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Re: Beards Are Back

Andrew Gilmartin — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 11:40:07 -0000

Maintaining a full beard is easy; just try symmetrically shaving chin only hair! (I fail most times.)

Re: Monthly review: November 2014

Andrew Gilmartin — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:03:15 -0000

Thank you for taking the time to show us the insides. As I should have expected, there is no magic beyond that cast by a diligently, organized person. Well done.

Re: Monthly review: November 2014

Andrew Gilmartin — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:26:16 -0000

I really enjoy seeing your monthly reviews. They are aspirational. I assume the posting is prepared within mod org; what does the source the postings look like? (I am trying to convince myself that after 30 years of avoiding Emacs that perhaps it is time to "man/geek up".)

Re: Benchmarking LevelDB vs. RocksDB vs. HyperLevelDB vs. LMDB Performance for InfluxDB

Andrew Gilmartin — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:48:05 -0000

The case I often see is a process going wild and writing a large amount of data. While coding a repository for this use case might not be sensible I do see it often enough that compaction -- however it is performed -- is an operation team's task.

Re: Data exploring with R - hard drive occupation prediction

Andrew Gilmartin — Sat, 31 May 2014 14:34:46 -0000

Thank you for posting this (and the following) article. This was just what I needed to help manage my disk space.

Re: Index Card Holder for Internet Passwords

Andrew Gilmartin — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 07:30:21 -0000

While I do agree with the comments on the overall insecurity of this a system it does have some benefits. The most notable is that loss requires physical burglary. And burglary (and larceny) has been decreasing over the last 20 years nation wide (USA).

Re: Making the most of paper notes

Andrew Gilmartin — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 06:56:57 -0000

Regards page numbering, a know of one person that uses an automatic numbering stamp to number each page and then use this number in his online notes to reference the page. The numbers are consecutive across notebooks so a number uniquely identifies both a page and a notebook.

[1] https://www.google.com/sear...

Re: Development on a Mac versus Linux

Andrew Gilmartin — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:40:43 -0000

Agree. I have become too accustomed to development in rich IDEs and X just does not (has not) been an acceptable replacement. I need an IDE in two halfs: Native frontend (editing, debugging, project management, etc) and Linux backend (building, deploying, etc).

Re: Making the most of paper notes

Andrew Gilmartin — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:49:33 -0000

Like the idea of building your own index at the back of the notebook. I wonder why I had not seen that before?

Re: Making the most of paper notes

Andrew Gilmartin — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:48:24 -0000

It strikes me that you just established that taking notes is better done on paper and retrieving notes is better digitally. The technical hurdle is the transfer from paper to digital. (Would like some hyper portable iPhone rig + software.)

Re: New hope for the vision of metropolitan regionalism

Andrew Gilmartin — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:59:54 -0000

Do you see emerging a common set of infrastructure on which to host these applications? For example, LAMP, Tomcat/servlets, or Windows Server?

Re: Constant Contact’s Collaborative San Francisco Offices

Andrew Gilmartin — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:03:48 -0000

What an inhuman environment. I would hate to be the receptionist or a software developer in this environment. There is far too much height, too few defined spaces, too many hard (and cold) surfaces, etc. The only room set for humans is the little conference room and it can only hold two people (based on the chairs) and has no surface to work on.

Re: The Relationship Between Lead and Crime

Andrew Gilmartin — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:38:11 -0000

Regarding "Lead had long been suspected as a toxin, and even before World War I many countries acted to ban or reduce lead in paint and gasoline.": Is there data for other countries showing similar reductions in crime in the decades after lead removal from gasoline? Knowing this would (might) relieve the logjam seen in the comments.

Re: I still don’t know what to call this post

Andrew Gilmartin — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:03:22 -0000

I highly recommend you read Thinking on Paper [1] to help answer your question. What you are doing is not writing to communicate with others but writing for your own understanding. (Both reputable responses to a muse.) The modes of these are different and if you do not confound the two it makes writing easier.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Think...

Re: How will the driverless car affect the design of our cities?

Andrew Gilmartin — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:21:50 -0000

What interests me about my comment is that I now see that my advocating for mass public transport needs to be reviewed to account for the current facts and numbers regards who (workers in this case) that could actually take advantage of it.

Re: How will the driverless car affect the design of our cities?

Andrew Gilmartin — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:16:30 -0000

A car allows me to get to a destination for specific purpose. For example, I don't "go to work" any more. I work where I am. Most of the time this is from my home. Other times, it requires that I be in proximity and cooperation with others. The car gets me to this work. Had not my employer contracted to use a specific location for this communal work, ie "the office", then all the participants would travel to a mutually agreed upon facility. In a car. With a self driving car I could continue to work where I am.

I do understand that my work allows for this. And that this is not true for everyone.

Re: How will the driverless car affect the design of our cities?

Andrew Gilmartin — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:06:52 -0000

I recently drove from RI to MD. My perception was that it was traveling at speeds over the speed limit. The car, however, knew better. It reported that my average speed was 42 MPH.

Re: The Old Reader: behind the scenes - Important update:

Andrew Gilmartin — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 06:42:19 -0000

It is good to a have a break from my addiction to the constant stream of short-sighted, navel-gazing, myopic writings that pass for discussion and/or essays. I think I might have a book around here, somewhere, to read.

Re: Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is

Andrew Gilmartin — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:44:20 -0000

I would like to better understand the reason for Dart. That is, what programming and engineering problems is it solving at the language level that can't be done in other languages at the library level (other than for aesthetics (which I do understand the importance of))? Is there a document or documents that capture this?

Re: Is The Military Losing Its Best?

Andrew Gilmartin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:26:52 -0000

Rick's _The Generals: American Military Command_ gives a deep historical explanation for the current state of military leadership. In short, it is lack of accountability. During the early General Marshall period "relief" was swift. Cooperation over independence was preferred. As this preference became doctrine leadership became weaker and weaker. You also have less relief and so less opportunity for younger officers to rise and rise swiftly.

Re: NBC #Fail

Andrew Gilmartin — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:30:02 -0000

I actually did upgrade my Cox cable service so as to have the bandwidth and the necessary MSNBC and CNBC channels. I was angered then to discover, on the night of the opening ceremony, that I also needed Cox's Advanced TV service. Why was I not told this when I updated the services?

I too would have paid $50, or even $100, so that my family -- especially my sons -- could see the events streamed in realtime.

Re: Does anyone actually use JMX?

Andrew Gilmartin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:40:38 -0000

We do. The client tools are lacking but they are better than rolling your own. And, if you really want to, the client is very simple and easily enhanced.

Re: 9 Non-Ugly Bus Terminals - Design - The Atlantic Cities

Andrew Gilmartin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:27:38 -0000

It really does not matter who it looks on the outside -- except to afford "bus station." what really matters is how passengers and visitors are serviced and cared for on the inside.

Re: Programming options for kids

Andrew Gilmartin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:58:04 -0000

To some degree the language does not matter. What matters is that the kid is ready for the abstract thinking required for programming and that he or she wants to program. My son, then 10, spent a week programming w/ Scratch. He enjoyed it but then abandoned it because there was no relationship between his life and what he could do within Scratch. If Scratch connected to the outside world (think Maker here) he would have continued further (I think). Kids think of programming like drawing a specific picture or building a play structure. I do it now and I am done. For them, it is not an intellectual journey.

Re: bash: get http response codes for a list of URLs

Andrew Gilmartin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:26:05 -0000

Would adding --head, which would, under normal circumstances, make the request faster, also give the same results you needed?