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by derekp7 15y ago
So if you are making more than you colleague, and he finds out, then your boss has to spend a greater portion of the next pay increase funds to up his pay. Guess who's raise those funds come out of? It doesn't matter what is legal to do,
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by derekp7 15y ago
A lot of this list sounds very much like Postscript: * Code is stored in an array with the execute flag turned on. Therefore functions can be easily edited (or assembled) as data. First class functions all the way. * The environment is a
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by derekp7 15y ago
Um, that is exactly what I did with my last fridge. I went to the appliance store, and got a $30 discount for cash & carry. Backed my F150 up to their warehouse, loaded it up, and drove it home. Now I don't buy a fridge everyday, but
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by derekp7 15y ago
The problem is that a results oriented / declarative language would by definition not be Turing complete. And in order for a language to be able to express any problem type, it would have to be Turing complete. SQL is an example of this -
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by derekp7 15y ago
I picked up a couple of generic ones, I think they are made by Lamplight Farms. They include a bracket that hangs on the wall with a reflector plate. Other than the wall mount, most of the oil lamps are about the same (that is, the ones i
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by derekp7 15y ago
Generally, what I've found is the reason for the big pile of mess is not that the methodology is wrong, but quite frankly the programmer didn't know what needed to be done until the program was completed. Even with a complete set of requir
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by derekp7 15y ago
I've recently done this, and it helps when I'm on-call and get woke up in the night. I can now fall back asleep faster. Another item that helped, I've put oil lanterns up on the walls in my home office. I just got to remember to light th
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by derekp7 15y ago
Another good option is to take a 32-gig SD card, and re-label it as a 1 gig. Then fill the card with random output, reset the number of cylinders in Fdisk to match 1 gig, format a 1 gig partition and fill it with pictures of scenery. Put
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by derekp7 15y ago
My general retort to "it's not stealing", is that it is theft of service. Say you went to get a hair cut, and didn't pay for it. That would be stealing the service. Same applies if the provider of a service splits the purchase among mult
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by derekp7 15y ago
But only if you have enough other deductions that you itemize your tax return. Basically everyone gets a standard deduction (i.e., 5,800 if you are single). You can either take that, or you can deduct a list of qualified expenses (for mos
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by derekp7 15y ago
Actually there is, sort of. The new Asus Transformer Prime comes with an encrypted signed boot loader. They will give you a tool to allow it to boot unsigned code, but according to Asus, this will cause you to lose the ability to view Goo
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by derekp7 15y ago
I think one valid reason for creating a new distribution is if you have some architectural ideas you want to experiment with. A fresh distro may be easier then trying to modify an existing one, due to fewer cascading effects of your change
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by derekp7 15y ago
What you're describing sounds more like temporary depression instead of being bored. Actually, I wonder if the state of boredom is actually a form of depression?
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by derekp7 15y ago
I found a greasemonkey script called GoogleMonkeyR, which has an option to disable this behavior. It also has a few other enhancements, such as bringing back the Google cache links, numbering the results, and automatically adding the next
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by derekp7 15y ago
Would you rather them call it an AT machine? I guess it could be "@machine" in that case. Point being -- if you can't choose which to leave out, then you have only half redundancy -- which is acceptable, if not optimal.
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by derekp7 15y ago
What? No volume snapshot first?
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by derekp7 15y ago
And, code listings that are not printed out are not backed up. Lets see you accidentally delete toner from paper.
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by derekp7 15y ago
In the article, Dr. Wolfram claims that computer programs, not mathematics, is the best way to model the universe. However, hasn't Lambda Calculus (and therefore functional programming) shown that the two are the same?
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by derekp7 15y ago
I just put the screws back into the screw holes that they came out of, after removing the component that it was holding in place. And take lots of pictures along the way.
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by derekp7 16y ago
Actually, a lot of the places that require Word format use a tool which extracts relevant information from the resume to automatically populate their database. For some reason those custom tools don't work with text documents (go figure).
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by derekp7 16y ago
Flat rate also trumps free. That's why Netflix is better than Comcast on-demand (at $1 to $5 per movie) -- I want the ability to turn off a movie after 20 minutes if it is junk, without feeling like I just wasted a couple Washingtons or a
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by derekp7 16y ago
Or, "What is it that keeps you up at night?"
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by derekp7 16y ago
It depends on what the lighting conditions are. I couldn't read my Nook e-ink display with a 60-watt light bulb (text wasn't dark enough / background too silver). Apparently the newer e-ink display on the latest Kindle is better. But on