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17y ago
Right idea. However, if you're using MySQL, the docs recommend against that: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/encryption-functions.... Use a different hashing function, probably bcrypt. (Note to self: go back and check some of my ol
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17y ago
Have you looked for jobs at nearby universities? UC, MU, etc.?
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18y ago
Well, any insurance company that doesn't have a combined ratio (CR) less than 100 is not making money. Example: a CR of 92 means that for every dollar of premium, the company has to spend 92 cents, leaving 8 cents of profit. A CR of 102 mea
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18y ago
Sing it. Then play the notes that match what you're singing.
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18y ago
I don't know about that domain name - too much like bulimia.
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18y ago
Even better - fftdc.com is still available. Quick! Register it!
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18y ago
>Those people are forced to use Outlook. Or even better, Lotus Notes. Ick! What will save us from that hell?
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18y ago
That's too bad. (I'm male, btw.) Where I work, on an Agile team, we have lots of social interaction. We try to pair with a different developer every day. Each story card (requrement) we implement involves much back-and-forth conversaction b
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18y ago
It's not so bad...plus, you can always do what a Real Man (tm) would do - imlement all the missing shell commands as Perl scripts.
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18y ago
I just took an informal survey amongst my teammates (including Arabic in the list), and "three out of four" developers said: Mandarin. The interesting thing is that on my team, two are from Russia, one from China, one from Lebanon, one from
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18y ago
Cool...still, I couldn't help but think that having to cut a large hole in the foundation to get it out showed something of a lack of planning and foresight. :-(
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18y ago
Not necessarily; ever put together one of those Saga electric guitar kits? I've spent maybe 5-10% (out of maybe 15-20 total build time) tweaking and adjusting, finding they didn't drill all the holes in the right places, etc.
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18y ago
Working Effectively With Legacy Code - Michael C. Feathers
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18y ago
Well, plenty of people playing in bands sound like crap anyway.
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18y ago
"In rejecting an organized religion, why make a leap to rejecting the entire inquiry?" They spoiled it for us. But if you're serious^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrational in your inquiry, you'll come to discover that, like Santa Claus, God does not exist,
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18y ago
Try CodeIgniter (PHP framework) then.
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19y ago
I can't decide if I should laugh or cry. Why practice (music) anymore? But think of the possibilities...
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19y ago
tree
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19y ago
Wow! Just wow! I see myself in all of that (i.e., I'm getting older) and it just hits the mark.
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19y ago
(I think/hope you meant looking for the "blue plane", unless the reason for looking for the pink one is to see what it is we're trying to transcend.) I'm curious; who are these people? What are they working on? Can I help?
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19y ago
Does it seem to anybody else that we've actually stagnated instead of moved the field of computing forward during the last 10 years? Sure, machines are faster, we've got more bandwitdth, etc., but we're still "automating" stuff, rather than
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Ask YC: how to do market research?
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Did any of you read "Was Einstein Credible..."?
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