ShabbyDoo

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by ShabbyDoo 18y ago
It's only that much for the first year. Support is $160/year after that. I used perforce about six years ago, and it performed like a champ. Not sure if it's needed now that svn/git/etc are available, and I haven't kept up with Perforce s
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by ShabbyDoo 19y ago
From my initial perusal of the AppEngine stuff, it seems that using Google's authen/author is optional. It's not like Google could figure out if the forms your app is processing are login forms or not, so I don't see how it could be otherw
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by ShabbyDoo 19y ago
If someone is worried about Google stealing all his data, he can add a mechanism to his application that will journal all transactions to S3 via Amazon's queuing scheme. Then, two big brothers would have to collude to destroy his website!
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by ShabbyDoo 19y ago
There are two fallacies at play here: 1. "Changing code is difficult. Our organization has all these 'change management' processes in place. If we can just make the change in the workflow engine, we can deploy it straight to production."
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by ShabbyDoo 19y ago
One part of the problem is that prosthetists are paid a flat rate for providing a leg/arm/whatever based on a set of standardized product encodings for the parts/labor. This leads to two incentives: 1. Pick the cheapest components that mee
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by ShabbyDoo 19y ago
I'm missing a foot (don't BASE jump kids!), but I can't imagine how difficult it would be to be without an arm, much less two. I have to wonder if they'll ever be able to get the reliability of this arm design sufficiently high that it won
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by ShabbyDoo 19y ago
I did some Googling this morning and found this: http://matrexblog.blogspot.com/ I haven't played with it, but it seems to encompass a lot of the ideas I was thinking about in the car yesterday.
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by ShabbyDoo 19y ago
Do you think there's a market for something in between Excel and raw code? I'm thinking of some sort of Excel/Rules/Code hybrid designed for large, complicated stuff. Good verification tools, multiple what-if analyses that could be run si
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by ShabbyDoo 19y ago
It seems that Excel breaks down for models this large. Clearly, computation doesn't scale well. And, even scrolling through all the tabs is a PITA. Do you think the model builders actually used Excel, or did they use something else and t