lazyant

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   by lazyant 12y ago

   "[W]hat is your favorite programming language / platform and why" while a reasonably good open-ended question, students just haven't been exposed for long enough to different languages/platforms to have an opinion,
2. 962.▲
   by lazyant 12y ago

   People die because some idiot parent didn't vaccinated their children, so I say yes, enforce it or don't live in society, go to some isolated island because you are causing harm, it's as totalitarian as allowing people to pla
3. 963.▲
   by lazyant 12y ago

   is there a site (or market) for Linux sysadmin freelance work?
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   by lazyant 12y ago

   Before there were Computer Science university schools, programming was taught at Math, Physics and Engineering schools (like the mentioned FORTRAN), it wasn't taught (still isn't) in language schools. There's some relationshi
5. 965.▲
   by lazyant 12y ago

   So monitorseo.com basically sell backlinks "through our extensive network of bloggers and web workers."
6. 966.▲
   by lazyant 12y ago

   Works automagically for Canada, awesome
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   by lazyant 12y ago

   An idea to automate part of the verification process is to have a "fill as much as you can or want" form asking for public accounts (facebook, G+, twitter, github, personal web site, non-free email accounts etc) and then generatin
8. 968.▲
   by lazyant 12y ago

   I've requested scan of ID in the past for suspicious sign-ups, the reasoning is that almost all malicious people would just move on at that point to another target.
9. 969.▲
   by lazyant 12y ago

   I T237nk the@#$s som3 prob@#$ wi%! 4*e encodi13ng
10. 970.▲
    by lazyant 12y ago

    non-mobile link: http://trykeep.com/
11. 971.▲
    by lazyant 12y ago

    Reminds me of http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1174
12. 972.▲
    by lazyant 12y ago

    "Police also arrested the teen and took him to juvenile jail, where Foster said they took photos of the teen’s genitals against his will." - charge the police with creation and possession of child pornography.
13. 973.▲
    by lazyant 12y ago

    OT: what's the modern online version of MS Access? (a tool that will allow a non-technical person to create a simple db-backed form & report web app)
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    by lazyant 12y ago

    Submitted this by mistake, can't delete, funny how downvoters don't see that.
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    by lazyant 12y ago

    Silly question, why not chat (which can be saved for review etc) instead of audio?
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    by lazyant 12y ago

    S
17. 977.▲
    by lazyant 12y ago

    only the first book listed is open source/free/creative commons
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    by lazyant 12y ago

    http://demo.rainloop.net/ Resource temporarily unavailable - please try again later.
19. 979.▲
    by lazyant 12y ago

    exactly: easy to setup, a pain to maintain
20. 980.▲
    by lazyant 12y ago

    swapiness=0 in some Linux versions disables swapping, also even with swapiness=0 and plenty of RAM, kernel sometimes will swap; people put too much faith in these values intead of doing proper capacity planning/monitoring imhho
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    by lazyant 12y ago

    I'm very much against changing kernel settings in production servers without really understanding the implications. Take for example the "swappiness = 0", most likely what you think it does it's not what it does.
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    by lazyant 12y ago

    I guess the name comes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_prize , btw the little book "Longitude" http://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Dava-Sobel-ebook/dp/B003WUYE... is a fanta
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    by lazyant 12y ago

    I think it's probably not done consciously but rather an oversight, by leaving the original blog's default code
24. 984.▲
    by lazyant 12y ago

    Yes a million times, console-over-IP and virtualization are must-haves
25. 985.▲
    by lazyant 12y ago

    It looks to me that their heads are pointing in about the same direction (looking at the man) but in Vermeer's she is turning her head (her body is facing another direction)
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    by lazyant 12y ago

    Funny not enough people want to predict more goals, WC recent average I think is around 2.5.
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    by lazyant 12y ago

    what's the numbers on the average predictions mean (they are all 1.x)? also you've forgotten to translate some countries from French (Cameroun, Chil)
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    by lazyant 12y ago

    The ironic thing is that if that guy wasn't a pilot (high in the hierarchy) nobody wold have bother listening to him.
29. 989.▲
    by lazyant 12y ago

    it's not laziness, it's lack of respect (for other people/other people's time)
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    by lazyant 12y ago

    Electrical cars/buses may be less green than gas vehicles since electricity may come from a very "dirty" source. For example in the US more than 1/3 of the energy comes from coal power plants, which surely have caused mo