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by dedward 16y ago
DO we have a term for this in the small? Those small utilities you wrote a decade ago in perl when your company was tiny, over a couple of days that end up a staple of daily use in a company 10 years later and any attempt to re-factor or re
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by dedward 16y ago
This is extremely important - the claim to user-generated content is either boilerplate and wasn't intended to apply to actual software, or it is specifically intended to apply to the uploaded code due to the cloud-compile service. The ques
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by dedward 16y ago
Somewhat understandable. Most passports that use different alphabets also tend to have romanized names on them to prevent this type of thing at immigration points.... do you think US Banks and tellers accept names in kana or kanji, cyrillic
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by dedward 16y ago
Pretty sure most ground software UI stuff is in Java, and on-board spacecraft stuff is compiled down to the smallest package possible.
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by dedward 16y ago
It's arbitrary to a degree, but having a single timezone for Russia, or even the US, would amplify the effect. It's no big deal now because you are used to season changing, sunrise changing, etc - but if suddenly you had to get up for work
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by dedward 16y ago
From the article,they only said they won't be switching their clocks back this winter as they usually would. They have "winter time" in the same sense that "it's the time we use in the winter" Remember, some places refer to daylight saving
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by dedward 16y ago
This was resolved a long, long time ago - it's why we have a timezone file, so we can keep the system in GMT and have it convert user-interface stuff for the user. Software is often written in ignorance of this fact - and causes headaches w
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by dedward 16y ago
Regarding insider information in sports betting - yup, no rules against it. The professional gamblers who make a living betting share this kind of information, there are secondary markets that distribute such information (for a cost) etc..
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by dedward 16y ago
Well.. sports betting is basically a market where you buy and sell risk. (You don't often sell at your traditional bookie, but you can hedge to not loose too much). At it's heart it's just a futures market - the instrument being bought is
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by dedward 16y ago
Pretty lofty target... and in the end, bandwidth and connections will be the constraint. Sounds like some fun, but it also sounds like something that would be nasty to troubleshoot in real life. Anyone remember how slow freenet was? Rememb
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by dedward 16y ago
I've played with this - in the end I ended up using custom scripts and/or Capistrano scripts (along with git of course) to handle actual deployments. It provided more control and more features, while still letting me leverage git.
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by dedward 16y ago
Things should always be up for debate.... because sometimes we get it WRONG. New science replaces old. Personally? I think it's not up for debate. The exact age and type of vaccine used might be if there are various options and risks to w
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by dedward 16y ago
That's all true - but in production systems, the risk of someone getting ahold of a single password table in a database is differnet than, say, getting the source code to the production system. Just because they have one doesn't mean they h
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by dedward 16y ago
split-DNS is not the answer.
555.
by dedward 16y ago
It's interesting how much discussion there is here on ynews about the "Right" way to handle paswords... if it's so simple, why can nobody really agree? A few things to consider. 1) storing plaintext passwords is a bad practice. It's fundam
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by dedward 16y ago
Im' still thinking the original equation is not solvable = 2=x^x^x^x^x^x... is invalid.
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by dedward 16y ago
This part doesn't ring true.... But the part in brackets is the same as the whole, and hence is equal to 2. Thus we have 2=x2
558.
by dedward 16y ago
Interesting psychologically - but given the example in the wikipedia article, the effect at work here that causes us to choose Red rather than Black or White, while not a better choice, as we may think it is due to the effect, is also not a
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by dedward 16y ago
Absolutely a matter of scale - it depends on the app, the audience, your budget, your workflow.... A one-man operation doing sysadmin, development, everything? I'd be looking for hosted solutions too for my clients - it makes my life easier
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by dedward 16y ago
This echoes my thoughts all along. For open-projects, it's a FANTASTIC platform... no doubt about it. For a corporate closed project, I honestly would not use github - not because of any feature or lack of them, but because it's a hosted se
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by dedward 16y ago
Whoah there - let's not be defining everyone's intentions for them, or be looking down on emloyment. If it's not for YOU, and doesn't meet your definition of success - that's perfectly fine - but good luck telling me that that I'm just "get
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by dedward 16y ago
The problem with throwing the home in there, and in looking at "net worth" -vs- "net income" is that things like your house don't generate income. Having a million dollar house and $50/month leftover to spend on fun puts you in the same po
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by dedward 16y ago
No... not if you are implying this because of a 95% failure rate, your odds improve with each attempt. Statistics have no memory. You are statistically part of the same group every time. You don't increase your chances of flipping a "he
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by dedward 16y ago
Their definition of "Rich" is flawed in my mind, or at least not very meaningful...but that aside. Is it any surprise that about half of the people in the world who are "wealthy" by some definition spend their time... investing in and start
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by dedward 16y ago
Search engines can be a real PITA for a site. They can take a site down. When it's my site - I don't have to let you, or anyone else, index it. We can do it nicely through robots.txt, or cold-war style through firewalls and script and t
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by dedward 16y ago
What about the rule that matches "*" at the end? That's there for all the rest - the others are just fine-tuned for mutual benefit. There is no rule in there that denys other search engines, just some rules that set some slightly different
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by dedward 16y ago
Did anyone look at the robots.txt? It looks to me like it doesn't block anything - it does have some specific settings tailored for various big-boy search engines, with a catch-all rule at the end for those not otherwise defined. It also sa
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by dedward 16y ago
I'll have to read it again a couple of times, but it seems to be a sort of incorrect mashing together and misunderstanding about the holographic principle related to black holes, and some other stuff.
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by dedward 16y ago
Let's add current total debt load in there as well for fun..
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by dedward 16y ago
So? The web grew to the size it is partly because people could look at how other people were doing things and, well, learn from it.

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