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by ratsbane 12y ago
I think that's a little harsh. Vendor-specific certifications have earned a bad rep, some more than others, but that doesn't mean there's no advantage in any educational recognition short of a degree from an accredited uni
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Nanodegrees: A New Kind Of Credential For Jobs in Technology(udacity.com)
44 points by ratsbane 12y ago|8 comments
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Wilson's Algorithm(bl.ocks.org)
204 points by ratsbane 12y ago|25 comments
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by ratsbane 12y ago
I knew nothing about FindTheBest before reading this but it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling towards them. Newegg also recently made the news for beating a patent troll. People who stand up to this make the world better for all of us.
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by ratsbane 12y ago
Is there a way to download the entire history?
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by ratsbane 12y ago
A great book on this subject is The Law of Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law in War by Gary Solis (related to nrsolis?) I think it's currently used as a textbook at West Point and other places. I have a copy here.
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by ratsbane 12y ago
I'm sure spodek meant no disrespect to Admiral McRaven by referring to him as "the UT guy." Likewise I'm sure you didn't intend to show disrespect for Dr. Spodek by referring to him as "Joshua."
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by ratsbane 12y ago
Interesting idea displayed at the bottom of the page. Note that I've removed the key string and replaced it with {redacted}. Ultimately, though, I can imagine a scheme like this wouldn't work very well in general use - that is w
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by ratsbane 12y ago
Yes. That could apply to other things as well. Once anything is co-opted by management it's time to move. If management would just learn to program...
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by ratsbane 12y ago
Reminds me of Porterhouse Blue, the 1970s satirical novel about life in the fictitious Porterhouse college at Cambridge, where swans were served at massive feasts and "porterhouse blue" became another name for a stroke caused by e
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by ratsbane 12y ago
Yes! Excellent, not the least for noting that CRUD does make the world go around. It's been done a million times but that doesn't mean there's not still room for significant innovation.
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by ratsbane 13y ago
You could land on any hard-packed dirt surface, especially if you weren't too concerned about being able to take off again.
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by ratsbane 13y ago
The amount of radiation released so far is perhaps not a big problem. It's the lack of control and credibility from Tepco and soforth that concerns me. The power plant was designed to ensure something like this couldn't happen a
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by ratsbane 13y ago
Probably a bad idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect Also, there's a fine line sometimes between bug fixes and enhancements. Sometimes it just depends on where you're standing.
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by ratsbane 13y ago
Roof-mounted miniature helipad mailboxes, painted with QR codes. Really, why don't houses already have package receptacles for UPS and FedEx?
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by ratsbane 13y ago
Whoever Satoshi Nakamoto is, he (or she or they) must have been at least aware of Nick Szabo. I wonder if there's any coincidence to the initials: SN and NS? Of course, even if SN != NS it could be a tip of the hat or an intentional
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by ratsbane 13y ago
I don't know if bitcoin is doomed to fail or not but, the thesis of this article isn't credible. There has never been anything like cryptocurrency in the history of the world and this statement may well not apply: "They will
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by ratsbane 13y ago
Just guessing; maybe age distribution, income distribution, and climate? Here's a table showing age distribution by state. This doesn't explain everything, but WV does have the highest percentage (16%) of 65-and-overs. That migh
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by ratsbane 13y ago
Has something changed with gmail imap recently? I use Apple Mail every few days mostly just to keep a backup of my several gmail accounts. After reading this I remembered I hadn't done this in a few days so I opened Apple Mail on my
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by ratsbane 13y ago
I think I've had the same experiences and made the same observations as you. Also, +1 to this: "...you shouldn't write a single line of code if you can get away with it."
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by ratsbane 13y ago
I got the modal subscribe/login window also, though I don't immediately see anything to click to make it go away (without messing around in Firebug). The current browser I'm using is Firefox 23.0.1 on OS X. My UA string is M
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by ratsbane 13y ago
I was ready to buy something there until I looked at the prices. £24 (about $36 US) for a pair of novelty shorts? Doesn't that seem a bit high? You could make a pair out of real bacon for that.
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by ratsbane 13y ago
Or Devon. Dev for short.
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by ratsbane 13y ago
Yes, I was thinking the same. Sort of the software engineer equivalent of flying the best fighter jets and recognizing that you're going to be using them to bomb people in mud huts instead of dogfighting equally-classed opponents.
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by ratsbane 13y ago
A second-hand IBM X3650 in my basement. 16GB RAM, dual quad-core 3Ghz Xeons, dual power supplies, and hot-swap RAID 5 drives for less than $400 on eBay, connected through the Comcast connection I already have. The Comcast connection is th
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by ratsbane 13y ago
This is crazy. "fixed interest charge of ten percent (10%) regardless of the time of repayment" Does that mean, as it sounds, that the interest is $37,500 whether they pay it back in ten days or ten years? I realize it's due
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by ratsbane 13y ago
"palisade" seems like precisely the mot juste
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by ratsbane 13y ago
It's true... I do carry subversive materials in the trunk of my car: books on Bayesian reasoning and risk management. If they found a chapter on prior and posterior probabilities they might well question their purpose in life.
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by ratsbane 13y ago
What happens if you lock the trunk and glove box and then give them the valet key? Do they break the locks?
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by ratsbane 13y ago
I go back and forth on this. Aptitude seems more reliable in general than cpan, at least in the sense that cpan installations fail more frequently than apt. Also I assume that cpan packages reflected through apt will be updated with apt-ge

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