DougWebb

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by DougWebb 12y ago
If you rely on your compiler to tell you that your code is correct, there are whole classes of bugs that are waiting to surprise you in production. I think that many years of developing large applications in Perl were really good for me. Pe
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by DougWebb 12y ago
I'm sure Amazon is constantly adjusting their prices in order to maximize their sales and revenue; they even have some price automation tools as part of their inventory management system for people who sell their stuff through Amazon.
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by DougWebb 12y ago
I acknowledge that it must be tough working on the CSS standard, and it's a job that I'm glad I don't have. But understanding and using CSS is hard enough without examples like this: This opens up a great deal of new wa
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by DougWebb 12y ago
Valid points. I think each new feature will likely interest a different set of developers, so the feature can still get pretty wide testing even if a lot of developers choose to wait for it to mature, or choose not to use it at all. I do ag
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by DougWebb 12y ago
I'll give you an upvote because I hear what you're saying; keeping up with new browser features is tough if you've got other things to do as well. But, you don't need to incorporate every new feature into your own web pr
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by DougWebb 12y ago
As a web developer, the reason for the problem is irrelevant. If your users are using an older browser, it doesn't matter why; you still have to support it. You and they probably have little influence over changing the policy.
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by DougWebb 12y ago
Still penises four hours later. As soon as I saw the link, I just knew that's what I was going to see. Humans are very predictable.
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by DougWebb 12y ago
Aren't most tanks driven by teenagers already? Of course, they get very specialized training, but it still shows that teens can handle that responsibility under the right circumstances. Actually, I don't really know: how old are t
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by DougWebb 12y ago
Originally the RAR file format was created to make it easy to put a large amount of data onto floppy disks, before writable CDs were widely available. The individual .r## files were sized to completely fill the disk space, so you didn'
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by DougWebb 12y ago
It could, and should, be a science. Or at least pragmatic. If you look at clothing design, the fashion side is mostly outlandish and completely impractical. Eventually good ideas filter out of that and get into everyday clothing manufacturi
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by DougWebb 12y ago
Especially when the debt was resold for a small percentage of what you owed, and entity you borrowed from absolutely refused to negotiate with you in any way that would allow you to pay them back at a reduced cost, or even at less than 20%+
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by DougWebb 12y ago
Best Practice evolves because of lessons learned about the problems in previous practice. I think the point of the article isn't that Bash wasn't originally written with 2014 Best Practices, but that it hasn't been kept up to
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by DougWebb 12y ago
The only guaranteed result is not to play, that will ensure that you do not win 100% of the time. Not quite true; every time you don't play you win $1. If you don't play often enough, that can really add up.
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by DougWebb 12y ago
if you derive enjoyment from losing money That's a funny way to put it. Exchanging money for entertainment has been a common and accepted practice for a very long time. Technically, when you buy something you lose the money, but it
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by DougWebb 12y ago
A number of years ago I visited the War Museum in London. One of the more powerful exhibits is a diorama of the front line during WWI, showing trenches on either side of the no-mans-land. I don't know exactly when that diorama was crea
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by DougWebb 12y ago
These ancient structures typically have alignments towards sunrise and sunset at the equinox or solstice. It's not an every-day alignment; it's an indicator of the changing seasons.
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by DougWebb 12y ago
Energy burned needs to be >= energy taken in. Neither of which have any direct or consistent correlation to physical activity or food consumed . And that's the problem; everyone's body responds differently to a host of fac
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by DougWebb 12y ago
graze a much wider radius of ground vegetation without moving a step How does that work? I've seen suggestions that the bones of the neck lock together to form a rigid structure, so that the whole thing is cantilevered off the should
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by DougWebb 12y ago
In the first case, the 1D vertical line is the same, but it's "seen" from a different angle. It looks the same because it's 1D and it doesn't happen to change because of the rotation. For the second case, maybe it&#
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by DougWebb 12y ago
That would be really cool. The mathematics involved don't seem too difficult; you have to add another axis to your vectors, points, and transform matrices, and you can place and orient your models in 4D space, set up lights and a camer
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by DougWebb 12y ago
If you don't want "a person who is likely to have children soon", the best person to hire is someone who's 40+. Anyone younger is still in their prime making-babies years.
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by DougWebb 12y ago
That's simple... to start a string literal, you type a ", and as you type the green box will continue to expand to contain what you're typing until you type another " to end the literal. This is, somehow, better...
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by DougWebb 12y ago
Many non-affluent companies have skipped over the many stages the US went through in creating electrical and telecommunications infrastructure. For the latter they've jumped right to cellular, which has kept a LOT of copper and rubber
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by DougWebb 12y ago
I don't disagree with you, but part of the reason first world consumers demand cheap Chinese products is because many of their middle-class-income-producing jobs have been exported to China and various third-world countries, so they ca
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by DougWebb 12y ago
I've got a Spider server on Creeperhost, which I use for myself. At the moment I'm running the Direwolf20 pack with an insane amount of automation going on, all chunkloaded in the few chunks around my base. I've gotten to the
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by DougWebb 12y ago
I'm 44, and started programming when I was 12 on a ZX81 and then a Commodore64. Back then we had magazines instead of the internet, and any serious program was written in assembly rather than BASIC. One of the more advanced things the
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by DougWebb 12y ago
Yes and no. The browser has to parse the CSS, and it's most likely building an abstract symbol tree. So in a sense CSS is compiled too, it just happens in the browser so web developers don't have to be aware of it. Do you remember
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by DougWebb 12y ago
So, a WiFi-attached device sitting in my bedroom with a high-sensitivity microphone, a proximity detector, and unknown software? I think I'll pass, even though the product seems cool and useful otherwise. Sure, I've got my cellpho
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by DougWebb 12y ago
If you were a security guard for the largest piece of copyrighted art work in the world , and you saw someone trying to take a picture of it, you'd think he's maybe a terrorist? Context is very important when making judgements.
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by DougWebb 12y ago
If I'm bringing up a directory listing, and the GUI tool I'm using is showing me different icons for different file types (or some other type-specific visual distinction), then I don't want it to have to read the first few by

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