DougWebb

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by DougWebb 9y ago
Besides the large plates, I think you're reacting to the focus as well. We've gotten very used to our small lenses and their infinite depth of field that keeps everything focused. We're so used to it that now it's a fea
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My ex-wife is still recovering from her second liver transplant. The first one was when she was 20, due to a genetic disease that causes sudden liver failure around that age. That time, she went from ER to transplant to recovery in just a
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by DougWebb 9y ago
What you're missing is that China is already executing prisoners in order to harvest their organs. This isn't hypothetical. So anyone who wants to advocate for selling human organs for transplant need to address how to avoid abu
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That's the first step on a bad road. Step 1: Reward volunteer donors with cash, healthcare Step 2: Reward 'volunteer' donors with welfare, housing Step 3: Reward 'volunteer' donors with reduced criminal penalties St
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No, that's not how Google's scraper works. They only follow publicly-exposed links, and they check your robots.txt file to see if they should ignore any links they might have come across that you intended to be private. If you acc
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Like I said, someone who does a poor job securing their content, but who are not exposing it directly via publicly-exposed links, are not granting public access. Your example is more akin to the maid wandering off leaving the front door o
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My view of course also says that I'm free to download the data at http://secret.somecompany.com:8081/secrets/data.bin Because they exposed it at a public http endpoint. That's a poor example, because they m
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Google doesn't post a public list of IP addresses for webmasters to whitelist. This is because these IP address ranges can change, causing problems for any webmasters who have hard-coded them, so you must run a DNS lookup as described
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by DougWebb 9y ago
You have an interesting point of view on political echo chambers. Today's rhetoric is that the NYT and WSJ are both "MSM" and therefore on the same side with the same point of view. You'd have to watch (not read) Fox,
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It might start out as a tiny percentage, but all it takes is one person setting it up and letting the world know about it. Then pretty soon the WSJ is faced with millions of people getting free content again. They're complaining about
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I agree, and earlier this year I decided to subscribe to a newspaper for the first time in many, many years. I'm worried that subscribers can't stop the propaganda though. There are so many 'news' sources nowadays, with
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Possible, but seems unlikely. To set that up the WSJ website would have to allow Googlebot access while denying others. Any filtering based on the url or HTTP headers would be discovered and abused by others. An approach based on a security
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If all three of your assumptions are true, then you're correct. The trick is getting the second two assumptions to be true. Management and devs have to agree on a % time split, and management has to agree with intermingled priorities i
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by DougWebb 9y ago
At some point, dysfunctional management can't be overcome. I'm not really talking about that extreme case; I'm talking about the more common case where engineers don't understand management priorities because they'r
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I meant not getting approval for necessary work, and therefore not being able to do the necessary work, is inefficient. Not needing approval for necessary work is great; we agree on that. You're right about having to make a choice be
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Yes, it can be deeply inefficient, but so is not getting approval to do necessary work. You have to start making progress somewhere, even if it's not as fast as you'd like it to be. If you're sucessful with this, you gain cre
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If the expected value of a task is a complete unknown, then there is NO business justification for doing the task. As an engineer with the responsibilty (or desire) to get business buy-in for a task, you must learn to quantify its value i
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Ah, I see the problem. You have no interest in understanding why your business makes the decisions it makes; you just expect them to give you permission to do whatever you say you want to do. You said: I've tried explaining why we nee
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I'd call it "Maintaining existing code" rather than "Refactoring". To a non-technical manager, the former sounds like pretty much what it is, and won't raise many questions. (If they do question it, ask them if
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"Currently, every time we want to build a release of the software in order to test it before deployment, __ developers need to stop working on features and maintenance while we go through the build process, which takes __ hours/da
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Basically, each narrow-band filter gives you a grey-scale image. You can assign whatever color you like to each of them, and then mix them to get a color image. If you have filters for the Red, Green, and Blue wavelengths, and then apply Re
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by DougWebb 9y ago
How about: <rec type="currency" unit="euro" amount="10" /> I don't think your problem is with the syntax, necessarily. It seems more like you prefer name/value pairs over semantic markup.
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If it's JSON your program expects then I should be able to throw any valid JSON at your program and it should work. That's not a valid argument, because JSON is just a serialization format for an arbitrary data structure. You ca
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An idea that I've had, for an approach to reduce the cost of drug development, would be to give the FDA the job and resources of carrying out the entire clinical trial process. They would be responsible for choosing which drugs to tria
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I've gone through this; you should be aware that COBRA is a retroactive continuation of your coverage, from the day you leave your job, but it's not actually continuous. It can take weeks for the paperwork to go through, and dur
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Therein lies the difference of opinion between the Democratic and Republican points of view on US healthcare. Democrats want a system where insurance companies have to cover everyone regardless of their health, and (most) Republicans want (
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Why would the seller go along with the idea that the buyers would negotiate amongst themselves to choose a price?
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I'm definitely in the "prefer to read" camp. A lot of these, especially the more graphical ones (that aren't just fancy syntax highlighting) seem way too disjointed for me. I don't want my code floating around in se
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Protectionism only works when two things are true: - Other countries can't produce the product better than your country can - Other countries can't sell the product to markets besides yours If we were to enact a tariff on fore
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That's highly dependent on the team, the code, and the tests. For my work, most of the time, comments in the well-structured code are much more likely to still be useful and valid to me and my team over time than a test suite that won&

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