4 skills you need to be successful in software development
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Comment on Why I Was Wrong About Liberal-Arts Majors The article is a half truth. There are 4 skills you need to be successful in softwar...
Running out of entropy
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Some of our services make a million UUIDs per day. I have recently been worried about how random they are, and especially with the question ...
Slides for your generic talks
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Recently we had the generic TED talk . I think I am going to start collecting the images that seem to be used by all talks. The inaugural im...
Searching browser history using Google Chrome search engine
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Hum. If you add to Google Chrome the search engine chrome://history/?q=%s you can quickly search your browser URL history by typing Cmd-l h ...
Grumble about messaging conversation indistinguishability
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Why, why! oh mighty God , do Slack, Skype, Messenger, iMessage, and every other messaging application not make any visual distinction betwee...
$0.43 for Psychotherapist Barbie services
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All the wonderful applications and toys that requires an internet service for operation have a very short life. Most application startups do...
PDFs, comments, and Dropbox
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I love commenting on long-form documents. If the author put the necessary work into creating a cogent examination of a topic then I am going...
3 times a loser
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Last night the Town Council for the second time since the November election had to appoint a replacement School Committee member. I was not ...
Universal health-care is great for business
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I can tell you what would be great for business in the United States -- universal health-care. Those with great ideas for new businesses can...
Too much kit
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I have been reading and thinking about Sam Mustafa's new game rules Freejumper , spaceship combat, and Aurelian , the crisis in 3rd cen...
South Kingstown School Committee
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I ran for South Kingstown School Committee this past November and so this blog has been quiet as I worked on my campaign. My online campaign...
Paint Shaker
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To have the itch to paint miniatures again. My paints have been sitting unused for much of a year and many have the pigment separated from t...
Bash is useful up to a point
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As far as I can tell is there no way in Bash to pass a concatenated array to an internal function and not have the resulting string split ap...
Observations on the School Committee's retreat
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If you are not following my South Kingstown School Committee candidate Facebook page , but are interested in South Kingstown School Committe...
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Not in software!
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Names have great signification in code. A good name can make the object's value comprehensible and usage clear. A variable called milk_...
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Not in software!
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Names have great signification in code. A good name can make the object's value comprehensible and usage clear. A variable called milk_...
Which Cement Mixer Are You Based On Your Zodiac Sign?
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This kind of astrology is important to me. I'm a Bartell Gas Powered Concrete Mixer You are a dependable individual, willing to hel...
Primary and Secondary Tools
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Earlier today I was in a UX design meeting and I used the terms "Secondary Tool" and "Primary Tool." (Application and to...
I am running for School Committee in South Kingstown
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I am running for School Committee in South Kingstown, RI. Let the grumbling begin.
BoardDocs and removing forced page breaks
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This posting is mostly to remind myself how to eliminate page breaks from Emerald Data Solutions's BoardDocs. BoardDocs is used by lots...
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