programming
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Evolution of software
- Day 1 – Great – Software Product X does [THING]
- Day 365 – Man – it sure is complicated to use Product X to do [THING]
- Day 730 – Man – that [THING] is slow
- Day 1095 – No one notices [THING] because that [THING] has been automated and is happening in the background somewhere.
I’m going to use this as a way of streamlining operations.
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On productivity
For the programmers out there – did any of you know about this feature (code snippets) of Visual Studio? Somehow I didn’t. If not, it’s the best 14 minutes you’ll spend today
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Saturday rapid fire
- Dean Kamen’s Robot Arm – simply incredible. Why Kamen isn’t America’s most highly regarded public citizen is a mystery.
- The liberal media follows me around an takes notes – I had this conversation with some friends last week, it’s an odd coincidence. I don’t cry at movies but my the movies that come closes are The Virgin Spring and On The Beach.
- More HDR Photography
- Groupware is bad
- Russia’s Hypermortality –
Moreover, a large proportion of the Russian workforce may be too drunk to function. Almost one male death in three is alcohol-related. “The increase of alcohol consumption from 10 to 15 liters and an almost simultaneous increase in mortality suggests the central role played by alcohol to mortality, in average up to 426,000 per year in 1980-2001. Alcohol-related deaths total 29.6 percent of total mortality for men and 17.0 percent for women,” the report says.
- My next project is going to be something like this