danio

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by danio 16y ago
I would prefer the money to go to http://www.wikinfo.org at https://secure.ibiblio.org/gift/ because: * Original Research - Wikipedia does not allow any. Wikinfo's solution: Allow original research with editor registration. * Wikipedia
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by danio 16y ago
They state that they have 47 staff. 22 tech is fair enough as you say there is an operational overhead. However I don't see why they are paying for programming work required when the majority of that can be done by open source volunteers. 1
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by danio 16y ago
I think you need a link there to http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ : thought you just meant it wasn't readable! Readability is great: before that I was just copy & pasting to a text editor...
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by danio 16y ago
I predict a rise in crossbow sales in the near future
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by danio 16y ago
A lesson on logic from somebody who equates "It's often the foolhardy and the ignorant that tackle problems that are supposedly impossible. And sometimes end up succeeding" to "It is often the ignorant who succeeds" seems ironic to put it m
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by danio 16y ago
It seems to me that data going over a publicly accessible network that is designed to let that data go by whatever route is necessary has been routed over a part of that network. How is that a problem? You cannot expect your internet data t
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by danio 16y ago
That just shows an empty white box for me (FF 3.6). The right arrow button to look at the different links has poor discoverability. The first link is shown twice on the main page, and there's no real indication that there are any more links
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by danio 16y ago
unfortunately not on python 2.4, which is the version we have on our production servers (2 yr old Linux)
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by danio 16y ago
Is there much benefit to fact = lambda n: _if (n <= 1) (1) (lambda: n * fact(n-1)) over def fact(n): if (n <= 1): return 1 else: return n * fact(n-1) 1 line vs 5 lines doesn'
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by danio 16y ago
"available to buy in over 30 countries" ... leads to ... "The page you asked for does not exist You may have followed an out-dated link, or there may be an error in our service. We apologize for the inconvenience." Whoops.
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by danio 16y ago
Why just restrict the search to buy-now items? In my experience more of the esoteric stuff seems to go on straight auctions and buy-now is used mainly by commerical retailers.
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by danio 16y ago
The problem with teaching CS like that is that there is a huge disconnect when joining the workforce. Most employers expect a CS graduate to understand version control, bug tracking systems, IDEs and the like. Most CS departments think that
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by danio 16y ago
Glad that he bothered to follow up but disappointingly short on the details. When I read the original I thought it was all good, apart from: 1. <<Possess strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills. If you can't te
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by danio 16y ago
All the POS card readers that I've seen (UK maybe it's different in US?) don't display insert card until the cashier has finished scanning the items and pressed total. On the occasions that I have tried putting the card in before the machin
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by danio 16y ago
One queue adds an overhead for the time it takes for the person at the front of the queue to notice a cashier is free and walk to that cashier. I have watched this system in action at the Post Office, Rail stations, and one supermarket and
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by danio 16y ago
One queue is fairest. From your example if there is only one server then there is no difference between one queue/one queue per server.
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by danio 16y ago
Maybe the web designer of http://www.nissenbaums.com/ would be interested in the re-use of their images.
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by danio 16y ago
At on-screen viewing sizes of web-shared photos (currently <1MP) you are going to struggle to see the better image quality that an SLR can provide. With prints of 10x8" or larger you will start to notice lack of sharpness and chroma no
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by danio 16y ago
Yes I was thinking the world ended for Lisa in 1984 when Steve's skunk works project came to fruition.
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by danio 16y ago
The eye hurting background doesn't help
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by danio 16y ago
If people don't have rent money they don't have the time to work on open source as they are too busy working (i.e. in a short-term job unrelated to developing software). So the advice only applies to people who are financially stable but al
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by danio 16y ago
Nice advice for the original target audience of people with lots of spare time who have already sorted out where the rent money is coming from. For the other 90%+ of us not so relevant.
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by danio 16y ago
rummikub is quite fun. It's Rummy based (runs and sets) and re-arranging numbers and looking for patterns is key. No maths involved though.