DougWebb

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by DougWebb 13y ago
Simple layman's explanation (from a layman): lenses spread light out a bit as the light passes through, so the red wavelengths hit the sensor in a slightly different spot than the blue wavelengths. You need more expensive lenses to red
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by DougWebb 13y ago
For sending and retrieving multiple entities, you can use Multipart messages. The HTTP Location header would be a url for re-retrieving the multipart message, which is a representation of the resource which is the result of your request, an
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Perl's context addresses this in a useful way; a function can be called in a void context (no value expected), a scalar context (one value expected) or a list context (multiple values expected.) The function can detect which context it
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by DougWebb 13y ago
But anything I could do in Perl I instead do in Ruby. It's not as fast, but if fast matters I'm not supposed to use a scripting language. Perl can actually be very fast; it depends on what you're doing and how you write it.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
With PHP, Python, Ruby and Javascript... space seems tight for another scripting language. That's an ironic statement, since Perl came first and was absolutely dominant in the domains which PHP, Python, Ruby, and Javascript now occup
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by DougWebb 13y ago
"causes" is the troubling word there. From what I've read, in most people and animals tumors are growing all of the time due to cell replication defects, but normally the immune system gets rid of them. Cancer, as a disease,
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by DougWebb 13y ago
That pretty much defines a "fad"-based company, doesn't it? I suspect it's very common in the fashion world for companies to pop up, ride a fashion trend, and disappear when it's over, with the founders moving on to
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by DougWebb 13y ago
We have those laws in the US too, and I'm sure Europe has its fair share of developers trying to cover up archeological finds to avoid derailing a development project.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Once the page is rendered, the browser knows the (x,y,w,h) of every element in the DOM. It could store a reverse-map of that to quickly identify the DOM elements that contain any given (x,y), in the right nesting sequence. That could be use
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by DougWebb 13y ago
What makes you think we've advanced in a straight line? We're surrounded by the ruins of lost civilizations, who often built things we would find very challenging to reproduce even with our modern machinery, if we could reproduce
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by DougWebb 13y ago
10,000 years ago is the end of the last ice age, before which climates were shifted, sea levels were lower, and most of the land humans tend to like to live on (near sea level) are now deeply submerged. We think agriculture and city-buildin
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by DougWebb 13y ago
no offense, man, it is just sound like you've never developed or deployed Enterprise Identity and Access Management. Actually, Enterprise systems are my bread and butter. My current company's product is a base framework and code
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by DougWebb 13y ago
The first part sounds like they created a user management system: normally a single table with fields like username, password-hash, real name, address, etc, and sometimes a couple of other tables for groups/roles and cross-ref tables f
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by DougWebb 13y ago
An HTML5 app is a lot easier to make cross-platform than writing separate native apps for each platform. It depends on the type of app though; running inside a browser is definitely a step away from native APIs, even when you have pass-thro
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Just look at the children today who have parents that are wealthy enough to support their children through adulthood. Most of them, I suspect, go through college and then work, either in the family business, some business of their own (poss
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by DougWebb 13y ago
That seems to obvious to me, I'm always surprised that more people don't see it that way. I believe that most racism is really classism, and exists primarily in places where race and poverty correlate. Not to say that actual racis
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by DougWebb 13y ago
How much inflation would be necessary to make $68000 worthless? If obviously can't be reduced to the buying power of $0 in today's dollars, because that would require infinite inflation. Let's break it down: $68000 annually i
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by DougWebb 13y ago
There's some of that, to be sure, but different employees are different. Everyone spends some amount of time doing collaborative work, and some amount of time doing individual work that requires concentration and focus. Different job
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I defer to your musical expertise, and everything you said makes a lot of sense. One idea that came to me while listening to the video was wondering if pressure on the key controls how much pressure is applied by the string against the bow
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by DougWebb 13y ago
How's that work on your phone? Tablet? Windows PC? I can see getting Windows working; monitoring a directory for changes is possible, and of course Git is available. I'm not sure if PowerShell is up to the task, and I'm prett
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by DougWebb 13y ago
What if I told you that medical/accident/disaster expenses (even just counting deductables and co-pays when insured), are not "borrowed to live a comfortable life" but are treated by the credit system the same as unbridl
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by DougWebb 13y ago
CC companies have no idea what you can or cannot pay, nor do they care. What they care about is that you haven't made a payment in a while, despite letters and phone calls urging you to pay. After a fairly short time they want (and per
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by DougWebb 13y ago
That arbitrageurs would find and exploit this loophole seems obvious in retrospect. This invisible hand is pushing up the cost of an apartment, and down the cost of a hotel room. What we need now is software that can find apartments for r
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I would imagine they include a bladder of some sort to handle expansion and contraction due to temperature changes while the drive is operating, in order to keep the internal pressure fairly constant. That's probably a wider range of p
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I think I'd actually like that... I've always found travelling to be the worst part of going on vacation. :)
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I just skimmed through the Improvely website; it looks great. I'd never guess that there was a single passive developer behind it. Can I ask what your investment was in building it?
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I've been doing C# development for a few years now, and did 100% Solaris/Linux for the decade prior to that. 1. Never heard of them. They certainly haven't impacted anything I've done. 2. I've been ignoring Telerik
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Satellites have fixed orbits, which makes them relatively easy to hide from because you can figure out when they can see you. Drones are good for spying because they're unpredictable, silent, and pretty much invisible, but their range
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by DougWebb 13y ago
No, jpgvm said that Javascript is "utter crap" that no one would care about if not for the fact that it's implemented in all current browsers. She/he never said anything about it being useful. My point, which appears to
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I'm sorry but I have to side with the "oxygen is utter crap" crowd. It's too reactive, causing all kinds of materials to degrade, and sometimes they even burst into flame! Helium, Neon, Argon are much better, but even Ni

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