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11y ago
Yet another reason to not use Y! mail.
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11y ago
Is 60 days to build an automated payroll system really a selling feature or success story? Mistakes in payroll can cause a tremendous amount of effort for both the employer and employee, and I would want my payroll system to be well teste
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11y ago
If domain knowledge is primarily accessed by vocal broadcast to everyone in the room, your business is in trouble.
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11y ago
> I know other designers we could hire who (I'm pretty sure) we could pay a lot less, would do a better job You want an "A" you can pay for less than a "B"?
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11y ago
Genuinely curious, why would someone want to use a Node package manager to install OCaml, instead of the more "traditional" approach - yum, apt, ... ? https://ocaml.org/docs/install.html
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11y ago
What Apple has been focusing on in later releases is not design, but fashion - form without function.
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11y ago
Multiple offline stages might be acceptable, but it would be a red flag to me if they can't conduct the necessary in-person interviewing in a single day, unless they can communicate the process in advance. Cases where they can't g
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MonetDBLite for R
(monetdb.org)
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11y ago
I think the success of MySQL is due to there being fewer options for a period of time (the "dot.com boom"), and thus it became a popular choice to avoid commercial RDBMS costs. I'm no MySQL fan when things like PostgreSQL are
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11y ago
Alternatively, "I want to do everything in JavaScript", and not learn any other languages. A lot of recent "innovation" is mislabeled laziness.
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11y ago
Is it interesting this is in downtown Detroit? Of late there have been some interesting photosets of the decay of formerly "high end" real estate (residential and commercial), and I seem to recall theories that Detroit could see a
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11y ago
> You can argue, and I would largely agree, that this is actually part of MongoDB's brilliant marketing strategy, of sacrificing engineering quality in order to get to market faster and build a hype machine, with the idea that the e
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11y ago
Ugh: https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUE... I am not sure if I am more or less confused. +1 for PostgreSQL on this one.
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Num: number utilities for mathematics (in Awk)
(numcommand.com)
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Go's Error Handling Is Elegant
(davidnix.io)
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11y ago
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11y ago
It would be a nice change if focus was on companies that produced a product or service with long term revenue prospects, instead of short term wildly high margins. The current state of highly educated people looking for get rich quick schem
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11y ago
FUD. - Do all opensource projects require corporate sponsorship to be viable? - Do Python, Ruby, even Rust have corporate backers that cannot widthdraw support? - Does Java, being under the control of Oracle, present a better option? - Many
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How? Its an open source project: https://github.com/golang/go
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11y ago
> I actually quite like adverts in the underground... Perhaps because they are passive - you choose to view or not simply by looking at them or elsewhere. Digital media is often a different mechanism - actively choosing to interrupt what
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11y ago
That sounds like the next hot startup! Will you be dogfooding your own service?
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11y ago
> There are liveusb (for macbooks as well) Specific Mac images, or the main live USB image works on Macs?
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Greenplum goes open source
(infoworld.com)
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11y ago
It appears I misread it.
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11y ago
Also interested in this, mainly to know which ships with drivers that don't require too many driver shenanigans. Xubuntu "looks nicer", but Fedora is more familiar to us CentOS users on the server side.
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Why Managers Are More Likely to Be Depressed
(hbr.org)
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11y ago
These are not all languages, but a mix of languages and tools.
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Go Will Dominate the Next Decade
(linkedin.com)
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11y ago
What database people? Maybe those dealing with low value, fluff data in their attempt to be the next social media breakout, but for those of us who work with data containing anything with real business value, inconsistent == corrupt. No oth
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11y ago
s/module/XML/ is another favorite
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11y ago
Which of the other candidates, for either party, do not fit that description?
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