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The price of real estate in Montreal is rising because of Chinese money laundering. Just like happened in Vancouver and Toronto
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"To remind users that tables are sets of entities, ISO-11179 Standard likes to use collective or plural nouns that describe the set of those entities for the names of tables. Thus 'Employee' is a bad name because it is singul
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Joe Celko, as well as ISO-11179, tell us to use collective names ("personnel") or plural names ("employees") for tables As well, fewer keywords are plural, compared to singular, so there's less chance of accidentall
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Built a lead generation system. Looks at searches on our site and picks out the best people for our sales team to call. Set up a bunch of rules created by the sales team. Tweaked it over months. Made money Then used real sales data tied bac
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eh. I built a lead gen system at a fortune 1000. The heuristic SQL version brought in 10M a year. The random forest version brings in 100M a year. It saw things we didn't
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I just joined a tool library in my neighborhood ($1/day for power tools), but thought to myself, why doesn't my library have a room (and staff member) for this?
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by elchief 9y ago
I'm a simple man. I see an article about Brainfuck and I upvote it
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Building prototypes in a GUI like RapidMiner is substantially faster than in R or Python
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Growth companies don't pay dividends. Google still thinks they're growing, I guess. Or can grow by acquisition
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Alligators do. Not sure about birds
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What the actual fuck? Long distance prices dropped 99.9% after the breakup
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Make the recipient the return address and whomever the actual address and forget the stamp. Post office will return to sender
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by elchief 9y ago
Still up in Canada Though it's mostly bots these days. Used to be a good place to get laid
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I meant the SQLite.org server
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The browser you're using to read this is written in C++, on your C++ or C OS, talking to a web server written in C.
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lowendbox.com lists plenty of cheap 2GB VPS
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There's a strong correlation between testosterone and risk-taking. And there's a strong correlation between being a superstar athlete and testosterone
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that mp3 will be ready in 5 minutes. woohoo!
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I'm not saying it shouldn't be imparted, but the high level knowledge is better first People seem to get lost in the details. I know devs that understand the various index tree types, but don't understand why something is s
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As an IT educator, I think it's better if people understand how indexes work at a higher level. Then you have something, even if you forget how an R-tree works Think of them as being much like a book index. A book index is useful becau
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now? Or not
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Everyone I know says their current car is their last gas car. Ford can't yet compete on electric cars
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Anti-inflammatories are in the news lots now. Low-dose aspirin, intermittent fasting, turmeric. Why are we chronically inflamed?
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You realize that statistics is capable of using very small sample sizes right?
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Comparing salaries across borders based on that day's exchange rate is dumb. It's swung between 70 cents and parity in the last decade
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> Jon Skeet's SO reputation is only as modest as it is because of integer overflow From https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact... I like his answer about Chinese time zones https:&#x
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Cannabidiol = Marijuana - THC
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some people can't handle the effect on the stomach. but if you can handle it, it's a good choice. Or marijuana
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Remember back in 2017 when Deep Learning wasn't legacy? Those were good times

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