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by rpeden 9y ago
Is that question meant to be a joke? Ocean waves most definitely have external triggers. The most common one is wind, but changes in atmospheric pressure can cause them, as can a sudden change in the sea floor due to an earthquake or volcan
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by rpeden 9y ago
Go for it! Honesty seems to have worked out well for the Useless Ethereum Token guy: https://uetoken.com/
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A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf](cr.yp.to)
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by rpeden 9y ago
Most companies that are hiring are doing so because they have a specific problem or set of problems they're trying to solve. You can usually get a decent idea of what these problems are based on the job posting, talking to people who w
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by rpeden 9y ago
I definitely understand not wanting to be tracked. In this case, though, it looks like he mostly did it he so he could say he was working (and get paid) while he was actually out playing golf. At least as an Uber driver, he can play golf as
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by rpeden 9y ago
I think SQL Server was a little different in that it wasn't quite from scratch, but was a JV that built on existing Sybase code? They eventually went their separate ways, though, and after the split is when MS really started bringing i
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by rpeden 9y ago
In the specific case of CV, a programmer looking to move into that area is probably doing themselves a disservice if they just apply for jobs that are actually looking to hire computer vision specialists. There are so, so many businesses ou
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by rpeden 9y ago
Although you've been downvoted, I think your question is fair, so I'll try to give it a fair answer. In this discussion, when we talk about value , I think it makes sense to look at value in the sense of how valuable a skill is t
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by rpeden 9y ago
I enjoy mobx a lot, but I don't think it really address most of the points vec raised. The way I look at it, it's not a contest. If Vue is better for some developers and some teams than React, that's great! It's nice to
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Google wants you to know that the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are very secure(androidauthority.com)
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by rpeden 9y ago
I think you'll be okay. If you want to get a look at how AI and ML are going to end up being applied to a huge number of business problems, try out the Azure Cognitive Services APIs[1]. I'm not associated with them in any way, I&#
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by rpeden 9y ago
I imagine you'd be in for some fun times with COM if you want to call that VBA code from a .NET language.
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by rpeden 9y ago
Unless something has changed recently, VBA in Excel and other Office applications isn't .NET at all. It's basically just VB6. When you go to edit VBA inside Excel, you get a VB6 IDE. I just tried it in Excel 2016, and it looks the
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Unleashing an X86 Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege Escalation[video] (2015)(youtube.com)
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A Dynamical Explanation of the Falling Cat Phenomenon[pdf] (1969)(pentagono.uniandes.edu.co)
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by rpeden 9y ago
It depends on what kind of development you're doing. For most web and business programming I've done, at the end of the day I'm mostly just taking data and transforming it into other data. Most of the time, looking at these p
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by rpeden 9y ago
If you use Qt and QML, you can write most (or all) of your application using JavaScript. I was experimenting a few weeks back, and was able to put together a Hacker News reader app using only JavaScript and QML. Granted, it was a fairly sim
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by rpeden 9y ago
I remember installing an early version of Red Hat on a machine that only had a Winmodem, not a real hardware modem that would just work in Linux. Getting a Winmodem to work in Linux was possibly, but not exactly easy. I couldn't afford
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by rpeden 9y ago
Look at the admin themes section on Themeforest. They contain lots of premade components, as well as plenty of sample pages to give you ideas. They're not free, but last time I checked, there were panty of good looking themes for under
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by rpeden 9y ago
If you use QT and QML, you can write most (sometimes all) of your code in JavaScript. Whether you consider JavaScript a sane language is up to you. :)
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Messing with the Google Buganizer System for $15,600 in Bounties(medium.freecodecamp.org)
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by rpeden 9y ago
The Onion also had some decent advice on standing at your desk: https://www.theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-u... :)
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by rpeden 9y ago
It sure did. You had to use IE to do it, which some people disliked. That usually wasn't a problem, though, because you had to support IE due to its market share.
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by rpeden 9y ago
I see product/idea validation as part of the marketing process, too. In the intro to marketing course I took in college, one of the points they really tried to ingrain in everyone was that the market research you do before you create
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by rpeden 9y ago
Ahh! Understood :) It looks like some of CP's stretched DC-8s lived on into the 90s, albeit with other airlines.
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by rpeden 9y ago
If you count freighters, the DC-8 is still in commercial service. Not too many of them, though.
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by rpeden 9y ago
Excelsior JET does it, and it works Scala. So you can already compile JVM targeted Scala to native code that way if you want to. JET is fairly expensive, though.
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by rpeden 9y ago
The port lands are a bit of a mess. The waterfront area is pretty nice right around Harbourfront Centre, though. The Beaches to the east and Sunnyside/Humber Bay Park to the west are pleasant as well.
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by rpeden 9y ago
A BBS with 5 simultaneous users? Sounds amazing. Most of the BBSes here in the Toronto area only had a single phone line. :)
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by rpeden 9y ago
It was more than just the popularity of Unix. A while back, I ended up following a link on HN and reading a bunch of old computer magazines. I came across an article by Peter Norton (in PC Magazine) from around 1986 or 87. In it, he discuss

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