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by alexott 6y ago
It was submitted for standardization in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML . At that time the was less information about 97-2003 file formats (OLE2-based), but it was fixed around 2008-2009: https:&#x2
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by alexott 6y ago
Ms office files prior to office 2007 were mostly memory dumps of specific components, wrapped into composite files aka OLE2 storage - their content varied depending on office versions and often locale
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by alexott 6y ago
That’s correct - I worked with MS team that documented old formats, and they said that sometimes they don’t have people left who knew what specific struct was intended for - although that was mostly for people PowerPoint and Visio, excel an
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by alexott 6y ago
You can imagine the pain when you need to reliably detect PDF mime type on web proxy, or something like...
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by alexott 6y ago
Nobody was fired for buying IBM...
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by alexott 6y ago
ICE is the worst transport, compared to the local lines that are now provided by commercial companies - I'm not talking about being on time (it's a fantasy), but Internet in the train itself in 2019th doesn't work at all. I
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by alexott 6y ago
In Germany it’s 40 euro, max 45$
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by alexott 6y ago
DeOldify is going quite good job on old photos: https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify
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by alexott 6y ago
It would be interesting to see koalas compared as well
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by alexott 6y ago
PlantUML is a good tool for that as well
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or vice versa - I remember that O'Reilly Safari was almost 10 times cheaper per person when I worked in 100k+ people company, compared to only couple of thousands people...
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by alexott 6y ago
Lufthansa is never close to cheap flights...
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by alexott 7y ago
Yep, i was wondering how company can put their posts that should their “super skills” behind paywall..
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by alexott 7y ago
Adding to readme an example of generated output would be nice...
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by alexott 7y ago
Don’t think about McAfee as Provider of only consumer stuff...
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by alexott 7y ago
It’s interesting that PlantUML wasn’t mentioned... there are cloud icons for it as well
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by alexott 7y ago
Yes, Turbo Debugger, it supported MDA - another department on our faculty had a separate machine for AutoCAD with 2 monitors, and I spent quite a lot of time on that machine debugging graphical programs in TD...
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by alexott 7y ago
it was intensified after Fukushima... P.S. I misread the comment...
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For example, Racoons: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-overrun...
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by alexott 7y ago
For interested - this blog is a part of Planet Clojure: http://planet.clojure.in/
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by alexott 7y ago
Manning’s “Clojure. The essential reference”[1] has quite good coverage of these functions. [1] https://www.manning.com/books/clojure-the-essential-referenc...
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by alexott 7y ago
Rocket is a nightmare comparing to Slack...
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by alexott 7y ago
It’s really a complicated topic - is it a new project vs. maintenance, etc. In new project my metric was around 500 LOC of C++ code (production ready) per day. In maintenance, it could be a line a day (if you’re lucky).
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by alexott 7y ago
+1 - and if you could use zstd with custom dictionary, then you can achieve even better compression ratios
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by alexott 7y ago
Very good compensation, you can retire earlier, etc. Talking about living in other places - you can leave in Siberia believe Arctic circle and still have -40C for a long time, etc.
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by alexott 7y ago
My favorite story about DynamoDB and provisioning is https://segment.com/blog/the-million-dollar-eng-problem/
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by alexott 7y ago
From my experience (as maintainer of a Planet Clojure), some sites have feeds, but simply don’t expose them via links or meta. I’m usually trying some standard paths before contacting author: /rss/, /feed/, /atom.xm
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by alexott 7y ago
20 years at least...
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by alexott 7y ago
I remember doing a binary patching of my old programs to fix the issue. And I couldn’t recompile code because Turbo C++ crashed with this problem as well
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but they even can't handle singups correctly if you have 2 google accounts in one browser - show them correctly, you select one, it redirects, and it's still not authenticated...

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