Single Step Debugger wrote:

so don't count on the "lasted" part.

I have owned two ThinkPad laptops from after the Lenovo acquisition. The first one died at around 9 years old, and the second is 7 years old and still working very well.

[The Cuckoo's Egg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Cuckoo's\_Egg\_(book)) is technically non-fiction, but it sure reads like fiction.

I am referring specifically to a rant by a former Oracle employee about developing the database engine itself, not to a rant about using it.

Hello all, Some time in the last few months, I remember reading something of a rant about how difficult it was to add features to Oracle - something about having tests run for hours to days, hundreds of feature flags, causing completely random things to break, having to add hundreds of your own tests, and having to wait weeks for management approval after additional testing. However, I can't seem to find it anymore. The only other clue I have is that I got to it through a link from the "Daily News" email. I tried searching on the site, but I can't seem to find it. Can anyone point me to where this was? Thanks!

We use Sonatype Nexus for this.

Except that a multiplication symbol there would mean you add the exponents together, not that you multiply them. For example: `c^2 x c^3` equals `c^5`, not `c^6`. Therefore, if it is multiplication, you will actually be doing: `12/5 + 3/5` which is `15/5` which simplifies to `3`.

Why are you sending them an old version? Try this one: Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web (and Mobile) Usability (3rd Edition)[^]

Member 11762424 wrote:

If it's an energy-efficient bulb, this won't work.

Not necessarily true. Every bulb I have ever had has gotten hot - Incandescent, Fluorescent, and LED all produce heat. The latter two just produce less heat, so you need to run quicker.

I know that this is a really old thread, and it's possible that you may have already finished your DSL, but you should know that you've been reinventing the wheel here. Try HAML[^] (there are ports for languages[^] other than Ruby too) There are other similar things out there too, but HAML is by far the most well-known.

Going through my old CP daily emails and decided to take a look at this one... You know what the scariest words on the entire website are? "Next Page"

Set up a GitLab[^] server. I have one set up for my personal projects, and one for my research group at University of Maryland. There are regular updates (monthly releases), it has almost all the features of GitHub, and it's really easy to set up. You can also choose whether repositories should be public or private. Finally, the developers are very receptive to bug reports and pretty receptive to feature ideas, especially if you submit pull requests for the fix or the feature. All you need is a machine (or VM) to run it on (Ubuntu/Debian recommended). Some install notes: - If you use their recommended configuration, you will be much less likely to have problems later, and, if you do, they will be much easier to diagnose. - Install Ruby 2.0 from source by hand. Don't use RVM (or any other managed Ruby install). The instructions for doing so are in the install documentation. - You will need a newer version of Git than the one provided by Ubuntu. You can use this one[^] - You can keep the repository storage used by Gitlab on a NAS or on a RAID volume. However, it is unnecessary to keep the "satellites" (the working copies that are shown when you browse the web site) on the NAS. The network access times for the files on a NAS will slow down the web page loads considerably. (This is technically true about the actual repositories themselves too, but you'd rather have them on the most dependable storage.) - Get an SSL certificate for the server. You can probably get away with a free one from StartSSL. Don't use a self-signed one if you plan to use Git over HTTPS (as opposed to Git over SSH), or you will have to tell your Git client(s) to ignore the certificate verification (git config http.sslVerify false or GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true).

Shameel wrote:

it shares your personal information with the government

So does Microsoft

Shameel wrote:

and in advertisements

There is a link in the update notification to opt out. If you missed it there, here it is: https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements?hl=en[^]

Ron Beyer wrote:

The annoying way Windows thinks I want to dock my windows when I get them near an edge...

This is actually a feature of Windows 7 as well, and is very easy to turn off if you don't want it. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg442260.aspx

Ron Beyer wrote:

Having to use a Live log-in on the computer.

I don't use one. My live login is only used in the app store (where it is, of course, necessary to have a login - because it's a store), but I log into the computer using a local username and password. This has always been an option, and is still there in 8.1 as far as I can tell.

Ron Beyer wrote:

Like Chris, I have 2 giant monitors and the docking thing drives me insane on my laptop, much less if I put it on my desktop.

I have two big monitors on my desktop, and I usually have my laptop plugged in to a second 20 inch monitor. I don't have any trouble with managing windows in this setup at all. In fact, multi-monitor support in Windows 8 is better than any previous version of Windows (e.g. option to have a separate taskbar for each monitor, Winkey+arrows to move programs between monitors, etc.)

Ron Beyer wrote:

I use my computer for things other than stuff that should be full screen, I hate working full screen. I have to jump through hoops to use my computer like a normal computer.

There's absolutely no reason that you can't use your computer in exactly the same way as you did in Windows 7. If you don't like the full-screen "Windows 8 apps", don't use them. The entire time I've been on Windows 8, the only "Windows 8 apps" I've used at all are Remote Desktop (because I always used the old one full-screen; though you can still use the old desktop version if you don't like the new one), eBay (because it's often faster than their web site), TeamViewer (same note as Remote Desktop), and some games. This was true about Windows 8 and it still true about Windows 8.1. My daily workflow includes only the traditional desktop apps, Chrome, Notepad++, PuTTY, Visual Studio, and SmartGit, all of which work exactly the same as they did under Windows 7. What exactly are these "hoops" you have to jump through?

The reason seems to be historical more than anything else. Since the script element was designed to have something inside it, the fact that we don't use it that way doesn't change the syntax required. If you are looking to reduce the size of your code (either for aesthetics or efficiency), it is valid HTML5 to leave out the language and type attributes:

The same is true for style tags:

is valid.

Forget just 0.3, 0.8, and 0.9. It actually happens more often that it doesn't. I wrote a quick script that runs from 1 to 100 in 0.1 increments and more of them are wrong than right. See http://jsfiddle.net/txa9M/[^] UPDATE: Yes, you can get around it using toFixed(1). See http://jsfiddle.net/txa9M/1/[^]

There is a discussion on AskPatents[^] with a number of prior-art examples.

If you are doing anything with WPF, the new editor is much nicer, faster/more responsive, and overall easier to use. The only thing I miss from 2008/2010 is the plugin that adds colored splashes to the scroll bar to inform you of the locations of errors, warnings, and search results. As others have said, it is an overall faster experience in all respects, and you get the new framework 4.5 features. If you look around (and I'm too lazy busy to look right now, you'll find lots of blog posts on the Visual Studio blog about the work they did to speed up Visual Studio.

I think the curly braces go before the $.

There is an easier way to do this. You should be able to write:

foreach ($Data as $d)
ECHO "{$d['recid']}{$d['name']}{$d['age']}";

From the PHP Manual:

Quote:

Enclose the variable name in curly braces to explicitly specify the end of the name.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.parsing[^]