eldenbishop

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by eldenbishop 16y ago
I clicked around a bit and found some "word lists" for Spanish. They seem to be doing a standard description of a visual, with pics to come later I suppose. Ie. Buen Tiempo (good weather) The instructions say to imagine eiher: When the weat
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
-- Groovy (1..4).findAll{!(it % 2)}
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
About time. I have been getting these for years and never even unwrapped the plastic. It is a massive waste. Four phone books have sat unopened in the lobby of my apartment for weeks now. No-one wants them and no-one wants to throw them aw
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
This is a welcome set of changes. It looks like with some clever programming you can finally map reduce across collections which was a huge limitation before.
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
You do realize this is peanuts compared to the amount of information the US collect on its own people today?
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
I disagree. There are hundreds if not thousands of people willing to waste his time (Linus) with theory and conversation, his abrupt, rude tone makes it clear that unless you are communicating actual information, not just theories, don't bo
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
Another gotcha with sharding is that during a re-balance some documents will be on "both" shards simultaneously. Thus issuing a count command repeatedly on a 100k doc collection will see the count bounce up as it shards. 100k, 106k, 100k, 1
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
This is a language driver issue. By default, some language drivers for mongo use connection pools. When operating in this mode, five inserts will get processed by five different connections in an arbitrary order. The advantages are speed an
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
Mongo servers can be run in a mode that rejects the query with an error if it would result in a row scan. Very useful for safely avoiding bad queries slamming your server.
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
There is no contradiction. The second paragraph is just paraphrasing the standard calorie-in->energy-out theory of weight gain and averaging the 'graph' of weight gain for analytic purposes. Ie. he never states that you are storing exac
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
I also stopped using shaving cream. My method is as follows. Turn shower up just slightly hotter than will kill you. Sit on floor of tub and just let water soak your head and face. The extra distance to the floor of the shower is why the wa
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
Agreed. I would be shocked to see an email from any mass mailing that did not include this kind of tracking. If you don't like this sort of thing, turn of images and HTML.
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
Twitter would make a fine DNS actually.
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
Cloudant has a very cool couchdb fork that uses a dynamo style k/v layer that then uses couchdb as its storage engine. They implement chained map/reduce with the caveats that A) the chained m/r is generated async, so it is always out of dat
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
I am annoyed by this post a bit. I think the first problem is that to the average person who likes classical music, the stuff he is talking about has absolutely nothing to do with what they think of as classical music. They have attempted t
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
This treatment was widely used to control epilepsy before the advent of effective seizure drugs. The extreme difficulty of maintaining this diet made drugs the preferred choice. It is still used for epilepsy that resists drug treatment and
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
Dunno....looking at the code examples , particularly PolicyNodeImpl.java looks like they where simply converted straight from the original code. There is simply no way the Google code was not copied/generated from the Sun code. You can view
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
The only drawback I can see to this system is that you can't spin the pedals backwards while coasting. I do this a lot to stretch my legs and just to pass the time on hills when I don't feel like speeding up. Peddling backwards will engage
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
Virtually nowhere compares to Zurich in this regard. I have never seen a place that was so efficient and well run in my life. If there wasn't such a nasty anti-foreigner sentiment I would jump to move there.
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
I have always been terrible at multiplication and when I am forced to do it always use a method identical to the grid method. Except I didn't know it had a name. I just cheated and did this because it seemed like a non-optimal but straight
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
Not sure why your being down-voted. I had to re-read the first few sentences at least four times before I could understand what he was trying to say. It was a horribly constructed opening that almost made me abandon the article.
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
My wife has the verizon droid and she has not bought a single app while I have at least 30$ worth of apps on my iPhone. It is not just the reasons you have listed. Go into the reviews and you will find that every app in the store does not w
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
My fat fingers can barely hit some of the tiny buttons now...I don't think the keyboard could get smaller and still be usable.
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
My friends kid can only watch the beginning. When the humans show up, he starts crying. To scary.
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
Hmmm, in the last few months * OK Computer (by Radiohead) I've probably done 3-4 dark rooms listens through this in the last year alone. * Venomous Villian (by Victor Vaughn aka MF Doom) * Timeless (by Goldie) * The Stone Roses (by The S
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
I think a lot of these comments are missing the point. There is a huge difference between a mouse and a finger and you cannot just abstract this difference away by pretending that hover is only used for tooltips. Flash programmers from the
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
Sometimes it is just laughable...I went to a website on my phone to look up the menu. I got a "flash required" message. I was at home so I dug out my laptop and went to the site. The "Flash" application was a static image with the hours and
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
This is really very key here. A study in China trying to figure out why two identical towns, right next to each other seemed to have radically different health profiles on their elderly eventually came to the conclusion that it was because
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
He is missing/ignoring the obvious. Although the iPhone may only be 15% of the smartphone market in terms of units shipped, it represents something on the order of 98% of the market in terms of user dollars spent on applications. This is th
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
You can sort of do this in Groovy. def val = {try { 1 } catch(ex) { 2 }}.call() assert(1 == val)

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