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by wernercd 10y ago
The problem with Euler is it is very heavy on math. Math and programming aren't the same things. (although certain programming paths do rely heavily on math) Its better to do something. ANYTHING. Euler? Hackerrank.com (or other similar
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by wernercd 10y ago
The problem comes when a small subset of unhappy users... creates a mountain of bad reviews. "It never happened to me, or any HP printer I've ever dealt with, but I read online that..." I'd put a 5 star review on my Sams
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by wernercd 10y ago
What makes you think that? From five short paragraphs, I'm an immovable mountain - unable to change my opinion because I'm right? Didn't realize that text carried that much weight... Didn't realize that a comment about a
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by wernercd 10y ago
In some aspects, maybe... in other aspects, they've raised the bar to heights that others can't/won't reach. In a company that has hundreds of products, is that really so hard to believe? Mega successes... mega failures.
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by wernercd 10y ago
After the first or second semester I learned to buy (or... cough... acquire) the book when needed. It's amazing how many books are listed but never get used... and it's amazing how easy it is to get most books if you know where to
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by wernercd 10y ago
Is that the only person she's sicked the cops on? Or one of many? Did she call the cops on other neighbors or did we only hear of the call involving the "retarded black man"? I mean... her notifying the cops of the other neig
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by wernercd 10y ago
Obligatory: Maybe we finally have the year of Linux on the Desktop?
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by wernercd 10y ago
The force is strong in this one... Come... Come to the dark side. We have cake.
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by wernercd 10y ago
If Company B creates frivolous patents or is a NPE (Non Producing entity)? They deserve to be punished... (not sure if this is the case here)
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by wernercd 10y ago
I guess it's just a difference of terminology and/or nuance in terminology getting lost in "text". Hard to show sarcasm or "air quotes" in a text post :)
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by wernercd 10y ago
I'm not super experienced but I read enough to know bad code when I see it. * No separation of UI/Code. WinForms in all it's glory. * SELECT * in code behind. Never anything else. * WHERE field LIKE '{}&#
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by wernercd 10y ago
Basically the company started expanding and their code base started falling apart at the seams. Two coders that each had "silos" with wedges to keep the two sides communicating together. One did web side - ordering, registration,
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by wernercd 10y ago
I'm at a new job where the "old team" of two developers is being replaced by 5 devs... the old team had ~15 years of experience and can't code their way out of a wet paper bag. Not saying anything about YOU... experience
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by wernercd 10y ago
"Open and manually do" != "run powershell script to do" This is a discussion for Developers who want to automate... manually clicking stuff is not that answer.
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by wernercd 10y ago
As much as I love hating on Apple as much as the next person... they have developed taking products (iPod, iPhone especially) - and turning them into fairly polished products - into an art. I'd get my mom and iPhone/iPad before I
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by wernercd 10y ago
Just say it: He's a wizard and he just hit level 20.
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by wernercd 10y ago
With an increase in immigration and a cheapening of robotic workers and kiosks... where is this decrease in unemployment and increase in labor-force participation going to come from? I mean, there is "always" going to be jobs for
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by wernercd 10y ago
Woosh... That's the sound of the joke going over your head.
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by wernercd 10y ago
Don't get me wrong... I don't agree with the systems in place. Winner takes all? Super delegates? Two party system? All have parts ripe for abuse... Trump and Bern should, by all reasonable definitions, be on "other" pla
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by wernercd 10y ago
What's the aversions? A drone is a plane that is remote controlled or flies itself... a passenger drone or a manned uav would be a remote/self controlled airplane that has cargo: people. Not that people won't butcher the term
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by wernercd 10y ago
It's terrifying that Clinton might get into the Whitehouse. I mean... are there really THAT many stupid voters? Trump... faaaaaar from perfect. But the reason he's made it as far as he has? Because people are sick of career politi
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by wernercd 10y ago
Old to you, new to me... I'm one of the 10,000 https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by wernercd 10y ago
The US is built upon "Innocent until proven guilty" and "Speedy Trial". That means you can't be jailed for murdering someone without a trial and you can't spend 10 years in jail before the trial. In the same wa
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by wernercd 10y ago
Well the story mentions roadwork starts, traffic increasing... roadwork ends, traffic stays increased as some drivers now use that route as matter of habit... I know I use a more varied bunch of routes thanks to Google Maps and Waze, some o
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by wernercd 10y ago
The idea, especially with Torrents, is that you are sharing what you downloaded... So even if you download 10 files, and then delete 8... BEFORE You delete those 8, you can "share" them for a small period (or until you have positi
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by wernercd 10y ago
Geoblocking goes beyond simple greed... different countries have different laws, supply, demand, etc. Some countries may outlaw certain things. Others may have a much lower amount of money per person/family/gdp. While I agree on t
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by wernercd 10y ago
While I agree on some of the major points - the business will try to maintain status quo especially and reacting to pirates is different than reacting to businesses - I think that, as someone on the outside without a big care either way, th
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by wernercd 10y ago
I'd feel pity if you wasn't trying to get something for free... Heaven forbid you help propagate lesser used stuff as payment for getting access to the few papers that you feel entitled to get for free...
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by wernercd 10y ago
Or, god forbid, creating value that isn't available elsewhere. You know... competition. Why use netflix, when you can get TV Shows/Movies for free? Why use Pandora/Spotify when you can get music for free? Why use Steam when y
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by wernercd 10y ago
Which is why root is important... Top 3 reasons: removing "crap", backing up crap and real adblocking.

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