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by pwaring 14y ago
Market cap means nothing though. Facebook's size measured this way was bigger than all the publicly listed supermarkets in the UK combined, yet Facebook makes less profit than each of them individually.
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by pwaring 14y ago
> Twitter aren't stupid Twitter is run by people, and sometimes people make decisions which are, either at the time or in hindsight, stupid. The argument that companies won't do something because it will damage them has been proved wron
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by pwaring 14y ago
The benefit of Scheme over C is that people are less likely to have experienced it before university/college. We were taught Java and C/C++ in CS, but the problem was that many people already knew them, so you ended up with a situation wher
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by pwaring 14y ago
You don't have to obligate them, if the CEO has a notice period but wants to leave early and the company is happy with that, they can always waive the notice period. I'm so glad I live in the EU, where you generally don't see clauses like t
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by pwaring 14y ago
"Certificates are only valid for a single domain, after all" Actually that's not the case, you can get single certificates which cover different domains, using the Subject Alternative Name field.
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by pwaring 14y ago
How enforceable are they in other states? I know in the UK there have been a few test cases which seem to have resulted in the interpretation that you can only enforce one if it would otherwise be detrimental to the ex-employer (e.g. starti
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by pwaring 14y ago
Even if non-competes are enforceable, sometimes it will make more sense for a company to let an employee go straightaway anyway, rather than having them hang around twiddling their thumbs with no motivation.
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by pwaring 14y ago
"You work from home so you can put in 2 hours work, accomplish as much as anyone else did" Agreed. I'm the only technical person in the company - if I went into the office every day I would spend half my time being asked to fix printers, 'c
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by pwaring 14y ago
Presumably there are some advantages to remaining private since there are plenty of large US corporations which choose to do so: http://www.forbes.com/private I couldn't find any reliable sources for what the advantages were though.
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by pwaring 14y ago
It would also be good to extend the mentions beyond just codebreakers, including the Royal Navy personnel who boarded damaged U-boats in order to retrieve code books and other equipment, not knowing if the vessel would sink at any minute.
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by pwaring 14y ago
It's not just large businesses. About 1/3 of our users use IE7, although thankfully there's hardly anyone still on IE6. About 1/2 are still on XP (NT 5.1). Some of these are small companies with <10 employees.
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by pwaring 14y ago
"Uber large business and government is were the users are hiding" Agreed. About 1/3 of our users - all of whom are insurers or brokers - use IR7
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by pwaring 14y ago
You could do it with Alpha Centauri - I seem to remember an article by Firaxis where they explained putting in this feature so they could tweak a parameter, set the AI off and see what effect it had.
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by pwaring 14y ago
I can reproduce it on my Ubuntu laptop (amd64 precise), so it definitely exists.
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by pwaring 14y ago
Can anyone view the MySQL bug report linked to from the email? I get 'access denied' each time I try.
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by pwaring 14y ago
It depends what version they are using. My local dev machine (using Precise) is vulnerable, so Slicehost customers running a more recent version than Hardy might be affected.
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by pwaring 14y ago
"In a dynamically typed language 201/2 will give you 100.5" Not necessarily. Python gives 100, PHP gives 100.5, Perl gives 100.5, Ruby gives 100. Edit: Versions are Python 2.7.3, PHP 5.3.10, Perl 5.14.2 and Ruby 1.8.7, all as shipped with U
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by pwaring 14y ago
Will there not be a time lapse whilst you run bcrypt on all the existing hashes to update your users table? Given that bcrypt is intentionally 'slow', this might be a problem for applications with large numbers of users (albeit a one-off co
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by pwaring 14y ago
Card fees depend on how big you are though. Large UK supermarkets have no minimum purchase amount for credit cards, because they have the clout to negotiate a better deal. Facebook is probably big enough to do the same.
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by pwaring 14y ago
Not sure about 'best', but the way I go about it is to measure the total time required for an application to complete a task, then attempt to measure the individual components (time spent in PHP, data transfer, rending on client side etc.)
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by pwaring 14y ago
"Identify bottlenecks" - I hope this is the first topic covered. There's no point in fiddling about with PHP if the actual bottleneck is the fact that you're sharing a slow connection with dozens of other companies or are hosted on the oppo
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by pwaring 14y ago
Yes, FILE is less identifiable than file. All the letters are the same height and have similar shapes with all-caps, whereas lowercase letters have more variety and your brain can recognise the shape of words rather than looking at every si
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by pwaring 14y ago
The closest PHP has to CPAN is PEAR ( http://pear.php.net ). It stalled for a long time, although development seems to have picked up a bit now that everything is on GitHub ( https://github.com/pear/ )
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by pwaring 14y ago
Unfortunately though, a lot of the papers that turn up in Google Scholar are behind paywalls. It is very expensive to get hold of academic papers if you don't work/study somewhere with an institutional licence (anything from $10 upwards p
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by pwaring 14y ago
Thanks for the links - looks like the COBOL jobs are not promoted as much (I couldn't find any on the four bank sites I looked at) but still there, and reasonably well paid too.
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by pwaring 14y ago
You can write readable Perl, just like you can write secure PHP. The fact that a large number of people don't is not necessarily a failing of the language.
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by pwaring 14y ago
Is COBOL still used by banks? The people I know who work in two different major UK banks suggest everything is Java now, with Oracle as the preferred database solution.
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by pwaring 14y ago
Or maybe they want you to buy the print version? (I have a copy, but have never actually got round to reading it).
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by pwaring 14y ago
Global penetration is only useful if you can make money from it though, and it brings the problems of operating in multiple countries with different currencies, cultures, legal systems etc. Lots of the companies referenced in the feature ha
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by pwaring 14y ago
Insider trading (and the wider 'market abuse') can be extremely difficult to prove. The FSA fines a handful of people each year, and prosecutes even fewer. If firms chose not to trade, when they otherwise would have done (which seems to b

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