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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingtip_device "The winglets increased the 747-400's range by 3.5 percent over the 747-300, which is otherwise aerodynamically identical but has no winglets."
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12y ago
It has been around for many years. It's called Greasemonkey.
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They are not using GeoCities, so it's not too bad. Linux came out in 1991, but people still use that in 2014.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/pros-and-cons-of-unlimited-va... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/01/unlimited-vacation-... We have "unlimited" sick time, but the manager gets t
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He did not say how the data was structured. Someone with simple/skinny indexes would do fine on weaker hardware than someone with complex/wide indexes on the same size dataset.
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12y ago
It depends on: - Cost of school or Debt Load - Type of Degree - Reputation of School - If you finish They all need to be weighed together.
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12y ago
If you get a commercial account/connection then you should be fine. Even if it is not technical, it might be like garbage services in my area where commercial operations subsidize residential operations. Residential connections might b
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12y ago
You hide it in the terms of service and hope that the person at the company buying it bypasses official procurement (i.e. buys the software with corp credit card). Where I work the procurement organization will required that verbiage is rem
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Probably avoid streets since his next bullet is "A lot of socially driven business is just pure BS." Solving the homeless problem would be a socially driven business and that would make it BS and not worth doing.
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12y ago
No one expects to write something in Python and port it over to C# with a serious amount of effort either. I don't think changing databases is more common than changing programming languages.
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13y ago
Ralf did not check the classifieds.
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13y ago
Sounds like this scheme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qesFpsi2mII
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13y ago
Our company was using the Google Search Appliance for years, but recently switched to Coveo Search. http://www.coveo.com/en For an enterprise with mixed Windows and UNIX servers and SharePoint there better options than Goog
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13y ago
I like the idea of this since you can use software to make better images. This is one of the reasons some really old color movies were able to be restored so well. They filmed it with 3 lenses with one for each color (RGB). Since there were
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13y ago
Yes, but some of those people are easier to spot than others. We have all those people where I work and I have learned to know what questions to ask each of them to make sure they did the right things. Quality cross group code reviews help
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The top number might be the most that Netflix needs to stream a video. The numbers are not important, this is more about variance to each other.
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13y ago
Camelot
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13y ago
If you are near land then he will have the same problem as hurricanes. It is not that the wind blows Xmph during a hurricane, it is WHAT the wind blows Xmph during a hurricane.
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13y ago
It's different for everyone and you should try out different things. For me, a 2 disc collection of Willie Nelson helps the most since it is a moderate tempo and I have heard it so many times that it is not distracting. Also, when the
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There is someone that works indirectly for me and that is all they do. A lot of data warehouse and DTL stuff, so SQL is their life.
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True, I use it for a conversation starter. You can tell the split second after you ask the question if you will get any kind of reasonable answer. I personally have used the *= syntax more than the LEFT syntax, but that concept has helped f
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My first weed out question is asking them to describe a Left Outer Join. They don't have to get it exactly right, I just want to see if they ever did anything more than a two table inner join. For a Web Developer the first weed out question
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13y ago
Interesting as long as you don't ignore a whole demographic (e.g. very poor people without phones).
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I'm sure they do, I took a very short break (1-2 seconds) early on, but realized I did better if I just stayed in the zone.
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It thought I was 2 years younger, so not bad. Gamers will probably get rated much younger than they really are.
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14y ago
Your talking about police/fire/ems dogs, but they are talking about saved dogs from bad situations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_dog
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14y ago
Careful with those two sets of data. One includes Hispanic or Latino separated and the other does not. Hispanic or Latino is a larger minority than the black population. Targeted advertising is nothing new. Do you think you will see the sam
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The jumping is too fast on my machine, but the running and forward jumping is too slow.
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That is more the aftermath of the dot com days when there was a severe shortage of SA people. Big companies would train people and get them certified and those people would turn around a leave for double the salary. So companies quit traini
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"Working for a lower salary than the industry standard is not only bad for you, it's bad for the industry as a whole." There is a reason not everyone gets paid the same. Two software engineers with 7 years experience in the same technologie
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