vampirechicken

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by vampirechicken 11y ago
If you can't determine that this word problem is a Pythagorean qaudratic, then you might ought not to be sitting a "Higher Maths" exam.
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
You mean aside from saving the HTML and CSS and reproducing them on their blog?
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
Mostly it was all the terrible code that got written in Perl by the first wave of non-programmers to start building web apps.
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
Perl golf is meant as a thought exercise. Code should be human readable. The compiler will cope with verbose code just as easily as terse code.
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
Okay, invoking Word vs LaTex automatically makes your argument a straw man. I would have compared word to e.g. Adobe InDesign. It has been my experience that while almost everybody can create a passable document in Word, something technical
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
"It should be something that any clerk can handle and that doesn't become obsolete." This is an important statement. in that it is a reasonable goal, but nearly impossible. Even using word, once one gets past a simple documen
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
I had a class called "Introduction to file processing" that was basically "here's how you manage your data files," and taought us about the evolution from sequential access, to ISAM, to VSAM. Ended up working in RD
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
The perception is that the COBOL jobs don't pay as well as Ruby, Node, etc. It this is not the case, then the recruiters are doing a bad job winning the hearts and minds of job seekers and those try to follow hiring trends.
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
You appear to be assuming that the limit is applied while fetching tuples, rather than while filtering the tuple set after fetch. It occurs to me that if you handle LIMIT during fetch, you'll add complexity the fetch, and might only se
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
Probably not, but it might have an effect on compensation in eminent domain cases.
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
flash cookies are less well known to people. Even the casual "privacy conscious" web user tend to be unaware that flash drop its own flash cookies that don't clear with the browsers "clear cookies" function.
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
No. Without any indication that the value in that column is unique the query engine must read the entire table in order to insure that it has found every row that meets the search criteria.
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
bitbucket is free for tiny private repos...
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
It is for entrance to Oxford, not Random State University. Aren't Oxford students expected to be elite?
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
But you can already script vim...
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
A reasonable followup question why wouldn't one have an ad blocker installed?
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
> a governing class with titles that sounded like "buttock" or "scrotum". Titles of those who server in a bi-cameral legislature.
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by vampirechicken 11y ago
You can take advantage of the JVM (JIT compilation, etc) by deploying under JRuby, the Ruby runtime implemented in Java.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
I'm not familiar with the volume of data that balance collected at signup. But I am familiar with the volume of info in the PCI's "Know Your Customer" initiative. I i'm going to speculate wildly that balanced got t
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Probably by becoming a highly-trusted, low-risk customer. Payment balance float is all about holding some money in reserve in case of chargebacks. The better your stats are, the less money a processor will insist on holding in reserve.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
How about GAE learns to recognize google web crawlers and does not penalize GAE users for that traffic?
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Are you saying that misnomer might be a misnomer?
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
You wouldn't so much delete them, as deactivate them (mark them inactive but keep them in around for retrieval). The consuming service would react differently to an inactive person as an active person.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
I'm always at a loss as to why people take such delight in the real or perceived decline of Perl. Perl and Python are similar, excellent programming languages, and I don't imagine Larry and Guido argue like children about it when
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
The Blue/Red Ocean concept isn't about the size of the market, it's about the lack of competition in the market either by being first in a clearly new market, or by differentiating your offering from others to the extent that
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
"Blue Ocean Strategy" was an interesting, if repetitive, book. I enjoyed the examples/case studies.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
So in business parlance, you're saying that it's easier to make money in a 'blue ocean', with little or no competition, than in a 'red ocean', with lots of competition.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Obliquely, the AOL/ Time-Warner merger...
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
> whether we should be trusting so much of our infrastructure to one company that hasn't yet started to monetize the technology We trusted free software for a long time before we needed to call it open source to make it sound palat
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
I developed the habit of working at night due to time sharing on slow computers. I could timeshare a VAX 11/750 or 11/780 with 60 of my closest friends during the day, or with three of them at night, when everybody else had gone h

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