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by ibsulon 18y ago
That's the approach I am looking at. Consider a workout program for one reason for this approach. Many gyms are in basements and places where reception is crummy. The application should be able to run in these places, and offload to the web
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by ibsulon 18y ago
The funny thing is that if we look at 2007, there is no fundamental difference between Obama and Clinton, other than initial support for the war. John Edwards disagreed with the war from the beginning as well, and was more polished. Many pr
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by ibsulon 18y ago
The article misses the point of backward compatibility for java. Consider a company that has desktop (Swing) applications that were written in the 1.2 or 1.3 era. That company can upgrade to 1.6, and use 1.6 applications alongside those 1.3
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by ibsulon 18y ago
The frustration is all of the chording for things that seem to merit their own key in my world. Fn-up, down, left, right could better handle screen and keyboard lighting, and put page up/down/left/right up there instead. I mean, the freakin
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by ibsulon 18y ago
I just bought one. The lack of home/pgdown/pgup/end is still frustrating. I must say, it's a great piece of hardware and the double tap/corner "right click" is a great addition. Frankly, the hardware is wonderful. The software? Frankly, I'd
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Well-enough written schlock is always in demand. So, mine wikipedia and blog!
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1. In simple applications, you can merge the view and controller on the client and use the database and stored applications on the server side. Have two people who know two languages, and you're done. In web applications, you have HTML + CS
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by ibsulon 18y ago
I remember http://happynews.com/ as well -- I considered this a while back, but journalists aren't writing happy news right now, and I couldn't see putting the money into finding and writing it myself.
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The big three fuel an entire ecosystem of companies who would fall like dominos, and if those fall then we suddenly have a good portion of 1.1 million workers on the market for jobs when employment is scarce. Further, those people have mort
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Kurzweil suggests that these technological improvements happen on an exponential scale -- that the gap from 0 to ant is greater than from ant to human.
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I thought that was a perk.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
I agree. Let's go back to the original definition of marriage. How much for your daughter?
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I should mention a few more things: 1. My father worked nights until he was in his fourties. He had a similar problem, but was able to move to an earlier schedule. 2. I can't say that I prefer waking up on an earlier schedule; I think I sti
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by ibsulon 18y ago
The good news is that some people's cases, like mine, mellow out as we grow older. By the time you return from academia, it's quite possible that you'll be more functional with the addition of draconian sleep hygene rules, morning exercise,
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Business friendly in New Zealand would be considered downright hostile in the US.
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The fundamental fallacy the article makes is that the original writers and thinkers in the movement spoke of eating seasonal foods suited to the local climate. Instead of growing tomatoes in a greenhouse, you treat tomatoes as a treat and e
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by ibsulon 18y ago
As an atheist, I find Jeremiah Wright no fundamentally different than John Hagee, for one example. Pastors say controversial things to rile up a crowd - it's part of their job. Further, his comments are biblically defensible in the context
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Except that he's explicitly Christian, not Muslim.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
It's been a while since I've coded in prolog, but that sounds a lot like what they were trying to do.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Adams argues that the individual should not be buying individual stocks. I tend to disagree for individuals willing to keep up with their stocks, and can read 10-Qs and other investment material. if you're doing the "buy and ignore" thing
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Profit margins will drop in software. It's inevitable. We just happen to be in a new market, and this is the kind of margin you see in a new market.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
An expert writer can do a passable term paper in four hours. I've written over a million words in my life. As such, I can write a thousand words an hour in subjects which I have passing familiarity. (I might even be able to gust to 1500 wph
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by ibsulon 18y ago
You're insured for 100k for each bank's accounts. If you can spread it around, do so.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
It's the long term goal. The short term goal is to do more.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
To parse a single CSV file with well defined rules is easy. However, different spreadsheet vendors handle escaped characters and various issues differently. http://www.rtraction.com/blog/devit/excel-csv-to-mysql-hell.... speaks of one pro
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by ibsulon 18y ago
There are a few problems with this: 1. Sometimes, making it work is enough. (one time code and such) There's no reason, other than for practice, to waste time designing such cases. 2. You may find out that you're solving the wrong problem,
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I will definitely check out both. Thanks!
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The mantra from eXtreme Programming: 1. Make it work. 2. Make it right. 3. Make it fast. 4. Make it small. #1 first, then if you have the need, #2. If you have a need, #3. If you have the need, #4. It's a lot easier to make it right once yo
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by ibsulon 18y ago
As an aside, does anyone know of a mathematical dictionary? I've been trying to follow some books and I just get lost in the terminology -- as I scour the net for the pieces I need, I can get the context, but that seems entirely inefficient
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I'm currently using it, but I'm switching back to firefox on single core machines -- the multiple process method doesn't work too well on an older machine.

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