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by gfunk911 17y ago
"And checklists lack flexibility. They might be useful for simple procedures like central line insertion, but they are hardly a panacea for the myriad ills of modern medicine. Patients are too varied, their physiologies too diverse and our
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by gfunk911 17y ago
The App Store model and the "free to install" model are not incompatible. The App Store is hugely convenient, and makes it dead simple to install and pay for software. The part of the App Store that doesn't involve restrictive policies is
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by gfunk911 17y ago
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming, Modified: "Any sufficiently complicated system contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of a good VCS" See: MS Word, Dropbox, S3
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by gfunk911 17y ago
1. This article is a bit too personal, 100% agree on that. 2. The best thing Gruber could do is pass on "ownership" of the project to someone else. He is under no obligation to do so, but it seems like that would essentially solve the prob
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by gfunk911 17y ago
I don't understand the hate at this memo. Isn't it a fact that Google is much more open and a much more prolific contributor to the open source community than its main competitors?
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by gfunk911 17y ago
What's the plumber equivalent of storing passwords in plaintext, the things where if you heard that a plumber did X, you would be in complete shock at their negligence?
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by gfunk911 17y ago
I want to make a snarky comment, but I just feel for the guy.
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Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"(codinghorror.com)
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by gfunk911 17y ago
Agreed that this really isn't a big deal. However, if it's a step along the path to having some kind of streaming music integration in Android, that would be new. Total speculation.
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by gfunk911 17y ago
The debate is not really about whether you program in your spare time. It's a debate about whether you love programming. 1. People who love doing something are on average going to be much better at it than people who don't. 2. People who l
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by gfunk911 17y ago
Like with most things in the world, if you have no self-control or ability to control your impulses, then life is going to be very difficult for you.
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by gfunk911 17y ago
http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-05-0... why is awesome. he's one of the big reason I'm a ruby programmer. He's contributed so much to the community, and he doesn't owe anybody anything. If he deleted all his repo
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by gfunk911 17y ago
Is anyone here using this, or have any experience with this site?
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by gfunk911 17y ago
Zed has gotten nothing from me. I've gotten the ability to use a good web server, instead of spending time setting up or dealing with an inferior one. A license structured as "acknowledge your use or you will be sued," with penalties speci
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by gfunk911 17y ago
Zed should make his own BSD-style license that says you can use his software freely, as long as you send him a notarized letter stating you're using it, along with a note on your website. I can't tell if I'm joking or not. (To be clear, I t
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by gfunk911 18y ago
The financial industry really has poisoned America, in two ways The first, obvious way is in the causes of our current recession. The second way is how when "normal" people think of "rich" people, their first thought is often of someone in
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by gfunk911 18y ago
The PDF here seems to be a good start. http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?ex...
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by gfunk911 18y ago
Does anyone see any obvious documentation on defining your own reduce function? All the example use the built in "aggregate," which looks like it refers to the Hadoop aggregate sub-package. The lines output by the map functions start with
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by gfunk911 18y ago
Ok, this looks awesome. I wonder how players will be able to manage the increasing complexity as a game progresses, but this definitely looks really promising.
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by gfunk911 18y ago
This looks interesting and well done. Must investigate further.
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by gfunk911 18y ago
Algorithm: If ("lower seed's pomeroy ranking" + 0.0085) > "higher seed's pomeroy ranking", the lower seed wins, otherwise the higher seed wins. http://gist.github.com/80978 Feel free to steal my code UCLA beats Gonzaga and Memphis bea
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by gfunk911 18y ago
I was bored, so I made this table of effective tax rates for various incomes/years, indexed to 2007 dollars. http://mharrisdev.com/income_tax.html
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by gfunk911 18y ago
Wow. That might be the most unprofessional thing I've ever read.