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Not sure this will be helpful but here goes. I wanted to be a pilot but am tall (> 6 feet) and poor eye sight ( I was told at a young age that it would be nearly impossible for me.…

I may have seen RMS talk once. I arrived early. After witnessing an interaction with a younger woman, it was weird…

Solarwinds is closed source so the choice to build from source is not really an option.

I like the eclectic selection of problems. I wish I had seen something like this when I was growing up; a manageable set of problems with the hint of depth. It’s easy to snipe a ne…

> The [python] scripts are much faster... Pipelines are performant; many algorithms can be expressed as pipelines. Bash has many built-in string manipulation mechanisms which do no…

Cscope in vim to jump between caller and callee (examine relationship). See where symbols are used. Jump to global definition. Could not live without cscope!

I listened to the record again; Popple, crackling, the sound of streams; The tape is transcribed; From the spinning disk to my mind; Let’s listen again but this time one rut deeper…

Bash was the first scripting language I became “good” in too! The skill seems to be regularly devalued in this community, and there is no surprise why (what is collaboration and ma…

On my second day at work they let go of the dozen people who had been our groups training “buddies” the night before. That sends a strong message. In the five subsequent years, I c…

He is free to compute as he desires. He has worked a lifetime for that freedom. As for a luddite, he has enabled generations to forge new wild techno paths.. So literally the oppos…

Curious to know why the HN title is using `FOSS` but only mention of `FOSS` is on the site’s /faq page. For free software zealots, the sites tag line “... maintaining popular open …

uhmm.. Staring into a book while listening to silence.. staring into a wall listening to music.. These are introspective journeys. You can’t expect everyone to be social in person …

You can watch an average American baseball game in a ‘condensed’ format in under 20 minutes. The condensed format shows key pitches and plays.

> ... can't sort basics of their their UI out ... Consumer lock in && feature bias to minimize UI complexity && tradition of maintaining long standing bugs... So basically, XXXXX X…

It’s a mvp wget clone.

Speculation to follow: Health care as an industry is significantly more profitable than the proactive/preventative healh programs. Eliminating insurance removes a volatility dimens…

Some tree planters live in the bush for months. I knew a tree planter who lived in a tent within a tent and inside the outer tent was a dozen jugs piss. He never bothered to empty …

Totally! Compiler development = Finite State Automaton + Push Down Automaton + Context Free Grammar + Intermediate representation + Static Analysis/Optimiation + Stack Machine + ..…

BFS space complexity is order exponential.

Yield is a function of energy to the foilage that feeds the flowering buds. The largest bud is usually at the top of the plant since light tends to be placed above a plant. During …

Play hunting oriented games with them.

Wirst guards and a helmet are a worthwile investment.