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plusplusungood

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    Comment #48081086

    What's your point?

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    Comment #47740939

    > Taking advantage of the $200 plan. No, I'm paying $200 a month for a premium product that I expect premium service for. It's the single most expensive IT expense I have. Taking a…

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    Comment #47331570

    I worked for a company once where we ran this dodgy shipping software on prem that integrated with our backend via SQL access. When there was an issue, their techs would rdp to a s…

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    Comment #47276461

    Probably could just ask the phone companies. Free advertising to visit their dying phones?

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    Comment #46626346

    That is analogous to the water company charging you more if you use a faucet from another company. It's not a fair competition. That's why we are supposed to have legislation to re…

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    Comment #45174044

    Ah, the infamous, but fictional, Monkey Ladder Experiment.

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    Comment #41385498

    LINQ is not the same as LINQ-to-SQL. The former is a language feature, the latter a library (one of many) that uses that feature.

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    Comment #40275539

    In addition to the standard ways of dealing with this given by other commenters (keeping the original input around), perhaps more interesting is to imagine how befreak might comput…

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    Comment #40184137

    Funny, a kid at my son's science fair did this for their project. I don't recollect if he had a bibliography...

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    Comment #39823916

    Yeah... I think this article is bullshit. A better analogy, imo, is the somewhat cliche rocks in a jar. I'm my experience, you get ONE big thing in your life. But there can still b…

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    Comment #39606311

    Also his name, said aloud, is a tautology. France is French.

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    Comment #39592413

    I used this fact in an interview ages ago. The interviewer wanted a function, in Java, that shuffled a deck of cards such that every permutation was equally likely. I pointed out t…

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    Comment #38685616

    The regulation has changed and no longer limits use at altitude. Source: have launched high altitude balloons to 100000' and https://space.stackexchange.com/a/14695 . You still hav…

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    Comment #38557083

    Really going above and beyond on that, "write a function that reverses a string in place" interview question, aren't they? I'm afraid I'll have to dock points in simplicity though.…

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    Comment #37902946

    That is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Maybe a touch more complicated than what my 11 year old is ready for; but something he can stretch a bit with. Thank you!

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    Comment #37881111

    I'm looking for something similar for PID controllers, or control systems in general. Specifically for a teenager. Most sources I can find are either college textbooks or overly si…

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    Comment #37706643

    For 1, it depends on the building. Early Amazon buildings did not require badging out. I'm my experience, they've been switching to badge out turnstiles over time. That said, I don…