joeclark77

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by joeclark77 13y ago
Have you thought about a database to target? I know there are 3rd party tools for SQL Server version control, but haven't been exposed to any for PostgreSQL, which is becoming my database of choice.
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by joeclark77 13y ago
"Capitalism" is just a made-up word meaning the natural state of human affairs, in which people own property, do work, buy, sell, and trade with one another. The word only became popular in the past couple centuries as socialists
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by joeclark77 13y ago
Why do you have to "become economically equal" in order for wealth to be an incentive for work? Can no one "earn wealth by working" except in reference to Bill Gates or Paris Hilton or someone? Is wealth defined only i
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by joeclark77 13y ago
> differences in wealth hardly matter This is obvious from any comparison between the United States and any genuinely poor or developing country. In the United States, the "poor" own cars and televisions (with cable!),
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by joeclark77 13y ago
Crowdsourced gardening. You create an account, taking pictures of your garden. A cloud service stitches them together into a 3D model. GPS location and the height of the various house/trees/walls are used to predict sunlight an
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by joeclark77 13y ago
Database version-control is IMHO going to be very important in the near future. I'd encourage you to go ahead with it!
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by joeclark77 13y ago
As a teacher of IT courses, I'd love a tool that would make it easy for me to set up "TDD" assignments and manage student submissions and grading. For example, I teach a SQL database course. I'd like to tell students t
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by joeclark77 13y ago
I'm just buying my first house now, too. (Closing on Monday.) Like you, I'd be the target user for this. Let me know if you'd like some help on it!
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by joeclark77 13y ago
They were doing something similar in Taiwan when I lived there 13 years ago. Each receipt had a lottery number on it, and every month or two there'd be a drawing of prizes. There was no need for a citizen to "register" thei
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by joeclark77 13y ago
Oh, great. Extra Mondays. "Festival of the Dead" is a pretty good name for that idea.
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by joeclark77 13y ago
This is not your last chance to so something entrepreneurial, but it is getting close to her last chance to start a family. (And quite frankly, for every year you continue to delay having kids, the physical stress of raising them is going
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by joeclark77 13y ago
> Finally it is perennial, in that the weekdays of every year are always the same. No, the epagomenal/intercalary days would change this from year to year. The weekdays would be the same from month to month within a given year, of
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by joeclark77 13y ago
The problem for Japan and most Western nations is not that their young people are infertile, it's that their young people are unwilling to marry and have children. (And even those who are willing, are only willing to have one or two
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by joeclark77 13y ago
They are being paid to become mothers to children who they will never know, who will likely die in miscarriages (implantation of IVF embryos is not very successful), and (per the WSJ article linked) may very likely be intentionally murdered
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by joeclark77 13y ago
I don't think you realize how small a kilometer is! Or how valuable a Euro is (in terms of real money like dollars). That sounds to me like an incredible rate of profit.
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by joeclark77 13y ago
It was a play on the title of the article that the author was responding to.
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by joeclark77 13y ago
From reading Redmond & Wilson's book "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks", my impression is that the CAP Theorem is a big idea (essentially, you get two choose any two: consistency, availability, and partition-tolerance). Re
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by joeclark77 13y ago
I'll have three kids under 4, any day now. I can't remember feeling rested, either, but I've gotten used to it. I'm a professor and about to kick off a startup using free time over summer break. It's worse for my