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by xpil 6y ago
This. I tried bazzillion different RSS readers / aggregators and Newsblur was the only one that resonated with me: 1. No-nonsense web UI. Simple, fast, logical, intuitive. 2. No ads 3. Decent free tier 4. Great intelligence trainer 5.
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by xpil 6y ago
I'm 46, it guessed 34. Yay.
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by xpil 6y ago
"Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction?" - in 20-dimensional space I may still be moving forward, even though I'm changing direction with each step ;)
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by xpil 7y ago
They may be pronounced differently than in English but at least they are pronounced in a predictable way i.e. the same letter (or diphthong) will always result in the same pronounciation.
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by xpil 7y ago
My words exactly. There's over 3000 phrasal verbs in English and memorizing them is pain in the hole (plus it makes no sense). The only effective way of learning them is to submerge yourself in the language by listening to plenty of
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by xpil 7y ago
Ahhh, you just made my day. Thank you!
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by xpil 7y ago
Agreed on Tiamat's Wrath although it wasn't the worst either.
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by xpil 7y ago
I wrote my first program in QBasic. I played Gorillas (like, a lot). If they decide to kill VB, I'm gonna cry.
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by xpil 7y ago
You mean, valid color names right?
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Software error caused major railway service disruption(rte.ie)
2 points by xpil 7y ago|0 comments
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by xpil 7y ago
Tried gazillions of them, NewsBlur is the best (unless you need some fancy pants features like tiles or whatever). Killer feature for me is the ability to group your feeds then making them availale via separate rss channels. The mobile clie
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by xpil 7y ago
I said this before and I will say it again: SQL is for data processing what IP is for networks: it's the neck of the hourglass. There are many things happening below SQL layer (storage engines, implementations, hardware etc) as well a
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by xpil 7y ago
I can't upvote this enough.
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by xpil 7y ago
"The Future of Databases is Not a Database" - isn't it a funny concidence that this one has been cancelled?
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by xpil 8y ago
My two favourite date formats are: (1) yyyy-MMM-dd and (2): yyyyMMdd. Why? (1) eliminates any ambiguity regarding interpretation. You can have an instance of a server of an unknown provenience and/or regional settings and still count o
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by xpil 8y ago
A friend of mine does it as a hobby.
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by xpil 8y ago
Sorry, forgot to set the Sarcasm New Roman font again!
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by xpil 8y ago
So, the usual clusterf*k of opinions instead of a clear spec. People should be speaking SQL. Thanks for the links. Plenty of educational value there!
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by xpil 8y ago
This is exactly what I am trying to establish to improve my bumpy English. My best guess is that the correct form is "Brooks's" because (1) "Brooks" is a singular noun ending with an "s" and (2) it is not
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by xpil 8y ago
Wouldn't it be "Brooks's" rather than "Brooks'"? From what I know, the "*s'" thing works mostly for plural nouns. For singular, it only applies to classical & religious names ending with
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by xpil 8y ago
There is not much to grok really. It's just that there's plenty of low level transmission protocols like Ethernet, PPP or CDP, there's plenty of even lower level physical media types like copper or fiber or pigeons. Then ther
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by xpil 8y ago
ROW_NUMBER(), LAG() and MERGE are the three most powerful operators I use in SQL that are out of the average Joe's knowledge. They are simple to learn yet extremely useful. Also, after 25 years in the IT business I still can't wri
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by xpil 8y ago
SQL is for data systems what IP protocol is for networks: it is the neck of the hourglass. You can build plenty of various things on it (the top of the hourglass: applications, reporting frameworks and so on) using various underlying techno
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by xpil 8y ago
Most of Stanisław Lem's work, starting with "The Cyberiad". Some of it may be 70 years old now but universal books don't age, really. For English readers, I strongly recommend Kandel's translations.
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by xpil 8y ago
Same here. Sort of works, but very laggy. Firefox on OnePlus 3T.
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by xpil 8y ago
To calculate the circumference of our Universe with the accuracy od Planck length we only need some 60 or 70 digits of Pi. NASA uses 15 digits to send stuff to space. Calculating 22T is an absolute, mindboggling waste of time. Still impress
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by xpil 8y ago
Notepad.exe !
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by xpil 8y ago
What drives me absolute bananas is the way they changed licensing for Visio. You could get the database reverse-engineering feature (Pro version) for a fixed, one-off price up to some point. Now it's all subscriptions. Blah. (great sof
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by xpil 8y ago
After reading this statement like 5 or 6 times I am still not sure whether I grok it or not. Would put it on a sticker though.
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by xpil 8y ago
Same here! I moved my company email from google apps to Zoho a couple of months ago, and I'm not coming back. Reasonable pricing, plenty of features, quick (and human!) responses to support tickets. Will do the same with personal email

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