JJMcJ

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by JJMcJ 7y ago
That's why I explicitly chose every 10 minutes. There are situations like that. I have seen CGIs where usage started very slow and then gre t the point of friendly DDoS, and it's not fun because the CGI is usually built deep into
812.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
CGI is still a reasonable choice for low query rate and simple pages, like an AJAX responder. Especially when there won't framework already in use on this particular server. Why add <framework of the day> to your setup when every
813.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
10x at one job - developed huge hunks of the infrastructure, not quite at Jeff Dean level but extremely valuable, nice friendly colleague, well commented clean code.
814.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
After the collision of two 747s on the runway at Tenerife, the term "cleared for takeoff" is now used only when the tower has approved the actual use of the runway for takeoff. If also read of "Max Power" for the situati
815.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
The Central Valley, where most of the US's vegetables and fruits come from, is just hours away from the Bay Area, so it's fresher than anywhere else. Even imports, Mexico, Chile, New Zealand, usually arrive in California and so ar
816.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
Local resident: the library, the MacDonalds with the fastest drive through, the nice park with the ducks, except the sidewalk by the trees is always slimy with duck poop. Of course in suburban areas that's about it 99% of the time.
817.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
Namely roaming around the meticulously mapped out streets of Mountain View and Sunnyvale at 25 miles an hour in daylight in good weather. Meticulously mapped - the location of curbs and the like are known within an inch or so.
818.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
We see evidence of increasing ability to build larger and larger pyramids over time in Egypt. The construction method is pretty well known by now, big ramps of gravel to roll/push stones up. Gravel spread around, contruction times vs.
819.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
There were three separate naval engagements in Long Island Sound overnight May 5/6 1945, and after the surrender German submarines surfaced off of New Jersey. Basically the war was fought until the last minute.
820.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
some schools for instance, announcements to parents are made via Facebook, so an account is almost essential.
821.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
The first big win for neural nets, character recognition - that's shapes also.
822.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
What happens with Brexit, with all the health care workers from the Continent? Do they have to go home? Special rules to allow them to stay?
823.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
It's the old "I'll quit and be a consultant and my old employer will be first and only client", except that Ive is, I expect, rich already.
824.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
> Street names are still impossible to discover. Let's not forget State Routes and similar. Okay, so Main Street is also State Route 434, but 99.9999% of people call it Main Street and may not even be aware it's SR 434.
825.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
Not just 20, but all the way back from the beginning of programming until perhaps the mid 80s. English majors, telephone company employees who were getting a bit old to climb poles, bright high schoolers who got trained in the military, sci
826.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
It's like spam emails. They are ridiculous exactly so that they only deal with people who have already fallen for the con.
827.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
Accrued vacation must be carried on the books of a company as a liability until the vacation is taken. So you have two weeks vacation a year, you work a year without taking any vacation, the company has actually paid for 54 weeks for their
828.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
1929 wants its total disaster back.
829.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
Parentheses would help make the one liner simpler but your basic point seems quite accurate. In the end, what's simpler, spending 15 seconds looking at a one liner using well known language syntax, or digging through half a screen of i
830.
by JJMcJ 8y ago
Men who can't do laundry - even more pathetic than men who can't cook. If you can afford to pay for it, OK, but you should know how.
831.
by JJMcJ 8y ago
So similar to many parts of Manhattan?
832.
by JJMcJ 8y ago
Also from article, there is a cap of 10,000 for EB-5 visas, and visas for family members count against the cap. So it is possible that Hudson Yards sucked up an entire year of visas and investment intended to support poorer areas, like Harl
833.
by JJMcJ 8y ago
Many many organizations are acting as if completely unaware of the EOL. I assume they will simply run on the last 2.7 release until projects are shut down.
834.
by JJMcJ 8y ago
Old time docs would sometimes sniff their patients (in private places) to get clues for a diagnosis.
835.
by JJMcJ 8y ago
Strongly suspect a cut/paste catastrophe.
836.
by JJMcJ 8y ago
My experience as well. Boot off a floppy, external disk drive because the one PC we had at the time was shared so I didn't want to mess with the boot or partitioning. I got a lot done with that setup.
837.
by JJMcJ 8y ago
> Google maps anxiety There are people who do.
838.
by JJMcJ 8y ago
Programming in the wide sense of any list of things to do. Dynamic because it sounds nice. Name was chosen because US Secretary of Defense at the time hated anything that smelled of research, so they found another name. See https:/&#x
839.
by JJMcJ 8y ago
Coin changing - my understanding is that if each denomination of coin is at least twice that of the next smaller, then greedy is optimal. Note to self - see if you can prove it. That is the case for current US coinage, 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 10
840.
by JJMcJ 8y ago
Use of fire Domestication of dogs Agriculture

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