malbs

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   by malbs 15y ago

   Wow there were a lot of bad suggestions in that thread. I was just waiting for 'C Programming for Dummies' to pop up posted by E. Trollguy. If you work in an object oriented language, I think one of the most useful books you could read woul
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   by malbs 15y ago

   I'd be willing to have a stab that the people who really don't want the public with this footage are the sports bookies offering point spreads/line betting. The bookmakers would already have access to this footage, because it is a competiti
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   by malbs 15y ago

   but the teams already have access to the footage, it's the fans who dont
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   by malbs 15y ago

   if you're combining a diet with a decent exercise regimen, cutting out carbs like that is a road to ruin. Also you lost 10-15 pounds of muscle. sad but true.
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   by malbs 15y ago

   Sounds like a pretty extreme solution to his weight problem. But if it works who am I to question it. Personally I would have just started cycling to/from work (Although maybe he does already)
6. 216.▲
   by malbs 15y ago

   my immediate thought too. "Breaking on those things would be a real pain" looks like I'm not alone
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   by malbs 15y ago

   Typical diets are to blame too. I can not completely back this up, but it is well known in body building:- Person begins to diet, they actually do lose weight (rather than just the usual water weight), but up to 25% of the weight they lose
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   by malbs 15y ago

   "it's better to make a few people really happy than make a lot of people kind of happy" that's a gem.
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   by malbs 15y ago

   I hope she is ok and has just gone walkabout. Even then, a courtesy "I'm ok" call goes a hell of a long way.
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    by malbs 15y ago

    Sure, some of the guys on our team wouldn't commit so much as damn or hell, but they are in the minority We have something akin to a swear jar going on at work, where instead of a coin donation, you must slap yourself in the face for sweari
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    by malbs 15y ago

    I'm not sure what industry Scott actually works in? I can look at our code-base here at work, and there are plenty of swear words through out. The classic foobar as an extension on fubar, as in fucked up beyond all recognition. Then there w
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    by malbs 15y ago

    I know a few people from the "upper socioeconomic class" and they are even more likely to not upgrade/use "the best browser", and instead just use what came with their laptop/desktop/whatever. I'm talking GPs, Lawyers, Accountants, Investme
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    by malbs 15y ago

    yeah but all the others did when id was an independent entity - it's now owned by ZeniMax Media
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    by malbs 15y ago

    Our solution to infrastructure/performance problems which dates back a fair way is to simply throw more hardware at problems. Lately we are starting to hit a limit - a power limit. We are actually limited in the data center we use not by sp
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    by malbs 15y ago

    Sorry thought I'd throw in a link to the GemStone/S product site http://www.gemstone.com/products/gemstone My specific experience is with GLASS http://seaside.gemstone.com/
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    by malbs 15y ago

    It's built on top of GemStone/S which is an incredibly mature object database/persistance mechanism, while I can not speak for MagLev itself, if the guys at GemStone Inc, now VMware, are prepared to push this out as a v1.0, then I would be
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    by malbs 15y ago

    Built on top of GemStone/S, aka GemStone Smalltalk.
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    by malbs 15y ago

    When 10gen finally push out the lock per collection changes, it will improve mongodb significantly. We have a couple of collections that are heavy write, and a couple of others that are heavy read, and we can't run them on the same instance
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    by malbs 15y ago

    While it would require me setting up a blog, it would probably be worth it. It could almost be a business venture, given the fact that an off the shelf media product is upwards of $100 here in aus, if you could create a decent linux media c
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    by malbs 15y ago

    actually the original joke was about buying a new computer, I mutated it to apply it to TP
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    by malbs 15y ago

    damn, I keep having to double check because it's almost unbelievable they can pack that much capability into something so cheap?
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    by malbs 15y ago

    I'm hoping I just found the next base of a networked media player for home
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    by malbs 15y ago

    The old computer joke... - Cheap - Fast - Good Choose any two With TP, you got all three!
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    by malbs 15y ago

    Press an enter key, end random people's lives in a country you may or may not have visited. It should sound insane, but it's real =\ I wonder how many people would be brave/stupid enough to press the enter key, trusting in the methods they
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    by malbs 15y ago

    I'm not really sure how you can compare someone who promotes Free/Open Source software to a murderer of millions, but anyways... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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    by malbs 15y ago

    > an uncompromising idealist That's what I respect most about him. His message has never changed. He's truly a man of his convictions. Like him or not.
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    by malbs 15y ago

    Bring on November
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    by malbs 15y ago

    +1 to linode - in the past I opted for cheap options, and suffered, but after experiencing the management tools and infrastructure linode has in place, I'll stick with them at the more premium price.
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    by malbs 15y ago

    It seems that there is a shift from PC gaming to console gaming... Here's me citing my single data point - Rage. id focused on the console experience above the pc experience, so when you have a predominately pc-driven company focusing on co
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    by malbs 15y ago

    ahhh I've never seen that, so true!