denimboy

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by denimboy 16y ago
I have been using VirtualBox on Mac and Linux for a couple years now with fantastic results. Easy upgrades and free as in beer and (most of it) as in speech too. Recently started using Vagrant http://vagrantup.com/ to configure virtual m
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Reading the face of IBM’s Watson(flowingdata.com)
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by denimboy 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig Code Rush documentary from PBS. Details 98-99 when Netscape released their source.
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by denimboy 16y ago
Any moderately complex app has a few moving parts. At least you have the web server and the DB. The DB has settings like the default character set, table types etc. These have to be kept in sync across all instances, dev, stage, and prod
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by denimboy 16y ago
I started using vagrant last week to debug my Chef scripts and it is indeed awesome. Vagrant uses Chef (chef-solo) configure your VM from bare image to working server. I see that is has a plug in system for other provision systems like Pup
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by denimboy 16y ago
My bet is that someday we will realize that viri cause cancer.
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by denimboy 17y ago
"On the other end of the spectrum, languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have thousands of characters." This is not exactly true. Chinese has an iconic lexicon where each glyph is a single word. Both Cantonese and Mandarin
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by denimboy 18y ago
You might want to check out pythoncard http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/ at least for prototyping. It uses wxPython as the windowing toolkit. It has its own GUI builder built in pythoncard itself. pythoncard is like hypercard but it ha
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by denimboy 19y ago
1) Delayed inserts do not work with InnoDB tables. 2) This is a great idea for time based data. You age out the tables and create a merge table which is a logical view of all the tables together. You can get tricky and use compressed myis
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by denimboy 19y ago
You're not missing anything. It's just a TOC and chapter introductions.