DougWebb

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by DougWebb 8y ago
Worse than that: imagine that they not only charge more based on the brand of electric car being charged, but they also sell (or are planning to sell) their own brand of electric car, and they know it won't be as good, but they'll
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by DougWebb 8y ago
Everybody pays. I, and other Fios subscribers, pay a flat monthly fee for our internet service at a specified bandwidth. There's usually a monthly total data cap as well, but it's either in the contract fine-print or an unspecifie
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by DougWebb 8y ago
That's not a useful question, because it's a shared resource. I'm on Verizon Fios, and so I'm "subsidizing" everything every other Fios user is doing over their Fios connections... and they are "subsidizin
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by DougWebb 8y ago
I've been developing CRUD apps for my company's clients for eight years. They're all superficially the same, but every single one of them has had something unique about their schema design, and they all have different busines
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by DougWebb 8y ago
Before GPS, cruise missiles used photographs of the terrain they expected to navigate and a camera. The photos were state secrets back then; today they're easily accessible for the entire planet. Miniature computers are also far more p
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by DougWebb 8y ago
I think you're right; simply increasing turnout would probably split the vote along the same lines, and not change the outcome. What I was replying to is the idea that the winner speaks for the people , which you always hear after eve
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by DougWebb 8y ago
"We" didn't vote for this. A bit less than 25% of us voted for it, a bit more than 25% voted against it, and nearly 50% of us didn't bother to vote at all. (3rd parties got a small number of votes in the middle there too
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by DougWebb 8y ago
I imagine "documented" is typically not part of the vocabulary of a person who chooses Excel as their coding platform.
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by DougWebb 8y ago
The point is that "a handful of enclosures" would only provide a few meals for a small group but would take six months to produce them. The group needs to eat for the entire six months. Let's say each enclosure produces three
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by DougWebb 8y ago
Your assertion seems off... Sure, the US federal government may spend far more money than any individual corporation or mega-wealthy person today, but who controls the spending? Corporations and wealthy individuals are simply using leverage
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by DougWebb 8y ago
Actually they couldn't care less if their customers go broke; it happens all the time. They just want their customers to take a long time to go broke, to make lots of charges (transaction fees), and to carry large balances (interest fe
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by DougWebb 8y ago
I've tried that, years ago, using a similar rough-draft kind of mockup engine. I still got comments on the styling, and comments along the lines of "this doesn't look finished enough for review".
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by DougWebb 8y ago
That's nice, but I'd like to be able to save and/or export my timings, along with the names I gave for them.
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by DougWebb 8y ago
I'd be surprised if we're given a choice about whether or not to release it. An AI that's more capable than us is probably going to figure out how to control it's own destiny whether we like it or not.
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by DougWebb 8y ago
The disparity is even more striking if you look at the figures per capita. The US generates almost 3 times as much waste per capital as China. China has 4.25x as much 'capita' as the US, so in absolute terms they produce more. I
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by DougWebb 8y ago
For static or static-ish content, absolutely. But I was talking about (and writing) web applications and web services, where the responses generally aren't cachable.
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by DougWebb 8y ago
Perl could be nearly as fast as C/C++, depending on what your service does and how you wrote it. The early days of running a cgi script for every request had awful performance, caused by the overhead of loading and compiling the Perl
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by DougWebb 8y ago
YouTube Banning assembly videos is not "against the Second Amendment" at all. Your right to own a gun is not affected in any way by not being able to watch or post a video about assembling the gun. Worst case, you'll need to
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by DougWebb 8y ago
We couldn't have jumped from "close to a chimp" to homo sapiens. Evolution is a gradual thing, and if we've been largely the same for 400k years, then someone 400k years ago could look back another 400k years and also se
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by DougWebb 8y ago
That's a little harsh, and also doesn't even acknowledge that the teacher has any responsibility to engage their students and spark their interest in the subject. It seems to be that the responsibility level depends on the insti
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I don't think we weaponized AOL cds, even though we certainly had enough of them in the 90's.
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Fair points, and I'm not a fan of the recovery Q&A either. But here's the process that I use: 1. User must enter their email address, and I send them an email with a recovery code. 2. After they enter the code, validating cont
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I'm pretty sure we've already got 24 L5 representatives, but they only represent their own interests instead of everyone else's.
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Typically when I implement user self-registration for my portal-website clients, I use a variation of your third option: 1. Enter email address and some out-of-band information that only an existing-account-holder should know. Eg: a web por
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by DougWebb 9y ago
if it's effectively a duplicate then it's helpful to consolidate the answers in 'one place' To do this, they've already got the tech to identify similar questions. They should just leave all the variations of the
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I've always been a fan of assigning maintenance tasks to junior devs (or anyone who's new to an existing codebase.) These are tasks that are often lower priority so there is less time pressure to get them done right, and they give
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by DougWebb 9y ago
That doesn't make sense, unless you're talking about a specific framework that has bad performance characteristics. Let's say you've got a request that does SSR and takes 500ms, with 450ms of that time spent processing t
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I've always found that nearly all of the time spent when requesting a page of SSR'd content (whether that be a full page or a rendered component returned to an AJAX request) was spent in the processing before the render happens. G
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by DougWebb 9y ago
We don't. At the end of the last ice age there was a strange period we call the Younger Dryas, during which we had a major extinction event and drastic temperature swings. There are several theories about the cause, including a massive
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by DougWebb 9y ago
That sounds awful. Driving is hard enough when you have to second-guess what other drivers and pedestrians are going to do. Why add to that by having to second-guess what your own car is going to do? I've got to side with the people wh

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