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by solresol 5y ago
Quite a few companies. Many universities. Many schools. Many temples and religious communities.
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by solresol 5y ago
I'm putting together devops content for the B2B arm of $FAMOUS_BOOTCAMP. Here's my curriculum so far (based on AWS, though): - Why DevOps (basically, a distilled version of "Accelerate") - Terraform - Ansible - Docker -
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by solresol 5y ago
Actually, the article content doesn't seem to match the title. The best predictor according to the article (50% of variance) is fluid intelligence. Language aptitude was a distant second place at 8% of variance explained, narrowly edgi
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by solresol 5y ago
They already go negative in Australia quite regularly, almost always because of solar.
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by solresol 5y ago
Most of those cobol programs are doing something equivalent to a single SQL query. And Cobol programs are _verbose_. Have a look at the examples on Rosetta code. C# (which isn't particularly concise) can do in 40 lines what Cobol needs
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by solresol 5y ago
I might have misread some of the tables, but I think it was saying that with the proliants you get 10x the compute power of the mainframe, and it costs nearly 30% more when you do that.
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by solresol 5y ago
It would be a risky flight for the drone, but that might get supplies to Pitcairn island, where it could be recharged and sent back. (Prevailing winds might be a problem though.)
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by solresol 5y ago
I know the author and have worked with him. Even when a system he wrote over many months was dramatically outperformed by a naive machine learning approach that I coded up in an afternoon, it made no difference to his confidence that he was
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by solresol 5y ago
I've been teaching courses of this nature for about 25 years now, but usually they have been for employees improving their own skills in an existing job. This is one of the first times I have been teaching a quick course where there is
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by solresol 5y ago
Yes, I've seen this kind of course turn into a trainwreck before, and I'd like to see what I can do to turn it around.
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by solresol 5y ago
Maybe a little pessimistic, but they won't be making significant contributions quickly, that's for sure.
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by solresol 5y ago
So should I cover the idea of pair programming, then? Or do you just mean "pair" as in "I want someone like that on my team, and the value that they get is not primarily in the programming, but in understanding their industry
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by solresol 5y ago
The final assignment is going to be (essentially) "choose a program you want to write, and write it" -- so they will have shown a certain amount of initiative and problem solving. Is that the sort of thing you would want to see?
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To what use would you put mature-age beginner programmers?
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by solresol 5y ago
Taking the history of a spreadsheet file, seeing what has been added to it over time, and where, and automatically generating a web application from that. Often some spreadsheet has grown organically to solve some problem, with or without c
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by solresol 5y ago
Oh dear... I've been triggered by that reference to the HP-UX boxes at Queensland police in the early 2000s... yes, it was as bad as can be imagined... no, actually, it was worse. A large number of them were out-of-date and at their en
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by solresol 5y ago
I pictured Go = G. If you want C# and G (a nasty tritone) together, then you need something else. Adding in a Bb will give a nice diminished chord.
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by solresol 5y ago
It's a high school (IB) essay. Given that the student probably started learning about economics less than 18 months ago, I think it's pretty amazing.
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by solresol 5y ago
... and yet, Ada95 managed to include (as part of the standard for the language) the ability to bind to C, C++, Fortran and Cobol. All of which have absurdly different calling conventions and assumptions about memory.
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by solresol 5y ago
Working on a ServiceGuard cluster of HP-UX boxes for a major retailer, I put the IP address onto the wrong computer, and stopped all warehousing operations (for the country) the day before a long weekend. Might have been a million dollars w
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by solresol 5y ago
Anecdatum: In 2018 I was running a consulting business helping customers with backup to tape, but even back then most customers were doing backup to a dedupe (magnetic disk) library like the HP StoreOnce, but then often copying that spooled
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by solresol 5y ago
It matches my experience. I can update pages about some topics (e.g. backup, tape drives, backup products) and nothing gets deleted or changed. But there are others where everything I update gets reverted with a comment like "reverted
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by solresol 5y ago
I haven't been in enterprise IT for a while, but the enterprise features that you could have closed-source that would encourage big corps to buy (and pay a premium) which hobbyist buyers couldn't care less about: - SNMP support (i
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by solresol 5y ago
The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV might suit you. It's a 4WD SUV. You get 50km of battery range before the petrol motor kicks in, so it has a lot of the advantages of electric without paying all that much more for it.
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by solresol 5y ago
The regions outside urbanized ones will deploy solar faster than in the cities, so they will end up with very cheap power in the middle of the day. You can charge a car from an ordinary domestic power plug -- particularly in a low density a
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by solresol 5y ago
I stayed in a hotel in Canberra that was set up like that (charging cables hanging from the ceiling). It was just normal domestic extension cables, so not obviously dangerous. Fortunately I was tall enough to reach up to connect my car&#x27
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by solresol 5y ago
Don't apartment blocks in the USA have parking inside the complex? i.e. you buy an apartment and a numbered parking space or two? (I don't know -- I've never lived in one, so genuinely asking.) Then the answer to your questio
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by solresol 5y ago
You don't need some special charger. I charged from a normal wall plug for ages until I paid an electrician to upgrade it (and even then it was only an upgrade to a 15 amp circuit). You'll recharge fully overnight without any trou
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by solresol 5y ago
It was fun for the first few days and then you get kind of used to it. But what never gets dull is laughing at people paying to fill their cars with liquid explosives.
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by solresol 5y ago
Back in my day we used to use kibitz (from the expect package)... https://linux.die.net/man/1/kibitz https://opensource.apple.com/source/tcl/tcl-20/tcl_ext/expec... Not bad for

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