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by rgacote 8y ago
The Bear Brook Podcast from NH Public Radio covers an early case solved via family tree forensics. An excellent listen. https://www.bearbrookpodcast.com
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by rgacote 8y ago
At least in the US, I think there continues to be a concept that programming is related to mathematics. I remember discovering in college that there were languages like Snobol and Lisp that had very little to do with numeric computation. Op
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by rgacote 8y ago
Course description seems to cover fewer topics then the Flask Mega Tutorial: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial...
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by rgacote 8y ago
Using black has improved my level of concentration while writing Python. No longer do I need to worry about a line getting a bit too long, or if I have the right number of blank lines between definitions, or did I format my dictionary initi
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by rgacote 8y ago
> and no one runs antivirus on Mac, ever. Work at small company. Have Eset NOD32 on all Macs. It is possible to install non-signed software (I sometimes install development tools from small companies who do not have signing cert, if I&#
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by rgacote 8y ago
Been playing with Lektor. The advantage is the ability to define data structures for different pages.
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by rgacote 8y ago
The OpenResty community is a good place to get answers on Lua web development. https://openresty.org/
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by rgacote 8y ago
Looks like a nice reference, in addition to supporting custom protocols.
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by rgacote 8y ago
True != Success
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by rgacote 8y ago
Funniest thing I've seen in awhile
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by rgacote 8y ago
First thing I install on every Mac I've owned since 1995. Thanks Rich!
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by rgacote 9y ago
Bi-weekly Science News is a must have for me in print. https://www.sciencenews.org/
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Postgres 11 Highlight – Channel Binding for SCRAM(paquier.xyz)
1 points by rgacote 9y ago|0 comments
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by rgacote 9y ago
40 years so far and working to "master" probably my tenth significant production programming language. What I've worked to consistently master over those years is: * listening * recognizing patterns * turning a blank
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by rgacote 9y ago
Try going over the image with a fresh marker. My daughter figured out that you can then easily erase the image.
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by rgacote 9y ago
School: FORTRAN COBOL Snobol Lisp Commercially: Assembler: 8008 (8080/80286), 8080, 6502, 6800(68000), Z80(8000) Basic (various) Pascal C Objective-C C++ SQL Perl Python JavaScript Learning: ELM Elixir
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by rgacote 9y ago
I enjoyed going to my local small library, randomly selecting an aisle, then reading everything on an entire shelf. Let me to books I likely would never have otherwise discovered. (And am I alone in missing card catalogs? Picking a random c
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by rgacote 9y ago
60 miles is practical when both warehouse and delivery locations are within city limits.
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by rgacote 9y ago
There's also an episode where they get back the lead's (Marston's) love interest from East Germany. Without providing any spoiler's, the ending of that episode left younger me in shock for days. Still one of the most pow
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by rgacote 9y ago
I thought 3M demonstrated this technology over a decade ago. How are these different?
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by rgacote 9y ago
I'd definitely use it more if I could port over the last few Delphi apps I have in production. My Delphi 7 is getting a bit old... Aside from single-file executables, the biggest advantage to Lazarus (and also Delphi) [to me] is that a
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by rgacote 9y ago
The iNaturalist species identifier is astoundingly good. Of the dozen observations I've made with it over the last few weeks all but one were spot on -- and the last one did have the proper species within the "don't know but
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by rgacote 9y ago
This was my first thought when I read this. Definitely Y2K flavored.
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by rgacote 9y ago
I look forward to testing this. We've not found an optimal solution since moving off FirstClass BBS years ago (price and an every growing bloat of unneeded features). Biggest FirstClass features we miss: - Asynchronous (don't n
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by rgacote 9y ago
Appreciate seeing a full practical example vs. a proof of concept. Seeing how to move string data in/out of the extension is also useful. Thanks.
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by rgacote 9y ago
Nice detailed description and examples.
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by rgacote 9y ago
Link that does not require you to provide GitHub access: http://docs.threatdragon.org
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by rgacote 9y ago
Same issue occurred with Y2K. Dire threats, nothing occurred on actual date. Fact is there was an immense effort to update millions of lines of code throughout our infrastructure -- apparently successfully. Do recall several cases of old sy
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by rgacote 9y ago
Much better to name it something like Oracle, after a mythical seer who gives cryptic, self-contradictory answers open to wild interpretation.
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by rgacote 9y ago
I look forward to learning more about Elm by digging into a decent-sized Elm application.

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