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by shpiel 12y ago
One of the most annoying things about translation is that the length of the string may change which can mess up designs and layouts. For example German strings tend to be longer than their English equivalents. Or dealing with languages whic
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by shpiel 13y ago
What type of database did they use? What type of caching would be desirable? Most modern RDBSes, like Postgre, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL server, have internal LRU caching already implemented. InnoDB tries to store everything in memory. I won
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by shpiel 13y ago
The back end is swappable. I think right now you can use Mongo or MySQL. If you want to use something else you have to write your own DDL. They hope that more people will do that in the future. Or presumably, they will do it themselves, onc
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by shpiel 13y ago
I assume it meant zoning that limits the number of hotels that can be built in a particular municipality. I also assume he meant to suggest that established players attempt to limit the growth of competition by being in favor of regulation
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by shpiel 13y ago
If more programmers did volunteer (or their employers encouraged volunteering), even for a little bit, by being exposed to the problem and having an opportunity to interact with the homeless, some new solutions might arise.
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by shpiel 13y ago
I work in the Downtown Crossing section of Boston, which has the one of the highest visible homeless populations in the Boston area. I was also consistently troubled by the number of homeless people I encountered to and from work. It really
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by shpiel 13y ago
You are actually arguing that the developers should have made an effort to have their game appeal to those who take a copy of it without permission?
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by shpiel 13y ago
This is a false equivalency. Musicians can opt out of having their music played on the radio. If they do choose to have their music played on the radio, there is a genuine attempt made by radio stations to track how often their music is pla
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by shpiel 13y ago
Businesses take cash to local bank branches, which then take the cash to closest Federal Reserve branch. Most large cities have Federal Reserve branches even if they are not heads of the regions.
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by shpiel 14y ago
What motivates to spend so much effort on a job posting for an Office Manager position? Is this someone who needed a creative outlet or is there a specific goal?
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3 Nights and Done: experts answer practical questions in 3 courses (3nightsdone.org)
4 points by shpiel 14y ago|2 comments
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by shpiel 14y ago
Isnt't Apple a hardware company that writes its own software ?
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by shpiel 14y ago
I could see myself adapting this strategy, except that my employer requires me to use a VPN client that runs only on Windows and OS X. As of right now this solution makes economic sense if you already use cloud storage. Assuming storage c
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by shpiel 14y ago
Both. If hacker who discovered bug in a system should have reported it, instead of exploiting it. However, the analogy is flawed because if you find a loophole in the law and it is discovered you are usually not liable. If, however, you fin
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by shpiel 14y ago
The portrayal of the dwarves is consistent with their characterization in the book.
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by shpiel 14y ago
I don't think anyone (with the possible exception of the Spotify marketing department) thinks that Spotify will be the savior of the music industry. Most popular artists know this. Popular artists like Radiohead, Taylor Swift, or Arcade Fir
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by shpiel 14y ago
Just because something is easy to do does not mean it should be legal. A person could walk into a business and find documents with private information that have been carelessly left in the open. That does not make it ok to take and publish
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by shpiel 14y ago
This is great. The path to peace is education, high skill jobs and prosperous businesses.
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by shpiel 14y ago
Both fraternities and synagogues are examples of non-profit organizations.
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by shpiel 14y ago
Or buy things
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by shpiel 14y ago
Selenium can handle a lot of gui issues with different browsers. There are also tools to compare images (could be used with screenshots). Yes ultimately you need human eyes and on the product. It also helps to have someone with a QA mentali
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by shpiel 14y ago
Yes. Not all bugs are the same in terms of end-user impact and how they affect the overall performance of the system. You can expend a lot of resources trying to track down every single last glitch in many cases you should. However, if you
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by shpiel 14y ago
In my, albeit short, experience I have found that the "do you have testers?" and "do you fix bugs before writing new code?" to be overkill for most consumer-facing web applications. They are very important if the software is mission-critic
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by shpiel 14y ago
This was in Boston. But the company is national. My understanding is that they did try to build relationships with employers and would do a site visit with the employer before taking them on. (I had to go the receiiters office for a mock in
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by shpiel 14y ago
I recently worked with a recruiting agency that operated like a talent agency. The receiiters were not paid on comission. Instead, a team worked with me, and each pitched different companies to me. They prepped me for interviews, analyzed m
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by shpiel 14y ago
While I agree with the overall message of the article, one facet that is not mentioned is that spec work offers an opportunity for less-experienced people to showcase their talent and compensate for a less extensive portfolio.