DougWebb

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by DougWebb 10y ago
Sure, it's possible to host your own mail server, except that you need to host it in a place that isn't port-filtered (eg: not on most residential ISP connections), and if you want anyone to be able to receive your emails you need
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by DougWebb 10y ago
forming this memory doesn't cause any meaningful changes to the general physical functioning of the brain Maybe not any that we are currently able to measure, but something's got to be changing. As an analogy, consider your comp
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I guess I was thinking of Common Carrier status [0]: The FCC classified Internet Service Providers as common carriers, effective June 12, 2015, for the purpose of enforcing net neutrality. Before that time, the Good Samaritan provision of
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Doesn't that make them liable for anything they miss? Eg: they're scanning chats for discussions about criminal activities, and reporting what they find to the police. If some people plan a murder in Facebook chat, it goes unnotic
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I'm no expert, but I'd call that coercion, where the victim knows they are being forced to do something they don't want to do. Entrapment is about tricking the victim into doing something that they wouldn't have done on
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by DougWebb 10y ago
You must have a short memory; a lot of the really useful bits of the standard DOM API we have now was originally only found in jQuery.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Subsidizing music and the arts may or may not be a good idea, but it's certainly very different from funding NASA and the NIH.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Evolutionary changes occur by random mutation and, in sexual reproduction, by random genetic mixing. Whether or not those changes are successful is governed by survival, but it's not directed by survival. Survival doesn't choo
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Because evolution is random, and not directed. 10x efficiency is what you get when you really have a designer.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I honestly wondered how has any webdeveloper has managed to stay sane during the last decade. Who said we stayed sane?
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by DougWebb 10y ago
They're not destroyed because the prints aren't just used to determine if the person has committed a crime in the past; they're used in case a crime is committed in the future, and the only evidence for the criminal's id
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by DougWebb 10y ago
"weren't doing your job right" and "had no intention to" are hugely subjective. Anyone with an axe to grind could go through your information and find whatever they need to twist the apparent meaning to prove that y
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Thanks, that's exactly the documentation I was looking for on the page, but didn't find because it's just a code dump.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
As the author of a library, I care very much about the minor and patch numbers: when you report a bug to me, I want to know exactly which build you're using. But I don't want that to impact the major/minor release number, w
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I learned software development the same way you did; 34 years of programming experience, with just 19 as a career professional. I got a BE in Mechanical Engineering, not CS, and didn't plan to become primarily a programmer until most o
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by DougWebb 10y ago
In another comment I wrote that bootcamp-trained developers are learning to do jobs that will be automated soon. It's interesting that you mention teaching them to write coherently designed CRUD apps, because my company's product
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I've been building web-based frontends for my entire professional career, and my systems architecture skills have been invaluable throughout. Web frontends don't stand alone; they run on server, they make use of networks and netwo
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by DougWebb 10y ago
After reading through all of the comments so far, my impression is that bootcamps are for training the developers whose jobs will be automated away in the coming years, and college is for training the developers who will be writing the code
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Among developers, there are unkind terms used to describe people who call themselves "Solutions Architect" who have no development experience. "Architect" itself is often used as a derogatory term. In my experience, &quo
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by DougWebb 10y ago
How long is a well-run bootcamp? Getting a CS degree takes many, many hours of course work, plus typically a bunch of non-CS course work. I'd think a college grad would (should?) be much better rounded. That depends a lot on the qualit
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Most of that is probably water.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
They obviously didn't evolve there independently from other humans. They and the other tribes have common ancestry, and a common root language. I doubt anyone knows about inter-tribal contact through those 60,000 years that could have
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I'm not sure that's true, if the Prediction accounts for the fact that many people with a high value never get the disease. But that's only possible with sufficient data showing a negative correlation.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Tips that servers get are generally shared with the staff that don't interact directly with customers, but are part of providing the service that's being tipped.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Both of those things can't happen at the same time. That's how we ended up with servers wages getting cut and forced to depend on tips. If tipping is acceptable at all, it won't stay reserved for only truly excellent service.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
The 'path' in the tree can be represented as a tag. It's a simplistic way to go, but you can get pretty far with it to emulate a folder structure using tags.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
For me it's scrambled eggs, a bit of cheese, and coffee. Takes less than 15 minutes to make and clean up after.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
I could only support that idea if the taxes went towards publically funded nutrition research; the kind that drug companies won't do because prevention is not profitable. It's not like the obese don't know they're obese
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Yes, they could each hire a cathedral builder for 50 gold bars.
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by DougWebb 10y ago
mass != momentum. I'm sure the thinking was that they wouldn't be able to slow the rocket down enough and that the speed of impact would punch through the barge. The autonomous control needed to get the rocket to slow down and sto

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