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Currently developing web applications in Django & Pyramid. Over 40 years of development experience (started with DEC-BASIC on a PDP-11).

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OT but can be filed under "Falsehoods programmers believe about Social Security Numbers": SSN's are unique per person.

A friend of mine worked on a shareholder database for AT&T back in 70/80's and discovered this when they tried to make their SSN column unique.

There are a number of meal replacement powders at some big chains (Krogers/Ralphs/King Soopers and Amazon at least):

    "Raw Organic Meal" by Garden of Life
    "All-in-One Nutritional Shake" by Vega One
I can't vouch for whether they "know what the hell they are doing" but I like the quality and really like the lack of sugar/carbs. A big problem though is they are low protein and calorie count so you still need to search for those.

But as a side note, and speaking for myself, I like Mealsquares better than any of the powders.

THE ancient holy town of Lalibela, perched some 2,500 metres above sea-level in Ethiopia’s northern highlands, boasts some of the clearest night skies imaginable.

When I lived in Ethiopia (Haile Selassie was still emperor so it's been a while) there were many nights of the year where the starlight was bright enough you could walk around without a flashlight. Nights with a full moon almost felt like daylight. You could see stars at the horizon.

If the company is big enough to have "other parts" it probably means those other parts have different missions and different tasks/skills to carry out the mission.

But, having said that, it takes some rare managerial skills to pull it off. I've worked with someone who had those skills and it was fascinating to watch it happen. It took an ability to be bluntly honest to the "problem" employee without tearing them down, an ability to figure out their strengths, and then knowledge of where those strengths could be applied elsewhere in the company.

Hopscotch is one of the few tour libraries that can jump to steps on a different page and (mostly) perform actions on behalf of the user.

It seems like having local lambda emulation would be useful as a companion to this. If I ever do some lamba development I'd love to see integration with emulators like https://github.com/HDE/python-lambda-local, https://serverlesscode.com/post/emulambda-testing-aws-lambda..., or https://ashiina.github.io/2015/01/lambda-local/ (some or all of these may work already, I can't tell just by eyeballing the projects from a distance)

I was surprised at how easy it was to identify almost everything in the photo and even then Crested Butte stuck out. Weird mistake to make. The only thing that stuck out more (for me) was South Park, which I could identify even in the thumbnail image in the article.

Anyway, completely love the image and would also love to see one pointing a bit more southerly to capture the Sangre De Cristo's and the Great Sand Dunes.

I'm surprised as well, since these services reinforce his point even more. In other words, good reputation = $$$.

Also, I currently use mailgun (and dabbling with mandrill on some new projects) but I'm intrigued by postmarkapp.com take on dedicated IP addresses. Apparently they won't sell dedicated IP addresses because of the time needed to warm them up, so you get a shared IP and their TOS is stricter anti-spam than other ESP's: http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/14127210172/the-false-promi...

I'm also needing graph db with Python. I thought I'd go with ArangoDB instead of OrientDB but the Arango python bindings also don't strike me as really stable. So now I'm thinking of using Blazegraph instead. The restful interface should be pretty easy from Python and I'm thinking SPARQL is actually going to be a much better query language for my end users.

Gary Kildall 11 years ago

As mentioned by others, it's pascal implementation and p-code concept were pretty cool. But it left a lot to be desired as an operating system. For example, IIRC, files had to be stored in continuous blocks on the disk and management of blocks were up to the user. If your file needed 10 blocks then you needed to find a hole on the disk with at least 10 blocks... which meant you might need to move other files around to make enough that hole.