Similar story here. I haven't made a car payment since 1989. Have driven older vehicles that I own outright, since then... I can maintain my own vehicles and do all repairs on my own. I have rebuilt engines, transmissions, differentials.. I have replaced alternators, water pumps, timing belts, springs (leaf and coil), power steering boxes, brakes, blah blah blah...
My point is, out of 3 vehicles, there is almost always something that needs attention and when it's -30C, things require more frequent attention; and that's a time of year when I'm least likely to be crawling around under a vehicle... I drove a friend's almost new Lexus for a couple of weeks last winter when he was out of town.. There was something very liberating about being able to get in, turn the key, and drive away without worrying about what was going to fail next and knowing that I was going to be able to get home as well..
I probably will still never buy a brand new vehicle; or even anything 3 years old... But I can appreciate the peace of mine one can have from that.
You regularly use NFC for payments? You must be some kind of wizard.
The US isn't the world.
I live in Canada and I also regularly use NFC for payments. Last night I bought groceries with NFC after I bought some diesel with NFC. At the beer store I bought beer with NFC. I bought some irrigation supplies with NFC.
Some restaurants have NFC on the little pay terminals they bring to your table.
You can design your power supplies to withstand a nuclear event using a NED http://www.maxwell.com/product... and when the pulse is over, your stuff just boots and it's business as usual. At least that's my understanding.
It's not really code that's applicable to anyone else, probably. It's embedded in a bunch of python that mindlessly runs my cottage.. I have an RCS TR-60 thermostat out there that has an RS-485 port to which I can send commands and requests stats. I also have an Etherrain/8 which runs my sprinkler valves... I have a WaterBug water sensor, and some other miscellaneous arduino things to monitor my well pump controller, etc...
My APRS transceiver is a Microtrak4 and it has a serial port as well. So I monitor the stream looking for messages from me-1 to me-9...
I have an APRS transceiver sending telemetry from my cottage; mostly so I know whether I need to get in the car and drive out there to address either water in the basement or pipes about to freeze... Soon I'll be able to send commands and receive responses (like raise the temperature because I'm en-route, or turn on the irrigation system, or whatever)... I don't want any old shmuck to mess with my stuff so I thought about encrypting the text in my APRS message with a pre-shared key and calling it a day... Does that qualify as verboten?
i'm not defending his actions... But I feel, in some small way, like I can put myself in his shoes. I was physically and emotionally tormented through 6 years of my early years at school. It had a profound effect on who I am today. I remember down to the detail every one of these incidents and I have vivid memories of the perpetrators.. Over the years I have imagined who these people must have grown up to be and delighted in the fact that they probably became menial laborers... I even had one of them in my house more than 20 years later to install my cable modem. I recognized him immediately and I don't think he had any idea who I was... I personally wouldn't wage a campaign of harrassment against these people but I know I would take secret delight if I were to read of their untimely deaths in the papers... Because of this, I can imagine how this guy felt...
As soon as we found out that my son was being bullied, we acted quickly to intervene and change the situation. I don't want my son to grow up having to deal with this sort of baggage.
yes. I used to channel my inner-rainman and get all bent out of shape whenever someone complimented my "Land Cruiser" by saying "Nice jeep!"... Now I take it for what it's worth, a good natured compliment from someone who could care less what species my truck is.
When I got my smart phone years ago, I stopped wearing a watch and was pleased with that... There are clocks everywhere and when there isn't one, I just glance at my phone... I'm glad I don't have some barnacle on my wrist all day long.. Now I'm supposed to be convinced that I need one of these barnacles more than ever?
You forgot the part where they morph from 'car' to 'pedestrian' without warning... Riding on the road until something is blocking it, then zipping onto the sidewalk for a few hundred feet and then flying back out on the road without looking... Or coming up to a red light and then turning 90 degrees to cross the road, then going up on the sidewalk and back out on the road again having just successfully made a 'left turn' without waiting for the light...
But accidentally bump one of them and suddenly you're just 'some idiot driver who must have been texting instead of watching the road'...
don't forget paying $2.00 for a pillow or a blanket. How about charging $10 if you want to book your seat more than 24 hours in advance (so your child can sit next to you instead of some stranger, perhaps)... How about showing up 90 minutes before your flight instead of 30 minutes like you used to be able to do.. Getting groped at the gate... taking off your shoes and belt. Putting all of your valuables in a basket only to have it disappear out of sight while you wait to walk through a machine that will render you in naked form while firing ionizing radiation at you and being treated like a terrorist. Having your wife groped in front of your 5 year old son who will later assume this is all a perfectly normal thing for people in authority to do...
