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by rusanu 8y ago
Isn't this 'the argument of personal incredulity'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_fallacy > I cannot imagine how P could be true; therefore P must be false.
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Why Double Fry French Fries? (2010)(aht.seriouseats.com)
4 points by rusanu 8y ago|1 comments
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The search for Titanic was a front to find two lost Cold War submarines(bbc.com)
1 points by rusanu 8y ago|0 comments
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by rusanu 8y ago
The cost should also account for the work put in and the years of experience and know how to pull it off. It cost you $10, but it would cost me several hundreds or even thousands to pay experts to do it for me.
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by rusanu 8y ago
Mining from the sea floor... Did any submarine sunk nearby? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian
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by rusanu 9y ago
Not to mention that an empty list still has a type...
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by rusanu 9y ago
KFC has closed 750 of its 900 UK outlets after delivery problems meant they ran out of chicken. Last week, the fried chicken chain switched its delivery contract to DHL, which blamed "operational issues" for the supply disruption.
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Chicken chaos as KFC closes 750 outlets(bbc.com)
1 points by rusanu 9y ago|1 comments
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by rusanu 9y ago
You don't need to 'shell' out to call PoSh. You can host it yourself, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn569260(v=vs.85).a... Passing data is quite easy, both ways, is just C# objects. T
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by rusanu 9y ago
Swedish Vikings extended mostly toward what is now Russia and Ukraine, using Volga, Don and Dniepr as major communication/transport channels [0]. This brought them into contact with the Khazar Khanagate at the mouth of Volga [1] and th
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by rusanu 9y ago
The author is not even mentioning the reason Web apps become prevalent, even in B2B and Enterprise: deployment. Not having to deal with upgrading hundreds of workstations to the latest release.
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by rusanu 9y ago
Once I've read an excellent book, The Art of Multiprocessor Programming [0]. All examples in the book are in Java. After reading it, when thinking about some of the solutions and algorithms presented, I quickly concluded that deploying
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by rusanu 9y ago
> “The language strikes me as substantially more accessible than that of the original papers.” So is not really a summary, is more of a reformulation, an easier to read rewrite.
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by rusanu 9y ago
A new hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and early dinosaur evolution[0] [0] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7646/full/nature2...
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by rusanu 9y ago
tl/dr: Theropods more closely related to ornithischians than to sauropods
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'Frankenstein dinosaur' mystery solved(bbc.com)
1 points by rusanu 9y ago|2 comments
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by rusanu 9y ago
I also saw today this article Microsoft Prepares SQL Server 2017 for Linux and Containers [0], from this tweet[1] "Microsoft Prepares SQL Server 2017 for Linux and Containers, SQL Server lab runs on kubernetes and docker". If they
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by rusanu 9y ago
Loose lips sink ... Nobel prizes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51
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by rusanu 9y ago
Sometimes people miss flights, or last minute cancel, for various reasons. If past statistics show the every 200 seats plane has 10 no-show passengers at departure on average, you can sell 210 tickets in average and depart with every seat o
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by rusanu 9y ago
probably Enterprise Agreements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Enterprise_Agreement
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Smallest X86 ELF Hello World(timelessname.com)
3 points by rusanu 9y ago|0 comments
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by rusanu 9y ago
> it's still something that has to be dealt with somewhere Database programmers have the means to deal with it off-the-shelf: BEGIN TRANSACTION ... COMMIT. When your queues are in the database, this becomes trivial. Even without t
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by rusanu 9y ago
My point is that I've seen people making decisions to go with 'best effort delivery' and live with the (costly) consequences because they read here and there that EOIO is impossible, so why bother trying.
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by rusanu 9y ago
Not when your 'socket' is a persisted, durable, transacted medium (ie. a database). Sure, applications can 'pull data out of the socket and then die', but this is a common scenarios on databases which is handled with tra
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by rusanu 9y ago
Pat had some opinions about CAP and SOA and distributed systems, see [0]. I also remember a talk given by Pat and Eric Brewer together, that went deeper into the whole CAP ideas vis-a-vis the model Pat had been advocating (see Fiefdoms and
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by rusanu 9y ago
Yes, I'm talking about distributed systems and I am aware of the CAP theorem. Hence my choice of the word 'practical'. As I said, users had cases when the plumbing (messaging system) recovered and delivered messages after +40
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by rusanu 9y ago
Having spent 7 years of my life working with Pat Helland in implementing Exactly Once In Order messaging with SQL Server Service Broker[0] I can assure you that practical EOIO messaging is possible, exists, and works as advertised. Delive
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Amazon to buy Whole Foods for $13.7bn(bbc.com)
2 points by rusanu 9y ago|0 comments
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by rusanu 9y ago
Can you clarify then wether the AV was simply not scanning the SQLite files (ie. the file extension or the file location was exempt in AV config) ?
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by rusanu 9y ago
Since you mention the OR impedance mismatch problem, I have to link to The Vietnam of CS article: http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-scie...

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