DougWebb

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by DougWebb 14y ago
My father-in-law and I had a discussion about this in relation to my company, which charges different rates for a few different roles on our projects. We've had trouble with this as people shift from project to project or work is shifted fr
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by DougWebb 14y ago
I would say small companies aren't aware of the value either. If they're small and hiring software development contractors, they probably don't know enough about software development to do the work themselves, which means they have no basis
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by DougWebb 14y ago
Of course an integer exists; it's a mathematical zero-dimensional point. Time is not a pure mathematical construct like that; it's continuous (at non-quantum scales, at least). Characters are integral, non-continuous values too... there's n
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by DougWebb 14y ago
Does a point in time ever really exist? I think it's all ranges, just with smaller granularities, until you get into quantum mechanics. So, your point-in-time type is actually a range-with-granularity-X type, which should be able to inter-o
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by DougWebb 14y ago
No, the black swan is a figment of your imagination. It wasn't a swan. You didn't know what you were looking at. You made it up. I don't care that lots of people saw it, you're all delusional. You're crackpots. The problem with the scientif
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by DougWebb 14y ago
Until your business grows and you're storing dates for shows in multiple timezones, or if you need to book shows and store dates in the future when DST may or may not be in the same state as when you store the date.
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by DougWebb 14y ago
A big aspect of the NYC lifestyle is having very little space or stuff at home and living your life outside the home. Most New Yorkers don't have what anyone in the first world would consider a kitchen... at best you've got a two-burner sto
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by DougWebb 14y ago
At $90K in NYC you're taking home about $58,500, or $4875/month. Spend $3k/month on rent and you're left with $468/wk for everything else in your life. Half of that can easily go towards feeding yourself in NYC.
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by DougWebb 14y ago
"Trading schemes add a lot of unnecessary complexity and potential for abuse..." I believe that's exactly why they are "preferred" by our political system. Whenever the political body starts to consider laws about pollution, the lobbyists f
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by DougWebb 14y ago
The difference the article is talking about is a junior engineer saying "I don't know and I don't know how to know, so I'm not going to answer your question" and the senior engineer giving estimates just like the ones you gave: "a build is
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by DougWebb 14y ago
In the US vacation time is in addition to public holidays. Most companies have 10 holiday days off per year. Salaried employees usually get a minimum of two weeks of vacation time on top of that, which often includes sick days. Extra weeks
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by DougWebb 14y ago
That depends on your map function, for most languages. If your map function includes external state (like a variable from an outer scope) then the execution sequence could change the map function's output. Eg, in C#: var i = 5; va
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by DougWebb 14y ago
What does "from any type 'a' to any type 'b'" mean? That sounds like a range of types, but I don't see how that makes sense. Did you just mean that the map converts from 'a' to 'b'?
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by DougWebb 14y ago
If you're a developer trying to decide which OS to develop your software on, and market share is a significant factor in your decision, you're going to choose something cross-platform. That's most likely web, but even if you choose one of t
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by DougWebb 14y ago
The graph is designed to make it appear that the total number of devices is constant, which makes it looks like Microsoft is losing ground. What's actually happened is that the market has grown significantly, considering that their definiti
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by DougWebb 14y ago
YAML, which is a superset of JSON, adds the potential to be just like XML but less verbose. It never went through the same kind of hype though, so the tooling is not nearly as pervasive.
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by DougWebb 14y ago
It's a shame AJAJ is harder to pronounce than AJAX. We need a new term CEOs can learn to say. Then when they start demanding we use this latest technology, we'll be ready.
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by DougWebb 14y ago
I don't think XML is good at all for config files or UI/UX component markup, but for me that's mostly because of the end tags. Other formats, such as YAML, are able to describe hierarchical data without the verbosity of end tags, and I thin
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by DougWebb 14y ago
XML can do the same trick with indirect objects as COS, using ID and IDREF type attributes. A number of years ago I was dealing with the archival and retrieval/display of enormous medical textbooks in XML, and I couldn't efficiently pull ou
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by DougWebb 14y ago
I can understand having those backup and restore partitions on a regular drive, because most failures on a regular drive will leave most of the drive readable, even if you have to boot from some other media. But for SSDs, failures tend to b
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by DougWebb 14y ago
Another argument against this approach is that North American oil sources aren't as easily extracted as Middle Eastern sources. Part of the transition to North American sources includes developing better extraction technology as these sourc
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by DougWebb 14y ago
In the U.S., our politicians get rich(er) after they leave office. Same for appointed government officials. Still a degree of corruption, but not as bad.
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by DougWebb 14y ago
At my old job our webapp handled 6+ million requests per day, and during the 8hr peak period it handled just over 100 requests per second. When you're dealing with request rates like that, even really brief periods of inconsistency will cau
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Easily calculate color contrast ratios. Passing WCAG was never this easy(leaverou.github.com)
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by DougWebb 14y ago
If you start with a video you can do this. You'd transform an X x Y x T dataset (X x Y dimensional frames shown over a period 0-T) into a T x Y x X dataset (T x Y dimensional frames shown over a period 0-X). For a long video you'd get a ver
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by DougWebb 14y ago
The planet is a Neptune-like gas giant, so no civilization there. It probably has big moons though, and with all the suns around they might be warm enough to develop life. I haven't done the math, but I'm guessing that when the moon is on t
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by DougWebb 14y ago
If I were implementing this for NASA, I'd run the analysis a number of times using different patches for my samples. Any areas that come up as anomalies more than once are probably worth checking out. You can choose patches randomly, but th
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by DougWebb 14y ago
I agree... this is going to have huge "star of Bethlehem", "Second coming", and "we were off by a year on Mayan calendar" connotations. The timing is just too perfect. So... who's going to start a company to take advantage of this?
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by DougWebb 14y ago
That looks so much like mold.
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by DougWebb 14y ago
In the last couple of centuries, lots of Chinese men traveled abroad to find work, many in the western US. More recently men from all over the globe have come to the US for work as well. These men are often supporting families back home, bu

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