egroat

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by egroat 1y ago
I was going to disagree with you; and I was going to use a very simple function to do it `randString(length, alphabet)` where alphabet is defaulted - as azAZ09 is a good default. However, on many non-trivial projects I've worked on we
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by egroat 11y ago
For those of us not quite so old, who are the BSA? I presume you don't mean the Birmingham Small Arms Company
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by egroat 11y ago
Thank you In many ways this is a solidification of a lot of what I have been thinking
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by egroat 11y ago
Well here is the answer from the guy who is still maintaining it: https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2827 The link is from the fifth comment. When developing in node it makes a lot of sense to use l
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by egroat 11y ago
> when I was 20 or so Ok. "20 or so" describes me. And things aren't going so well. Out of uni, and life feels pretty empty. Family has fallen apart, friends are friends of convenience, work is very intense - perhaps
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by egroat 11y ago
Competence in JS is very different from most languages the average dev is exposed to, and decent Android is very far down the Java Super-OO rabbit hole. So I'm not surprised!
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by egroat 11y ago
I'm British and have always funded phones through an outright purchase and some sort of pay as you go plan / month by month sim only contract. Most of my friends do the same, and wherever I've checked this has been cheaper an
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by egroat 11y ago
It is a shame Hollywood has a tendency to portray the successes of the Allies in general as being conducted purely by American citizens. Of course it doesn't help that the other nations don't actively promote their forces in the s
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by egroat 11y ago
I'm just really happy about the allowing of update when inserts conflict. This will tidy a lot of code up for me and make writing in the future that much neater. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static&#x2F
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by egroat 11y ago
UNIX based. I would presume that most DB's are installed on UNIX based systems so most of the people who are developing tools for them are going to already be on such systems.
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by egroat 11y ago
That is genious. Absolute genious. There are likely to be less problems on a smaller codebase and when there are its much easier to recommend a rewrite of 1k than 10k
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by egroat 11y ago
agpl-3.0 This may provide more clarity: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960802/can-i-use-librari... Essentially - if you have modified openalpr then you are probably violating, if you haven't you probabl
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by egroat 11y ago
Unless of course the program contributes to causing those attacks in the first place. Now? Probably not. 20 years time? Perhaps.
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by egroat 11y ago
So I've spent the last few months trawling through camera datasheets, evaluating OCR solutions, and building and comparing custom image transformations so that we can have a good idea of the quality and limitations of the ANPR solution
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by egroat 11y ago
You certainly have a point, but it can also be said there is a lot that can be done to increase the ability to work on what matters to an individual by reducing outgoings and cutting working hours. The truth however is that many people don
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by egroat 11y ago
> The pervasive uncertainty of Browne’s writing offers a respite from the stifling certainties of today. We have religious zealots, just as the seventeenth century did—but we also have zealots of so many more varieties. We have had the e
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by egroat 11y ago
I find twice to be relatively outrageous, but both my mother and I having the same car (Toyota Yaris) from the same year with mine being a diesel and hers petrol the following is noticeable: * I get about 1.25x the mpg in the diesel to her
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by egroat 11y ago
> Certainly, since I don't need the money, I'd much rather earn $3 an hour on Mechanical Turk, sitting at home and picking and choosing what I feel like doing, than $7.25 an hour in a minimum-wage job. You don't need the m