DougWebb

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by DougWebb 10y ago
I don't think a second American revolution is unlikely; I think it's inevitable if conditions don't change. I don't think it'll happen today, but eventually it will. Your historical examples are spot-on; every civil
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by DougWebb 10y ago
If human races (which clearly exist) are not genetically distinct enough to be considered subspecies, how about the inverse? Can you point out examples of animal species/subspecies that have races? Are different dog breeds the equivale
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I don't know how many .NET developers do what I do, but I think a lot of us are doing Enterprise development, typically working with huge databases that have been around for decades. My company does a lot of work with DB2 on IBMi serve
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Hmm, I am. Does the Pro version support turning off the privacy and updating features without being joined to a domain? If there is only partial control, that's not good enough. Otherwise I may owe you a beer :)
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by DougWebb 10y ago
If I could buy the Pro version as an individual, and run it on an isolated machine, as I've done with every prior version of Windows I've purchased, I probably would have upgraded by now. Since they don't offer that, and the
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by DougWebb 10y ago
You build your SQL statement using named parameters for the values you're going to pass in, and you use your database's client API to create a command and bind parameter values to it. Then you ask the API to execute the command. T
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by DougWebb 10y ago
How many people can afford to spend that much every couple of years on a new tv? I'd bet most tvs in most us homes are 5-15 years old. My tv, which happens to be a bravia, is 13 years old and still works perfectly. EDIT: for what it&#x
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by DougWebb 10y ago
The point is that tv manufacturers can still sell all of those features in-the-box, but provide it as a dumb screen + a separate device that's replacable when it becomes obsolete before the screen does. I think a key competitive featur
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by DougWebb 10y ago
If your problem is unique, there won't be a framework for it. That doesn't always stop the pressure to force-fit your problem into a "preferred" framework. In a large organization, both the people defining the problem
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by DougWebb 10y ago
How does an incentive to work accomplish anything if the only jobs that are available (if any for a given person's skillset) are ones that pay far too little to live on. ("decreasing the cost of labor" == "reduce or elim
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by DougWebb 10y ago
It's not that clear cut. Your options are more like: 1) Trust your brother, feed him and let him crash. Costs you $50. 2) Don't trust your brother. Hire an investigator to determine if he bought weed. Most of the time nothing is f
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by DougWebb 10y ago
For my particular experience, that still wouldn't have helped. First, the storms that knocked out power mostly occurred at night and had 100% cloud cover, so we're talking about total darkness. There was also really heavy rain or
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I was wondering if anyone would catch the reference :)
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Here's a plan, off the top of my head: capture the CO2 in the exhaust, use some of the power from the plant to freeze it into dry ice. Feed the heat back into the power plant somehow so it's not wasted. Take the dry ice and ship i
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Now everyone see's themselves as an informed authority, after a few minutes googling and reading a wikipedia page. I think today's self-proclaimed informed authority compares pretty well to yesterday's hobbyists, at least.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
+1, because I had the urge to say the same thing. I think the question needs to be a lot more specific about the type of app and the platforms it needs to run on. Web-based applications give you the broadest reach for the lowest cost if you
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by DougWebb 10y ago
The examples in your second paragraph are not made-up scenarios; they're real needs caused by faulty power grids or large-scale disaster-management requirements. For those it makes sense to compare the costs of different off-grid power
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by DougWebb 10y ago
You can justify the cost of anything if you compare it to a made-up scenario where having the thing is far better than not having it. That's just rationalizing; it's not a valid analysis.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
The answer to your second question, unfortunately, is a combination of "We're scared", "We're number one!" and "Who cares?"
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Not true. We've also found that rebasing our own work onto the latest master makes it a lot easier to deal with conflicts. When you do a merge, the conflicts you see are a mixture of your own code and someone else's code, and it c
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Rebase is absolutely a part of my everyday workflow, and the rest of my team's workflow as well. (Yesterday I had to show our CTO how to use it, because the rest of the team was getting annoyed by his merge commits.) Our workflow is: -
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Even if it supported saving and coming back later, that barely complicates things. The form itself would need the ability to redisplay with fields pre-populated, which you'd want anyway if you've got any server-side validation or
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by DougWebb 10y ago
There's a question of viability that I think matters. An unborn human starts as a clump of cells, develops a brain and heart but is still not viable on its own, and then if all goes well it becomes viable by the time it is born. It&#x2
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by DougWebb 10y ago
This is a typical assest forfeiture auction. They don't want to deal with multiple buyers or non-cash-on-the-spot buyers. They value disposing of assets quickly and cleanly over getting market value.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I went through a six-month period where I was working 80-120 hrs/week. All I did was eat quickly and sleep when not working. This did permanent damage to my metabolism. Towards the end, my body temp was dropping close to 95 deg while s
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by DougWebb 10y ago
That doesn't work when you can't predict what other tasks might interrupt you between now and date X. That's why estimating in units of effort is much more reliable than units of time. The drawback to units of effort is tha
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by DougWebb 10y ago
The points are (also) an estimating mechanism. They let you estimate a new task in points (effort measurement) instead of hours (time measurement), and then use history to predict a likely timeframe based on your typical rate. The extra lay
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Similar, but different requirements. All of the messages were grouped by sending process, and when the sending process said its session was over its messages were fed into a post-processing queue. There was support for holding messages in m
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by DougWebb 10y ago
It's fairly simple to write a little server that accepts socket connections from multiple processes, and reads a line of data from each connection whenever there is data available and append it to the log file. I wrote a server like th
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I do NOT work for Jet. I've considered it because they're very local to me, even closer than the NYC startups. Edit: I've been through the buyout ruining the company culture, so I definitely agree with you there.

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