DougWebb

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by DougWebb 11y ago
The point of that chart is that the temperature appears to go up before the CO2 levels, leading to the theory that higher temperatures (due to natural cycles, perhaps solar activity cycles) heat up the ocean and other CO2 sinks, leading t
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by DougWebb 11y ago
My family always described what I was doing with my C64 as "playing with the computer". Sure, I played games on it, but I also spent a lot of time typing in those programs from the magazines. Younger developers today are shocked a
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by DougWebb 11y ago
During WWII, we engaged in all-out war against Japan and Germany, and devastated both countries to the limit of our technical ability. Had the Japanese government not surrendered after the atomic bombs, we would have continued dropping them
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. The cold-hearted decision would be to count those civilians as acceptable losses, and just carpet-bomb the whole area.
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by DougWebb 11y ago
There was an article posted here a few weeks ago, written by a man who was held captive by ISIS for a long time. He said that he learned their ultimate goal has nothing to do with our culture or freedom. They believe armageddon is coming, t
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by DougWebb 11y ago
A pure functional toaster would work one of two ways: 1) It would just be a solid box with no openings. Inside would be full of wondrous magic, but interacting with the outside world involves side-effects so interaction would not be allowed
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by DougWebb 11y ago
I have a somewhat formal process for this, which I teach to developers I'm mentoring: First, you build a feature for the requirements you know you have, with support (possibly stubs) for the requirements you know you're going to h
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Maybe it's a matter of personal style. Some people are better if they focus on "how do I write the code that's intended to solve my problem", and some people are better if they focus on "how do I write tests that ca
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by DougWebb 11y ago
I've always found that if you can't write the test first it's a good indication that you probably don't yet have a good enough understanding of the problem you are trying to solve. The author's point, in the paint
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Controlling a lamp isn't very useful on it's own, but it's a good simple proof of concept for tying in-game mechanisms to internet-connected resources. Step 2 is getting an external event to have an effect in-game. Once you h
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Have you seen NYC? 20 stories is a small walk-up these days. I've lived in and around NYC my entire life, and I always thought that the shape of the skyline was governed mostly by the underlying granite: lots of support for huge buildi
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by DougWebb 11y ago
The people getting priced out of a housing market are not choosing to live somewhere/somehow else. They're being forced out by the wealthier people who are bidding prices up. For these same people, moving to less populated areas
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by DougWebb 11y ago
The health insurance companies collect money monthly from all enrolled participants. That money sits on their books until it has to be paid out for claims. Higher healthcare costs means that the insurance company can raise the monthly premi
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Not likely; insurance companies have no incentive or motivation to reduce the cost of healthcare. The more money that moves through the healthcare system, the more money that passes through the insurance company. That gives them power, gian
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Is it going to crush my processor? No, all the processing is asynchronous. That's not an answer to the question. If every keystroke kicks off a compile-execute-report cycle, then the processor (and drive) are definitely going to be
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by DougWebb 11y ago
That's exactly how Bootstrap's classes for lists work. And they are tied to the DOM structure, though not necessarily to particular elements: .my-list has to go on a container element, and .my-list__item has to go onto children of
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by DougWebb 11y ago
On a larger scale (overall layout of a page) CSS reliance on DOM structure is a bad thing. But on a small scale (layout of a component) the cleanest markup is usually going to require coordination between the CSS and the DOM structure (and
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Don't become a consultant. My company bills in 15-minute blocks, so I track my time with that precision. I bill for more than just in-the-flow coding, but I dont bill for downtime. I regularly bill 35+ hours a week, and the rest of my
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by DougWebb 11y ago
I think the author intended that both formulas and pictograms are forms of text. They're both made up of abstract symbols that can be composed to create meaning.
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Might be a nasty pill to swallow, but in most cases, populating a grid with 2000+ bindings is in the area I'd call bad UI. Totally agree, but my business is auto-generating fully-featured applications based on database schema inspect
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Dirty Checking: Yes, we have have to sacrifice ease of use for performance sometimes. So keep it in mind and don't make so many simultaneous data bindings. Why you would need 2000+ in any given state(ui-router)/route is just myst
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Expanding on sophalces' point: Assuming the figures you quoted are correct, how much of the medicare budget is spent on fraud prevention? That includes: * time spent by Congress and Medicare deciding what is and what is not covered, *
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by DougWebb 11y ago
What makes you think the Medical Insurance Industry is interested in reducing medical costs? They benefit from higher costs. If medical costs were much lower, fewer people would need/want insurance. Premiums would have to be lowered, w
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Every answer you get here will be pretty much useless to you unless you describe the kinds of web projects you expect to do going forward. Your current stack may be perfectly suited, or you may have been using an inappropriate stack for a l
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by DougWebb 11y ago
You might be right, unfortunately. If it's cheaper to buy insurance that will cover the (expected) losses caused by outages, most organizations will choose to do that instead of making the software more failure-resistant. The problem i
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by DougWebb 11y ago
There are probably business reasons for wanting the number of accounts to never go down, but I'll give you a technical reason: the database schema. Most big companies will have a big database holding user data, with many tables that ha
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by DougWebb 11y ago
You also have to factor in the fact that for most government welfare-type agencies a large portion of their budgets are spent running the bureaucracy, rather than going out to the people. Universal Basic Income greatly reduces the overhead
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Maybe we can do something, but what? Do we build walls around the cities so they don't flood, or do we set up a scheme where developing countries pay a ransom to rich countries so they can continue to pollute, while rich countries star
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by DougWebb 11y ago
If you're using CI testing results and tying them to particular commits, you end up with the same problem whether you merge or rebase. If you test a commit and it passes, and then merge that commit into master, the merge may have chang
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by DougWebb 11y ago
You shouldn't expect unlimited food either. "All you can eat" doesn't mean "Please move in and live here for the rest of your life."

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