nickpeterson

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by nickpeterson 11y ago
Thanks, I couldn't gauge from the pictures how hard it actually is.
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by nickpeterson 11y ago
My daughter is going to be about 4, and she loves puzzles. I was thinking about picking this up for the apple tv to play along with her. Is it conceptually too difficult for children?
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by nickpeterson 11y ago
I feel like MS will probably do well on this, it's essentially a developer tool (for all ages), and MS makes plenty of those just fine. They clearly have good people involved and are using C++ so you know it's a performance orien
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by nickpeterson 11y ago
It would seem you would also need to own the airports for a luxury airline to work. That way you establish small airports near crucial business centers, with a similar upscale set of services.
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by nickpeterson 11y ago
So, you could condense my knowledge of physics to an index card, but here we go...time seems like it's always based on the measurement of a regular thing. Say the oscillation of a quartz crystal. So we have no proof there of time, just
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by nickpeterson 11y ago
This is an honest question, how are we so certain time exists? Does anyone have a few quick references to books or articles that would explain it to the layman? I always found the concept of time completely artificial, created by observatio
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by nickpeterson 11y ago
People seem to dislike this because they want separate components in order to 'scale out', but honestly, having the option for most trivial applications would be extremely nice. Even more so when you consider Postgres supports rou
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by nickpeterson 11y ago
It's probably unsuitable for public facing sites, but for line of business applications it could be a real win. I would much rather have enforcement down to the data level.
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by nickpeterson 11y ago
I was really hoping for statement level instead of triggers. SQL Server has them and they're extremely useful.
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by nickpeterson 11y ago
I'd be curious to know what else this sort of thing shapes. Reminds me a bit of Ken Iverson's 'Notation as a Tool of Thought.' Programmers often talk about how learning different programming langauges improves their abil
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by nickpeterson 11y ago
Might sound a bit crazy, but anyone else surprised at the reasonable gender equality in that photograph? I somewhat expected a large amount of male teachers, but if this is indicative of the average makeup it bodes well for future female Co
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by nickpeterson 11y ago
It's puzzling to me that it isn't more popular honestly. My main exposure is through F#, but I would be interested in a new dialect or revision to ML, especially if it gained reasonable community support (the size of say, Scala or
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by nickpeterson 11y ago
Decent history but I disagree with the basic premise that normalization is less necessary because computers are more powerful. It implies normalization was for storage conservation instead of logical reasons.
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by nickpeterson 11y ago
I don't see any information on the site about limitations for enterprise use, is this free as in beer?