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FYI: I was one of the top Battlezone and Centipede players at the time (high-scores were 600K and 3M.) Battlezone was a simple game, but very useful for training the eye to interpr…

Nonsense.

Not sure what's wrong with selling Ubuntu disks. Initially, Stallman made a living selling GNU tapes, and pre-Internet, linux was often installed by a "friend" who made the stack o…

> I feel lost and dumb a lot of the times. I realize now this feeling will never go away as an engineer - it's a part of the job. No it's not. As you gain experience your feeling s…

Cardio exercise is like natural acupuncture for your internal organs. When you understand it that way, it becomes one of the go-to therapies.

Wow. Those photos are fantastic. It would make sense to start thinking about an online foto gallery of historical interest. We have the storage capacity now, and those old fotos wi…

2008 had nothing to do with anything - this has been going on at the same pace since the 1980's. The trained eye can see the impact of brick and siding thieves in those photos. Als…

> I honestly don't care about anything ... So you're an ignorant boor who can't read a graph. Hint: graph #2 is very informative.

> Whether or not you like Docker, or think it works well in production, is immaterial to this. Actually I don't agree with that at all. Saying something is or will be ready for pro…

No sale yet, and 4.8b is now a mere dream.

> This reduces the employee to a mere company slave. Generally law enforcement will treat an employee as a slave if a company files any kind of complaint statement against the empl…

> He has demonstrated himself wise, kind, well meaning and uncorruptable. Not exactly. Charitable foundations in the USA are tax shelters where you still control the money. Also, I…

> Citation needed (especially that they do it for everyone). 1. We know that they can. If you were designing a mass survaillance system, you would store all incoming information in…

1) For those who haven't followed the Chipotle crisis, apparently they were doing more ingredient prep in-store instead of at regional kitchen centers. That meant quality and clean…

> an American style of democracy which respects the rights of individuals to travel freely. That was true maybe in the 70's or 80's. Now you're required to have a passport to leave…

That's not how trim settings work. After establishing the desired airspeed and rate of climb, then you apply trim to reduce pilot effort. Repeat. What you're talking about is what …

1. The Google founders initially tried to sell Pagerank to Yahoo for $1 billion when Google was just a search research company. 2. Later, Yahoo bought goto.com before Adwords came …

nickff's comment is some twisted libertarian rant about the airplane market that is only loosely based on reality. For example, the FAA certifies airplanes after a mfg. tests them …

In the Craigslist/Newmark case, what one of the State Attorneys said was, "We don't care about a benefit. We'll just keep prosecuting until all of the sites are shut down." Newmark…

As somebody who was likely the first US commercial user of Sphinx Search (with MySQL) and still using it, I can give it a solid recommendation. It's written in C, so has a small-en…

Oracle is very responsive with suggestions for trivial tickets, like how to use an existing feature. They are nigh worthless for adding features or fixing bugs that you're the firs…

What you want is svn.

If you get a chance to visit Amsterdam, definitely visit the Van Gogh museum. Very intense experience.

> Once you're on the housing ladder You're talking about flyover country. That doesn't really apply to the Bay Area, where most people are locked into whatever they initially bough…

Foreign absentee landlords are terrible to municipal services in California, since Proposition 13 makes them reliant on sales and franchise taxes instead. In the case of Vancouver,…