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by orr94 12y ago
Good point. All the more reason to actually measure and find the bottleneck.
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by orr94 12y ago
Frankly, even using your own workstations could help. Especially if you run it overnight.
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by orr94 12y ago
FWIW, some benchmarks say GraphicsMagick is faster than ImageMagick. http://www.compsci.wm.edu/SciClone/documentation/software/gr... I suggest actually timing some of this stuff before writing off the idea. I
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by orr94 12y ago
At 5 seconds an image using a tool like ImageMagick (which might be optimistic) Are you sure ImageMagick would take that long? I haven't timed it, but I don't recall thumbnail creation with ImageMagick taking that long.
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by orr94 12y ago
I know many fine sysadmins and network engineers that couldn't code anything to save their lives. Coding is one of many ways to contribute in IT, and a lack of coding knowledge doesn't preclude one from understanding how technolog
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by orr94 12y ago
You forgot to capitalize "Cloud".
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by orr94 12y ago
Believe it or not, this is actually in an RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324
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Can ISO 29119 Software Testing “Standard” Really Be a Standard?(developers.slashdot.org)
1 points by orr94 12y ago|0 comments
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by orr94 13y ago
> the primary negative reaction is the voyeuristic-rejection of having a camera always pointed at you (that may or may not be recording). To which the analogy vs. headphones is not relevant. That isn't the theme of the article, th
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by orr94 13y ago
Wow, that's a lot of ads.
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by orr94 13y ago
I totally agree about the persistent navbars. If they are really slim, I can tolerate it. That one is obnoxious.
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by orr94 13y ago
tl;dr I am brilliant, and I could have done a way better job of building healthcare.gov for 0.2% of the cost. Unfortunately, I was too busy working on all my other awesome projects that have nothing to do with big government systems or the
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by orr94 13y ago
http://coloradocommits.com/66-explained/
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by orr94 13y ago
Also, that stock chart was ridiculous. At any given point on the x axis where the value was higher than the previous point, you could cut it off and say "look, we're at a peak!"
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by orr94 13y ago
Are all Business Insider articles glorified Buzzfeed articles? Just change the title to "10 Signs That The Tech Sector Is In A Massive Bubble" and it could be on Buzzfeed.
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by orr94 13y ago
Pretty cool. Audio lags behind video, at least in Super Mario.
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by orr94 13y ago
Here's why this needs to pass: we need bold changes, and we won't know what works until we try it. So here's a bold plan, which seems to work on paper. I wish Pennsylvania would try something like this, or at least something
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by orr94 13y ago
> In a normal situation this would have been fixed simply by adding a wait primitive to the language which would schedule the events when the result is still being fetched... 80 percent of the programming is about doing one motherfucking
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by orr94 13y ago
I get the best results from just asking them to describe something they've worked on that they're particularly proud of, or was particularly difficult. And keep prodding for more details to get a real feel for how the person works