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by sc68cal 15y ago
This is totally off topic, but the fact that The Joker eschews planning could also be part of the theme of him being an "unstoppable force" rather than just a man. He symbolizes man's darker nature and tendencies.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Are you running an equivalent hardware setup? Similar to: >Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 G6, with 72GB of RAM and RAID10 on 8 disks. Playing devil's advocate - there is no proof that PostgreSQL does not have any teething problems on high
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Perhaps, but again - there is some seriously messed up stuff going on there. It's hard to not be outraged and have that spill over. He's outraged at the situation (in addition to being downvoted for the TRUTH), so I think it's understandabl
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by sc68cal 15y ago
I think the OP is correct, despite all the people downvoting him for his tone. All these allegations have been been documented. Don't forget this is the same Saipan that hired Jack Abramoff and lobbied Tom Delay (before BOTH went to jail on
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by sc68cal 15y ago
>Which distro is still using syslog? FreeBSD
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by sc68cal 15y ago
The one thing that needs to be controlled for, is the age of the person filling out the survey. I would be below that average for pay, although I am only one year out of college and into a full time position. Obviously, not a candidate for
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by sc68cal 15y ago
More importantly, the "statistic" also seems to contradict recent scholarly research that indicates that areas with high home ownership are the last to return to full employment. "Oswald showed a correlation between homeownership and unempl
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by sc68cal 15y ago
I see there is another Kunstler fan on HN! An upvote for you, sir. For anyone else interested in this line of argument, there is a great introduction that Kunstler did for his TED Talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ
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by sc68cal 15y ago
In addition to requiring a full reconciliation to GAAP, the SEC’s disclosure rules for nonstandard financial metrics require companies to provide “a statement disclosing the reasons why the registrant’s management believes that presentatio
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Or their business model is to sell irrational exuberance and cash out before anyone notices. Don't forget that they hid $36.2 million in stock-based compensation as part of this accounting trick.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
"PHP is so easy to use that anyone can hack together crap, which is difficult to maintain. Therefore, PHP is bad." I know you are attempting to highlight a weakness in my argument by highlighting how my reservations are fairly generic, bu
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by sc68cal 15y ago
The article relies on major features of Oracle in order to "bust" the myth of the unmaintainable stored procedure, which leads me to believe that these are big band-aids over what is still a difficult problem: maintaining database changes a
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Upon signing the legislation, legend has it that, as he put down his pen, Johnson told an aide, "We have lost the South for a generation"
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Many people's first experience with a Python ORM (or maybe an ORM altogether) is the Django one. Useless anecdote: I started out using SQLObject since I was importing data from flat files into a relational database, then doing some analys
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by sc68cal 15y ago
It is far more important to have critical thinking, than good memory. Memory can be incorrect or incomplete and without critical thinking, can go unchallenged or unimproved.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
I did the reverse - had a vanity domain and all that stuff, then just tacked my Github account onto it. Also, why not find your patches from http://git.gnupg.org ?
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by sc68cal 15y ago
YES! I stopped reading when I hit that slide. It's a bunch of bullshit and handwaving that people do when they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Just pull in the trending stream from twitter and pass it through Hadoop Streaming ( http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.0/streaming.html ). This is the kind of work that MapReduce is made for.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Ah - I just gave coderwall a try this time. Github's authorization prompt is much clearer now as to what I'm allowing access to.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
I came to this conclusion a while ago and tossed Github Badge ( http://drnic.github.com/github-badges/ ) on my personal site.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Which plugin did you use? WP Super Cache? I'd like to take a look through the code.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
What about isolating the popular URL and temporarily serving a static version of the page?
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Red Hat and Oracle should start making some sales calls, right about now. They should capitalize on this opportunity to convert some disaffected VMWare customers, and fund software development for migrating off the VMWare stack.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
The same reason they introduced DirectX to compete with OpenGL. Lock-in.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
From my limited experience on this site, I know that I have hesitated/procrastinated from doing a "Show HN" thread about a grant that I recently received. It just doesn't have the sex appeal that VC has.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Holy moly, that is awesome! I'm going to look into this. EDIT: Oh, this is so cool - a true UNIX utility, it just reads from STDIN. I don't even need to play with my sendmail config. I can integrate it with my .procmailrc. This is fantastic
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by sc68cal 15y ago
You could make that case with some examples, but even then, the metaphor overwrites the reason why governments are formed - for the public good (and the protection of personal property, if you are a fan of John Locke). Thus, governments in
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by sc68cal 15y ago
That's a great question. My experience is that you have to REALLY like kids in order to be an educator. Most teachers are female and young, with in steady relationships and planned to have kids (at least at Temple University where I went to
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by sc68cal 15y ago
It's not really private if you are using a freemail service like Google or Yahoo. I am more interested in the law, for those who run their own SMTP and IMAP servers.
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by sc68cal 15y ago
There is a good quote that is always passed around in education circles: "The soft bigotry of low expectations" Educators that have low expectations for certain students will not challenge them and hold them accountable for their work and s

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