karlmdavis

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by karlmdavis 13y ago
> That's purely an adoption-by-browser problem. ... which is a pretty big problem, right? Especially since I don't think FF is likely to pick up NaCL unless/until hell freezes over.
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by karlmdavis 13y ago
For many of the poorest families, having children is a way to generate more household income and a retirement guarantee of sorts. (Apologies for how callous that sounds.) It seems to me that the birth rate has gone down nearly everywhere, a
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by karlmdavis 13y ago
> This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as: > Linux 3.2 For anyone else wondering, Ubuntu 13.04 has the 3.8 kernel and 12.04.2 has the 3.5 kernel ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementS
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by karlmdavis 14y ago
The primary difference is that JSON isn't considered executable-- at least not by any Java JSON libraries that I've seen; it's just data. (Yes, non-executable data can still deliver a malicious payload, e.g. http://technet.microsoft.com/en
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by karlmdavis 14y ago
> It's probably not a great model for fiction where you have to pay writers and real actors Check out "The Vault" that I linked to above. Very reminiscent of Lost and (so far) of excellent quality. I gather from some of what I've read t
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by karlmdavis 14y ago
I've been thinking a bit lately about how web video content is beginning to become "legitimate." With series like Geek & Sundry's Tabletop [1], Penny Arcade's "reality show" [2], and hidden gems like YouTube's The Vault [3], I'm startin
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by karlmdavis 14y ago
> if I had a choice between jenkins and jenkins-clone-built-with-something-else, all things being equal I would choose jenkins-clone-built-with-something-else What on earth for? It's not as if the Java binaries on a (non-multi-user) ser
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by karlmdavis 14y ago
> Cutting your deployment time is equivalent to saving a one-off cost. No, cutting deployment times produces ongoing savings in two respects: 1) Time is saved on deployment every release. That may be a small amount relative to the engin
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by karlmdavis 14y ago
No, I won't leave Facebook entirely over this, but I did just uninstall their application on my Android device. I simply don't trust them to have access to my contact list. Frankly, I didn't trust them much before: I'm sure they were mining
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by karlmdavis 15y ago
> So what motivation does Google really have, to throw resources at the problems facing paid-app economics? The 30% cut they get of each app sale: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/bin/...
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by karlmdavis 15y ago
If you're talking about the ASPM regression introduced in 2.6.38, it looks like it's been resolved in a patch that should drop in 3.3. Here's a Phoronix article on the issue and fix that covers it in detail: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.ph
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by karlmdavis 15y ago
Simple ETL jobs are mostly just E & L: extract the data from one system, load it into another. Where things get complex is in the Transform aspect of some jobs. Mapping disparate schemas is complex, often messy work. Especially when one
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by karlmdavis 15y ago
Do you have citations for your $5-$10 figures? Also, you're neglecting to account for the money they're making from the Android market: apps, movies, books, etc.
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by karlmdavis 15y ago
I'm wondering whether this matches with the geolocation data that their non-Facebook statistics mechanisms are reporting. Are Facebook's more—or less—accurate than other options out there? Has anyone seen any studies or data of this?
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by karlmdavis 15y ago
Keep in mind, though, that even "friction" will eventually cause a team's productivity to drop down to 0. The amount of friction that a given team can tolerate depends on the team members, of course, but especially on the size of the team (
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by karlmdavis 15y ago
> Puppet in particular is so simple that you would want it even if you were managing a single box. You know... that's so blindingly obvious, that it had never even occurred to me. I'm in the middle of a home "IT refresh" right now and I
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by karlmdavis 15y ago
Looks like they support importing from Quicken Essentials for the Mac [1]-- might be a good alternative for the author. [1] http://moneydance.com/blog/archives/434
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by karlmdavis 15y ago
In addition to containing an interesting categorization of technical debt, this article explains the entire concept of such debt in a very clear manner. Much appreciated, as I know of some managers that could benefit from reading this.
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Technical Debt: A Taxonomy(blogs.construx.com)
4 points by karlmdavis 15y ago|1 comments
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by karlmdavis 16y ago
I've got the same thing myself: allergic to uncooked carrots and most fruits (e.g. pears, cantaloupes). Started when I was a teenager-- actually figured out what was going on for the first time eating a bag of baby carrots. I've tried organ
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by karlmdavis 16y ago
Just a minor suggestion: I'd add a tooltip for the Featured Papers' topics/categories. The big two letter acronyms took me a second to decipher before I noticed they're all CS-related. Would probably be a lot more confusing once (/if?) you'
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by karlmdavis 16y ago
I was going to challenge the assumption in the question but it seems that it might actually be correct: PMs and BAs do seem to make a bit more, on average. [1, 2, 3] At least, if one trusts salary.com's figures-- I can never decide if I sho