And what makes the news is people who can't recline their seats?
You can really get away with a lot of shit and people will still voluntarily subject themselves to it so they can get to their precious all-inclusive 7 day vacation.
I guess my problem with FizzBuzz type questions (I've neven really interviewed for a job so don't know how I'd actually do) would be that I'd look at the question and know that it's too easy and there must be some hidden gotcha so I'd start second and third guessing; playing with the algorithm and debating with myself which one the interviewer wants to see (correct but not optimal, correct and optimal but a little less obvious, etc)...
So maybe I'd be the guy sitting there for 10 minutes... But not because I don't know the answer...
I have trouble believing that the vast majority of programmers can't do that.
A pleasure no longer available in my city. The small bookstores were pushed out of the market decades ago by big conglomerates like "Chapters" and "Indigo". "Chapters" has since bought "Indigo" so now there's really only one retailer in the city that sells books, at a dozen locations... The problem is, they also sell scented candles, scented notepads, scented plushies, scented pillows, scented throws, etc... So the place is a veritable onslaught to the senses... My wife and I can endure maybe about 5 minutes in the store before we're sneezing and our eyes are all puffy...
So now we just order online, sometimes from Amazon.
I will always remember the smell of an old independant bookstore...
I was looking at an acreage and asked the realtor if he knew where the septic field was.. He said no but would find it. He grabbed a wire coat hanger out of the closet, bent it into some divining sticks, and went outside trudging through 2' deep snow... My wife and I just kind of glanced at one another and rolled our eyes... Thing is, he honestly thought he was helping...
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That explains the fuzzy wings I recently developed...
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Similar story here. I haven't made a car payment since 1989. Have driven older vehicles that I own outright, since then... I can maintain my own vehicles and do all repairs on my own. I have rebuilt engines, transmissions, differentials.. I have replaced alternators, water pumps, timing belts, springs (leaf and coil), power steering boxes, brakes, blah blah blah...
My point is, out of 3 vehicles, there is almost always something that needs attention and when it's -30C, things require more frequent attention; and that's a time of year when I'm least likely to be crawling around under a vehicle... I drove a friend's almost new Lexus for a couple of weeks last winter when he was out of town.. There was something very liberating about being able to get in, turn the key, and drive away without worrying about what was going to fail next and knowing that I was going to be able to get home as well..
I probably will still never buy a brand new vehicle; or even anything 3 years old... But I can appreciate the peace of mine one can have from that.
So what you're saying is that every mushroom cloud has a silver lining?
I wonder how many of those phones went to carriers and counted as 'First day sales'? How many actual _humans_ bought phones?
None of this means anything.
I am canadian. Doesn't mean I'm from Saskatchewan.
I feel like I'm in an episode of The-Big-Bang-Theory....
You regularly use NFC for payments? You must be some kind of wizard.
The US isn't the world.
I live in Canada and I also regularly use NFC for payments. Last night I bought groceries with NFC after I bought some diesel with NFC. At the beer store I bought beer with NFC. I bought some irrigation supplies with NFC.
Some restaurants have NFC on the little pay terminals they bring to your table.
oh! A Spartacus mask!
I can't believe the news today... ...
Oh I can't close my device and make it go away
You can design your power supplies to withstand a nuclear event using a NED http://www.maxwell.com/product... and when the pulse is over, your stuff just boots and it's business as usual. At least that's my understanding.
8 pages per minute, 500 sheets in the tray ...
Sounds like hours of fun.
It's not really code that's applicable to anyone else, probably. It's embedded in a bunch of python that mindlessly runs my cottage.. I have an RCS TR-60 thermostat out there that has an RS-485 port to which I can send commands and requests stats. I also have an Etherrain/8 which runs my sprinkler valves... I have a WaterBug water sensor, and some other miscellaneous arduino things to monitor my well pump controller, etc...
My APRS transceiver is a Microtrak4 and it has a serial port as well. So I monitor the stream looking for messages from me-1 to me-9...
I have an APRS transceiver sending telemetry from my cottage; mostly so I know whether I need to get in the car and drive out there to address either water in the basement or pipes about to freeze... Soon I'll be able to send commands and receive responses (like raise the temperature because I'm en-route, or turn on the irrigation system, or whatever)... I don't want any old shmuck to mess with my stuff so I thought about encrypting the text in my APRS message with a pre-shared key and calling it a day... Does that qualify as verboten?
