frobozz

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by frobozz 15y ago
The only reason they aren't comparable is because the intern is an intern. Not because the intern is a neophyte. My point (possibly not particularly well made) was not that you should take on inexperienced pretend employees, treat them lik
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by frobozz 15y ago
Agreed, and not just for complete noobs. If (as an experienced hire) you start a job somewhere enterprisey, the amount of bureaucracy and induction procedure you experience in your first week can mean that you won't be a productive employee
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by frobozz 15y ago
Here's Scott Adams' site: http://www.msadams.com/ You can download Windows versions of all the SAGA adventures there (apart from the Marvel ones, I think), and he has links to web-playable versions.
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by frobozz 15y ago
What do you think it might turn out to be unsuitable for? Just like some languages have tools to translate them to C, there's no reason why you wouldn't use a tool to compile from a language more appropriate to your task, into javascript.
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by frobozz 15y ago
Given a perfectly rigid container, you would be correct. Planes can't even get close to being perfectly rigid, because they'd be too heavy to get off the ground.
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by frobozz 15y ago
If you suffer from sinus inflammation, either from an temporary infection or a chronic condition, they do not open. If you have problems in your ear, such as a perforated eardrum or an inflammation; you may still be able to equalise pressur
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by frobozz 15y ago
If this is the case, then as far as my reading of the story goes, upon discovering that she was serving people who she believed would be stingy tippers, she behaved in a way that would make even a generous tipper leave nothing. This seems c
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by frobozz 15y ago
I don't see that there is a significant difference between ebooks replacing paper books, and books replacing scrolls, or mp3s replacing CDs replacing vinyl. Aficionados may still use the legacy format, preferring it due to some special adva
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by frobozz 15y ago
Agreed, the same goes for reference books. In a paper book, I'll often find things that I didn't realise were important at the time, or a later conversation will bring to mind, and I'll recall something fuzzy like: "It was in the lower ha
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by frobozz 15y ago
This is not the case with passwordcard.
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by frobozz 15y ago
The timeline of the narrative does seem a little confusing, but it's not wrong. Some of the rules were published by King as part of The Unwritten Laws of Engineering in 1944. The whole collection of rules were published by Swanson as Th
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by frobozz 15y ago
> The entire Haskell standard library could be rewritten, more or less, in Scala. How is that "kinda" functional? Surely all that means is that Scala is Turing Complete, not that it is purely functional. Also, you use the "more-or-less"
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by frobozz 15y ago
IIRC, The Pragmatic Programmer suggests writing morning pages. It's been a while since I read it, though so I could be wrong.
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by frobozz 15y ago
Ordnance Survey OpenData is rather comprehensive. The licence (AFAIK, IANAL) allows free commercial and non-commercial use, as long as you attribute the data to them. http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/.html It has boundaries for Counties,
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by frobozz 15y ago
The key word there is "guaranteed". I'd much rather know that I'm going to spend 1-2 hours at the airport, than have no idea. On a leave-when-full plane, you may be there for any length of time from 20 minutes (if you are one of the last t
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by frobozz 15y ago
It would be nice to know, in advance, what it takes to score points. I just logged the run I did yesterday, and was rather surprised that it took me to level 4 instantly, not far off level 5. It would be nice if I could now go and choose an
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by frobozz 15y ago
Wouldn't that make it a new language called Trep?
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by frobozz 15y ago
There's nothing wrong with "An historic event". I'm from London. (However, it does irritate me no end to hear RP speakers say "An historic", pronouncing the "h")
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by frobozz 15y ago
I'm British, and it's only in the last few years that I've heard of the American compulsion to modify quotes by adding punctuation. I'm glad it seems to be vanishing.
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by frobozz 15y ago
Even now, you need to be aware of cultural differences, as well as timezones. Examples: (for some definitions of here and there) It's 1300 here which means that it's 1700 there - do people tend to go home at 1700 or 1800? Lunchtime in Franc
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by frobozz 15y ago
Two anecdotes in favour of using a nom de plume: 1) Some time ago, I decided to use my real name on the web, to build my professional presence. I wasn't quite unique, but any results that came up for a search on my name were pretty inconse
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by frobozz 15y ago
It's the same justification given for not letting minors vote. If it's acceptable to de-juris disenfranchise the under-18s on the spurious grounds that they are incapable of voting effectively, surely we can de-facto disenfranchise any adul
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by frobozz 15y ago
An important factor in this electoral system is that you don't have rank all the candidates, just those that you wish to receive your vote. This makes your sample election a trifle unrealistic. Since everyone voted for everyone in your sam
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by frobozz 15y ago
The converse view: Surely people who are so stupid/ignorant that this system would stop them voting, are too stupid/ignorant to be able to vote effectively in any election. You may argue that it sounds a bit elitist, but personally, I wan
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by frobozz 16y ago
Alternative Conclusion: Humans are very good at spotting patterns and making generalisations. I can identify that certain plants are trees, or certain animals are dogs, even trees or dog breeds I've never encountered before. Most people wo
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by frobozz 16y ago
The main confidentiality issue is not about whether you, the coder, cares about people stealing your groundbreaking idea. When you are doing work for hire, the code is not necessarily yours to publish. Whilst sharing it with someone you co
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by frobozz 16y ago
Interesting that the author suggests "maybe a feature off of stack overflow" Something like http://codereview.stackexchange.com perhaps?
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by frobozz 16y ago
> Is that supposed to make it better? If, by "it", you mean the accuracy of the headline, then yes. If, by "it", you mean the availability of the poison, then no. We live on the largest planet in our solar system, if you apply the appr
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by frobozz 16y ago
I use passwordcard ( http://www.passwordcard.org/en ) as my password manager, 1) All my passwords are stored on a piece of paper, in plain text. There is no need to encrypt, because only I know how I use it. 2) I don't need to back it up
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by frobozz 16y ago
Fizz buzz is very simple. It's easy to communicate, implement and test, there's nothing fiddly about it. It's the entry level indicator and requires no prior knowledge, other than the ability to turn a simple, stable specification into so

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