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Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM(features.propublica.org)
443 points by mwexler 9y ago|348 comments
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by mwexler 9y ago
An oft reposted link, but it's a good story to remind ourselves of each time.
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by mwexler 9y ago
As much as I love these apps, I do worry about municipalities fighting back. For example, https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/25/new-jersey-town-will-clo... describes the efforts a town in NJ made to force thes
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by mwexler 9y ago
One option is to go to advanced search, where you can change the search to restrict only to Free or other less restrictive licenses than commercial. https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search?biw=1404&bih=67... as a s
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by mwexler 9y ago
When I was at BN around 7 years ago or so, we were experimenting with this capability on the site, and we had some processes like 1) rules around allowing no competitive sales ads and 2) if the probability of purchase calced by a set of mod
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by mwexler 9y ago
And until this is not the exception but the rule, we continue to be amazed by stories like this.
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by mwexler 9y ago
Anyone know the source of that awesome breakdown of comp for the execs? That is, I know it's from the filings, but it's a pain to manually assemble, so that's a powerful image...
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by mwexler 9y ago
I work currently at one of the larger banks, and they actually like to describe themselves as "a tech company who happens to focus on financial things". It's as true as you are willing to believe it, but modern global money
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by mwexler 9y ago
The author mentions CcmExec.exe a million times without explaining it. A bit of searching reveals that it's part of the Change and Configuration Management system in MS Systems Management Server ( https://blogs.msdn.microsof
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by mwexler 9y ago
I find this page to be somewhat vague. For example, any data that revolves around dates or time may require some addition hoops to jump through since, as https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html points out, "SQLite does
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by mwexler 9y ago
I hadn't seen this before, but I love their attempt to keep parity between their text/term version and the gui version; quite clever and the text version is really functional.
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by mwexler 9y ago
Markus is modest; he is the author of the top post, and imho is up with Joe Celko in offering great techniques to use SQL effectively (both at http://modern-sql.com/ as above and http://use-the-index-luke.com&#x2
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by mwexler 9y ago
Another good one: when tapping on the Garmins, it tells you the nearest address, which can be a godsend when you are on the phone trying to meet someone. TomTom isn't as good at this, but Google and Apple maps both fail this. Try fi
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by mwexler 9y ago
I love my TomTom. With a locked phone (Thanks, AT&T), I can't afford to abuse data when I travel. My TomTom works in both US and Europe with free map updates, and has gotten me through mountains, valleys, cities and towns. I als
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by mwexler 9y ago
The PDF report gives some fascinating technical detail, linked in the article and at http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/public/warhol_amiga_repo...
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by mwexler 9y ago
I love Global Entry, but the mysterious and varied ways you can be denied for the mildest of issues is really frustrating.
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by mwexler 9y ago
Sadly, I find it struggles with small and medium images as well. But with some tlc, it could become the paint.net we are all hoping for...
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by mwexler 9y ago
3 months from now, let's see how many of those purchasers or recipients use it for something more than "play a song", "what's new", and "timer, 2 minutes". I hope it's a lot. Otherwise, we can
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by mwexler 9y ago
Seconded. Snowplow is a great option and gives a nice compromise between rolling all your own bits and just doing a vendor.
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by mwexler 9y ago
The one thing missing: web. Esp. in places with restricted installs, having a web front end would be nice.
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by mwexler 9y ago
Because if you can pick an index fund with low fees, you are already beating most professional stock pickers. Yes, you may find the one or a few active investors who are amazing, but unlike law or medicine, there is a fallback option that
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by mwexler 9y ago
I remember wanting Oberon to be Pascal version 2, and that just wasn't what it was supposed to be. I wonder if that's really what prevented the massive growth that other langs have: it had so much "creator halo" that i
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Bluemix, I hardly knew ya(ibm.com)
2 points by mwexler 9y ago|1 comments
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by mwexler 9y ago
Good to know that those hours in school wrestling with recreating parts of Minix for my OS class weren't wasted. But seriously, the Tannenbaum stuff (book, code) was really impressive, if painful to do on 3.5" floppies. I'm j
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by mwexler 9y ago
Because there is value in having a completely jvm stack in some places. Sometimes performance takes a back seat to consistency. It may not be right, but that's the way it is in some orgs.
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by mwexler 9y ago
I would disagree. The proper question is: "do I need a structured RDBMS or not?" Then if yes, which should I use? Just saying "SQLite!" starts to sound like the Regex quote from 1997: https://blog.codingh
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by mwexler 9y ago
Look, I love SQLite as much as the next person, but as a database, it's got a lot of problems. From the lack of a formal time-date storage class to the "dynamic typing", if we are going to go binary and complex, is SQLite th
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by mwexler 9y ago
This is a good choice, thanks for sharing.
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Intuit (remember them?) releases Turbo, latest attempt at PFM(zdnet.com)
2 points by mwexler 9y ago|1 comments
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by mwexler 9y ago
Before we pop the champagne, note that we still have minimal PIN penetration in the US, even with EMV cards, and it's up to the merchant to decide whether or not to require the signature. Legalities could mean that merchants feel safe

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