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by bl4k 16y ago
see: http://www.filestube.com/aa5f505d33f0097103e9,g/Pragmatic-SQ...
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by bl4k 16y ago
no, sorry. I just happen to find this while searching and thought it was great (edit: I do have the 'SQL Antipatterns' book, though)
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SQL Anti-Patterns(scribd.com)
2 points by bl4k 16y ago|3 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
You actually show much higher engagement from the TC audience than from the HN audience. Highest time on site and lowest bounce rate you got was from TC. The other note on TC is that it is a brand impression to a lot more readers than what
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by bl4k 16y ago
I benchmarked it. My binary search using ZRANGE was fast, but not as fast as your normalized method: Ran 10000 queries in 26.52s using bsearch Ran 10000 queries in 3.87s using normalized method the advantage in using the bsearc
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by bl4k 16y ago
ye that should have tipped you off that the dude above has no idea what he is talking about (he got domain names mixed up with skittles)
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by bl4k 16y ago
Here is a company, that since its inception, has done the exact opposite of what is published in business and entrepreneurship papers and has succeeded to great effect. Explain that.
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by bl4k 16y ago
I think what ruby above is saying is that with enough websites, urls and content, an SEO attack could turn 'online deg' into a valid keyword. Google auto-completes brands and keywords that only have 2 or 3 website references (I know of a si
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by bl4k 16y ago
There is a huge variation in the price of pot, depending on the type of pot (again, a large variation), where you are, what time of year it is, and who you are buying it from. What the $10 is referring to are the bags you can buy on street
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by bl4k 16y ago
Nice summary on DNF from Ars. The best in-depth best on DNF is this one by Wired: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/all/1 One of the most interesting saga's in software dev
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by bl4k 16y ago
or if you don't want a Corvette, get a caterham or another 7-series based car they flyyyyyyyyyyyyy (had one, almost died many times)
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by bl4k 16y ago
Most people who become that right are super-poor one day, and then ridiculously rich the next. You don't get to be a multi-millionaire by gradually saving every year or 'making goals' If you are so obsessed with money, the goal should be to
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by bl4k 16y ago
I imagine that as a late-night infomercial
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by bl4k 16y ago
drives is a supercar is not a measure of being right as the post mentioned, a lot of despots and autocrats have supercars, and their opponents are peasants. who is right?
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Quora: How Did Six Apart Screw Up?(quora.com)
4 points by bl4k 16y ago|0 comments
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The Rafa Follieri Story: High Flying Entrepreneur Jailed on Fraud Charges(vanityfair.com)
2 points by bl4k 16y ago|0 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
Blame Malcolm Gladwell and Chris Anderson. Those guys sold a ton of their books (airport books) and now their style is creeping into journalism. The stories are not used as supporting evidence, references or as facts to build an overall con
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by bl4k 16y ago
What this article describes has already been solved with zip, gzip, 7z, bzip and forks of tar The problem is that at the moment there is no open standard (there are IETF proposals) since each of these is either patent, copyright or trademar
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by bl4k 16y ago
I thought that the experience of developing the GPS network (where all the sattelites and ground stations must be time co-ordinated to within 10+ decimal places in seconds) would have helped them with this missile system. A GPS satellite tr
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Patriot missile software failure, 28 soldiers died. Fix: reboot the system(en.wikipedia.org)
110 points by bl4k 16y ago|74 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
I can't agree with the comment above enough. I have seen this situation far too many times (both with myself earlier in my career and with friends) - employees feel loyalty to their employer, but it is a one-way street. You have the added p
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by bl4k 16y ago
and any good developer can pick up and be proficient in PHP quickly
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by bl4k 16y ago
How many different questions do you have? I ran it ~20 times and saw the same question 4-5 of those times. One problem you might have is that classical captcha has 25^6 combinations, and you can generate a new set every x days by changing t
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by bl4k 16y ago
Actually I didn't word what I wrote correctly, what I meant to say is that no matter what happens, some will see it as a smear campaign. Sweden is country advanced enough that you would assume that they don't just charge people with rape wi
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by bl4k 16y ago
Live blogging links (both auto refresh with pics, commentary etc.): Gdgt: http://live.gdgt.com/2010/09/01/live-apple-fall-2010-event-c... Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/01/live-from-apples-fall-201...
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by bl4k 16y ago
Having a separate break area is often overlook in office layouts but it is essential. It doesn't have to be anything more than a partitioned area of the office where people can set themselves to 'feel free to have a conversation with me' mo
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by bl4k 16y ago
When you say that the first 3 months 'didn't work out well' does that mean that you made a loss, or that you didn't make enough to justify the time that you spend putting the magazine together? I would assume that your costs are your time p
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by bl4k 16y ago
It should have been made clear to you, and the other authors, in the email - regardless of if a tweet was sent out 2 weeks ago or not. The publisher can't assume that you read and follow everything they write. The entire agreement and discl
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by bl4k 16y ago
Since this is the first non-free issue, it will give you a good idea of what your revenue/profit is (including advertising), so you have an option on the next issue to provide the authors with the option of accepting a nominal sum for their
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by bl4k 16y ago
It is a smear campaign, so they don't have to wait for a guilty or innocent verdict - the charges alone are doing enough damage. I like the old wikileaks, before Julian starting getting his face on the news as being the spokesperson. Wikile

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