vangale

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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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Comment · 6 years ago
And it looks like a similar effort that was abandoned at subledger.com. It think there can be a market for something like this and hopefully this one works out.
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Comment · 9 years ago
Same SS for multiple living people. It's also kind of amazing that the AT&T shareholder database was large enough to have dupes.
Comment · 9 years ago
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.

Comment · 9 years ago
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.

Comment · 9 years ago
> 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.

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Comment · 10 years ago
At some point years ago I must have asked SO not to show me any questions with "soap" tag.

Unfortunately my shiny new developer story now has "I dislike soap".

Comment · 10 years ago

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