DougWebb

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by DougWebb 13y ago
Being pessimistic... as the European Telecoms becomes "truly European", the carriers will probably start merging. Eventually you'll wind up where we are in the US, with a couple of huge carriers, a moderately sized carrier, a
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by DougWebb 13y ago
"Trickle-Down Economics" became a big thing right about that time. Also massive military-industrial-complex investment. Between them they probably accounted for a big stock market boom, and based on the article most of that boom p
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Or, a perfectly good community will have turned into a wasteland where no one can live.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
The BBC article[1] says they were caught by a mistake made outside of Tor: But the porn ring was broken when an item was sent through the US Postal Service to a child, Ice Cyber Crime Centre Programme Manager James Kilpatrick told Reuters.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
That's 2 minutes for each of the hundreds, possibly thousands, of resumes that the hard working and responsible HR specialist has to sift through. It's triage. If you're in the stack, make sure you obviously belong in the nex
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by DougWebb 13y ago
If guilt can't be proven for sufficiently to assess which driver's insurance should pay for the costs of an accident, how can guilt be proven for the much stricter requirements needed for manslaughter? I think this would be especi
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I live in a suburban town that's mostly single-family homes, with lots of children. I also work in the area and often drive home for lunch, so I'm driving around a lot when the children are out. I've had a bunch of close call
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by DougWebb 13y ago
In my town and the towns around me (suburbs of NYC in New Jersey) there are a lot of deaths from people being hit by commuter trains. It's quite possible that we have more people dying that way than in traffic accidents, especially if
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I don't know this for certain, but I think there are at least some safety standards. One thing I've noticed while driving around my town is that school buses have an odd design. In most vehicles the tires are placed fairly close t
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by DougWebb 13y ago
and you are at fault That's the tricky phrase. How do you prove fault in a car collision, to the same degree that's required for a charge and conviction of manslaughter or murder? In New Jersey, we have "no-fault" laws
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Because they touch their eye-wear, and they touch patients and themselves before and after touching their eye-wear. This probably is the same problem for regular glasses, so it's not a new concern unless the Google Glass gets touched m
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Models and athletes can't do their jobs anymore as they age; modelling is all about the beauty of youth and most sports with pro atheletes do a lot of physical damage that adds up over time. Our jobs aren't like that at all. We ma
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by DougWebb 13y ago
It's not too late at all. Microsoft has had a number of "skip this version" Windows versions, and the subseqent release has done well. WinXP did well despite WinME, Win7 has done well despite Vista, and Win8.1 or Win9 will pr
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Sorry, that was a long way of pointing out that us novice programmers often don't have good methods of determining how long something should take because we've never done it before. That is basically the core difficulty in softw
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by DougWebb 13y ago
... so that every browser extract the same DOM tree from the same input That is, every browser whose engine has been updated for HTML5 and which also implements the parser specification correctly and without bugs. Which is most, but not a
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by DougWebb 13y ago
That's a lousy reason to not include them. Cars are used to much and people really should walk and bike and take the bus more, but we're not about to make cars more difficult to use because of that. Perl's embedding of regexe
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I haven't looked at Erlang before, so I thought I give it a quick look. Google led me to the Erlang home page[1], which has "What is Erlang" (sounds good) and "What is OTP" (which doesn't bother to define what
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by DougWebb 13y ago
"How to incentivize people to become brilliant musicians" "How to incentivize people to become world-renown artists" "How to incentivize people to become best-selling authors" "How to incentivize people to
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Have you seen a steel bridge lately? They require constant maintenance to prevent them from rusting away. Even stainless steel will rust eventually. The only thing that lasts more than centuries is stone, and only the really hard stones wil
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Technical debt only compounds if you're building on top of it. A module that is written once and never needs to be modified doesn't get any worse over time. Therefore, once it is working correctly, there is no point in wasting eff
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Yes species have gone extinct, but they're also been replaced. We're not seeing the replacements these days, only the extinctions. Eventually the biosphere can redevelop from a very small core of survivors, but we'll be long-
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Not surprised that they were loaded that way; the 6 side has the most material removed, so it's the lightest. A fair die needs to be counter-balanced.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Magical, in the sense of an Oracle casting a prediction. Which makes it pretty much the same as a D&D dungeon master rolling to determine the outcome of an event, except the players (and maybe the DM) believed it was real.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Writing your congressman is useless, unless you're signing a check.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
The problem with voting for third parties (which I typically do unless I want to help ensure that the incumbent gets booted out) is that third parties can't win unless they become as corrupt as the two big parties. Otherwise the big pa
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by DougWebb 13y ago
"We wasted our time writing this. Now you can waste your time reading it."
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Too many typos in that; too late to edit it. Oh well. I need to proofread better before I submit a reply.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I wouldn't say that the American public at large seems perfectly fine with it (or they wouldn't allow it.) That's a very broad brush you're painting with. A large proportion, probably a majority, don't like what&#
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Simpler: tiny glass sphere, with RGB lasers mounted on the base tracking it and making it glow with different colors and intensities in different positions.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
If society included lots of immortals, they'd be pretty driven to make sure that we're not stuck living on a planet with finite resources. There are plenty of untapped resources laying on the ocean floors and deeper into the Ear

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