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by bcostlow 9y ago
I'm not the original person you are asking, but over a 27 year career in IT, I've worked from home for 17 of them. Here's how I stayed social. First, I used the time you would spend commuting or going out to lunch to get non-
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by bcostlow 11y ago
Most PACS get data from devices and send it to workstations unencrypted. The security model implemented on them is usually no more than a white list of IP addresses the PACS will talk to. (To be fair, many of the servers have better securit
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by bcostlow 11y ago
True. Rather than having the kind of parametric polymorphism you get with roles, Python prefers duck typing. And for the practical use of adding some composed, reusable, but orthogonal state and behavior to a class, Python provides multiple
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by bcostlow 11y ago
Caveat: I haven't written any Perl except for an occasional one-liner in a decade. But I do a fair amount of Python, and a 20 minute cruise through the Moose docs leads me to believe that the most similar thing to Moose in the Python w
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by bcostlow 11y ago
Not sure if you are saying it's stupid on Reddit's part, or the users'. For Reddit it's smart. Licensing doesn't just mean making an exact copy. Let's say Reddit was the one that packaged up a story posted on &
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by bcostlow 11y ago
Yes, but I think the larger point is, if Reddit pisses off the people creating interesting content, they will leave. Reddit's user agreement doesn't mean jack if nobody is submitting anything.
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by bcostlow 11y ago
A fellow Walcott fan! "The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome..."
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by bcostlow 12y ago
Jumping on the acconrad bandwagon. I was completely inactive, weighed 240 when I should be around 150. But I took up heavy lifting, specifically Stronglifts 5x5 in February, then switched to Ice Cream Fitness in May. Nothing against bodywei
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by bcostlow 12y ago
I'm working in that space, and sampling from the ones I've dealt with, I'd replace some with most. Some of the ones I deal with are also running those XPs with old IE versions, 6 & 7. This is because they bought, then nev
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by bcostlow 12y ago
Not this year. He was unsure he could be there, so PyCon used another company. He'll be doing PyOhio in July though.
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by bcostlow 12y ago
If you have 3 hours to watch a tutorial, David Beazley's generators talk. Also, Jess McKellar's keynote on the sorry state of K12 CS education in the US (and some things we can do about it).
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by bcostlow 13y ago
As some others have pointed out, speed of the application at runtime is not always the most important consideration, else we'd probably be doing everything in a mix of Fortran, C, and Assembly. I have found that developer productivity
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by bcostlow 14y ago
There is something odd going on with the default map. If I search for my name, it shows the map with a pin at my location, near Columbus, OH, USA. If I just start from the home page, no matter how much I zoom in, I don't show up. So whether
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by bcostlow 14y ago
While I know the article was about the UK, in the USA a lot of clinical data is not stored in an RDBMS. The software is written in MUMPS, which has a built in (sort of) document oriented data storage layer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUM
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by bcostlow 15y ago
But if you take a look at their SEC filing, $203 million of their 2010 expenses were one-time acquisition related. So the operating loss isn't being reduced as quickly as one might think. Other warning signs. Working capital deficit was lar
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by bcostlow 17y ago
Considering the number of breweries founded or run by Roman Catholic religious orders, I can't think of a better purpose for a deconsecrated church. On the other hand, upvoted for honesty in the face of certain derision.
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by bcostlow 17y ago
Sorry Jake, but I don't feel sorry for you. Well, maybe a little, if your claims about being tarred unfairly with the CDS debacle are true. But stop whining. All over the USA, people who work hard, who get great reviews from bosses, custome
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by bcostlow 18y ago
When my daughter was in kindergarten, there were two classes at her grade school, both taught by young, new teachers. Her class was the so-called rowdy class. They were constantly getting visits from the principal. The other K and the two 1
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by bcostlow 18y ago
Yeah, but if you de-clutter, unless you can then downsize to something else, what do you gain? Now you're just paying that 20% towards storing air. I guess you could replace the clutter with something else (another comfy chair?) but I'd rat
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by bcostlow 18y ago
I just love articles like this. The economy's bad, but the upside to hiring is you can screw your new employees for a while. It's one thing to suggest new hire salaries can be lowered a bit, but only offering internships, usually for little
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by bcostlow 18y ago
Don't know about Sergey and Larry, but Jobs has a thing for vehicles that he considers a great combo of engineering and aesthetic design. According to Guy Kawasaki, he bought a BMW motorcycle during the development of the original Mac, whic
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by bcostlow 18y ago
I did read it. The AP gets it rougher than the IBO. But maybe I'm not used to reading Academic-ese, because it didn't seem to me that they were taking a complete shit on the AP. In any event, I don't disagree that the AP and IBO need work,
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by bcostlow 18y ago
Yeah, except GM is so shaky, and credit markets so tight, there is serious concern that they could enter a 'restructuring' bankruptcy, but end up in a liquidation, because they won't be able to secure bridge and exit financing needed operat
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by bcostlow 18y ago
The only way to cut GM's health care costs are to cut loose the 406,000 retirees--and their dependents--who get health care via GM pension plans. Of course I find it interesting that if I can't make the mortgage due to circumstances I didn'
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by bcostlow 18y ago
A direct quote from that result: "The AP and IB courses, while including some of the best education in the subject currently available at the secondary level, tend in general to be out of date, too broad, and too inflexible in their curricu
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by bcostlow 18y ago
Because this: http://ag.org/top/Beliefs/Statement_of_Fundamental_Truths/sf... is so much more rational than belief in astrology.
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by bcostlow 18y ago
I'd like to announce the alpha of the new MVC stack rapid web development framework I'm developing: Cobol on Cart Horses...
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by bcostlow 18y ago
There's no reason you can't do this 'classless' in Python. I've seen similar Python code that takes the Perl approach, as well as code where the 'daemonizer' is a function that takes a function (which is the main event loop of the daemon) a