DougWebb

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by DougWebb 9y ago
"higher probability" doesn't mean "always". Of course I test my code thoroughly before committing it. But the fact is that my code tends to be really close to done before I've even run it. I'll admit that&
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If you're capable of both pumping out CRUD pages and adding features to a compiler, then you may be a 10x developer. I consider myself to be a 10x developer, but I'm not 10x all of the time for all tasks. Things that set me apar
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Have you tried searching for a phone number? What you described is pretty much what the search results look like.
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I don't remember voting for that, or having the opportunity to do so. This isn't a democracy, it's a representative republic. We vote for our representatives, and trust them to make decisions we'd agree with (or at least
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I did that too, and my teeth were in bad shape (already falling apart) so it was a difficult procedure. Not painful, but very uncomfortable. The worst part, I think, was seeing my blood splattering on the dentist's faceshield. I don&#x
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by DougWebb 10y ago
If you look at federal budgets over the past 40 years [1] (select Presidents Trump through Carter) the only years with a budget surplus were budgets from Bill Clinton. Each year of his term the deficits got smaller, until they became surplu
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Python's had unpacking since it got it from Perl, back in the 90's. I'm really glad to see C# is catching up :)
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I'm sure there are exceptions for things like "I'm thinking about killing someone".
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by DougWebb 10y ago
If Google gives you a top search result, it means Google trusts that result to be a good one. Google doesn't "trust". That kind of thinking is the problem. Google has computed a ranking of the search results based on a bunc
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Did the installer for fman just install Opera as well? When I went to uninstall fman using the Windows control panel, I sorted by install date and Opera was shown as being installed after fman was, within just the past few minutes. I don&
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Hundreds of thousands, probably, and my work on that textbook feature brought in millions in revenue. Another aspect of the project is that I wrote a custom XML content storage and retrieval database, and spending a couple of months proving
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Man, I feel dumb. Yeah I meant Joss Whedon. Too many J's in sci-fi I like, I guess.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
The world, or western Europe, US, etc? What are workdays and work weeks like in the places where the bulk of consumer goods are manufactured today? There's still a lot of concern about child labor in those countries; I think they'
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I'm proud to say that I've accomplished that, at least once. My company was developing a new feature, hundreds of medical textbooks that would be searchable and readable online. The source content for each textbook consisted of a
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Import taxes are paid for by the consumers in your country, whose cost of living will go up and make them less competitive against consumers in other countries who don't have that burden. This is a surefire way to shift economic power
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I always thought that Firefly's scenario of a bunch of Earth-like worlds in close enough proximity to have regular trading ships flying between them was unrealistic. Now, not so much. This system even fits in with the "Abandon Ear
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Before the printing press, people couldn't really judge sources either, because there was generally only one source. That's quite a bit different than having many sources of wildly different quality hidden behind many layers of so
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Almost no-one has "secret painting methods", or "secret plumbing methods". For plumbing, building codes dictate the range of solutions that are available for any given problem, and they're not secret (but buying a
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I think the situation today is different because the "bad" content can spread much more rapidly and broadly than it could before. Back in the day, you could judge the authority and value of the content you were getting because you
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by DougWebb 10y ago
About 15 years ago, the company I worked for paid $1,000,000 for a 1TB disk array. Today I have several times that capacity laying around my apartment; I haven't even bothered to hook some of it up.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Perl's had something like that for a long time: quote operators. You can quote a string using " or ' (which mean different things), and you can quote a regex using /. But for each of these you can change the quote charac
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Perl has built-in support for these characters, sort-of, for use when reading in text files. Several of Perl's operators pay attention to certain global variables, like $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR. while (my $item = <>) {
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by DougWebb 10y ago
For a 40 hour week and 150 tasks per week to track, you have just 16 minutes per week per task. 16 minutes, to understand what's going on with a task that requires 13-20 hours to complete. How can you possibly develop an understanding
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Read up on Resistant Starch; nutritionally potatoes can behave more like soluble fiber (eg: indigestible) than they do with wheat and sugar based carbs. Besides not getting digested and turned into glucose, they're also very satiating.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
In another comment I mentioned a client company that had a locked down default-block web proxy in place. During a site visit with the two developers I was working with I discovered two surprising things: 1. The conference room where I was w
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by DougWebb 10y ago
You can add keyboard shortcuts to a webapp. What you can't do is control or override the keyboard shortcuts that the browser adds, and you can't make use of the full suite of possible keyboard shortcuts. I've looked at addi
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I had a similar experience. I was developing a customer portal website for one of my company's clients. Well into the project I found out that everyone at the company, including everyone who would be doing QA, had monitors that only we
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by DougWebb 10y ago
It seems like many movies these days get released with two versions when the theater run is complete; one version that matches what was shown in theaters, and one Director's Cut. The latter often includes scenes that were cut to get a
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Of course NASA updates software mid-mission; they're famous for sending software updates out to deep-space probes and rovers to fix things as critical as communication issues, which is quite a neat trick. What they don't do is all
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Typical audio compression rates can be 10:1, especially for voice. So if the LED rings are lit for 30 seconds, is there 30 seconds of network activity, or 3 seconds? If it's 30 seconds, either Amazon is grossly wasting internet bandwid

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