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by lsb 17y ago
It's from a book in 1999. As of 1998, the share price hadn't soared as much as they'd hoped.
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by lsb 17y ago
You do realize that that's not their core competance, right? An author wants to write good books, so there's a great market opportunity for someone to outsource to...like an existing publisher, who has the reputation of choosing high-quali
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by lsb 17y ago
If your try{} catch{} blocks were expressions, not statements, you could write foo = try { 1 } catch(Exception e) { 2 } much like the foo = bool ? 1 : 2 ternary if statement, versus the if() {} else {} clauses.
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by lsb 17y ago
And, remember, job security isn't free, and he has an even more secure job now.
605.
by lsb 17y ago
Prototype (like jQuery) has really easy DOM access. $$("div.className[attributeName=value]").pluck("innerHTML") does what you expect.
606.
by lsb 17y ago
I think what we both want is proc(arg1, arg2).
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by lsb 17y ago
It's not self.call(:my_method) --- that's nuts. It's my_method[param1, param2] which is aliased to my_method.call(param1, param2). Ruby's syntax can be a crapfest (like Procs not being callable without [] instead of () for example), but t
608.
by lsb 17y ago
That domain is parked and the pdf link is broken.
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by lsb 17y ago
"Notice how SQL forces the pipeline to be written inside-out, with operations that need to happen first happening in the from clause sub-query." That temporary table is unnecessary: you can rewrite the query as insert into ValuableCli
610.
by lsb 17y ago
Yes, that's why he's leaving to pursue Bingo Card Creator fulltime.
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by lsb 17y ago
That's entirely right; to explain a bit more, the reason that index is good is because it's a covering index. You have all the data you need to pull from the table in the index (which you've found via binary search through your B+tree),
612.
by lsb 17y ago
I think a more successful reward system would be Don Knuth's payment program for TeX and Metafont, exponentially increasing hex dollars on checks so valuable that you'd never want to cash them.
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by lsb 17y ago
Current rumors are that approvals go out in under a business week. Apple uses the number of apps as a selling point, they're proud of that and want that number to rise substantially, and that they're so confident of the App Store they put t
614.
by lsb 17y ago
How would you do multi-tasking, while promising ten hours of battery life?
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by lsb 17y ago
You didn't even fix the (known) wkhtmltopdf bug that all the fonts turn into DjVu Sans. What value have you added?
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by lsb 17y ago
At the first Startup School, Wolfram actually made a joke that they were missing some deliverables from him.
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by lsb 17y ago
Upvoted, but what the hackers and hobbyists was threatening was the entire viability of the calculators. Here's why. TI's generally pretty friendly towards people tinkering with the calculators. But what they were doing was breaking the s
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by lsb 17y ago
I was abusing a footnote package, sorting footnotes alphabetically per page, and that took about a second a page on my laptop, but for everything else disk seeks take the majority of TeX's time; once you LaTeX something, and cache the font
619.
by lsb 17y ago
Lua's designed to be embedded, no? And it loads into C, which is a strict subset of Objective-C, so that should be relatively straightforward. Same with Guile Scheme, no?
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by lsb 17y ago
When I saw the Bing search results, and saw how much of a knockoff it was of Google's design, all I could think about was Arial being a poor knockoff of Helvetica, but at exactly the same widths, because Microsoft didn't want to pay licensi
621.
by lsb 17y ago
You can buy a machine with 128GB of memory and 2 TB of disk space for under $10k at Dell. A billion rows could be an in-memory dataset now.
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by lsb 17y ago
Yeah, your wrists should be straight when typing. Though, if you switch it up enough, you can type in almost any position for a short-enough amount of time. But that looks like the express train to RSI.
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by lsb 17y ago
To all who really dislike this comment: For all comments that should be flagged, click "link", and then you get that comment's page, with a flag link.
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by lsb 17y ago
On the reply page to a comment, there's a flag, so just flag it.
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by lsb 17y ago
Fair Trade keeps the Triangle Trade alive and well. If you want to change things and help developing nations, make sure those developing nations have added most of the value. For example, you can buy fair trade chocolate bars, with beans
626.
by lsb 17y ago
No, ROT3, not 13, and he was missing J, V, W.
627.
by lsb 17y ago
And then he discovered the LOOP statement!
628.
by lsb 17y ago
1. Homemaker != woman. Highly correlated, but don't assume. 2. Contractors can either work per hour or per job. And if both people agree on a job and a price, and each job is slightly different, and you don't know a priori how long it's
629.
by lsb 17y ago
I think you're forgetting why unions and minimum wage and child labor laws came into being. It's because people were locked into their seats at the mill, working 10-12 hours a day, and fired when they got sick. Now, you have people working
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by lsb 17y ago
Yes, I'm starting to work for an online company that's sitting on 20 TB of clickstream data that no one's gotten around to even looking at.

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