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MongoDB queries don’t always return all matching documents(engineering.meteor.com)
3 points by etrevino 10y ago|0 comments
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by etrevino 10y ago
The article describes the IT systems as "creaky" and referred to the "jaw dropping" GAO report that inspired this article was described as "sobering". So, it would appear that the problem the article referred
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My Tough Love for C++(medium.com)
5 points by etrevino 10y ago|2 comments
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#ifdef Considered Harmful [pdf](doc.cat-v.org)
2 points by etrevino 10y ago|1 comments
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The Lost Art of C Structure Packing(catb.org)
3 points by etrevino 11y ago|0 comments
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by etrevino 11y ago
> EU prices tend to include sales (VAT) taxes. Does that US price include the sales tax? No it doesn't, because that's usually a state by state thing.
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by etrevino 11y ago
Well, that's why I was asking, I wanted to understand. And now I do.
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by etrevino 11y ago
Now, if we change the program while it is running, is it going to change the program on disk? I.E., once I've hotpatched this thing, can I rely on the patch "sticking" when I shutdown and reload my program? My understanding
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Man behind the “Fappening” pleads guilty(vanityfair.com)
2 points by etrevino 11y ago|0 comments
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by etrevino 11y ago
We have noise complaint laws, sure. They're different depending on the jurisdiction, of course, but they exist. And as for the security guards, it doesn't sound like they're protecting public property. Depending on the laws
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by etrevino 11y ago
No, you're right. If they're a public space they're likely to be mapped.
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by etrevino 11y ago
> is attention to such detail a happenstance, is it particular to the Telegraph, or is it just of relevance to the British press in a way that North American text news simply does not reflect When waiting in the train station in Oxford I
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by etrevino 11y ago
Why the hostility? You said that you didn't think this was a longstanding part of Afghani culture and I brought up a documentary that was linked in the article you posted saying that, in fact, pederasty was a longstanding part of Af
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by etrevino 11y ago
Disgustingly, it is a longstanding cultural thing in Afghanistan. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/dancingboys/ Don't let the modernity of 1960s Kabul fool you. I have a teenage student sold
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Python (2.7.9) Plus – Claims to have improved threading by 30%. Thoughts?(cosmicpercolator.com)
3 points by etrevino 12y ago|4 comments
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by etrevino 12y ago
She would have seen that he was in the phone, but she wouldn't have known what to do with that information. In any case, he had her call George because he knew what to do in that situation. I think her remembering George was just for
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by etrevino 12y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if the Plague jumped from one host to another and that became a semi-permanent reservoir. After the Plague came in during the Middle Ages it became a periodic event that only died out in the 1720s. Why it died
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by etrevino 12y ago
There is this Bush guy, easily the most hated US president to date by rest of the world (ie those +-95% of human race outside US). Let's not get too much into his lackey Rumsfeld... If in some ridiculous alternate reality Iraq would d
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by etrevino 12y ago
Bingo, and if you think that they're not (trying to?) watch us, you'd be wrong.
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by etrevino 12y ago
> Germany gave up that part of their free speech because of the horrors they inflicted upon the world, they wanted to prevent happening ever again no matter what. I've yet to see the USA make any kind of adjustment for the atrocitie
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by etrevino 12y ago
Iran signed the NPT as well, meaning they are supposed to abide by its rules.
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by etrevino 12y ago
We shouldn't limit ourselves to just the South. Lynching was prevalent nationwide. Though the vast majority of lynchings happened in the South, it is worth noting that the practice "spilled over" into other areas of the cou
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by etrevino 12y ago
Punting balls are also the special kicking balls.
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by etrevino 12y ago
There's a large-ish North Korean population in Japan that has some significant links to the DRPK. Many are actually used as a means to get hard currency into the country. To a limited (very limited) extent they reduce reliance on Chi
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by etrevino 12y ago
This review sums it up pretty well: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1232
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by etrevino 12y ago
Well shit. I start a new job working on it ... on Monday. Any suggestions for books on it? They're training me, but the more I can learn on my own, the better.
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by etrevino 12y ago
There are two sides of the development coin for companies like banks, though. On one side is your friend who is asked to do the Serious Business. Without a doubt those are the interesting jobs. On the other side is the stupid report deve
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by etrevino 12y ago
The programmers aren't entry level, but the work they're doing is entry level (in difficulty and maybe in quality). I've worked for a bank before and the environment (for this level of work) is stultifying. I just fell into
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by etrevino 12y ago
So, I did my dissertation on these documents working with these same people. I don't really have an argument with Dedeo's argument. Now, my work was mostly qualitative (I tried to infer meaning from the text) than quantitative,
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by etrevino 12y ago
Okay, okay, okay. No no. I did my dissertation on these exact same documents working with these same people. This is NOT about upholding a class-based system. The elite could not and did not buy their way out of anything any more than

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