RobGR

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by RobGR 12y ago
I note that in that picture there appear to be wave fronts emanating from the person's mouth. It's not obvious but there are some circular artifacts that appear to be centered on the lips / teeth. Maybe they really did capt
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by RobGR 12y ago
I helped get Doc Edgerton's Schlieren appartaus working again in a lab class in the mid-90s. We tried to image sound waves, but the density gradient for sound is much less than that produced by changes in temperature. We attempted to
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by RobGR 13y ago
I'm a great promoter of Drupal, including in those cases where it competes with WordPress. However in all honesty I can't really play the security card against WP. I think WP itself meets generally accepted security standards; t
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by RobGR 13y ago
I think these coupon codes produce this reaction because they remind us how non-transparent online commerce can be. Walmart has a hard time at their brick and mortar store charging more for diapers to the poor person who lives down the stre
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by RobGR 13y ago
The ability to set up a dev or test environment to test integration has been a problem with ET in past, maybe it still is (I did Drupal to ET integration several years ago). However, from what I have seen of Salesforce, which is not direct
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by RobGR 14y ago
I have read the book (paper copy) and recommend it. It is a relatively quick read, you can knock it out over three cups of coffee at a coffee shop on a Saturday afternoon or on a medium length plane flight, and I think most people would be
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by RobGR 14y ago
I purchased a Dell XPS-13 through the Sputnik program ( http://dell.com/sputnik ) and Ubuntu was pre-loaded, it worked fine. I did not like the mouse much, but I don't like any of the touchpads - I bought it specifically for the Sputnik
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by RobGR 14y ago
Have you heard of https://openphoto.me/ ? It is open source and might be extendable into what you want.
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by RobGR 14y ago
I think there is room for innovation in blogging platforms, and as a general rule, I would not make any feature that was not supported by a well-thought out API. My basis for saying that there is room for innovation is that I have worked on
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by RobGR 14y ago
I would like to get a Dell XPS as my next laptop, so that I can try out their Sputnik project, which I think has some interesting ideas ( config management built into a desktop for switching between different development profiles ).
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by RobGR 14y ago
1) Ebay / Paypal take too high a cut. 2) Forced use of the Paypal payment method. 3) The auctions aren't real auctions - if they extended the bidding time each time a bid was placed, it would eliminate sniping software. 4) Instead of fraud
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by RobGR 14y ago
My next linux laptop will probably be a Dell XPS from the Sputnik project: http://bartongeorge.net/2012/05/07/introducing-project-sputn... I think it's interesting because of the notion of having some sort of Chef or other configuration m
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by RobGR 14y ago
For this to work, they have to be able to use your work to make more money than you charge them. If they can't, politely explain that to them; tell them they need to think of a way to get more out of what you do, or you will have to find o
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by RobGR 15y ago
I agree with this assessment, except that as a person who specializes in scaling Drupal I tend to be familar with the more common problems, and not too intimidated by them. In addition, you can now buy fairly scalable hosting from Pantheon
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by RobGR 15y ago
I don't think you are using the word "bully" correctly. GoDaddy is a powerful and monied entity that has been caught paying money to convince the most powerful and monied entity in the world, the United States Government, to implement a set
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by RobGR 15y ago
Firstly, I think the point of the demo of loading that many integers into the array, was to get a good measure of the memory usage per array item; by making the array big small one-time overhead memory usage is washed out in the average. As
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by RobGR 15y ago
I would think a lot depends on the demographics of your market. Impulse buyers will be deterred by a non-standard payment method, meaning you have to have the most common. An audience like ycombinator readers will be more likely to evalua
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by RobGR 15y ago
At the Texas Linux Fest, there was a great talk that reviewed non-Java ways of programming on Android: http://texaslinuxfest.org/sessions/decaffeinated-robot-devel... http://www.deepbluelambda.org/events/live/decaffeinated-robo... There
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by RobGR 16y ago
I attended this session. It was very impressive. Obviously quite a lot of work went into surveying the whole field of Android development environments. I've been playing with python and the Android Scripting Environment for Android stuff,
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by RobGR 16y ago
I do, and I read them. Proof read yours carefully, and make sure the cover letter is not a form letter. You might use the same resume for all applications, perhaps with a few tweaks, but the cover letter should show that you did some resea
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by RobGR 16y ago
A few disconnected thoughts: * They own the business, not you. If you owned a part then you would be able to make decisions like spending resources on improving the codebase. In the end, it is up to them to run it, not you. * Businesses c
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by RobGR 16y ago
Another great one: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EW...
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by RobGR 16y ago
It is always great to revisit this archive. Here are two of my favorites: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EW... http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1305... http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/E
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by RobGR 16y ago
The Internet Archive or the Library of Congress may archive much of the material: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitters_entire_archive... http://www.archive.org/ If you want to archive it in a searchable way yourself, you may fi
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by RobGR 16y ago
According to the link, Bernstein was at least partially successful when represented by the EFF and his case was dismissed when he represented himself.
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by RobGR 16y ago
I wonder if he still thinks it was worth it. It's sad to think of the enormous amount of human effort wasted by people who blindly copied that behavior in a cargo-cult like attempt to get rich.
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by RobGR 16y ago
I would advise against that. There are too many places in he mess of tables of data configuration that might refer to specific auto-increment id columns were things will get out of sync. Basically you are trying to do MySQL replication on
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by RobGR 16y ago
Professor Damith seems rather reasonable in this correspondence, and I don't think you are providing any evidence that "innovation is marked down." Damith points out that your grade is based on the product, not the process, because he can't
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by RobGR 16y ago
Look into these guys: http://wpengine.com/
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by RobGR 16y ago
Look into the cheapest Rackspace cloud servers.

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