It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software
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@Lorne-Kates said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
@PJH said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
12 if you include the numbered bulletpoints.
13 if you can see the up your ass.
No, no no. If you're really invoking , then the phrasing of "those 6" means that the 6 in that statement cannot be included in the count at that point, while talking of "those 6."
"those 6" includes either one, or all, of the three bullet-pointed lines, and only those lines.
HTH, HAND, etc.
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@Lorne-Kates said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
@accalia said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
chew them out for storing their zipcodes wrong
but numbers!
not numbers! numeric string! not same thing!
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@xaade said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
but what if it's license plates?
WHOA THERE, that's advanced talk you have going on there. That's just too complex for our team.
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@mott555 said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
I think solid-state storage (not necessarily flash) will completely overtake magnetic disks in density
Hasn't that already happened? Micro SD cards are about 100 cubic millimetres each, and Samsung has them available now in 256GB. You only need 40 of those - less than half a millilitre - to build a a 10TB array. Pretty sure a 3.5" hard drive is bigger than that.
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@flabdablet said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
Hasn't that already happened? Micro SD cards are about 100 cubic millimetres each, and Samsung has them available now in 256GB. You only need 40 of those - less than half a millilitre - to build a a 10TB array. Pretty sure a 3.5" hard drive is bigger than that.
Dragging this out again...
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@PJH Cute device. Are those sockets compatible with UFS cards, which have a new connector layout?
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@mott555 said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
I think solid-state storage (not necessarily flash) will completely overtake magnetic disks in density within the next decade
I think you missed the part where that has already happened. HDDs are just less money per TB.
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@Lorne-Kates said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1
Did they drop the lawsuit once someone passed
sued=0
in?
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@Lorne-Kates said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
So Canada Post sued him.
That's when you way "oops, I'm very sorry, didn't mean to do that" and close your website.
And one week later, a mysterious person who is definitely not you anonymously re-hosts the website using Tor or something and resumes all operations.
Cheaper than lawyers!
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@flabdablet said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
Ah yes, storage robots.
Command 72: Mount Careless Visitor's Face on First Free Drive.
I've never seen them working (I don't work in the data centre) but I'm always wondering if, behind the nice and shiny pictures that we see on presentations, they actually look like ITAPPMONBOT or some other Franken-puter...
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@Lorne-Kates said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
@Yamikuronue said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
@Lorne-Kates said in It's nearly 2017, we still cannot into software:
What letters are not allowed in the 1st, 3rd or 5th position?
Whatever letters the Canada Post's address validation API refuses?
You think we have an Address Validation API?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!!!!!!!!
Hahahahahah MAPLE LEAF HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
ha
No, Canada Post doesn't offer that. So someone made a crowd-sourced version of the postal code / reverse lookup database. So Canada Post sued him.
fake edit 1 Looks like after 4 years the case was settled out of court-- reading between the lines looks like Canada Post realized you can't sue someone for crowdsourcing information, and dropped the suit.
http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1
"Canada Post commenced court proceedings in 2012 against Geolytica Inc. for copyright infringement in relation to Geolytica Inc.'s Canadian Postal Code Geocoded Dataset and related services offered on its website at geocoder.ca. The parties have now settled their dispute and Canada Post will discontinue the court proceedings. The postal codes returned by various geocoder interface APIs and downloadable on geocoder.ca, are estimated via a crowdsourcing process. They are not licensed by geocoder.ca from Canada Post, the entity responsible for assigning postal codes to street addresses. Geolytica continues to offer its products and services, using the postal code data it has collected via a crowdsourcing process which it created."
So please everyone, use GeoCoder!
fake edit Looks like Canada Post offers some very very limited web services-- but they're all around rate quotes.
If they're anything like the USPS, they don't provide address hygiene services directly but instead license datasets to third party service providers who then build software which is then tested and certified against operational standards and can then be licensed to consumer companies.
Because that's way more efficient than just writing some fucking in house APIs.
Sauce: Constantly arguing with my bosses about why we license garbage third party solutions when we could cruise up to the USPS, pay half the money and build our own certified solution. This shit is kind of core to how we make money after all.