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by buckbova 12y ago
Swatch owns it . . . . kinda. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-04/swatch-objects-to-a...
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by buckbova 12y ago
If there's a piece of this that you think'd be especially useful, like the merging of data, then it'd be nice to pull that out and open source just this piece. But if you don't have the time or want to expend the effort,
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by buckbova 12y ago
Criticism 9 The speed limitations and cost overages are not what Californians voted on. This is a bait and switch.
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by buckbova 12y ago
Working at a large pharmaceutical, I can assure you this is real. There's a governance structure that rivals the size and budget of a medium sized business' entire software team's.
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by buckbova 12y ago
I finished my bachelors in CS at a state school while working in an unrelated field. I couldn't get a job programming a VCR out of school. My school was not prestigious. I had no idea how to interview. This was over a decade ago now.
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by buckbova 12y ago
Do you do okay with click throughs via share-a-sale? http://www.shareasale.com/
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by buckbova 12y ago
I would rather hire the strong developer that can code without autocomplete and write without spellcheck.
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by buckbova 12y ago
The article references the hail/cancel. "Earlier this month, CNN reported that Uber employees around the country ordered and then canceled 5,560 Lyft rides, according to an analysis by Lyft. (Lyft arrived at this figure by cross-r
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by buckbova 12y ago
We talking java beans. I think I used that first (and last) 15 years ago and it was ugly to work with.
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by buckbova 12y ago
My guess is the folks smoked more cigarettes.
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by buckbova 12y ago
I agree. Would you lose more weight drinking two liters of coca-cola a day or eating the equivalent total calories in a high-fat protein rich food? I would think your body would burn through the straight sugar calories much faster than the
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by buckbova 12y ago
Are you trying to get someone on the internet to admit that they are wrong? I applaud the effort. Here are upvotes.
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by buckbova 12y ago
These NoSQL document stores seem to be a realization of that object database dream of years past. It's not exactly one-to-one (objects to documents) but it gets you there quicker than a relational database could. I enjoy writing well c
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by buckbova 12y ago
Don't beat yourself up over it. It's fixed now. You done good.
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by buckbova 12y ago
Same as this todo item? Automatically maintain clustering on a table http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#CLUSTER
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by buckbova 12y ago
> I really do wish I could contribute to Postgres, but learning C well enough to contribute is way out of reach for me at the moment. I'm sure they accept money in lieu of C skills. http://www.postgresql.org/about&#x
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by buckbova 12y ago
The OP mentions gui, but what is the best gui/code editor/ide for postgres for linux? I found this list. I'll go through them. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Community_Guide_to_PostgreS...
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by buckbova 12y ago
I don't consider myself an idiot, as I'm sure most idiots don't, but I've watched several episodes of that program. Yes, it's ridiculous but I was entertained. Those of us who recall the early days of the history ch
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by buckbova 12y ago
> California's high-speed rail progress—its proposed San Francisco-to-Los Angeles line remains the only truly fast train project in the country—is the exception that proves the rule; that state's size makes it no example for th
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by buckbova 12y ago
Despite enjoying my work for the most part, I'm willing to trade less than 25% of my time. Typical hours worked in a year: 2000 52 weeks - 2 weeks vacation/sick/holiday (most have more) * 40 =2000 hrs 2000 / (365*24)=.22
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by buckbova 12y ago
> Seriously, your car/house/clothes are too nice, and you have them because society makes you feel less successful if you don't. Stuff makes me happy. Moving from a tiny apartment with a small everything to a spacious hou
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by buckbova 12y ago
Possibly a google search for visually similar images.
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by buckbova 12y ago
I'd love to be laid off with a good severance. It's an extended paid vacation. It might be a slam to your ego, but every doer out there needs to know, you are seen by management as a cog in a machine, easily swapped out. Everyone
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by buckbova 12y ago
It's not unlike Steve Jobs thoughts on hiring Big Blue types in the early years. They were not the right culture fit. I don't think it's a perception of incompetence, but more of inflexibility. The thinking that a microsoft
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by buckbova 12y ago
I like having more money and stuff. With money I can buy stuff like homes, cars, and education. With money I can take vacations (in style). With money I can buy my way out of trouble. With money I can afford a macbook pro, even though I don
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by buckbova 12y ago
SQL Server only reads data from memory. When something is requested it is first looked for in RAM (or virtual) and if not found is copied from disk to RAM. The more RAM you have the better without exception here.
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by buckbova 12y ago
Since very very very few people make that much gross in their lifetime, I'd say hell no. Maybe the OP is thinking 100K for 50 more years.
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by buckbova 12y ago
> Over the last decade or so . . . . Sounds like you're a bit long in the tooth. Has your development experience gone stale? What's your area of expertise? I agree with nobodysfool who says to revise your resume. Gear it compl
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by buckbova 12y ago
In scenario 1, both person A and B receive payment from C.
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by buckbova 12y ago
> People concerned with collecting a paycheck have excellent work ethics, and the industry would benefit from more of them in it. Typically, no they do not. They may have excellent "butt in seat" metrics, but that means very l

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