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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Amen to that. From the same album, I was really shocked they'd never played Prince Charming live. Can really imagine that going down a storm, it's just the right pace for a good gig song. Throw in them and 2x4 for your next setlist please
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I'm willing to be persuaded, but I'm currently using two different machines, each with two different browsers open, and this is a relatively light usage case... It's a remarkably complex problem.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I realised a while ago that the most problematic logins for me were the ones with the most onerous password requirements. OK, I know this isn't great, but I do reuse passwords. The ones I care about least have the least adherence to good
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
The man in Moscow I won't attempt to defend. The Vatican will say that, as a Catholic, 10% of the bounty which God has enabled you earn should be donated to God in thanks. The man in Washington will tell you that, in exchange for security a
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
While that's not unreasonable, it's also IMHO not unreasonable for an English-language site to offer more specific categories for English-speaking regions than non-English speaking regions.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Which brings to mind.... Five monkeys are caged together and there are some bananas hanging from the top of the cage. Some scientists attach an automated device for sensing if the bananas are moved; once a monkey tries to get any, an elect
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Quickmatch has other problems though. * If you're going to do it properly and give them meaningful data, a 'quick' skim is the exact opposite of what you want to do. Yet it's what the function is set up for; you can't even see a person's qu
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I may be being harsh, but the comment sounds like a troll to me; he's describing horrendous, show-stopper bugs like failure to respect basic search filtering criteria which the apparently large number of HN readers with accounts on OKC have
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Heh. Exact opposite here - I'm religious and just posted here about how bad I find it at filtering people by religion (or politics, for that matter) for me. Its ability to match for me based on personality seems rather higher. I'd suspect
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Interesting maths analysis. I'd certainly noticed that their ability to reliably rank inside a window of say, 80% and 95% was rather low, along with the ability to filter out deal-breakers. Frankly that remained a manual process, no matter
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Not just Postgres; any database server in which you can do either stored procedures or submit arbitrary batches of SQL statements rather than just individual queries will let you do this. I routinely do in MS SQL Server, for example, and ha
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
No reason you can't do an inventory check at the same time as returning the basic catalogue details, it won't be more accurate in a separate call 50ms later. If you're generating the page for a logged in user then you know who that logged i
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Pardon me, but if an app's operations time will go from 1-2 minutes to 20-30 by changing from a local to remote DB then you've either got an utterly abysmal network or enormously too many round trips to the database and the app could benefi
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
What if Steve Jobs had been forced at gunpoint fifteen years ago to lead Dell? What would the outcome have been? He likely would have spoken harshly about the elephant in the room -- Dell produces a commodity, and its future depends on Mic
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Maybe, but if you paid the juniors appropriately on that scale they'd never get into the industry and if you paid the seniors on that scale the business couldn't afford them.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
There was a strong software engineering and project management streak to the course when I was on it; you were taught that code was written for a purpose and for an end user, and that you should be aiming at that target. You could have writ
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Both. The student is wrong, the assignment has not been met and they deserve to be failed. However, they have also demonstrated abilities that show they should be nurtured at a higher level and can be mentoring. So get them to think about w
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
One thing I had drummed into me in my UK ICT education (admittedly 15 years ago and it wasn't called ICT then) was that we were aiming at fulfilling client desires; that we shouldn't just go off and produce something cool, if it wasn't of u
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
No, I agree, but there's a cost/benefit calculation to be done. Plus it's not like the try...catch solution that doesn't explicitly handle the error will blow up and destroy everything; if the program is properly designed it should merely d
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
And you know what? In my experience it's not less robust. So my code hasn't had every possible failure case thought through and explicitly handled in advance. That's good. Firstly some of those errors are so rare they'll almost certainly ne
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
And what about those online poker companies that are not based in the USA? Why should they comply with USA law? If Klout are collecting and storing data on UK individuals, they are subject to UK data protecction law. The ease of enforcing t
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Ah, this argument again. Simplicity rules. I disagree. I like being able to set filters and granularity. I like having the option to give me the information I want, in the way I want it. I'm prepared to do the extra up-front setup to get th
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
SEEKING WORK: UK, Derby. Remote, travel or local OK. Microsoft stack developer - .Net, (C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, Winforms), MSSQL (v7-2008R2), VB6, ASP3. HTML, CSS and JavaScript too, SAS as well if that's your thing. Back end, front end, large
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
David Beckham isn't by any stretch the world's greatest footballer; his rise was directly alongside Ryan Giggs in the same team, and a comparison of their stats isn't favourable to Mr. Beckham. Yet his fame is such that teams will hire him,
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
And if DARPA have genuinely just funded research that will permit them to run cold-fusion powered units they'd be publishing this knowledge for all to use rather than using it as a decisive advantage why...? I agree that this looks very sus
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Honestly, having experimented with various devices, I'm not sure there's a productive development environment out there with a keyboard. A tablet in a keyboard dock may well do the job, but if the keyboard is required for useful work don't
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Are you complaining that they're required to service the more expensive (to you) debts first? Why? UK banks used to have a god racket (don't know if they still do, don't read the relevant blogs) where they'd offer 0% balance transfer cards
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Failure breeds success(menshealth.co.uk)
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Stupid question time. Why couldn't the driver put the car into neutral and coast to a safe halt to restart the system? (Obviously though it's an issue that needs fixing!)
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Given Ponzi schemes tend to end in prosecution,(this is probably a forlorn hope) could we eventually see prosecutions for this sort of behaviour? Or maybe as a next best investors slowly beginning to realise that these odd price spikes keep

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