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I don't tend to have a headache afterwards, but your description matches up to my experience of coming around after fainting. I tend to feel fuzzy and dreamlike and it takes a few seconds to work out what's going on.

I use DataGrip with PostgreSQL and am generally happy with it.

For what it's worth, there was a stock split in 2003 [1], so the same stock would be $50 today.

1: http://www.microsoft.com/investor/InvestorServices/FAQ/defau...

The increase in supply is not caused by the final net position. It's in what you see when you look at the market.

Suppose there are 100k shares issued. Some traders decide to naked short 50k. Actual holders of the shares say, "Oh crap. Half the company is for sale - better dump my shares while I still can." So they put up a total of 75k for sale.

Now 50k of the 75k of actual shares need to be purchased by the people selling short, but if you look at the total number available for purchase at that point, you'll see 125k shares for sale - more than were ever issued.

Of course, this same issue can bite the short sellers in a "short squeeze". Suppose we own 60k of the shares in the company. If we see someone selling 50k, we know they are doing a naked short, and we should buy it. When we do, we will own 110% of the company. Obviously, to make things go to 100%, the short sellers need to buy the remaining 10% of the shares from you. You get to pick the price.

* Edited to add - you can see a recent example of a short squeeze in Volkswagen around October 2008: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE49R3I920081028

Surely when you roll out new wireless, you should roll out the fastest stable technology? Wouldn't Japan be held back to some extent by wireless infrastructure that hasn't yet been upgraded?

This reminds me of the article a few years ago that indicated that Warren Buffett had a lower effective tax rate than his secretary, even though he made heaps more. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article1996735.ec...

There are banks that do this, but provide you with the full alphabet, as well as the numbers. The other banks that I've come across with this style also don't have a maximum password length. I believe that doing this would be an improvement - it gives you far more combinations.

That is kind of true - ING do call it a PIN. The thing is that all I can do with the PIN is to log on to their online banking site. That makes it a password in my opinion.

If I want to use my card at an ATM say, they require me to use a different PIN.

Many of Charles Dickens' works were written in this way. They were published in periodicals and magazines, and he would normally be writing them as they were being published, rather than writing the whole book first.

I'd guess the way the Paul Chambers incident was dealt with was as harsh as it is because the underwear bomber story happened about three weeks before his tweet. No one in the chain of people he dealt with wanted to be in the position the person who said don't worry about the underwear bomber is in.

My guess was that it was some kind of count of the number of messages passed between the different chrome processes - but it probably grows way too fast for that to be the case.

I found this post: http://www.sorcerers-isle.net/article/goats_teleported.html which does take a look at the source code. Although that doesn't reveal the intention behind the counter, my guess is that it was perhaps done to test the updating of the task manager.

If agile means "iterative and incremental projects", it is just a new name for what has long been put forward as a good way to develop software.

In 1996, the Jolt award winning book was Rapid Development by Steve McConnell. Some of the practices that the advocates are evolutionary delivery, designing for change, and timebox development. These are the same practices that appear to be what some here believe are what is called agile.

As far as I know, the term agile really only became associated with software development in 2001 because of the agile manifesto. Because the manifesto itself is the origin and source for the whole agile movement it seems logical to me that it should be taken as the defining basis for what it means to be agile.

To me, agile doesn't mean the same thing as good - therefore I don't feel like I need to some how remake agile in my image. I am reasonably comfortable being closer to being a duct-tape programmer than I am to being an agileista.

Allowing the leaders of the agile movement to define what agile is, doesn't have to mean that you agree with everything, or even anything they are saying or doing. There is a difference between talking about what the definition of something is, and talking about whether you agree with that something.

I still believe that the best definition of what agile is is to be found in the agile manifesto: http://www.agilemanifesto.org/

If you do it in the database, you don't have to shunt all the values across the wire from the database server. If the middle tier is on a different machine, this can make a significant difference to the time taken to do the query.

Using this as the policy at your company does mean that you probably need to be marketing your company as a great place to work. If no one knows why your company would be a great place to work, it's a bit unfair to expect them to write about why they want to work there and be honest.

I know someone who drives a Ferrari and really enjoys it - and he's nearly 50. You've got to be pretty old before you're too old to enjoy driving a nice car.

In Europe, Microsoft will not be selling any version of Windows 7 that includes IE. See http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2009...

From the article:

Or you can have one on earth, if you want, acting as an additional node in the distributed archive. There are still two disks available from this prototype run. Currently, for all its high techness, each disk is hand crafted, and so they have a corresponding high hand-crafted cost: $25,000. Contact the office if you are interested in caretaking an archive of all languages.

For what it's worth, MiTek Australia, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, recently acquired a software company: http://www.buildsoft.com.au/Content_Common/pg-Announcements-...

As far as I can tell, the problem here is to some degree one of conflicting generalisations. The article is trying to explore a different space to the space for which Arc was designed to be used for exploring.

Just like flippers, scuba gear, and a diving mask might be suboptimal for exploring a jungle or the moon, but great for exploring underwater, choosing an appropriate environment for the space you want to explore is something worth thinking about.

BSc Computer Science from University of Cape Town 1997