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by peeters 12y ago
I'm not plugged into the startup community in Waterloo, but Communitech seems to make the most noise: http://www.communitech.ca/
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by peeters 12y ago
Bold choice on the touch screens. If there's any time you'd think you'd want unambiguous, tactile buttons it'd be when you have spine-wrenching vibrations coursing through your entire body and have 3 Gs pulling your arm
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by peeters 12y ago
So when Musk said it can recover from the loss of two engines, is that any two or only if the two are not in the same cluster?
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by peeters 12y ago
This thing looks so...empty! I imagine it will be a welcome change to the incredibly cramped Soyuz. Does anybody know if the second row of seating is meant to be replacable? I assume a 7 person crew won't be the norm for the usual IS
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by peeters 12y ago
Vancouver has a strong tech industry, but its cost of living is very inflated. Waterloo in particular has managed to have a thriving tech sector while maintaining a comparatively low cost of living. I wouldn't be surprised if at the en
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by peeters 12y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Sure it'd be cool to have your car park itself and all, but I don't mind doing that myself. The value is in dealing with the monotony of commuting or taking a road trip. If I could be doing someth
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by peeters 12y ago
If you have to explain what x is for with a comment, maybe x is a bad name in the first place?
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by peeters 12y ago
And most syntax highlighters actually allow different styling on Javadoc comments than on block comments or line comments. There's no reason to treat them the same.
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by peeters 12y ago
Man, am I going to love this. Can't wait for some of the cello solos. If anybody from the website is reading this, I have a tiny criticism: clicking anywhere on the page while the video is running closes the video. I don't know
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by peeters 13y ago
It's back up now.
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by peeters 13y ago
There are a number of implementations of JSR 305 ( https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=305 ). Findbugs is one that provides the annotations. You can include the annotations JAR file on your compile path and then use
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by peeters 13y ago
TONS of people start their question with "I'm new to Java"...
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by peeters 13y ago
I used to be dogmatic about TDD. Then I joined a team where management doesn't value unit testing that much, and so I got a lot less religious about it. What I am missing now isn't the test-first mentality. I honestly don't
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by peeters 13y ago
I've always thought these two things were independent. I use whiteboarding for designing interactions and high-level architecture, then (sometimes) use TDD when I have a relatively good grasp of what a unit is supposed to do. Neither
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by peeters 13y ago
Besides the opportunity cost of not reclaiming pennies for recycling, another issue is that pennies, more so than any other denomination, fall out of circulation quickly. That's because people don't tend to keep them in their poc
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by peeters 13y ago
Is anybody suggesting this should be used for assessing population density? You seem to be attacking a straw man. The accompanying text states: > The map tends to highlight two types of areas: places where human habitation is physically
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by peeters 13y ago
It would shock me if those tools would actually have caught this bug. That would imply that no benevolent contributor or researcher had run them against OpenSSL in the last two years, which I find incredibly hard to believe, as static anal
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by peeters 13y ago
Malware detection in a firewall/proxy is already very common. See Blue Coat, FireEye etc.
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by peeters 13y ago
I'm not a violin player, but to me the allure of hearing a violinist play on a 300 year old violin isn't that it's the best sounding violin on the planet. It's an opportunity to witness a small part of the history of an
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by peeters 13y ago
Why do you think schofield is a developer? I didn't see any indication in this conversation. Every company I have worked for has a support organization that deals with customer tickets like this. They might escalate the issue to deve
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by peeters 13y ago
I'm aware the satellite firm was from the U.K.; I was looking at this timeline: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101485972 which implied the White House was the first to reveal it. But other timelines cite the satellite co
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by peeters 13y ago
I'm not sure you can generalize that. It was a Chinese agency that "mistakenly" posted those misleading satellite images, while the U.S. was the first to draw a connection between satellite data and the Indian Ocean as a pos
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by peeters 13y ago
It's hard to design for outlier data. This is the most unusual search in modern aviation history. It is the outlier. With a couple of exceptions, all crash zones are found within days. What makes you think that increasing the batter
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by peeters 13y ago
I think tons of companies battle with the limitations of "we should eat our own dog food." It tends to be a general rule, even when you as an organization have only marginal overlap with your target market. I applaud Greg Stein
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by peeters 13y ago
Yikes, people obviously feel strongly about this as they are downvoting comments clearly made in good faith. > Being anti-gay marriage directly means "I want gay people to not have the following rights: x, y and z," and in that
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by peeters 13y ago
And yet, put it that way to a gay marriage opponent, and I guarantee you a sizable portion would respond as follows: A: You're against gay marriage? So you don't think gay partners should share the same legal status when making m
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by peeters 13y ago
Sorry, to be clear I meant "against emancipation" as "against a particular political proposal to enact emancipation". Maybe call it "capital 'e' Emancipation", for my lack of knowledge of American his
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by peeters 13y ago
And the important point here isn't the validity of these arguments, it's that people do use them to inform their position on gay marriage, and that that is orthogonal to being "anti-gay".
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by peeters 13y ago
You misunderstand; I never said I was against gay marriage, and don't need convincing. I just think people need to be more careful when they ascribe motives (being "anti-gay") to political views that might incidentally oppres
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by peeters 13y ago
I've always thought "anti-gay marriage = anti-gay" as being a false equivocation. Can someone convince me otherwise? Heck, at the very least there are people who are anti-marriage (from a political POV), for whom it would be

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