DougWebb

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by DougWebb 9y ago
The problem is that these aren't phones anymore; they're small computers. They should have support lifetimes that are comparable to desktop computers.
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by DougWebb 9y ago
That's deep and thought-provoking. I like it! One of my clients has a database flag field that I needed to use to determine whether or not to show something on their website. Should be a simple boolean field, I thought. Nope; their fie
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Sometimes you need to know if a value has been explicitly defined or not. Also, sometimes you need to know if a value is different from what it was before. Nullable values help in both cases, because you can tell the difference between the
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Your interactions with ycombinator.com to read this discussion and leave your comment were logged in an access.log file, which is a form of telemetry. Should that be opt-in? If so, a necessary tool for managing websites will be destroyed. I
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Substitue "China" for any other country where manufacturing is cheap and my argument stands. You've highlighted another problem with the tariff idea: if it targets one country, manufacturing will shift to another cheap countr
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I got an email, despite never having set up an account. I was able to reset my password and delete the account though. Before I did that I looked through the profile and settings, and it was completely blank aside from my email address. I&#
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Ah yes lets blame Trump! He was elected you know. Mistakes happen. The mature thing to do is acknowledge them and work to repair the damage. No one needs to completely reverse everything they believe in to do that.
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by DougWebb 9y ago
The problem with a tariff on Chinese imports is: who do you think pays the tariff? The Chinese manufacturer? The importer? American distributers? No, it's the American consumers who will have to pay for it. How does that help American
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by DougWebb 9y ago
They'd need to maintain seven trucks instead of one truck, with the much larger support system that would entail. Also they'd need more people working internal functions like HR due to the higher headcount. It's a lot more ex
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by DougWebb 9y ago
That's great, but "Use of New thing is growing faster than use of already-widely-used Old things" is hardly surprising.
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I don't think that's clear at all; there's no border around the ad, so you've got quotes about how great Paint.NET is, some info about Google Duo, and then a big INSTALL button. It's not at all obvious that Duo and
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by DougWebb 9y ago
It's been a long time since I got my BE in Mechanical Engineering, but I still remember being struck by the difference between well-understood engineering and rule-of-thumb engineering. Bridge building is mostly well-understood enginee
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I kind of like that; it's nostalgic for me. Most of my early career was spent writing Perl code, and in Perl it's possible, and common, to write optional add-on modules that give you new core language syntax. (Not everything is po
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Wow, an official, functional, online phonebook with addresses? I didn't know those still existed. Crazy Canadians. Thanks, I may give that a try.
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Your "five minutes ago" consciousness would continue along in the original body, and would have the sense of being the same person. The copy would have that sense as well. If both copies are aware of the copying process and which
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Ha... I just checked my Other Dougs folder. On Aug 4, I got an email from myidentityassist.com saying that "I" reported a case of identity theft, and that "my" Royal Bank of Canada credit card has been blocked from furth
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by DougWebb 9y ago
It's not just posting photos that can cause this kind of trouble. I get a lot of email intended for other Doug Webbs sent to my gmail account, with variations on the presence/location of periods, or CC'd with another gmail ac
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by DougWebb 9y ago
A bunch of years ago, I had a business trip to Concord. I re-read Walden Pond shortly before going, and I stayed in the Inn that his parents owned (it's still there.) I didn't actually visit Walden Pond (it's still there too)
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Most of the time when I try that, the site's form validation complains that + is not a valid character. Very annoying. I think most of the time it's due to an over-specific whitelist, and sometimes it's due to url-escaping tu
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I can't imagine any parent hiring a nanny to care for their children who would hire "whoever the nanny happens to be". Your point is valid for a lot of other cases, but not this one.
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by DougWebb 9y ago
This would be great, if the states had comparable resources and economies, like they (mostly) did when the country was founded. But it hasn't been like that for a very long time, and there are benefits to having the wealthier states he
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by DougWebb 9y ago
That also makes things like using a standing desk, or taking breaks to walk around, a lot easier to do. That weight hanging out in front makes everything but sitting painful.
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It would require some custom manufacturing, but the bolt problem could probably be solved using a channel connector that runs all the way along the panel edges. Roughly something I-beam shaped, probably angled, probably with some kind of sn
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Sure it will. People used to design for desktop first, then port to mobile as an afterthought. Originally, there was only desktop, and mobile was a completely different and separate thing. Then mobile got more capable, and by necessity (sin
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A user interface is a tool to connect the computer and a human user in order to allow a task to be performed. Unless these three components change, the only reason for the interface to change is to make it do its job more efficiently. It&
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Curing cancer is not an engineering problem, and can't be done using engineering methods. Not the methods that are used to develop weapons, at least. Bio-engineering is a much, much younger discipline.
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Ok, sure, there are actual Communist parties. That doesn't mean they're advocating violence, or actually causing real violence to occur. revcom in particular seems like an ineffective hobby of one guy, based on Wikipedia [1]. Also
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Examples?
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I think you'd find that actual leftist speech, calling for a violent Marxist revolution for example, would be treated the same way.
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Many utilities are also private companies and they they are required to provide service anyway. That's because they're not exactly private companies; they're government-sponsored monopolies. If they weren't, and if the

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