mark_integerdsv

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   by mark_integerdsv 12y ago

   Down 15kg since April, Keto. I highly doubt that anyone doing Keto with a good amount of success is doing so without tracking macros. It is ironic that you'd decry ignorance and oversimplification when in point of fact you are guilty o
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   by mark_integerdsv 12y ago

   The Chrysalids - John Wyndham.
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   by mark_integerdsv 12y ago

   Used Fogbugz at my second real job in the world. Read a ton of this guys blogs. Good on ya man!
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   by mark_integerdsv 12y ago

   Is it not possible that what you describe as a two-way parasitic relationship is in fact one of symbiosis?
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   by mark_integerdsv 12y ago

   ...a larger advertising company of the most cynical variety.
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   by mark_integerdsv 12y ago

   Fourteen years in IT, ten of them in BI... My definition is as follows: data pertaining to and generated by the source systems that govern various business processes are 'data' data (internal data owned by the business.) Data pert
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   by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

   I never understood you guys. Blackberry had no apps so interoperability and copy and paste barely had any use cases. The other smart phones of the day were Windows powered bricks like the i-Mate line which were so dog slow,and hideously unr
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   by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

   I see a lot of pople I'd expect to be more mature making a seeminlgy conscious effort to get bent out of shape about the gender thing. I guess it's good to create awareness but I hope these people don't end up doing things wi
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   by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

   Google Now is just the coolest thing. I really hope we see more of thin kind of thin, especially in terms of integration. Noticing that Now and Glass are clearly made for one another - this gives me a lot of hope for where Glass might be in
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    >would you concur? I see what you're driving at and I don't disagree but I bet both Ebay and Facebook have a bit of data in a ruddy old fact/dimension warehouse and some neat dashboards and reports over the top of it. In w
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    >realise the software is better At the risk of noshing down some trollbait, could you perhaps qualify this statement or are you just going to go with your subjectiuve view as fact?
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    As a data warehousing/BI specialist I'd like to share my interperetation. 'Data' data (as in your company's data warehouse) is primarily internal data. By this I mean: data generated primarily by your source systems
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    I'm a little surprised that you'd spend so much time arguing with these peons (some of them almost certainly do not live in the same city as what you do.) Surely with the amount of lines you have typed in this thread, your Bay Are
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    You are quite right. That was not easy to watch. Most of all because as I read the body language, Candidate Obama passionately believed in what he was saying. The words march out proud and true, like soldiers. President Obama seems barely s
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    Thanks so much for posting this. I am similar to the guy you describe. Background in development but been in analysis for a while now... I kept seeing myself in the descriptions of cretins in this thread while looking for a post like yours.
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    There are many ways of seeing a thing. Contrarians are seldom wrong because in essence, lots of shit kind of sucks. It is easy to find the ways in which a thing sucks, specifically after a good deal of exposure. That's seldom all there
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    Although I share your sentiment in this regard there is something you have overlooked IMO. Now I can't put my finger on it exactly but... Spreadsheets. Seriously. Spreadsheets are most likely the original reason that anyone ever needed
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    One needs to be very clear about US libertarian which is largely a conservative movement and libertarians in the rest of the world, who are largely considered left wing liberals and/or anarchists. The Tea Partiers of the world hijacked
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    No, it's modern society or even simply human nature. Game Theory is a method of examining it.
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    My comment would almost certainly be one that you are referring to. I think you need to justify how it is a cynical comment please? To me, the truly cynical thing here is that you can't seem to understand that Batkid's entire life
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    While I totally agree with most of the sentiments you have expressed I do need to point out one issue I have with your comment: >There is after all no intrinsic reason Africans can't provide food and water and medicine for themselve
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    I really felt some strong emotions while reading through this. It's amazing. The news spot just has to the the cherry on top. So happy for this kid that he had an awesome day. It does restore some faith in humanity to see things like t
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    Would you sell the results? That's basically my measure for real world vs academic.
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    I was using it in a touchscreen tabletop. Sticking to my guns on this one and choosing to let your sarcastic tone slide.
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    I am currently playing in a very similar space - would you care to throw me a bone and give me some idea of how you landed your first clients? I'm totally stuck in this regard. So much so that I've begun to hate myself.
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    14 years experience in IT. Had to google to find the shutdown switch. Sorry but Win8 is absurd.
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    My dad is 79 years of age. He could never adjust to the digital world. Something as simple as checking a hotmail account was out of his reach. With his iPad he is able to: - keep on touch with my expat brother - see pictures of his grand ki
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    Different colour for different apps would have been neat.
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    But... I love my MBP. I'd go for the pocket PC with peripherals thing for convenience but I want to go to my desk pop open my MBP and kind of BE there with my machine. I know this sounds kind of ethereal but ffs, I don't have an o
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    by mark_integerdsv 13y ago

    South African here - we have a lovely little bit of legislation known as RICA. Don't assume that African govts are backward in terms of technology.