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by rickmode 9y ago
I've yet to see anyone mention storing UUIDs in a BINARY(16) column. Use exactly 128 bits to store 128 bits. We'd still have the random sort problem though.
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by rickmode 10y ago
It was, like, totally there all along. Am I right?
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by rickmode 11y ago
Yes. Otherwise the only way to verify an anti malware system is working is with something actually malicious. So, you know, that's a bad plan. Think of system administrators deploying and validating a security package.
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by rickmode 12y ago
One just needs to be aware that nested sets eventually hit a limit. I experimented with a variation by Vadim Tropashko using something called "Farey fractions" [1]. These represent the intervals as a 2x2 matrix of four integers ra
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by rickmode 12y ago
First, renames and moves require updating all descendants. Second, the materialized path's length exceeded the database's indexable length limit. (MySQL, the DB in question, has a default index limit of 767 bytes, so only first 7
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by rickmode 12y ago
This. The project I'm on used materialized paths, which lead to great pain. I investigated nested intervals ... and they could't achieve the tree depths we needed (we were modeling a file system tree). We are back to adjacency lis
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by rickmode 12y ago
I'm believe I'm asking a valid question. I read the article last night when it came up on /r/skeptic. The author describes a sort of adolescent addiction due to underdeveloped inhibitions of those who having reach their
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by rickmode 12y ago
If you grow out of an apparently addictive behavior, doesn't that -- by definition -- mean it was not an addiction? OK, I know the definition of an addiction is that the behavior is having a significant negative affect, but there must
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by rickmode 12y ago
I believe UAC works well even when a human always hits OK. The point is to make sure a human is there and trying to do something and not some malicious code.
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by rickmode 13y ago
I believe this would only mask the direct sound waves, not the reflections caused by the room. Perhaps masking the direct sound is enough, but maybe not if the reflections have sufficient energy.
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by rickmode 13y ago
Java is old enough that the current best practices recommend using the language and libraries differently than originally intended. For new developers that want to do more than trivial things in Java, reading "Effective Java" will
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by rickmode 13y ago
Indeed. The question isn't whether the surveillance was legal, but rather if the laws allowing it are constitutional.
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by rickmode 13y ago
You may have a point. I did say "in my opinion". ;) I'm could be jaded from working on Windows apps too long. (I worked on Windows stuff from the 3.1 era through to Windows 2000.)
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by rickmode 13y ago
To me this looks like an example of Apple's craftsmanship in depth where quality and elegance can be seen at multiple levels, from the case to the internal hardware to the OS and its APIs. Certainly one can find flaws, but compared to
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by rickmode 14y ago
Many annotations in Spring are merely markers used during startup to wire things up or generate bytecode on the fly. There is no way to jump to the actual code.
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by rickmode 14y ago
The cables definitely look like training wheels. Even a very slight bit of tension could assist with balance. Of course that assumes the robot has some sort of kinesthetic sense.
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by rickmode 14y ago
Certainly macros can be hard to decipher, however they don't set up this spooky action at a distance, for example a annotation signaling bytecode injection. There's no way to hand-trace through that; the only solution is to learn the librar
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by rickmode 14y ago
The ActiveRecord example, to me, is an example of "clever". Any code that exhibits "spooky action at a distance" is too clever, in my opinion. When I can't hand trace a method or function and see what's going on, it is too "clever" - or at
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by rickmode 14y ago
"It will probably just get worse over the next few decades." Languages evolve; some of the current "mistakes" will no doubt become new norms. The changes that stick will tend to be those that cause no ambiguity and confusion.
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by rickmode 14y ago
I love the Economist's dry sense of humor (italics are mine): "That could lead both to cheaper power, and to the burial of many of the pylon-borne power lines that disfigure so much of the rich world's countryside. In a deeper, sense, then
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by rickmode 14y ago
The only useful thing I got from MBTI and the related training was that different people think and communicate differently; sometimes very differently. People work differently and you can't treat everyone the same; and different people need
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by rickmode 14y ago
This fits with a life lesson I've been internalizing for the last couple years: For many problems there are many right answers. More specifically for opinion/work situation articles like this, the argument applies to a particular personalit
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by rickmode 14y ago
The oppositions opening remarks do not, in fact, refute the motion. Instead of talking about how MBA's benefit the economy as a whole he talks about how MBA's benefit the individuals who obtain an MBA degree.
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by rickmode 14y ago
Sounds about right. Do you have any sources or this or is this what you've seen personally?
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by rickmode 14y ago
I'm surprised by the negative comments here. The idea of shipping a minimum viable product should resonate well with startup-minded folks. I believe PG himself once said if your project will take longer than 3 months to ship, it's too long.
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by rickmode 14y ago
I believe you are right that contrast is more important than both gamut and color accuracy, but a higher gamut will make images feel more alive and give them more "pop", especially in the reds and yellows (as the article discusses). A high
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by rickmode 14y ago
> My tool of choice for Java is however IntelliJ, which is simply light years ahead of Eclipse (IMHO). I agree. Eclipse seems to always become unstable once enough plugins are installed. After a few updates and removals it ends up tippi
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by rickmode 14y ago
The class combines no less than 6 concepts / design patterns: - Abstract - Singleton - Proxy - Factory - Bean - Interceptors It's not just a long name. The class makes sense in the context of this framework. The core proble
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by rickmode 14y ago
To be fair, iOS does not have a back button.
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by rickmode 14y ago
So if I understand right, the warping does not affect the "internal" speed of the spaceship in relation of the universe outside of the warp bubble. Maybe someone much better with maths and physics can answer this: will the 0.1c speed have a

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