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by coolgeek 11y ago
Fair enough. I was referring only to natural disasters, as that was what OP used as examples. Man-made disasters are self-inflicted. Which is exactly what we have with the water issues in the southwest. The one natural disaster that the e
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by coolgeek 11y ago
First off, it's simply not true in any practical sense that there are no areas of the US that are safe from environmental disasters. The entire northeast and mid-Atlantic down through Appalachia - at the very least - is reasonably saf
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by coolgeek 11y ago
A "US expatriate who has not set foot in the US for 20 years" seemingly understands at some level that a US passport/citizenship confers benefits that are worth retaining. Those benefits are not without cost.
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by coolgeek 11y ago
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-online-ddl.ht...
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by coolgeek 11y ago
> Many of those extra bureaucrats are there as a result of some Department of Education mandate do you have a source for that?
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by coolgeek 11y ago
Fact checks. Fact. Checks. If they don't suit your partisan view of the world, where exactly does the problem lie?
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by coolgeek 12y ago
I think that PostgreSQL is, in almost every aspect, a superior product to MySQL. But MySQL not being ACID compliant is flat out wrong (assuming that you're using InnoDB)
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by coolgeek 12y ago
While you're at it, how about a reasonable print stylesheet? I had to do a lot of surgery on the node.js tips article, but still gave up because I could only get a max of 19 lines of the code snippets to print
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by coolgeek 12y ago
> Just remember: Raising elephants is so utterly boring FTA: the word "BUSIER" read backwards
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by coolgeek 12y ago
From the coolgeek style guide: "Never use a signed type for a number that can never be negative" One of my pet peeves is developers using int (instead of unsigned ints) for primary keys in database tables.
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by coolgeek 12y ago
It's even more "interesting" than that... "Originally, the Authority's Board of Directors was controlled by city officials, but the legislature, acting at the initiative of Representative John Perzel,[4] has shifted
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by coolgeek 12y ago
"The Free Internet Project is a nonprofit whose mission is to provide the public with information about the latest legal and technological efforts to protect Internet freedoms around the world" What am I missing here? What are th
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by coolgeek 13y ago
You've got this backwards. TJ sells name brand products at a discount that can be fairly steep. The product manufacturers are incentivized to camouflage this (via the TJ label) so as not to cannibalize their higher margin brand name
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by coolgeek 14y ago
I think you meant incidental, rather than unintended
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by coolgeek 14y ago
I'll look at this later, but I used Consolibyte's open source QuickBooks PHP DevKit[1] for a recent client project. This is not a trivial process, but I didn't have to write my own SOAP server. [1] http://consolibyte.com/quickbooks-open-so
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by coolgeek 14y ago
bob writes (0:00) i farted (in case it's not obvious, that's directly from the site) seriously?
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by coolgeek 14y ago
Popular is not necessarily the same thing as valuable Fair enough, but we're not talking about "Why does Vista suck?" Maybe he chose the wrong example to make his point. But the only other example he chose was Python vs Perl, for which h
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by coolgeek 14y ago
> Database development mistakes made by application developers This is a discussion, not a question. The entire text of said "question" is, quite literally, "What are common database development mistakes made by application developers?
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by coolgeek 14y ago
> ‘markets’ don’t have nerves Seriously? Market participants certainly have nerves, and it is perfectly clear to anyone without an ideological axe to grind that the term "market" is used here as shorthand for "market participants". D
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by coolgeek 14y ago
Original source: http://tuxradar.com/content/learn-hack-was-pulled-barnes-and... Techdirt is the third-hand source here.
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Just so that I'm clear on this, are you just criticizing that all requests go to /word.json? IOW, would the following be RESTful? GET /entries/{word} # Return entries for a word GET /wordForms/{word} # Rturn other forms for a word POST
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by coolgeek 15y ago
"So few of us actively try to envision the future and change it for the better. Even small tweaks, such as coming up with a new way to explain a coming technology to the public, can have big positive consequences. Let’s use Future Day as a
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Future Day(futureday.org)
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by coolgeek 15y ago
While the developer deserves his/her fair share of criticism for the site being inaccessible, I think that this also reflects poorly on Google App Engine. The quotas should be used to capture revenue from those who regularly exceed a define
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Note that the first paper you cited is at least partially in response to the second paper you cited. "This simplistic view leads to the assumption that one can obtain the performance benefits of a column-store using a row-store: either by v
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Not sure that "ad" is the right characterization. Given that Fogg directs a lab at Stanford, and that this seems to have been launched within the last 5 weeks, my money's on this being a research project
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by coolgeek 15y ago
You might have a point if he was discussing a political issue. But he's calling out people of national - if not global - stature, who wear scientific illiteracy as a badge of honor. Their stance on such issues gives gives millions of other
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Indeed, Medicare numbers are usually the SSN with a letter appended
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Filtering within categories has been on my todo list. I'll reprioritize. Right now there are over 500 non-meetup.com groups on the site (and if that seems low, keep in mind that curation is a key value proposition I'm providing). That sai
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by coolgeek 15y ago
1. Understood. Gotta figure something out 3. Removed from the home page. But the social links on category and category/city pages are unique to the category/city being viewed, whereas the ones in the footer are unchanging, always pointing

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