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by GlennS 10y ago
To me the most surprising thing: do people really not know the difference between a Hindu and a Muslim? They are the 2nd and 3rd largest religious groups in the world.
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by GlennS 10y ago
Also works with YYYY-MM-DD... Although admittedly I too find the US date system's wrong-endianness pretty annoying.
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Regarding regexes, I would recommend http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html It doesn't take long, and I found the explanation clear enough that it's stuck. It's also a good reference site if you wa
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Software development and engineering is mature? I would disagree strongly. I don't see any evidence that there is a particular established right way to develop software yet. We're still muddling around. I really worry that if some
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by GlennS 10y ago
For web things, I would recommend the combination of dagre ( https://github.com/cpettitt/dagre ), which will calculate node and edge positions, and d3.js ( https://d3js.org/ ), which you can use to layout
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by GlennS 10y ago
I deleted mine a few years ago, after some idiot tried to recruit me over my work phone. No regrets whatsoever. Recruiter spam dropped off. The couple of recruiters who were actually any good still send me an email and/or a call once a
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by GlennS 10y ago
I haven't looked up the figures for you, but a lot of it is based on future decarbonisation of the electricity grid. Depends on which country you live in of course, but right now in most countries the carbon factors for petrol or die
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by GlennS 10y ago
Unconvinced. Excel is fine for opening up a table and doing some quick numberwang. But, as soon as you have to take your piece of work and start making little variations and tacking bits on, or running it on different bits of data, or God f
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by GlennS 10y ago
Wait, what? Britain and France declared war on Germany two days after it invaded Poland.
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Maybe you could try the learning program's approach? Think about the memory that triggers regret/shame, then decide whether and what you should do differently in the future to make better decisions in similar situations. After tha
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by GlennS 10y ago
What are the actual requirements for a perjury conviction in the USA? Does the witness have to be intentionally lying? Presumably you don't prosecute someone for being mistaken, misguided or over-confident in their own abilities? It do
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by GlennS 10y ago
I'd be a bit cautious about actually using these right now. It seems like there are still a lot of people (particular in larger organisations) on Internet Explorer 8 or 9, and also a chunk of phones running Opera Mini. So, sadly, no Fl
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by GlennS 10y ago
You could try Paint.NET ( http://www.getpaint.net/index.html ). Windows only though.
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"this here" is a US colloquialism which is being used as a character joke. Imagine a cowboy voice while reading it. You can ignore the "here".
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A lot of people without much programming experience seem to really struggle with nesting. We take it for granted, but I suppose it actually involves some reasoning about evaluation order of arguments. For those people, persuading them to in
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by GlennS 10y ago
My main problem with Pip is that, if you include multiple requirements.txt files which declare exactly the same dependencies, then that's an error. If you don't control all the projects involved, this needs some quite convoluted i
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by GlennS 10y ago
I agree with you general point, but I think for your specific examples you may just not have used the best GUIs. Magit https://github.com/magit/magit is definitely the best user interface I've tried for version co
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by GlennS 10y ago
Hold your horses, it hasn't run for 32 minutes yet. If it succeeds in that, I expect we'll all be hearing about it. This is a big improvement compared to the microseconds once was. So maybe we're getting there. Edit: removed
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by GlennS 10y ago
Well it's an interesting group to single out. Speaking as a moderately zealous skeptic. Yeah, we can gang up on people, and sometimes talk down to them out of exasperation. And those are bad things. But... Unlike a lot of internet publ
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by GlennS 10y ago
I have an XPS 13 "developer edition" (comes with Ubuntu installed). It's mostly good, but 1) doesn't have an ethernet port and 2) only one of the USB ports delivers enough power to connect a USB ethernet adapter thing. K
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Personally I think the compounds words make German a lot of fun.
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Perhaps its a popular position with quiet adherents? "The level-headed majority."
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I usually take it as an opportunity to get some suggestions on whatever I was working on when they stopped me.
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I think this is a big part of why R is such a success amongst data analysts. A lot of R libraries have a really good human interface which you can play around with and it will successfully DWIM a lot of the time. Once you start trying to dr
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by GlennS 10y ago
I'd say MS SQL is better than not that bad. It's an excellent product. One of Microsoft's best. It's generally comparable to PostgreSQL (also an excellent piece of software), and has a few advantages over that which may
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by GlennS 10y ago
I disagree. People working in the 'soft sciences' should still be aiming to work scientifically, so we should continue to describe them as such. In practice it is very hard to measure up to the standards of good science in a lot o
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by GlennS 10y ago
I suspect salaries for software developers in San Francisco are just a bit mad. The numbers floating around suggest more than twice what you'd get paid working on hedge fund software in London, which is in turn maybe 3 times more than
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They encoded real information into their primary key. They're going to run into trouble when they need to change one of these roads later. (Like maybe rotate one of these North-South roads to run East-West.)
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This is the clever thing about asymmetric encryption. You can prove that you know a particular secret (your private key) without actually divulging what it is.
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If GWT doesn't count as hacks built upon hacks, then I don't know what does...

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