markbnj

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by markbnj 11y ago
I agree with many of the points expressed, and as someone who has used docker in production I have run into many of these issues myself. At the same time, I value composability and I don't want docker to have a single monolithic approa
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by markbnj 11y ago
I'm happy to see this become a topic of conversation. The formal performance review is emblematic of the key difference between small and large organizations. A small organization will usually rely on ad hoc information gathered from t
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by markbnj 11y ago
Yes, I think the author was correct and I was wrong. However as I mentioned in another reply I don't know what the net is on the power usage.
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by markbnj 11y ago
I don't know if I could tell you the best place, but this seems like a good start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Water_Project I became interested while living in LA twenty or so years ago. The wh
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by markbnj 11y ago
> Add to that the fact that almost all of the freshwater consumed by the twenty-two million people of Southern California is imported, much of it pumped long distances, over mountains, from Northern California The author's conclusio
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> Chomsky compares the approach to a statistical model of insect behavior. Given enough video of swarming bees, for example, researchers might devise a statistical model that allows them to predict what the bees might do next. But in
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by markbnj 11y ago
That's the smartest take on it that I've heard.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Ha, exactly, except that too good to be true usually is. I have a hard time believing the "low ball high volume" strategy is going to lead to well-executed projects.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Translation: we're burning other people's money so we can underbid anyone and build a customer book. Of course, at some point someone is going to want the business to be profitable and then, hey presto, you're a dev shop like
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> But what do you propose we do if a developer gets sick or has to travel? I think that's sort of the point. You do whatever any other engineering team does when faced with the same challenges. The question is what is Gigster do
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by markbnj 11y ago
That's brilliant, even if only for it's pugnaciousness.
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by markbnj 11y ago
They probably didn't have the ability to test it on nearly enough readers, given that there are literally thousands. They may also be running into some timing issues based on how people swipe. Those are things you sometimes just can&#x
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by markbnj 11y ago
I don't think the replies meant "passionate" as in "man I am so STOKED to clean your apartment, brah!" What they meant was "cares enough to do a good job."
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by markbnj 11y ago
One of my favorite EEVBlogs. Thanks for the submission. Bob's yer uncle! Side note: Dave noted the use of the old school OTP chip to store the executable code, contrasted it with modern flashable chips, and then linked the use to the o
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by markbnj 11y ago
Typical behavior from a large corporation trying to wiggle out of a bad deal, but this... >> At check-in, American agents detained Mukharji and escorted him to a private office. ... caught me by surprise. Agents of an airline can deta
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by markbnj 11y ago
I think "the web" in this case really means media sites and some retailers. The media sites don't have a clue how to make money, other than to include all the usual ad networks and tracking scripts and then sit back and hope.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Yes, exactly. I had forgotten the name, and I also found it interesting that it wasn't mentioned.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Interesting post, and I'm not surprised to see a diversity of opinion on the design. Question: does anyone still use the CRC validity check for client- or server-side validation of payment card numbers?
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by markbnj 11y ago
I love to see good articles on color. Thanks for the submission.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Ah, thanks. I was assuming that material "49" was plutonium. One interesting thing in the notes that I didn't know was the extent to which the role of the "tamper" material was already well-understood. Would it be c
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by markbnj 11y ago
Because you scroll from top to bottom, duh ;).
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by markbnj 11y ago
I don't know how unusual Vermont is in this regard. Many of the states on the East Coast have old roadways on their maps. Southern New Jersey's Pine Barrens are a case in point, as is the Delaware Water Gap area in the state'
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by markbnj 11y ago
You're right, that is weird. However, since he had operational responsibility for "community" it sounds like it was his call.
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by markbnj 11y ago
In what sort of corporate governance model does an executive chairman make an operational decision to fire a line employee?
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> barking of dogs, grunting of hogs, wailing of cats, rumbling of rats, gagling of geez, humming of bees, rousing of bucks, gagling of ducks, singing of swains, ringing of panns, crowing of cockes, cackling of hens, scrapling of pens
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by markbnj 11y ago
Well if the microscope is an amplifier of light then of course the amplitude of sound can also be increased, and sounds that were too faint to be audible may become audible. There's your parallel. I can't say whether the analogy i
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by markbnj 11y ago
It's a bit like asking whether there is a microscope for color. Color is how we perceive certain wavelengths of light. Sound is how we perceive certain frequencies of waves propagating through air. There are ways to look closely at lig
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> Right, but the percentage of horse-riders carrying a sword was probably larger. I would tend to grant that point even without study, however swords were rare and expensive. The author would have to be more specific about the period
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by markbnj 11y ago
Interesting ideas. The cart driver sitting on the leftmost rear horse as a reason for driving on the right I can buy. However, I have a harder time with the idea that "feudal, violent societies" preferred to walk on the left in or
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by markbnj 11y ago
My first thought on reading the post was to ask whether an analysis of roads strictly in terms of aggregate capacity even makes sense? It seems to me you have to ask where people are, where they need to go and why. Between any two travel po

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