DougWebb

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by DougWebb 13y ago
Al Capone was arrested, tried, and jailed for tax evasion rather than all of the much more series crimes he committed. This approach to law enforcement has been going on for long time now, sometimes with good outcomes. I think the problem n
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by DougWebb 13y ago
if it helps, the largest cruise ships are around 300m long.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals which shows examples of the differences in those numerals, but it looks like the different representations have different Unicode codepoint. So, there's
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by DougWebb 13y ago
If you're a large institution, and you want to sell an enormous amount of shares in some stock, the price of that stock should plummet if there aren't buyers available at the price you want to sell. Having a market maker buy tho
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I don't think that's true. It's certainly more convenient for me to go the grocer and know that, usually, they'll have bananas for sale. However, during the summer in my town there is a farmers market every week, where I
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by DougWebb 13y ago
The iOS development philosophy is that developers should not have to worry about any of this, and their apps should just work. Microsoft, and IBM before them, had that same philosophy: if only everyone would use the current version of the
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I don't see the value; I never have. I understand that the market maker is able to extract profit from the spread, but they keep that for themselves. The original buyer and seller don't gain anything they wouldn't have gained
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I've never understood the claim that "market makers" are providing a valuable service in the stock market by providing liquidity and reducing spreads. If this is a necessary service, why aren't there market makers in eve
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by DougWebb 13y ago
You need the if statements and nonlinear math to create the look-up tables.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
When it comes to medical care, you have to be really careful about how you define "outcome" if you want to use that as an incentive. You can't just use patient recovery/survival, because then you'd have doctors avoi
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by DougWebb 13y ago
My tounge-in-cheek tagline for Webb Industries used to be "Building a better today, tomorrow". As anticipated, I never got around to it.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Syncing over the home network wouldn't be enough; one of the big features of Dropbox is that you can sync devices anywhere. Eg: my phone, my office PC, and my home PC all share the same Dropbox folder. Since we're not all IPv6 yet
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by DougWebb 13y ago
When we got acquired we became much, much bigger. Depending on how you counted divisions you could come up with anywhere between 50 to hundreds of developers. A few of our projects involved developers coordinating across those divisions, bu
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by DougWebb 13y ago
It's a negotiation point.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
My company is pretty good about vacation time, plus flex time whenever I need it. I was generalizing.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I worked for a fairly big company (100+ employees pre-acquisition) and I was able to develop a very broad role. I started as just a web UI developer, but soon helped design the deployment architecture of our entire runtime system and throug
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I suspect that's what he meant. In a small company two weeks is often all you'll ever get, if that much. In a large company you'll start there and pretty quickly get to three weeks, and if you stay long enough you'll get
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Skynet isn't evil; it's just over tired and needs a nap.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
What, exactly, prevents a binary protocol definition from being overly flexible and complex? I've seen quite a few like that, and I've seen quite a few simple and easy to parse text protocols.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
It sounds like your argument is a preference for a pre-written parser library over having to write the parser yourself. Yeah, sure, no one would disagree with that for day to day use. It's when you don't have the pre-written libra
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I hadn't read about that artificial heart design before. I'm guessing it's going to turn out badly though. There's probably some unrecognized dependency on the pumping behavior in some part of the circulatory system. Lik
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by DougWebb 13y ago
If you've got the technology and infrastructure to build a Dyson sphere, is there that much difference between a star and a fusion generator? Maybe the reason we've had so little success with fusion generators is because they have
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I don't think I agree with your analysis. C# was originally designed to look a lot more like Java than Java ever looked like C, but it hasn't been hampered by that and has evolved to be a much more advanced language than Java has.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Easy: blender. Putting the battery back in is the hard part.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Is that fast enough for relativistic effects on-board? It might be 220 years for those left behind, but for the people on the ship it might be less than a lifetime. They'd probably still have to raise children on the way to take care o
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Sort of... the faster you go, the more energy you need to accelerate even faster. The Orion design, IIRC, basically involves sitting on a big iron plate and tossing nuclear bombs under it. Each bomb can only impart a certain amount of energ
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Based on the artist's conception: we've discovered Tatooine! It sounds like there's two problems for anyone/thing living on these planets. First, they're closer to their star than Mercury is to our sun. Unless the a
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by DougWebb 13y ago
only a few kilometers? That's something like 67 thousand times the length of a honeybee, which would be equivalent to a human ranging around 133km for food/work every day. That's a hell of a commute, especially for a creatu
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by DougWebb 13y ago
My guess is that they're writing off the full value of any bad loans, which reduces their taxable revenue from other sources. That must work out better for them then trying to get the loans paid back at reduced rates. Maybe they write
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Am I missing something, or is nobody concerned that this tool takes in all of your business' contact info and banking info? In the US, the bank name, account number, and a smidge of personally identifying info for the account holder is

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