martininmelb

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by martininmelb 2y ago
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle featured a fictionalised version of a Pinkerton agent.
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by martininmelb 3y ago
I was just about to write a comment saying that it would be more consistent with the other markup to have: @{ground black pepper}.
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by martininmelb 4y ago
Many years ago I built some software to allow people with cerebral palsy to use a computer. I did not get paid and it was not used by thousands of people (as far as I know) - but what made it impactful for me was that I got to see the deli
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by martininmelb 5y ago
I love the map. I love the responsiveness. I have done things with Leaflet and geoJSON and have always wanted to do hexagons. How did you convert the temperature data to hexagons? Or, more specifically, create the tesselation of hexagon
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by martininmelb 5y ago
As a corollary: “A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.” - Alan Perlis
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by martininmelb 5y ago
> Best way to deliver software is to have a handful of capable people and pay them well and get out of their way. That is the gist of one of the essays in The Mythical Man Month mentioned in the parent.
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by martininmelb 6y ago
It looks impressive. I am just wondering if it supports NetCDF (or if it is in the roadplan). In particular, things like pcolormesh and displaying grids on a map.
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by martininmelb 6y ago
I wrote this app last weekend mostly so that I could look at COVID-19 stats, but also as a learning exercise. I download data from John Hopkins, ingest it into a SQLite database and then have a couple of Python scripts to present an API to
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by martininmelb 7y ago
Yes. That book has probably shaped my thinking and coding more than any of the others above (although they are also very good).
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by martininmelb 8y ago
This seems to work for me: 1. This is your time to talk about whatever is on your mind. If you want to talk about the footy over the weekend, that's fine. If you want to talk about work or issues at home or career progression, that&#
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by martininmelb 8y ago
What does the prisoner do if she gets to, for example, box 40 and there is a 40 in the box? [edit] I reread the explanation and get it now. Only 1 prisoner (40) will actually get to open box 40. I was trying to think of this from the poin
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by martininmelb 9y ago
Photo albums and photographs. If they are all digital, you're lucky, take any backup drives with photos on them (i.e. photos of family and friends)
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by martininmelb 10y ago
I have been using this to teach my two daughters (10 and 14) geometry. Would love to find more sites like this that make teaching maths fun. I do, however, give them hints on how to solve the puzzles and explain the theory of how it works
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by martininmelb 10y ago
Interesting article. I had not associated him with LSFRs, but did know about his eponymous ruler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_ruler
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by martininmelb 11y ago
Some advantages of web apps is that they are multi-platform out of the box, don't require any setup or admin privileges and don't require installing dependencies (e.g. the link you point to, while looking like a really great produ
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by martininmelb 12y ago
So, maybe this is more useful? Unlike more primitive version control systems, git repositories are not linear, they already support branching, and are thus best visualised as trees in their own right. Branches thus become trees of trees. To
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by martininmelb 12y ago
I think this is what I refer to as SODD - or 'Stack Overflow Driven Development'. Somebody is not sure how to do something, so they look for an example on SO and they copy the code without really understanding what they're d
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by martininmelb 12y ago
An even older engineer once told me: Even after you've doubled the estimate, it will still take twice as long as you estimate.
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by martininmelb 13y ago
Or an alternate headline could be "Graphs show how Reddit became more diversified as it became more popular".
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by martininmelb 13y ago
For what it's worth, if you do decide on a company, call it something modest - and don't try to pretend that you're something that you're not or pretend that you're bigger than you are. Seeing a business card that
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by martininmelb 13y ago
> In particular, I'd like to see some real consequences for malpractice on the part of practitioners I agree as long as we also see some of the benefits - required registration with a professional body - along with a requirement tha
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by martininmelb 13y ago
I ran it through an html checker ( http://validator.w3.org/check ) and got 3 Errors and 4 Warnings.
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by martininmelb 13y ago
$ Make me a sandwich What? Make it yourself $ sudo !! Okay
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by martininmelb 14y ago
After reading many of the responses, I am wondering if there is a difference between the 'business programmers' and the 'scientific/mathematical programmers'. Most of the examples below show code that could have come from physics or maths
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by martininmelb 14y ago
How about if you were in a lot of pain and were told that you can take a pain killer but it would likely shorten your life (not necessarily a hypothetical choice)?
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by martininmelb 14y ago
But it did find one potted plant for that image. I could not see it (bottom left hand corner).
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by martininmelb 14y ago
And maybe Google 'autocorrect' has ruined our spelling?
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by martininmelb 14y ago
This looks like a product that I could use. I tried installing it - and found it easy enough to install Kindlegen. When I got to the 'npm install' part, I discovered that I had to install Node.js (at least I assume I did). I then tried r
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by martininmelb 14y ago
If you're interested in creating a PDF from Markdown, I would suggest that you look at Pandoc (used by wbb). It generates LaTeX from the Markdown and generates a PDF from the LaTeX. I've yet to play with it to see if LaTeX metacommands ca
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by martininmelb 14y ago
I've had some CRUD jobs and some non-crud jobs. Interestingly, all the CRUD jobs came through Agencies and all the non-crud jobs were direct. There may be something there...

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