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Professor Appel was my boss when I was a system administrator for the UIUC Math department, working my way through grad school. He was one of the best bosses I’ve had over the past…

I’m in River Forest and the deer are a pain to deal with. They eat your plants, they’re not afraid of people (because they get hand feed) and they get hit by cars. They’re lacking …

Every human being should have the experience of unconditional, unadulterated love from someone else. But not 24 by 7.

I was writing software at a bank and found a bug. I was told to save it for when we had our audit —- because no matter what, the auditors were going to insist we fixed something an…

I meet Greg when I was an undergraduate at Syracuse University and he was earning his PhD. I helped out a bit with some of the graphics programming for his thesis. Greg was a class…

I think people tend to underestimate the risks in allowing suicide —- here’s a blurb from the linked article: However, social acceptance may lead to more egregious abuses: the issu…

This is true for more than dev productivity.

In finance a bad engineer can bankrupt the firm.

When the article got to the part where the trees were thought to be sterile, did anyone else hear Jeff Goldblum saying “Life finds a way”?

I was on the jury for a resisting arrest case and ended up as an alternate. The judge pulled us into chambers and we talked for about an hour. One of the things that he said that s…

Something similar is brought up in the decision —- the licensing board could have had the licensed engineer's stamp their reports as a way of marking them as produced by licensed e…

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

What are the alternatives to batteries if you want to fly through the night?

There’s no practical way for a defense lawyer to find out what the error rate is for, say, a state lab. Occasionally organizations can do this, for example the innocence project fi…

No. When it comes to evaluating forensic evidence lawyers are, by training, too process oriented to solve the problems. Ask a prosecutor what the error rate is for fingerprints or …

I live in a walkable inner ring Chicago suburb, and commute to work by bike or the El. Snow cleanup is excellent in our suburb, and we can get to things we want to drive to in bad …

For C++ we've had better luck, on our local cluster, with distcc than with bazel's remote execution, and we've found the the cache slowed things down. Has your experience all been …