MaggieL

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by MaggieL 10y ago
Just what we need: more asymmetric warfare.
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by MaggieL 10y ago
Surely nobody is surprised? Perfect knowledge of probabilities, no emotion and immune to bluffing.
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by MaggieL 10y ago
Bizarre role reversal? I still remember MSFT and IBM doing the same thing in the 90's.
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by MaggieL 10y ago
Out of order could be fun. But backwards or upside-down was even more fun. (Clip all the corners of the card so it won't be noticed.) More fun could be had with card patches (used for corrections) and card saws (used for clearing the w
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by MaggieL 10y ago
Back when they were state-of-the-art, I used all the tools and techniques described in that paper. I'm still a software engineer. Take my word for it: it's good
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by MaggieL 10y ago
I have one Chip and one PocketChip as a backer; my lifepartner has another PocketChip. Last February I preordered five Chips (the max) and another PocketChip. My understanding is that it's actually the PocketChip that holding up shippi
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by MaggieL 10y ago
"Investing in migrants" is an incredibly cheap way to buy votes.
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by MaggieL 10y ago
It's always amazing that the H-1Bs who have these rare skills that are unavailable in US citizens nonetheless always seem to require training by the native workers they are replacing.
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by MaggieL 10y ago
I find it extremely depressng that all the offered examples include whiteboarding ... a.k.a. "the Stone Tablet Anti-Pattern" See https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/ALM-Summit/ALM-Summit-3/Tec...
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by MaggieL 11y ago
Nobody ever simplified anything by giving the government a monopoly on it.
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by MaggieL 11y ago
Um...they didn't "breathe liquid oxygen" in The Abyss...that stuff is instant-frozen cold. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing I really can't believe that the light level in MagicLea
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by MaggieL 11y ago
Java? Scala? Yes, please. See my slide deck from NEScala at https://goo.gl/2t5hBX
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by MaggieL 11y ago
There's an experimental version of Scala targeting LLVM. And we already have one targeting JavaScript... The performance of JIT and Hotspot can exceed hand-written C, by the way. If you wanna be close to the (putative) metal, you bette
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by MaggieL 11y ago
Well, you could always wear one of these...And use standard Java, or even Scala: https://goo.gl/2t5hBX
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by MaggieL 11y ago
Taking money from a state's citizens, then giving some of it back with strings attached isn't actually "helping" them do anything. It's telling them what to do and charging them for the privilege.
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by MaggieL 11y ago
Headline: "Professor Marc Edwards Spent $147,000..." fine print: "...a net deficit of $147,174, which Edwards covered with his own discretionary research and personal funds..." So...how much research money was within his
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by MaggieL 11y ago
Wow, I had no idea "Mr. CP/M" was into APL...
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by MaggieL 11y ago
"Study links TV news regulation to uniformity of political views, tovarich"
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by MaggieL 11y ago
Somebody has to be.
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by MaggieL 12y ago
Mocking the screens would require that there be a design. Having a design would require...well, requirements . Too few internal enterprise development environments manage to do these things. So an enterprise product with beautiful design i
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by MaggieL 12y ago
OP will be back in three years talking about migrating off of Ruby...if they make it that far :-)
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by MaggieL 12y ago
Josh Barro sounds like he's about 4' 11".
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by MaggieL 12y ago
Maybe someone could suggest to Fauxcohontas that printing money and giving it away to those you deem worthy has an impact on wages and prices.
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by MaggieL 12y ago
The most interesting claim is that only email from outside the agency has been "lost".
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by MaggieL 12y ago
The other funny story about this machine is pretty much the flip side: Shop practices dictated that when you scheduled debugging time, you couldn't be bumped off as long as your program was still running. This led some clever fellow to
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by MaggieL 12y ago
Considering that the writer goes on at length about how she feels she must treat women differently; "looking inward" would indeed be very much a good idea. I'm not sure it would be productive, because I'm not seeing evid
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by MaggieL 12y ago
At $6/gal you can be sure we're not spraying a lot of it. -- signed: Joyriding Dipshit (jealousy is an ugly, ugly thing...)
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by MaggieL 12y ago
Warmists take note.
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by MaggieL 13y ago
I'd be more impressed by a "fervent defense of HFT" from somebody who isn't in the business.
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by MaggieL 13y ago
Just adding my $.02 here: "Even the concept of Prolog seems hard for me to understand." Don't let that little item discourage you. I've been in the software business since 1974. The concept of Prolog is hard to underst

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