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Interested if places with evergreen trees (e.g. PNW) fair better than areas with mostly deciduous trees?

Bit off-topic but my friend uni’s RTOS course was all about train scheduling, which seems like a fun way to teach it (not sure if it was Hornby 00 Gauge like this)

Can you, or anyone else, recommend any good books/resources that chronicle the history of ‘manufacturing’, if that even is the right term to use. I.e. the various ‘discoveries’, such as steel manufacturing, railroads etc.

Do you actually have to tell the officer’s your password or do you need to just unlock the device. Also, are you allowed to be there while they are searching it to see what they’re looking at/searching for?

interested to know what people's opinions are on how interested (i.e. CPI) is calculated today versus how it was calculated pre-1990 http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

Got a green card or got citizenship?

Anecdotal, but I have a friend who manages a Thai manufacturering business/factory (hard drives, optical mice, etc). He said a couple of US companies moved their production out of China to them because of this trade war spat, which presumably he’s happy about.

Now he’s asked me if I know any other US manufacturers who he could manufacture for (guessing because I work in tech (though software) & live in the states)

Would love to help him, but don’t really know how. Makes me realize I haven’t networked enough.

I'm a dev on XL at Microsoft and took a trip a few years back to meet some of our advanced users. I was blown away by their 'accidental' CS education through Excel. They built sheets (debuggers) to debug other sheets (programs) on their OS (excel), and did this not even using VBA.

In my own time, I've visited manufacturing plants where I've seen customers send the factory a spreadsheet containing nothing but a VBA project to exercise a (hardware) test jig for quality control.

This just reminded me that when I was young, I couldn't afford VB5/6, so I would program in VBA in the office products.

"but I've learned that when dealing with a Microsoft stack, there are advantages to using Microsoft-native languages like C#."

curious. can you elaborate?

where abouts/uni? did you need to relocate? did your wife/funding get you enough to cover mortgage?

What was the book?

how? tax advantaged accounts, individual stock picks or building a business ?

Still waiting for the EKF blog post

Trespasser yeah there was a bit with a keypad for getting into the Ingen employee village, I spent ages trying to use the pointy finger and a mouse to press the keys on the keypad... I couldn't do it, but there was a break a bit further along the fence/wall. They wrote the code on the wall (upside down) next to the keypad, but I guess they realised it was too cumbersome so they made a break in the wall further along.

interested to hear what bank is here too

Eyewear? Like sun glasses. Do the eyes age from natural light?

I have a place not too far from Cle Elum, and while I don’t recall the city that well, the windmills are built on fairly bland farm land are they not? i.e. it’s not like they built on the mountain range itself.



I visited the Wild Horse wind farm, and the turbines were on fairly nondescript terrain, if anything enhancing it. I think this is unlike, say, the Palouse area (a few hours east) or the Lake District in the UK, where farms are being erected on particularly beautiful countryside.

Of course it quickly becomes very subjective.

You wouldn't happen to be involved in the MSFT data center business?

M$ft XL developer here. I attended a conference to meet our Excel guru users and it's fairly impressive what these non-coders achieve. Excel is like an operating system to them, and they even create Excel files to "debug" there other Excel files, e.g. debugging the order of formula calculation and validating the output at each step in their property assets spreadsheets - without using any VBA

can you quantify how you just had your best year? Did consulting bring your more free time, money, satisfaction ? and by how much?

Did anyone ever question your academic background/track record. Did anyone deny you funding and/or not work for you upon inquiring about your track record?

In absolute honesty, do you think achieving good grades makes sizable a difference to people wanting to work for you or investing in your company?

Looks like they were testing it when they got burgers at Feed Co in Redmond. I would of got the halloumi cheese grits

By "this code" you mean the VBACV10.DLL binary? You were using a hex editor to fuzz .XLS files?

I think I semi-subconsciously left that ambiguous on purpose. A fair amount of people have certainly heard of him, but when I asked a couple of old-timers in the recent past they didn't seem to recognise the name.

They did have the code owners' name in nice formatted comments but they don't do that anymore, at least not in the Excel codebase. There are plenty of artifacts with the code owners names left behind (many having since moved on from Excel and Microsoft). Mr Spolsky was a program manager, so I doubt he wrote much if any code that made it into the Excel binaries, but I'm interested to know if he did.

Joel played a part in creating VBA for Excel (and likely the other Office clients) when he was a program manager at Microsoft in the early 90s (see http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html).

I'm a developer on XL (at Microsoft), only half way through the video and have learnt a thing or two. Out of academic curiosity I sometimes ask old-timers if they ever worked with Joel. So far nobody recognizes his name, though there is next to none left in Excel who were XL in early 90s or before.