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by smackay 15y ago
The real problem is the uncertainty of the solution. It is not clear whether strong action will have the slightest effect so Germany, given it's calamitous history with financial crises, is probably holding back just in case. The picture of
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by smackay 15y ago
That would certainly work for relatively small or close-knit groups where it is easier to collectively decide to move. I would expect that impact factor has a significant amount of gravity associated with it so even if the leaders in a fiel
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by smackay 15y ago
Flash also has text spans for displaying blocks of text. It is not too hard to figure out the line-breaking if you were doing the rendering on the server - Java fonts and other text related code gives a pretty decent approximation to what t
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by smackay 15y ago
This is probably way more efficient than just going out stalking but with something like 3 million feral pigs in the USA it is going to take a lot of effort to bring the problem under control. Perhaps something like the Judas Goat, http://
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by smackay 15y ago
It is a strength, without a doubt, but it takes a little time to realise this (hence the myriad of blog posts discussing different possibly ways of laying out projects). Django was also my first intro to Python so the simplicity (and elegan
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by smackay 15y ago
It is good to see this but it is also an indictment against Django that there is no one, true way to get it all set up. Since everything is a python module it really does not matter how everything is configured, only that it can be found so
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by smackay 15y ago
The query browser and admin tools were easier to use. They weren't really better, rather the presentation was simpler. The Postgres tools (pgAdmin) shows a little too much detail right away (namespaces, etc.) and looks a lot more complicate
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by smackay 15y ago
An interesting article, however the trend described might be a superficial one. Replace "software" with "paper" and the same arguments could be made for the economy 100 years or more ago. That indicates that the real driving force is someth
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by smackay 15y ago
Outsourcing is already reasonably well establihed in biology. There are a number of companies, notably from South Korea, that offer sequencing, probe library creation and a host of other services that take the grunt work out of a lot of lab
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by smackay 15y ago
It is easier to hide by claiming to be freelancing which is gappy by nature however there are always questions about what you did while freelancing so I suspect the bias still exists. Having said that, a lot more work is purely short-term s
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by smackay 15y ago
Fat Stupid Ugly Controller instead of the succint (decidedly more literate) Fat Controller - sadly an opportunity lost.
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The issue/argument here is not that writing tests is worthless but that in many cases the approach of "if we write enough tests then the code that solves the problem will eventually emerge" is doomed to failure or at least results in an ext
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by smackay 15y ago
Sharing clothing within an extended family is only to be expected. The dynamics change markedly when dealing with pre-owned clothes from random strangers however as plumgear will no doubt find out rather quickly. They do address the spills
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by smackay 15y ago
As far as I recall, Japan's Fifth Generation program, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer , which had the West running around in a panic, was primarily software driven. It was seen as an attempt the break the European an
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by smackay 15y ago
Identifying whether the client wants a cutting edge design or one that has the widest possible browser support would seem to be requirement #1.
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by smackay 15y ago
Nations unfortunately engage in a lot of belligerant actions that can easily spiral out of control. The long term risk with the USA conducting operations in international waters around China - which they are perfectly entitled to do so - is
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by smackay 15y ago
The language about software testing always seems to centre on the taxonomy of the tests rather than the software that is being tested. The concepts of controllability and observability (taken from hardware testing and control engineering) w
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by smackay 15y ago
So how does the tooling problem get solved? This would seem to be the limiting factor presented in the article not necessarily how opinionated the language is.
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World has wiped out cattle plague rinderpest: OIE(uk.reuters.com)
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Three cheers for Alan Bond's dogged determination to get this to reality and for pursuing private backing rather than the vested interests in the corporate sector or government. Perhaps this time the UK can innovate and reap the rewards too
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by smackay 15y ago
This topic is covered on a somewhat regular basis in The Economist - usnder different guises. One memorable comparison between Europe and the USA was that Americans work more so they can spend the occasional weekend on their expensive boat
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by smackay 15y ago
As a basis for a World View and model for conducting one's affairs this is pretty hard to beat. The Second Basic Law and σ in particular also gives plenty of material for more comtemplative moments.
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by smackay 15y ago
The real problem with this, apart from the inherent ambiguity of English, is that the axes are never defined so the graph can take any form you want. Steep (as in climbing) usually denotes effort or adversity - a point which may be missed b
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by smackay 15y ago
I'd go further and say that libraries are one of society's more significant institutions and a powerful symbol that learning is a prized asset in its members. While the internet is more efficient and offers a greater range of materials I th
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by smackay 15y ago
Teams with domain knowledge should be especially valuable since they learned all the important lessons on somebody elses dime. The domain knowledge need not be too high-level for example. A team that could assemble all te infrastructure to
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by smackay 15y ago
Hear, hear. REST APIs are particularly difficult to implement when you have multiple optional value to query/describe a particular set of resources. The RESTful way encourages an explosion of URLs to try and support the different combinatio
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by smackay 15y ago
Fascinating presentation. I have a couple of questions essentially about the history of this: 1) was Taligent's ignominious end in some way responsible for the stalling of developing software systems like this and 2) did C's more pragmattic
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by smackay 15y ago
You can slow down the startup time for Django if you have lots of installed apps and nested modules but it is still in the order of seconds rather than tens of seconds.
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by smackay 15y ago
Take a look at http://davidseah.com/ The productivity tools section has a cornucopia of printable task lists, calendars, etc. designed to make you more productive.
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by smackay 15y ago
I'd agree with getting professional help for the simple reason is that they probably have greater experience and know a wide range of tricks and techniques you can try and when to try them. Books can be a one size fits all approach that is

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