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I was about to say something similar. It may be true that the ideal image of the entrepreneur is the exception rather than the typical for the self-employed, but I would say the sa…

"Although the standard is a little more complicated..." If you have ever read the software control category definitions in MIL-STD-882E you know that the definitions that this blog…

"Haunted house" themed halloween amusement area, I assume from skimming the article

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9897937

I was just thinking about this. Exposure from a short is theoretically limitless. Some sort of derivative would be a better approach? Asking for a financially clueless friend.

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Check out the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus, too, about 60 miles south of Boston

Software is only subject to entropy when you touch it. In most practical cases these days not being able to "improve" the software is a feature, not a bug.

I have a hard time identifying with this. The premise seems to be that the worker is just a passive participant in the system, literally a ping pong ball on a galton board. If the …

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I know next to nothing on the subject, but I won't let that stop me :) If this has been sitting here for three hours with no response I might as well pipe in... Reddit link discuss…

Makes one think that the Ada programming language will be involved...

That would mean the software would work well. I run that explanation against what I see in practice and in general it is not a good fit. Along with procrastination (which might hav…

Trout Mask Replica is the ultimate "it grows on you" record. A masterpiece.

Another feature of tar (the 7-zip implementation, anyway, I haven't checked others) is that it will properly archive files whose path length exceeds the path length limit, and then…

I'd be happy with File Explorer not giving the circle of death and the green bar of despair on a regular basis. Microsoft, can you fix these basic usability problems first before s…

This article trips my BS meter for a made up story to illustrate a point. Of course that says nothing about whether the point it is making is valid or not.

Some truth to this. But if it wasn't for that mindset you'd be having your cocktail party in a cave.

Wordpad is usually my go to when opening a unix text file (without carriage returns) that Notepad renders into a unintelligible mess. Word renders it properly, but then typically r…

The article is painting a picture that equates improvement rate of software to that of hardware, where in reality it is not even close in any reasonable view. And saying that softw…