davidpardo

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by davidpardo 9y ago
When I was a teenager there always were a few used mags that we swapped or gave each other. If kids have smartphones, they'll resort to video sharing, and there are few ways to avoid it. I'm not sure that's a good way to spen
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by davidpardo 9y ago
Pretty safe until a machine in the network gets infected. The first infection comes from a phishing email or similar. From then on, the worm infects other machines connected to the same network, but usually not across the internet. It uses
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by davidpardo 10y ago
How do you deal with optional fields in documents? do you modify the table schema on the run? If there's a larg-ish number of optional fields, but each document has only or a few of them, would it create a sparse table with lots of col
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by davidpardo 11y ago
And Hewson Consultants did the same in their "interactive video adventure" Avalon circa 1984. The game -for the Sinclair Spectrum- asked for a four digit code printed in non-copy blue that came in the box. Quite a few games would
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by davidpardo 11y ago
Now combine Hyperloop with self driven cars that you can take at your convenience in both ends to arrive to your destination and most of the problems you stated seem easy to overcome. Probably in a few years, when the hyperloops are ready,
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by davidpardo 12y ago
Being a user of both Linux and PostrgreSQL, I'm very interested in this issue, but I only understand some of the words... Could everybody wiser than me tell me if I should be concerned and the possible implications of these decisions?
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by davidpardo 13y ago
AS400 and undocumented fixed column ASCII files, probably. Been there, done that. It's not funny
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by davidpardo 13y ago
I remember typing that listing, almost thirty years ago. I owe a lot of what my life is now to Microhobby.
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by davidpardo 13y ago
You can find the whole commented source at http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/tiny_raytracer_full.js
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by davidpardo 13y ago
>why should I stay sober? You'd be like a spare pilot in a plane. Probably won't touch the controls but need to be ready in case you have to.
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by davidpardo 13y ago
That would be against all economic theories I know. I'd demand is lower, profits use to go down too. I understand part of your reasoning, buying a car for the joy of driving, and probably some sport cars wouldn't be as affected,
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by davidpardo 13y ago
Works OK for me now. All in all, good post.
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by davidpardo 13y ago
You didn't address any of my points. Perl may have been horrible, line noise or a read only language, but 20 years ago was the quickest way to write a visitor book or a mailform. You could do it in C but didn't, just because you d
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by davidpardo 13y ago
Maybe they're not competing with Phillips or GE, but with Lego mindstorms.
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by davidpardo 13y ago
Twenty years ago I read exactly the same about using the abomination that was perl/CGI instead of the so called correct C. And history tells us that the prototypes that were made to test the concept where, most of the times, good enoug
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by davidpardo 13y ago
I don't know if it's on purpose, but there're a lot of spammy links in that page. I wouldn't visit.
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by davidpardo 13y ago
Ok. Let's try some more imaginary maths. If Valencia has five million inhabitants, and one in ten in these, in turn, send one document to the regional government every year, that would be, at a hundred Euro each, about 50M€ going to Mi
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by davidpardo 13y ago
EU antitrust laws aren't against monopolys per se, but against using the power of a monopoly to gain an advantage in a new market. So, Microsoft wasn't fined for having a 95% of the PC market, but for trying to leverage that share to force
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by davidpardo 14y ago
Congratulations on your 3,50$ per gallon. Where I live -Europe- it's about 8 us$. With these prices, the comparison between two luxury sedans -tesla S against BMW 535 or Mercedes E 320- is not that much skewed. Gas isnt getting cheaper and
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by davidpardo 14y ago
Looks like an advertorial. No mention of socket.io and praise for a commercial solution that I didn't know after almost two years working with websockets.
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by davidpardo 14y ago
He's on the bottom right now. Latest @jimcameron tweet: "Just arrived at the ocean's deepest pt. Hitting bottom never felt so good. Can't wait to share what I'm seeing w/ you @DeepChallenge"
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by davidpardo 15y ago
Doesn't work on the iPad. :(