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Author Archives: Nick
Nonprogramming Programmers
This and the related sub-links are pretty interesting. Apparently there are programmers in the real world who can’t program, at all. I’ve noticed that their were a few people in my CoSci classes that just “didn’t get it”. They couldn’t program for the life of them, and would constantly be seeking help. I just thought they [...]
Social Networking At Work
There shouldn’t be any whining about this. If you are at work, you should be working. End of story. Well, okay, there’ve been studies that say that people who take short breaks every hour or so end up being more productive. So, let me rephrase: If you are whining about this, you should find a [...]
The Value of Human Life
Look guys, you can’t have it both ways. Either you’re for no holds barred capitalism or you aren’t. Apparently there are some “guidelines” as to how much egg harvesters can offer for someone’s eggs. They don’t like offers for more money based on higher donor’s SAT scores. Waaaaaaa. That would mean that people with more education (or [...]
Phone Idiot Light
So, someone who’s ignoring common sense by driving while talking on a cell phone is going to care whether his car tells him or her that they are on a cell phone? “Oh, hold on Fred, my car is telling me something… oh it’s telling me that I’m on the phone. OH SHIT I JUST [...]
IT Behind F1
Slashdot has a cool article about the computers behind the cars in F1. Maybe there’s a future for me there….
CUPS Trash
My home server’s CUPS service has being going apeshit ever since an update. The printer’s PPDs don’t seem to work so well. Using PCL versions, it just prints out endless pages of complete rubbish. Using the PS version usually works, with the occasional PS error page. And it takes forever to spool, or whatnot. Sometimes [...]
OpenSSL 1.0 Released
Well, just in time. It was recently revealed the that good old government has compromised SSL by getting fake SSL certs from Verisign so it can spy on you. So, create your own too by using the newly released OpenSSL 1.0.
Gas Trash
My car is leaking transmission fluid like crazy, so I don’t feel like driving it anywhere. It seems my reverse light switch “fix” has unfixed. I tried to clean the fuel level sender, and it ended up falling apart and the sender’s float floated away in the tank. Half an hour later, and with a [...]
Calculus Aftermath
Ha! Get it!? It wasn’t so bad. The only thing that I can think I did wrong was one answer on the non-multiple choice section. It was supposed to be negative, and I put the wrong units. It was supposed to be -1 rads/sec (radians, not radiation units, unfortunately), I put 1 m/s. Oops. But [...]
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