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by samuel 17y ago
IMHO, the point is not that the site isn't flashy, but that it doesn't explain why would you want off-site and crypted backups in the first time. The site I would expect for a backup tool is one which scares the visitors to the hell, full o
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by samuel 17y ago
My definition for ipv4 adresses exhaustion is: IANA and RIR's have no more unallocated blocks, so everything is left to the free market. If its consequences will be catastrophic or imperceptible is something I can't imagine. I would love to
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by samuel 17y ago
IPv4 address space will be exhausted(I know, I know, a cheap shot).
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by samuel 17y ago
It's worse than that. There is a standard way of assesing programmers productivity and is the worst it could be: kLOC's.
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by samuel 17y ago
LDAP is "Lightweight" only when compared with X.500..
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by samuel 17y ago
I just would have used "b" to go backwards by words instead of characters. It's not optimal, but much more natural.
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by samuel 17y ago
The regular expression example makes no sense for me. A regexp is a very specialized way of express what a pattern must match, opossed to a java code that express how to perform the matching. You don't regexp's compact syntax. That's fi
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by samuel 17y ago
Wasn't it obvious? I mean, this is applicable for almost any language, let it be C++, ASP, TCL or whatever isn't considered trendy anymore but it's proven and stable, and isn't completely unsuited for the task(COBOL, 4GL, RPG...) Takes at t
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by samuel 17y ago
I don't think nobody is saying that is migration is easy or risk free. Some of your complaints I think are more related to how has been done the transition in a particular facility than generally applicable. About culture, it's true that mo
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by samuel 17y ago
I work in IT for my country's National Health System. I made the switch only six months ago so my domain knowledge is still very limited. Anyway, I have already seen how automation may greatly improve doctors and nurses efficiency. For exam
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by samuel 17y ago
Personally I don't get ORM's. May be it's because the only I have had to deal with was Hibernate, and seemed to me as an innecesary layer of complexity and bloat, and objects and relations sometimes doesn't map nicely. If you want to persis
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by samuel 17y ago
While I know very little about MySQL, I was surprised by that example too. How a relational join could be slower than that couple of query's? Moreover, at first glance, why didn't do exactly the same with a subselect(MySQL supports them now
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by samuel 17y ago
Thank you for your eye-widening comment. It's surprising how we swallow "well known facts" as this (everybody pretends to know that we import energy from french nuclears), without any research. The comment you answer wasn't mine, but it cou
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by samuel 17y ago
The new SkyWalker is a men's Barbie. It's not tougher, it's just more sexually attractive to the oppossite sex, and a physical model for boys. That's how I see it, at least.
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by samuel 17y ago
AFAIK PL/SQL is not "Oracle's SQL". It's executed by a different engine and you get context switches when you execute SQL Code (don't know about T-SQL). But Oracle's SQL is by itself Turing complete since the introduction of the "Model" cla
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by samuel 17y ago
I know I'm going to burn Karma, but, Parametrized SQL queries on HN's front page? really? BTW, Does anybody knows why the question mark is used instead of something more descriptive? Oracle's JDBC driver allows the use of ":param" syntax an
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by samuel 17y ago
Is this a response to bing? If you go after my market, I'll go after yours. It's not only the Chrome OS thing. Google Apps out of beta could mean that Google is serious about competing in the groupware segment.
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by samuel 17y ago
That's nothing. When you want extra processor resources on an IBM iSeries, you only need to enter some code (after paying IBM big €€), and vóilá, your server will use some extra cores that were always there. I have heard Sun does the same,
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by samuel 17y ago
I agree. I prefer to attach a 5-line comment to 10 lines of code to writing 15 lines of code. If the reader knows the idiom great, if not, he can grasp it without going into the details. Not everybody agrees, though.
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by samuel 17y ago
The less the programmer says, the more flexibility the compiler has to speed things up. I seriously doubt it. The more the compiler knows, the more it can optimize things. What it's "daily" in this example? It could be anything. The only
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by samuel 17y ago
Where do you buy such kind of books? I can't find them in Ebay anymore. Probably it was not legal to export them.
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Predicting the End of the World (potaroo.net)
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by samuel 17y ago
From my ignorance, it seems a very smart move from Oracle. It makes a lot of sense for them since Sun has lot of things they lack of: Server hardware, the Java stack, an operating system, their own processor line... They just became an IBM
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by samuel 18y ago
What's wrong with PLT-Scheme? It's well-documented, has a decent amount of libs and its syntax its much cleaner than CL's one, but can't find any reference about anyone using it in production code(other than Arc).
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by samuel 18y ago
Python uses native threads which can be scheduled by the OS to multiple cores. It's just that can't run the interpreter at the same time (C-coded extensions can, and most of them release the lock). Yeah, not a big difference really.
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by samuel 18y ago
Both translations from latin are indeed correct. But Descartes first used the french "Je pense, donc je suis" so yours is probably more correct.
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by samuel 18y ago
Someone at QA it's going to be fired. Corner cases like 1st and last days of a year(leap and not), 29th of February and the like are the first candidates for proper blackbox testing. I wouldn't put all the blame on the programmer (who proba
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by samuel 18y ago
Also in a numb3rs episode. And Allen Paulos in one of his books outlines the script of a movie based in this game which could help to interest people in Mathematics.
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by samuel 18y ago
The most interesting about the results IMHO is JRuby's performance. It's now faster than CRuby1.8, and, for what I have read, solves also the scalability problems associated to it(threads, GC, etc...). And there's a lot of room for improvem
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by samuel 18y ago
I don't use it as desktop OS anymore, but I used to during the 4.x branch. Most of those days annoyances are now gone like having to recompile java from source or using linux binaries of Mozilla/Firefox for flash (this may still apply). I d

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