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by j-b 14y ago
An excellent quote from Posner: "The institutional structure of the United States is under stress. We might be in dangerous economic straits if the dollar were not the principal international reserve currency and the eurozone in deep fiscal
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by j-b 14y ago
"Visual Basic 6 did what its creators intended for its market niche: enable very rapid development of limited programs by programmers of lesser experience. It was never meant for heavy-duty coders developing complex applications." This pret
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by j-b 14y ago
I'm curious to know what about Python is 'acceptable' in comparison to Ruby? Does Ruby have capabilities that you find better?
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by j-b 14y ago
Issues that can also severely degrade a systems performance and may not come into play until your data is growing over extended periods of time (not represented in the benchmark here): 1) Table statistics can grow stale and degrade the engi
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by j-b 14y ago
Thanks for the heads up. I had not read the article yet and now I definitely won't.
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by j-b 14y ago
Degrees don't matter so much. Can you learn? Are you smart? Can you ship good code (given enough training)? Real programming skills comes through experience and domain knowledge. I am less interested in the educational background of develo
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The Elusive Capacity of Networks(web.mit.edu)
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Facebook looking to acquire Opera?(osnews.com)
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Massive State Sponsored Cyber Attack Uncovered(asia.cnet.com)
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ISS Welcomes SpaceX Dragon(wired.com)
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by j-b 14y ago
That's an interesting idea. I'm coding Direct Store Delivery software that manages inventory through wireless handheld devices. The problem is that a lot of shipping is from vendor to store directly and the receivers are required to validat
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by j-b 14y ago
In the US we have corporate industrial processed food lobbyists influencing what ends up in the school cafeteria's. We're used to having quick, processed junk food and most people probably wouldn't want it any other way out of ignorance of
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Facebook IPO An 'Embarrassment'?(huffingtonpost.com)
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Ask HN: Thoughts on 4GL Code Generators?
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by j-b 14y ago
My code is regulated. I develop retail point of sale technology which requires certification with various state agencies such as WIC. Each state likes to do things just a bit differently, which keeps things interesting to say the least.