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Comment sooo (Score 1) 94

by rcarsey on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @04:31PM (#46468033) Attached to: Monster Hypergiant Star Discovered

so big.. and we're only finding it now?

Comment also.. (Score 1) 461

by rcarsey on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @07:35PM (#46459255) Attached to: The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery

i WILL say that oceanic flights (or flights going over water more than 50 miles or so) should be equipped with a device to send their GPS coordinates via Iridium. that is very cheap to do (they make handheld devices that do this for a few hunded USD).

At least then you'll get the search started in the right area.

Comment not worth it (Score 4, Insightful) 461

by rcarsey on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @07:29PM (#46459181) Attached to: The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery

black boxes are almost always recovered. the only thing it would save is a big oceanic search -- how often does that happen?

Reuse Code Or Code It Yourself? 429

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @08:02PM from the good-or-great dept.

eldavojohn writes "I began coding for a project that had simple requirements for my employer — Web services and a test application for them. But requirements have been creeping, as they always do. Initially I had decided to use the Spring Framework with Hibernate. And I re-used a lot of libraries that made things simple and quick for me. The new requests coming in involve capabilities beyond those of the frameworks. Now, I used to be told that good programmers write code and great programmers reuse code. It's starting to look like I would have saved myself a whole lot of time if I had written the database transaction using JDBC instead of Hibernate — now that I'm married to this object model framework, some of this stuff doesn't look doable. So what is better for the majority of software projects out there: reuse code, or code from scratch? What elements or characteristics of a problem point to one option over the other?"

Comment CO IS CANADA (Score 5, Funny) 392

by rcarsey on Thursday June 19, 2008 @12:36AM (#23850547) Attached to: How To Clean Up Incorrect Geolocation Information?

As you may have been aware, the US economy has been in a rut. I'm not quite sure how "connected" you folks are out there in them sticks of Colorado.. but Bush decided he needed a new war to boost the economy and get cash flowing again.

The Russians weren't interested.. so we picked a fight with neighboring Canada. As is usual with US military operations lately, we failed.

Your part of the country actually IS Canada now dude. Good luck.. better than living in the States.

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