jlg23

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by jlg23 10y ago
I think it is less about pictures being taken but a guy given a badge and now he is high on [perceived] power. Most of the time one can deal with them by a friendly request for clarification on which grounds they want one to do something. F
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by jlg23 10y ago
> What do people use Mathematica for that can't be done in R, SAS, Matlab, SPSS or Python libraries. Nothing; but Mathematica has been the tool of choice for cs education (or math+cs) and people tend to stick to what they know.
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by jlg23 10y ago
> bypassed spam and instantly deleted it, silently Do you have any proof for that - I don't want to see it in detail, but I cannot remember a single incidence where my mail was just silently eaten by google? But I agree with what yo
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by jlg23 10y ago
> Taking drugs, especially starting to, is 100% up to you. It can also be a way of coping with/escaping problems/depression. This quote from the article hints at that: “I felt more laid-back, carefree,” said Justin of that firs
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by jlg23 10y ago
> But how do you query your LDAP server without installing additional tools? Because in 2016, we have more than one machine. Hundreds. Grepping /etc/passwd is missing the forest for the trees. You are missing my point, it'
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by jlg23 10y ago
> It is nice to get a quick response Indeed, it is. But one won't learn anything of value. One just learns the solution to a very specific problem. If one chooses to learn the basics, more often than not one will decide that it is q
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by jlg23 10y ago
Account just created for this ad; "article" is just an ad and remarkably badly devised as an article.
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by jlg23 10y ago
TL;DR: You are absolutely right - but that is very, very sad. > What you describe as "reading docs is hard" can be equated to "my team will be slower for negleglible gain." Yes, but only from a very short-sighted poin
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by jlg23 10y ago
After 18 years of running FreeBSD on my servers, my $0.02: Politics/marketing: * Most "unix" admins only know linux and will advocate for it vigorously because it is so much better than.. "what do you use again? Fedora?
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by jlg23 10y ago
> [emacs & slime] I was not aware you have experience with both, I just tried to point out what most people use today. I did not intend to start yet another editor war, even clay tablets are fine with me :). > If there are other C
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by jlg23 10y ago
> For me, it's a question of tooling. emacs & slime[1] > I would love to see a Common Lisp expert do an entire book on Armed Bear Common Lisp I'm curious what you'd expect from such a book. There are some excellent
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by jlg23 10y ago
> You'll do massive economic damage that harms the poor if you price control or subsidise any commodity, including water. That depends on how it is done, Venezuela showed how not to do it. I think a good option is to also provide co
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by jlg23 10y ago
First of all they usually settle within walking distance to a source of fresh water - some areas in Israel are the great exemption here. And there is plenty of reason: * historic: a lot of trade routes for sought-after goods went through de
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by jlg23 10y ago
> I don't see how recursive queries are going to help you You construct a graph of objects with very few queries, transform it and write it back; with knowledge of the db-schema this will outperform any ORM-based solution and give m
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by jlg23 10y ago
> It has several advantages: [1] support for multiple databases (which is useful, sometimes), [2] the ability to serialize/deserialize an object graph in one go, and [3] sometimes a decent query builder which lets you compose querie
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by jlg23 10y ago
The "formal" specification is the goal, but the starting point is a rather informal specification. So it is an iterative process where you discover a bug and then have to figure out whether the bug is in the implementation or the
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by jlg23 10y ago
If you keep getting asked the same question, why not put this list of reasons on the lib's homepage? What you have on the page now is not convincing (I'd just create a function for your first example and I don't care about th
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by jlg23 10y ago
As long as one needs a programmer the year is a good rough estimate, the hard part is not the building but the gathering of requirements. Take the programmer out of the equation and thus the communication overhead between programmer and dom
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by jlg23 10y ago
Great read, but I don't buy it. I've not been to Kazakhstan but traveled Africa and South America extensively. I've been to war zones. A lot of things don't add up: * A cop takes a bribe, is surprised the tourist is in s
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by jlg23 10y ago
FiveAm provides a sane syntax, generators and a pretty nice workflow: https://common-lisp.net/project/fiveam/
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by jlg23 10y ago
And when will someone show them PostgreSQL's ltree[1]? [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ltree.html
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by jlg23 10y ago
> I wonder how many actual wars in the past have been started because someone didn't like how the border looked on a map. Plenty, though it's less about rectangular shapes per se but borders being drawn by former colonial force
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by jlg23 10y ago
I think it is a sad commentary on our society that all comments so far revolve around the possibility of being arrested for this simple hack :{
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by jlg23 10y ago
> The idea that "our world [is] parsed and circumscribed as it is by the limits of our vocabulary" is nuts. Superficially yes but it is just a rephrasing of Wittgenstein's "The limits of my language mean the limits of
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by jlg23 10y ago
> I'd love to see what ways of programming tend to be most effective with production teams. The one the whole team understands and can agree upon.
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by jlg23 10y ago
I would not call this javascript fatigue but sheep fatigue. > Remember Google’s Polymer? Angular 1? Express? Perhaps the organizations and individuals which cause these abrupt termination events should carry a stigma. After all, misleadi
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David Davis: A Brexit Economic Strategy for Britain(conservativehome.com)
3 points by jlg23 10y ago|2 comments
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by jlg23 10y ago
> While I hate companies suing people for repairing their own properties, "right" has been overused so many places. I don't think it is outrageous to claim ownership to something that I bought. If a company does not want m
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by jlg23 10y ago
Cute idea, but by no means suitable for learning about HTML. It's like proposing to learn some programming language by randomly introducing keywords and functions of the standard library. If you click often enough, you "have seen
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by jlg23 10y ago
This article is pretty pointless, as is much on vice. tl;dr: * people might build nearly identical systems to scam people * people might get around pin security "if it is stored on the card and not protected" * people might find p

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