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by torial 4y ago
For anyone with Long Covid, there is an online support group with a lot of resources available (it does use Slack). The group can be found at: https://www.wearebodypolitic.com/covid-19
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by torial 14y ago
I like python-like languages, but the deleting of code seems rather extreme (and unlike the personality I'd expect from a python-like language). Boo provided a super extensible compiler pipeline and metaprogramming ( http://boo.codehaus.o
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by torial 14y ago
Do you have a file called "mule" for bad ideas?
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by torial 15y ago
Not sure if this is the criteria -- but Facebook's Timeline feature was recently added and appears to me to be JS heavy.
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by torial 15y ago
If a consumer does research, as I did, and looks for comparison of the eInk of the Nook and of the Kindle, you quickly discover side by side photos of the Nook and Kindle and conclude that the Kindle eInk is better (it does use a more curre
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by torial 16y ago
The article and the comments here remind me of a great article on how to write unmaintainable code: http://freeworld.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
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QIOS DevSuite 4.0 UI (Free) Library for .Net released(qiosdevsuite.com)
1 points by torial 16y ago|0 comments
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Icons (including free for commercial use)(iconfinder.com)
168 points by torial 16y ago|29 comments
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by torial 16y ago
Agreed, that was similar to what I've seen with other programmers and with my only education. I profited greatly by taking engineering courses for a while, and they teach how to problem solve. I've also observed that others who have had a
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by torial 16y ago
For others, a warning. There isn't any technical discussion, it is really just a demo.
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by torial 16y ago
Perhaps it is a new kind of SEO?
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by torial 16y ago
It could be my understanding of what was going on was incorrect, but I'll tell you what I observed, and please let me know if there was a better way to fix it. I found the easiest way to do so was just to avoid using Views. And frankly, w
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by torial 16y ago
Here's a blog-like post (really a Facebook Note) I made about the differences a while back: Having the right syntax for databases is critical. Here's the moderately optimized SQL for two DB systems for two different updates: SQL Server Up
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by torial 16y ago
>MySQL outperformed Postgres. For my part, I thought Postgres was slow until 5 months ago (when I came from a port from SQL Server). Then I learned something! The default install of Postgres is slow (at least on Windows). And on bench
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by torial 16y ago
C# is a decent language to use, and has evolved rather rapidly over the last few years. I remember in the 1.0 (and even PDC days) when C# came out as essentially a Java clone, and to find out about how to use classes I'd find the most help
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by torial 16y ago
Last year when I was interviewing, I didn't mention my rank (which is so-so), but mentioned that my answers could be found, and if they wanted to see how I answered, and determine my competence, they would be able to do so. I believe that
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by torial 16y ago
Languages affect how you can express certain concepts. More expressive languages can be useful in new programming concepts. A personal example: Many years ago I had to program in VB.Net, and never understood polymorphism until I dabbled i
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by torial 16y ago
Cobra - I've dabbled with it to see that it works nicely with my brain, but not enough to really know and grok all it has to offer. The initial draw is that it is a python-like language for .Net (important since my day job is in .Net). And
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by torial 16y ago
At my previous job (which I enjoyed greatly until the president embezzled funds and ran off with a woman), I asked to do a programming task so that I could prove my skill and ability to do what they needed.
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by torial 16y ago
The company I work for has prospective developers write something that parses Java property files, and sample files are given to them to examine. It is amazing how many are unable to write something to do this. Additional small-grained pr
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by torial 16y ago
I find this quote to be interesting... "On the contrary: the programmer should let correctness proof and program grow hand in hand. Argument three is essentially based on the following observation. If one first asks oneself what the structu
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by torial 16y ago
Essentially the pagefile.sys (which at a high level is a massive memory mapped file that Windows uses for virtual memory) gets stored on a flash drive. It very much helps the overall responsiveness of a computer that doesn't have enough RA
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by torial 16y ago
I would love a different way of handling Government RFQs: If your company engages in income shifting to avoid paying taxes, you are ineligible for government contracts.
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by torial 16y ago
I was hoping they'd be using advanced imaging for text not visible to the naked eye, and was excited to see this paragraph: "The refined images were shot with a high-tech infrared camera NASA uses for space imaging. It helped uncover sectio
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by torial 16y ago
For anyone that picks up the book, it is worth slogging through the boring first quarter of the book. After that point, each chapter gets better than the previous.
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by torial 16y ago
I've had good experiences with http://www.bugnotes.com/home.php for bug tracking. Also provides exports of all data in an SQLite DB or in CSV format if desired.
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by torial 16y ago
FWIW, your math is off you state: "35,000 miles per hour / 60 = 583 miles per second." Really, this would be: 35,000 mph / (60 minutes per hour) / (60 seconds per minute) = 9.72 miles per second. Then just decrease the distance traveled by
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by torial 16y ago
For a great discussion / informal research on comparing online translation tools (primarily Google, Bing, Yahoo) on quality, see: http://www.tcworld.info/index.php?id=175 The interesting factor was when they took brand identity away as a
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by torial 16y ago
"IMHO DDG's success stems from the fact that yegg listens to the users" I once contacted Cuil about some worthless search results, and got a standard reply asking me to be patient since they were a small company. But there wasn't any hint
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by torial 16y ago
I did a few searches... land, cobra, corn... and really didn't get many results that matched those words. Is that just how people are tagging them w/in Flickr?

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