DougBTX

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Don't outsource your profits(s3.amazonaws.com)
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by DougBTX 14y ago
"all" is tricky, there isn't a standard command on all computers to list the contents of a file, let alone edit. But even my WRT54G has vi installed on it, and you can expect to find emacs and vim on almost any *nix.
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by DougBTX 14y ago
How can you tell that he didn't carefully craft simple and direct speech to convey his passion with clarity? It's tricky to pin down cause and effect, but since so many people understood his passion through his use of English, I'd be wary o
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by DougBTX 14y ago
In your second: If you changed a value in a configuration file and it triggered an exception somewhere, many people would say you are at fault for not testing your change. Exactly. However, the exception will likely be thrown from somewhe
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by DougBTX 14y ago
Using the "colour of your bits"[0] metaphor, keeptrying is describing the bits, and you are describing the colour. So, what was actually done, as keeptrying says, was download a few files on a semi-public network, but as you say, the "crime
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by DougBTX 14y ago
cab driver asks "how is your day" That's miss-representing the example. In the article the cab driver, "Then asks about your wife." Answering that question by saying that he doesn't have a wife isn't the same as talking about "the intrica
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by DougBTX 14y ago
In the paragraph below, it says that "A person earning the average tech salart in Silicon Valley would save $42,919 in just five years living in a state like Florida where there is no income tax." The median salary from the chart is $90,000
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by DougBTX 14y ago
and eventually it gets cheaper on average for everybody. Sometimes cheap drugs get more expensive, so that's at least not a universal truth. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/business/questcor-finds-pr...
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by DougBTX 14y ago
Title is misleading, it should say, "Data-prediction specialists beat specialists from other fields at data-prediction".
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by DougBTX 14y ago
Each "bill" in bitcoin includes a full transaction history, which gets shared with every other bitcoin user. It's quite different knowing that a dollar bill got from A to B, vs a bitcoin which tells you exactly how it travelled from A to B.
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by DougBTX 14y ago
In the US, the transfer of cash is regulated, which might be relevant to the argument you are making: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering#Preventive
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by DougBTX 14y ago
Yes, reading this article makes me feel better about how it works in C#. (I think you mean syntactic sugar rather than semantic sugar though; the semantics stays the same, but the syntax is a little sweeter.)
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by DougBTX 14y ago
The line before that is output = "", there will never be any output to overwrite by line output = i. Note that this is output for just one line, not the entire output of the procedure.
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by DougBTX 14y ago
This is another good one for formatting / filtering json: http://stedolan.github.com/jq/
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by DougBTX 14y ago
Code is, generally speaking, copyrighted. Copying something copyrighted without permission is copyright infringement. A license is one way to get permission in writing.
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by DougBTX 14y ago
The confusion is probably due to the other commentators assuming you knew about Nate's vote share predictions when you didn't. You don't think you are confusing "the two", since you thought that Nate only had one set of numbers in the first
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by DougBTX 14y ago
> It's hard to quantify just how close he was. It is hard to do with the final, "chance of winning" numbers, but it is much easier with his share of the vote predictions, and you can check those predictions for all states that way, even
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by DougBTX 14y ago
That's simply not true, OS level support has been improving for years and years. There is a chicken-before-the-egg problem with getting ISVs to support high resolution modes (ie, for third party developers to use the support the OS offers)
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by DougBTX 14y ago
Jeff comes along and says, "I'm going to mock you if you don't let me take over your project," and Gruber is the jerk for saying no?
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by DougBTX 14y ago
> If you can pre-determine what functions your gadget is going to need, you can always build a greener solution by going fixed function. How are you defining fixed function? For example, does eval [1] count as a function? If you have a
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by DougBTX 14y ago
It looks like Schedule 1 is what Samsung requested, ie, " post ... the notice ... on the home pages of its EU websites", but what they were granted is what paragraph 57 says, ie, "I will require the statement to be on the United Kingdom web
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by DougBTX 14y ago
Windows RT will only run 3rd party applications sold through the MS App Store. For me at least, one of the defining features of a PC is that you can run whatever software you like on it.
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by DougBTX 14y ago
> Why is this an invalid approach? One way to structure a compressed file is as a lookup dictionary. To decompress the file, you'll need to agree on which file is to be decompressed. If you need to have an agreed OS installation to act
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by DougBTX 14y ago
Just pulling quotes from the Wikipedia page, "he avoided complicated syntax and about 70 percent of the sentences are simple sentences — a childlike syntax without subordination." Subordination is the key word, ie, limiting the amount of ne
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by DougBTX 14y ago
.bl.uk at least is an exception, it is one of the domains registered pre-Nominet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk#History
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by DougBTX 14y ago
> I don't see how that disagrees with my point. Your point was worded as if Apple had a free choice, buffet style, of which features to have or not. Say Apple wants A but not B, and Google will only sell A+B. Your wording suggests that
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by DougBTX 14y ago
I'm at a loss, how could it be easier to add music? From files, it is drag and drop, from CD's, it is one click "Import".
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by DougBTX 14y ago
This looks like a news article, but is actually a press release. The giveaway line: > By next year, we plan to install Superchargers in high traffic corridors across the continental United States (It does say that it is a press releas
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by DougBTX 14y ago
I'm still fuzzy on the distinction you are trying to make between "writing algorithms" and "writing code". If someone told me they were "writing an algorithm", I'd understand it as them trying to come up with a new algorithm, either on pape
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by DougBTX 14y ago
> His questions are not about writing code, they are about writing algorithms. What's the distinction between those? He isn't asking the candidates to invent algorithms, just to implement simple ones. The answer to the second question i

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