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by fallous 14y ago
I've faced similar Augean stables in the past (and present, unfortunately). I'd suggest that correcting the DB is one of the last things you can do, especially if queries are scattered throughout the code instead of in functions. You could
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by fallous 14y ago
Am I the only one that read/saw Rorschach as the only absolutely moral character? He refused to compromise on the truth and held everyone to the same code. His inability to accept the moral compromise offered by Ozymandius leads directly
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by fallous 14y ago
I think (no pun intended) that plants and some other species that lack central brains operate more like BEAM robots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_robotics in that the behaviors they exhibit can be remarkably similar to intentional beh
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by fallous 14y ago
Amusingly, I have a polisci/philosophy with a minor in history and I make my money in computer science. I never viewed college as a tech school, I viewed it as an avenue to study things that expanded my mental frames of reference. Perhaps
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by fallous 14y ago
Amusingly, I have a polisci/philosophy with a minor in history and I make my money in computer science. I never viewed college as a tech school, I viewed it as an avenue to study things that expanded my mental frames of reference. Perhaps
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by fallous 14y ago
I'd say it's not sustainable since there is a limited lifetime value of a user in their game space. In order to continue increasing revenue you must grow new users at a rate that exceeds the loss of existing or prior users that have aged
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by fallous 14y ago
No, but I doubt it has the margins of Apple hardware and it lacks the additional profit centers of the iPhone.
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by fallous 14y ago
And how much money did the Galaxy S III earn on those 10 million sales vs iPhone? I'm no Apple fanboy, but it always amuses me that the Android boosters talk unit numbers while Apple continues their "BMW" revenues on product. Congrats, yo
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by fallous 14y ago
I think you can still do a one-time purchase app with support for the next X versions and still get the revenue model of a SaaS. Stop thinking about the app as the final product and start thinking about it as a platform. Sell email client
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by fallous 14y ago
Is there an "inverted" kickstarter anywhere? Basically putting out a request for Widget and companies/individuals present offers to provide Widget. Close the loop with a kickstarter-type order/financing aggregation and you get purely dema
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by fallous 14y ago
I've long been of the opinion that the decline in local socializing (in the physical realm) is due to the advent of air condition, radio, and later television. Previously people sat on their porches in the evening to escape the heat of the
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by fallous 14y ago
Mozilla kept me from Firefox for years. The idiotic "view source" that actually re-fetched the page made it utterly worthless for development and when the bugs were filed, they were promptly ignored. That said, with the except of one FF p
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by fallous 14y ago
Questioning yourself is the first instinct of an A player. They don't believe they have all the answers, they believe that they are frauds in a lot of ways because they see the large picture and realize that they cannot hope to know all t
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by fallous 14y ago
Maximizing relevance is the thing that most sites fail at. You'll still need traditional marketing to attract eyeballs to a site (or service, product, etc.) but this is more about tailoring the product itself to the specific needs of that
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by fallous 14y ago
This is brilliant. You're teaching the mechanics of algebra but initially ignoring "this is math" which lets players avoid the mental barriers they may have erected about that particular subject. Being able to "do" first makes explaining t
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by fallous 14y ago
I remember encountering this same issue back during the Code Red/nimda worm days. When my webserver would get hit with the query string that demonstrated an infected machine trying to find another victim, I would fire off a callback to tha
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by fallous 14y ago
Do garbage men and sewage workers love what they do? I doubt it. Are their jobs absolutely vital to the very existence of modern civilization? Absolutely. "Do what you love" seems to fail if you wish it universal as a categorical imperat
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by fallous 14y ago
I'd try a chordic keyboard used by toes or foot positions.
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by fallous 14y ago
I'm reminded of the Heinlein quote "Engineering is the art of the practical and depends more on the total state of the art than it does on the individual engineer. When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before." The same is tr
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by fallous 14y ago
Ford at least has the recent history of not making monumentally bad decisions that end in bankruptcy. The fact that they find value gives me more to chew on than the fact that GM decides it's wrong, which may say more about GM than the pla
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by fallous 14y ago
The difference is that the original you exists on a consistent space-time arc. Copy of you diverges from that, and becomes not you. To external observers, not you appears to be exactly like you but it isn't you because your mind is a proc
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by fallous 14y ago
Don't confuse the "RDBMS uber alles!" for all storage is equivalent to "RDBMS is always a fail." Certainly over the last decade or so there was a mistaken belief that all data should be in an RDBMS, even though they were flattened or requi
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by fallous 15y ago
It's no more a "bad thing" than gravity being "bad" because I tripped and fell down instead of floating. It is what it is, and the sooner you accept the current realities the better off you are. You also ignore the obvious results of death
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by fallous 15y ago
One wonders when we reach the logical conclusion of pure drone warfare... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
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by fallous 15y ago
How does "education" equate to "grade system"? Are you mistaking credentials for education?
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by fallous 15y ago
Having spent quality time in the hospital for a suicide attempt, I really do embrace the idea that "suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem" except when it is not. Prolonged and painful cancer, Alzheimers, etc all make perf
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by fallous 15y ago
Umm, actually you can... it just requires some skills on the apache config side.
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by fallous 15y ago
mod_perl required real programming techniques due to the shared namespace. So many cgi scripts were written with no localization and so many programmers of that era had embraced the sloppiness of lack-of-persistence that it was hard to por
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by fallous 15y ago
Sorry, but that's just historically inaccurate. PHP _10_ years ago was popular because it was a templating language that could be embedded in HTML, in which case it supplanted SSI and really was a competitor to ASP. mod_perl was spanking P
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by fallous 15y ago
Speaking truth to powe....what? Oh yes, well then nevermind!

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