In using the word ephemeral in the context of digital media, I am not being alarmist. There is already data from the digital era which can no longer be read, including some of that from the Apollo space missions. And I do not think that the vast digital storerooms to which we entrust...
Please allow for me, at this point, to write a bit about the magic of mass storage evolution, told from the perspective of someone whose first hard disk (the Atari SH204) was 20 Mb (no typo), with sturdy metal housing, having the size of a shoe box, weighing about 3 kilos (accordi...
Section 1.3.1 gave us an idea of the index structure kept by Lucene. Lucene’s job is to build this magic structure and enable its superpowers, right? True, but it needs a little help from you: You need to store the index structure. You need to decide which of the features you ...
6. Never get hurt feelings if the family you ask to Bubble-Up with you declines. It doesn’t mean you guys have bad breath or your kids have too many temper tantrums. It usually comes down to the fact that your Cons far outweigh your Pros. As an example, the Johnson family (above)...
Not only did I want to prove to myself I could do it, I also wanted to prove to my team that if it was achievable for me, it was certainly achievable for them. I will never forget the very stress- ful moments between answering the last question on that exam and waiting for my ...
Dems just landed a weak candidate that worked internally to the party insiders on balance. But the Dem party expects a win through the perceived blunders of Trump. Which I think he has already deflected to the heavy handed Dem governors ...
They can’t possibly, in this matrix of complexity we’ve come to call life. If they cannot co-exist as acts of a loving rational God then what does that say about the impossibility of every having any understanding about the meaning of this life?
This is a chart, which Bill Staffa devised, that brings righty/lefty strategy to the APBA Baseball basic game. I translated it into a computer file from the AJ packs. It makes this innovation more attractive and readable. Modified BG Pitching System 06/28/2019 adml -- 1083 0 -- BG pitc...
If you have sent in a job offer and we did not publish it, well, it is because we simply did not see it because we have been checking our email irregularly, and for that, we apologize. A new Florida Models and Independent Modeling jobs web site, designed to market and reference the...
the 'insulted' one would have had to inform a mod in person, until the appeal system was ready to be beta-tested, but what they actually did was adding half thee english dictionary to the blacklist , without even removing common typo's from other words , nor did they remove the words...