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My experience exactly

Fun fact: the awa building is clearly visible in the helicopter scene in The Matrix

Also when driving but Siri / Google assistant are more applicable for that use case

Now if only updates wouldn't brick the device

I have had chronic dizziness for three years. One or two drinks makes me feel hung over for days

I ended up finding "architect" is the role I enjoy. Still very technical but involves talking to people (I have always been a slight expert). It also suits my "management" style wh…

Some collections are little more than hoarding. Bring on digital

When I worked for Avaya labs in the early 2000s, it was also well known internally that the split made more money. Hence the subsequent voluntary splits

I learned this long ago. Along with: you will never be thanked for getting a garbage project across the line. You will be thanked more for having a small part in a good project tha…

How applicable is this to eastern musical scales?

Being an architect is like training a bag of cats. You are also in the bag

If the president of the college can't even remember what a Van De Graff generator is... you're going to have a bad time

You need to use the timer to bit bang - which may require writing a device driver Source: wrote a software UART for an embedded project

Strayan here. These nets are used quite widely by a number of local councils including Greater Sydney. They are not universally used though. Larger waterways may have a boom, a num…

Generate AC then use diodes to turn it into DC

10 tons of boiling hot water? What could possible go wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

I thought it was an alleged terrorist's phone? Or has innocent until proven guilty gone out the window?

Does Stack Overflow have ads? I have been running ad blockers since they started

Not to mention the top reason I dropped Dropbox: with Condolezza Rice on the board I feel they are a bit too chummy with the government and the NSA.

The 'how' of encryption is often quite simple - it is 'why' that is difficult

Programming languages are the interface between the computer and fallible humans. Thus it is in fact very difficult to prove that a particular paradigm is better or worse. Civil en…

That's not really true. Back in the 1980s most small and medium businesses still used paper based journals. All the people who were employed to do that are gone - one person now ca…

AI may not replace lawyers themselves. But in my dealings with lawyers basic technology will mean that 1 lawyer can do the work of three. For example: nothing is OCRed. So if a law…

I am not sure about this article. Mobile and tablet have had massive rates of adoption but even they are getting saturated now. There are still large numbers of businesses that use…

"...like a high-tech vending machine." Well there's your problem