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I'm not the original person you are asking, but over a 27 year career in IT, I've worked from home for 17 of them. Here's how I stayed social. First, I used the time you would spen…

Most PACS get data from devices and send it to workstations unencrypted. The security model implemented on them is usually no more than a white list of IP addresses the PACS will t…

True. Rather than having the kind of parametric polymorphism you get with roles, Python prefers duck typing. And for the practical use of adding some composed, reusable, but orthog…

Caveat: I haven't written any Perl except for an occasional one-liner in a decade. But I do a fair amount of Python, and a 20 minute cruise through the Moose docs leads me to belie…

Not sure if you are saying it's stupid on Reddit's part, or the users'. For Reddit it's smart. Licensing doesn't just mean making an exact copy. Let's say Reddit was the one that p…

Yes, but I think the larger point is, if Reddit pisses off the people creating interesting content, they will leave. Reddit's user agreement doesn't mean jack if nobody is submitti…

A fellow Walcott fan! "The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome..."

Jumping on the acconrad bandwagon. I was completely inactive, weighed 240 when I should be around 150. But I took up heavy lifting, specifically Stronglifts 5x5 in February, then s…

I'm working in that space, and sampling from the ones I've dealt with, I'd replace some with most. Some of the ones I deal with are also running those XPs with old IE versions, 6 &…

Not this year. He was unsure he could be there, so PyCon used another company. He'll be doing PyOhio in July though.

If you have 3 hours to watch a tutorial, David Beazley's generators talk. Also, Jess McKellar's keynote on the sorry state of K12 CS education in the US (and some things we can do …

As some others have pointed out, speed of the application at runtime is not always the most important consideration, else we'd probably be doing everything in a mix of Fortran, C, …

There is something odd going on with the default map. If I search for my name, it shows the map with a pin at my location, near Columbus, OH, USA. If I just start from the home pag…

While I know the article was about the UK, in the USA a lot of clinical data is not stored in an RDBMS. The software is written in MUMPS, which has a built in (sort of) document or…

But if you take a look at their SEC filing, $203 million of their 2010 expenses were one-time acquisition related. So the operating loss isn't being reduced as quickly as one might…

Considering the number of breweries founded or run by Roman Catholic religious orders, I can't think of a better purpose for a deconsecrated church. On the other hand, upvoted for …

Sorry Jake, but I don't feel sorry for you. Well, maybe a little, if your claims about being tarred unfairly with the CDS debacle are true. But stop whining. All over the USA, peop…

When my daughter was in kindergarten, there were two classes at her grade school, both taught by young, new teachers. Her class was the so-called rowdy class. They were constantly …

Yeah, but if you de-clutter, unless you can then downsize to something else, what do you gain? Now you're just paying that 20% towards storing air. I guess you could replace the cl…

I just love articles like this. The economy's bad, but the upside to hiring is you can screw your new employees for a while. It's one thing to suggest new hire salaries can be lowe…

Don't know about Sergey and Larry, but Jobs has a thing for vehicles that he considers a great combo of engineering and aesthetic design. According to Guy Kawasaki, he bought a BMW…

I did read it. The AP gets it rougher than the IBO. But maybe I'm not used to reading Academic-ese, because it didn't seem to me that they were taking a complete shit on the AP. In…

Yeah, except GM is so shaky, and credit markets so tight, there is serious concern that they could enter a 'restructuring' bankruptcy, but end up in a liquidation, because they won…

The only way to cut GM's health care costs are to cut loose the 406,000 retirees--and their dependents--who get health care via GM pension plans. Of course I find it interesting th…