VBprogrammer

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   by VBprogrammer 12y ago

   Absolutely not, I simply believe that forcing people to work against their will, and likely their capabilities given the issues many homeless people face, is a form of slavery. It may not perfectly match the model of slavery from US history
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   by VBprogrammer 12y ago

   1) Sounds a lot like slavery. 2) Make being homeless illegal. 3) Eliminate freedom of travel for the homeless. I think I prefer the status quo to your version of a solution.
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   by VBprogrammer 12y ago

   No, I'm saying that very rarely is the cost of making a website degrade gracefully in this set of circumstances going to be justified economically. There may be non-economic arguments, for example making a site more accessible. However
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   by VBprogrammer 12y ago

   If you want a website which works perfectly without Javascript, CSS or images feel free to pay for it. The rest of us will continue ignoring that tiny minority of people in the interest of getting real work done.
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   by VBprogrammer 12y ago

   That sounds dangerously close to "not invented here syndrome."
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   by VBprogrammer 12y ago

   I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure the fact that Trader Joe's don't have a legal presence in Canada would make legal action against them a bit tricky.
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   by VBprogrammer 12y ago

   Garbage collection could be automated tomorrow if we wanted. Fast food is just a matter of us not trying hard enough but plumbers is a difficult one. Not saying it couldn't happen. Two scenarios I could see are everyone lives in a pref
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   by VBprogrammer 12y ago

   His main website contains hours of reading on everything from computer security to home-machining and robotics. Well worth a read. http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/
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   by VBprogrammer 12y ago

   I did find that they were top posting amusing. Well done for the other contributors in the thread for ignoring it though. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    Not that I'm aware (though I'm not an expert). It is certainly used for one of the many air traffic control units you can encounter at larger airports (e.g "Contact departure on 123.45"). My understanding is that the wor
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    Interestingly the word 'take-off' is only ever used in conjunction with a take-off clearance over the radio (e.g. "Speedbird 101, cleared for take-off") where as any other reference will use the word 'departure&#x27
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    Pretty sure this is the Dot-Com strategy...
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    My favourite impossible bug was during a autonomous robotics course in which we had to design a small robot which would collect balls and move them within a target area using quite simple sensors. One of these sensors was a simple conductiv
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    An American doctor experiences an NHS emergency room(drjengunter.wordpress.com)

    58 points by VBprogrammer 12y ago|43 comments
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    That occurred to me while writing the comment, but I assume there are other factors which could be worth monitoring and improving, for example network topologies or even cooling methods.
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    I wonder how much effort they've put into optimisation? Small gains (1-2% rather than order of magnitudes) for these guys obviously mean a lot more than for any bedroom operation.
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    Perhaps more importantly since when is Jerusalem in Israel. It's a occupied Palestinian territory according to the UN.
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    I think the most annoying thing about this is that there are still 4 blocks, so why after 20 fun filled levels am I not able to differentiate the colours? I was able to, with some more care, figure out level 20 but level 21 I didn't ev
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    Having spent time working on a million line Tcl codebase (for my sins) I can assure you that it is possible, but not in the least bit pleasant!
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    I had the pleasure of speaking to a close advisor of Nick Clegg about these new regulations. He spoke at great length of the added protections which are being introduced as part of this bill. While I'm still sceptical of the need for l
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    I stand corrected. I'm sure I had read that some time ago but I can't find a reference at the moment.
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    While in terms of reliability, simplicity and power to weight ratios turbine engines are great, they still suffer from low compression ratios. If I remember correctly about 3 to 1, compared to 10 in 1 for petrol engines and nearly 20 to 1 f
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    The example I gave (happened to be what I was working on) would be quite pointless as a comment. Since the code could easily have been written using the float datatype.
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    Yes, they are clearly vastly superior to 'lol', 'meh' or worse 'fix'. Still, I think my point stands that they could be better.
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    Yeah, I prefer the issue number in each commit as it makes the commit log more readable to me. But do a decent job of everything else and that is a very small nit-pick.
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    As an example of what I'd like to read: #2313 Change expected value to a float field. django-haystack stores decimal fields as strings internally. This means that when we order by expected value small values (e.g '9e-08
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    > Good, descriptive commit messages All of the examples given in the image going that heading I'd say are mediocre at best. The code changes should tell you what has changed, if I'm looking back through your commit history what
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    by VBprogrammer 12y ago

    The Data Protection Act Under the Data Protection Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We use encryption software to safeguard your data, and keep strict security standards to prevent any unautho
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    I find when I have to re-factor code around the tests it means the code wasn't very good in the first place. The author complains about re-factoring code into smaller testable functions. I completely disagree. Code structured as small
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    Someone I used to work with once left a alert('W.A.N.K') in the codebase. This was in a fairly rarely occurring branch of code and made it all the way to production. I've taken that as a warning and never write anything I wou