slantyyz

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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> Yes, it is criminal and the ex-admin will go to jail. What if the admin was a remote worker in a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the Netherlands (Verelox hq country)?
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Wouldn't it be better to not even run the query if id is a non-integer value, or does id = 0 have some intrinsic meaning in your data?
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> I don't quite get your idea about the case statement? The case statement would only be there to set it to a numeric 0 when it's an unusual value like an apostrophe - which is what the OP said it did in a comment somewhere
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I agree - that query looks like it would benefit from optimization. At first glance, it seems to me like the query would be much faster if joined activity_types and activities were filtered subqueries instead. Also, activities.user_id = #{i
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> You repeating that claim is victim blaming, and more importantly, wrong. I think that really depends on whether you perceive the leaker as a perpetrator or a victim. Valid arguments can be made for either side.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> They claim that to build your own workstation comparable to their $5k base model would cost at least $7k. It's true for initial costs, but it's a little misleading if you use separate components and recycle them at differ
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by slantyyz 9y ago
But you still have to wait 6 months to get an iMac Pro. Releasing the iMac Pro in December 2017 may as well be considered a 2018 release.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Funny -- being a Canadian, my first interpretation of your experience was that you worked at a gas station in Wawa, Ontario. Had to look it up before realizing it's actually the name of a company in the US.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
A friend of mine bought a gas station franchise for a major oil company (in a very large city, I might add), and he'd basically do the same. His price intelligence system is pretty low tech - it involves him hopping in a car and seeing
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by slantyyz 10y ago
>> I don't understand the growing demonization of cultural diffusion by labeling it "cultural appropriation." Either do I. The one thing I notice today is how everything is "sacred", whether it be certain a pe
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by slantyyz 10y ago
>> I'm not sure what I'm supposed to get out of this article. I don't either. The tone is incredibly whiny and maybe more than a smidge elitist, in my opinion. My parents came to Canada (from China) in the early 60s, a
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by slantyyz 10y ago
>> I'm a US citizen who lives in the US. Not traveling to the US is not an option. Why isn't it an option? The only way for you to "travel to the US" is to leave the US in the first place. You have the option to no
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by slantyyz 10y ago
Isn't the mat leave in Canada is funded by your employment insurance benefits? IIRC, the latest budget also extended it to 18 months too.
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by slantyyz 10y ago
>> Napster and LimeWire were big in my younger years and it allowed kids to illicitly amass music collections beyond what most middle-income kids could in a previous generation. Does that mean my generation were inherently more apprec
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by slantyyz 10y ago
It was considered career limiting for my generation. Don't know if it still is now, or if the younger generations simply don't care. Outside of the "Why I Left" posts, a lot of younger people put a lot of content on so
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by slantyyz 10y ago
A DSLT (Sony's translucent mirror cameras) != DSLR. IIRC, Canon had a pellicle based film SLR, but never in a digital model. So basically that advantage is untrue. I thought your claim sounded fishy. Mirrorless does not have a 1/2
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by slantyyz 10y ago
>> You didn't publicize this kind of stuff because the effort of typing it and Xeroxing it for your zine wasn't worth the reward of a reader getting some sort of insight into the company culture. At least for my cohort, that
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by slantyyz 10y ago
I briefly tried Tower for Windows a month or so as an alternative for SourceTree. The UI is nicer, but I found that it kept crashing on me.
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by slantyyz 10y ago
Serious question - can someone please explain the purpose/appeal of these "Why I Left X" blog posts/videos? I'm from a generation where you didn't publicize this kind of stuff, and I'm not quite sure I und
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by slantyyz 10y ago
To a much lesser degree, Brain Age did the same for the Nintendo DS. It expanded the DS market to a lot of non-traditional buyers.
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by slantyyz 10y ago
To me, part of the problem was that Wii Sports Club for WiiU wasn't a free pack in.
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by slantyyz 10y ago
But unlike the original Wii, there's no Wii Sports to get people who would normally not even buy a console to buy in.
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by slantyyz 10y ago
>> Kit lenses are often not what limits the quality of images people produce. I did not say that though. I only said that they're not benefiting from the potential of their purchase. Besides, a lot of consumers who buy DSLR kits
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by slantyyz 10y ago
>> I need to do some serious soul-searching before I continue buying DSLR equipment, assuming this is true. More research needed. Not really. If your photographic needs are satisfied with DSLR equipment, why worry about it? Don't
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by slantyyz 10y ago
>> what's to keep a manufacturer like Canon or Nikon from building a mirrorless body that continues to work with all of their existing gear? Old school management thinking. The most common speculation as to why Canon and Nikon ar
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by slantyyz 10y ago
>> not the least of which is (often) a half stop advantage Can you please provide a citation for this? Where is this advantage coming from? The shorter flange distance?
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by slantyyz 10y ago
>> a lot of people shoot their DSLR's in program mode without making technical considerations Also, a lot of consumer DSLR buyers don't buy much more than a slow superzoom or a kit lens duo (~18-50 + 70-210/300), so the
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by slantyyz 10y ago
Well, you should mistrust any photo gear recommendations that don't start with a question asking you what you are trying to accomplish (photographically speaking) in the first place. You could buy a camera that's generally accepte
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by slantyyz 10y ago
>> DSLRs are quicker, sharper and have much better low light performance. Sharpness and low light performance have less to do with the type of camera you're using than the sensor and lens combination you have. DSLRs might still
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by slantyyz 10y ago
>> I'm just waiting for the natural evolution of this system, where everyone takes their seat, and knock-out gas is piped in. Unless they charge you for the gas, the the airline wouldn't be able to make money off booze, food

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