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    Comment #9790252

    Triggered!

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    Comment #9766782

    OK. Unfortunately, this is pretty typical of embedded development. The mentality tends to be that "nobody is going to see" the code, so only the external interfaces are well docume…

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    Comment #9766432

    You need to talk to the person you report to at your employer. Dragging the contracting agency into this at this point is not reasonable. And, unfortunately, you may find that this…

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    Comment #9759377

    Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -…

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    Comment #9715803

    A stopped clock is right twice a day.

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    Comment #6284982

    The thing that kills me is people who reply to emails with a phone call. I actually quit putting my cell number in my email signature because of this. If I wanted to talk to you I …

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    Comment #6279414

    Italians, Germans, Russians, Irish are all just White? It's such a degenerate, lazy, anti-white breakdown. It's a disgrace.

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    Comment #6205045

    Assuming the paper's optimistic predictions are feasible, the amortized cost per passenger of a one-way ticket is $20 plus operating costs. So, sure, the round trip cost will hopef…

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    Comment #6204928

    How? It's still too expensive for most people to use on a daily basis. It still requires some way to get from the train station to your final destination, which adds yet more cost.…

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    Comment #6204811

    You might be able to replace some of the long-distance Amtrak lines with such a system, but over half of Amtrak's ridership is on the Northeast Corridor between Boston and Washingt…

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    Comment #6204798

    That's apparently the idea. But there is a reason it's being called the "Train to Nowhere". It will be yet another huge boondoggle that nobody uses and has to be subsidized for its…

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    Comment #6204704

    She said it herself: it's another Segway. It's a solution in search of a problem. We already have mass transit between northern and southern California: airplanes. I know, I know, …

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    Comment #6194898

    Government doesn't have to care about risk or tangible profit, and they have a longer time horizon than most business can afford. Look at the space race, for example; the potential…

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    Comment #6180928

    I don't really care for the template model; it won't look like your actual handwriting because most people don't write individual letters in little boxes the same way they write se…