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by arockwell 14y ago
You must be at least 13 https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=210644045634222 Because of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pro...
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by arockwell 15y ago
Sorry, I should have been more specific. My point is more that the problem is systemic. You also can't patent something that has prior art, but it happens all the time.
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by arockwell 15y ago
Bussiness processes are already unpatentable.
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by arockwell 15y ago
SPARQL is substantially less powerful than SQL. No delete/update/insert statements, no subselects, and limited aggregation and functions. I've used SPARQL a lot in the past year and I am constantly running into limitations. Performance has
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Basic Metaprogramming with Ruby and Rake(alexrockwell.org)
1 points by arockwell 15y ago|0 comments
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by arockwell 15y ago
Can you elaborate on this? Not disputing your point, but it would be nice if someone could jump in with some real world numbers or a rule of thumb.
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Using Redis to Control Recurring Sets of Tasks(alexrockwell.org)
1 points by arockwell 15y ago|0 comments
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by arockwell 15y ago
This is important if you want to use JRuby.
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by arockwell 16y ago
That's not too bad. But does that all add up to more than 9 hours a year of downtime? If so, you're already doing worse than 99.9% uptime. I would also bet your uptime is worse than you think if you're not actively measuring it. However, I'
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by arockwell 16y ago
What is your actual uptime?
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by arockwell 16y ago
I think this is pretty cool. I've wondered what a ruby shell would look like. I don't "get" bash at all, but I find ruby very natural. I've gotten better at writing bash one-liners for basic sysadmin tasks, however anything more complicated
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by arockwell 16y ago
Waiter's already have plenty of time to get your credit card information. It does not take any longer to take a picture of the front and back of your card. Waiter's (and other POS workers) have been stealing credit information in low tech w
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Will Wall Street require Python?(itworld.com)
127 points by arockwell 16y ago|67 comments
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by arockwell 16y ago
I would love to see this as well, but I doubt this information is available for most (any?) of the companies.
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by arockwell 17y ago
My gut feeling on this is that almost anyone can recognize that writing JSON like that is wrong. However, trying to determine if <person first-name="John" last-Name="Smith" /> is better than <person> <fi
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by arockwell 17y ago
No new information in this article. Its just a rehashing of Jonathan Schwartz's blog entry: http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artis...
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by arockwell 17y ago
The words "under God" did not come from the Founding Fathers, they were added by Eisenhower in 1954: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pledge_of_Allegiance#Additi...
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by arockwell 17y ago
The definition I've seen given by PG is anything that scales up. In other words, a business that sells a product that can be used by many users. A small business is usually something that offers a service (a restraunt, a barber shop, or a c
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by arockwell 17y ago
Python doesn't have multiline lambdas, so there is no way to create an api similar to rake's: task :name do |t| # do stuff end I'm not sure what's the closest equivalent syntax you could create in python.
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by arockwell 17y ago
Deleting information posted publicly isn't practical. Your posts are likely to be archived in numerous places (e.g. google cache or archive.org).
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by arockwell 17y ago
I think the important part is to allow these groups to be self-selecting. In other words, the smartest people should gravitate towards each other if they are allowed to. For a really interesting take on how to do this take a look at: http:
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by arockwell 17y ago
If you broke the 80+ age range to 80-85, 85-90, 90-95, and 95+ each group would be progressively smaller than the 75-80 age group (I suspect anyways, I don't know the actual data).
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by arockwell 17y ago
What's worse is that this doesn't gracefully degrade. If you have javascript disabled your text will be written over top the label text and is completely unreadable.
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by arockwell 17y ago
The __.__ as a seperator is way too visually distracting. Why not just a '|'? Also, 4 levels might be too much information. The result links are hard to read as well. I have no idea what the numbers mean... perhaps it should just say result
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by arockwell 17y ago
I'm not sure what this tool does. Can you give a clearer explanation of what this tool is for, or maybe an example of how it would be useful? Also, the front page of the site needs to make this goal explicitly clear. Instead, the front page
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by arockwell 17y ago
Don't most terms of service have a clause in them similar to that?
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by arockwell 17y ago
99.99% is only 52 minutes of downtime a year... I don't think any of S3, Rackspace, Goole AppEngine, or even www.amazon.com have uptime that good this year. Getting that kind of uptime is much harder than it sounds and for a lot of websites
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Unwritten Code Rules Silicon Valley Hiring (nytimes.com)
5 points by arockwell 17y ago|0 comments
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Atlas: a visual IDE for desktop-like web apps(arstechnica.com)
38 points by arockwell 18y ago|34 comments
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by arockwell 18y ago
Strattera has the same concentration improving effects of stimulants and is not habit forming.

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