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Just like New York city is a vacuum that sucks the life out of the rural regions of upstate New York. Even the NYT covers this from time to time http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/nyregion/13census.html?pa
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Makes things sound desolate and hopeless. But the residents of provincial cities like Kazan would tell a different story pointing to new subway lines, a new airport terminal, new rapid transit from the airport to the city center, new highwa
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The advice given to programmers using an ORM or a database access library just doesn't work for programmers building one. He can't just "use" bind variables. He has to incorporate the concept into his code. It is unfortu
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Hey, it's a github repo. If you have discovered an issue with it, then clone the repo, fix the issue, and send in a pull request. Yes, it does the simple form of variable substitution that opens the door to SQL injection attacks, but u
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No need to require a text editor to create SVG icons, just use Inkscape http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/inkscape-0-48-revie... and then add your work to openclipart.org No doubt Illustrator is capable of
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History shows that most emigrants identify more closely with their new country than with the ethnic group from which they originated, when it comes to politics. Especially in such a multi-ethnic country as Russia. The children of these immi
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I think that the choice boils down to one of these three: Ubuntu LTS CentOS OpenSUSE Some people swear by Mint or Debian but for most people, there is little to no difference from Ubuntu. Even for servers, using the Ubuntu server install to
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13y ago
That woman was simply telling the truth. A cellphone with a lithium ion battery is a bomb. A small bomb to be sure, but on an airplane even small bombs can be dangerous. The day will come when all carryon baggage and clothing will be banned
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13y ago
Right. So the net outcome of the war on drugs is to help drug addicts breed until they outnumber the rest of us. That is a very clever plan and well worth the investment of our hard earned tax dollars, isn't it? :-(
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From a political point of view, this brings the debate into much greater clarity. Either people support DEA employees and prison employees and are willing to subsidize their salaries, or they are not.
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Oh, and there are some simple guides to forming a new political party out there on the Internet such as this one. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_start_a_new_political_p... Just don't go into it with a big he
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13y ago
So what are you waiting for? Gather your friends together and start a new political party. Don't worry about whether or not you will ultimately succeed or whether your party is big enough. Just get organized and adopt a platform that i
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13y ago
Unfortunately many companies let themselves be led into a complex mess by so-called "rockstar" developers who usually are just people who have mastered a particular language and its libraries, and perhaps one common framework in t
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The article DOES recommend using different languages for different tasks. A large part of it was about Ruby and Python shops that added Haskell to their toolbox in order to clean up overly complex parts of their codebase. As far as the supp
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Python. A lot of the things that need to be done in a systems programming language, outside of kernel modules and device drivers, can be done easier in Python. And the part that needs a raw barebones language can be done in C and integrated
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Akka and Camel
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Is there anything like this that emits JVM bytecodes? It would be interesting to write C# code to run on the JVM.
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Do the Advanced Algorithms course in MIT`s Open Courseware site here http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... Also look into Hadoop, Mahout and machine learning in general.
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Read this https://code.google.com/p/tokland/wiki/RubyFunctionalProgram... and master it by refactoring some of the source code that you work on. Also follow up the references to work by Joe Armstrong and Rich
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If Github is down, pull directly from each other's git repos. Works just fine. You may need to temporarily change build scripts, but better would be to have a local repo server that the build scripts pull from. In normal circumstances
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Java is not dying, it has just started its long slow decline like COBOL did back in the 1980s. But COBOL is still with us and so will Java be with us for a long time. But the momentum is picking up on alternate JVM languages, in particular
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Your telecom equipment manufacturer probably did not exclaim that the inventory taking was high priority and needed to be done in overtime as well. In fact if their goal was learning they probably would have spread the work out to only a fe
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Imagine this. The company recognizes that it has too many staff, therefore it offers early retirement deals and voluntary redundancy deals, which pay significant bonuses if you have been with the company for several years. But you need to g
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Scala with Akka, and RabbitMQ for scaling across multiple servers. This would be a bit more work up front than a web framework like Django but it would be more maintainable in the long run due to the fact that Akka encourages writing simple
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It is fascinating to compare this (and the Jacquard loom) to the early electronic digital computers. In all cases part of the genius was to decompose complexity into a small set of operations which could be repeated and composed in many way
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Introducing Akka - Simpler Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting
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Let's not forget that the people we now call Jews (Judeans) were members of a group that called themselves "The ten tribes". Their history begins sometime around the end of the stone age and beginning of the copper age. They
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Like solving problems? Here are some really deep and big ones.
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A Little Graph Theory for the Busy Developer
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In Python: [x+1 for x in range(100)] is not a loop but it prints out the numbers 1 to 100 map(lambda x: x+1, range(100)) is also Python and more legible to some people but the former is more idiomatic. The key to fizzbuzz is to make the dec
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