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joshuaduffy

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    Comment #22786513

    Water temperature is best around body temperature, any higher or lower and you'll have issues as you described. Leaving it for ten minutes/waiting for the flour to hydrate then mix…

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    Comment #17117681

    http://www.martin-finke.de/blog/tags/making_audio_plugins.ht...

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    Comment #16966375

    Correct. They are called subroutines in COBOL.

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    Comment #16217231

    Just look at the gold price over the past 100 years, even the last 10-15 years have seen an modest increase. It will only go up & it is highly unlikely that it won't ever be percei…

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    Comment #14106805

    I personally use Chrome at the moment as on larger projects PhantomJS as non forgiving with syntax errors and tests will simply fail.

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    Comment #14027079

    The format the NHS use is proven to work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_number

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    Comment #14024736

    There's a subset of handsets that have a locked bootloader, which means they cannot even flash the device themselves.

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    Comment #13926780

    From my experience it doesn't define it. However its becoming the standard for documenting your REST based HTTP API's and it's a focal point of the API itself to developers/stakeho…

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    Comment #13926631

    I wasn't around then, but I've worked with many programmers who said: £1000 per day (at least) as a consultant (solo or sub)

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    Comment #13592277

    The audio processing loop wouldn't benefit from using the GPU because we can already hit above audible sample rates. Beefy GPU's are usually noisy too so you don't want one in your…

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    Comment #12914002

    American healthcare is run by the private sector with pretty much zero accountability compared to say, the UK, where the NHS is for the most part, a public organisation with open b…

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    Comment #12689405

    As a tester myself, who's worked in multiple consultancy roles... It depends on vendor obviously but also on time and money. Do you have a budget and a timescale?

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    Comment #11732899

    I'd suggest a statically typed language too. Java/C# etc

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    Comment #11732857

    Depending on how fundamental the changes are, I agree. However, usually when someone says that to me, its a huge smell that the unit tests are bloated and cover too much.

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    Comment #11262884

    It is up to whoever creates the package. You can create windows installers with setuptools, see: https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/builtdist.html

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    Comment #11059381

    The major thing for me is proper search and filtering tools. Jira and TFS seem to get this right with JQL and Queries respectively, for most non-technical people however, they seem…