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by jhancock 17y ago
I bought the hard copy on amazon a few weeks ago. Best ruby books I've seen. It ranks high compared to 'best of' books for other langs as well.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Screen is a good tool and does have a collaborative feature. But it requires the following: 1 - install screen and configure the collaboration on your server 2 - create a user on your server for the other person to login 3 - the other pers
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by jhancock 17y ago
I'm using it for a new project. I hope it performs well for read-often, write-rarely apps as well.
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by jhancock 17y ago
You could have used a tool I wrote http://shellshadow.com Then you could have watched them investigate the problem.
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by jhancock 17y ago
There are other ways to look at this. The iPhone launched in Japan and is considered a success form numbers I've seen. As for China, you do not need to penetrate the entire market to be successful. Mercedes is expensive in China. Most c
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by jhancock 17y ago
I didn't do the survey. If I had, I would have said I was "employed" as I'm working on two startups. But have income of zero.
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by jhancock 17y ago
most likely this is posturing, at least in part. One key difference between Chinese and Western culture is the degree to which "a deal can be renegotiated". The Chinese tend more towards "a deal is always open to renegotiation". Western
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by jhancock 17y ago
How do we do that? How do you transform Houston or a Atlanta into Portland?
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by jhancock 17y ago
The laws I'm talking about don't go into effect until 10-15 years from now. And they've been watered down. And I expect they will be watered down more by the time the due dates arrive. But the original purpose was to force better fuel ef
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by jhancock 17y ago
I agree with this response. But your prior idea of an energy tax, I disagree. Instead of a tax, you could simply make it illegal to sell vehicles under a certain efficiency rating. Congress has taken this approach, sort of. The only thi
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by jhancock 17y ago
I was just thinking of those events this past week as I see how the media is assisting corporate/industry status quo to fight health care reform. Regardless of what you think of the details of this current legislation (I'm not a fan of som
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by jhancock 17y ago
When I first went to the IKEA Shanghai a few years ago, I was frustrated at how difficult it was to shop there. IKEA is setup to make you walk through the entire store. There is not shortcut to get to the checkout. This problem becomes en
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by jhancock 17y ago
I would assume they are making more than one copy.
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by jhancock 17y ago
cool, I hope to be there. I think its amusing the tag-line is: "select fun, profit from real_world where relational=false ;" This is SQL structure. A problem with NoSQL is we need to communicate queries in a language we all know. Even if
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by jhancock 17y ago
This is a drawback to putting everything in the cloud: features will be weighed by the CPU cycles and storage required by the providers. Can't wait til we come full circle and get back to client/server computing ;). I'm only half joking.
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by jhancock 17y ago
You can't really have a race to the top. That type of competition "narrows" the top. The race becomes an illusion.
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by jhancock 17y ago
interesting story. Do you think it would have made a difference if they felt your illness was an "emergency"? Even in the U.S. paying out of pocket for a well respected doctor, you still have to wait for an appointment. The only way you
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by jhancock 17y ago
just tried it on my ubuntu 8.04 server. > sudo apt-get install iotop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package iotop
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by jhancock 17y ago
yes, an ORM will do all that and then some. Sometimes you don't want the extra stuff. I'm not knocking ORMs. They serve their purpose. Sometimes all I need though is a simple lower level driver.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Thats a pretty decent definition. I think their phrase "incompatible type systems" is meant for you to stress the word systems. The word type is not needed. Not to be confused with "type of an object, i.e. its class". If you really want
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by jhancock 17y ago
sounds good. It seems reasonable that decoupling the visa from the employer may fix some of the wage arguments.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Most all low level rdb libs provide basic type conversion from allowed types in the db to type fitting the language you are using. From these libs you send SQL (any SQL you care to send) and you get returns of a "row" or a cursor usually.
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by jhancock 17y ago
The first thing wrong with this title is the article is about "software engineering", not "computer science". The second thing wrong is engineering is a discipline that teaches you about trade-offs, costs, and finding balance in your solut
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by jhancock 17y ago
Yes, dict is a hash map. A python dict is not "typeless", it contains whatever python objects you put in it. Most client drivers/libs for RDBs have basic type conversions for each language. You don't always need an ORM for this. If you h
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by jhancock 17y ago
I went with "ni hao". It told me it was Vietnamese. Possibly, but not only.
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by jhancock 17y ago
The arguments in Atwood's and Neward's articles stand well on their own. The war analogy is there as link bait.
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by jhancock 17y ago
There are lots of ways to do this. A most common approach is to have each of those dicts be a first class object in python/blub, and therefore you know the class of the object. Customer.find() returns a customer which contains your dict.
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by jhancock 17y ago
I agree with Atwood's conclusion here. If you must use both an OO second tier and a RDB 3rd tier, concessions must be made. You can get around most concessions with more code at the hard parts, but sometimes its just not worth the effort.
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by jhancock 17y ago
hmmm...so how do we fix that? Redefine residency (interim residency) as something that can be more easily attained prior to the Green Card status? Decouple it from the employer? I'm trying to get to the heart of some of these problems as
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by jhancock 17y ago
Should the "are you a permanent resident" question continue to be a roadblock? Its my understanding the visa programs are meant to help out the U.S. long term by bringing in immigrants that makes the U.S. their home (my favorite reason) an

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