endersshadow

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by endersshadow 8y ago
Yes, but why? They're up there fighting Boko Haram -- this is a war-torn part of the world. Why is the Cameroonian military killing the people they're charged with protecting? It's something I'd really like to know, afte
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by endersshadow 8y ago
Yeah, it was a few years ago. That's amazing, though. I'm going to have to show my wife this map!
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by endersshadow 8y ago
The thing that's difficult in Ireland is internet access if you're living outside of Dublin. We looked at moving to Dingle for a bit, but we couldn't find anything available (from America) that had high speed internet. Grante
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by endersshadow 9y ago
The way this typically works is that they were told from on high that their budget was getting cut, so they had to figure out a way to do so. Not sure if that happened here, or if these are just folks who are really interested in governing
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by endersshadow 9y ago
If I have a single-region service, I always put it in us-west-2. It's super reliable, and gets updates after us-east-1 and us-west-1, which means all the kinks are out before they hit us-west-2. On days like today, I without fail get a
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by endersshadow 10y ago
So snow is super hard to forecast because snow bands. These happen at a mesoscale, and typically one 1-2 grid points of the models used to forecast. The exact processes that contribute to banding are not very well measured, either, so it&#x
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by endersshadow 10y ago
Soundcloud recovering from this failure and S3 being operational are two separate issues. We use S3 and it will take us nominally an hour to recover after S3 went up, for example. S3 has started working as of about 20 minutes ago, and thing
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by endersshadow 10y ago
What's an example of them? I'm interested to learn.
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by endersshadow 10y ago
One of the nice things about the Kiva robots is that they will actually organize the warehouse based on popularity of the SKUs automagically. Things that are low volume get placed farther away from the pickers, and things that are high volu
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by endersshadow 12y ago
I don't know enough about the others to make too much of a sweeping statement on them, but the heart of Mythical Man-Month is absolutely true and valid. It just has a bad title, so people assume it means something it doesn't. Th
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by endersshadow 12y ago
Whoa. Timeout. This isn't political correctness--it's basic human decency. Political correctness is replacing the use of a term for a euphemism. Even putting this in euphemistic terms should be completely unacceptable. If I told s
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by endersshadow 12y ago
From the article: "The patient developed symptoms days after returning to Texas from West Africa and was admitted into isolation on Sunday at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas."
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by endersshadow 12y ago
I'd go quite a bit further. Most users have no idea what they actually want. I think the key to building a dashboard is to ask three questions: 1. How do you measure success? -- or -- How will you know that life is good? How do you kno
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by endersshadow 12y ago
Interesting. I really like the idea of using the UNIX sockets to be, essentially, a message queue before going to Kafka. This may be used on my next project.
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by endersshadow 12y ago
I've been in the BI and data warehousing industry nearly my entire career, so hopefully I can help a bit. 1. Get an MBA if you want to transition more to management. This will relinquish really any technical responsibilities. MBAs matt
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by endersshadow 12y ago
Clearly, no offer (in any realm) will ever be perpetually valid. Giving a reasonable amount of time to evaluate options and make a better decision is considerably less explosive than one that puts an artificially tight deadline on the decis
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by endersshadow 12y ago
Within Excel, ranges ignore blank cells in computation, but a reference to a blank cell returns 0. The idea being that if you specify a cell in a computation, you're expecting something to be there, whereas when you have a range, you m
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by endersshadow 12y ago
It's really not: https://www.google.com/finance?q=GBPUSD
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by endersshadow 12y ago
No; it's post hoc ergo propter hoc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
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by endersshadow 12y ago
I find that window functions are one of the least used aspects of modern SQL, despite them being incredibly useful. I've used them in T-SQL [1] and PL/SQL [2], as well (MySQL does not do window functions). If you're doing lot
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by endersshadow 12y ago
I think what many people fail to realize, in a corporate setting, is that email is asynchronous communication. Email is not chat, and we need to approach it differently. When I send an email, I expect an answer when you get time--if it&#x27
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by endersshadow 12y ago
A few points of feedback: A) I would absolutely limit comments and votes based on geography. The last thing you want is a popular event being loaded down with "Wish I was there!" comments. B) Internal ranking of users based on vot
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by endersshadow 12y ago
You're also forgetting the biggest thing, I think, standing in the way: Intimidation. Perhaps in their minds, they aren't expert developers, and are just learning, and therefore, their contributions to a very large project like Fi
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by endersshadow 12y ago
I mean, it pays my bills. But they're mostly large corporations that hire consultancies that specialize in this sort of thing, rather than hiring freelancers--much less posting about it online.
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by endersshadow 12y ago
This just means that they were running their business off of their account balance on B of A's site. It's also known as "flying by the seat of your pants."
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by endersshadow 12y ago
Assuming this is a joke account, but that's not how trademarks work. In fact, it's so far from how trademarks work that whoever made this account should be ashamed at how ignorant they are.
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by endersshadow 12y ago
This attitude is very pervasive on the internet, especially with amateur critics. Just because an initiative doesn't solve an entire problem doesn't mean that it can't help or isn't worth doing. Moreover, just because on
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by endersshadow 12y ago
Just so folks know, nicknames are very common in Brazil, and formal names are rarely used. That's why you have lots of overlap and whatnot. Slate did a quick primer on this before the start of the World Cup in 2006: http://w
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by endersshadow 12y ago
BT is blocking my site about my homebrewed beer. That's fun.
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by endersshadow 12y ago
It could also be a combination of the two--they're not exactly mutually exclusive.

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