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by psaintla 12y ago
That doesn't mean it makes sense, for instance someone down voted every one of my comments. Being mad about it would be just as illogical.
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by psaintla 12y ago
I don't see the point, you only have control over one of those groups.
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by psaintla 12y ago
Yes, and you shouldn't be angry at them. You should be angry at the people who allow laws to be passed in their favor.
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by psaintla 12y ago
Exactly, which is why I never understood why people demonize these car dealerships, yes they are an unnecessary middle man, yes they are annoying to deal with but they are only doing what is logical.
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by psaintla 12y ago
Exactly, a good friend of mine in college was recommended for a job at the NSA by one of my professors in early 2001. He went to having a heavy online presence and being a constant in our social circles to completely disappearing. His per
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by psaintla 12y ago
I know many people love Vice but I find their news coverage to be fairly vapid. Their journalism is more about generating a reaction and less about providing accurate in-depth information for the viewer.
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by psaintla 12y ago
And that is why multicopter enthusiasts, including myself, absolutely hate DJI phantoms. They are marketed as toys but they are powerful enough to do major damage and people who buy them don't even realize it. I've personally wi
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by psaintla 12y ago
Or drive a vehicle that can get through two feet of snow when you work in a field where taking a day off isn't an option.
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by psaintla 12y ago
Not really, I live about an hour outside of the city and carpool in everyday. I can tell you first hand that Google is always late in recognizing traffic pattern changes. It's actually become a bit of a joke amongst our car pool beca
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by psaintla 12y ago
Agreed, that isn't just London, in NYC it is the same way. There are seasonal changes in traffic that can completely alter the route you should take to different parts of the city that seem illogical. Navigation systems don't cu
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by psaintla 12y ago
Yes, you can really use steel wool to wipe your ass.
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by psaintla 12y ago
That reminds me of this cartoon regarding the supreme court http://sedulia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c82d353ef015390fee6ce97...
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by psaintla 12y ago
Having built my own pond and faced similar issues dealing with mosquitos I'm highly skeptical that this is as effective as claimed. I've purchased cheap aeration devices that were solar powered in the past and they were not very
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by psaintla 12y ago
Sure, there are situations in which I believe there should be a certain expectation of privacy. Personal conversations like interviews are one of those situations. If I put something on facebook or linkedin I understand that there is a ce
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by psaintla 12y ago
This may be a bit off topic but there really needs to be a hard line drawn on what information can be collected. The idea of recording an interview for the sake of empirical analysis is creepy as hell and I'm a bit worried anyone would
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by psaintla 12y ago
I think you're missing out on something fairly basic. About 15%-25% (depending on which survey you trust) of small business loans were in the form of HELOCs (Home Equity Line Of Credit) pre-housing bust. Banks no longer want to take r
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by psaintla 12y ago
Exactly, lending standards are currently so ridiculous that the money isn't accessible to most small businesses.
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by psaintla 12y ago
Actually I'm not, I think PHP is a perfectly good language for certain things I'm just not blind to the issues with the language. I responded with my reasons that I believe that particular piece of code isn't so great.
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by psaintla 12y ago
I apologize for the late response I was looking at more of the code trying to get a better feel for what it is actually doing. To answer your question, I'd start with why you are worried about exceptions in rendering your exceptions?
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by psaintla 12y ago
Don't take this the wrong way but this is still PHP and I say this as someone that's been writing in PHP since 2001, although I've largely shifted away. It didn't take me long to find some really crazy stuff like these
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by psaintla 12y ago
That's definitely a step in the right direction. The biggest hurdle you'll have to overcome is getting your application to enforce a process, that's a lot harder than you think it is because people tend to take the path of le
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by psaintla 12y ago
There are very few places where business rules change so quickly that a rules engine is needed. Rules engines are essentially a poor practice used by businesses who don't clearly define what their goals are and stick to them. The alt
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by psaintla 12y ago
Businesses have hundreds of flexible easy systems to let end-users create quick business rule based solutions (particularly for reporting purposes) and have had them since the late 80s maybe earlier, the corporate landscape is littered with
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by psaintla 12y ago
In my experience, both. It starts with business users creating rules without having a clue what they are doing and it ends with the system becoming so complex that it would have been better off being written by engineers using tools more a
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by psaintla 12y ago
Absolutely. For simple, isolated, inconsequential tasks this works fine. The problem is rules engines always start very innocent and simple, then users request the ability to have rules call each other, then they want to store results, et
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by psaintla 12y ago
Twitter isn't really a rules engine as it doesn't have the ability to create workflows or manage rule priority afaik but let's ignore that for a second. Rules engines are typically a terrible idea and I say this as someone wh
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by psaintla 12y ago
Am I missing something or is this just another rules engine?
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by psaintla 13y ago
It would be interesting to see if having some level of universal basic income and universal healthcare would be far better than having many federal, state and local departments dealing with distribution of a wide array of various government
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by psaintla 13y ago
There is a huge difference between those sports and football. Youth football is sponsored and run by public schools whose residents will not want to cover the financial fallout from a lawsuit. Private schools have been ending football pro
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by psaintla 13y ago
The talent pipeline for professional football is going to dry up no matter what. As more scientific evidence mounts of what we already know anecdotally lawsuits will increase along with the insurance costs for youth football. There is no st

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