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hey, virtualbox – don’t be retarded

Posted on 20 March 2018 By antipaucity No Comments on hey, virtualbox – don’t be retarded

Ran across this error recently in an Ubuntu guest on my VirtualBox install: VBoxClient: (seamless): failed to start, Stage: Setting guest IRQ filter mask Error: VERR_INTERNAL_ERROR Gee, isn’t that a useful message. Fortunately, there was a forums.virtualbox thread on just this error. The upshot is that this error is actually caused because of a failure…

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complaint, technical

browsers should have integrated sharing ability

Posted on 30 June 201626 June 2016 By antipaucity No Comments on browsers should have integrated sharing ability

Mobile browsers can all share pages via whatever is available on your tablet, iPad, Android, iPhone, etc. Why do ‘full’ browsers not offer the same thing without goofy extensions?

complaint, ideas

on ads

Posted on 3 March 20169 March 2016 By antipaucity 6 Comments on on ads

My colleague Sheila wrote a great, short piece on LinkedIn about ads recently. And this is what I commented: I held off for years in installing ad blockers/reducers. But I have finally had to cave – been running Flash in “ask-only” mode for months now, and just added a couple blocker/reducer extensions to Chrome recently…

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commentary, complaint, insights, technical

sap bapis and hp oo

Posted on 26 January 201626 January 2016 By antipaucity 1 Comment on sap bapis and hp oo

Couple quick notes: SAP is not designed for automated / programmatic access – their “BAPI”, or binary application programming interface, requires additional licensing beyond just the product to use I made the naive assumption that a “BAPI” was like a WSDL – and it is, but it’s proprietary, not open (and it’s binary, not plaintext XML)…

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complaint, hmmm, technical

please reply at top

Posted on 1 April 201531 March 2015 By antipaucity No Comments on please reply at top

There is a constant war over top-repliers, bottom-repliers, and inline-repliers. If you’re replying to an email, reply at the top. Unless there is some overarching need to reply inline (hint – it is very very rare). Bottom-replying makes me have to reread all the crap that has been left from previous messages before I get to what you…

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commentary, complaint, rant, technical

charge for carry-on luggage

Posted on 20 November 201418 November 2014 By antipaucity 2 Comments on charge for carry-on luggage

Airlines over the past several years have begun charging for all kinds of things that used to be “free” (they weren’t ever “free”, they just hid the cost in your ticket price). One of the worst offenders to this list of fees, though, is the inane charge for your first checked bag whereas carry-on baggage…

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complaint, insights, travel

who wants an “all-star team” anyway?

Posted on 25 June 20144 April 2022 By antipaucity 9 Comments on who wants an “all-star team” anyway?

A friend sent me this job listing recently, and I see it suffers from a wrong-headed (though well-intentioned) institutional fixation that hiring managers seem to have: that of wanting an “all-star team”. “we are building an all-star team” Sigh. This mentality is promoted by smart, successful people like Joel Spolsky: “You’re going to see three…

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commentary, complaint

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