JetezLeLogin

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by JetezLeLogin 7y ago
Well, everybody loves it when real estate increases in value, and gets turned over at a higher price, with or without first being "improved" by being built on. Notice that tends to ruin it for everyone else though. Wouldn't i
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by JetezLeLogin 7y ago
For the curious here's a tsunami inundation/evac map of the Pacific Northwest coast: http://nvs.nanoos.org/TsunamiEvac
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by JetezLeLogin 7y ago
Defensively upvoted BeetleB because the comment is literally and factually true and I see nothing disingenuous or partisan about it, nor would I venture into such intent-divining, mind-reading territory. You're correct about the intent
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by JetezLeLogin 7y ago
Insisting on the estimate in that situation is basically a special case of the old trope of using something meaningless but easy-to-measure as a proxy for something important but hard-to-measure. It's hard to know how long something wi
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by JetezLeLogin 7y ago
The ideal language is flexible enough to be multi-paradigm, i.e. it allows you to use OO or procedural or functional etc. as needed/desired, but doesn't force any one of those on you. It gets back to something Paul Graham said[0]:
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by JetezLeLogin 7y ago
I'm not real happy with either of the two. They both have connotations that are irrelevant: "ephemeral" tends to mean brief/transitory, while any negation of "material" leans toward either non-existence or &quo
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by JetezLeLogin 7y ago
All this - being spied on 100% of the time - ostensibly to prevent something that has about a 1 in 600,000,000 chance of happening to you, ever. Oh but it must be a real and ever-present danger - I saw it on the news! By that logic we shoul
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by JetezLeLogin 7y ago
Wow, this is pretty awesome, thanks.
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by JetezLeLogin 7y ago
Holy crap, I need to email this link both to my old boss, and to my likely new boss with whom I'm negotiating salary right now!
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by JetezLeLogin 7y ago
"I took up running for fun. What I can tell you is that I did not cut. My last few marathons I have had to step off the course, looking for a place to pee. I didn’t know this was against the rules, I was not aware of that. I’ve done t
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by JetezLeLogin 8y ago
That's exactly what they did. In the past year or so they've migrated everybody from a custom DBA type arrangement to a self-serve DBaaS system. They've also turned over the keys for people to do their admin stuff in a self-s