doug1001

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by doug1001 9y ago
well i think this is certainly the problem--ie, now "garbage" looks justified but those aren't really the two alternatives, are they--ie, crap code or nothing? it might be in the very short terim (ie, by this friday) but over
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by doug1001 9y ago
you were not impressed at the time, but now that you've done it (Crib Goch) you have only fond memories of the experience and look forward to having another go some day, i'm guessing? :-) is Pete's still there? I haven't
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by doug1001 9y ago
thanks for sharing; i was a (catholic) boarding school lad from age 6 until university deeply envious envious of the place you've chose to live where i've had so many excellent days out (snowdonia mostly)--bunk at pen-y-pass YHA,
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by doug1001 9y ago
nice one. Dot (both the layout engine and the graph DSL) is used in OmniGraffle, so you can import the dot files like you made into OG and edit them further, either manually or via OG's scripting interface and then for instance, quickl
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by doug1001 9y ago
there are companies who specialise in this sort of thing--ie, IP brokers, i suppose is what they are. for a flat fee (or a piece of the action) they will search for licensees for your IP. The largest such firms don't really do any &quo
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by doug1001 9y ago
> i thought that was the point of phones agree 100%, so it seems odd to me that the SE is a 'niche' product and demand is largely for the bigger units. I bought mine from the palo alto apple store and i had to wait a week to ge
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by doug1001 9y ago
well the top-level git data structure is pretty close to eg, Scala's Vector, which is an immutable container implemented as a tree with a high branching factor of 32. Modification to such a vector, rebound to a new variable, relies on
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by doug1001 9y ago
i can remember watching these take off/land at Kadena air base in Okinawa while i was stationed in Camp Hansen (USMC). We assume they were flying recon missions over North Korea. They would take off then quickly bank almost 180 degrees
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by doug1001 9y ago
roughly the same as a crack addict's relationship with crack. Writing this while standing in a long line at Philz.
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by doug1001 9y ago
> "[t]here is absolutely NO long term planning, no long term defined deliverables, no schedules in place...." [this remark does not , as far as i can tell, reflect the OP's assertion about what "Agile" is, but j
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by doug1001 9y ago
it's the rock stars who attract the roadies
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by doug1001 9y ago
Spark can read from and write to HDFS, and YARN (the resource negotiator in Hadoop v 2) is one of the cluster managers supported by Spark. but you can run a Spark cluster without YARN--eg, with Mesos--or with the built-in manager provided i
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by doug1001 9y ago
In a decade or so, when they are scanning their investment portfolio and see their fat 401(k) or they are expecting their second child, they'll (quite justifiably) thank you, ex post, but at the moment, they probably just think you&#x2
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by doug1001 9y ago
so did i understand correctly: you were put on hold and while on hold, you were fed audio adverts, some prefaced with "Hello, I'm your customer service representative" (with the obvious intention to raise your attention, eg,
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by doug1001 9y ago
this is a core use case for e-bikes--at least for those deterred by hills in their route. Others (because of, for instance, geared drive trains) are ok with elevation gain/loss, and still others actually prefer hills (like my colleague
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by doug1001 9y ago
so i think the decision to give rep for documentation posts contributed substantially to its failure. Two reasons why i say this: (i) (as you mentioned) it encouraged early rep mining by novice devs and in at least some case, created a top-
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by doug1001 9y ago
sadly, no
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by doug1001 9y ago
until this thread, i had not actually heard the term "effectively once"; what's more, i've always believed that "indempotent" means "at most once." how do the two guarantees, "effectively once&qu
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by doug1001 9y ago
during my four-year hitch in the Corps, a quick poll of the first-term enlisted jarheads in a USMC infantry battalion, asking "what are you going to do when you're hitch is up?" the most frequent answer would have been "
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by doug1001 9y ago
i know what you mean--100%--from having spent four years in as an enlisted grunt in a Marine infantry battalion (2/5). I remember sitting at the back of the squad bay playing poker with a group of 4-5 other jarheads, and occasionally,
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by doug1001 9y ago
well i love fp, but the reality is that fp is not even an afterthought in the libraries that underlie numerical computation--most significantly, BLAS, LAPACK. Those libraries rely entirely on mutable data structures. it has very little to
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by doug1001 9y ago
my mtb it kitted out with 2.4 (front) and 2.2 on the back (Continental Xking) 29" tyres. That's about as wide as i can go given my forks and chainstays. Except for ice-covered patches, is this a sane rig to commute in the snow? Se
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by doug1001 9y ago
gives me some solace to know others find themselves in this position. I remember nearly two years ago, i found some Oracle market brochures directed to BI 'solutions'--courtesy of an Oracle sales rep who sat next to CTO on a 12-ho
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by doug1001 9y ago
GitHub
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by doug1001 9y ago
absolutely right--we need those relay nodes. The risk of running a tor relay node in the UK is substantial; obviously many times more so in Russia. i will donate, thanks for the post, and Thank You, Dmitry!
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by doug1001 9y ago
i was in Amsterdam seven years ago for work; the folks at the local shop i was there to do business with asked me to stay on an extra day and they would take me on a tour of Amsterdam. we decided on a bike tour so we walked to a place where
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by doug1001 9y ago
i've followed this Expo indirectly because a professional fighter i follow (Gennady Gennadyvich Golovkin) is from Karaganda, a small mining town in KZ. Golovkin, aka "GGG", is regarded by many (most?) current and former profe
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by doug1001 9y ago
this is my view towards subscriptions, particularly now that i use an iphone app to manage them. in fact there are (at least) a couple of start-ups focused on subscription (recurring payment) management. The one i use is Trim. this app is u
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by doug1001 9y ago
the OP is a sequence of brief (100 - 500 words) (skillfully edited & translated) vignettes from people who have first-hand memory of the events related to the Chernobyl disaster. i clicked and began reading the first one; two hours late
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by doug1001 9y ago
no idea there was such an academic specialisation (at least not with any substantial focus on software documentation) we try to hire folks having this domain interest and ideally with academic qualification such as the OP describes, but ne

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