ibmthrowaway271

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by ibmthrowaway271 10y ago
> You could always use a calculator but the whole 'show your own working' catch meant you had to do it all manually. Not any more! You could often cheat (for equation rearrangement questions) if you knew the answer by simply wo
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
As pointed out below, they aren't equivalent. Compare the output of both when run against "foo bar WIBBLE"
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
Different behaviour. capitalize downcases the rest of the each sub-string, the original code did not.
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
Ah, yes, good point.
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
> For example, for YouTube alone, users upload over 400 hours of video every minute, which at one gigabyte per hour requires more than one petabyte (1M GB) of new storage every day or about 100x the Library of Congress Hmm, something up
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
Another anecdata, but on the other side of the coin: Virgin cable available right now, BT have put off upgrading my cabinet to FTTC for over 4 years now. Still, I'm getting ~8Mbps/1MBps so it's hardly a reason to complain.
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
> That is one of the better lines to ever be written in a legal letter. Along with: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013/08/arkell-v-pressdram.html
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
He's the 6th Brit in space, the 5th man. > https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28666-first-official-... " Despite what you may have heard, Peake is actually the sixth Brit in space. The first was chemis
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
> In my books its a minus that you can not rewrite history. What happens if you accidentially add code where you dont own the copyright? Or an API Secret? Someone will write the necessary scripts (e.g. fossil-rebase) to go into the DB an
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
It's a common topic posted by people looking for a big boost of karma. 1. Find the most popular topics (by points) in HN 2. Manually filter out 'event' topics (e.g. product releases, time specific news items, etc) that won&#x
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
Sound could be an option. A TV license is required to watch broadcast television, so the number of channels they could be watching is finite. Even a muffled signal detected from a vibrating window (via laser microphone) could be compared to
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
Is there a tool to output the DH params being used when attempting a TLS connection (not dumping them from a packet capture)? I know I can, but I'm hoping for something simpler than having to parse the TLS messages from:- openssl s
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
Do not look into razor with remaining eye?
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
Exactly, it's why I held out on posting my single counter anecdotal story.
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1KD7DdnRb8 is the classic though.
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
TfL do this via Oyster card data but they have to plan for the bulk of people, not to create the fastest possible journey. There are usually much quicker ways to get in/out/through many tube stations but the signposted routes are
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
I was paying £1200/month for one child for 3 days/week (5 days/week was £1800/month). Glad that's over with now!
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
(UK here but...) 33 hours a week over 4 days (the max IBM will allow you to do in 4 days). Two shorter days from home with an early start and early finish so I can collect my daughter from school. Longer days on the days my wife isn't
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
A way to give feedback to the poster on inconsequential details such as language/spelling/typos/grammar/etc that isn't displayed to anyone else would be useful.
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
"7 reasons why you don't understand click bait articles"
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
Vote cancellation is weird. I wonder if posts that have no genuine reason to be downvoted (like yours) get more votes if they add a comment to the effect "Not sure why this comment got a downvote" since multiple people will try an
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
I'm part of a team within IBM that's been using Agile (Scrum) for the last 6 years. Originally it was just quite close to Waterfall dressed up as Agile but "they" (senior management) are finally getting their heads aroun
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by ibmthrowaway271 11y ago
> Also, what kind of corporate firewall lets you have access to Github but not tech blogs? IBM's (although it doesn't block all tech blogs, and who's to know why they've decided to block yours.)
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by ibmthrowaway271 12y ago
Works for planning applications in the UK too. Building company wants to build a 12 storey block of apartments somewhere, but the locals will object to pretty much anything. Initial planning application goes in for 42 storey block. Locals u
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by ibmthrowaway271 12y ago
QI is riddled with inaccuracies:- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/18/stephen_frytard/
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by ibmthrowaway271 12y ago
> What I understood here, is that they were redundant systems, but running the same software, with the same bug present, so both went down. a.k.a. "flailover"
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by ibmthrowaway271 12y ago
But this kind of thing does exist throughout IBM. I work on a product that's pulled in >$2bn in revenue over the last 20 years. All with an average of 25 developers working on it. It's still going strong.