csirac2

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   by csirac2 13y ago

   This is the first time I've ever seen someone write with an understanding of combining characters, glyphs, codepoints vs encoding of said codepoints - and yet arrive at this conclusion. What's the largest codebase you tried a unic
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   by csirac2 13y ago

   It turns out "-ise" is a French-ism, which we seem to have integrated in Australian English (blame Macquarie :-)
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   by csirac2 13y ago

   I worked on an ambitious project which used MongoDB (as a kind of cache to service queries only) with some success in an app which dealt with huge variety of semi-structred, ad-hoc data. The system was to empower users to create and use the
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   by csirac2 13y ago

   I don't know about elsewhere, but in Australia CSG wells are often operated under a coal mining permit (vs oil/gas drilling permit) where the drilling operations, casing requirements, testing/audit trails etc. designed to pro
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   by csirac2 13y ago

   Whilst I fully support local councils generally - I've seen how ruinous centralized decision-making can be for small/remote communities - there are indeed far too many local councils which seem overrun either by incompetents who a
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   by csirac2 13y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1
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   by csirac2 13y ago

   I couldn't live without tabbar - https://github.com/vim-scripts/TabBar
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   by csirac2 13y ago

   That's why I just use cpan2deb. There's a few modules that won't package properly with it, I should file some bugs. I also use cpanm when I have a need to be separate from vendor, but generally in the worst-case admins prefer
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   by csirac2 13y ago

   Isn't the whole point of all this outrage that NSA have equipment or data exchange arrangements with GMail etc. so that SSL is irrelevant?
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    by csirac2 13y ago

    I hardly think I'm special for posting on HN. Have you read job adverts with "statistician" in the title? In order to do your day-job as a statistician you need to work with data products and tools which require more than MS Office type com
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    by csirac2 13y ago

    Hmm. What kind of statistician these days can't pull data from a MySQL table? Even the almost-retired people I know have to interact with data sources in some SQL product or another.
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    by csirac2 13y ago

    I used to be all for the way backports are handled, until I had an excruciating experience with a perl module recently (the Locale::Maketext vulnerability). 1.19 is vulnerable, so they "backported" the CVE change, without realizing that thi