JohnBooty

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   by JohnBooty 14y ago

   My first reaction was that this was incredibly lame of Steve: "I like music, so I won't consider any pitches without music!" After I thought about it, I think it's probably more likely that Steve thought they needed a pitch with more popula
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   by JohnBooty 14y ago

   For whatever it's worth, I was reunited with my sister via Ancestry.com! I'm not affiliated with either the Mormon Church or Ancestry.com... in fact, my sister and I both canceled our Ancestry.com account before the trial period was up and
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   by JohnBooty 14y ago

   Think about this pseudocode; imagine it's The Hot New Dynamic Language Of The Week. print "Which do you like better: cars or trees? let a = AskUserForInput() var b if a=="cars" then b = new Car() elseif a=="trees" then b =
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   by JohnBooty 14y ago

   Non-rhetorical question: How do we say "Please, perform a cursory Google search before posting questions like that." That's less snarky, but still pretty snarky. It's hard to sugarcoat the fact that the parent poster literally didn't read t
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   by JohnBooty 14y ago

   I was downvoted, but not the guy asking easily-Googleable questions. Right. So, I guess it's clear: we want more people asking stuff that can be answered by the first Google search result... by the article title itself. Got it.
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   by JohnBooty 14y ago

   Here, let me Google that for you. The first Google result was this article, "OS X 10.8.2 Restores Notebook Battery Life to OS X Lion Levels." http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/10/os-x-10-8-2-restores-not... In the future, if we're not arou
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   by JohnBooty 14y ago

   The ColdFusion scene has stars? There's... there's a ColdFusion scene? Do you guys have dance-offs with the ASP Classic guys or what?
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   by JohnBooty 14y ago

   I turned it on. Had been meaning to for ages, but never did. Thank you, Mr. Article Writer.
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   by JohnBooty 14y ago

   I'm coming from a Windows world, where installing Rails and all the tools is as easy as hitting up RailsInstaller.org, downloading an .exe file, and having my environment set up in a few minutes. Uh, what? http://railsinstaller.org/ has a
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    by JohnBooty 14y ago

    I'll drink to that! As somebody who's organized community gatherings himself (and made plenty of mistakes in this area himself) I do feel that organizers play an important role as you say. To put it in really literal terms, when I organized
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    by JohnBooty 14y ago

    > It sounds like the person in question had a history of > problems, as the organizer said he shouldn't have allowed > this person to come to the conference. Even then, it may be far from clear-cut. We don't know what those pr
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    by JohnBooty 14y ago

    This is a great book and I'd recommend it to anybody. Despite the militaristic title, it's not about aggression or destroying your enemies. Throughout the book, open warfare is always depicted as the most costly and least desirable option.
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    by JohnBooty 15y ago

    There are a lot of things I like about the query interfaces of PetaPoco, ActiveRecord, etc. For simple CRUD operations, they're much prettier and more concise than than embedded SQL - Person.find(123) is a lot nicer than "person = db('sele
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    by JohnBooty 15y ago

    I still don't see the similarity. Just about any modern language is full of English keywords - for, while, unless, function, etc. Unlike COBOL (which I admit to not being very familiar with) SQL uses standard mathematical symbols as operato
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    by JohnBooty 15y ago

    "No SQL. It’s 2012, and most queries are run from code rather than by a human sitting at a console. Why are we still querying our databases by constructing strings of code in a language most closely related to freaking COBOL, which after be