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by mweatherill 3y ago
Though there are some fantastic bootleg strips. This is probably the most famous: https://imgur.com/pGeiHgt
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by mweatherill 3y ago
So you had fillings which lasted 10 years which were replaced for reasonable cost. The dentist, an expert at reading radiographs, could see something that you couldn’t. What exactly were you expecting here?
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by mweatherill 5y ago
When my daughter was 5 she told me off for driving too fast to school. She was annoyed that whenever I drove fast she would be late for school.
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by mweatherill 5y ago
I was thinking about that same story when I saw the mention of “trusted insiders”
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by mweatherill 6y ago
Have you seen Azure Data Studio? It uses the same code base as Visual Studio Code and has first class support for notebooks. It includes a PowerShell kernel
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by mweatherill 6y ago
I was going to post this same link. Great docs from Microsoft
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by mweatherill 7y ago
Whilst jupyter notebooks are often synonymous with python code, the languages are actually pluggable by using a different kernel. Microsoft have implemented an SQL kernel which means you can write SQL queries directly in a notebook.
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by mweatherill 7y ago
Microsoft have released another IDE with notebook support called Azure Data Studio. It uses the same underlying code base as VS Code but is targeted at data driven tasks such as connecting to databases. Strangely, it uses a different jupyte
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by mweatherill 12y ago
It is very unlikely that the process control network is connected to the Internet. However it is almost certainly connected to the corporate Intranet. Think about all of the metric data available on the process control network - that is n
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by mweatherill 12y ago
Windows has overwhelming market share in the process control industry. Microsoft has long standing partnerships with the majority of the process control vendors. The attach surface argument was never relevant when networks were physically
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by mweatherill 14y ago
My employer is a global IT company and the exact same thing happens on mailing lists for 10,000+ people. I reply-all to let them know that there is cake in the lunch room.
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by mweatherill 14y ago
Selling to enterprise developers is a grass roots strategy into the enterprise. Applications and services use a freemium model to get their initial users with the hope of becoming business critical. Once the tools show their worth, they ar
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by mweatherill 14y ago
The fundamental problem with social media sentiment analysis is that it is based upon the assumption that tweets are representative of the population. It ignores the issue that a large percentage of tweets come from spam bots. As soon as y
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by mweatherill 15y ago
Perhaps it is an estimate on the volume of data that is archived, hence is suitable for future analysis.
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by mweatherill 15y ago
The arrow item to the right of the story title will open it in a new tab. Is that what you are after or am I missing something?
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by mweatherill 15y ago
Are you aware of the keyboard shortcuts? "f" toggles fullscreen mode "2" toggles list mode "?" shows all shortcuts
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by mweatherill 15y ago
Why would you want inheritance for different PDF libraries? This seems like interface to me - the DOM interfaces are an appropriate analogy.
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by mweatherill 15y ago
I see a lot of similarity between the Color discussions and anything written about Fukushima; a small number of facts are being drawn together to produce wide-reaching conclusions. It is a lot less interesting to say "we don't know all the
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Pushy - serverless RPC in Python and Java(awilkins.id.au)
3 points by mweatherill 16y ago|0 comments
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by mweatherill 16y ago
Your experience is with an application running on a mainframe and is probably typical. The OP was referring to the OS itself which is continuously developed with fanatical dedication to backwards compatibility.
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Calling Python code from Java with Pushy(axwalk.blogspot.com)
2 points by mweatherill 16y ago|0 comments
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by mweatherill 16y ago
This strategy may work in the short term but I can't imagine how it will be sustainable. As engineers continue to flock to the hot new thing, they will be leaving a pile of bugs in their wake. The article mentions that developers are respon
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by mweatherill 16y ago
A primary reason why a site wouldn't support PMs to markbao@news.ycombinator.com is that there is no access control. The address would get spammed too easily from senders with no affiliation with Hacker News. The current mechanism of only
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by mweatherill 16y ago
A problem that affects all software companies is how they manage their legacy. In a startup, everything is new and you are blazing frontiers. Once established, the legacy code just keeps growing and a bureaucracy is put in place to manage i
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by mweatherill 16y ago
I would love to read more articles about how mature companies are reinvigorated and revived. It is easy to point the finger at what went wrong and why companies often aren't sustainable but what about the counter-examples that we can really
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by mweatherill 16y ago
When things are in the cloud, they don't have to be in different data centers. Cloud providers are starting to provide tools that give you control over proximity for exactly these sorts of performance issues.
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by mweatherill 16y ago
Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony aren't consumer apps but they both have a pretty big user base beyond typical Eclipse users. Azureus is the first consumer app that comes to mind.
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by mweatherill 16y ago
I had initially assumed that whitening creams were used to create a caucasian look - an idea which I found quite repulsive. When a friend explained that it was to mimic the appearance of the upperclass, whose skin colour contrasted with a l
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by mweatherill 18y ago
This article just reinforced how hard it is to build brilliant products inside traditional software houses. The thought of going through several rewrites of a back end and front end, prior to release, would be laughed at.