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by ratsbane 17y ago
I upvoted you because I HOPE you're right, not because I think you are right. Managers are like cockroaches... after the nuclear apocalypse they'll be the only ones running around... trying to find underpaid teenaged business analysts to w
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by ratsbane 17y ago
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
+1 for Data mining, concurrency, FP. Another one: HTML 5 and related. This probably won't make as much of a splash as AJAX did a few years ago but some of the new things you will be able to do in a web browser present an opportunity to impr
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by ratsbane 17y ago
What would add to or remove from the original matrix? What I would change: - add mention of RFCs, e.g. 2616 (HTTP) and 1738 (URL)
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I don't disagree with the comments about the triteness of this page and other articles like it. That doesn't mean it's entirely without value though. Think of it as like a financial budget: you know you're not going to hit it completely an
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Hacker News source: http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc Check out vote-for at line 1351. I'm looking at the code and wondering how it keeps users from up/down voting for the same article more than once.* It must be there bu
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Charter flights fall under FAA Part 135 rules; scheduled flights are Part 121. With charter flights you don't have to put up with all of the passenger screening stuff. It's also surprisingly affordable if you are traveling with a group, e
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I want a Winnebago.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
That is a brilliant idea. I've wanted some dry-erase wallpaper http://www.walltalkers.com/ since I worked in an office that had it, but the dry-erase floor is now on my list.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Allowing those around you to die for lack of a minimum amount of food or shelter does not seem to me to be more morally acceptable than stealing.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
That's how I read it - a Swiftian proposal to make more fortunate people think what it would be like to be in a situation (e.g. 100 pounds to live on for six weeks) where shoplifting is the best option. At least, it made me think about tha
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by ratsbane 17y ago
If in testing the system you used any data which may be interpreted as belonging to the company then be very, very careful. Hopefully you haven't, but if you have then you might want to delete all traces of that data before presenting it.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Farecast had a very different UI when MS bought them. The transition to the copy of the Kayak UI happened well after Kayak rolled theirs out and also well after MS bought Farecast. The scenario/timeline you outline above is reasonable enou
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by ratsbane 17y ago
This reminds me of the Kayak/Bing Travel issue from July and similar incidents before that. It's easy enough to blame some contractors at a distant outpost but the frequency with which these things happen around Microsoft certainly leads t
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Another contrarian view: if Oracle does do to MySQL what Monty warns about this may accelerate interest in GPLed forks, e.g. Drizzle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle_%28database_server%29
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I remember saying, in the late '90s, shortly before I saw Google the first time, that it was probably pointless to build a search engine as Yahoo had pretty much said the last word on the subject. That was a reasonably common thought at th
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by ratsbane 17y ago
You make a good point. But having televisions running all of the time in a room already IS dictating to everyone present what they have to pay attention to. It's a little like cigarette smoking - if everyone (or the vast majority) of peop
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Neat-o. This would be an appropriate platform for a time-delay repeating or remote-controlled TV-B-Gone. I've thought about how I could mod my original TV-B-Gone to do that. I really like my TV-B-Gone. I've given several of them as birthd
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Perl, Javascript, or Ruby might be worth considering too. If you restrict it to a specific language then the judging will be skewed towards "how well do you know language X" instead of "how well can you translate the problem into data+algor
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Yahoo Store (formerly PG's ViaWeb) has used sparklines since at least 2004 and I think well before that. I'm sure there's plenty of other art prior to that as well.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I liked it. It's clear, simple, and honest. My tastes, however, may not be representative of a large part of the general population. I followed your link to the Chordoma Foundation and donated $25. It's not much, but I hope it helps. Goo
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I have done that. Very rarely, but when it happens it's like the rain stops, the clouds part and the sun illuminates the countryside with a fresh spring warmth. And then there are days I've hacked through some muddy recursive reference pro
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by ratsbane 17y ago
So you're saying... Properly escaping queries is a bad idea because you might forget to do it and if you forget to do it then it doesn't work. Here's a funny thought, though. I remember, many years ago, doing a code review and noticing som
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by ratsbane 17y ago
That is absurd.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I didn't say "properly quoting." I said "properly escaping" and mentioned the DBI quote method E.g. $safestring=$myDBIobject->quote($taintedstring) From the O'Reilly book "Programming the Perl DBI" "By far the most important utility m
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I had to think about this paper a bit. While it does describe some interesting ideas, nothing mentioned here will get past properly escaping input. That is, if you use DBI's quote method or parameterized queries in Perl or PHP's mysql_rea
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I'm sure the "Creating Controversy..." writer has some reasonable points. Perhaps Dustin Curtis really is only fourteen years old and is a frightful bounder who drops his aitches and has cocoa and bloaters for supper.* But really, Dustin C
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Magnetos are less reliable than most other parts of an aircraft engine. I'm a relatively low-time private pilot and I've seen mag failures more than once in aircraft I've been in. That's one reason aircraft engines have two of them. You
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Really good advice - write a detailed account of what happened as soon as possible. Be VERY detailed.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I've been trying to compose a response to this, describing a similar situation I was involved with. I just can't do it without saying more than is prudent. I was slow to catch on to what was going on but I did the right thing when I did a

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