Andys

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901.
by Andys 17y ago
Why is this important to you?
902.
by Andys 17y ago
I do my own because I wrote software to handle it. Whenever I discover a new piece of tax code/legislation or reporting requirements, I encode it in software so I don't have to do it manually ever again.
903.
by Andys 18y ago
Minus nerd points, and plus sales points. No doubt you get to talk business with some of the most powerful world figures inside the club's closed doors.
904.
by Andys 18y ago
It would be really nice if all ISPs were this open and forthcoming with technical detail.
905.
by Andys 18y ago
1. How far does it scale, in terms of number of agents, without needing to change the way you do things? 2. Does this need to run on a LAN or is it possible to spread the agents across the Internet at multiple sites?
906.
by Andys 18y ago
I agree with the first part. As much as I disliked school, the best thing about it was all the free time - I've never had as much free time since then. So my advice is if you really dislike the schoolwork, just ignore it and do the bare mi
907.
by Andys 18y ago
Have you ever looked at the source of GCC? :-)
908.
by Andys 18y ago
> the CEO said, "it's better to have 1 percent of 10 million than 100 percent of nothing." A false dichotomy, surely. The voice in the back of my head says its better to have >=50% of something small with real, stable growing than 1
909.
by Andys 18y ago
While you're a startup it doesn't matter much, but if you become a larger company, having the user's money that they haven't "spent" yet can be quite irritating for accountants, depending on which accounting method is being used. In essence
910.
by Andys 18y ago
People might click on ads that are properly targetted. As it is now, every ad I've seen on FB are way, WAY off base for me. FB perhaps needs to find ways to upload more of the personal activities and data in order to make ads more accuratel
911.
by Andys 18y ago
RapidSSL
912.
by Andys 18y ago
Lubrication, fuel, and cooling systems all work more efficiently when powered by electric motors. The reason is they increase drag unnecessarily at high motor rpms. (But they also cost more). I think this would be a logical way of making
913.
by Andys 18y ago
That thought scared me - are most people in office jobs stressed out all the time? Does fear really drive our society?
914.
by Andys 18y ago
I agree - deadline stress works best at the end of a project where you already know what to do and how to do it, and you just need a kick up the rear to get things moving rapidly.
915.
by Andys 18y ago
That would be a good idea for older chips like the Pentium M, but Intel's latest CPUs feature power gates so efficient that the current draw of an idle CPU that has been shut down, is very close to zero. Furthermore when all but one core is
916.
by Andys 18y ago
One critical difference: the Kindle only uses battery power when changing the display. Tablet PCs have a similar power profile, size, and weight to a regular laptop.
917.
by Andys 18y ago
I'd replace item #2 (dropdown menus) with Combo boxes and List Controls. Two items which are very useful in native apps and difficult to get right in HTML.
918.
by Andys 18y ago
At the centre of this redesign is the need to save money. Facebook doesn't need to run on the same hardware (NetApp) as banks and telcos. In this type of application, scaling up is done cheapest with custom software on commodity hardware.
919.
by Andys 18y ago
One of the reasons Ruby 1.9 adoption is so slow is that the people who really needed speed have long since moved on. 1.8 is still good enough for most of us who use Rails every day.
920.
by Andys 18y ago
How is this different from an arc lamp / high-intensity discharge lamp as used in spotlights and car headlamps?
921.
by Andys 18y ago
I can't think of a single one that would justify taking down an entire datacenter like that. It'd be like evacuating a city block because of a single resident's alleged wrongdoings.
922.
by Andys 18y ago
"It wasn't pure suicide, Microsoft helped." A common theme running through the history of the industry.
923.
by Andys 18y ago
Its not exactly original. Back in the 1990s a bunch of us sysadmin types created an identical website where it graphed everyone's unix machine uptimes in a similar way (with variable length ePenises). But back then, it wasn't twitter, it wa
924.
by Andys 18y ago
Its a big mistake, given the enormous cost of Windows compared to linux running on Everyman's netbook.
925.
by Andys 18y ago
What is even more surprising: getting mongrel and DB libraries to work is just a case of a simple 'search and replace' of a couple of things in the C language components of those libraries.
926.
by Andys 18y ago
The incompatibilities that have hit hardest are for the modules that use C language extensions. This can't really be helped for such a major change to the underlying structure. The ruby language changes were mostly included in Ruby 1.8.7,
927.
by Andys 18y ago
I agree up to a point, but we know that psychological events cause physiological changes, not just vice-versa. Simple example, the addiction of the adrenaline rush and dopamine release of extreme sports.
928.
by Andys 18y ago
Wow, cool. I wonder if this will work under vmware? Will have to give it a try.
929.
by Andys 18y ago
Thanks for the data point. In theory Intel SSDs should fail about as often as a motherboard or stick of RAM, excluding the graceful failure you talk about. The graceful failing is where there are no free sectors left for wear levelling or
930.
by Andys 18y ago
I think if Microsoft want me to test websites on their browsers, they should release a free or minimal cost developer's pack containing several actual versions of Windows and IE versions that I can run in Virtual Machines.

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