
I'm caveating the hell out of this, it may be just my house, where I'm using them, etc.....but I don't think they last as long as we've been told.
My own trival "hack". I'm using Darwiinremote to read xyz accelerometer data and Octave to make/graph ffts of Parkinson's tremors. It's remarkably sensitive!
One of my very first introductions to enterprise networking and internet was back in about 1988. I was friends with the admin of a Vax cluster at a progressive little company. He had printed out "the host table" that he downloaded each night. It probably wasn't more than 80 or 100 sheets of fanfold greenbar. I remember browsing it a bit and the only two that I can remember were burlingtoncoatfactory.com and lucasarts.com (or was it lucasfilms?)
anyway....get off my lawn!
Can a tcpdump wizard provide an example of how one might detect the reset?
I'm not speaking for the granparent as to why that quote is there but I'll tell you it's from the classic Dr Seuss ABC book. And if I thought for a little while I could probably recite most of it.
A A A, what beings with A? Aunt Annie's Alligator, A A A!
No absolutely not. I definitely know of the "classic" Dr. Who's but I've never had the chance to see them. I should have qualified what I said as every single modern episode. Working from the wikipedia entry I mean only Dr.s 9 and 10 so I have obviously only barely scratched the surface.
This was the very first Dr. Who that I've ever seen. I was hooked in 10 minutes and ended up watching every single episode. It's amazing how good the whole series is.
I DNRTFA but I can tell you that free tuition isn't necessarily the obstacle. I'm an EE, and tuition at my alma mater is $1,417 per semester. Of course it will help if they waive that but that won't touch the $8,600 in fees (annual).
... then I think I would try Gumstix for non-speed critical apps.
I have comcast and for the past 3 weeks I've been experiencing persistent disconnections during primetime. I've called comcast several times and once I tell them I have a linux firewall they refuse to help me until I connect a windows system directly to the cable modem.
Unrelated to the lack of linux support, what I see via tcpdump is a complete loss of traffic for about 1 to 3 minutes followed by a large amount (sometimes hundreds per second) of only ARP traffic, followed shortly after that by normal traffic. Can anyone shed any light on that?
re: your disclaimer.... I have a friend of a friend (no really!) that works in the toronto office. I mentioned something about the EMC/VM merger and he said "yeah, they come over and steal our bagels"