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by GlennS 9y ago
I sort of see where you're coming from here, but the way you phrase it, you could say exactly the same thing about theology.
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by GlennS 9y ago
Personally, I quite like Java. Or, I'd put it somewhere in the category of 'good/proper languages'. Although I view C# as a straightforward upgrade. But hey, it's pretty often I have to work in PHP or R or JavaScrip
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by GlennS 9y ago
Only when vendor lock-in and inaccessible data silos comes into play. And that's not a problem specific to SAAS.
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by GlennS 9y ago
Having gone through script tags -> Browserify -> Webpack, I now have the sneaking suspicion that Google's Closure compiler was the right thing all along, and that I should have learned that to begin with.
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by GlennS 9y ago
Australia damn well ought to have more solar PV installed than the UK given that the UK is about 30 degrees further from the equator.
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by GlennS 9y ago
Maven. They've clearly gone to quite some effort to document it thoroughly. Yet whenever I have to read any of it my brain rebels and my eyes just slide off. I think it may be a case of just too much jargon. It's probably also bec
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by GlennS 9y ago
A problem I have quite often is finding the bounding box of an SVG file so that I can set a sensible viewBox. It'd be really nice if your tool could output this, but I don't know whether it'd be in scope. It would mean follow
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by GlennS 9y ago
I think this is a different strokes for different folks thing. If there is an opportunity to learn a new board game, I usually take it over a game I've already played. On the other hand, I know a guy who just plays a few games of Catan
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by GlennS 9y ago
There are quite a lot of board games based on supply and demand mechanics, often with rules for trading and opportunities to inflate or crash the market for a particular good. Other comments have already listed some pretty good ones, but I&
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by GlennS 9y ago
What's the reason for these companies offering stock options rather than just stock?
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by GlennS 9y ago
Anyone know the origin of the 22,000 BC pattern? I had no idea anyone was making such impressively detailed masonry that far back. The Sumerian columns with geometric mosaics are pretty cool too.
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by GlennS 9y ago
This has already happened, and is called cladistics. So, pretty good prediction.
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by GlennS 9y ago
I've just come from a trip around the US national parks, and noticed something similar. I rented the cheapest, smaller car that I could, which was a 2015 Dodge Dart which would probably be about mid-range in the UK. It claimed 30 miles
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by GlennS 10y ago
Interesting how many people here are asking for trackpad quality. I always use my laptops with a mouse plugged in, and disable the trackpad (and pointless touchscreen on my work computer) as one of the first things I do. I would love to hav
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by GlennS 10y ago
Largest stone monuments gone after 10,000 years? Are you sure? The pyramids are already approaching 5,000 years old. Do they show any signs of disappearing?
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by GlennS 10y ago
I've had the experience in the reverse order, but with the same conclusion. First lot of web server configuration I had to do was Tomcat. After that, IIS 6 through to 8. Compared to any of those those, writing Apache httpd config actua
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by GlennS 10y ago
Birds killed by wind turbines are insignificant compared to birds killed by domestic cats.
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by GlennS 10y ago
It's an interesting proposition. There is certainly a history of scientific paradigm shifts, although I don't think it's very popular among historians. Consider also the printing press. Invented much earlier, but something wh
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by GlennS 10y ago
I think this list is a bit too focused on big, dedicated software companies. If you're spending a month or two making a throwaway bit on analysis, for example, maybe it doesn't need hallway usability testing and plugging into a CI
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by GlennS 10y ago
If you want to look for a decent part-time job, I would guess you could look for somewhere that employs a lot of late 20s and 30s women. Alternatively, a company which has employees who work in shifts is likely to already have the infrastru
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by GlennS 10y ago
On top of any age effects, I think there's definitely a thing where academic learning can make more sense and its applications seem more useful once you have some practical experience in the area.
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by GlennS 10y ago
Could you summarise some of the 40% that was useful? Might be interesting to hear.
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by GlennS 10y ago
I was a little curious about the detail of this, since I didn't really know what Square offers beyond being a 'payments company' (which could mean anything). It seems that they're claiming to be cheaper for small busines
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by GlennS 10y ago
In hindsight, I could have bought most of these games for cheaper afterwards, so they weren't good deals for me personally. On the other hand, without Kickstarter a lot of those games would not have been made.
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by GlennS 10y ago
I've had an opposite experience. Most of the video games I've backed have turned out well, but the only board game I backed was quite meh. The board game was Mottainai. We did play it a few times, but my girlfriend found a strateg
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by GlennS 10y ago
Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain makes similar claims for Scythian ancestry, and that the Scythians were in turn refugees from Troy. He also claimed that ancient Britons laid seige to Rome. Pretty funny how his
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by GlennS 10y ago
I'd say calling it user friendly is a touch misleading. It has a pretty steep learning curve. Expect to spend a while banging your head against it before you get anywhere. There are definitely times when you have to dig into Nixpkgs so
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by GlennS 10y ago
The converse can also apply. Energy efficiency means less energy converted to heat, noise, and unwanted movement. All of which can contribute to wear and tear. This is why people sometimes describe hard drives as "spinning rust".
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by GlennS 10y ago
1. Don't stay in a job that makes you miserable. 2. The design and specification stages of programming are not pointless enterprise makework, they are genuinely useful. When writing a program, make sure you understand what you're
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by GlennS 10y ago
I think the experience you have in a US security queue (admittedly limited experience here, and I'm including the special US border agency bit in Toronto) is that the bigger and busier the airport, the more stressed everyone is. The se

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