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by jsymolon 9y ago
Given all the issues in regards to exchanges i.e. fraud, theft and relative difficulty in getting out, I wouldn't trust cryptocurrency at all.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
I was always fond of wxWidgets. Multi-platform, multi-language bindings. http://wxwidgets.org/
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by jsymolon 9y ago
Worse yet, when banks don't even try to correct when contacted. I don't have a common name, just lucky enough to get a preferred gmail account. Someone, I don't know, signed up to American Express with my email. I'm get
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by jsymolon 9y ago
I've got billion dollars in revenue running on a Perl 5 batch system.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
For one state in the Northeast, crushing debt load of state pensions. For a couple of decades, state leadership promised generous pensions and kept kicking the can down the road. Something has to give and (higher) education funding is an e
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by jsymolon 9y ago
As party to one of the organizers, the dollars per head runs slightly above a wedding. Thus expect $120/plate/head. Not a great bonus. Add ons that were cut as the budget was cut; Open Bar: (paid at end, but think cocktail rates
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by jsymolon 9y ago
Be careful with that. Using leading zeros (in KSH) treats them as octal and doing things "old" school will break.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
list the file showing inode number, rm by that particular inode.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
> aren't our parents ... Doesn't seem to stop them from trying to find naughty photos and block them. https://www.geek.com/apps/is-it-nude-algorithm-wants-to-find...
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by jsymolon 9y ago
(my data point ...) I get mail from a bank for someone who misspelled their email but their name is very close to mine. I called the bank, reported that I was getting their email and they tried to sell me their identity theft service.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
Like SSNs (with a defined purpose), IMbs "use" is to help the USPS sort and deliver the mail without manual handling. Large mailers (billions of pieces per year) get a postage discount by applying such barcode to all the pieces. (
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by jsymolon 9y ago
> ... have to install some sort of switch ... A qualified electrician installs a "transfer" switch. It's two breakers tied mechanically so that one position feeds the house with line power, flipping it, the other is the
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by jsymolon 9y ago
Interesting .... I really liked DEC's VMS DCL ... and "help" was top notch.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
Makes a lot of sense. You have 2 scenarios; 1) old code base in C, rewrite in language du jour. 2) new functionality in either C or spiffy lang 2.0 (SPIFFY). For scenario 1, all that functionality has to be duplicated, including "defe
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by jsymolon 9y ago
https://www.allclearid.com/personal/ (my .02; just because you want to exclude yourself doesn't mean that you can avoid the fallout of someone impersonating you. An identity theft is costly to clean up and better
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by jsymolon 9y ago
Yes. The issuing banks don't care if you get a low interest card or 25% per annum. I lived at my current address for 20+ years and still a bank issued a credit card for someone 3 states away .... I have a credit monitoring (not throug
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by jsymolon 9y ago
And, laws that don't force the use of brand name drugs. https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/25/mylan-antitrust-epipen-s...
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by jsymolon 9y ago
That's the point. it can't be properly implemented.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
> voter fraud. Red Herring. Not counting voter registration fraud, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/0-... Washington Post only found 4 cases in the 2016 election
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by jsymolon 9y ago
There are many great places to work. In my 20+ years, i've never ran across that toxic attitude. Maybe it's time to publicly shame those workplaces.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
> variable declarations inside loops Depends on the standards. A lot of language standards say to declare vars near where you use them. Does make syntactical analysis easier. See scoping and namespace rules.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
What you are focusing on is perfectly idiomatic Java. I'll bet for most Java slingers, quite beautiful. Other languages with other standards, yep, nasty. Language wars are tiring, pedantic and really not part of this discussion on sch
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by jsymolon 9y ago
Look at what Nixon's Aid (Ehrlichman) said about Nixon's drug policy. (Excerpt NY Daily News): The “War on Drugs” was actually a political tool to crush leftist protesters and black people, a former Nixon White House adviser admit
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by jsymolon 9y ago
AST = Abstract Syntax Tree. " ... manipulate AST ... " Interesting thought, but that's not a property of a language per se but a function of the IDE.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
Farm raised Salmon is salmon in name only. Different taste and color. I'll pay the extra $4-5 dollar a pound when in "season" for the real thing.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
Wall-e unit for compressing blocks and leaving a heap.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
People want the convenience of having access to transportation 24/7 no matter where they are and when. Ever call a taxi (not in city) ? 30+ minutes. Also, tragedy of the commons ... who was the last one to use the car has to pay for c
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by jsymolon 9y ago
Actually, in the past few years there has been a number of packaged vegetable recalls. Last ones were for packaged spinach.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
Represent ! Some of the back end systems are still on 1.2. Something about "no money for licenses and upgrades" on items that use Java. Not too many in-house developers, aka zero, want to touch that core system.
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by jsymolon 9y ago
Per the Reenix OS implementation: "This boot-loader, unfortunately, did not support loading any kernel images larger than 4 megabytes. This turned into a problem very quickly as it turns out that rustc is far less adept than gcc at c

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