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by gmarx 10y ago
My development team spends more time evaluating new tools and doing proof of concepts for problems I am pretty certain could be solved just fine with existing web service providers available for Tomcat and an old fashioned PostGres install
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by gmarx 10y ago
Pretty sure this explanation is just really old speculation. Even if the ancient greeks kept records of word origins, those documents would likely be lost by now
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by gmarx 10y ago
Came here to write this. I think it's the headline writer who made the error. The first part of the article just says the Romans thought they acted like animals. So the issue is really what was the culture of the Barbarians.
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by gmarx 10y ago
What, is that project gone? I used it recently. I'm too lazy to learn javascript
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by gmarx 10y ago
I've read that too. The scanners for luggage are much better than those for the security lines. They might even use machine learning to detect things. I don't remember the source. sorry
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by gmarx 10y ago
Oh. Ok. Thanks!
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by gmarx 10y ago
Haha- I couldn't be happier to be rid of it. I used GWT for a couple of projects. It's a good useful thing but it was like being back in the 80s (or mayber early 90s)
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by gmarx 10y ago
Another huge difference was how slow compilers were. Programming is a completely different task when you don't mind hitting compile. I remember programming as a kid in the 1980s with my older brother. He would hit compile and we would
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by gmarx 10y ago
When you sort by date it automatically groups them by today, yesterday, last week, etc. which is fine, but then within those grouping they are not sorted by date/time
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by gmarx 10y ago
I'm sorry to read it. My condolences. It will likely take a long time for those emotional events to slowly abate. Dogs are the best
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by gmarx 10y ago
Can confirm. No loss of a relative or friend has yet affected me the way putting my dog to sleep did. I raised him from a pup and he was with me through years of relative social isolation. He was so strong, then weak then I had to make a de
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by gmarx 10y ago
Thanks for the link. I thoroughly enjoyed that. I never thought about the character behind the name. heartwarming
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by gmarx 10y ago
Thanks
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by gmarx 10y ago
So if you raise wages there isn't instantly a group of people available who will do the work at those wages? So it takes time for things to adjust because that's how humans and cultures react to incentives? That's an excellen
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by gmarx 10y ago
This change occurred in my town as well at about the same time. How do you know you are getting cause and effect right? I always assumed that after the amnesty in the first Bush administration it was just easier/cheaper/better att
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by gmarx 10y ago
your faith in Microsoft and Google is heartwarming and hilarious. I've been hearing this for over 20 years, as soon as the real smart tech people get involved we'll have this problem solved lickity split. Well, both those companie
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by gmarx 10y ago
Now you've hit my area of expertise. This might help enable large retrospective cohort studies but would not be sufficient. In order to do that the universal system would need to do several things which are unlikely: 1)Universal clinic
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by gmarx 10y ago
lots of people are working on the patient-centric record. No one has cracked the cultural problem and the integration problems. You would be requiring docs to re-enter most of the information in their own system. Remember, the things we cal
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by gmarx 10y ago
In fact they were essentially the first and the reason it has become a near monolopoly
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by gmarx 10y ago
Key point
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by gmarx 10y ago
I like the principle but predict this will ultimately be captured by people with a uniform point of view. There is far to much misclassifying different opinion or set of priorities as a "lie", these days. I'd like it if they
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by gmarx 10y ago
Agreed but if they started posting results people would then believe in its accuracy in proportion to the hatred they have of the public figures identified.
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by gmarx 10y ago
Wow. You're welcome and thanks! I don't know why it should make me feel good that a stranger on the internet took action in response to my comment, but it does
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by gmarx 10y ago
Here is a meta-comment that may seem irrelevant but I truly wonder about this odd tick of internet writing. The title should be "Kotlin Sucks" or "Why I think Kotlin Sucks". The article doesn't say anything about th
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by gmarx 10y ago
No, I meant "cultured" wasn't what he was describing,
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by gmarx 10y ago
disagree that this is gentle. If you assume that every bit of advice implies that his brother is the opposite it's pretty bad
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by gmarx 10y ago
It says that you couldn't practice law in France without being catholic. The victim studied law but couldn't practice because he was protestant. That fascinates me. We tend to have very simple models of the past but this indicates
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by gmarx 10y ago
This letter appears to be a drawn out detailed set of insults to his older brother. Maybe cultured isn't the best translation. Is this what we in the US would have called "classy" back then?
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by gmarx 10y ago
When I was a medical student I was assisting on an operation when I let loose with a horrible sulfurous fart. I was sly about it and made no noise. At some point the surgeon made a comment about how "it didn't smell too good in th
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by gmarx 10y ago
No. The article seems mostly intended to generate outrage that bad criminals might get out of the ass-beating experience of real jail and have access to flat screen TVs

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