I'm one. I switched from my iphone4 to a nexus5 for two reasons:
- my eyes have aged substantially in the last 6 or 7 years, most dramatically in the last 3.
- $829 (CAD) for an iphone5 vs. $349 for a Nexus5...
Additional perks:
- wireless charging
I've got a Nexus-5 so I'm going to skip the Nexus-6... I'm holding out for the Nexus-7!
i'm not defending his actions ... But I feel, in some small way, like I can put myself in his shoes. I was physically and emotionally tormented through 6 years of my early years at school. It had a profound effect on who I am today. I remember down to the detail every one of these incidents and I have vivid memories of the perpetrators.. Over the years I have imagined who these people must have grown up to be and delighted in the fact that they probably became menial laborers... I even had one of them in my house more than 20 years later to install my cable modem. I recognized him immediately and I don't think he had any idea who I was... I personally wouldn't wage a campaign of harrassment against these people but I know I would take secret delight if I were to read of their untimely deaths in the papers... Because of this, I can imagine how this guy felt...
As soon as we found out that my son was being bullied, we acted quickly to intervene and change the situation. I don't want my son to grow up having to deal with this sort of baggage.
yes. I used to channel my inner-rainman and get all bent out of shape whenever someone complimented my "Land Cruiser" by saying "Nice jeep!"... Now I take it for what it's worth, a good natured compliment from someone who could care less what species my truck is.
When I got my smart phone years ago, I stopped wearing a watch and was pleased with that... There are clocks everywhere and when there isn't one, I just glance at my phone... I'm glad I don't have some barnacle on my wrist all day long.. Now I'm supposed to be convinced that I need one of these barnacles more than ever?
pshaw.
You forgot the part where they morph from 'car' to 'pedestrian' without warning... Riding on the road until something is blocking it, then zipping onto the sidewalk for a few hundred feet and then flying back out on the road without looking... Or coming up to a red light and then turning 90 degrees to cross the road, then going up on the sidewalk and back out on the road again having just successfully made a 'left turn' without waiting for the light...
But accidentally bump one of them and suddenly you're just 'some idiot driver who must have been texting instead of watching the road'...
don't forget paying $2.00 for a pillow or a blanket. How about charging $10 if you want to book your seat more than 24 hours in advance (so your child can sit next to you instead of some stranger, perhaps)... How about showing up 90 minutes before your flight instead of 30 minutes like you used to be able to do.. Getting groped at the gate... taking off your shoes and belt. Putting all of your valuables in a basket only to have it disappear out of sight while you wait to walk through a machine that will render you in naked form while firing ionizing radiation at you and being treated like a terrorist. Having your wife groped in front of your 5 year old son who will later assume this is all a perfectly normal thing for people in authority to do...
And what makes the news is people who can't recline their seats?
You can really get away with a lot of shit and people will still voluntarily subject themselves to it so they can get to their precious all-inclusive 7 day vacation.
I guess my problem with FizzBuzz type questions (I've neven really interviewed for a job so don't know how I'd actually do) would be that I'd look at the question and know that it's too easy and there must be some hidden gotcha so I'd start second and third guessing; playing with the algorithm and debating with myself which one the interviewer wants to see (correct but not optimal, correct and optimal but a little less obvious, etc)...
So maybe I'd be the guy sitting there for 10 minutes... But not because I don't know the answer...
I have trouble believing that the vast majority of programmers can't do that.
A pleasure no longer available in my city. The small bookstores were pushed out of the market decades ago by big conglomerates like "Chapters" and "Indigo". "Chapters" has since bought "Indigo" so now there's really only one retailer in the city that sells books, at a dozen locations... The problem is, they also sell scented candles, scented notepads, scented plushies, scented pillows, scented throws, etc... So the place is a veritable onslaught to the senses... My wife and I can endure maybe about 5 minutes in the store before we're sneezing and our eyes are all puffy...
So now we just order online, sometimes from Amazon.
I will always remember the smell of an old independant bookstore...
Not accurately, no... Turns out the field is actually the entire yard so there wasn't really anywhere he could go to not find it.
I was looking at an acreage and asked the realtor if he knew where the septic field was.. He said no but would find it. He grabbed a wire coat hanger out of the closet, bent it into some divining sticks, and went outside trudging through 2' deep snow... My wife and I just kind of glanced at one another and rolled our eyes... Thing is, he honestly thought he was helping...