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Almost all of the software I've written is as useless outside of the company as air pockets taken out of a loaf of bread. The big-rectangle diagram of what I do is fetch data from …

> Much of Boston is not the same as "a large portion of New England." Alright, much of Boston is not "a large portion of New England" but to use your figures, even 600 thousand is …

I don't know what 128 is, but I know of people who were taking Amtrak to Connecticut but had to get off at NYC and travel uptown to Grand Central Station to get on a commuter train…

The ending to The Blues Brothers seems prophetic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2quc-iQ96R0 To edit and elaborate: they shut down a large portion of New England, affecting million…

Yes, they can be subdivided by up to eight decimal places.

That part is cool, but it's also "FaceTime with a head-mounted camera". They spent most of their time showing something that is better but not unique. I was under the impression th…

All they really showed in the skydiving stunt was that they were wearing head-mounted cameras.

http://www.thinkinginanutshell.com/nootropics But saying it's worth "10 IQ points" is a bit of a stretch. There's no drug that's like the one in _Limitless_. Piracetam and most oth…

I used to be the Editor In Chief of the OS/2 e-Zine! ( http://www.os2ezine.com ), although I began as just a contributor. The e-Zine was started by Trevor Smith, who slowly handed …

Boss: "This new feature is similar to one that's already in another program, so you can just copy that code. You can do that in a couple of hours, right?" Me (coining a metaphor): …

One of them mentions a shutdown from Amazon because they ship too many orders late. That rang lots of bells for me, because it sounds like IT at an independent fulfillment company,…

The post office themselves claim it's a congressional mandate to pre-pay 75-years worth of employee pensions and benefits in a 10-year window. They give Congress 5.5 billion dollar…

You may be able to grasp the instantaneous distribution of forces in a building or charges in a circuit without needing to know the order that they deploy. While a computer itself …