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by tobych 9y ago
Yes, coming from the UK, where my hours in academia were 37.5/week, I was surprised to learn (from my incorrect interpretation of the title) that those 2.5 hours/week I work here in the US were pointless.
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by tobych 9y ago
Okay, that made my day. Quotable.
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by tobych 9y ago
Agreed, though my first reaction was definitely: "I can't believe you don't know cron". I had to step back a little and remember who the audience is. Then I wrote my comment (at the same time as everyone else here did).
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by tobych 9y ago
The file is a "cron schedule" [1]. Paste the series of numbers (and the *) into the box on the site below and you'll see it means "midnight on July 19th every year". The commenter will probably have this in their pe
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by tobych 9y ago
That headline makes no sense to me. What does "sticks" mean here?
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by tobych 10y ago
Boulder City, Nevada, was built as a semi-permanent town in 1931 to house 5,000 working on the Hoover Dam. The Wikipedia entry says the city "was exceptionally rare as an example of a town fully planned under government supervision. T
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by tobych 10y ago
Typo: lightweight in the README should not be hyphenated :-)
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by tobych 10y ago
For those like me who, though not a pilot, enjoy watching Aircrash Investigation and similar programs, and finds the investigations and findings inspiring/sobering/educational as a software engineer, and like me weren't aware
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by tobych 10y ago
Ouch. Plenty of jolly and upbeat advice here for teachers on decorating their "Windowless Classroom", which is apparently a thing. OMG. http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2015/08/25/be
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by tobych 10y ago
I can recommend this book: "Difficult Conversations" https://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-...
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by tobych 10y ago
Just chiming in here: in The Pragmatic Programmer it's called a "tracer bullet", not a "tracer". You'll do a lot better searching for discussions by using "tracer bullet".
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by tobych 11y ago
One solution might be for Github to store the details of each failed call, and give each call a number that increments (not just for failed calls). Then, if the server notices that it's missed a call into it, it can call Github and fet
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by tobych 11y ago
If you're having suicidal thoughts, I'd suggest you concentrate on sorting that out before moving on to career planning. Give this a read and give the nice folks a call on 1-800-273-8255 and they can put you in touch with local re
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by tobych 11y ago
Did you run your name by /anyone/ whatsoever before posting this? I can't imagine that if you'd say, asked three people, one of them wouldn't have laughed at the very suggestion. IED indeed. This is the sort of sill
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by tobych 11y ago
Here's the abstract from that document: "This document describes a Tcl package named, rosea. Rosea is an execution architecture intended as the target for translating XUML models using Tcl as the implementation language. The packa
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by tobych 11y ago
Is this the same syntax that PlantUML uses? http://plantuml.com/sequence.html
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by tobych 12y ago
I love all those phone numbers.
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by tobych 12y ago
My first computer too. Stuck a match in with the RAM pack, along with a bit of Blu-tack to keep it all together. Stunning memories of typing programs in KNOWING they'd be zapped once I pulled the power. Funny thing was we had no TV unt
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by tobych 12y ago
This sentence on the App Store page needs fixing: "Wire works on iOS and OS X, it is inspired by and developed for the latest in hardware."
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by tobych 12y ago
They needn't be invoking a separate process. Could be just calling out to an API provided by a running PHP process, perhaps over HTTP.
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by tobych 12y ago
If this app were ever to be wildly successful, enough people would try to leave the theater at the same time that cinema operators would either lock the toilets or start having intermissions.
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by tobych 12y ago
Buy Nothing Project (BNP) isn't about "gifts" in that sense. Here, the "gift economy" is "a mode of exchange where valuables are not sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future
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by tobych 12y ago
The Buy Nothing Project (started by a couple of friends of mine) is a successful model for this. It's not an app, but a network of Facebook groups. From their 'About' page: "The Buy Nothing Project began as an experiment
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by tobych 12y ago
Me too. That was a shock.
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by tobych 13y ago
I'd suggest you replace the music with a voice-over that explains what's going on.
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by tobych 13y ago
My understanding is that the field, when working with a PostgreSQL database, is stored as a JSON field in PostgreSQL, rather than just a text field. I don't think django-jsonfield can do that.
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by tobych 13y ago
That's the first thing I thought. Please, please change it. Things are difficult enough for women in technology without things like that. I don't care what the rational is. It looks awful, and I'd be embarrassed to show that
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by tobych 13y ago
Thank you sir. Typo in your blog post: pleasent (should be pleasant). Also: "interetsted" on the "Organization Accounts" page. Thank you again. Not quite the awesome criticism sandwich @patcon made, but that's all I
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by tobych 13y ago
Likewise. As with a pomodoro ending and the bell rining, the sun setting on PyCharm stops me working. All sorts of chemistry going on.
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by tobych 13y ago
Surely "Simple arithmetics" in the second code example should be "Simple arithmetic", singular.

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