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by jpitz 12y ago
Maybe you could use a duck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
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by jpitz 12y ago
If you read what TFA says: "Of course this is a stupid example, you would probably put the username, password and other important stuff in another file, say a config file, but let’s assume that this is not possible
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by jpitz 12y ago
>and you don't have any explosive and/or metal shrapnel falling back down into populated areas. ... if and only if the laser completely obliterates the target, which requires a fair bit more power and precision than a disabling
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by jpitz 12y ago
That or he isn't aware of the subtle exception to the a vs an rule regarding leading 'y' u-sounds.
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by jpitz 12y ago
How about public shaming instead of the destruction of a career?
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by jpitz 12y ago
arguably, modular and open equate to "more hackable."
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by jpitz 12y ago
To paraphrase, 7 is reasonably able, 14 is guaranteed. Knuth cites this in TAOVP vol 2, from Aldous And Diaconis, AMM 1986, pp 333-348.
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by jpitz 12y ago
Because that combination hasn't ever come up in any other application?
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by jpitz 12y ago
Handguns are far slower than rifles. .45 ACP usually goes about 1000 f/s. That jet, flying at half the speed of a .45 caliber bullet, weighs at least one hundred times as much. I think that's the point GP was trying to make.
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by jpitz 12y ago
I've been running upgraded bash - and more recently, just zsh, in OSX for years. It has never broken anything here. I think the risk of breaking something is outweighed by the risk of exploit.
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by jpitz 12y ago
This looks relevant (???) http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/lice... It seems to imply a fairly open license that requires only attribution. I don't really know UK law however.
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by jpitz 12y ago
In my view, periodic re-clustering isn't the same thing, though it may be good enough for most use cases. I'd label it "transactionally maintain clustering on a table"
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by jpitz 12y ago
My long-standing feature request is for index-organized-tables : http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ac116f9a0907151917o6d87...
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by jpitz 13y ago
There are warts in the standard library to be sure, but many of them have already been filled in by third parties like Apache Commons, Google Guava, and Joda-time. I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking of.
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by jpitz 13y ago
I don't think it's unfair to say C# took some cues from Java either, but Property syntax, for example, (sadly) has no counterpart in Java, only Object Pascal/Delphi. Historically, the impetus behind C#'s birth _absolutel
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by jpitz 13y ago
What, it copied a single-class, multiple-interface statically typed OO language? Since the lead architect on C# designed one of those that predated Java, I think it is pretty clear what he was copying. http://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by jpitz 13y ago
They have been looking at doing so for years. This is a conservative, slow moving industry.
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by jpitz 13y ago
MySQL isn't the only engine that does this. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17952_01/refman-5.1-en/implicit-c... Edit - I was wrong! Not only did I link to the wrong docs, but Oracle fixed what I considered t
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by jpitz 13y ago
This ^^^ comment cannot be upvoted enough. Please treat all servers, virtual or not, as ephemeral.
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by jpitz 13y ago
Just sent a pull request - I'd use this if it linked to comments. Otherwise this is exactly what I want!
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by jpitz 13y ago
I'm thinking of ramp-in / ramp-out for load simulations.
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by jpitz 13y ago
I've commented before that I feel that the PostgreSQL project is especially wonderful about code comments. According to the cloc tool, their C code has 700k lines of code and 221k lines of comments. That by itself isn't terribly i
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by jpitz 13y ago
>it is how updatable views work in MSSQL Not exactly. The updated columns may only unambiguously reference one table, but you can execute an update on a view which references multiple tables.
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by jpitz 13y ago
The size of the SKU assortment has such a profound impact on so very many areas of the business, I would venture to say that if two retailers don't have a comparably sized SKU assortment, they're well-nigh incomparable.
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by jpitz 13y ago
For a KS with a goal this low, they likely aren't targeting anything but US-approved radios.
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by jpitz 13y ago
> Obviously you must believe that typing make causes one of those things, or you wouldn't have made your comment. Or: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6246393
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by jpitz 13y ago
Where did I say it was faster or more stable?
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by jpitz 13y ago
I didn't say it was faster, and I didn't say the majority needed to do it. The reason is to be able to customize your build and/or apply patches. Tom Lane fixed a production bug I reported in hours and this got me running fai
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by jpitz 13y ago
That may be the easiest way, but if your intention is to do serious, heavy-duty work with PostgreSQL, please do yourself a favor and learn how to compile and install from source.
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by jpitz 13y ago
My first thought was that Herbert's estate was suing Lucas.

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