greenlakejake

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by greenlakejake 13y ago
You must go to weird parties.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
I will never forgive PHP for all kinds of shit.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
I've used both. Each of these languages has its quirks. But JS's design makes PHP's design look like it was done with crayons.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
The background behavior in iOS 7 is a great improvement but can't really be described by those of us who are still under non disclosure agreement. Beyond that there are lots of goodies for developers that have been added to iOS APIs.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
While it seems unlikely that the NSA will come clean the documents being released may lead to a tipping point where meaningful oversight may be demanded and actually occur.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
If your emphasis is on crunching numbers Fortran is the best.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
While the headline talks about Android fragmentation he is only discussing Android phone fragmentation. If you want/need to support tablets the problem gets a lot harder.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
"Data is not code" Lisp programmers disagree.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Ethernet arose from Aloha Net http://www.isa.org/InTechTemplate.cfm?Section=InTech&templat... From the article: During the 1970s, a Harvard graduate student named Robert Metcalfe read a paper about something called Aloh
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
What's BI?
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Isla needs a read function for inuut.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Living in Oregon two winters ago I went to a new docter who did some blood work and thought I had an infection so tested me for hepatitus, mono, etc. He through in a vitamin Dtest and that was it. He put me on megadose vit D and things got
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
If you can control any app you could do things like send texts to paid services, harvest bank passwords, send email death threats against the president...
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Not really. Three months is common.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
My sad and pathetic part-time projects don't drag on for 25 years. :)
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
"In years past, Richard Stallman was quoted as saying that Linux was a good option to use while the Hurd was still incomplete" Linux will remain a good option for a long time.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Yellow letters on an orange background? Yuck.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
whitepages? My cell phone is not in the whitepages and I haven't had a landline for years.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
As far as I'm concerned the 'latest' Python is 3.3.2
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
The spatio-temporal tracking only works if the battery is in the phone all the time. Take the battery out unless you're making a call or checking voicemail.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Almost everyone in my company either has a desktop with two screens or a laptop with a external screen. At any given time we'll have some or all of Outlook/Word/Excel/IE/other local progs open. We couldn't mana
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Thanks for the response. OK, I buy the security issue. My Javascript skills - once pretty good - are bit rusty so Ill have to brush up on it. But I do have an ides for a project and will download postgres later today.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
postgres is really thinking outside the SQL box and I love it. JSON support was great and Javascript fits in with it. Now how about support for other languages like Python/Ruby/Lua?
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
In any town with a lot of programmers (e.g. Bay area, NYC, Seattle, Boston,...) lots of people know each other and socialize. You'll go out drinking with your buddies and they'll say "company X just got a new contract - you to work with Ale
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Thanks for the link.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Why not just put stuff into the public domain?