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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.

You mean aside from saving the HTML and CSS and reproducing them on their blog?

Mostly it was all the terrible code that got written in Perl by the first wave of non-programmers to start building web apps.

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.

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…

"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 us…

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 ISA…

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 see…

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 fe…

Probably not, but it might have an effect on compensation in eminent domain cases.

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 browser…

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 …

bitbucket is free for tiny private repos...

It is for entrance to Oxford, not Random State University. Aren't Oxford students expected to be elite?

But you can already script vim...

A reasonable followup question why wouldn't one have an ad blocker installed?

> a governing class with titles that sounded like "buttock" or "scrotum". Titles of those who server in a bi-cameral legislature.

You can take advantage of the JVM (JIT compilation, etc) by deploying under JRuby, the Ruby runtime implemented in Java.

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 sp…

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 le…

How about GAE learns to recognize google web crawlers and does not penalize GAE users for that traffic?

Are you saying that misnomer might be a misnomer?

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…

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 …

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…