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by jpitz 15y ago
UUID1s don't sort by their generation time.
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by jpitz 15y ago
Sorry, but I absolutely, completely disagree. Why? Documentation has to be maintained. The LOC metric isn't about the cost to the computer to execute the code. What is IS about is the cost to the developers to create and maintain it.
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by jpitz 15y ago
Pidof does not seem to be included in 10.6. HomeBrew has it, MacPorts could not find it.
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by jpitz 15y ago
Whoever pays first. Or, more, maybe.
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by jpitz 15y ago
re: the gap: I wondered that a little too, but being a dumb brute of a brass player, not too much. My command of the dynamic range dominates the loud end, I'm afraid. I agree that performances are vastly better experienced in person. A doct
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by jpitz 15y ago
This, I can buy. More so even lossy codecs over crappy speakers. I am wary of the argument that there exists this great gap between average listeners and trained musicians. There is a training gap, surely, but IMHO the raw auditory discrimi
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by jpitz 15y ago
( Background: I was a professional musician in a past life and I was quite involved in sound reinforcement. ) No two ears, nor no two microphones have the exact same response curve. I'm not yet convinced that what you or the original commen
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by jpitz 15y ago
>In short, ultrasonic frequencies will interact with each other in the room (reflections, reverb and so on) in a way that causes interference in the frequency range you can hear. If a vibrating membrane of skin in my head can react to i
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by jpitz 15y ago
<quote>there are overtones picked up by the ear that you can't capture with a microphone.</quote> I am confused. I think you're claiming that, for example, a KSM-137 has frequency response in some part of the audible range t
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by jpitz 15y ago
As amazing as ack is, it would take some effort to teach it how to grep through git history.
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by jpitz 15y ago
What?!!? When did they start charging for the runtime? Admittedly, it has been a while for me, but I remember the runtime and the SDK being free. Is my information out of date, or are you confusing it with Visual Studio?
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by jpitz 15y ago
Oracle silently issues an implicit commit after each DDL statement. I think it kills a kitten each time.
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by jpitz 15y ago
Seriously. The command line console for postgres really is that good. I'd rather spend a day in it than any vendor-provided or third party GUI for any database I have ever touched. This includes things like dbVisualizer, SquirrelSQL, pgAdmi
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by jpitz 15y ago
Honestly, computer systems should be approached and treated as though they have the complexity of the physical world. They're composed of a bunch of different parts, some moving, some distant, all accumulating all sorts of interesting bottl
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by jpitz 15y ago
Yes, BBS.
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by jpitz 15y ago
Ohh the memories. Back in '90 or '91 I was teaching myself Turbo Pascal and completely sucking so badly at PoP that I wrote a cheat - I made a little DOS GUI save game editor that could max out your lives and/or time remaining. I released i
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by jpitz 15y ago
The diff command that I run before I commit highlights all those TODOs ( along with whitespace damage )
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by jpitz 15y ago
I see what this author has done, and I wonder to myself if I could ever possibly have the time to write myself tools to do the things he suggests. Then I wonder if I have the time not to.
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by jpitz 15y ago
The blog post revealed something or probably two somethings fundamental and astonishing - one being a new ( to me ) process of problem solving, and the other being an almost virtuosic display of visualization. I disagree that it was anythin
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by jpitz 15y ago
"Tragedy today, as former President Gerald Ford was eaten by wolves. He was delicious."
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by jpitz 15y ago
This was returning an empty document for me, but http://digitaljournalist.org.nyud.net/issue0712/y_walker08.h... works.
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by jpitz 15y ago
tl/dr: we didn't bother testing it or anything, and even the graph on the story shows a pretty flat hardware bump since Vista, GOSH, Windows 8 might be a pig!
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by jpitz 15y ago
Background for those unfamiliar with f.lux - it is a utility for adjusting the color temperature of your display at night to warmer temps. I'm quite fond of it.
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by jpitz 15y ago
… and I feel fine. ( apologies to Bill Berry et al, and my karma )
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by jpitz 15y ago
( I HATE that you are downmodded. ) I would argue that it isn't just bugs per feature, but bugs per interaction-point. the more features there are, the more interaction points between those features.
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by jpitz 15y ago
" Also I'm told that the old "RAID-5 is always bad" notion is considerably more nuanced nowadays, and that many of the earlier OLTP write performance problems with RAID-5 have been largely mitigated with modern RAID controllers." Not
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by jpitz 15y ago
We're a java shop. Hasn't stopped us from hiring smart, motivated people who've been specializing in other languages. Worked out quite well every time we've done it, too.
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by jpitz 15y ago
Thank You!
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by jpitz 15y ago
That is an entirely fair point. I was going off the memory of an $80 price point from 2, and a fairly cheap-sh upgrade to 3. [edit - instead of replying to myself] In any case, I'll hold off a patch release or two. Heck, I haven't even inst
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by jpitz 15y ago
VMWare Fusion 3 customers, no need to fret. Unless you purchased after July 20th, you get to pay full price just like everyone else. ( I'd be happy to be wrong, but at this point, I feel a tad betrayed. To the point that I am considering du

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